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Portrait of a Capitalist: PBS Show ‘Mr. Selfridge’

Premiering tonight on Masterpiece Classic on PBS (check local listings for showtimes), Mr....

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Happy Easter, Google!

Over at PJ Media, "Google Celebrates Easter in their Own Special Way." UPDATE: I Came acr...

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Some Liberals Get the Importance of Marriage!

And I don’t mean the oxymoronic kind making the rounds in the Supreme Court. I mean the ...

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AETV’s ‘Bates Motel’ Worth Checking Into

A&E's new drama series, Bates Motel, is another entry in the already overpopulated se...

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We’ve Been Here Before: Justifying Government Control of Communications

The Great Unwashed (the ones referred to in the Constitution as "the people") just can't s...

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Nothing to It

Somehow this all evokes memories of medieval schoolmen, angels, and how many of them (ange...

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Philadelphia Mayor: If You Try to Talk About Race Relations, We’ll Shut You Up!

I wrote this week about an article in Philadelphia Magazine by a Robert Huber, who shared ...

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Shocking Michelle Shocked?

On March 17th, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked took the stage in San Francisco for a co...

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Bobbie Smith, RIP

Bobbie Smith, who had one of the smoothest voices in pop music, died last weekend at age 7...

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“The Black Box” Has Good Reading Inside.

I wonder if the recent popularity surge of Scandinavian detective novels influenced Mich...

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Apocalypse Imminent: Bill Maher says, “I just want to say liberals — you could actually lose me.”

No, this is not from The Onion. It seems that even the most radically leftist liberals, li...

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Motown in the Morgue

My first job after graduating from college was in Detroit. Prior to graduation, my high-sc...

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Will We Ever Be Able to Overcome Race?

It’s not every day that you see an honest piece in the media about race in America. This...

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The Tyranny of Contemporary Cliches

There’s a certain type of mystery plot out there that is really starting to get on my ne...

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The Truth about the So Called “Robber Barons”

As we all know and have been indoctrinated from kindergarten on, and see in popular cultur...

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Collins’s Latest Mystery Depicts Cultural Controversy, Is a First-Rate Read

Comic books are destroying the youth of America! Consider the evidence: they promote and g...

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Netflix Spending Generously on New TV Series; Amazon and Xbox to Follow

As reported here a few weeks ago, Netflix is making a strong commitment to original progra...

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CW’s ‘Cult’ Presents Interesting Idea, but Does It Work?

Having targeted young females in recent years, with some success but by no means becoming ...

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Culture, Technology and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 4

Technology and the Conflict of Visions Consider the populations of America’s two high-t...

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History Channel’s ‘The Bible: Beginnings’ a Dramatic Presentation of Bible Stories

The new five-part miniseries The Bible, the first episode of which premiered on The Histo...

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Culture, Technology, and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 3

Technological and Cultural Change This leads me to another point, made in another newslet...

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Culture, Technology and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 2

Virtual Reality vs. The Oregon Trail So where did this entitlement mentality come from? ...

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Culture, Technology, and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 1

This will be the first of four, inter-related posts examining the relationship between cu...

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Long Live Rock: Thanks to Technology

Few things make your writer more elated than unwrapping a new compact disc, transferring o...

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Plasma Rain

Here's a video made by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory of the Sun belching "a medium-siz...

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“The Americans”: A Much Needed Look Back at a Clash of Civilizations

You may have noticed the Cold War coming back to a TV screen near you. Strangely enough th...

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Les Mediocrite: Oscar at 85

Any awards program longer than a David Lean film that simultaneously left this viewer long...

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Book Review: ‘What to Expect When No One’s Expecting’

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN NO ONE'S EXPECTING: America's Coming Demographic Disaster — by Jonat...

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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

The Washington Post’s John Feinstein — one of the great real sports journalists in...

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Tim Tebow Cancels Speaking Engagement at “Controversial” Church

It looks like Tim Tebow has decided to cave in to pressure by cancelling a speaking engage...

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AP Redefines ‘Husband,’ ‘Wife’

An Associated Press internal memo that suggested the company's widely used journalism styl...

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Press Bias Evident in New Jersey Beheading Blackout

This is a story about murder, but it's also a story about the U.S. media and their bias ag...

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Goldberg: Leave Hollywood to the Liberals!

It seems pop culture maven Jonah Goldberg is not particularly fond of the idea that conser...