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Socialism is socialism — i.e., pure satanic evil. The only difference between one brand and another is how much the rulers are able to get away with. American socialists were complicit in Stalin's Holodomor. Walter Duranty of the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for facilitating the genocide by helping to cover it up. The socialists currently running that unspeakably vile publication have refused to renounce the prize. Give the Left enough power, and Americans will rot in mass graves. Don't take my word for it; Obama's cohorts have already said so. On the positive side, ending human lives...

Fair disclosure: I have just recently been banned from Gopachy.com . . . first time ever I've been banned from any discussion group . . . likely for just cause. I have no problem with the decision of Gopachy moderators . . . all things considered. IMHO, I was banned not because I was too conservative, which I was definitely not, but because I was too rude, and so very aggressive and violated the forum rules. Being banned was not a surprise. As one of my favorite teen year authors wrote: "And so it goes." -- Kurt Vonnegut. But ....

You've been hearing about the new documentary "Media Malpractice" by Zeigler. I just did a search for the film on Netflix and it does not appear. If you are a customer, please drop an email to them to let them know that you want to see the conservative documentary. I don't know if Netflix is run by leftwing nuts like Amazon is, but I remember how long it took for them to get "Is is True What They Say About Ann?" on their list. They do have a huge library of Soros-style documentaries, however, as well as gay porn.

The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. FBI Special Agents Mark Rossini and Douglas Miller have asked for permission to appear in an upcoming public television documentary, scheduled to air in January, on pre-9/11 rivalries between the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency. The program is a spin-off from The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, by acclaimed investigative reporter James Bamford, due out in a matter of days. The FBI denied Rossini...

THESE petitions from the Great and Good, damning John Howard, have persuaded me at last. We do indeed suffer from a culture of deceit. What finally won me was reading the name "Phillip Noyce" on the latest of these declarations -- a demand on the weekend from 40 actors, writers and directors for "truth in government". Phillip Noyce, I told my wife over breakfast. Demanding truth. Heavens. I just had to keep reading. You may have doubted that people paid to pretend or make things up are especially expert in truth, in government or anything else. But these petitioners shared...

The Los Angeles Times describes a series of mostly lefty documentaries being financed by philanthropists – filmanthropists – who "have deep pockets and issue-driven agendas. Rather than make high-class dramas that might carry some mild social message, these producers are turning out full-blown advocacy movies."The paper notes that, "in the eight months since Al Gore's global-warming wake-up call, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ was released, the documentary film marketplace has exploded" and that these filmanthropists want to "shine a spotlight on social injustices, or government malfeasance, and even to recast history in the service of human uplift and national reconciliation."Among the documentaries...

Folks, I think you need to see either one or both of these videos. The first one is courtesy of Ignatius Press and it is the DVD of Pope John Paul II: The Movie, which I reviewed here almost a year ago, starring John Voight and Cary Elwes. They have two clips on line which you may watch here and here. The other one is called Obsession. Fox News reports:According to a shocking new documentary called “Obsession,” the free world is still unprepared to face the unwavering commitment of those who have pledged their lives to our destruction. The film...

LOS ANGELES - In "An Inconvenient Truth," now playing in theaters, former Vice President Al Gore asserts that global warming may soon eliminate one of the world's great natural vistas: the snows of Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro. In the forthcoming film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Ed Begley Jr. lament the "murder" of General Motor's EV1 electric car and the loss of California's "most radical smog-fighting mandate since the catalytic converter." These two follow in the footsteps of other recent movies in the same nonfiction genre: last year's "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,"...

This article was brought to light by a local reporter, Erick Flack, who has discovered the TRUTH about Michael Moore. Apparently, according to high school friends, he has been classified as a 'powder keg'. Now, he is exploding. After going after the NRA, Automobile Manufacturers, and even the President himself, the TRUTH about this so called 'journalist' is coming to light. Finally.

