Monday, December 3, 2012

Hollywood Stays in Campaign Mode



Samuel Goldwyn had the following famed advice for filmmakers: “Pictures are for entertainment. Messages should be delivered by Western Union.” Today’s Hollywood is apparently choosing to ignore the renowned studio mogul’s words and are instead opting to keep the election campaign going, just as the celebrity-in-chief continues to do.

The truth is that for decades, liberals in Hollywood have been shoehorning distinctively radical messaging into various forms of entertainment product. Left-wing messages were embedded in a blacklist subplot of the movie “The Way We Were” (1973), which featured Barbra Streisand as the local communist.

Streisand, who has now been paired with actor Seth Rogen in the upcoming comedy “The Guilt Trip,” recently opined in an Internet column that Sen. John McCain was “fueling the flames of a supposed cover-up by the White House, Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.” Streisand stated that “there is no evidence to support that a cover-up occurred” and further suggested that “all Senator McCain wants to talk about is Benghazi and he is relentless in his questioning of ‘what the President knew and when did he know it.’” [more...]

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

11-28-12 Great Guests for Your Show


1. Steve Gill: Secession Talk Underscores Fundamental Differences in Red and Blue States
2. Joseph Klein: Palestinian Statehood: An Ominous Vote at the U.N.
3. Al Fadi: The Israeli-Hamas Cease Fire: Winners & Losers
4. Ryan Mauro: What Americans are paying for in Egypt


Secession Talk Underscores Fundamental Differences in Red and Blue States

The talk of "secession" in the wake of the 2012 elections, which has produced signatures from citizens in virtually every state with nearly a million nationwide (and over 100,000 from Texas alone), has fueled flashbacks to the 1860s. While the viral petitions have been dismissed as "silly" by most serious politicians, the divide that such talk underlines is real and should not be ignored. [more...]


Palestinian Statehood: An Ominous Vote at the U.N.

Permanent United Nations Observer of Palestine, Riyad H. Mansour, heralded the upcoming vote by the United Nations General Assembly on November 29th to upgrade the Palestinians’ status to an observer "state" as an "historic event." He boasted that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s maneuver, in which Abbas will personally appear at the General Assembly and present the resolution for a vote, was a form of resistance to Israeli occupation that Mansour labeled "diplomatic resistance." [more...]


The Israeli-Hamas Cease Fire: Winners & Losers

Since last week the world has been celebrating a brokered cease fire deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The cease fire was the result of what appeared to be an imminent ground assault by the Israeli troops against the militant Islamic group Hamas. The fighting which began few weeks earlier was the result of the constant missile firing by the militant group from the Gaza Strip against Israel. For years Hamas has been firing thousands if missiles onto Israel in an effort to instigate a fight. Supported by Iran, Hamas' missile arsenal included long range missiles capable of reaching prominent cities including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Such a non-stop assault was the reason for the Israeli retaliation against the terrorist group. However, one must ask: who are the winners and losers out of this deal? [more...]


What Americans are paying for in Egypt

The U.S. government is about to add $450 million to its $16 trillion debt for the sake of Muslim Brotherhood-run Egypt. According to the New York Times the emergency cash transfer is part of a $1 billion aid package pledged in May. The original plan was to provide $190 million as soon as possible, but the declining economic conditions of Egypt convinced the Obama Administration to more than double that amount. Another $260 million will be delivered once Egypt secures a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. [more...]

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

11-27-12 Excellent Guests for Your Show


1. Joseph Klein: Re-Arming Gaza’s Terrorists
2. Diana West: Rove's Role in the Re-election of Obama
3. Ryan Mauro: Morsi Becomes Egypt's 'New Pharaoh'
4. Kyle Olson: Students Pull off Thanksgiving Event, Despite Protesting Teachers
5. Dave Bego: Union Turkeys Attack Thanksgiving


Re-Arming Gaza’s Terrorists

President Obama pushed Israel into accepting a ceasefire arrangement with Hamas, which was engineered by Hamas’s Muslim Brotherhood patron, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Under the terms of the ceasefire, Israel is supposed to negotiate, through Egyptian intermediaries, an easing of border restrictions between Gaza and Israel. This would be the same Egyptian government that had sent its prime minister to Gaza to express solidarity with Hamas during the fighting. Hamas, on the other hand, is not required to give up its remaining stockpile of Iranian-supplied weapons, nor to commit to cease all further imports of Iranian missiles or missile parts. In short, the ceasefire is a sham. Only a Gaza Strip without re-armed terrorists can truly stop the fire in the long run. [more...]


