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TNT’s ‘Falling Skies’ Soars with Classic Storytelling Approach

Season 3 of the TNT action-drama series Falling Skies begins this Sunday at 9 EDT with a ...

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Story Behind NSA Monitoring of Verizon Phone Records Shows U.S. MSM Remain Obama’s Lapdogs

The Guardian newspaper of London has reported something vitally important to all U.S. citi...

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Death Decoded: ‘The Bletchley Circle’ on PBS

I recently complained about the unlikely revisionist feminist rewrite in the new film ...

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Mark Helprin Delights ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’

In the perfection of her song, by the voice that sprang from her, speaking words as he ha...

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Religion on the Decline, Media Shouts, and Shouts, and Shouts

I can’t help but thinking of Snidley Whiplash when I read stories of the decline and imp...

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Genre Classic at a Bargain Price: ‘The Adventures of Ellery Queen’

One of the classic books of the mystery genre is available now at a bargain price in a Kin...

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Are All Artists Natural-born Socialists?

A back issue of an old magazine lends support to the notion that artists tend to be social...

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Movies for Memorial Day on Turner Classics

Turner Classic Movies—cable TV's old-movie channel—has another of its excellent holida...

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Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

I have written previously in this publication about the French film director Eric Rohmer...

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Honest Value in John Sandford’s ‘Stolen Prey’

 [Weather] said, “Look, whatever – I’m not talking about all of that. I’m talkin...

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Heavy-Handed IRS Tactics Exemplify Progressive Mindset

Here's a very revealing item for those interested in understanding the progressive worldvi...

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Ralph Peters Raises ‘Cain at Gettysburg’ to Great Heights

Lee would have to be mad to send his divisions across that field. And Hunt was sure he w...

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Happy Parent 1 Day!

On Sunday when I woke up from my slumber I turned to my wife and said, Happy Parent 1 Day!...

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Saint, Mrs. Bradley Return to Print, and Saint Will Be Back on TV

The republishing of classic genre fiction (which I know is a contradiction in terms for so...

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The New Scarlet Letter

What do Tim Tebow, the US Military, Chris Broussard and Chick-fil-A have in common? They a...

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McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming

U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) ""wants to let [cable and satellite TV] customers buy their p...

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Secular Liberal Sees ‘Consensus’ on Redefining Marriage as Terrifying

Most Americans who have an opinion about the current obsession to redefine marriage tend t...

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A Tale of Tomorrow

“All the Time in the World.” An episode of Tales of Tomorrow (ABC-TV, 1951-1953). S...

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NY Times Review Perverts a Baroque Opera

A recent review in the New York Times makes a bizarre claim about a baroque opera by a...

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Cultural Caricature of Christians as Hypocrites is Affirmed in Flawed Study

I’m not a big fan of the Barna Group, a “research organization focused on the intersec...

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“The Fifth Witness” Is First Rate

“I just don’t know why you can’t have it both ways. You know, give unbridled effort...

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Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep is a  fictional drama about former members of the violent radical ...

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You’ve Got to Be Kidding!!! Bill Maher Defends Christianity!!!

On my morning visit to Real Clear Politics I see a link that makes me think I must have wo...

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It’s All About the Children: Except When It Comes to Redefining Marriage

In modern America at the risk of being branded a bigoted intolerant hater, I seek here to ...

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Walker’s ‘Hailstone Mountain’

Lars Walker, a regular contributor to this publication, just happens to be a highly talent...

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Can Conservatives Reclaim the Culture?

If you happen to be in southern or central Michigan tomorrow, please consider heading to...

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The Great Pronzini

Today marks Bill Pronzini’s 70th birthday, and I want to join the discussion on the blo...

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It’s Finally 1984!

I think George Orwell might be surprised to find that the dystopian future he envisioned...

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Annette Funicello, 1942-2013

Annette Funicello, famous as an early Mousketeer and as the star of a string of 1960s be...

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Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died today at the age of 87, and we here i...

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It’s All Relative

There was a time, believe it or not, when Einstein's theory of relativity was the subject ...

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“Shake or Bake?”

Have you ever lain awake at night wondering who wrote Shakespeare? Of course you have. I h...

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“Kill Your Darlings” Will Please Hard-Boiled Fans

“I’m jealous,” she said, pretending not to be. “You could have had room service w...