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Fox Is Top News Source: Gallup Poll

The latest poll from Gallup examines where Americans get their news. Some takeaways:  F...

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The Attack

The Attack is a largely quite effective film about a fictional suicide bombing of an Isr...

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Prime Time Graphic Sex: Smoking Not Allowed

I read an excellent book by Mary Eberstadt (she doesn’t write any other kind) some month...

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U.S. Box Office: ‘White House Down’ Down, ‘Heat’ Up

The big-budget film White House Down had a poorer than expected opening weekend despite th...

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The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth (translated by Michael Hofmann)

This, the last novel of Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939), is quite thought...

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Multiverse or Not: Science Increasingly Reveals a Universe Exquisitely Designed for Life

For centuries secularists have declared that not only is God dead, but in due course we wi...

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‘Hollywood Stories’ From the Right

I’m fascinated by old Hollywood. Even modern Hollywood interests me mildly, but the si...

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In the Battle to Redefine Marriage Could Paula Deen be the Future?

Given today’s historic Supreme Court decisions regarding the redefinition of marriage, a...

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Ordinary Detectives: TNT’s ‘King and Maxwell’

After viewers got a look at TNT"s new crime drama series, King and Maxwell (Mondays at 10...

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PBS’s ‘Lewis’ Explores Deeper Mysteries Beyond Who Done It

The PBS series Masterpiece Mystery returns with another year of relatively thoughtful ge...

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BYU Program Prepares Mormons for Hollywood Career and Cultural Influence

Mormons have figured out one way to really penetrate and engage the culture from their dec...

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‘Grave Passage’ Passes the Time Very Nicely

When you follow free and discount e-book blogs, you learn to have low expectations. Gene...

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Tim Tebow to Sign with Patriots

The team led by the NFL's smartest head coach, the New England Patriots, has decided to ta...

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TNT’s ‘Major Crimes’ Returns for Second Season

The TNT drama series Major Crimes returns tonight for the start of a second season (9:00 E...

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Divorce and Government Tyranny

We all know that marriage in America has been having a tough go of it in recent decades. T...

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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...