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DNC Chair Villaraigosa’s Moment of Horror

For those of you who didn’t listen to Hugh Hewitt play this clip 20+ times on his show yesterday, I wanted to post it in all of its glory for you to see. The DNC Chair Antionio Villaraigosa calls for a vote to add an amendment to the DNC platform that would reinstate the party’s belief in God as well as their recognition and support for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. I’ve viewed and listened to the clip going on 30 times now and I still can’t help but have a mischievous chuckle when he can’t decide what to...

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Taking Chance

  When one falls, another brings him home.   Anyone who has ever attended a military funeral is well aware that ceremony and honor saturate the sorrowful occasion–and rightly so. But many have no knowledge of the tender ministrations shown those KIA, and sacred duty of accompanying the fallen to their home and final resting place. Taking Chance tells the amazing story of one such journey. One night USMC Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl (masterfully played by Kevin Bacon) saw the name of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps amongst those killed in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Having served in Desert Storm,...

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“Evelyn”

10 years ago December I happened to see a small, indie film, Evelyn, produced by Pierce Brosnan and Beau St. Clair’s Irish Dream Time. Evelyn tells the true tale of Desmond Doyle, an Irishman abandoned by his wife, out of work, and at war with Ireland over an archaic child custody law. The lyrical and poignant film captures the beauty and poverty of 1953 Ireland. The outstanding cast includes Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, John Lynch and Alan Bates (as the whiskey-fueled, but brilliant, rugby player turned attorney). But little Sophie Vavasseur is the real heart and show...

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