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Speak Out Against Ill-Advised Coke-Doctors Partnership

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Big Tobacco, Yoni Freedhoff, www.familydoctor.org, Lori Heim, Coke, Connie-Bennett, End the AAFP and Coca-Cola Collaboration, Aafp, Fructose, Big Soda, Weighty Matters, Sugar, Coca-Cola, Controversy, Health, Soda, Optimal Health Care, American Academy of Family Physicians, Doctors Resign, Living News
Connie Bennett

For a doctors' group to take a six-figure sum from Coke is like accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Tobacco to create a physician-approved website claiming cigarettes are part of a healthy lifestyle.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Once Upon a Time: Marvelous Maurice Sendak

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Scary, Feelings, Emotions, Where the Wild Things Are, Controversy, Maurice Sendak, Children, Suppressing Feelings, Expressing Feelings, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

When a feeling is heard, it becomes safe and friendly. It's only when wild things (or emotions) are locked away that we have reason to fear them.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Underdog Bites Back: Tom Hooper on The Damned United

Dan Persons | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Brian Clough, Justice, Frost/Nixon, Emotion, Don Revie, Drama, Jim Broadbent, Controversy, Peter Morgan, Indie, Derby County, Success, Comedy, Michael Sheen, HBO John Adams, Timothy Spall, Acting Legend, Colm Meaney, Gritty, John Adams, British, Sports, Tom Hooper, The Queen, David Peace, Soccer, Leeds United, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I've got nothing against sports films that exult in good sportsmanship and the triumph of the underdog. But I'm more inclined towards films like The Damned United that scrape past the noble veneer of sports.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The War Won and Lost -- Florent-Emilio Siri on Intimate Enemies

Dan Persons | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Emotion, Afghanistan, Algiers, War, Battle of Algiers, Drama, Death, Controversy, Iraq, World, Benoit Magimel, Afghanistan War, France, Iraq War, Gore, Albert Dupontel, Explosions, Action-Adventure, Gritty, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Director Florent-Emilio Sari definitely has a knack for playing the audience. He makes the most of his Moroccan locations, finding an eerie beauty in the barren landscape.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Script That Kills: Austin Peck on The Blue Tooth Virgin

Dan Persons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Film Industry, Emotion, Trilogy of Terror, Script Doctor, Drama, Jealousy, Controversy, Hollywood, Days of Our Lives, Austin Peck, Los Angeles, Indie, Karen Black, Success, Comedy, Creativity, Roma Maffia, Acting Legend, Off Beat, Satire, Soap Operas, Writing, Tom Gilroy, As the World Turns, Daytime Television, Art, Amber Benson, Therapy, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.

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Pawlenty Demands State Sever All Ties To ACORN -- But There Are None

Minnesota Star Tribune | Bob Von Sternberg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Controversy, Minnesota, Acorn, Illegal Activity, Minneapolis, Tom Hanson, Tim Pawlenty, Funding, Voter Fraud, Politics News

Gov. Tim Pawlenty today joined the chorus of disapproval aimed at the ACORN community organizing group, ordering that state agencies "stop all state f...

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Conservatives Rally Around Joe Wilson: "Great American Hero"

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Controversy, President Obama, Joe Wilson, redstate.com, Health Care Reform, Bipartisanship, Patrick Ruffini, Politics News

Most lawmakers condemned Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for his disruptive behavior Wednesday night -- including Wilson himself. But some on the right think...

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A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative, Joe Scarborough, President Obama, Controversy, Children, School Message, Education, Media, Liberal, Conservative Republicans, Indoctrination, Republicans, Outrageous Statements, Rhetoric, Saddam Hussein, Msnbc, North Korea, School Speech, Republican Party, Florida, Fox News, Iraq, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Jim Wallis

News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.

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Newt Gingrich On Obama Back-To-School Speech: "I Recommend It To Everybody" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Controversy, Conservatives, President Obama, Newt Gingrich, Obama School Speech, Politics News

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke out Tuesday in support of President Obama's "back-to-school speech" delivered to school children ...

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Autism And Anorexia: What's The Relationship?

Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Controversy, Mental Health, Anorexia, Autism, Aspergers Girls, Aspergers, Asperger's Syndrome, Vaccinations, Living News
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh

Until recently, I admired the autism parent community from afar. Like the parents who awakened and changed the schizophrenia treatment world, parents of autistic children have moved both treatment and public opinion about the disorder almost 180 degrees from where it had been.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Don't Frack with the Undead: Sarmiento & Harel on Deadgirl

Dan Persons | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Candice Accola, Michael Bowen, Shiloh Fernandez, Violence, Gadi Harel, Film, David Cronenberg, Coming-of-Age-Film, Movies, Interview, Exclusive, Controversy, Noah Segan, Sex, David Lynch, Horror Movies, Marcel Sarmiento, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Deadgirl is about two teenagers who, while exploring an abandoned hospital, find a naked woman chained to a table and barricaded away in the deepest, darkest regions of the building.

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Observe and Report -- Yes, It's Date Rape, but It's Not Supposed to Be Funny (but the Movie Still Is)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jody Hill, Controversy, Entertainment, Anna Faris, Date Rape, Movie, News, Observe and Report, Seth Rogen, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Whether or not Observe and Report is a good film is open to debate. But criticizing a black comedy/social satire for having unlikable characters, awkward situations, and uncomfortable material is awfully foolish.

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NYT Blows It On Pixar, The Safest Bet In Hollywood

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New York Times, Cartoons, Controversy, Up, Pixar, Animation, Toy Story, Up the Movie, Walle, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

No studio, no director, no star has ever had the unbroken string of success that Pixar has enjoyed with every single film it's made from Toy Story in 1995 to 2008's Oscar-winning WALL-E.

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Pope To Meet US Jewish Leaders

Jerusalem Post | HAVIV RETTIG GUR | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

Read More: Controversy, Holocaust, Catholic Church, Benedict, Catholic, Vatican, Pope, World News

The furor between world Jewry and the Catholic Church appears to be on the mend since the church moved to distance itself from an ultra-conservative b...

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Why Firing Phelps Might Cost Kellogg's More Customers

Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Sponsors, Controversy, Advertisers, Pot Hemp, Marijuana, Michael Phelps, Media, Bong, Kellogg, Phelps Pot, Phelps Marijuana, Michael Phelps Smoking Pot, Michael Phelps Bong, Phelps Bong, Michael Phelps Smoking, Michael Phelps Marijuana, Michael Phelps Pot, Michael Phelps Bong Photo, Michael Phelps Smoking a Bong, Kellogs, Kelloggs Michael Phelps, Kellogg's, Entertainment News
Cenk Uygur

This firing is political. Kellogg is choosing sides with the minority of the country that cares about so-called moral improprieties like this. As a business, is that the side it wants to be on?

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Obama Floats Through Teapot Tempests

William Bradley | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Culture, Prop 8 Ballot Initiative, Henry Paulson, Wall Street Bailout, Controversy, Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Gavin Newsom, Rachel Maddow, Obama Transition, Scandal, Rick Warren, Jerry Brown, Same-Sex Marriage, Barack Obama Rick Warren, Rick Warren Invocation, Obama Inauguration, Rick Warren Obama Invocation, Rick Warren Saddleback Church, Obama Invocation, Invocation, Politics News
William Bradley

Why does Obama have Rick Warren delivering the invocation? Politics, naturally. It's a way to keep slicing off some of what has traditionally been a Republican vote.

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Selling Sarah (We Just Gotta Have More Controversy!)

Diane Tucker | Posted 02.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Sarah Palin, 2008 Elections, Google, Hilary Rosen, John McCain, Sarah Palin Vp, Britney Spears, Sarah Palin Vp Pick, Madonna, Sarah Palin Vice President, Controversy, GoDaddy.Com, Barack Obama Race, Wall Street Journal, 2008 Election, New York City, Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Barack Obama 2008, Larry King, John McCain 2008, Huffington Post Off the Bus, Michael Moore, 2008 Presidential Race, Marketing, 2008 Campaign, Gop, Christina Aguilera, Sarah Palin Reaction, Home News
Diane Tucker

It's suddenly 1999 again, when we all thought that accurately calling a candidate "unqualified" would make him a laughing stock. But the joke was on us: the cheap shots generated controversy, which helped land him in the White House.

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Jesse Jackson Should Retire from Public Life

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Congressman Jackson, Controversy, Barack Obama, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Politics News
Ray Hanania

I can understand Jesse Jackson's jealousy at watching a young, smart black man like Barack Obama do what he has tried and failed to do his entire career.

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