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The Loneliness of a Conservative Librarian By DAVID DURANT

2008-09-20 00:46:44 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...conservative librarian, I can attest firsthand to the stifling left-wing orthodoxy of modern American librarianship The problem is not that most librarians have liberal or leftist views. It is that the overwhelming prevalence of such views has created a politicized atmosphere of groupthink and even intolerance, in which left-wing politics...
 
 
 
 
 
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David Durant's Lonely Conservative Librarian

2008-09-21 17:11:09 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...conservative librarian, I can attest firsthand to the stifling left-wing orthodoxy of modern American librarianship The problem is not that most librarians have liberal or leftist views. It is that the overwhelming prevalence of such views has created a politicized atmosphere of groupthink and even intolerance, in which left-wing politics...
 
 
 
 
 
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Gran Torino

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2009-01-08 17:20:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...conservative] America of old isn't gone so much as become a bastion defended by primarily non-European and [sometimes] non-Christian immigrants. Eastwood's Kowalski doesn't like gook culture, values, or family traditions; he likes that the Hmong have culture, values, and family traditions that they stick by. It's his own no-good, white,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Cant Win Interview

2008-02-27 23:53:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...conservative stances on such issues as Affirmative Action, reparations, welfare and other government entitlement programs. As an African-American, this makes him a much in demand media darling who Republicans wheel out whenever they need a black man to weigh-in on a hot-button issue Consequently, hes been a popular guest on the TV talk show...
 
 
 
 
 
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We interrupt this blog for political rambling

2008-10-19 18:36:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
 
...conservative movement and founder of the conservative bible National Review, said the preceding quote to his son Christopher, who recently gave up his column in his father's magazine after the angry response to his endorsement of Obama. Another conservative columnist, Kathleen Parker, who suggested that Palin was hurting McCain's chances was...
 
 
 
 
 
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The coup, lèse majesté and the Film Act of 2007

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2008-04-13 12:11:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...conservative Thai Film Act of 2007, as well as the controversial censorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century Filmmakers had hoped a new film law would be more liberal than the Film Act of 1930. But the new law is harsher. Vaguely worded, and dubiously passed by the military's rubber-stamp law factory, it contains...
 
 
 
 
 
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RIP George Putnam

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2008-09-13 01:54:33 by bob in Forward to Yesterday
...conservative radio until just a few months ago, has passed on at age 94 . Though he was a force in Los Angeles area news television for decades, its possible that he will longest be remembered as the main inspiration for Ted Baxter though its also true that Putnam would have eaten Baxter (and definitely Rod Burgundy) for lunch. Wonderful as...
 
 
 
 
 
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What would you rather do? See a great foreign film, or jump in a volcano?

2008-01-03 06:37:10 by Jeffrey Overstreet in
 
...conservative Christians go see 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days Jeffrey Wells doesnt think so. Heres a clip from his blog (Wednesday) on an internationally celebrated film that has yet to show up on the radar of most Christian media sites Cristian Mungiu s 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days manages to deal with abortion without advocating any stance other...
 
 
 
 
 
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Redefining the Korean Family

2008-01-23 03:59:01 by Rufus in Lucid Screening - A Film Blog
 
...conservative view of post-war history and as such contains the restructuring and continuation of the Confucian patriarchy in a new form of family that is actually based on female economic agency. In this film, female characters are relegated entirely with the traditional binds that be the family: the Mother, the Whore/Corrupt Daughter, and...
 
 
 
 
 
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From the Editor's Desk: Who Wants to be President?

2008-02-06 00:00:00 by Erik Davis in Cinematical