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JohnFN | Tuesday, 25th of October 2011 at 04:47:57 PM
First of all, Floyd nails the student loan fiasco per the Occupy Wall Street protest below.
Second, the protest could be ending due to – (waiting for the lightning bolt of irony to tear from the heavens) – a disagreement between OWS organizers and the elected assembly of drum circles. From Megan McArdle, in [...]
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JohnFN | Monday, 17th of October 2011 at 09:52:48 PM Occupy JohnFN’s Campus has officially started, and with the full-throated support of my history professor. To know how she teaches history, it usually involves material from Amy Goodman, Common Dreams, MSNBC and interrupting any student with a competing argument. Politics were held to a minimum the first several weeks, until emotions got the best of [...]
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 4th of October 2011 at 08:13:35 PM First of all, it’s nice to be back, even if this small appearance may be brief.
In case you’re wondering, I’ve been busy – very busy. I’m writing a lot, as the job demands, and I’m also inching closer to that once distant goal of having a bachelor’s degree. This, as well as raising an [...]
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JohnFN | Sunday, 17th of April 2011 at 09:55:13 PM
Andrew Breitbart’s tome “Righteous Indignation” is out. If you somehow missed this event, it’s because you haven’t been to Big Hollywood, where Breitbart’s upcoming book release has locked up the No. 1 spot on the marquee for some time.
As The Atlantic Wire has noted, there is no middle-of-the-road for Breitbart or book reviews [...]
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 12th of April 2011 at 09:04:25 PM I’ve seen the trailer to “Atlas Shrugged Part One” and color me unimpressed. P.J. O’Rourke, though, has actually seen the movie, which at first observation, appears to be an overbearing, underbudgeted mess.
The movie version of Ayn Rand’s novel treats its source material with such formal, reverent ceremoniousness that the uninitiated will feel they’ve wandered [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 2nd of March 2011 at 08:41:07 PM Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 passed this afternoon. The bill will go to a final vote before the House soon, where Republicans hold a 19-vote advantage.
Wish I could say I was thrilled with what this encompasses. Despite what the Ohio house accomplishes, collective bargaining will come up to a referendum sometime in the near future, [...]
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JohnFN | Friday, 18th of February 2011 at 06:45:38 AM Some random dude at Front Page Magazine read the future and predicted what we are now seeing in Ohio and Wisconsin – last year.
An example of what these consequences can lead to can be seen in Ohio, where officials can’t hide behind the monetary printing press or non-existent budgets. Last year Gov. Ted Strickland [...]
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JohnFN | Monday, 14th of February 2011 at 09:39:14 PM
From Captain Andrew “Renault” Sullivan.
… this president is too weak, too cautious, too beholden to politics over policy to lead. In this budget, in his refusal to do anything concrete to tackle the looming entitlement debt, in his failure to address the generational injustice, in his blithe indifference to the increasing danger of [...]
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JohnFN | Saturday, 5th of February 2011 at 08:43:07 PM This is quite the statement from Christopher Hitchens, whose last musings on Ronald Reagan occurred just after the President’s death, and weren’t very complimentary. Hitchens has been one Reagan’s biggest critics, and he remains so, as evidenced in most of his latest Slate article. Given that, this rejoinder is quite revealing and may have been [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 26th of January 2011 at 10:00:25 PM Scientists were able to sequence the DNA of writer/pundit Christopher Hitchens. It is shown above in this photograph.
My sole reason for subscribing to “The Atlantic” was to read Christopher Hitchens’ monthly book reviews. Unfortunately, after his hair and expanding waist, this has seemed to succumbed to the cancer he is now battling in [...]
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JohnFN | Sunday, 16th of January 2011 at 07:34:05 PM P.J. O’Rourke doesn’t like the New York Times.
Editorialized the Times: “It is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats.” Interesting how a few small changes would make that sentence appall the Times as [...]
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JohnFN | Saturday, 8th of January 2011 at 07:24:08 PM Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 5th of January 2011 at 05:34:15 PM
I’m not sure there is enough left in the well, but going “The Expendables” route by loading up the roster with past stars from the other “Fast and Furious” flicks, as well as Dwayne Johnson, might keep the box office tally going. And that’s the reason this was made, the last movie made nearly [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 29th of December 2010 at 09:25:29 PM
Did the decade end last year or this year? I always believed it ended on the 10. No matter, here are my Top Fives in Film for the past, er, decade. Read at your own peril, hate at your own whim.
1. Seabiscuit: New Deal preaching aside, a wonderful movie and perhaps the best [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 29th of December 2010 at 08:45:36 AM Lenny Kravitz may have had a point, at least in terms of media visibility. Given the hours of coverage of former pop starlets, the usual resident techno shock artists and the like, I’m still not surprised four out of the five top grossing concert acts last year were rock bands.
Bon Jovi may have recently [...]
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JohnFN | Sunday, 12th of December 2010 at 08:12:10 PM
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JohnFN | Friday, 10th of December 2010 at 12:00:55 PM Soon-to-be former Ohio governor Ted Strickland was asked why the Democrats took such a pounding in his state during the election. Every state-wide office went Republican, and the state made its biggest turn red in its history.
He blamed it on the lack of convincing populist rhetoric from Democrats. That Republicans had somehow harnessed the [...]
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JohnFN | Friday, 10th of December 2010 at 07:33:47 AM
Predictions have never been a good game for me. My record picking and wagering NFL games is a testament to that basic fact. But two years ago, I said Obama would re-enact the Bush tax cuts, he would do so to the full extent, and he would do so in the face of his [...]
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JohnFN | Thursday, 9th of December 2010 at 08:11:00 AM
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JohnFN | Thursday, 9th of December 2010 at 07:30:49 AM
Transformers Dark of The Moon Teaser (1080p) from Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.
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