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Weekly Prose and Poetry Update

Upon picking up Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, this week's...

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Happy Cost of Government Day!

by Mike Gray According to Mattie Corrao, in an article published by The Heartland Institu...

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FCC Report: Shot With Its Own Gun

By Bruce Edward Walker File under duh! The Federal Communications Commission Broadband ...

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California Seeks to Alleviate Debt With Internet Sales Tax

And if California slides into the ocean/like the mystics and statistics say it will/I pr...

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Economic Meltdown Forecast

Is an economic meltdown imminent? Story here.

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‘Economic Judgment Day’ Predicted

by Mike Gray Columnist Robert Ringer has been predicting a Day of Reckoning for almost th...

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How Did Hollywood Ever Get by Before Computers?

by Mike Gray In an article on Pajamas Media, Ed Driscoll discusses special effects (FX) t...

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ETs, Carl, and God

by Mike Gray The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. — Carl Sagan in the...

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Broadcast Audience Aging Faster Than Population

If you don't watch ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox, you're in luck: you're aging more slowly than th...

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Teachers Unions Fight Transparency, Accountability

By Ben Boychuk If newspapers are indeed dying, at least a few seem willing to die fightin...

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Will America Say, ‘Welcome, Big Brother’ or ‘Let Me Outta Here!’?

by Mike Gray Austin Carr, in a technology article at FastCompany cheerfully titled "Iris ...

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U.S. Taxpayers Rescue French and German Banks—Christmas Cards Expected

by Mike Gray Can this be filed honestly under "Unintended Consequences"? And exactly what...

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Secession Debate Rises as Government Power Increases

by Mike Gray Former Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin has grave doubts about America's...

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Public’s Trust in Newspapers, TV News Nears All-Time Low

The U.S. public's confidence in the old media—specifically, newspapers and TV news—is ...

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Judges Crack Down on Flip-Flops, Short-Shorts in Court

Judges across the United States are requiring trial participants to dress appropriately an...

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Are You Phobic? Then You’re Something Special

by Mike Gray One of the more irritating developments in recent years has been the tendenc...

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Survey: TV Time-Shifting Habits Confirmed

TV time-shifting is becoming the norm. (more…)

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Court Halts Calif. Same-Sex Marriages Pending Appeal

Breaking news: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed Judge Vaughn Walker's Propositi...

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Stallone Outpaces Roberts in Movie Box-Office Race

Sylvester Stallone's star-studded action film The Expendables opened unexpectedly strongly...

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A Noir Film (or Maybe It Isn’t) That Isn’t Noir (or Maybe It Is)

by Mike Gray Follow Me Quietly (1949, RKO, 59 minutes) is a strange duck of a crime film;...

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Is the Federal Government Trying to Own ALL of the United States?

by Mike Gray At BigThink.com, Frank Jacobs tells us: The United States government has dir...

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The New Atheists: God’s Prophets for Today?

By Denyse O'Leary It is Sunday, so I allow myself one religious story. One is informed b...

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Esperanto—A True Babel Fish?

  by Mike Gray         And the whole earth was of one language, and of one spe...

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TCM Thrillers (August 16 – 22)

Monday—August 16th 8:00 AM—Fighter Squadron (1948) 11:15 AM—Bwana Devil (1952) 8:...

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Weekly Prose and Poetry Update

In June of 2009, Pres. Obama terminated the President's Council on Bioethics, a commissio...

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Have We Learned Nothing from the Genome?

The human genome project was hype, says pugnacious geneticist Craig Venter. (more&hellip...

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The Productive Class and the American Aristocracy

For those who may have missed it, here is S. T. Karnick's recent essay on the nation's cur...

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Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmism a ‘New Kind of Morality’?

by Mike Gray Here's a documentary now available on Retrovision mostly featuring "hereti...

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Up and Down with ‘The Hunters,’ A Korean War Melodrama That Doesn’t Quite Work

by Mike Gray Dick Powell, former pretty boy film leading man, directed this Korean War-er...

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Barnes & Noble Sale Decision Suggests End of Printed Books

"High-priced, printed books are done for"—as readers turn to cheaper electronic editions...

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Orwell’s ‘1984’ Seen as Disturbingly Contemporary

by Mike Gray In the latest Consumer Power Report from the Heartland Institute, Greg Sca...

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Chris Matthews Says ‘Birthers’ Are ‘Un-American’

by Mike Gray Well, that's what he said, that's what the man said. WorldNetDaily's Jose...

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Was Jesus a Cave Man?

by Mike Gray It's very possible—and, according to this article, cave men (and women) ar...