Rove's Role in the Re-election of Obama

Let's all read Cliff Kincaid's excellent Nov. 8 analysis of the election in which he highlights Karl Rove's leading role in shaping the Romney campaign strategy not to define Barack Obama as the radical that he is: the Communist-mentored, Frantz Fanon inspired, faculty-lounge-Marxist who began his political career as a "fusion" candidate, running on both the socialist New Party and Democrat ticket. As Rove saw it, the GOP couldn't say anything bad about Obama or it would turn voters off. Romney, alas, apparently agreed. Kincaid cites exclusive Bloomberg Businessweek coverage of a closed event at the tail end of the GOP convention in Tampa where Rove addressed 70 top GOP donors. There, he laid out his strategy to win over crucial swing voters to defeat Barack Obama: as the reporter put it, "to criticize Barack Obama without really criticizing him." [more...]


Morsi Becomes Egypt's 'New Pharaoh'

On November 21, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi was praised for his role in brokering a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. He had positioned himself as the moderate peacemaker worthy of the $1 billion per year the U.S. had given his predecessor. The very next day he cashed in his good will with an enormous power grab that made him, in the words of one prominent Egyptian, the “new Pharoah.” [more...]


Students Pull off Thanksgiving Event, Despite Protesting Teachers

Students and teachers from Old Rochester Regional Junior High School have teamed up for many years to serve a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to senior citizens in the school cafeteria. But this year the teachers thought it would be an opportune time to bring their complaints about a lack of a collective bargaining agreement to the community. How? By refusing to participate in the traditional Thanksgiving event. That’s right, as a way to protest their lack of a contract, the teachers bailed on the students and senior citizens. But the students and a group of volunteers kept the tradition alive on their own. [more...]


Union Turkeys Attack Thanksgiving

It's time to call a spade a spade. The Big Labor thugs continue to show their true colors by attacking one of America’s most sacred holidays, Thanksgiving. The Big Labor Bosses have their own selfish interests at heart, working to save their lifestyle, political influences and ultimate power. These tenacious tactics all come at the expense of the very members they claim to represent! In their quest for survival, the Big Labor Turkeys are willing to destroy American exceptionalism and execute the most devastating and effective portion of their so-called corporate campaigns against American businesses. Simply put, their actions are an attempt to reduce business revenues during this critical fiscal season. This effort to bring businesses to their knees and submit to forced unionism comes on one of the proudest days in American history. [more...]

Monday, November 26, 2012

New Media Technologies Challenge the Legal Definition of Privacy



Smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices are filled with individuals’ highly personal data including e-mails, photos, contact data, financial and medical information. It is the type of private material that was previously kept in one’s residence; such material was precisely the kind that was contemplated by the drafters of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

However, since technology appears to be outpacing legal reasoning, some courts have rejected the idea that during an arrest, the information contained within a smart phone would require a warrant prior to the search of its contents. The U.S. Supreme Court has not specifically addressed searches of cell phones following an arrest, but a number of courts, including the Federal Courts of the Fourth and Fifth Circuits, have relied upon an exception to the Fourth Amendment, which was created by the High Court and allows police officers to search objects in the possession or reach of an arrested person following an arrest. [more...]

