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Date: 12/28/2011
Each year the Librarian of Congress announces 25 titles to be added to the National Film Registry, created in 1988 in response to Ted Turner's controversial efforts to colorize black and white films. It is a sort of virtual library, identifying films of particular cultural, artistic, or historical value and significance. As usual, this year's National Film Registry list includes some ve ...
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Date: 11/18/2011
From the time the GOP presidential primary contest got under way, Mitt Romney has been heralded in the media as the frontrunner. Since its crushing losses in ’06 and ’08 and the ensuing rise of both Barack H. Obama as well as the Tea Party movement, the Republican Party has claimed to have learned the error of its ways. It alone is the party of “limited” or “constitutional government,” the pa ...
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Date: 10/11/2011
Within the last few years, a phenomenon emerged to become among the most formidable forces in contemporary American politics. It goes by the name of “the Tea Party movement.” Supposedly, the Tea Party movement is not affiliated with either of our two national political parties. Rather, it is composed of millions of ordinary Americans who, jealous as they are of the liberties bequeathed to the ...
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Date: 10/11/2011
Here's today's dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media & culture. 1. Does TV have a conscience? That question was posed by Laura Zalaznick, head of NBC Universal Entertainment & Digital Networks in a speech before TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a non-profit group dedicated to what it calls "Ideas Worth Spreading." View the video here . She makes some interesting poin ...
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Date: 08/10/2011
Here are today's dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Television makes strange bedfellows. From The Wrap : Gloria Steinem is no fan of NBC's upcoming "The Playboy Club." In the 1960s, the feminist icon rose to public attention after posing as a Bunny in the New York Playboy Club for an investigative piece that ran in Show magazine. It did not leave her with a warm f ...
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Date: 08/02/2011
Mission: Possible: To bring positive, inspirational messages back into the global marketplace. Such is the goal of Mission Pictures International (MPI) , the global film financing and distribution company founded by Cindy Bond and Chevonne O'Shaughnessy in 2008. Based in Los Angeles, MPI's goal is to seek out the very best in uplifting, values-based entertainment (often produced by unabash ...
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Date: 07/20/2011
Here are today's dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Pro gay marriage video mocks Christians. From The Christian Post : A website in support of gay marriage in Minnesota has come out with a new vulgar video in which actors mock and slander Christians and even show two young boys kissing each other. The purpose of the website F**H8.com is to raise money for Minnesot ...
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Date: 07/01/2011
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is supposed to be a Catholic, yet he celebrated the passage of a same-sex marriage bill in his state. At the press conference after the signing he expressed the hope that same-sex marriage in New York would be the beginning of a "progressive" movement across America. Andrew Cuomo is destined to become the Ted Kennedy of the next generation unle ...
As the nation remembers the Senator, be inspired by these Ted Kennedy quotes taken from his long career as a public figure.