To watch “The Talking Points Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Cardinal Law, Trent Lott, and the Americans who still support them. That’s the subject of this evening evening’s Talking Points Memo . Two hundred priests in the Boston archdiocese were asked to …
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WASHINGTON – The House is hoping the third time’s a charm for new eligibility rules for those buried in Arlington National Cemetery, passing a bill that makes it easier for qualified reservists to be buried in the hallowed ground. The House passed the Arlington Cemetery Burial Eligibility Act Monday by …
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CHICAGO – The corner mailbox, a staple of American life for a century and a half, is disappearing from some neighborhoods, leaving folks a little nostalgic. St. Louis resident Jacob Pashia is “a little disappointed, because these things are hard to find to begin with.” Six thousand mailboxes — or …
Read More »Beautiful Mind Expert Says Film Is Wrong
Beautiful Mind Expert Critical of Film| Beautiful Mind Author Won’t Talk| Last Weekend for Oscar Nomination Voting Beautiful Mind Expert Says Film Is Wrong Count New York filmmaker Benita Raphanas another critic of Ron Howard‘s A Beautiful Mind. Raphan, an expert about mathematician John Forbes Nash, showed her short film …
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Jim Carrey and Anthony Hopkins| Dick Clark| Picasso Film Picks Up| Cat Stevens | Mrs. Soffel| Prince Jim Carrey, Anthony Hopkins Get ‘Neurotic’ In the past week or so there’s been a flurry of announcements regarding new projects for Jim Carrey. But here’s the one that’s really solid. Carrey has …
Read More »The Passing of a Corporate American Icon
Have you ever talked to someone so full of life that you just can’t believe it, when they’re gone? I felt that way when I heard William Rosenberg had died Friday. You might not know the name, but I bet you know his creation — Dunkin Donuts. And have you …
Read More »Internet Users Fight Back Against Spam
NEW YORK – Every day when she got to work, public relations specialist Aileen Katcher found herself having to deal with perhaps the biggest downside of the Internet revolution: junk e-mail, or spam. “Every morning I had 15 e-mails I needed to read and 36 e-mails selling body-enhancement materials, mortgages, …
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Should drug therapies be proven effective before being accepted for general use? Or should they be marketed based on the same sort of unproven claims as herbal remedies, homeopathy, therapeutic touch, and the myriad of other health cons? Erbitux, a potential new cancer drug by ImClone, and hormone replacement therapy …
Read More »Simply the Best
Dave Thomas is back, even though, well, he’s dead. The man who founded Wendy’s, is now back in ads for Wendy’s. A lot of folks seem to think it’s tacky. I don’t. Who better to get the message across, than the man who found the message? Let’s be real here. …
Read More »Congress Studies Whether Abstinence Education Works
With teen pregnancies nearing 4 million each year and another 4 million teenagers contracting sexually transmitted diseases annually, abstinence-only sex education advocates say their message is the only one preventing teens from getting caught with their pants down. But as Congress considers how much more money to spend on a …
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