AMC Theatres has announced that it will not exhibit ThinkFilm’s “The Aristocrats,” an unrated documentary that features a series of comedians performing their renditions of the same classic dirty joke. Spokeswoman Pam Blase said that AMC Film Group Chairman Dick Walsh decided, with other executives, not to show the film.
It’s worth mentioning that AMC is [...]
The Fifth Amendment states in part that governments may seize private property through “eminent domain” for public use, provided the affected parties are duly compensated. However, the Supreme Court seems to have expanded the rights of local governments to seize people’s homes and businesses for private economic development whenever they deem it profitable, regardless of [...]
Writing for Knight Ridder, Steven Thomma provides evidence for the erosion of personal responsibility, marked by any number of acts of self interest without regard for consequences.
Historians, philosophers, political scientists and sociologists cite many reasons for the decline of an ethic of responsibility in America over recent decades, including:
A culture of narcissism or self-absorption;
The rise [...]
The Senate today voted to open the Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, despite the fact that 95% of Alaska’s coastline was already open to oil exploration. The government’s Fish and Wildlife Service has this to say about it:
Information gathered from the biological, seismic and geological studies was used to complete a Legislative Environmental Impact [...]