The Unreported Story Society, founded by award-winning journalists and best-selling authors Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, is working on a new project — Obamagate: The Movie. The film will dramatize the FBI’s illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign, which the media has tried desperately to ignore. The McAleer team previously produced the excellent FBI Lovebirds stage … [Read more...]
Well Connected: SNL Gets Lockdown Exception
So much of the lockdown experience has been "one rule for me, another for thee," that is, strict rules for most of us and lots of exceptions for the well connected. Per the NY Post, "In yet another sign of the inequity of New York’s lockdown, the producers of Saturday Night Live defied the spirit of the law to get themselves a live audience last week. This, even as...some bars … [Read more...]
Yelp Anti-Racism Policy Recalls Seinfeld Episode
Yelp just announced "Now, when a business gains attention for reports of racist conduct, Yelp will place a new Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert on their Yelp page to inform users." You can be sure that policy will never be abused, ahem. Yelp had better lawyer up. In any case, it reminded me of the The Couch episode of Seinfeld in which Elaine insists she will only … [Read more...]
Under the Sun | Documentary
A documentary filmmaker invited by North Korea to make a propagandistic film turns the tables on his instrusive minders by recording everything -- including the Orwellian lives of his fearful film subjects. [ Under the Sun credits: Dir: Vitaliy Manskiy/ 106 min/ Documentary, Foreign/ Anti-Socialism/ 2015/ aka V luchakh solntsa / Latvia ] External Reviews "Accompanied … [Read more...]
Reason: Amy Coney Barrett Will Be Better for Freedom than Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Per Reason, "When Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, Democrats screamed bloody murder about the legitimacy of appointing a justice this close to an election while calling attention to Barrett's Catholicism and anti-abortion animus. But according to Reason Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, when it comes to criminal justice and … [Read more...]
Anthem Film Festival Announces This Year’s Winners
The Anthem Film Festival -- an annual screening of the latest libertarian films and documentaries -- has announced the winners for 2020. The grand prize went to Man in the Arena, "a feature-length documentary film exploring the life of Roger Ailes. Many know of Ailes and his association with FOX, but few know how he got there, his work electing three presidents, or his … [Read more...]
Regal Cinemas To Shut Down 543 Theaters In US
Theaters were already losing viewership share thanks to improved home theater technology and the increasingly ill-mannered nature of theater audiences, but COVID seems to have been the last straw. Per The Verge, "Cineworld, owner of the largest chain of theaters in the UK and Ireland and the second-largest in the United States — Regal Cinemas — will reportedly close all its … [Read more...]
China Appears To Be Expanding Uighur Labor Camps
Per Bloomberg, China appears to be expanding its labor camps for Uighur Muslim prisoners. "China is continuing to invest in detention camps in Xinjiang, according to a new research report...At least 61 suspected detention facilities showed signs of new construction between July 2019 and July 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said in a report. Some 14 such centers … [Read more...]
Is Dan Crenshaw Ad Second Best In Political History?
Congressman Dan Crenshaw (TX-R), a former Navy Seal, released a political ad that really takes this kind of thing to a new level. More on his team here. Some are calling it the greatest political ad ever, but I still think this is number one. … [Read more...]
Andrew Neil To Chair New British TV News Network
Per the Spectator, "For some time now, there has been talk about a challenger television to rival Sky and the BBC. Now it’s official: GB News will launch early next year – under the chairmanship of Andrew Neil, who will be its flagship presenter. He is leaving the BBC and will join a new team of about a hundred journalists, in what is the most important television launch in … [Read more...]