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OK–it’s time to just come out and say it. Liberals must be desperate, because–with regard to the Ground Zero mosque (as with so many other past cultural issues)–Barack Obama has sided against the American people–again. How do I know this to be true? Well, let’s just look at the steady stream of hysterical op-eds coming out of The New York Times slandering the American people as racist, Islamaphobic, unpatriotic dumb-dumbs. (Yes, I know, liberals must be pretty desperate to play the patriotism card–I thought they thought that patriotism was gauche.) For instance, last weekend, TV entertainer, Dick Cavett, wrote a...

Here at The Concession Stand, NRB’s pop culture division, we are sustained by a steady stream of boneheaded remarks from celebrities grand and small. One of the gifts that keeps on giving is Chicago-Sun Times film critic turned political pseudo-blogger Roger Ebert. Ebert was recognized by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists as one of the best bloggers of 2010 for his “clarity and depth.” Such an accolade is laughable when you objectively consider an average Ebert post. Far from deep or clear, a typical Ebert rant is a long piece of well crafted gibberish. In his most recent post,...

So you’re watching a funny film and you’re thinking to yourself, “Why aren’t there more great comedies like this?” Then All of a sudden there is an unwanted “Bush is stupid” joke that no one asked for. You just went from amused to not being able to wait to tell your friends that there is yet another Hollywood film that is unable to curb unnecessary politics for 100 minutes. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, two of the comedic powerhouses of the last decade; have made some great films that have been tarnished by unnecessary political editorializing. The opening of McKay’s...

Rappers in 2010 don’t know what the ‘F’ to do. They are being let down by the first president they actually went to the voting polls for, and they are speechless. In fact, their silence is consent. Isn’t it great to know that of all presidents, Obama is the one who finally shut these foul-mouthed-usually-criminals the hell up! Ha! Gotta love that! Sometimes (OK – most of the time), I just can’t help wishing that musicians would shut up about politics. Either they stand blindly behind a disaster like Obama (Paul McCartney, Jimmy Buffet, and way too many others) out...

After expressing grave misgivings about his dawdling, unserious, greenhorn Commander-in-Chief’s policies, Gen. Stanley McChrystal is history. In a sensational Rolling Stone interview appropriately titled “The Runaway General,” McChrystal and his staffers were quite right to be critical of President Obama’s non-strategy for not winning the war in Afghanistan, but in a constitutional republic propriety requires that top generals keep their mouths (and the mouths of their aides) shut in public. Rolling Stone has a long history of blindly opposing war in general so it seems reasonable to assume the magazine went with the article in an effort to undermine America’s...

So you’re a rabidly left-wing, anti-war publication with a wide audience and you want to take down a war. What do you do? You take down the general leading it. And you do it by causing a scandal. The Rolling Stone story full of quotes from General McChrystal and his inner circle isn’t about the reckless running of mouths and disrespect towards the civilian administration—it’s about these officials falling into a trap. Yes, as I just wrote, McChrystal and his top advisers were acting very unprofessionally. I won’t blame President Obama if he decides to fire him. But this story...

The sensational case of Ontario’s 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez who was the victim of a brutal ‘honor-killing’, driven by rage and the strict tenets of a dangerous ideology is back in Canadian headlines with the surprise confession of her killers: her father and older brother. Prosecutors accurately described the case as: A gender-based crime motivated by patriarchal concepts of honour and shame. – National Post Aqsa’s father Muhammad Parvez awoke his wife right after murdering his daughter and declared: “My community will say you have not been able to control your daughter. This is my insult. She is making me naked.”

The sensational case of Ontario’s 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez who was the victim of a brutal ‘honor-killing’, driven by rage and the strict tenets of a dangerous ideology is back in Canadian headlines with the surprise confession of her killers: her father and older brother. Prosecutors accurately described the case as: A gender-based crime motivated by patriarchal concepts of honour and shame. – National Post Aqsa’s father Muhammad Parvez awoke his wife right after murdering his daughter and declared: “My community will say you have not been able to control your daughter. This is my insult. She is making me naked.”

Last night, MSNBC aired a Chris Matthews special, labeled a documentary, called The Rise of the New Right. I decided to take a quick break from my radical right wing extremist acts like bitterly clinging to my guns and my Bible, whilst fiendishly drawing devil horns on Obama photos, to watch it. I know. Apparently, I’m a glutton for punishment. However, while absolutely infuriating, it was simultaneously hilarious and almost took my mind off the distressing shortage of windmills in this country. Almost immediately, two things became rather apparent. Firstly, MSNBC’s NewSpeak definition of “documentary” is evidently “blatant fallacies and...

“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.” Rahm Emanuel What better excuse could leftists have to say drilling for oil is dangerous and must stop than a disastrous oil spill spewing tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean? Barry Obama is using the Gulf Coast BP oil spill to push his environmental plans to prevent America from drilling for oil: the Gulf Coast wetlands are doused in oil, animals are covered in crude, oil is drifting across the Gulf from Louisiana to...

Watching Obama’s address on the oil spill tonight was like watching a professor of humanities give a lecture on U.S. foreign policy. Many of us have been there; you are in a college class (that you obviously pay for) and expect a certain result. Instead, you are treated to a political lecture about how we don’t “see the big picture.” This is exactly what President Obama did when he addressed the nation about the BP oil disaster. When he needed to be telling us how the spill will get stopped and cleaned up “quickly and effectively,” as he likes to...

Not that Yours Truly is any big fan of Lady Ga Ga; her music is insipid, and her videos plush on the outside and empty on the inside. A Bananarama for the times. My pre-teen daughters love her, of course. (No, they are not allowed to watch the videos!) They seem to know exactly when she’s gonna pop out of the minivan radio, and they sing along all girlie-like, slightly off key, their bodies moving, big smiles on their faces. OK, OK, I might tap along a little bit on the gas pedal, but it is truly an involuntary action....

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, filmmaker Spike Lee lashed out against President Bush for his response to the disaster. Lee made an exhausting two part film called When the Levees Broke that was full of misguided information and useless finger pointing at President Bush with full passes given to what felt like everyone else. Not to our surprise, Lee is giving President Obama the famous Hollywood pass now that it is a liberal’s turn to clean up a mess. Here is part of the exchange: “Cooper: People think this is Obama’s Katrina and I don’t think you can compare...