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Stars of ‘Won’t Back Down’ Reap Unexpected Teachers Union/Leftist Backlash

It appears that the stars of "Won't Back Down," which enjoys wide theatrical release today...

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Original Poem: ‘Jonah’

Jonah By Esther Cameron   (may be grumbled to some kind of talking-blues tune) &nbs...

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SNL Mocks Obama Campaign’s ‘ForAll’ pledge

Oh, they didn’t? Well, this weekend’s show hasn’t happened yet, so maybe one of the ...

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Spanish Language Network Shames America’s Mainstream Media

With Barack Obama’s track record almost four years into his presidency, you would think ...

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Latest Bryant and May Mystery Is a Must-Read, Thanks to Strong Story

Someone needs to buy Christopher Fowler a congratulatory drink. I’d do it myself, except...

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Thumbs Sideways for ‘Murder at Thumb Butte’

The Western mystery story is not as rare a phenomenon as you might think. The conventions ...

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Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?

To the liberal/progressive such a question is evidence of conservative hysteria based on t...

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NYC Ban on Soft Drinks Is Now Official

The Foundation for Economic Education released a statement last June concerning New York C...

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In Praise of ‘Human Action’

Austrian school economist Steven Horwitz offers the uninitiated a brief introduction to Lu...

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Lileks Blooms in ‘Graveyard Special’

… Two people + their problems < hill of beans. Not an equation we understood. And ...

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Haberski’s Defense of Civil Religion Raises More Questions Than It Answers

God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945, by Raymond Haberski Jr., is a history of...

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Remembrances from Christopher Hitchens’ Wife

I came across this homage to Christopher Hitchens by his wife, Carol Blue, and thought it ...

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Eastwood’s Calculated RNC Performance Art

An excellent article in Clint Eastwood's local newspaper shows just how canny the octog...

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Interview: Crime Writer Peter Lovesey Talks About What Makes a Great Mystery

Recently, I had the great honor of interviewing Peter Lovesey, author of such excellent bo...

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The Re-definition of Marriage and Historical Inevitability

I believe what marriage has been for all of recorded history, a societal institution that ...

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First (Naive) Reactions to Previews of Just a Few Fall TV Shows

Deliberately naive on my part, as I avoid reading too much in advance which might spoil an...

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Ugly Attitudes Mar Penny’s ‘Beautiful Mystery’

It is with a heavy heart that I write this review—and there is a high risk that it wil...

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Who Does Barack Obama Like?

An article in the current New Yorker reports that Barack Obama just doesn’t like many pe...

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Book Review — ‘Ameritopia’

Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America — Mark R. Levin — Threshold Editions —Hardcove...

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For Parents to Teach Their Children That God Created the Earth Is Tantamount to Child Abuse

"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution." — Title of an essay b...

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A Cruel Theology: ‘Forgive Us Our Boo-Boos’

My friend Anthony Sacramone of Strange Herring blog posted a rare serious article today,...

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Original Poem: ‘The Fourteenth of July’

The Fourteenth of July By Esther Cameron  All in the dewy morning On the fourteenth of J...

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Original Poem: ‘Villanelle of the Political Conventions’

Villanelle of the Political Conventions By Esther Cameron   (2000; mutatis mutandis....

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Failure of Predicted Environmental Apocalypse Discredits Extremists

I received the latest copy of Wired magazine last week, and the cover immediately caught m...

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Review: ‘Obama 2016’ a Fact-Filled Look at President’s Worldview

One of the surprise movie hits of the summer is Obama 2016, a documentary co-written and d...

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“Capital Day”

The Foundation for Economic Education asks a very reasonable question: Why don't we celebr...

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The NEA — A Vestigial Appendage of “The Great Society”

The National Education Association (NEA), of which in my ignorance I was once a member, re...

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Another View: Inadvertent Truths in ‘The Wire’

I’m one of those who believe The Wire is in the running for best TV series ever, and I h...

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Apologia for Disaster: Making ‘The Wire’ an Argument for Big Government and Wealth Redistribution

The Wire, HBO’s grim drama about life in a dysfunctional city of Baltimore, has become s...

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Looking to Norway, Twice

The eyes of the world were on Norway today. Not one but two international stories focuse...

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Review: ‘Sheer Joy in Detroit’ a Delight

I'm always on the lookout for books and poetry related to Michigan, and I chanced upon S...

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Virginia Police Put U.S. Marine Veteran in Mental Institution for Political Facebook Posts

Remember this name: Brandon Raub. Raub, a twenty-six-year-old former U.S. Marine, was a...

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‘The Case for Cinematic Violence’

American Culture editor S. T. Karnick makes "The Case for Cinematic Violence" at PJMedia...