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Finally! Heat Wave Explained

Who says scientists aren't on top of things? This article clears up a long-standing myster...

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“Sybil,” Engineered

Back when I was in college, there was a TV miniseries (I never actually saw it myself) ca...

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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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What Have Taxes Done for You?

Far less than what they've done TO you: Income taxation inaugurates a permanent war betwee...

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It Could Be Verse

. . . but on the other hand . . . Have you ever been stuck in one of those interminable m...

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A First Rate Thriller: Seven Footprints to Satan by A. Merritt

Abraham Merritt (1884-1943 was a very popular fantasy writer. Since his death, his works...

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Huxley, de Tocqueville and the Brave New World

Interesting interview with Aldous Huxley, describing how the tyranny of 1984 can slide int...

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“Endless War” Provides Infinite Food for Thought

The conviction prevails, in privileged circles that, if we study history without res...

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‘Real Steel’ Tops U.S. Movie Box Office

Rocky meets Transformers meets big U.S. audiences craving upbeat escapism. Story and numbe...

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Agenda 21 — We’ll See Who’s Master Here

Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the roles of America's citizens and their government have...

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“Good Wall Street” vs. “Bad Wall Street”

Cliff Kincaid at USA Survival offers us his take on the 'Days of Rage': There are Marxist-...

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Even with a Marxist President, Is the United States Really a Fascist Nation?

. . . I'm not so sure that I can recall any government official pleading the constraints o...

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Steve Jobs, American Dreamer

By Ben Domenech The career of Steve Jobs exemplifies the American dream. It is jarring...

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First Fall TV Series Cancellation Announced—Why ‘The Playboy Club’ Flopped

Upon seeing a headline stating that the first cancellation of a new fall TV series had o...

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And the Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to . . .

You've may have already seen this story but the (literally) odds-on favorite for this year...

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Film Trailer: “The Whisperer In Darkness”

Courtesy of Furious D, here's a little film trailer for a low-budget production of H. P. L...

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A Marriage of Reason and Horror: ‘The Burning Court,’ by John Dickson Carr

Halloween approacheth, a season in which it is particularly appropriate to read horror s...

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‘Terra Nova’ Starts Badly

Big Hollywood reviewer Kurt Schlichter says Fox's new series Terra Nova, set in prehisto...

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‘Days of Rage’ — Merely Cynical Theater?

So says Daniel Greenfield: There are people who have reason to be enraged at Wall Street, ...

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The Society of Professional Journalists Goes Full-bore PC

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just w...

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Wall Street Protestors Aim High but Miss the Real Target

Most if not all of [the demonstrators] likely favor a big expansion of government, but in ...

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Hollywood’s Greatest Year?

Not to sound like an old codger, but movies aren’t as good as they used to be.  Oh sur...

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New ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Lacks Sense of Fun

Upon hearing that ABC was planning to do a new series of Charlie's Angels three decades af...

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You’re More Likely to Survive a Hurricane If You’ve Got a Fat Wallet

At least, that's what a study from the Reason Foundation seems to imply: Proponents of dra...

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‘Dexter’ Finds Religion—and Murderous Christian Hypocrites

The Showtime series Dexter tackles Christianity in its new season, beginning this Sunday e...

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ABC’s ‘Castle’ Is Back on Its Surrealistic Track

Last night's episode of the ABC TV crime series Castle was the second of this season for ...

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Book Review: ‘The Duel of Shadows’

The Duel of Shadows: The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth — Vincent Cornier (189...

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Ethos Is a Choice

Reglazing the broken windows of our popular culture -- the argument from character. by Wa...

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‘The Office’ Is Dead, Long Live ‘The Office’ Reruns

I am increasingly concerned that the syndicated reruns of The Office will continue to be t...

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Linnaeus, Thou Shouldest Be Living at This Hour! (It Could Mean a Nice Piece of Change, Man)

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." — ...

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Farewell to ‘All My Children’

The long-running TV soap opera All My Children concludes today. I won't be watching, hav...

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The Gilded Brigands

History books tell us it was "The Gilded Age" (Mark Twain's term), and the unbridled capit...

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The Dark Prophecies of Arthur Koestler

In The Freeman Online, Bruce Edward Walker brings to mind a once-popular mid-20th-century ...