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‘Gone, Baby, Gone’ Sequel Published

Moonlight Mile, Dennis Lehane's sequel to his bestselling 1998 mystery novel Gone, Baby, G...

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Efforts to Rebrand “Global Warming” Continue Apace

by Mike Gray The new shibboleth is "biodiversity"; in its name, millions of people could ...

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“The Political Correctness Gestapo” on the Prowl

by Mike Gray On Pajamas Media, Gary Wickert has uncovered yet more examples of PC enforce...

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More on Cultural Divide Revealed in Tuesday’s Elections

Some follow-up thoughts on the American cultural divide revealed by Tuesday's elections: ...

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Election Results Indicate Nation’s Increasing Cultural Divide

Given that politics both manifests and affects the culture, it's appropriate to consider t...

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Pennies for Your Thoughts

Review of Pennies in the Karma Jar, by Salem Hill (The Lazarus Group, 2010) By W. S. Moor...

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November Is National Novel Writing Month

It's NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month! If you've always wanted to write that novel...

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Captain Fantastic and the Master of Space and Time Unite

By Bruce Edward Walker The Union, a collaboration between Sir Elton John and one of h...

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TAC Fiction Review

On this All Hallow's Eve, TAC's Fiction Review brings stories from today as follow up to l...

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Universities Have Come Full Circle

by Mike Gray "Universities are probably the most unaccountable institutions in our society...

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Should Americans Be Concerned With Their Leaders’ Morals?

   by Mike Gray    One Founding Father thought so:    "Nothing is more essent...

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Can Believing in Theistic Evolution Pose a Danger?

by Mike Gray Nearly all peoples have developed their own creation myth, and the Genesis st...

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Could You Be a Marxist Without Knowing It?

by Mike Gray On Pajamas Media, Rand Simberg believes "You Just Might Be a Marxist," in th...

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Is Broadcast TV Doomed? Some Think So

The era of big television series that much of the nation watched together—which lasted f...

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Will You Be Hoarding Lightbulbs in the Future?

By Mike Gray For mystery author Sandra Parshall, it's already happening: I’m also in fa...

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‘Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin’ Is Likeable Though Short of Genius Work

Brian Wilson, co-founder and main songwriter of the Beach Boys during their glory years, ...

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A Spooky Treat — George Pal’s ‘War of the Worlds’

by Mike Gray The first film version (Paramount, 1953, 85 mins.) of H. G. Wells's 1898 nov...

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C. S. Lewis and “The Great Knock”

by Mike Gray For the author of the Narnia series of stories, "The Great Knock" wasn't a t...

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‘Superman’ Story Darkened for Depressed Contemporary Audiences

DC Comics has introduced a younger, somewhat troubled Superman in a grimier, sleazier Metr...

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Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

by Mike Gray Just in time! Darwinian psychologists are now absolving us of our sins: In t...

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Of Kinkering Congs and Blushing Crows

by Mike Gray No doubt you've heard of the "spoonerism," named for . . . . the Reverend Dr...

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TAC Fiction Review

Better late than never, I always say. ... But then again, maybe that's because I'm so ofte...

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Sherlock: A Study In Pink

Although we naturally (and quite rightly) think of Sherlock Holmes as a character comforta...

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Terrorists You Might Enjoy Spending Time With

by Mike Gray As a follow-up to a previous post, here are several books and authors who su...

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Eight Tales of Terror You Might Enjoy

  by Mike Gray   It's that time of year when tales of the uncanny captivate what's ...

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Waters’ ‘Wall’ Doesn’t Hold Up

By Bruce Edward Walker Roger Waters’ performance of the Pink Floyd chestnut The Wall la...

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“Secretariat,” Nostalgia for Baby Boomers

As soon as I learned Disney was putting out a movie about the greatest horse of all time I...

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‘Sherlock’ Updates Holmes et al. for Contemporary Audiences

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is surely one of the most fascinating characters ...

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Are Some Things Simply Not Negotiable?

by Mike Gray Chuck Baldwin thinks the following rights should never be forfeited for any ...

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Is Intellectual Thought Compatible with Social Reality?

by Mike Gray In a review of Thomas Sowell's book, Intellectuals and Society, David Gordon...

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Still “Under God” in the Lone Star State

by Mike Gray The pledge is a patriotic exercise, and it is made no less so by the acknowle...

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John, Russell Unite for Acclaimed Album, Concert

Two brilliant singer-songwriter-pianists have just finished an album together and christen...

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Is One of Saturn’s Moons An Incubator for Life?

by Mike Gray Can Titan be the home of living organisms? YES! — if you ignore the laws o...