Anne Leary, a blogger unknown to me before today, has hit her 15 minutes of fame with her post today about spotting Bill Ayers at D.C.’s Reagan International Airport and — after bravely approaching him despite the possibility that the “unrepentant domestic terrorist” might have a bomb hidden in his pocket — obtaining from him the startling, unsolicited admission that he did, indeed,...

For those interested in the public debate over the Iraq war and looking for a great film experience, I would suggest that you check out Andrew Lawton’s beautifully crafted film, “Wake.” (IMDB data on the film may be found here.) Technically a short, the movie comes in at around thirty minutes, but fills the screen in such a vibrant fashion that the movie seems much larger. Rather than taking...

Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919, aka Rusty Lionhorse) was an Italian composer who wrote the libretto and music for the opera “I Pagliacci” (The Clowns) in 1892. It was a huge overnight success and it remains today one of the 20 most performed operas in the World. Even if you rarely listen to classical music or opera, you’ve probably heard and would recognize some of the great music and arias. Leoncavallo...

I must confess that I have not been a huge fan of Dancing With The Stars, my viewing is usually limited to catching highlights if they happen to have a contestant I find interesting. I’m also not particularly a fan of former Congressman Tom Delay, I found him to be arrogant in his attitude towards his peers and his rivals. However when I heard he was going to be on DWTS this season I was interested enough...

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CBS’s late night comedy star David Letterman has continued the apologies he began last week: Letterman is continuing to use his late night talk show as a platform to discuss how he “has his work cut out for him” in dealing with the fallout from his on-air confession that he was the alleged victim of extortion. Joe Halderman, 51, an Emmy-award-winning producer for CBS News’ “48...

And so it continues. If you thought some in Hollywood’s defense of Roman Polanski for raping a 13 year old girl hit rock bottom when Whoppie Goldberg seemingly decided to redefine the meaning of rape — a statement so dismaying that it sparked pointed SNL bit — it has now sunk to another level….in the blogosphere. An associate producer of the highly touted Polanski documentary has been...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Sen. John McCain’s, has blasted Glenn Beck. First, on Fox: And then on CNN, former Dick Cheney advisor Mary Matalin responds (claiming Beck is actually nonpartisan) to Graham’s comments — as does her husband, Democratic strategist warhorse James Carville (who does not mince words): Beck is now one of the hottest political personalities on Fox News, getting...

I came across this E.B. White quote in a magazine, and decided it was too wonderful to keep to myself. White wrote it in response to a reader:

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Saturday Night Live skewered President Barack Obama last night. Satire is often a barometer of emerging conventional wisdom — so Obama & Co should not view this one as welcome news:

Was the reason behind Chicago’s flop really anti-Americanism? And will Obama now face political consequences due to his unsuccessful efforts? The cartoon by Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner, is copyrighted and licensed to appear on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved.

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I don’t know about you but I am a hypocrite. Everyday without fail I complain about things that other people do and in the next action do those very same things. Let me give you an example. In my time I have been know to look down on smokers. Why? Well, it is a dirty habit for one and it is also a habit that kills – why would you do that to yourself. I make smokers feel uncomfortable if they are standing...

When an American city loses out on the 2016 Olympics, it’s nirvana to some.

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In last night’s monologue, David Letterman makes a joke about avoiding award ceremonies for fear of being nabbed for sexual misconduct (as Roman Polanski was in Switzerland) and then gives a no-laughs account of being blackmailed over having affairs with women who work on his show. We are deep into media-outdoes-real-life here, in the terrain of the 1976 “Network” movie that posited a TV anchorman...

I think Ed Morrissey is right, more or less, that a “Left-Right consensus” is “building on Polanski.” I say “more or less” because I think that formulation oversimplifies the situation somewhat. It isn’t so much that both liberals and conservatives are coming out against Polanski and his apologists, it’s that pretty much everyone with a modicum of common decency...

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Here’s Part 1 and Part II of Fox News video now up on You Tube of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama making their pitch to the Olympic committee for Chicago as the 2016 Olympics city: Here’s the text of Obama’s comments. Here’s the text of Michelle Obama’s comments. FOOTNOTE: My satellite radio (the device that lets me escape regular talk radio) was on the blink...

Today – October 2 – is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s (or Mahatma Gandhi’s) birth anniversary . Gandhi once said that if we are not careful then seven “deadly sins” will destroy us. They are: a) “Wealth Without Work”; b) “Pleasure Without Conscience”; c) “Knowledge Without Character; d) Commerce (Business) Without Morality (Ethics); e) Science...

We don’t always cover the entertainment world here at TMV but it’s the start of a new TV season and I like to try and find one show each year that is truly worth watching. For me this year that show is the Fox Series Glee. If you aren’t familiar with the program, it is set in a typical High school and focuses on the Glee club. In addition to having the typical school tv show stuff (hard working...

Rick Sanchez says it well: Embedded video from CNN Video I blogged about this at my personal blog, too.