Plácido Domingo, one of the most celebrated talents of our time, is making a major role debut. This is a rare chance to see a genre-defining masterwork, containing some of the greatest choral music ever written, along with some wonderful arias and… Rotten Tomatoes: Movies
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What A Week: White House Rattled By Controversy
By admin on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | Comments Off
NPR’s Ari Shapiro joins host Scott Simon to talk about the Obama administration’s week. The president was buffeted by revelations that the IRS had targeted Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status and that the Justice Department had subpoenaed reporter phone records. On top of that, Republicans continue to allege that the White House engaged in [...]
Read More...House group reaches deal on immigration bill
By admin on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | Comments Off
A bipartisan group of House members announced they had reached a deal “in principle.” USATODAY.com Feed
Read More...House Republicans make repealing Obamacare an annual tradition
By admin on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 | Comments Off
In what has become an annual tradition, the Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday voted again to fully repeal the federal health care law passed by Democrats and signed by President Barack Obama in 2010. The House first voted for full repeal in January 2011 when Republicans took control of the chamber, and again in [...]
Read More...Carney: White House counsel told of IRS review
By admin on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House spokesman Jay Carney says the IRS inspector general notified the White House counsel’s office during the week of April 22 that it was completing a review of the IRS office in Cincinnati that targeted conservative political groups for special examination. Carney says the counsel’s office was not given details about [...]
Read More...Under-fire White House releases Benghazi ‘talking points’ emails
By admin on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
Under heavy political pressure, the White House on Wednesday released 100 pages of internal Obama Administration emails in which senior officials debated what to tell Americans about the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. For months, Republicans have charged that the White House watered down the original CIA-crafted talking points about the attack [...]
Read More...Joe Scarborough Is Outraged the White House Followed His Advice on Leaks
By admin on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
If there is one clear lesson to the story over the Department of Justice seeking the phone records of Associated Press reporters, it's that no one should ever take the advice of Joe Scarborough. The MSNBC host is in high dudgeon because people who might leak confidential info to reporters will clam up because they [...]
Read More...The White House Under Fire And The Democratic Party’s Future
By admin on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
As questions linger about the official response to the Benghazi attack, the White House faces new challenges related to probes by the IRS and the Justice Department. Political Junkie Ken Rudin discusses the week in politics and the future of the Democratic Party with former DNC chair Howard Dean. Politics
Read More...Music Review: I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House – Mayberry
By admin on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 | Comments Off
The idea punk rock and country music could find common ground must seem pretty unlikely to most fans of popular music. However, it shouldn’t really be too much of a surprise if you think back to the early days of rock and roll when the music was still a hybrid of country and blues. Music [...]
Read More...White House: Obama is no Nixon
By admin on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 | Comments Off
The Department of Justice seizing reporters’ phone records? The IRS apologizing for targeting conservatives? The Richard Nixon comparisons seem to write themselves—much to the joy of Republicans working to cement the association between President Barack Obama and the former scandal-plagued president. But when asked at Tuesday’s press briefing about the White House’s reaction to the [...]
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