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Movie Review: The Company You Keep

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.03.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Weather Underground, Running on Empty, The Company You Keep Movie Review, Brendan Gleeson, Lions for Lambs, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Chris Cooper, Movies, Bush-Era, Iraq War, Sam Elliott, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Brinks Truck Robbery, Julie Christie, Stanley Tucci, Sidney Lumet, Bush Administration, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Vietnam, Richard Jenkins, The Company You Keep, Susan Sarandon, Terrence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Robert Redford, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

While The Company You Keep can't sustain itself as the kind of thriller it's being pitched as, it's still a thoughtful, provocative story about the continuing battle between idealism and cynicism.

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Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Abbottabad, Mark Boal, Jessica Chastain, Movies, Osama Bin Laden, Bush-Era, Movie Reviews, Zero Dark Thirty Movie Review, Zero Dark Thirty, Jason Clark, Torture, Zero Dark Thirty Review, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

You've no doubt heard about a little movie called Zero Dark Thirty, which suddenly is the controversial odds-on Oscar favorite. The controversy has to do with a couple of scenes of torture -- or "harsh interrogation techniques," as the Orwellian Bush-era new-speak had it.

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Movie Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Kirk Douglas, Frank Langella, Shia LaBeouf, Oliver Stone, Brian Eno, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Movie Review, Bush Era, Marshall Fine Movie Review, David Byrne, Michael Douglas, Brechtian, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Oliver Stone is never content to just make one movie; he always makes several, then squeezes them all together into one engorged package, chockablock with gaudy visuals, oversized characters and unchecked passion.

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Friday Talking Points [132] -- The DMV? Really?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debt, Tea Party, Forward, Floor, 9/11, Dc, Nevada, Deficit, Video, Swamp, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Tax Cuts, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Reid, First Responders, Tom Vilsack, Deficit Spending, Resign, Democrat, Angle, Bush Era, Democrats, Barack Obama, Dmv, The Swamp, Mddotw, Make It in America, Harry Reid, Weiner, Senate, Social Security, Small Business, President Obama, Speech, Washington, Sharron Angle, Deficits Don't Matter, Cheney, Democratic, Obama, Patty and Selma, Charlie Rangel, Van Jones, Bush Years, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush Tax Cuts, Pelosi, Ethics, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Obstructionism, Vilsack, Nation's Capital, Ed Schultz, Anthony Weiner, House, Fire, Too Extreme, Rangel, Chris Weigant, Sherrod, Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, George W Bush, Netroots Nation, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Last week, this column took a week off, due to an extended trip into the desert for the Netroots Nation convention. But now, we turn our sights back ...

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With Friends Like Rand Paul, Who Needs Enemies?

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tea Party Movement, Jerry Falwell, Gop, White Supremacists, John McCain, Tea Party, Karl Rove, Rand Paul, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Falwell, John Boehner, Politics News, George W. Bush, Tea Baggers, Jim Demint, Monkey God, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Ralph Reed, Bush Era, Fox News, Nascar, Mark Williams, J.D. Hayworth, Tea Party Express, Wolf Blitzer, Rove, Media, Politics News
Brian Ross

Rand Paul may be the vanguard of a new Tea Party politician, which should cause one party to get down on its knees and give thanks: The Democrats.

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Magnet Education Attracts Unwelcome Clash With No Child Left Behind

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Gop, Florida Republicans, Palm Beach, President Obama, West Palm Beach-Florida, President Barack Obama, Educators, Education, Teachers Unions, Obama, Teachers Union, Governor Charlie Crist, Palm Beach County School District, Florida Legislature, Palm Beach County, Charlie Crist, SB 8, Magnet Schools, Public Education Reform, Education Reform, Teachers, Public Education, Florida Republican Party, Bush Education, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush Era, Politics News
Brian Ross

OPINION - Magnet education has been a huge success in the School District of Palm Beach County (FLA). So why does their Superintendent, Art Johnson, c...

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Bush Memoirs Coming Out In 2010 Will Haunt Election Season

POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bush Policy, Karl Rove, 2010 Elections, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Decision Points, Bush-Era, Bush Memoirs Gop, Gop, Bush GOP, Bush Decision Points, Bush Economic Collapse, Bush Presidency, Bush Memoirs, Elections 2010, Politics News

For Republicans looking forward to the first Bush-free election in a decade, the book publishing schedule is the bearer of bad news: Between New Year'...

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Condoleezza Rice's Smoking Gun

Sebastian Doggart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration Torture, The Smoking Gun, Bush Administration, Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice, American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bush Era, Condi Rice, Torture, Courting Condi, Video, Politics News
Sebastian Doggart

When I began investigating Condoleezza Rice four years ago, I had no idea she was complicit in torture.

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Gary McKinnon's Mother Appeals To Obama For Mercy

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: England, Britain, United Kingdom, US Extradition, Gary McKinnon, George W. Bush, Extradition, Bush Era, Asperger's Syndrome, Hacking, Barack Obama, Hackers, Janis Sharp, World News

Janis Sharp, the mother of a British hacker who the United States intends to extradite for "the biggest military computer hack ever," issued a compell...

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Feminism Online

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Women's Advocacy, Blogosphere, Aauw, Shireen Mitchell, Women's Issues, Bloggers, Culturekitchen, Bush Era, Pop Culture, Now, Womanist, Human Infrastructure, Feminism, Women and Body Image, Carolyn Maloney, Web 2.0, Technorati, Linkfluence, Stimulus Package, Women and Hollywood, Women's Health, New Media, Feminist Majority, Progressive Community, Technology, National Women's History Museum, Momsrising, Fem2.0, Blogher, Feministe, Racialicious, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

To me, the key to the Fem2.0 conference on February 2 was to mashup, interact, and expand the dialogue.

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Kyrgyzstan: Bush-era Deal with a Central Asian Ruler May Come Back to Haunt Afghan Campaign

Aram Roston | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bush Era, War on Terror, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan US Base, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan War, George W. Bush, Afghan Supply Route, World News
Aram Roston

A potential logistical setback for the efforts in Afghanistan can perhaps be traced back to a tangled Bush-era alliance that enriched the family of a dictator in Central Asia.

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Yes, We Can Regulate CO2!

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Nrdc, Oil and Gas, George Bush, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Yes We Can, Carbon Dioxide, Obama, Co2, Transportration Secretary Roy LaHood, Bush-Era, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Industry, Transportation Department, Takepart, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Environment, Green News
Sarah Newman

Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

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Obama Takes the Reins

Lynne Glasner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Obama Victory, 911, 9/11, Bush Era, Obama Election, Obama Wins Election, 2008 Presidential Election, U.S. Election, Bush Administration, Election Reaction, Barack Obama, Historic Election, Gerald Ford, Election 2008, President-Elect Obama, Campaign 2008, Home News
Lynne Glasner

Obama's victory ends the nightmare of the last eight years of the Bush Era, during which time the rule of law has taken a back seat to self-interest and aggrandizement of power.

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Obama is an Expat's Dream Come True: The Son of a Global Citizen

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama's Mother, Microcredit, Hillary, Poverty Alleviation, World Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Texas, Bush Era, Obama, American, Global Citizen, Social Business, Un, Future Generations, Muhammad Yunus, Politics News
Vivian Norris

Obama's mother gave a precious gift to her son, the life of both an Americanand that of human being who feels at home in many different cultures, allowing to see the similarities between us all.

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