It started on the radio...

I heard this guy on the radio yesterday and was intrigued by his story -

Indoctrinate U is one of the most important documentaries of the year. But it might also be the most important documentary you aren't able to see this year...

I.e., it's not being distributed by any major theater, despite its long list of positive reviews - just some being:

"Riveting"- Peter Berkowitz, Wall Street Journal

"a documentary that all of you should see" - Damian Thompson, London Telegraph

"Alarming and funny" - Kyle Smith, New York Post

"This film hits you in the gut" - Stanley Kurtz, National Review

"leaves the audience both entertained and outraged" - David Hogberg, The American Spectator

"Excellent" - Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News

"a gripping hour-and-a-half" - Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com

"A terrific must-see" - Carol Iannone, National Review

"by far one of the best documentaries I've ever seen" - Wendy Cook, Campus Report

"a powerful, thought-provoking call to arms" - Matthew Schuster, NewsMax.com

"[Maloney] is going places, fast. He's got the on-screen dexterity of a Michael Moore, only with integrity." - Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard

"A star is born" - Scott Johnson, PowerLine

"It is sound and also, amazingly, highly entertaining. It is both amusing and sobering - it deserves widespread distribution in theatres across America."

- Carol Iannone, National Review

Their website (end) has down-loadable and 'physical' copies, as well as a registration to be notified if/when it's shown near you - but Regal Cinema's recent showing of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" got me thinking a direct appeal is worth a shot, so:

REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP CONTACT
Customer Relations: 1-877-TELLREGAL or 1-877-835-5734
Email (form): http://www.regmovies.com/corporate/contactus.aspx

convenience text {for the typing-averse among you}:

Please give "Indoctrination U" by Evan Coyne Maloney the same theater distribution you recently gave Ben Stien's "Expelled".

Mr. Maloney's movies is receiving rave reviews for its humor as well as the importance of its subject matter - my friends and I are looking forward to seeing it.

See the trailer at their website:

CLICK HERE

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Mofaz: Iran could go nuclear in a year

Iran has taken command of its nuclear technology and could have an atomic bomb in a year, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz was quoted as saying Wednesday, according to Channel 10. Mofaz made the comments during talks with US officials in Washington where he leading an Israeli delegation holding meetings within the framework (Snip) "Teheran leads the axis of evil, poses a threat to the entire world, is up to its neck in the Middle East and is even trying to get a foothold in the West Bank," he said.

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Muslim call to adopt Mecca time

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.

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BLOOD BARRELS

The world is far more peaceful today than it was 15 years ago, says Michael L. Ross, a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. There were 17 major civil wars in the late 1980s; by 2006, there were just five. During that period, the number of smaller conflicts also fell, from 33 to 27. Despite this trend, there has been no drop in the number of wars in countries that produce oil, says Ross:

• Today, with violence falling in general, oil-producing states make up a growing fraction of the world's conflict-ridden countries.
• They now host about a third of the world's civil wars, both large and small, up from one-fifth in 1992.
• The main reason is that oil wealth often wreaks havoc on a country's economy and politics, makes it easier for insurgents to fund their rebellions, and aggravates ethnic grievances.

The number of oil-producer-based conflicts is likely to grow in the future as stratospheric prices of crude oil push more countries in the developing world to produce oil and gas, says Ross.

[but let's not develop our own oil reserves]

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Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’

It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria. On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow"...

["climate realists" -- works for me]

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PELOSI-GREENGRICH - Extreme green activism

We have the makings of a crisis, it's immediate, and it's more than theory. The United Nation's top humanitarian official warns that continuing food shortages and escalating prices may result in sustained worldwide political unrest and social instability. Never in the lifetimes of most living Americans has the mere availability of food been so in doubt. And never in the history of America has "going green" been so en vogue.

There's a connection here.

If we're putting the 'interest' of earth above the interests of humanity, then it's hard to justify drilling for oil in pristine areas of Alaska, or anywhere else for that matter. Perhaps Earth doesn't want to be stuck with a drill. As a result, foreigners who wish us dead mostly control our oil supply. Less oil = higher oil prices = higher cost to get food to market = higher food prices.

But it doesn't stop there. The Sierra Club wants to shut down coal-fired electric plants, which will eliminate a major source of energy. At the same time, the Natural Resources Defense Council rails against nuclear power plants, which we'll need in order to replace coal.

