Ten years on, what do we have as a result of our involvement in Iraq?

Mike McClellan’s headline should be that “Mexican cartels are well armed due to failure to enforce existing laws in Mexico. (Or, Mexican cartels are lawless criminals). Because if they already have laws prohibiting purchase and possession of weapons larger than .32 handguns, then it’s just proving once again that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Visit Chicago or D.C. sometime if you doubt that, Mike.

"It is, without a doubt, the most fundamentally game-changing development as we've had since we started telling this story," says Michael C. Hall, whose "Dexter" launches its seventh season at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on Showtime.

“It’s depressing how bad Americans have become. A big percentage of our citizens openly root and pray for the complete downfall and destruction of our president. Why do we want our president, and in turn, our country to fail? Is that what it means to be American these days?”

CANNES, France — Writing the Prohibition-era bootlegger crime film "Lawless" — his second realized script and largest movie production yet — taught Australian songwriter Nick Cave certain foundational lessons of Hollywood moviemaking.

If you can accept the notion that Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke could be brothers during this century or any other, you might be able to immerse yourself in the artfully pulpy allure of "Lawless," based on the true story of the bootlegging Bondurants.

It’s my theory that almost every filmmaker possesses the desire to direct a gangster epic set in the enthralling era of prohibition. There’s just something so tantalizing about men in spiffy suits, Tommy guns, car chases and all the other good stuff that comes with the territory of a 1920’s bootlegger.

"I'm quite new to this whole press package," admits British actor Tom Weston-Jones, conducting an interview on a bustling street with buses and foot traffic zipping by rather than talking indoors, where a party's noise level is not much better.

LONDON (AP) — With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolor pageant of landmarks, lightshows and lots of fun.

It’s a hard job, but we decided it had to be done:

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Macey Gardner can't just flip a switch. Like anyone else. she has her ups and downs on the volleyball court.

Some comment on the utter futility, lawlessness and lunacy of those occupying a park near Wall Street and the nearly countless others across the nation and around the world who claim to be the forgotten “99 percent,” left behind by 1 percent whom they view as having corralled the majority of wealth and privilege.  Laissez-faire capitalism, the unbridled exercise of control over assets, is viewed by many as the single most important characteristic of Western Civilization. And those who are seen to apparently question this notion are demonized as socialists or communists, and certainly as misguided fools. But are they?

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MEXICO CITY - Javier Sicilia caught the world's attention after his son and six others were murdered in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, by elements connected with a drug cartel. Sicilia was a poet, writer and author who took up the cause of justice. I say "was" a poet because following the murders five months ago, he gave up writing poetry. This, for an acclaimed writer, is like a vow of chastity. And that was among the topics in a revealing interview that goes deep into what motivates a victim to become a seeker of dignity. The interview was published Aug. 14 by Thelma Gomez Duran of El Universal, the large major daily here.

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