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Criminous Nonsense from O. Henry

The man best known to posterity as O. Henry was born William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, ...

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The Real Prospect of “Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes”

On Pajamas Media, Marlo Lewis highlights the baleful implications of a pending Supreme Cou...

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TAC Fiction Review

A weekend's worth of reading - short fiction, reviews, commentary, criticism, news and mis...

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Notable Quote: Ed Driscoll to Ted Turner

Ted Turner spoke to the "global warming" conference in Mexico, declaring "the climate situ...

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The Media’s Infatuation with Justice Stevens

What makes the media so credulous when it comes to reporting on liberal progressives who w...

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Is There a Correlation Between “The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality”?

James A. Dorn thinks one can plot the expansion of government largesse against the readi...

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The Myth of the Economics Algorithm

On The Freeman Online, William L. Anderson shows us, using a football analogy, how unpredi...

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On Balance, TNT’s ‘The Closer’ Is . . . Well-Balanced

I'm looking forward to the resumption of new episodes of TNT's crime drama The Closer toni...

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Climate Scares and Media Lag

On Pajamas Media, Art Horn informs us that there's a definite and documented correlation b...

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“A Celestial Dictatorship, A Kind of Divine North Korea”

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may seem an unlikely choice to defend religious f...

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A Cultural Think Tank for America

By Daniel P. Crandall You just finished another long day in the office. The project is ahe...

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TAC Fiction Review

"The first reading of some literary work is often, for the literary, an experience so mo...

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Parascience, The Myth of the Self, and The Solid State Robot

by Mike Gray On Pajamas Media, Annie Gottlieb offers a critique of Marilynne Robinson's c...

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Several Books from Nordskog for the Christmas Season

by Mike Gray The good folks at Nordskog Publishing are offering publications that confirm...

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‘This Perfect Day’ — A Libertarian Novel

by Mike Gray On the MisesDaily blog, Jeff Riggenbach discusses an anti-utopian novel by I...

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A Multi-Modal, Media House of Mirrors

That's not a bad summary of this blog post, which shows Ann Althouse listening to a podcas...

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Book Review: ‘Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments’

Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments and Other Tales of Mystery by Philip Wylie, edited by Bill ...

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“Celebrity” by W. S. Moore, III

The Culture Alliance and the American Culture once again present original fiction by W. S...

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Harry Potter Stays on Top of Movie Ticket Heap

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, retained its box office lead over the Thanks...

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Finding Peace in the Shopping Mall

By Daniel Crandall I have noticed quite a few people dissenting from what has become, for...

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Leslie Nielsen’s Comic Skill Reflected Dramatic Abilities

Leslie Nielsen never made it anywhere near the top as a dramatic leading man, but as the w...

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A Conflict That “Virtually Defines World History”

These comments come from an article on WND by Joseph Farah, who remarks: "Keep in mind con...

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A Stoic’s Anthem

By Larry Kaufmann Shmuel Ben-Gad’s review of a book about an underappreciated stoic her...

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Moral Art and the Immoral Artist

"Here is the conclusion of the matter: Wagner, other artists and history have taught us th...

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TAC Fiction Review

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Enjoy a hearty helping of links to short fiction, news, revi...

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Opera Company of Philadelphia “Hallelujah!” Random Act of Faith

Once in a while something special happens in America culture to bring joy to our count...

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Darwin on the Couch

  by Mike Gray      "[Charles] Darwin was clearly a very troubled man and suffer...

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‘Unstoppable’ Excellent, but Forgets One Very Important Thing: God

The son and I, actually one of them, the eight and very eager to be nine year old, saw “...

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Notable Quote: Joseph Farah

From the founder of WND in a discussion of why the TEA Party movement shouldn't become an ...

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Jolie’s Film ‘Just a Love Story’

Angelina Jolie's forthcoming film directing debut depicts a love story between a Muslim wo...

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Would You Rather Be Humorous or Witty?

By Mike Gray The late Frank Muir, a BBC personality and humorist [or humourist], compiled...

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Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 1’

The Harry Potter saga nears its completion with the premiere of Harry Potter and the Death...

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Book Review: ‘The Kennedy Detail’

The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence by Gerald Blaine with...