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Judge orders Christian parent to stop home schooling her kids

Need another reason to not get a divorce? How about not having judges making basic decisio...

mysteries
TCM Thrillers for March 16 – 22

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‘Eleventh Hour’ Presents Politically Incorrect Story Line

      A recent episode of the CBS crime drama Eleventh Hour ...

comic-books-graphic-novels
Audiences Watching ‘Watchmen’, but Fewer Than Expected

      Watchmen opened at number 1 in U.S. movie ticket sales...

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‘Just let me eat my waffle’

  TAC reporter-analyst Jim Lakely writes very well about politics in addition to...

movies
Watchmen: Dark, brooding, captivating and puzzling

 By Jim Lakely  I saw Watchmen yesterday. And since I'm not a fanboy, — I'...

scitech
The Czar of the Teleprompter

   By Jim Lakely The Czar of the Teleprompter: that might come to be known ...

journalism
CNN Cancels Hughley Show

By Jim LakelyI didn't even know comedian D.L. Hughley had a show on CNN until the controve...

comic-books-graphic-novels
‘Watchmen’ Graphic Novel Is As Good As They Say

        The Watchmen graphic novel is indeed a fin...

music
Culture Note: Spinal Tap to Tour Unwigged, Unplugged

 The aging geezer comedians who invented the hilarious send-up of hard rock and heavy...

theater
Culture Note: Silent Cal Speaks

  Who would have thought it? One of my favorite presidents, Calvin Coolidge, is ...

movies
Reagan’s Underrated Acting Ability Displayed on TCM

         Ronald Reagan's B movies are a lot o...

commerce
NY Senator Schumer Endorses Unexpected Economic Advisor Springsteen

    Government's effect on the culture is not always direct, as in the...

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‘Romeo & Julian’ Idiocy Exemplifies Left’s Hatred of Civilization

     Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet is being performed in an &q...

television
Whose ‘House’?

     Conservative critics often miss the nuances in popular cultu...

manners-and-morals
Normalization of Pornography Cited in Texting Issue

    The normalization of pornography—the decade-plus process in ...

journalism
Paul Harvey, RIP

    America mourns radio icon Paul Harvey, who died today at the age o...

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Reader Comment of the Week Award

Our Reader Comment of the Week Award goes to Bob Champ, whose thoughts on the Academy Awar...

manners-and-morals
Lenten Tradition Has Multiple Benefits, Essay Notes

    Author and scholar David Mills knows from experience why it's good...

movies
‘Fireproof’ Shows How to Avoid Preachiness, Cliches

     Fireproof might make some viewers uncomfortable at first, bu...

movies
‘Big Hollywood’ Relieves Academy Awards’ Emetic Qualities

     Reading the 'Big Hollywood' live blog during the televised A...

commerce
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Too Good for Oscars?

     Tonight Hollywood tells us once again what we should like&md...

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Reader Comment of the Week Award

Our readers submitted some very good comments this week, with some interesting substantive...

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Catholics Revive Indulgences

   Dismayed by what conservative church members see as a loss of understand...

music
Opera Is All Around

Opera music, though often seen as daunting, intimidating, and an elite taste, is actually ...

commerce
Cable Woes Mark Change from TV Mentality to Web Culture

 Among the luxuries taking a beating from the recession is a service until recently t...

commerce
‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue Sales Down

     Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue sold fewer copies...

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Video: ‘If We Had Some Global Warming’

It's popular to complain about the potential effects of global warming, but that's not ver...

commerce
‘Friday the 13th’ Sets Opening Weekend Box Office Record; Besson Film Stays Strong

   Warner Bros' and producer Michael Bay's remake of the influential 1980 h...

commerce
Anna Nicole Smith to Be Immmortalized in Opera

    The tastemaker who brought the world Jerry Springer: The Opera has...

movies
The ‘also-rans’ of National Review’s Conservative Movie List

Kathryn Jean Lopez has some nits to pick with John J. Miller's list of the Top 25 Conserva...

movies
Are Slasher Films More Than Just Exploitation?

  S. T. Karnick's essay on the 1980 original version of Friday the 13th and the ...

movies
Overrating Films Based on Politics—Conservative Edition

    Conservatives often do the same thing they justly complain about l...