manners-and-morals
Rise of ‘Good Girl’ Culture Shows Value of Liberty, Ideals

     The rise of "good girls" in the culture is a natur...

uncategorized
Grassroots, Obama, and Congressional Democrats Reenergize the Right

An insightful essay by Donald Devine on Conservative Battleline Online points out that the...

movies
Patrick Swayze Remembered, Fondly

The late Patrick Swayze wasn't a great actor, but he was a dude, which is more important a...

people
Leno Defended

 After my highly critical review of the premiere episode of The Jay Leno Show, I thin...

commerce
Leno Stumbles Out of Gate

  The uninspired premiere episode of The Jay Leno Show does not bode well for ei...

books
More Praise for ‘The Red Right Hand’

Another critic has joined the chorus recommending the superb mystery novel The Red Right H...

commerce
Tyler Perry’s Latest Tops U.S. Box Office in Opening Weekend

    Proving once again the power of appealing to Christian moviegoers,...

mysteries
CW’s ‘Melrose Place’ Remake Shows Promise

      The CW network's new mystery-drama soap opera Melrose ...

genres
Romero’s Latest Zombie Film Has Political Slant, As Usual

    George Romero, who made the excellent and highly influential Night...

mysteries
PBS Drama Episode Centers on Evils of Communism

   The latest episode of PBS's Masterpiece Mystery includes a surprise: cri...

science-fiction
More Than One Brain Cell: SF Films with Ideas (Part Twelve)

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movies
TCM Thrillers (September 14 – 20)

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television
After All, It’s Only a Cartoon Show

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movies
TCM Thrillers (September 7 – 13)

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music
Kansas’ Livgren Hospitalized

      Kerry Livgren of the classic rock group Kansas has suf...

omniculture
It’s Official: Obama HATES the Suburbs

     President Obama is a snob who looks down his nose at those w...

commerce
Audiences Shun Lee’s Woodstock Comedy

    Director Ang Lee's films tackle a wide variety of ostensible subje...

books
Review: Market Didn’t Cause Financial Meltdown, Thomas Woods Explains

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the...

movies
TCM Thrillers (August 31 – September 6)

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philosophy
Freak Storm Seen as Message from God

     An unexpected, violent storm damaged a convention hall where a ch...

philosophy
Reconnecting with our American Heritage

Daniel Crandall Asks The Provocative Question: Is America inhospitable ground for freedom?...

commerce
TV-Style Virtues Bring Strong Opening Box Office for ‘Inglourious Basterds’

    U.S. audiences appear to be wearying of mindless action blockbuste...

science-fiction
movies
TCM Thrillers (August 24 – 30)

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omniculture
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty – Pt. 2:

Daniel Crandall continues his important discussion about the primacy of culture in the dir...

movies
Hollywood takes shot at Palin again, and misses

    Movie critic Christian Toto alerts us to what many of his readers ...

commerce
ABC Cancels Two of Network’s Best Shows

   Proving once again its claim to the hotly contested title of Stupidest T...

omniculture
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty – Pt. 1

Daniel Crandall argues that limited government is not just a matter of politics (more&he...

uncategorized
movies
TCM Thrillers (August 17 – 23)

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manners-and-morals
Cheap Shots at Republicans and Nonliberals Almost Ruin ‘Julie & Julia’

   TAC editor S.T. Karnick is right that Julie & Julia is likely to en...

movies
The Intellectual Pretensions of ‘Classic’ Scifi Films

     Sometimes the most celebrated scifi films are the silliest, ...