uncategorized
A Chat with My Daughter

by Warren Moore My fourteen-year-old was reading about the horror in Norway this af...

uncategorized
“The Final Hour” Is a Compelling One

By Lars Walker I'll get out, I told myself. Rose'll get me out. Two months, maybe three....

uncategorized
“Sitting on Their Thumbs”: America’s “Fear-Based Economy”

There's a greater incentive to FIRE than to HIRE: . . . [T]he economy’s most productive ...

uncategorized
When Stars Go Bang!

An ordinary star is a gigantic ball of gas, about a million times more massive than th...

uncategorized
Quote of the Day — The Decline of the Cowboy and the Rise of the Superhero

That the cowboy has given way to the superhero in the American myth is painfully revealing...

uncategorized
“Scaramouche”: A Sense That the World Was Mad

By Lars Walker. When writing a review of Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche, it's almost obl...

uncategorized
“Confirmation Bias Is Everywhere”

By Mike Gray A new study suggests that your values, not science, determine your views abou...

uncategorized
Forty-two Years Ago Today …

   

uncategorized
Book Review: ‘Voyage of the Mind Carriers’

By Mike Gray Voyage of the Mind Carriers — By Gary Wolf — iUniverse — 2011 — Phil...

uncategorized
Just Whose Ox Should Get Gored?

If you ask some people, we can't live without ANY of the following:    

uncategorized
Is the Liberal-Progressive Welfare State a Moral Threat?

By Mike Gray Dennis Prager says, "Oh, yeah!" and offers ten reasons why: 1. The bigger th...

uncategorized
Quote of the Day: Victor Davis Hanson on the Collapsing Paradigms Supporting Illegal “Immigration”

[T]he old matrix of how we were to understand illegal immigration is extinct. The concept ...

uncategorized
“Pretence of Knowledge”: Confusing Models with Reality

By Mike Gray In everything from "global warming" to embarking on an "economic stimulus," ...

uncategorized
Mini-Quote: When Big Science Cohabits with Big Government

In his 1961 Farewell Address, Dwight Eisenhower famously predicted the rise of a “milita...

uncategorized
At the Bottom of the Bachmann-WELS Flap

By Lars Walker All right, I’ll come clean. Sam Karnick wore me down, and I have to admit...

uncategorized
How Do We Profit from Study?

By Francis Bacon, TAC Correspondent Studies serue for Delight, for Ornament, and for Abil...

uncategorized
Mini-quote: Is Harry Potter a British Tory?

J. K. Rowling’s famous literary creation, Harry Potter, has been casting a spell on read...

uncategorized
Love That Never Dared To Get Tough: The Fruits of Indulgence Towards “The New Left” Have and Will Continue to Cost Lives

By Mike Gray [The record] shows that neither then [during the '60s], when it would have co...

uncategorized
Mini-quote: Nanny State Atheists Flunk Grammar

Quite simply, the Constitution prohibits the state from interfering with the church, but d...

uncategorized
Final Movie Images

This is an interesting quiz to see how many final movie images you recognize, from a websi...

uncategorized
Web Freedom Is Slavery—to Big-Government Advocate

Review of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You, by Eli Pariser, Penguin...

uncategorized
Quote of the Day: Agenda 21 — Grassroots Socialism That Could Presage One-World Government

Agenda 21 promotes European socialist goals that will erode our freedoms and liberties. Mo...

uncategorized
Book Review: Primetime Propaganda

Mark Twain once said that everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything a...

uncategorized
Quote of the Day: Totalitarianism Festers in Academia

Much has been made of the “unholy alliance” between the imperial left and a triumphali...

uncategorized
“Auralia’s Colors” Stand Out Against a Drab Field

I am tentatively prepared to declare Jeffrey Overstreet, author of Auralia's Colors and i...

uncategorized
Mini-quote: The Rules in Countryspeak

(1) Just one God. (2) Put nothin' before God. (3) Watch yer mouth. (4) Git yourself to ...

uncategorized
Nineteen Fifty-One Was a Pretty Good Year for Sci-Fi Movies: The Sequel

By Mike Gray (4) The Day the Earth Stood Still — U.S. release: September 1951 — 20th ...

uncategorized
‘Closer’ Begins Final Season

The popular TNT series The Closer begins its final season this week (Mondays, 9 p.m. EDT)....

uncategorized
Mamet and Breitbart: A Tale of Two Political Conversions

By Larry Kaufmann The culture war has taken some interesting turns lately, but few are mo...

uncategorized
Nineteen Fifty-One Was a Pretty Good Year for Sci-Fi Movies

By Mike Gray Sixty years ago: The world has just lurched past the middle of the 20th cent...

uncategorized
Mini-quote: Liberal-Progressive “Love”

Long before the teachers unions ruined their whole profession, liberals made the decision ...

uncategorized
As of Today You Owe $246,000 — Please Remit Immediately

According to the Institute for Truth in Accounting: ~ The "official" national debt is $14...

uncategorized
Mini-quote: The Memorial with PC Amnesia

This Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon America, New York Mayor ...