I recently got around to buying the 1996 documentary movie Fire On the Mountain, the story of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II and the contributions its members made to America after the war. Why would a bunch of hip filmmakers who show at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival want to even make a movie about soldiers who killed people? Well, first of all, the President at the time was FDR and Soviet Union was our ally, and members of 10th Mountain Division went on to create a number of trendy ski resorts, found Nike Shoes and even...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences singled out an eclectic group of 12 films to be considered for nominations in its category of best documentary feature. Five finalists will eventually be selected to vie for the Oscar. While Moore's influence could be seen in first-person documentaries such as Morgan Spurlock's ''Super Size Me," which made the cut, none of the nominees tackled the current political scene, though most have political points of their own to make.

Despite strongly supporting and promoting a new movie touting Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry and his service in Vietnam heavily to its members last week, liberal political action group MoveOn.org had very little effect on the box office totals and saw the movie bomb in its opening weekend. The new pro-Kerry movie which hit theaters on Friday just one month before the presidential election is called "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry." MoveOn.org had high hopes this film would perform well over the weekend. "It's a great new movie," MoveOn.org gushed to its supporters in an e-mail...

But Droz, a key witness in the ongoing debate over Kerry's service record, is missing from it, killed in a rocket attack in Vietnam in April 1969 days after Kerry returned home. While Droz cannot defend Kerry, his widow, Judith Droz Keyes, said she feels she must. She said she is confident that her husband would defend both Kerry's record in Vietnam and his antiwar activism. "John Kerry was a good friend, and a loyal friend to my late husband," she said in a telephone interview from her office in San Francisco. "My husband isn't here to speak, and all...

Conservative filmmakers launch their own version of the "Sundance Film Festival" in Dallas, TX.

Why Documentaries Like FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Should Not Be Trusted They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but can you know if a picture is telling you what is true or what is reality? Many reviews of FAHRENHEIT 9/11 have releated some of the factual errors in Michael Moore's propaganda movie. Two of the biggest falsehoods in Moore’s movie are that President George Bush stole the Florida election results in 2000 to become president and that President Bush let members of the Bin Laden family from Saudi Arabia fly out of the country after 9/11 during the ban on...

Anyone who thinks that Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is an aberration because, as a so-called "documentary," it has a far-left slant and thus is not representative of documentary films, needs to understand that the great majority of such films are just as ultra-liberal as Moore's latest propaganda. Even the liberal Washington Post reported Thursday that "Fahrenheit" is "strictly par for the course." The paper noted that while Fox News Channel leads all cable news channels; Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham dominate talk radio; and bookstores are loaded with books by Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and Bernard Goldberg,...

Have you ever noticed (in Film) every one speaks with a British Accent? From Obi Wan to Ben Hur , to Vulcans every one in the bloody universe speaks the Queen's English! I am surprized that the holy lord of factoids-Andy Rooney-hasn't brought up this bit of trivia!

It’s good to be back on shore for the moment, as we always shall be whenever a fellow seafarer reads this introduction. Perhaps ye’ll meet us out tonight at The Jolly Roger Piano & Poetry Pub or our Great Books Brewery, before we arise at the crack of dawn to ferry ye on out towards the greatest treasure of this silicon revolution—the eternity in a grain of sand. We have seen the future away out there, in yer hearts and spirits, and it belongs to the honest, while the poetry belongs to the profound. In 1995 Jollyroger.com set sail from...

<p>MIAMI - Days after some Florida voters confronted balky touchscreen machines set up by untrained poll workers, two Los Angeles film makers are providing a window back to butterfly ballots and dimpled chads.</p> <p>"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election," a critical look at Florida's previous election woes, premiered this week in Miami.</p>

Reliving 9/11: Too Much? Too Soon?By JULIE SALAMON week after they've each lost a parent in the World Trade Center attack, two boys, ages 7 and 16, conduct an experiment. They take a map of the world into a local store in Tottenville, at the southern tip of Staten Island. As customers come in, the older boy hands them a marker and asks them to circle Afghanistan. The boy asks them to name the leader of the terrorist organization that attacked America. The name Bin Laden draws blanks. This scene comes from "Telling Nicholas," an HBO documentary, showing tonight, that follows...