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    GROVER NORQUIST, DEFENDER OF CHICKENHEAD BILLIONAIRES

    DECEMBER 1, 2012 12:29PM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: the daily complaint, gordon hilgers, enron, jack abramoff, billionaires, the one percent, occupy wall street, huac, anti-american activities, united states of america, treason, freedomworks, dick armey, tea party express, tea party patriots, tea party nation, tea party, chickenheads, mitch mcconnell, john boehner, republican party, ideology, free market, tax evasion, tax scofflaws, karl rove, crossroads gps, americans for tax reform, the nation, grover norquist

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    Costumed Parties, Pt. 4: Seduction by Shadow & Candle Light

    FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:59AM

    By prismguard


    Topics: john alton, french revolution, spartacus 1960, stanley kubrick, barry lyndon 1975, the black book 1949, reign of terror 1949, narrative elements of film, kinetic elements of film, color cinematography, black-and-white cinematography, huac, hollywood ten, planned parenthood, acorn, bertolt brecht, dalton trumbo, agora, i claudius, cousin bette, bbc, bonnie and clyde 1967, mash 1970, sex in cinema, a dangerous method 2011, painting with light (1949), robbespierre, joe mccarthy, film noir, ryan o'neal, william makepeace thackery, martin scorsese, albert finney, tom jones 1963, point of order 1964, trumbo 2007, michael douglas, nathan lane, citizen cohn 1992, darkness at high noon 2002, carl foreman, stanley kramer, arthur miller, elia kazan, the crucible 1996, on the waterfront 1954, mccarthy era, robert deniro, woody allen, george clooney, good night and good luck 2005, robert downey jr, john payne, silver lode 1954, high noon 1952

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    American Jobs Act And The Grover Norquist Cult

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 12:32PM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: taxpayer protection pledge, millionaires, joblessness, poverty, business, lobbyists, finance, economics, politics, national debt, republican party, tea party patriots, tea party express, tea party nation, tea party, polaroid, vanity, sado-masochistic bondage, us house of representatives, us senate, huac, americans for tax reform, grover norquist

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    Short Story: "Anushka's Lament"

    FEBRUARY 28, 2011 11:46AM

    By P. Orin Zack


    Topics: 9/11, huac, mccarthy hearings, october revolution, conspiracy theories, pinkertons, homestead strike, immigration, personal attack, unions, naked journalism, scandal, fiction

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    Surfing a Muse & the Amazing Nina Mae

    FEBRUARY 7, 2011 8:58PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: landmark first amendment decision, hallelujah (1929), nina mae mckinney, jean harlow, reckless (1935), ethel waters, jeanne crain, pinky (1949), william lundigan, united state supreme court, claude rains, mischa auer, scatman crothers, ray liotta, hector elizondo, david soul, vincasa.com, anita ekberg, charles mcgraw, casablanca 1955-6, otto preminger, sidney poitier, porgy and bess 1959, george gershwin, louis armstrong, mel torme, the boswell sisters, mildred bailey, paul whiteman, when it's sleepy time down south, sag striker, huac, hollywood blacklist, turner classics, stephen foster, langston hughes, bobby breen, way down south 1939, amoeba.com, race films, pardon us 1931, laurel and hardy, etude ethiopian chorus, freita shaw, roman freulich, black sharecroppers, the broken earth, oxbow incident, martin scorsese, night nurse 1931, raoul walsh, french foreign legion, stink bomb, douglas fairbanks, first oscar-winning film, wings 1927, wild bill wellman, princess gioia tosca di cuto, donald cook, prostitution, pre-code hollywood, lechery, dorothy mackaill, safe in hell 1931, night of the hunter 1955, charles laughton, kitty white, walter schumann, dragnet theme, all talking picture, a c bilbew, negro spirituals, stepin fetchit, charlie chan in egypt, first black actor millionaire, lincoln theodore monroe andrew perry, the old south, hearts in dixie 1929, robert levy, dr jekyl & mr hyde, lafayette players, arthur s penn, harlem renaissance

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    Etta Moten: A First at the White House

    JANUARY 31, 2011 11:43AM

    By prismguard


    Topics: franklin delano roosevelt, martin luther king, ghana, media, ira gershwin, porgy and bess, george gershwin, virgil thomson, the marx brothers, jean harlow, barbara stanwyck, good vibrations, the beach boys, the carioca, the pecorino, the continental, dave gould, fred astaire, ginger rogers, hermes pan, jack kitchin, stanley kramer, huac, kubrick's 2001, orchids in the moonlight, raul roulien, south pacific, flying down to rio, dorothea lange, gold diggers of 1933, busby berkeley, joan blondell, remember my forgotten man, dorothy dandridge, halle barry, joy bennett kinnon, ebony magazine

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    Novelist/Screenwriter Budd Schulberg Dies

    AUGUST 6, 2009 6:15PM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: what makes sammy run, victor navasky, the harder they fall, screenwriter, on the waterfront, novelist, huac, house committee on un-american activities, dies, budd schulberg, b.p. schulberg, author, a face in the crowd, 1951

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    Turn! Turn! Turn!: School Board Apologizes to Pete Seeger!

    FEBRUARY 11, 2009 2:00PM

    By Michael Fox


    Topics: 1960s, american legion, barack obama, bruce springsteen, first amendment, herbert hoover high school, house un-american activities committee, huac, katherine nakamura, mccarthyism, obama inauguration, pete seeger, san diego, san diego school board, this land is your land, u.s. constitution, woody guthrie, music, politics, protest songs, protest music, folk music

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    The Red Menace: Sarah Palin Channels Joe McCarthy?

    OCTOBER 26, 2008 4:11PM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: video, tax agenda, sarah palin, red menace, rally, peaceful, paranoia, more government, joseph mccarthy, john mccain, joe mccarthy, iowa, invasion of the body snatchers, infiltrators, huac, higher taxes, government, fear, enemy, election day, don siegel, des moines, communist, big government, “it’s alive!” palin goes rogue, america, aliens, aides, advisors

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