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Leftist Voice of Sanity on Global Warming

The far-left polemicist Alexander Cockburn, longtime columnist for The Nation, has been op...

manners-and-morals
Leftists Spew Hatred Toward Dead Man—A Call for Action

The explosion of hatred toward the late Rev. Jerry Falwell on the left is truly appalling....

commerce
Why Movie Characters Smoke So Much

In a comment on our entry on Hollywood censorship of smoking, Lars Walker points out that ...

genres
The Politics of Jerry Falwell

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a televison evangelist and moral activist, died today at the age o...

commerce
Hollywood to Censor Smoking

 The Motion Picture Assoociation of America has announced that portrayals of smoking ...

books
F. A. Hayek and the Essentials of Classical Liberalism

My essay on the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek in the April 20 print e...

manners-and-morals
Movie Moms

In honor of Mother's Day, here is my contribution to the National Review Online symposium ...

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Rudy Makes Up His Mind on Abortion

The New York Times reports that former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani is going to clarify his pos...

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FCC’s Claims of TV Violence Problem Are Phony, Records Show

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's claims that excessive television violence req...

commerce
Should MLB Teams Ban Alcohol or Alcoholics?

Our column on "The Culture of Personal Irresponsibility" received some unexpecte...

commerce
ION Network to Be Sold—Potential Cultural Asset Wasted

One of the most woefully underutilized cultural assets of the past few years has been the ...

manners-and-morals
The Culture of Personal Irresponsibility

A column by Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter Rick Telander this past weekend, "La Russa...

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How to Understand Contemporary Political Analysis

Our friend Mike has sent us a comment that presents an amusing set of terms by which to un...

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The Rudy G. Process

Our friend Hunter Baker of RedState.com gave us an amusing and insightful response in a co...

manners-and-morals
Giuliani and Abortion: Update

In a comment on my post earlier today about Rudy Giuliani's evolving and complicated posit...

manners-and-morals
Rudy G. Offers Half an Abortion Loaf . . . Will It Be Enough?

In contrast to the other worthies at last night's Simi Valley, California, debate among ca...

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The Democrats’ Gargantuan Government Agenda

The Democrats have done a good job of making themselves sound like Republicans in their ne...

omniculture
Chicagoans March to Support Crime, Criminals

A society without values will accept anything. Enthusiastically.One result of such a lack ...

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A Classical Liberal View of the Proposed Iraq “Surge”

Having gone on record as arguing that the classical liberal position suggests that it is h...

commerce
Web Bubble 2.0?

The Financial Times reports that investors may be engaging in another Internet "bubbl...

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A Classical Liberal View of the Iraq War—Part 2

Mike D'Virgilio makes some good points in his comment on my post outlining "A Classic...

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A Classical Liberal View of the Iraq War

Citing public opinion polls and Congress's vote to require a timetable for the United Stat...

commerce
FCC Urges Congress to Ignore Bill of Rights—So What’s New?

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads as follows:Congress shall make no law r...

manners-and-morals
“A” Student Arrested for Essay

A student in a Chicago suburb has been arrested for writing an essay that allegedly fright...

commerce
Ratings Down for Top Network TV Shows—But Viewership Remains Steady

The networks' top evening TV programs suffered serious viewership ratings losses in the pa...

commerce
Rosie Gone—for Now

ABC Television has announced that Rosie O'Donnell, controversial host of the daytime show ...

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The Greatness of British Film Comedy

If you ever doubt the power of popular culture to affect events, just consider Britain's m...

comic-books-graphic-novels
Batman Begins . . . Again

[I ran across a DVD of the movie Batman Begins recently and was reminded of how representa...

television
Hustle, Season 4, ep. 1

The first episode of the new season of Hustle, the excellent British-American co-productio...

manners-and-morals
Fred Thompson on the Two Minds of Modernity

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson aptly characterized the two minds of modernity: liberalism ...

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A Picture of Hatred

An interesting article from the Associated Press indicates what was going on in the VT kil...

commerce
AOL a TV Network?

AOL announced yesterday that it is introducing a slate of programs positioning it as a bro...

television
The Con Is On Again

The excellent AMC/BBC-TV series Hustle returns tonight at 10 EST. Tonight's episode commen...