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“Beyond Political Solutions” — The United Nations Ponders a Cure for Climate Change

by Mike Gray The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, ...

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TNT’s ‘The Closer’ Jumps Back on Political Hobbyhorse

As I noted a few weeks ago, the TNT crime drama series The Closer has long been largely no...

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Seinfield Displeased with Gaga’s Poor Manners—and Mets’ Response

"You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we're living in now?" ...

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‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ Leads Weak U.S. Movie Box Office

As expected, the action-fantasy Resident Evil: Afterlife was the top finisher in the weeke...

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Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists — An Imaginary Symposium

by Mike Gray (Setting: The Symposium of Socrates) Socrates: We are gathered here today at...

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Sugar Rush

By Mike Gray If further proof is needed for parents not to allow their children unlimited...

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Pulped Fiction

by Mike Gray Last year the Daily Mail Online reported that 77 million books are destroyed...

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Was Woodrow Wilson a Racist? And Does It Matter Now?

by Mike Gray Wilson gave the finest sermon for what humans are capable of if they are not ...

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Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Punch Somebody?

Would G. K. Chesterton have liked Robert Downey Jr.'s depiction of the great detective in ...

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TAC’s Prose Fiction and Poetry Update

Neil Gaiman, in his obituary of the obscure SF author, described R.A. Lafferty, pictured...

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Lights Out! Say Goodbye to the Edison Bulb — And American Jobs

by Mike Gray Rebekah Rast, blogging at Americans for Limited Government, notes a mileston...

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Is a Wealthy “Dr. Strangelove” Fundamentally Transforming America’s Judiciary?

by Mike Gray Bob Unruh, at WorldNetDaily, reports on an "under the radar" movement: Radic...

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FOX’s ‘Good Guys’ Is a Good Time, Good Show

The FOX TV comedy-drama series The Good Guys continues in reruns tonight at 9 EDT. It's we...

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The “Rollerball” Paradigm in Modern Governance

by Mike Gray Eric Rush, in a WorldNetDaily article, proposes the idea that what passes fo...

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What’s Beyond Fluorescents? Solid-State Lighting — But There’s a Catch

by Mike Gray Illumination by solid-state sources could be the next step after government-...

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George Washington Was a Greedy Bastard and Other Things You Wouldn’t Know If a Communist Hadn’t Told You

by Mike Gray According to the Media Research Center, Howard Fast (1914-2003), doyen of le...

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Book ’em, Danno — No, Not THAT Guy, The One Who Wrote This Script!

by Mike Gray Once in a blue moon Hollywood can revive a property that just about everyone...

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GOP Tops Dems in Primary Voter Turnout

Suggesting a true cultural shift, Republicans voting in this year's primary elections outn...

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A Conservative Books Reading List

Young America's Foundation convened a panel on conservative books at the National Conserva...

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Eric Hoffer, Skeptic on Darwinism; Clarke’s Third Law; and the Philosophical Background of James Lee the Media Ignored (Of Course)

by Mike Gray Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer never fully committed to Darwinian evolution: The m...

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A Zombie’s Observations on Education in America

by Mike Gray In a five-part essay on Pajamas Media, the pseudonymous "Zombie" blogger ide...

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Stephen Hawking Says God Is in the Equations

by Mike Gray Of course, it all depends on how you define "God," doesn't it? Richard Ferna...

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The Beat Generation Revisited: A Review of “The Typewriter is Holy”

At what point did the cool jazz of the Beat Generation curdle into the technicolor dissona...

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C. S. Lewis and the Modern Total State

by Mike Gray One article recommended by Daniel Crandall recently is well worth your atten...

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Weekly Prose Fiction Fix

For those who want a break from politics and public policy - from PG Wodehouse to Evelyn W...

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Just in Time for Back to School: An Essential Guide to Campus Loonies

by Mike Gray A Field Guide to Left-wing Wackos: And What to Do About Them by Kfir Alfia a...

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From Holocene to Anthropocene to Obscene: Humans Get Credit for Changing the World — For the Worse

by Mike Gray In an article on LiveScience, senior writer Jeremy Hsu offers a muted jere...

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Galaxy Tab to Challenge iPad

Samsung is introducing the Galaxy Tab Android tablet computer as a competitor to the iPad....

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Book Review: ‘Heat Wave,’ by ‘Richard Castle’

Television and motion picture tie-in books are always a gamble. Sometimes they're written ...

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Stephen Hawking Says God Is Unnecessary

by Mike Gray Alan Boyle writes on MSNBC's Cosmic Log that the widely-circulated quote fro...

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Watching the Watchers: The Desirability of Video Evidence and the Official Move to Limit It

by Mike Gray Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchers?) — Attributed to ...

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‘CSI’ Meets the Wings of Man: Classic Movie Review

by Mike Gray Once upon a brief time, one of the hottest authors in Hollywood was Ernest K...

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Let There Not Be Light (At Least of a Certain Kind)

by Mike Gray The National Center for Policy Analysis alerts us to a Washington Times re...