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BOO! 7 Ghouls For a Halloween Hater | Steve Berman

BOO! 7 Ghouls For a Halloween Hater | Steve Berman


Opinion Contributor

You like the movie “Aliens”? I do. Besides masterful performances from heroine Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the late Bill Paxton (Hudson), Michael Biehn (Hicks), Lance Henriksen (Bishop, the “synthetic life form”), Paul Reiser (Burke)—and the rest of the cast—and being one of the few examples of a movie sequel that’s better than its original (“The …

SCORE: Black Herschel Voters Rejecting Dems Character Slam | Steve Berman

SCORE: Black Herschel Voters Rejecting Dems Character Slam | Steve Berman


Opinion Contributor

I’ve been ruminating about writing a second look at Walker for a while now. I know that it will trigger a large segment of my readers (many of you relish having your triggers pulled by me; so be it). But here’s the facts. Herschel Walker always had a good chance of winning. I wrote as much in …

ABRAMS: So Suppressed | Steve Berman

ABRAMS: So Suppressed | Steve Berman


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President of United Earth Stacey Abrams has consistently claimed that Georgia suppresses voters, because otherwise she’d be governor. Even while pretending to deny being an election denier, as she did in last week’s debate against Gov. Brian Kemp, Abrams holds that Georgia has a systemic problem with keeping people from voting. It would be a good argument if it …

LESSONS: 1202 Fahrenheit and Why We Don’t Learn | Steve Berman

LESSONS: 1202 Fahrenheit and Why We Don’t Learn | Steve Berman


Opinion Contributor

Some lessons are quicker than others. It took Americans two hours and four minutes to learn. That’s the time separating American Airlines flight 11 takeoff from Boston and the crash of flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We learned that hijackers can’t be assumed to offer a bargain for the lives of passengers. And now it’s …