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Forty-two Years Ago Today …

   

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Book Review: ‘Voyage of the Mind Carriers’

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

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Just Whose Ox Should Get Gored?

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

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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...

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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 ...

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“Pretence of Knowledge”: Confusing Models with Reality

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

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Mini-Quote: When Big Science Cohabits with Big Government

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

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How Do We Profit from Study?

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

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Mini-quote: Is Harry Potter a British Tory?

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

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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...

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Mini-quote: Nanny State Atheists Flunk Grammar

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

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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...

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Quote of the Day: Totalitarianism Festers in Academia

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

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Mini-quote: The Rules in Countryspeak

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

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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 ...

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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...

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Mini-quote: Liberal-Progressive “Love”

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

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

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

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Mini-quote: The Memorial with PC Amnesia

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

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Mini-quote: On Changing History to Conform to Ideology

Singling out a segment of the population for specific inclusion in school studies programs...

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Quote of the Day: Victor Davis Hanson on Why There’s No Such Thing As a Real Socialist

  So what is socialism? It is a sort of modern version of Louis XV’s “Après moi,...

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Words Fail Us

   

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Mini-quote: Asexual “Teddy Bears”

Although gays populate movies and TV shows to such a degree that you would think that they...

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Book Review: ‘Valentino: Film Detective’

By Mike Gray Valentino: Film Detective — By Loren D. Estleman — Crippen & Landru ...

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Quote of the Day: Bryan Fischer on the Spurious Notion of “Nation Building”

  Our presence in both Iraq and Afghanistan has made things worse, not better, for ou...

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Quote of the Day: Poe on the Ideal Story

File this one under "Easier Said Than Done": A skillful artist has constructed a tale. He ...

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Is Hollywood Unusually Prone to Coincidences? And Why Won’t ‘True Grit’ Be Getting Much Respect in Europe?

On WND, Erik Rush doesn't think the wholesale promotion of minority actors to command posi...

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Book Review: ‘Murder for Christmas’

By Mike Gray Somehow criminality and Christmas have a perverse affinity for one another, ...

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Notable Quote: Thomas J. DiLorenzo on ‘The Lincoln Myth’

"The Great Emancipator" may have also been "The Great Centralizer": The Lincoln regime des...

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Book Review: ‘Beware of the Trains’

Beware of the Trains (1953) is a collection of sixteen short mysteries by Edmund Crispin (...

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Book Review: ‘Fen Country’

Fen Country (1979) is fun and games, Edmund Crispin style. Just over two dozen stories cul...

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Criminous Nonsense from O. Henry

The man best known to posterity as O. Henry was born William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, ...

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The Real Prospect of “Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes”

On Pajamas Media, Marlo Lewis highlights the baleful implications of a pending Supreme Cou...