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The Latest School Massacre

This event is only a few hours old as this is being written, but it is already possible to...

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The New Heartland Climate Report

Possibly to the dismay of every climate alarmist who believes carbon dioxide produced by m...

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Book Review — ‘The Party Line’

THE PARTY LINE: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS — By Sheryl Longin & Roger L. Simon — Introduct...

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Book Review — ‘Shooting Hollywood’

SHOOTING HOLLYWOOD: THE DIANA POOLE STORIES — By Melodie Johnson Howe — 2011 — Cripp...

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Parody — ‘The Adventure of the Illusory Client — or, The Land Down Under’

It was a dark and stormy night when I banged the door knocker of my good friend, Mr. Shorl...

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Parody: ‘The Case of the Ectoplasmic Ecdysiast’

In THE CASE OF THE ECTOPLASMIC ECDYSIAST, allegedly by George and Ira Gershwin, we hear...

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Kulturkampf: ‘Mozart Was a Red’

Murray Rothbard skewers Ayn Rand: Enough! Keith Hackley, you have had the rare privilege o...

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Culture 101: ‘Wodehouse on Crime’

P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse — “English literature’s performing flea” (Sean O’...

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The Dr. Watson Affair

Once upon a time, long before a Gore named Al invented the printing press and a Bush named...

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Forgotten Lore — ‘Anthem’

Ayn Rand is a problematic figure in the cultural landscape. Her virulent anti-theism and ...

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Bogus Heroes for a Jacobin Age

Almost twenty years ago, Murray Rothbard noted how manufactured "heroes" add the required ...

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If Things Fall Apart, Will There Be a Balkanized America Left Over?

It's a notorious fact that American politicians seldom miss an opportunity to exacerbate c...

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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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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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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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“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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From Here to There — Two Awesome Videos

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." — ...

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“Where White Man Went Wrong”

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Page to Screen: From “The Beautiful People” to “Number 12 Looks Just Like You”

"Once dispirited, the individual can be molded by the state with endless social experiment...

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Book Review — ‘Troll Valley’

Troll Valley Lars Walker Amazon Kindle Edition 264 pages File Size: 926 KB ASIN: B006...

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When Maigret Goes Home, Murder Follows

Over the course of forty-one years (1931-72), Belgian-born author Georges Simenon produced...

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The Cult of the Shmoo Has Infiltrated the Highest Levels of Government

Some comic strip characters are immortal because people never seem to forget them. Fans o...

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“Theory Kings”: How Burke and Hegel Were on the Same Page at Least Once

The late Fred Hutchison believed that in every age there live what he called "theory kings...

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Book Review: ‘John Locke: Philosopher of American Liberty’

 JOHN LOCKE: PHILOSOPHER OF AMERICAN LIBERTY — Mary-Elaine Swanson (1927-2011) — For...

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Life and Death Among the Artilects — A Novel Rationale for Deism

When men fabricate new gods, will those gods invent new universes? The rise of artilects (...

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When a Lonely Mass Murderer Really Needs a Friend, Norwegian Taxpayers Will Buy Him One

According to a news report: The Norwegian prison where Anders Behring Breivik may be locke...

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Is Freedom Divisible?

Sheldon Richman says absolutely not, but thanks to some ill-advised court decisions, he sa...

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“Blue Skies Smilin’ at Me, Nothin’ but Blue Skies Do I See” — Unless Geoengineers Have Their Way

The prevalence of nonsense associated with the so-called Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW...

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Plum’s Appraisal of American Tunesmiths

No one so far has successfully shown that P. G. Wodehouse had a tin ear, so that his opini...