But is Hollywood listening?
Don’t expect it to change any minds in Hollywood, but Christian watchdog Movieguide’s analysis of 2014 films showed that movies with conservative content earned more than three times as much money per film than movies with liberal/leftist content.
Of course there were far fewer movies — out of 282 in all — with conservative content, but those earned $71.49 million per flick, while liberal/leftist-themed movies earned $22.48 million per film.
The report also showed that movies with pro-American or patriotic values earned $76.6 million per movie, while those with anti-American or anti-patriotic themes pulled in $11.9 million per movie, and that free-market/pro capitalist content movies averaged $56.6 million and anti-capitalist content films only $13.6 million.
Liberals, who make up the vast majority of film industry workers, are not likely quaking in their boots, but movies with pro-socialist values took in only $15.3 per movie, movies with very strong radical feminist content averaged $2.9 million per movie, movies with very strong atheist content drew $1.98 million per film and movies with pro-communist content made only $1.3 per movie.
“Pro-family films with strong morals and good values have a deep resonance with the American public,” Dr. Ted Baehr, editor-in-chief of Movieguide, said in a news release.
Jewish congregation can stay
A small Orthodox Jewish congregation had met quietly for several years in a Plano, Texas, home before a resident of the same community, David Schneider, suddenly objected to the meetings last year. Then, when he was elected president of the local homeowners association, he dragged the HOA into a lawsuit he filed to shut down the services.
Last week, Collin County District Court Judge Jill Willis ruled that the congregation had a right to continue meeting in the home and freely exercise its religious beliefs.
“I pray,” said Rabbi Rich of Congregation Toras Chaim, “that today marks the beginning of a new era of tolerance and peace in our community.”
“We are grateful,” said Justin Butterfield, senior counsel for Liberty Institute, which defended the congregation, “that these Jewish families will no longer be under attack for exercising their right to worship God as prescribed by the tenets of their faith.”
How can we tax you today?
What’s next on the list of ways liberals want to tax you? It’s one that would tax people for every mile they drive in their cars. While the idea has been around Washington for a while — the Obama administration even proposed a federally run pilot program several years ago — it didn’t go very far in a Republican House.
But U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., has a new wrinkle. He’s going to introduce a bill in which the federal government would give grants to the states to research ways in which they could move to what’s called a VMT (vehicle miles traveled) system. The congressman said such a system “would be more fair, a more accurate reflection of road use, and more sustainable for the long term.”
California — go figure — already has a commission studying such a tax, and other states have talked about it.
Don’t look for the idea to get much support in the now all-GOP Congress.
Not content to foot one tax bill, though, Blumenauer also proposed a second one last week that would phase in an increase in the gas tax of five cents per gallon over the next three years on gas and diesel.
Apparently, not all lives matter
A 62-year-old Berkeley, Calif., man died in December after protesters staging a “Black Lives Matter” rally in Berkeley delayed his access to medical care, recently released records show.
Alvin Henry Jones Jr. normally would have received help in minutes, but because of the protests, paramedics were told to go to a local fire station and await a police escort before attempting to help Jones, according to The Daily Caller. So, Jones didn’t get to the hospital for 52 minutes, and he died there two days later. The Berkeley Fire Department lists the delay as an “unusual occurrence.”
In the midst of the turmoil that day, media reported, protesters attacked a man with a hammer after he attempted to stop them from looting a RadioShack, they attacked police, and Berkeley firefighters were pelted with rocks and bottles.