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Tebow 3:16!

I know, I know, God doesn’t care who wins football games—I think. But I do know God li...

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California to the Rescue Again!

Truly, I don’t know how any of us survived prior to the nanny state protecting us from o...

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‘Mission Impossible’ Is Impossible!

But if you can suspend disbelief for a couple hours it is one heck of a ride, this fourth ...

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LA’s Greatest Sports Moment is one of America’s as well

I got a little early Christmas present this morning when I made my daily visit to the LA T...

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Robertson No Fan of SNL

Pat Robertson, the lightning-rod televangelist and former presidential candidate, doesn’...

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Gold Coins and American Rebellion

Americans can be a stubborn lot. I remember when I was in school back in the 1960s and 70s...

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Happy Anniversary Coaxial Cable!

I bet you hadn’t heard anything about it. And it’s not exactly the anniversary of the ...

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The Welfare State Reckoning

Champions of liberty are usually harsh critics of the welfare state. Most have accepted th...

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California Dreamin’ . . .

As I was driving around yesterday evening doing some errands with NPR on, as I am wont to ...

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Conservative Negativity and the Reports of America’s Demise

We all know America is going to Hell in a hand basket, and the rest of the West is pretty ...

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Right-Wing Hatred Kills, or Not

We are coming up on another anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and anoth...

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Woody the Lovable Nihilist

You gotta love Woody Allen. Most atheists claim, and some vehemently, that finding meaning...

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Science and Humility: With Relativity Under Question, Will Materialist Philosophy Be Next?

We live in an age when the epistemological certainty of science is supposedly an unquestio...

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Obama: Avoid ‘Painful’ Self-Reliance

Some of you may know there is a presidential election campaign going on right now, and the...

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Klavan: Baby Boomers Undermined Liberty

Andrew Klavan is one of the most perceptive cultural analysts of our day, and his Klavan o...

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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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The Twin Towers in Film

Twin Tower Cameos from Dan Meth on Vimeo.

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Vin Scully Makes the Grade

I don’t think anyone has written about Vin Scully at The American Culture. Who is Vin Sc...

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Goldberg Is Mad As Hell, and He’s Not Going to Take It

It’s not often that a respected publication runs an article title such as “To Hell wit...

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Captain America: Exceptional Movie for an Exceptional Nation

I’m not a comic book kind of guy, but I’ve seen a few turned into movies. Captain Amer...

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It’s a Wonderful Atheist Life?

Watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the zillionith time last weekend, and still loving ev...

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Vulgarity, Cultural Influence, and the Left

By Mike D'Virgilio For some reason that we can’t quite figure out, Rolling Stone magazi...

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Opera Company of Philadelphia “Hallelujah!” Random Act of Faith

Once in a while something special happens in America culture to bring joy to our count...

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‘Unstoppable’ Excellent, but Forgets One Very Important Thing: God

The son and I, actually one of them, the eight and very eager to be nine year old, saw “...

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Black Liberal Admits Family Is Indispensable

In October 2009 a black teenager was beaten to death on the south side of Chicago. This ev...

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Hitchens and the Incomprehensibility of Theism

By Mike D'Virgilio Christopher Hitchens, as we all well know, is a thorn in the side of t...

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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...

philosophy
Progressives vs. The Founders: The Limits of the Welfare State

I am very happy to say that the distinctions between left and right, and their historical ...

journalism
FTC Staff “Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism”

A Federal Trade Commission Staff Discussion Draft (link opens a PDF document) was discusse...

movies
Dennis Hopper, RIP: Update

America lost one of Hollywood’s few proud conservatives today. Dennis Hopper died of com...

worldviews
The Inconsequentiality of Contemporary Atheism

Yes, I know that sounds kind of counterintuitive, given the bestseller lists the “New...

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Ronnie James Dio, RIP

Yesterday saw the passing of Ronnie James Dio, one of Rock’s most powerful voices. He hi...

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“House” and the Ontological Certitude of Sexual Orientation

This week’s episode of “House” dealt extensively with the topic of homosexuality, an...