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A Megadownload

First and Fourth Amendment rights continue to suffer serial battery at the hands of those ...

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Unintended Consequences Abundantly Flow from the 16th Amendment

"The Sixteenth Amendment has widened the area of government power, and as a consequence ha...

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The Cultural Value of Reading

Victor Davis Hanson defends good old-fashioned reading, a process that serves as a conveyo...

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A Master of Mystery Passes—Au Revoir, Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill, author of the Peter Pascoe and Andy Dalziel mystery series, passed away o...

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Joe R. Lansdale’s Mythic Noir

Edge of Dark Water, by Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland, March 2012) Fantasist David Eddings...

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Lawhead’s ‘The Skin Map’ Is an Enjoyable Series Opener

Stephen Lawhead has never been a conventional Christian author, or even a conventional fa...

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A Dramatic Documentary: ‘The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby’

Before seeing this excellent documentary, I knew little about William Colby beyond the fac...

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President Invents New Kind of Job

PJ Media blogger Zombie says there just might be a new thing under the sun: In my admitted...

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John Stewart Throws Conservatives Some Crumbs

You may have seen the link on our Newswire, ‘Daily Show’ Brilliantly Exposes President...

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Dim Bulbs

If, like our president, you feel virtuous paying more for energy, then you'll love this: A...

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The Sheer Joy of Genre Reading: Dirda’s ‘On Conan Doyle, or, The Whole Art of Storytelling’

The great majority of fictional detectives come, strut for a time upon the bloody stage ...

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Stuck on Pogo

Stefan Kanfer has warmed my heart with an affectionate article on the cartoonist Walt Kel...

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Unexpected ‘Devil Inside’ Success Reflects Rising Interest in Demonic

For many decades, including most of the twentieth century, the subjects of demonic possess...

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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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Book Review: ‘The Best of Ellery Queen’

The Best of Ellery Queen: Four Decades of Stories from the Mystery Masters. Edited by Fran...

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Book Review: ‘The Spotted Cat’

Christianna Brand's Inspector Cockrill appeared in almost a score of novels, short stories...

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Getting Old Can Have Its Compensations … I Think

Here are 19 reasons why being over 60 isn't all bad: 1. Kidnappers are not very intereste...

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The Little People Who Weren’t There

. . . and they weren't there again today. It's called the Principle of Mediocrity: The ...

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Dark but Balanced History in AMC’s Hell on Wheels

The AMC-TV drama series Hell on Wheels (Sundays, 10 p.m. EST) takes a rather cynical vie...

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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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Would You Push the Red Button?

It's not just the economy, stupid, it's the culture: We are experiencing an ongoing financ...

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Did the Baby Boom Wreck Popular Culture?

Or is there an irreducible level of cultural stupidity that exists at any point in time - ...

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“War Horse” Is Pretty, But Has No Legs

Stephen Spielberg’s new film War Horse is, as one would expect from a Spielberg producti...

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The Trouble with Traditionalism

If you want to understand an important trend in political thinking, I recommend the latest...

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‘Chicago Lightning:’ Hard-Boiled Historical Fiction

Max Allan Collins is probably best known for having written the graphic novel on which th...

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A ‘Titanic’ Auction

CNS News reports: The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is...

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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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A Classic Christmas Mystery: ‘Mystery in White’

"It snowed all day and all night.  On the 22nd it was still snowing.  Snowballs flew, ...

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Christmas Greeting, 2011

For unto us a child is born. . . . We at The American Culture wish you a merry Christma...

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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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The Quotable Bastiat and Burke (Plus One Interloper)

Let's allow Claude Frederic Bastiat to speak first. When someone says, "There ought to be...

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Pray for More Global Warming — It’s a ‘Crisis’ We Can Live With

The NIPCC informs us of a report that, if the data are accurate, suggests that: "... massi...