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The problem of deepfakes
Madeleine Kearns of National Review Online describes the growing threat of a problem rooted in technological prowess. Intelligence officials, including the director of the FBI, have said that they expect…
Tom Cruise
American actor and producer (born 1962)
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Fund warns against appeasing Chinese censors
John Fund of National Review Online takes American movie makers to task for their willingness to bow to pressure from Chinese censors. China is now the big player in global…
Education
Leef’s latest Martin Center column focuses on different levels of achievement
George Leef of the Martin Center asks whether Americans can accept the facts surrounding different levels of academic achievement. In the 1992 movie “A Few Good Men,” there is a…
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Raising a red flag over red-flag gun laws
John Miltimore explains in a column for the Foundation for Economic Education why red-flag gun laws raise serious concerns. Red flag gun laws are suddenly popular in America. Colorado recently…
Law & Public Safety
Scary News from the EEOC
As science fiction buffs (and Tom Cruise fans) know, “Minority Report” is a short story by Philip K. Dick in which the Precrime Division of a futuristic law enforcement agency…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Challenging arguments about Amazon’s HQ2 choices
Mitchell Blue writes at the Federalist to rebut analysts who use the Amazon HQ2 decision to echo Democratic Party talking points. Besides being boring, what does Amazon’s location choice signal?…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Barron’s D.C. man focuses on GOP budget-balancing proposals
Cue the Lalo Schifrin music, as Jim McTague‘s latest “D.C. Current” column in Barron’s focuses on the prospects for a balanced federal budget. Tom Cruise, step aside. Republicans are about…
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Everybody’s Had To Fight To Be Free
It is difficult to think of anything besides the Supreme Court Jester ruling. The email box is full of commentary, but most of it uses the decision to try to…
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Lights! Camera! Your money!
In an ongoing effort to spend as much taxpayer money as they can before adjournment, the House takes up the Film Credit Bill tonight that increases the tax credit from…
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Tax breaks for Tom Cruise and Miley Cyrus
Film Credit bill that gives motion picture production companies a 25 percent tax credit (increased from 15 percent). They currently get a 15 percent refundable credit on their income tax…
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Lame propaganda
The two most persistent raps by conservatives these days is that the mainstream media and higher education are being ruined by lefties and their biases. Lefty media types and lefty…
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NASCAR and Scientology: Together at Last
Two of modern America’s great money-making machines, NASCAR and Scientology, are set to link up. Via a new Dianetics race team, L. Ron Hubbard and his followers will be bringing…