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Lessons from Hollywood

22 hours ago ago from Just Above Sunset

It's one of those things studio execs worry about out here in Hollywood. You need to sell tickets, and foreign rights, and cable rights, and DVD's and maybe product tie-ins – making movies is expensive, when low-budget is anything under a hundred million dollars, not even counting the same amount or more for promotion. You need to at least break even each time, and have a big hit now and then. It's a tough business. So obviously you need to ...

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President Obama and the DLC – A Retrospective

7 hours ago ago from CYRANO'S JOURNAL ONLINE

FOR THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY Crosspost with http://tpjmagazine.us/jonas232 By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH – Dateline: December 20, 200 9 Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it. Many of us on the Left, whether that’s the Democratic Party Left or the Real Left, are becoming increasingly disturbed, upset, concerned, what-have-you, with the behavior of ...

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Barack Obama Will Be A One-Term President

11 hours ago ago from NoelBagwell.com

By Noel Bagwell December 24, 2009 First, let me just say, Merry Christmas to all my readers out there. All 42,600+ (and growing) of you. Thank you for making NoelBagwell.com a success. Now, on with the show. I have followed Barack Obama's career since he came on the national scene in a big way in late 2007 / early 2008. I have chronicled in this blog his views and moves on a wide variety of topics, both foreign and domestic. As ...

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Obama dismantles America

14 hours ago ago from Bastard Obama

By now. One year after the national disaster that is the election of Barack Hussein Obama, most Americans realize (as does the world) that Obama has an agenda that serves to disenfranchise a certain segment of society. Obama intends to right some wrongs. After 20 years in Jeremiah Wrights church, Obama has a list of grievances with Americans. well. Specific Americans. Even without the smokey haze of uncertainty regarding his citizenship and ...

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Mr. President, I want my vote back please

21 hours ago ago from The Reaction

By Greg Prince Mr. President, I want my vote back please. No, I'm not thinking about last November. Really, there was no choice between Obama and McCain. The deal was done long before then. Rather, I'm thinking of a frigid February night in 2008 when I, along with several friends, joined the crowds swarming the Minnesota Democratic caucuses, where I chose Barack Obama as my preferred candidate as Democratic ...

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Obama White House Decorations: Traditional, With a Few Twists

14 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

The 50,000 guests at White House parties and tours in December saw the Obama family's holiday decorations were traditional but with a few unique touches. First Lady Michelle Obama said the 2009 theme for the decorations is "Reflect, Rejoice and Renew." "Christmas and the New Year has always been a time to reflect on our many blessings, to rejoice in the pleasure of spending time with our family and our friends, and to renew our commitment ...

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'He Just Does What He Thinks Is Right'

27 minutes ago ago from Wall Street Journal

The president, he suggested, tends toward the long view and the broad view. "Here's what I know about him. He still has this amazing ability to tune out the noise from Washington, read the letters from the people, listen to their concerns, listen to his advisors, hear both sides, absorb all the information, and make the decision that he honestly feels is right for the country." He does this "without worrying too much about the polls, ...

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Byron Williams: Here's to Those on My Last-Minute Christmas Shopping List

12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

True to my customary seasonal procrastination, I am now forced to once again participate in the American tradition known as last-minute shopping. Last year, I got for then President-elect Barack Obama, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities". My thinking was, it may be the best of times for Obama, but it was mostly likely the worst of times for a number of Americans. This year, I've decided to pre-order for the president Robert Caro's ...

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The Obamas Hawaii Christmas: Will it Include Church?

9 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

The Obama family is spending Christmas and New Years in President Obama's native Hawaii and the schedule for the next few days has no public events. Obama has no "home" church in Honolulu from his youth, and the Obamas have only attended church services in Washington three times in the past year. The Obama family quit Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ during the presidential campaign because of the controversies surrounding the Rev. ...

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