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TAC’s Fiction and Poetry Review

This week's issue begins with the fantastic and closes with a great man of letters, who ta...

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A Note About Victorian Detective Fiction

by Mike Gray For nearly a century and a half, the rigors of composing short detective fic...

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What Do All Great Leaders Have in Common?

by Mike Gray  [T]he natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government t...

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Notable Quote about Big Government

by Mike Gray David Bozeman at Americans for Limited Government: Democrats must be naive t...

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‘Blue Bloods’ ‘Samaritan’ Episode Raises Important Law and Order Questions

The new CBS police drama series Blue Bloods did very well with audiences on its premiere n...

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Study: Four Different Gods Rule United States

USA Today reports on a study that found Americans are divided among four different concept...

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Mamma Mia, It’s a Beach Boys Musical

20th Century Fox is planning to produce a musical based on the songs of the Beach Boys. Th...

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Bruckheimer’s ‘The Whole Truth’ Confronts a Somber Reality: Ratings

If you're interested in watching The Whole Truth, the new ABC legal drama (Wednesdays, 10 ...

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‘Exorcist’ Blu-Ray Released

"What I was really trying to do was not to make a horror film but make a film that mostly...

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Fincher Makes the Uninteresting Interesting in ‘The Social Network’

By Arthur Briggs Film director David Fincher seems intent on becoming the master of ma...

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First Fall Season TV Cancellations Hit

Fox's Lone Star and ABC's My Generation have been canceled by their respective networks. F...

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TV Writer-Producer Stephen J. Cannell, RIP

The late Stephen J. Cannell was a fixture on U.S. television for more than four decades. ...

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“Eco-fascism Jumps the Shark” — And Watch Out for That Red Button!

by Mike Gray At Pajamas Media, Zombie alerts us to a "global warming" ad campaign for whi...

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A Torrent of Tall Tales and Tantalizing Tidbits

This week's bevy of fiction related links began in the belly, with a search for food relat...

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The Word of the Day Is “Atheopathy” — And Stephen Hawking Seems To Suffer From It

 by Mike Gray    Why is our universe unique? It’s the only one that string theory ...

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CBS’s ‘Blue Bloods’ Dramatizes Dilemmas of Police Power

The first thing the viewer will notice about the new CBS series Blue Bloods (Fridays, 10 E...

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Nearly Two Million Federal Tax Dollars to Support a Religion?

by Mike Gray Susan Mazur gained notoriety for reporting on the 2008 Altenberg 16 conferenc...

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Joseph Priestley on Laissez Faire Education

by Mike Gray In his article "What Education Needs: Not More Government" on The Freeman, S...

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Heroes and Villains of School Reform Wars Skillfully Depicted in ‘Waiting for Superman’ Documentary

By Arthur Briggs Documentaries, by their nature, are directed. Much like in a fiction n...

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Life in a Parallel Political Universe

In his article "2010: Dawn of the Terran Empire?" on Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh is experien...

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“This Is for Ladies Only!”

ESPN is starting up a new programming brand for females: espnW. It will begin as a blog an...

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John J. Miller’s “The First Assassin”: A Literary Labor of Love

If you're looking for a kick-ass espionage thriller that moves at a breakneck speed, featu...

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“The Reality Is That ‘Green Energy’ Actually Causes the Economy to Contract”

  by Mike Gray At The Freeman, William Anderson tells us about a whole new economic s...

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CBS’s ‘$#*! My Dad Says’ Nicely Transcends Gimmick Origin

Sure, the new CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says is based on a very thin gimmick: a snarky but fu...

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Books That You Might Find of Interest

by Mike Gray Poor Lenin’s Almanac: Perverse Leftist Proverbs for Modern Life Mark Muss...

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Henry Hazlitt on the Gold Standard

by Mike Gray The supply of gold is governed by nature; it is not, like the supply of paper...

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Response to National Drift Requires Understanding of Fundamental Principles

There are some false dichotomies in Thomas Friedman's New York Times column denigrating wh...

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Tony Curtis Defined the Limits of the Hustler Persona

The late Tony Curtis, who died yesterday at the age of 85, was once one of the most popula...

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NBC’s ‘Undercovers’ Is Appealingly True to Formula

As the fourth-rated broadcast TV network, NBC has made plenty of mistakes during the past ...

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“By Their Creator” — Why Does the President Have a Problem with That?

by Mike Gray Terrence P. Jeffrey, at CNSNews.com, notes that our president stumbles with ...

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‘Bureaucracy’ — A Classic Book That’s As Timely As Ever

by Mike Gray The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a...

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Nothing ‘Retro’ About ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Reboot

Although CBS'-TVs new cop show Hawaii Five-0 is a reboot of a highly popular 1970s CBS ser...

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Dealing with the “Cosmic Authority Problem”

by Mike Gray Materialist philosophy is neither new nor scientific, but one of the most anc...