March 19, 2010. Picture via Atlas Shrugs.
Abdulmutallab Stops Talking After Being Read Miranda Rights – WSJ.com
January 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
The attempted Christmas Day destruction over Detroit of Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is fading from public memory as a fortunate near-miss. This incident should not fade from view. As more information emerges, the picture it paints about the antiterror mindset of the current U.S. government is—there is no other word—scary. Last week [...]
Budget Deficit to Reach $1.35 Trillion for 2010 – WSJ.com
January 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Congressional experts pegged the 2010 U.S. budget deficit at $1.35 trillion, a slight improvement from the $1.38 trillion estimate in August, but the overall picture of the government’s finances remains bleak, according to the annual report released Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office said the government will run an aggregate deficit of almost $6 trillion during [...]
The Hurt Locker: Great Action Film or Anti-War Propaganda?
January 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you saw the Film Critic’s Choice Awards on Saturday you know that Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller set in wartime Iraq, The Hurt Locker, won for best picture. This is an important award because it isn’t like the Oscars that only amount to Hollywood patting itself on the back. The Critic’s Choice Award is decided by, [...]
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James Kirchick: Why shouldn’t we waterboard Abdulmutallab? – Daily News
January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Picture this hypothetical situation: A member of Al Qaeda boards a transatlantic flight bearing 269 passengers and crew headed for a major American city – let’s just say Detroit – with powdered explosives stitched into his undergarments. As the plane makes its final descent, the terrorist at this point in our narrative, that’s what he [...]
MSNBC’s Barnicle and Senator Whitehouse: the GOP is Aryans and Birthers
December 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Kurt Loder: Avatar’s hackneyed politics – MTV Movie News
December 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
Unfortunately, whenever the action lets up and we’re returned to the piddling story, the picture slumps like a failed soufflé. It’s also heavily laced with political instruction of a most familiar sort. Cameron, who’s now 55, is a self-acknowledged aging hippie, and his boomer worldview is strictly by-the-numbers. Quaritch and Selfridge are evil Americans despoiling [...]
2009 Satellite Award Nominations – “The Stoning of Soraya M.”: Best Motion Picture, Ten Best Films of 2009
December 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Congratulations to NRB friends….
Cyrus and Betsy Nowrasteh
2009 Satellite Award Nominations
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
Bright Star
An Education
The Hurt Locker
The Messenger
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Best Actress (Drama)
Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Stoning of Soraya M.
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Penélope Cruz, Broken Embraces
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Catalina Saavedra, The Maid
Best Supporting [...]
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How Feminists Judge: “He Looks Rape-y”
The aftermath of my column
For the past two days, I have been embroiled in an enormous campus controversy concerning a column I wrote criticizing the concept of “date rape” and decrying the victim-based ideology of the sexual left. Printed in the university’s paper, the American University Eagle, the column went up on its website on [...]