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Mark Judge | August 1, 2017
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Dinesh D’Souza is in the planning stages for a new documentary about fascism. D’Souza’s new book, “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left,” compares the tactics and philosophy of of fascists like Mussolini and Hitler to the modern left.  “I’m raising money now for a movie next summer based on this book and perhaps another project,” D’…
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Mark Judge | July 31, 2017
Military Times is reporting that in a poll conducted in December 2016, 57 percent of active-duty military personnel “expressed a negative opinion of the decision to allowing transgender troops to serve openly.”  Furthermore, “more than half of that groups said the policy change had a very negative effect on military morale.” Around 16 percent thought the transgender change would boost troops’…
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Mark Judge | July 28, 2017
Is Captain Kirk a communist? According to a July 24 essay in the New York Times - and despite such an idea seeming, as Mr. Spock would say, illogical  - the answer is yes. M. Gittlitz, “a writer from Brooklyn who specializes in counterculture and radical politics,” argues that the space adventure “Star Trek” was inspired by an Argentine communist named J. Posadas. In an opinion piece titled '…
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Mark Judge | July 27, 2017
On Thursday morning the cover and title of Hillary Clinton's forthcoming book was revealed. The book is called "What Happened," and it explores Clinton's failed 2016 presidential run. According to several press reports,  and a statement from publisher Simon & Schuster, Clinton “lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By…
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Mark Judge | July 26, 2017
In a recent interview on Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club,” rapper and host of the new VH1 show “Signed” Rick Ross was asked why he’s never signed a female artist to his music label, Maybach Music Group.  The answer? Ross is afraid he’d wind up having sex with them and that it would hurt his business. Ross: “You know, I never did it because I always thought, like, I would end up f**king a…
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Mark Judge | July 25, 2017
“An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” the sequel to Al Gore’s 2006 climate change film “An Inconvenient Truth,” is getting iced by critics. The film opens on Friday. Some early notices: Nick Allen at rogerebert.com:  The documentary follow-up proves to be less about global warming than propping up a hero awkwardly desperate to captivate audiences again like he did eleven years ago. It's…
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Mark Judge | July 24, 2017
Annie Pfeifer has a problem. Her three-year-old daughter is “obsessed with Donald Trump.” Normally this would just be considered childish whimsy - as Pfeifer notes, the name "Donald Trump" is similar to Donald Duck, and children love alliteration. But Pfeiffer is an assistant professor in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University. To a liberal like her,…
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Mark Judge | July 20, 2017
Writing in the Nation magazine, Danny Goldberg claims "the left is tearing itself apart" and warns that “lefty infighting” is handing victories to Republicans. "This coming October 9 will mark the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara’s murder,” writes Goldberg. “Yet the pathology underlying his famous quip that when the American left is asked to form a firing squad it gets into a circle is as…
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Mark Judge | July 19, 2017
“In Jesus’ actions in Scripture, there is not a single case in which a woman is put down, reproached, humiliated, or cast into one of the lewd stereotypes of his time.” These are the written words of Alice Matthews, the Lois W. Bennett Distinguished Professor Emerita and former academic dean at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Zondervan has just published her new book, “Gender Roles and the…
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Mark Judge | July 18, 2017
Sadie Robertson of "Duck Dynasty" fame clams that “shocking things” are done in the world of modeling.  She also believes her Christian faith has helped her avoid the traps and body-shaming of the industry. In a July 17 Instagram post, Robertson described how she was booked a photoshoot she thought “was going to be a natural no makeup photoshoot” until “the director of the shoot took a quick…