Ravenwood - 01/28/04 06:30 AM
John Lott offers more on the NFL's bias against guns.
Last year it was estimated that Virginia school districts would need an additional $525 Million under the new budget. Then in December the estimate was raised to an additional $1.1 Billion. Since the commonwealth is strapped for cash, the current budget proposal allocates only a $774 million increase in education funding, and school boards are still whining and complaining that it's not enough.
A Hollyweird actor is proposing a boycott of the love story "Cold Mountain" because it is set during the civil war, but doesn't dwell on the evils of slavery. A writer for Raleigh's The News & Observer, Barry Saunders, agrees with the actor's cause, and in doing so shows everyone that he probably failed History. "All during the movie, I ruminated on our absence from it, even though the main backdrop -- the Civil War -- was ostensibly about us. For black people, the movie, one could conclude, was like having a party thrown in your honor -- and not being invited." So the Civil War, and all movies set in America from 1861 to 1865, are "all about" these two jackasses.
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