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George Will: Did the White House Initiate the NEA 'Propaganda' Call?

George Will in today’s Washington Post: “Did the White House initiate the conference call-cum-political pep rally? Or, even worse, did the NEA, an independent agency, spontaneously politicize itself? Something that reads awfully like an invitation went from Sergant’s NEA e-mail

Wash Times: NEA Crossed Line From Persuasion to Coercion

Washington Times Editorial: National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman owes American taxpayers an explanation. Last month, a top NEA official gathered artists and arts organizations in a conference call that also included a White House official and clearly

Toast of Venice Film Festival Accuses Israel of Genocide

A quote from Oliver Stone’s soccer body, Hugo Chavez: “The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly,” Chavez said in an interview with Le Figaro[.] … “What was it if not genocide?

Tea Parties: Protesting Government Excess

Glenn Reynolds posted this traffic-cam pic from today’s Tea Party gathering in DC: Glenn and Andrew Breitbart are both scheduled to speak at today’s Quincy, Illinois Tea Party. Big Government is all over today’s events. Just keep scrolling.

NEA Scandal: U.S. Senator Cornyn's Letter to President Obama

President Obama and Kalpen “Kumar” Modi, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Dear President Obama: A recent blog post by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Courrielche details an August 10, 2009, conference call hosted by the National

New Political Blog 'Big Government' Launches Thursday

FoxNews.com reports: New Political Blog BigGovernment.com to Launch Thursday A conservative blogger and publisher who took on Hollywood earlier this year is setting his sights on the nation’s political establishment. BigGovernment.com will launch Thursday as a “one-stop shop” for commentary

Reader Poll: Vote on the 'Avatar' Trailer

[youtube j6AAt-oV3wE nolink] — Hard to argue the “Avatar” trailer didn’t disappoint when the film’s star is forced to do this kind of damage control: “It’s interesting that [Cameron] released that trailer and then the next day goes and shows

Obama Czar Van Jones Cut Vile, Anti-American Album in 2003 (NSFW)

[youtube 9gRi1xoeLno nolink] This is no youthful indiscretion, this is 2003. Will the ObamaMedia be able to ignore a Czar associated with lyrics like this: The American way manufactured by white folk in office, by these rich men here to

Oliver Stone Chavez Doc: See Uncle Hugo Ride a Bike

In an interview earlier this week with the L.A. Times, director Oliver Stone said counter-programming the image of Hugo Chavez as a “bellicose dictator-cum-comic opera figure” was one of the goals of this documentary, which makes one wonder if Stone