As you may know if you watch The Factor, Christmas is under siege in America, as secular forces are trying to blast any kind of spirituality out of the federal holiday. And now the entertainment industry is hammering Christmas as well, but in a different way. The Cat in the …
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Pulitzer, Part Two? | Madonna Makes No. 1 | R&B History Pulitzer-Prize Winner Styron: New Novel? It’s been 24 years since Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron published a novel. His last was Sophie’s Choice, which went on to become a classic book and equally classic film starring Meryl Streep. Now …
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It sounds like the punch line to a bad joke. According to media reports, the U.N. Secretary-General’s office has already drawn up detailed plans for the United Nations to step in and administer Iraq three months after the war ends. The confidential blueprint calls for setting up a U.N. “Assistance …
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Beware of elitists — they’re usually wrong. Take the Beltway crowd’s growing indignation over celebrities entertaining political careers. “They’re making a mockery of the process,” says one. “What on earth does Arnold Schwarzenegger (search)know about governing anything?” chimes another. I say, says who? Look, if a celebrity, or an actor, …
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Robert Redford | ‘Thirteen’ | Gregory Hines An Oscar for Redford at Last? Believe it or not, Robert Redford does not have an Academy Award for Best Actor on his nightstand. He has one for Best Director for “Ordinary People” in 1980. He also has a Thalberg Award for his …
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NEW YORK – A North Carolina mother of three has a simple message for anti-war celebrities like West Wing star Martin Sheen and singer Sheryl Crow: enough already! Lori Bardsley of Summerfield, N.C., has gotten so sick of hearing entertainers sound off that she has set up Citizens Against Celebrity …
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Republican Gov. Bob Rileyhas incurred the wrath of ardent church-state separationists for offering early-morning Bible study classes to his staff. “He is a political panhandler for public piety,” said Larry Darby, Alabama state director of American Atheists. “He’s using the machinery of government to promote the …
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The Sopranos |Annie Lennox |Madonna and Peter Sellers|Radio Payola ‘Carmela Soprano’ Disputes Report on Show Does anyone really know what’s happening with The Sopranos? My colleagues at the New York Daily News got a good scoop the other day from Sopranos creator David Chase. He indicated that he would have …
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WASHINGTON Editor’s note: This is the second report in a three-part series investigating the role of congressional caucuses and the special interests that seek to influence them. While some members of Congress reveled this year in banning the word French from fries to protest France’s refusal to join the United …
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How best to handle the shuttle story. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. Some Factor viewers are angry with me over last night’s report, where we asked NASA to explain why it fired five members of its safety board last June, after they had raised serious …
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