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Movie Review # 3619 - American Pastoral
American Pastoral is film about Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960's during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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News # 41 - Trump Retribution
Ed Martin, the interim US attorney in Washington, DC, has launched an investigation into prosecutors who brought obstruction charges under US Code 1512(c) against some rioters that were ultimately tossed because of a Supreme Court decision last summer.
Referring to the effort as a “special project,” Martin wrote in the memo issued Monday that the ( Read more... ) -
News # 40 - 1-26-25
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.
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Trump EO
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President Donald Trump this week rescinded a nearly 60-year-old executive order that prohibited government contractors from discriminating in their hiring, firing, promotion or pay practices.
Replacing it is a new requirement that those employers certify that they do not have what he termed “illegal” diversity, equity, and inclusion ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review # 3618 - Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes is a 2020 film starring Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, the teenage sister of the already famous detective Sherock Holmes. In the film, Enola travels to London to find her missing mother but ends up on a thrilling adventure, pairing up with a runaway lord as they attempt to solve a mystery that threatens the entire country.
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Trump News
Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.
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Life & Death
Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. However, the emergence of new multicellular life forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.
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Movie Review # 3617 - Unstoppable
Unstoppable is a 2024 biographical film about Anthony Robles, a wrestler who was born without a leg and overcomes obstacles to become a NCAA Division 1 Wrestling champion. The film stars Jharrel Jerom, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Pena & Don Cheadle.
I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars.
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Movie Review # 3616 - That Dirty Black Bag
That Dirty Black Bag is a Spaghetti Western television series. I have never been much of a fan of the Spaghetti genre, they always seem like "B" movies to me, which I guess they are and this one is the same.
I give this movie 2 out of 5 stars.
In a town full of bounty hunters, bandits and bloody vendettas, Arthur McCoy is a corruptible sheriff ( Read more... )
