The significance of the Academy Award nominations

By quinersdiner | January 10, 2013

By Tom Quiner Gratuitous violence is worthy of adulation. THAT is what the Academy Awards is telling us with the announcement of the nominees for the very finest in this year’s films. No, let me be more specific.  THAT is what Hollywood is telling us, that cloistered conclave of the most liberal of all Americans,…

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Should you be free to choose?

By Tom Quiner | July 20, 2010

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0dmRJ0oWg&feature=player_embedded] What an interesting question!  It depends on the context, doesn’t it?  It depends on the principle involved. I pose the question in light of the great exchange in the video above between the late, great Nobel laureate economist, Milton Friedman, and a college student who is allegedly Michael Moore.  (I don’t…

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