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Dowd Humble-Brags Obama, Confirms MSM Narrative of Obama Presidency

Maureen Dowd is the quintessential New York Times writer, and thus a perfect example of ...

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Capitalism, Virtue and the Struggle for the Soul of the American People

Charles Murray is one of the great social commentators on the cultural/political right. A ...

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Book Review — ‘Troll Valley’

Troll Valley Lars Walker Amazon Kindle Edition 264 pages File Size: 926 KB ASIN: B006...

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Daniel J. Flynn and The Blue Collar Intellectuals

My grandfather was a self-educated man; it's unclear whether he even made it to high sch...

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Rocker Jack White Impresses

Well, at least he impressed me, and I bet if you listen to this Sound Opinions interview y...

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When Maigret Goes Home, Murder Follows

Over the course of forty-one years (1931-72), Belgian-born author Georges Simenon produced...

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Lovesey’s Latest Has Both Modern, Old-Fashioned Virtues

The newest book by murder mystery master Peter Lovesey, Cop to Corpse, follows a classic ...

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Naperville to Chicago: Up Yours!

It looks like many cities around the country said the same thing. A Chick-fil-A is being b...

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Transformed Media Landscape: Happy Anniversary Rush!

Love him or hate him, agree with him or not, Rush Limbaugh, on the air for 24 years today,...

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Honig Gets It Half-Right

Speaking at his organization's 10th Annual Access to Capital and Telecommunications Polic...

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Hillsdale College: Liberty and Education in American Culture

Hillsdale College is now famous among politically engaged conservatives and others on the ...

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A Century of Milton Friedman

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton F...

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Chick-fil-A, the First Amendment, and the ‘Tolerant’ Fascism of the Left

One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of Liberal Fascism than the move by li...

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The Cult of the Shmoo Has Infiltrated the Highest Levels of Government

Some comic strip characters are immortal because people never seem to forget them. Fans o...

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USA Network’s ‘Burn Notice,’ ‘Suits’ Provide Insightful Entertainment

It's Thursday, and that means USA Network's two best currently running series have new e...

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‘Dark Knight Rises’ Resolves Trilogy in Admirable Form

Despite some feelings of strangeness caused by the appalling mass shooting at a screening ...

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Violence and the ‘Batman’ Conclusion: Is Our Culture Sick?

That’s an interesting question, which I’ll leave for others to decide, but it does rai...

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President’s Surprising Tax Logic

Like many of his other public pronouncements, President Obama's recent comment about se...

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BBC’s ‘Luther’ is Superlative Cop TV

It is a fact generally acknowledged, that the English do cerebral television better than...

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Review: ‘Dark Knight’ Exceeds Expectations

As I begin writing this review, it is 3:23 AM Eastern Standard Time. I got back from the m...

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TNT’s ‘Perception’ Off to Weak Start

TNT's latest new series, Perception, premiered last Monday, in the valuable time slot af...

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“Theory Kings”: How Burke and Hegel Were on the Same Page at Least Once

The late Fred Hutchison believed that in every age there live what he called "theory kings...

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“Calcified Rock Orthodoxy”?

And I thought it was politics and religion that created all the strife and animosity in th...

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William Woos Doris

“William, I didn’t know you were an art fiend!” William turned his head and saw D...

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Dean Koontz Presents a Graceful ‘Interlude’

Such genuine trust, so sweetly expressed, bears witness to an innocence in the human hear...

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‘Closer’ Closeout Begins

TNT's popular police drama The Closer begins its final six episodes tonight at 9 EDT. T...

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Blue Highways Revisited

Even with record high gasoline prices and sweltering temperatures, millions of Americans w...

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Brown, Creek to Return to TV

There's good news and mixed news regarding British TV mysteries. Both feature detectives w...

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Review: ‘The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution’

Dr. Frazer, a professor at a Christian college, has written an analysis of the religious b...

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Liberty Ain’t the Problem

Modern liberals are fond of claiming that capitalism is inherently selfish, and that with ...

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A Court Corrupted by Culture

There is a simple, one-word explanation for why Obamacare is now the law of our land:  cu...

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Big Audiences for Targeted Films

Last weekend brought huge audiences into the nation's movie theaters to watch a talking te...

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