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Goldberg Is Mad As Hell, and He’s Not Going to Take It

It’s not often that a respected publication runs an article title such as “To Hell wit...

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“The Danger of Agenda Politics Applied to Pseudoscience”

It's bad enough we're blinded by science, but it's worse when it's junk science: Countless...

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Such a Deal . . . Public Sees Fraud Behind Progressives’ Grand Bargain

By Warren Moore One of the arguments a liberal friend of mine likes to use is that large ...

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The Polished Menace of Eric Ambler

By Shmuel Ben-Gad Spy stories are, at least sometimes, a secular equivalent of ghost st...

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‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Mashup Notable for Flaws, Saving Graces

By S. T. Karnick The general rule for mixed-genre fictions is not that you can expect to ...

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How the “Soft Left” Encourages the “Hard Right”

By Mike Gray Has the situation in Europe already reached a point of no return? In failing...

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‘The Days of Laméch’ — A Preview

For an idea of how extensive, comprehensive, and just plain fascinating Jon Saboe's latest...

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A Tax Is a Tax Is a Tax Is …

The awful truth is that this country has been grossly mismanaged for decades. The Great Re...

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Graphic Insults: How Regulation Is Strangling the Economy

By Mike Gray — well, the insults to our intelligence from people who have vested politi...

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Supermind Hearts Socialism

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express view...

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‘Necessary Roughness’ Is Another USA Network Success

By S. T. Karnick Although other program providers garner more awards, critical accol...

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Elizabeth Daly: One of the Last, and Best, of Golden Age Mystery Writers

Blessings be upon Felony and Mayhem Press (http://www.felonyandmayhem.com), which is curre...

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Legal Challenge to New York’s Same-Sex Marriage Law

"Back room tactics were rampant in the passage of this law. New York law requires that the...

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The Totemic President

Obama, you see, is our nemesis. He is a totem, the logical manifestation of a warped media...

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Here Comes the Night, Second Installment

The tube station lights flickered in a flourescent dance among the faces of those waiting ...

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“Altamont Augie:” Talkin’ About My Generation

By Lars Walker Will this book have the same visceral effect on other readers as it does ...

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Attacks on Bachmann’s Husband Just Latest Example of the Double Standard of Contemporary Political Rhetoric

Political rhetoric in the United States has always been feverish and low on scruples. That...

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The Crackpot Murderer in His Own Words

"As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedenc...

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Robert E. Howard’s Puritan Pulp Hero

I grew up reading both comic books and stories about various pulp fiction heroes.  My fav...

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Amy – Whatcha Gonna Do?

And so it has come to pass that Amy Winehouse has joined the 27 Club. Other members incl...

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Captain America: Exceptional Movie for an Exceptional Nation

I’m not a comic book kind of guy, but I’ve seen a few turned into movies. Captain Amer...

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A Chat with My Daughter

by Warren Moore My fourteen-year-old was reading about the horror in Norway this af...

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“The Final Hour” Is a Compelling One

By Lars Walker I'll get out, I told myself. Rose'll get me out. Two months, maybe three....

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“Sitting on Their Thumbs”: America’s “Fear-Based Economy”

There's a greater incentive to FIRE than to HIRE: . . . [T]he economy’s most productive ...

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When Stars Go Bang!

An ordinary star is a gigantic ball of gas, about a million times more massive than th...

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Quote of the Day — The Decline of the Cowboy and the Rise of the Superhero

That the cowboy has given way to the superhero in the American myth is painfully revealing...

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“Scaramouche”: A Sense That the World Was Mad

By Lars Walker. When writing a review of Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche, it's almost obl...

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“Confirmation Bias Is Everywhere”

By Mike Gray A new study suggests that your values, not science, determine your views abou...

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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 ...