By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
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Steven Spielberg will direct a movie about former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, according to the famed filmmaker's studio.

It's become oddly fashionable to bash the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the giddy juxtaposition of journalists, Hollywood celebrities and strategically-minded operatives that arrives in the nation's capital each spring, just like the circus. Critics claim the annual event has become commercialized, off-message and unbecoming.

Despite persistent criticism, the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. The event underscores what's wrong with much of Washington journalism. The reporters cozy up to politicians, and both groups want to be part of the Hollywood set.

About 90 percent of the running time of "Evil Dead" consists of finding brutal and bloody ways to kill a person. The fact that Sam Raimi's remake of his own 1981 original is going out in wide release with an R is an example of just how far our society has gone off the rails and come to accept bloodletting as entertainment.

If you want to know how today's blockbusters came to be the way they are, few films will give you a better idea than "Jurassic Park."
Colin Trevorrow is taking the reins of "Jurassic Park."
Movie director Steven Spielberg says he chooses his work based on emotion, not business.
One of the youngest Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler has a book deal, for a manuscript completed shortly before he died.

Let's return to the Land of Oz and learn about one of the most beloved films in the history of cinema.
France's Cannes Film Festival says it has finally snagged Steven Spielberg to serve as president of the award jury.
He may just be a footnote to history, but Dr. Isachar Zacharie is having a posthumous mini-moment, thanks to the Hollywood-sparked surge of interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Ben Affleck's "Argo," a film about a fake movie, has earned a very real prize: best picture at the Academy Awards.
Ang Lee had his priorities in order when he gave one of his first thank yous to the "movie god."
Show Bits brings you the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
Show Bits brings you the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
NEW DELHI (AP) - Movie director Steven Spielberg says he chooses his work based on emotion, not business.
"It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world," Spielberg was quoted as saying in a statement by the Cannes festival organizers. "The most prestigious of its kind, the festival has always established the motion picture as a cross cultural and generational medium."