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What's with the recent trend of tagging articles with palin or sarahpalin that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin? If your article has nothing to do with Palin, please don't tag it as such. It's bad enough that journalists use her name to get hits to their articles or as a cheap source of writing material. We don't need that attitude here too. Just because people want to increase traffic to their posts, doesn't mean they should tag their posted articles with palin or sarahpalin. This just clutters the keyword/tagging system.

While appearing on the September 12, 2008 episode of “The View,” John McCain was asked about his opposition to the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision. The question relates to the type of judges he would nominate to the Supreme Court. McCain insisted that he would support judges who took a strict constructionist view of the Constitution whereby they would interpret it in light of its founding principles. Showing her ignorance, Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) then asked, “Do I have to worry about becoming a slave again?” (read the exchange here). First, Goldberg was never a slave. Second, the...

A Political Look at Hollywood By James HirsenA NewsMax Report1. Rob Reiner Picks a New Dean for Hollywood It looks as if celebrity politics on the national front are getting bigger by the minute. In the 2002 election, guess who provided the fifth-largest source of dollars for federal candidates? It was none other than little old Hollywood. And as you might expect, 83 percent of Tinseltown's cash went to Democrats. So says Center for Responsive Politics. Maybe this explains why there was such a big buzz when Rob Reiner announced he was placing his fund-raising talents behind East Coast presidential...

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LOS ANGELES -- SOME mention that Charles Lindbergh used to pal around with Hermann Göring in the 1930's. Everyone talks about Jane Fonda inspecting North Vietnamese gun placements in the 60's. And some ungenerous souls may want to trace the history of celebrity advocacy back as far as John Wilkes Booth. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford stumped for war bonds in 1918. Two years later, Al Jolson was campaigning for Warren G. Harding. Humphrey Bogart and four dozen other stars mounted a 1947 radiothon to oppose anti-Communist blacklisting. An all-star cast, including Groucho Marx and Bob Hope, led a get-out-the-vote...