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What’s Behind the Materialist Explanation of Political Views?

By Daniel Crandall Tip O'Neil famously stated, "All politics is local." These days, it se...

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Movies You Were Too Good to See in 2010 : NPR

NPR, of all places, makes the case for good, old-fashioned entertainment in the movies. Wi...

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Is Hollywood Unusually Prone to Coincidences? And Why Won’t ‘True Grit’ Be Getting Much Respect in Europe?

On WND, Erik Rush doesn't think the wholesale promotion of minority actors to command posi...

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Holiday Weekend Box Office Report: Good News for Fockers, ‘True Grit’; Disaster for ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

Little Fockers topped the U.S. holiday weekend box office. Gulliver's Travels flopped. Tru...

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Author/Philosopher Denis Dutton Dies

Dennis Dutton, an American author and philosopher who moved to New Zealand and served as a...

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It’s a Wonderful Atheist Life?

Watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the zillionith time last weekend, and still loving ev...

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TAC Fiction Review

Let's call it the after-Christmas Merry Christmas issue (or maybe the Boxing Day issue). A...

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‘True Grit’ a Worthy Reimagining

By Bruce Edward Walker Although Joel and Ethan Coen's version of True Grit suffers from...

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Halter’s ‘Lord of Misrule’ Revives Classic Mystery Style

By J. Morris Review of The Lord of Misrule, by Paul Halter A man found murdered in a sea...

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Christmas Horror Averted at Virginia School

An inspiring Christmas story: Virginia public school students were apprehended for wearing...

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Scrooge’s Conversion from Coerced Government Charity

By Bruce Edward Walker "Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, fo...

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iPad Competitor Coming Soon from Palm – FoxNews.com

HP will debut the PalmPad tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. It looks lik...

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Genetic Basis for Religion Found

Actor-writer John Cleese explains the rock-solid evidence for atheism, in this very funny ...

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‘TRON: Legacy’ easily zaps the competition at the box office – USATODAY.com

Tron: Legacy got off to a great start at the U.S. box office.  Unfortunately, the excelle...

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Book Review: ‘Murder for Christmas’

By Mike Gray Somehow criminality and Christmas have a perverse affinity for one another, ...

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Abu Dhabi hotel regrets $11M Christmas ‘overload’ – USATODAY.com

An $11 million Christmas tree in Abu Dhabi suggests its owners might not have understood t...

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“The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” Is Worthy of Its Source

By Lars Walker The big question you’re bringing to this review, I’m pretty sure, is,...

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Christians Need Not Apply?

By Warren S. Moore The institution at which I earned my Masters degree, the University of...

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Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, RIP

The growl, the rasp, the Dada-esque lyrics, the music that ping-ponged between primal blue...

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Vulgarity, Cultural Influence, and the Left

By Mike D'Virgilio For some reason that we can’t quite figure out, Rolling Stone magazi...

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‘A Corpse in the Koryo’ Offers Fascinating, Troubling Glimpse at North Korea

By Lars Walker I’d never heard of author James Church (a pseudonym for a former wester...

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Notable Quote: Thomas J. DiLorenzo on ‘The Lincoln Myth’

"The Great Emancipator" may have also been "The Great Centralizer": The Lincoln regime des...

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Niagara Falls ran dry: Photos show moment iconic waterfall came to standstilll | Mail Online

Once upon a time, the U.S. government halted one of the great icons of the American cultur...

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Can Conservatives Win Back the Arts? – Andrew Klavan – National Review Online

"Despite the Left’s best efforts, conservative and American values are actually coming b...

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‘Cage Against the Machine’ – Buying Silence as Protest

British pop music fanatics are a cranky bunch. They just don't like Simon Cowell and his p...

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Book Review: ‘Beware of the Trains’

Beware of the Trains (1953) is a collection of sixteen short mysteries by Edmund Crispin (...

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TCM Andy Hardy Festival

I don't know why they're showing them in reverse chronological order, but a good deed is a...

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Book Review: ‘Fen Country’

Fen Country (1979) is fun and games, Edmund Crispin style. Just over two dozen stories cul...

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The Best Damn Private Eye on Television

By Kevin Burton Smith No, CBS' The Good Wife is not a private-eye show. One of the 2009-...

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The Numbers – Weekend Box Office Chart

Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader Tops Weekend Box Office.

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Griffin Booed by Troops

Kathy Griffin booed by troops for Palin remark - USATODAY.com.

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The Best of 2010 in Pop Culture

By Larry Kaufmann This is coming a little late, I know, but I’d like to second the sent...

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Engaging ‘Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ Follows Lewis’s Model Well

Review of Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The popularity of fantasy ...