Throughout movie history, few genres have been more consistently disparaged, disrespected, and disdained than what might be called the cancer-crossed romance. To their cynical critics, movies such as Sweet November, Dying Young, and A Walk to Remember offer the unseemly spectacle of attractive characters navigating their romantic lives while contending with a terminal illness. Yuck. […]
For plenty of Reaganite conservatives of four- or five-decade-long standing, the thought of voting for former President Donald Trump always has been anathema. And still is. Even for those who absolutely can’t vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump remains a rocket blast too far. We’ll cast write-in votes instead. Because so many Trump fans […]
I told you last time about how I feared Army basic training after watching the portrayal of Marine recruit training in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. When I learned my new friend, retired Marine Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dan Ritter, had served as a Marine drill instructor, or DI, I knew he’d have a […]
Randy Barnett’s absorbing new memoir begins, like any good story, in medias res: with his trailblazing oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark Gonzales v. Raich case, on behalf of individual freedom — a fitting vignette for a book bearing the title A Life for Liberty. A constitutional law professor at Georgetown […]
The Republican majority staff of the House Committee on Small Business issued a report detailing accusations of widespread mismanagement of the COVID loan system.
As President Biden returns to the campaign trail this weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to keep her distance from her boss as she faces off against Donald Trump.
Arizona's secretary of state office must release a list of tens of thousands of voters who were mistakenly classified as having access to the full ballot because of a coding glitch, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.