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Dan Rather on the Iraq War

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Dan Rather on the Iraq War. This is a real eye-opener.

A Strategic Blunder of Historic Proportions
Never forget. Or do we? Eighteen years ago, March 20, 2003, the United States began its second war against Iraq in a little over a decade. It is difficult to fully comprehend what led up to that point, or all that followed. We don’t talk much about Iraq now, beset by new crises that rightfully deman…

Zac Snyder’s Proposed Five-Part Trilogy

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An interesting look of what might have been if Zak Snyder had been allowed to finish his “five-part trilogy”…
SPOILERS AHEAD – if you haven’t yet watched the 4-hour Zak Snyder’s Justice League, read no further!
Zack Snyder Explains That Enigmatic ‘Justice League’ Ending
The director on the conclusion to the #SnyderCut, which sets up two movies that may never be made.

And a nice Chianti

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If you are a fan of The Silence of the Lambs, this dual interview with Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins will thrill you. I had forgotten that it had swept the Oscars: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, & Adapted Screenplay.

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins on the Legacy of ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
Thirty years ago, a lionhearted FBI trainee went to a cannibalistic killer for advice. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins discuss how Clarice and Hannibal Lecter changed pop culture.

“It’s time to make an exception to the filibuster rule”

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“As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22, ‘To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser.’ [The Founding Fathers] knew such built-in obstruction could doom a republic.”
The Case Against the Filibuster
The procedural maneuver, long used by Senate minorities to block civil rights legislation, is now poised to stop democracy reforms supported by broad majorities. If the Senate is to be responsive to the popular will, the filibuster must go.
Stacey Abrams: It’s time to make an exception to the filibuster rule
Stacey Abrams writes that nothing is more essential to the durability of our democracy than the ability to vote. Protection of that right has only one champion empowered to make it so -- the US Congress. The House has spoken. Now, she says, the Senate must lead.