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(This article reads better if you go to Page 21 of the pdf version: http://ee.dcexaminer.com/dc/?haspdf=1 ) "With increasing regularity, leaders of the Democratic Party are seeking support for big-government ideology in, of all places, the Bible. "Failed presidential candidate John Kerry, for example, persists in appealing to the New Testament's book of James. 'Faith without works is dead,' Kerry intones, suggesting that "works" here includes the works of lawmakers as they spend other people's money. "In a similar fashion, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, is wont to quote the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus teaches that '[i]nasmuch as ye...

If you happened to stumble across a devout Christian in Hollywood, you’d likely assume he was one of two things: He must be Mel Gibson, or he must be lost. But, in fact, you just might have run into a Christian businessman named Philip Anschutz. Philip has just spent $150 million to film The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first of the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis. Anschutz is showing us what we’d find at the box office if Hollywood gave Americans the kind of films we really want to see. When he first considered bankrolling films,...

When it comes to movies, give me an adorable dog, a flawed father, a motherless girl-child with a heart the size of Disney World — toss in an eccentric dowager librarian and a Magical Negro (to borrow the term popularized by Spike Lee), not to mention Dave Matthews — and for two hours I'm all yours. Especially if I'm 7 years old. So goes the cast of characters in a new movie due for release Feb. 18 — "Because of Winn-Dixie" — that parents can take their children to without cringing. It's a sweet tale, full of humor 'n' tissue...

Conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz wants the name "Examiner" to be his sole property in 69 U.S. cities and he's spending his bucks to make sure it will be. Anschutz owns the free daily "The San Francisco Examiner." His move to trademark the name for additional markets has some wondering if there may be plans afoot to expand the free paper. According to the Denver Post, Anchsutz has has filed 127 U.S. applications to trademark general circulation newspapers with "The Examiner" name in 69 cities, including Denver. His paper said Anschutz's Clarity Media Group has spent tens of thousands of dollars...

DENVER (AP) A media company owned by billionaire investor Philip Anschutz said Wednesday it will launch a free, six-day-a-week newspaper in the Washington, D.C., area on Feb. 1. The Washington Examiner, a tabloid, will replace three suburban newspapers that Anschutz's Clarity Media Group, bought from Journal Newspapers Inc. last year for an undisclosed sum. The Examiner will be published Sunday through Friday and will tailor some news and opinion pages for residents in the District, suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia. The company said home delivery will also be available in parts of Washington, a rarity for a free newspaper in...

For a publicity-shy billionaire, Philip F. Anschutz knows how to make his mark. In 1998, when the Denver businessman couldn't resolve a dispute with a hog farm next door to his ranch, he funded an initiative to change state law, setting the toughest hog-farming restrictions in the country, and pushed his neighbor out of business. In 2000, after waiting for Hollywood to make more family-friendly and inspirational movies, he started producing films such as "Holes," last year's sleeper hit about a boy sent to a detention camp to dig holes, and "Ray," the Ray Charles biopic. With a penchant for...

Denver-based talk radio station KNRC 1150-AM went silent Tuesday morning, ending a format that voiced opinions across the political spectrum but struggled to find an audience against established competitors. "All in all, I'm still fiercely proud of the product we put out and am sorry we didn't make it," said Tim Brown, CEO of Denver-based NRC Broadcasting Inc., the station's owner. "It has been the hardest day in my life." Syndicated conservative host Bill O'Reilly's was the last voice heard on KNRC, which went silent at 10:12 a.m. Tuesday. Brown told 22 employees, including several of the station's Denver-based talk...

The new billionaire owner of the San Francisco Examiner hasn't given a substantive interview since 1974 and thoroughly protects his privacy. But it's clear that Philip Anschutz is a dealmaker of the first order. A Kansas native who has lived in Denver for the past 42 years, the 64- year-old Anschutz is the chairman and owner of Anschutz Co., a highly diversified firm that owns or has investments in about 100 companies in energy, pipelines, railroads, agriculture, real estate, film production, movie theaters, telecommunications, sports, media and entertainment. Most notably, Anschutz is the founder and largest shareholder of Qwest Communications...

Investor, Pro Sports Team Owner Anschutz to Buy San Francisco Examiner From Family Feb.19, 2004 By Ron Harris / Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Billionaire investor and Qwest Communications founder Phil Anschutz is buying the once-mighty San Francisco Examiner from the Fang family, the parties announced Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed. A source close to the deal said Anschutz is paying $20 million for the paper, which declined in distribution from 303,000 in 1965 to 96,000 when it was sold to Florence Fang and her family by the Hearst Corp. in 2000 for a dollar. The Fangs...