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Princess Catherine apologizes for 'confusion' over edited family photo
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Oh, thank God! The world is safe from the manipulating deception of retouched family photos. And the deceit was to celebrate Mother's Day, no less. How rude. Now if reality had been manipulated...
'I Am Legend' screenwriter reacts to vaccine conspiracy theories, pointing out the plot is fiction - CNN
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Below is a disturbing article about the movie "I Am Legend". People are actually using a piece of fiction as fact. I remember two things when I saw the movie. This first thing that came to mind...
Media coverage of the economy ignores the plight of most Americans
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Study after study suggests news reporting is biased. Yet the political left scoffs at the idea of 'fake news'. The news media claims to be the watchdogs of democracy. But who is scrutinizing...
'The Crown' Takes on Margaret Thatcher's Legacy—How Well Does It Do?
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In the first episode of “The Crown’s” fourth season , it’s clear that Queen Elizabeth II and Britain’s first female prime minister are headed toward a tense relationship. Margaret Thatcher...
'Operation Moonglow' Review: The Rockets' Red Scare
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Around 1 a.m. Moscow time on Oct. 5, 1957, receiving stations around the globe began picking up demure new radio signals from space—“beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep . . .” They came from a...
'First Principles' Review: Classically Constituted
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The subject of Thomas Ricks’s extraordinarily timely book is, in his words, “what our first four presidents learned, where they learned it, who they learned it from, and what they did with that...
'China's Good War' Review: Present at the Creation
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When I arrived in Tokyo in the late 1990s for a five-year stint as a correspondent, one of my biggest surprises was the near total absence in Northeast Asia of international organizations that...
'The Luckiest Man' Review: Remembering a Maverick
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The late John McCain’s paternal line was touched by a kind of tragic greatness. The senator’s grandfather, “Slew” McCain, a brilliant and courageous admiral in the Pacific during World War II,...
'The Man Who Ran Washington' Review: Invisible Touch
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A first-term White House chief of staff faces three great tasks: avoid scandal, get the president re-elected and leave without getting fired. It is remarkable how few chiefs of staff, over the...
'The Daughters of Yalta' Review: Big Three, Little Three
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Much has been written about the historic Yalta Conference in February 1945, when Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met to decide the future of the postwar world. Little, however, is known about the...
'Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times' Review: Unruly Genius
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Some 16,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln—more than any other historical figure except Jesus. But there has never been one like this one by David S. Reynolds. The author, a...
Review of Bob Woodward's 'Rage': On the Record, Such as It Is
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Most readers of this review will already know the big news item issuing from “Rage,” Bob Woodward’s second account of the Trump White House. On Feb. 7 of this year the president told Mr....
Umbrella Academy Season 2 - Netflix
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For those of you that watched Season 1 - Season 2 drops on Friday. For those of you that didn't watch Season 1 what are you waiting for? The series is based on the graphic novels of the same name...
Dr. Richard Ireland, Psychic Demonstration. Real . . . or Fake? (Steve Allen Show 1960)
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Richard Ireland demonstrates his psychic abilities on the Steve Allen Show in 1969. During the show, Steve Allen, an ardent skeptic, even provides commentary to acknowledge the validity of...
‘Game of Thrones’ Won’t Return Until 2019
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What a let down. In what is probably unsurprising but no doubt disappointing news for “Game of Thrones” fans, HBO confirmed Thursday that the show won’t return for its eighth and final...
.........after bullying Trump tried to influence press
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Trump also expressed petty jealousy at perceived favorable coverage President Barack Obama has received from the media. One participant reminded the real estate developer and former reality TV...
re: Japanese internment
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Just a few weeks after my fifth birthday, in the spring of 1942, my parents got my younger brother, my baby sister, and me up very early, hurriedly dressed us, and quickly started to pack. When my...