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Last Monday, the bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, were discovered in the Rio Grande. At once the tragic deaths of a father seeking a…

For the first time in 50 years, the Academy Awards ceremony will not be aired in Hong Kong. TVB, the city’s largest free-to-air broadcaster which has carried the Oscars telecast…

…of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year’s Oscar nominees. The consensus is that the “patriarchy” and “sexism” account for Robbie and Gerwig’s exclusion from the best actress and…

That Hollywood loves “La La Land,” the front-runner for Best Picture at this Sunday’s Oscars, is no surprise. But 14 Oscar nominations? Really? More than “Ben-Hur”? Sure, Hollywood loves movies…

…Oscar-bait films, which lately means films that win an award then are remembered for having won an award. That is exactly how Streep will be remembered: as someone who won…

The Academy must have been relieved when the Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month. People are actually talking about about the movies themselves for a change, rather than challenges…

…Oscars still managed to go exceed its three-hour run time by almost 20 minutes. With the exception of Best Supporting Actor and Actress, every major award aired after 10:30 p.m….

If you had “John Bolton” on your Oscars bingo card, Sunday was your night. Brad Pitt claimed the first trophy at the ceremony, and the first words out of his…

…a spectrum difficult to define or even discern. Some are blockbusters, others barely seen; several are strong contenders for the Oscars, while others hearken back to last year’s Oscars given…

…in favor of the Left.” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown…

…as well be written on the dissolving paper sold in magic shops,” as Justice Samuel Alito noted in his concurrence to the court’s decision. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the…

Chief Justice John Roberts’ expression was priceless after reading Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s garish question during the Senate impeachment trial Thursday night, a question which lacked any remote sense of self…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned President Donald Trump for “attacking” a federal judge and called on Chief Justice John Roberts to speak up against Trump on Feb. 13. Less…

…Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion in which Roberts argued that the blue state government’s policy keeping Maine students from attending…

…portraying Robert Kardashian as a one-dimensional, gullible, oafish character, unlikely to have many speaking lines past the first two episodes, and almost certainly not portrayed by a former cast member…

…of how pervasive this trend is in the entertainment sphere, pre-eminent Oscar blogger Sasha Stone of Awards Daily championed “Moonlight” in the 2016 Oscar race because she felt “Black filmmakers…

Honored at Sunday’s Oscars for his stunning performance in “Joker,” Joaquin Phoenix’s acceptance speech for Best Actor could be best described as bizarre environmentalism. Phoenix started out by condemning the…

“Isn’t it past your jail time?” Kimmel asked former President Donald Trump after reading a Truth Social post in which Trump criticized his performance at the Oscars on Sunday night….

…at the Oscars this year. At the outset, “Arrival” seems like an average sci-fi thriller. Louise the linguist (Amy Adams) teams up with Ian the mathematician (Jeremy Renner) as they…

Nominees for the 2018 Oscars were announced with much fanfare on Tuesday, but there’s always a gap between what performs at the box office and the films the Academy finds…

…Holocaust drama “Life is Beautiful.” There were several reasons for “Parasite’s” history of the top prize at the Oscars. While the Oscars had never before granted Best Picture to a…

Seventeen years after “Lose Yourself” won Best Original Song, Eminem showed up at the 2020 Oscars for a very random but very entertaining performance of the iconic “8 Mile” song….

…Roberts in consecutive seasons (in that 3-year stretch he averaged 338 innings and 31 complete games), and three others were Feller, albeit separated by four years in which Feller didn’t…

…for the removal and replacement of the Robert E. Lee statue in the U.S. Capitol building. But no one wants to call this what it really is: the far left’s…

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called Robert Mueller’s hearing Wednesday “a disaster for the Democrats and a disaster for the reputation of Robert Mueller.” Former special counsel Mueller appeared in…

Don McGahn is one of the few people who came out looking better after the Robert Mueller report than going in. The former White House counsel, who stepped down in…

…clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts on the Supreme Court, so he is undoubtedly aware that many justices have flip-flopped on precedent, especially in the abortion context. Take Roberts as…

This April a group of senators introduced a bill (the “Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act”) designed to protect special counsels like Robert Mueller from being fired by a president….

…the authority to do it,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion. “Our recent decision in West Virginia v. EPA involved similar concerns over the exercise of…

In case you haven’t been keeping up with every detail of the winding Donald Trump-Russia collusion investigation (don’t feel badly, Robert Mueller hasn’t either), a little review will help explain…

…the power of the purse. We might wonder, then, how Special Counsel Robert Mueller spends money. Congress has not specifically appropriated money to fund Mueller’s investigations and prosecutions. How, then,…

SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEDERALIST RADIO HOUR HERE. Ben Domenech, publisher of the Federalist, and Becket Adams, of the Washington Examiner, break down the weekend reactions to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s…

…unfairly attacking Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, who works at a legal recruiting/placement firm. According to Politico’s reporting, Ms. Roberts has placed lawyers at law firms…

Robert S. Mueller III was at Camp David the Saturday morning after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Just days into his tenure as FBI director, he was humiliated when President…

…not-particularly-effective Confederate officer before taking Robert E. Lee’s sage advice to give art a try after the war. He’s the sculptor of many other monuments. According to the excellent article…

…to the mandate. Worst of all, in so doing, he cultivated a theory that ultimately led Chief Justice John Roberts to uphold the mandate. Extended Discussion of the Anti-Injunction Act…