WASHINGTON TIMES — Climate change got its close-up in 2017. A gaggle of films either name-checked Al Gore's biggest fear or built their narratives around it. The timing, in theory, couldn't be better for Hollywood bean counters: Three major hurricanes. Massive fires in the West. Record-setting chills. Media reports routinely connected the disasters with a warming planet. Yet audiences stayed away from films influenced by eco-concerns. Far, far away.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — The last time the Iranian people rose up to challenge their fanatical mullah rulers was in 2009. You might recall President Barack Obama's reaction. He sat on his hands. Initially, he offered no protest of the massive government repression. Only when the carnage lasted more than a week did Obama offer a toothless condemnation of the violence. He never addressed the root causes -- Iran's tyrannical regime that forces all to live under an oppressive code of Shia Islam that would make the Taliban blush.... (more)