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

11-21-12 Expert Guests for Your Show


1. John LeBoutillier: McCain's Secret Benghazi Agenda
2. Joseph Klein: The Three Evil Pillars of the Palestinian Jihadist War Strategy
3. Sarah Stern: Targeted Killings: Good for the U.S.; Good for Israel
4. Diana West: King on Petraeus


McCain's Secret Benghazi Agenda

What is the real reason Senator John McCain is on the war path against UN Ambassador Susan Rice? Is it not odd for a senior U.S. Senator to target so personally a relatively minor administration official - especially from the other party?        It is true that McCain is certifiably unpredictable, with an out-of-control temper going back to his childhood, pre-dating his POW years. Just ask his mother, who has often publicly described how difficult and irascible John McCain was from his earliest days on. And, to be upfront and fair about it, I have known John casually since 1974. In the Libyan/Rice/Benghazi Affair, McCain indeed has an agenda. And here is what I think it is: [more...]


The Three Evil Pillars of the Palestinian Jihadist War Strategy

Israel is currently fighting a three-pronged war in its on-going struggle to protect its citizens from Palestinian terrorists - physical asymmetric warfare, cyberwar and lawfare. Together they constitute the three evil pillars of the Palestinian jihadist war strategy that are a severe threat to Israel’s security. The most obvious is the unremitting rocket assaults launched from Gaza by Hamas and its jihadist brethren. Before the current hostilities broke out, they had already fired hundreds of rockets against Israeli civilian population centers all during 2012, despite repeated warnings by Israel to stop and letters to the UN Security Council that were repeatedly ignored. Finally, Israel decided that enough was enough. It had to send an unequivocal, forceful message or the daily terror suffered by its citizens would only get worse. [more...]


Targeted Killings: Good for the U.S.; Good for Israel

There have been one million people, extending from Ashdod to Sderot who have been receiving a steady barrage of rocket attacks and have fifteen seconds to run for their lives. Israel has endured over 800 of these attacks from Gaza in the last year. Could you imagine how the United States would respond if San Diego were receiving this sort of an onslaught from Mexico, or Buffalo from Canada? According to article 51 of the United Nations Charter, every any nation has an inherent right to defend itself. Hamas, which is on the official State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, was swept into power in free and open elections on January 26, 2006. It is the group that has been behind much of the suicide bombings which Israel has endured since 1996. [more...]


King on Petraeus

After Rep. Peter King's appearance before the press after David Petraeus appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on November 16, he is clearly struggling with what he has heard from Petraeus: a version of Petraeus' September 14 briefing at odds with what King and, more important, the record as set at the time by the ranking Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, recall. In a nutshell, on September 14, Petraeus emphasized a "spontaneous," video-driven protest that became violent as "extreme" groups opportunistically attacked the U.S. compound (with RPGs and mortars). Petraeus spun this false narrative to the intell committee at a time when the U.S. government already knew no protest whatsoever had taken place in Benghazi; rather, that the ambassador and three other Americans had been killed in a planned assault by al-Qaeda linked groups on the anniversary of 9/11. Petraeus' testimony, in other words, was a lie and an outrage - but no one seems to care. Meanwhile, it is a crime to lie to Congress, oath or no oath. [more...]

Monday, November 19, 2012

"Idiocracy" in the Golden State


NewsMax Hollywood Reporter/Legal Analyst James Hirsen is available for interviews on the top entertainment, political and legal stories of the day. Tune in to James Hirsen's legal radio show - more at: legalsurvival.org.

"Idiocracy" in the Golden State

After experiencing the results of the recent election, many of those who reside on the Left Coast woke up the following morning feeling as if they had been beamed into a movie sequel for a film that has yet to be made. Real life in the former Golden State has become too much like a follow-up flick to 2006’s sci-fi comedy "Idiocracy."

The movie never had a major theatrical release, but it has achieved a cult following due to its prophetic plotline. The humorous satire stars Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph as two characters who, after participating in a classified military hibernation experiment, wake up 500 years in the future. During the movie’s introduction, the narrator informs the viewing audience that, since natural selection is indifferent toward intelligence, stupid people will, in the future, outnumber those with a modicum of intelligence. The characters in the film discover a society that is uniformly lacking in brainpower and any notion of individual responsibility as well. [more...]

James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. is a New York Times best-selling author, commentator, media analyst and law professor. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and has made several appearances there on various landmark decisions. Hirsen is the co-founder and Chief Legal Counsel for InternationalEsq.com, a legal think tank and educational institute for the study of law in the media.