With much of the world rioting for food, and middle class Americans racing to warehouses for rice, perhaps it's time to reconsider the ill-conceived religious mantra that says we should always put "Earth first." Perhaps we should consider a return to those days when humans put humanity first, a time when starving children gleaned more concern than ill-conceived global temperature theories.

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Border Fence Fiasco

This past week, Customs and Border Protection officials reported that two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff approved a $20 million virtual fence along a 28-mile stretch in Arizona (called Project 28), the fence was scrapped as impractical and ineffective.

Is anyone really shocked by this security fence fiasco? Another government solution bites the dust. [snip]

Our government has failed to produce a suitable resolution to the illegal immigrant crisis. Amnesty is not the answer. And immigration laws aren't effective if we continue to dodge or ignore them. Furthermore, globalization efforts have only confused security matters, further endangering our borders, as well as our national identity -- our sovereignty. How is it that we can overthrow a government such as Iraq militarily, yet we can't keep illegalities from crossing our borders?

As Mike Huckabee still says, "If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx."

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The Taxpayer Frog In the IRS Pot

You know the story. Put a frog in hot water and he'll jump out, but put him in cooler water and slowly raise the heat and he'll stay in even as he boils to death... [snip]

Federal spending. In 1900 federal spending was $0.5B. In 2000 it was $1,789B . Those amounts translated to 2.5% of GDP in 1900 and 21% in 2000. Government spending at all levels in the U.S. was 36.5% of GDP in 2006. That 2.5% of GDP that could sustain the entire federal government in 1900 is not even enough to cover the Medicare program today.

The Medicare program, by the way, did not exist in 1900; it was established in 1965 [snip]

Are we frogs starting to boil in government stew?

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ABC News: Mexican Drug Violence U.S. Constitution's Fault

True to the liberal penchant for blaming every ill in the world on the USA, ABC News has produced a "report" claiming that the increasing number of guns and drug cartel violence in Mexico is all the fault of... the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That's right, it isn't the drug dealers and killers in Mexico that are at fault, it's James Madison and the Founding Father's fault.

Before anyone imagines that we're employing hyperbole in our introduction, just look at the title of their piece: "U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?"

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Toll lanes set for freeways by 2010's end

California

Days of free [? thought our taxes paid for these] and open roads are dimming in Los Angeles after the federal government offered $213.6 million to launch a one-year toll road pilot program by the end of 2010 in an effort to boost speeds on three sluggish freeways. With a promise to keep traffic flowing no slower than 50 mph in car-pool lanes converted to express lanes, toll lanes will straddle freeways through Pasadena and between downtown Los Angeles and east Los Angeles County...

[they're not even discussing adding more lanes, or removing all HOV lanes to maximize use. Guess there's no profit in that. Wake up CA, and tell you government to build more lane-miles or they'll be replaced. If you don't, they won't]

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A look beyond the handgun ban

Chicago's gun laws are among the toughest in the country. And yet, in Chicago, gunfire is a routine feature of the city's dominant criminal dynamic, a deeply-entrenched, multi-generational gang system with, authorities estimate, close to 70,000 members citywide. [snip]

Bans? "That's what people do when they don't understand the problem," says Juan Johnson – or "Big Juan," as he's fairly known in the hardscrabble neighbourhoods on Chicago's gang-infested west side. [snip]

"The regular citizen in Chicago cannot go anywhere and buy firearms," says Williams, eyebrows raised. "And yet, in one year, in the 1990s, we had more than 19,000 weapons recovered. In one year. We've been averaging 10,000 weapons recovered every year for the last 10 or 12 or 14 years. And that's with a ban."

[gun bans only remove guns from the hands of law abiding citizens - leaving criminals unopposed ]

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"The virtue of a federalist, republican form of government is that the more you push these decisions down to the level where people actually have to live with their consequences, the more likely it is they will be a) involved and interested in the decision-making process, and b) happy with the result. Federalism is also morally superior because it requires the consent of the governed at the most basic level. Sure, your side can lose an argument, but it's easier to change things locally than nationally. And, at the end of the day, if you don't get your way, there's always the highway. It's easier to move to the next state than it is to move to Canada."
-- Jonah Goldberg

[Canada's not a state?!]
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