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I love living in the Cleveland area – I really do. We have a great house in a safe area, my kids love their schools, we have room, great friends, the city is only about 40 minutes away. I like the woods and streams and farms (not many of those …

Osama: Islamist religious fanatic. Saddam: secular Stalinist dictator. Oil and water, right? Bin Laden would never work with the apostate Saddam, and vice versa, right? Their methods, motivation, beliefs, and language are mutually exclusive, right? Listen to this bilge read Tuesday night by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf: “jihad is …

20th Century Fox sued a young video company for appropriating old footage from a documentary THAT WAS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Amazingly, a lower court agreed and ordered the company to pay Fox $1.5. Now the case is before the Supreme Court: Justices were urged to watch a seven-hour World …

I believe the real dispute over the war centers around priorities: no serious person would defend Saddam’s regime (“I’m not trying to defend Saddam, but…”), most acknowledge that the citizens of Iraq will be better off without him, but those who oppose the war cite its expense for us and …

The NY Post reports that TVT is on the block: TVT Records, the nation’s largest independent record company, is on the block, The Post has learned. TVT, best known for discovering the band Nine Inch Nails, has held discussions with some major labels, but has not yet had any takers, …

My family owns (basically worthless) land in the high desert near Victorville, CA, so I have been to the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum out there. My grandfather was a cowboy and Western buff, and he took me to meet Roy when I was a wee lad – I …

Most discount stores now have DVD sections priced between $5-10. There were over 1100 DVDs released last year with a list price under $10: * Most Wal-Mart stores are now selling older films for as little as $5.88. The selection at one Oceanside, Calif., store included such movies as Hush, …

Like everyone I knew I was anti-Vietnam War as a kid and teen, and I had a generally negative view of the military as well: repressive, autocratic, dangerous tool of the man. Like most, I have come to recognize the problem was not the military, but the politicians who tested …

Manfred Eicher’s legendary ECM label is know for “chamber jazz,” a kind of cool, delicate, intricate, harmonically sophisticated approach to jazz that is heavily influenced by European sensibilities. Keith Jarrett, Charles Lloyd, and Dave Holland are among some of the better known ECM artists. I didn’t know 61 year-old pianist …

Citing an undisclosed assault arrest from last October, finalist Corey Clark was disqualified by American Idol: the network said on Monday it was expelling another finalist, Corey Clark, who is facing trial on misdemeanor charges of battery against his sister and resisting arrest. Fox said in a statement that Clark …