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Hollywood’s Greatest Year?

Not to sound like an old codger, but movies aren’t as good as they used to be.  Oh sur...

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New ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Lacks Sense of Fun

Upon hearing that ABC was planning to do a new series of Charlie's Angels three decades af...

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You’re More Likely to Survive a Hurricane If You’ve Got a Fat Wallet

At least, that's what a study from the Reason Foundation seems to imply: Proponents of dra...

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‘Dexter’ Finds Religion—and Murderous Christian Hypocrites

The Showtime series Dexter tackles Christianity in its new season, beginning this Sunday e...

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ABC’s ‘Castle’ Is Back on Its Surrealistic Track

Last night's episode of the ABC TV crime series Castle was the second of this season for ...

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Book Review: ‘The Duel of Shadows’

The Duel of Shadows: The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth — Vincent Cornier (189...

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Ethos Is a Choice

Reglazing the broken windows of our popular culture -- the argument from character. by Wa...

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‘The Office’ Is Dead, Long Live ‘The Office’ Reruns

I am increasingly concerned that the syndicated reruns of The Office will continue to be t...

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Linnaeus, Thou Shouldest Be Living at This Hour! (It Could Mean a Nice Piece of Change, Man)

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." — ...

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Farewell to ‘All My Children’

The long-running TV soap opera All My Children concludes today. I won't be watching, hav...

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The Gilded Brigands

History books tell us it was "The Gilded Age" (Mark Twain's term), and the unbridled capit...

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The Dark Prophecies of Arthur Koestler

In The Freeman Online, Bruce Edward Walker brings to mind a once-popular mid-20th-century ...

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New Novel by Noir Master Cain Discovered

James M. Cain, a prominent crime-fiction novelist in the 1920s and '30s,  is enjoying a b...

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Social Engineering: Progressivism’s Dark Side

The so-called "Progressive Era" of the last century — a time of virtually unlimited gove...

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‘A Mighty Wind’ in Madison

If you remember A Mighty Wind, that fine mockumentary of the 1960s folk music scene, you'l...

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‘Days of Rage’

Where's the rage? Zombie has full photo coverage here. (Parental warning: Strong language....

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Oh, To Be Poor in America — Or, If You Find Yourself in the Middle Class, Get Out of There As Fast As You Can

Paleocon Patrick Buchanan believes he knows why America's economy is circling the drain: P...

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Straw Dogs 2011 a Liberal Screed

Why would you remake Straw Dogs? The question enticed me to the local multiplex last weeke...

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A Vile Prejudice Veers Toward Genocide – The Daily Caller

Where's the outrage? Prejudice against redheads has become so intense that sperm banks are...

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Sonnet to Liberty

It's not every day that an ode to liberty is waiting in your e-mail inbox, so kudos to J...

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Rolling With the Punches

The Difference Between Failure and Defeat? Character. by Warren Moore Yesterday th...

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Professional Politicians: For the Founders, A Contradiction in Terms

In his essay, "The Animating Contest of Freedom", Dr. Marshall Foster reminds us: In 1782,...

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The Neocon Con

David Gordon has a review of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, on Mises Daily: C. ...

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Parents Make Millions for Not Having an Abortion (But It’s Not What You Might Think)

A jury in Florida didn't think Bryan Santana was worth $9 million, as his parents figured,...

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“Pattern of Wounds:” Bertrand Scores Again

One of the keys to a long career in law enforcement is learning how to tell police psycho...

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The Evasion of the Earbud People

It would be a mistake to blame the technology. As usual, it's how people use — and abuse...

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Ten Tortured Words and The End of Secularism

These are the titles of a couple books I read recently, and they go together perfectly. T...

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A Western Government Declares BC/AD To Be Un-PC

— and some people aren't at all happy about it: Australia is to remove the birth of Jesu...

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The Ultimate Technic — The Promise and the Perils of Molecular Nanotechnology

These days journalists aren't as careful about science reporting as they should be. The te...

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“Sometimes Science Goes Into the Background” — Politics Dominates Climate Science

The possibility that rays coming from the sun might have a determining effect on the earth...

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John Locke’s “The Love You Crave:” Not Much Good, Except As a Lesson to Publishers

I'm not going to post the cover of John Locke's The Love You Crave, because it's kind of r...

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The Twin Towers in Film

Twin Tower Cameos from Dan Meth on Vimeo.

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Dead Hand of Government Monopoly Impedes Indie Publishers

The so-called "Internet Reformation" is a hopeful alternative to business as usual, for bo...