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“One of the Most Intrusive Technologies Conceivable”

by Mike Gray Andy Greenberg, at Forbes.com, recently reported on "scanner vans" that "all...

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Where Being Funny Can Get You Imprisoned—Or Worse

by Mike Gray Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was...

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‘The Death of the Hat’

I was struck by the men in the photo above, gazing upon Cary Grant and Constance Bennett ...

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Moral Imagination in Literature: The Stories We Tell, The People We Become

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute comes to Seattle, WA on Saturday, October 16th for a...

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Catholic Medical Association Annual Educational Conference

The Catholic Medical Association is holding its Annual Educational Conference, Restoring t...

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A Prose and Poetry Cornucopia

A plethora of links to stories, excerpts, commentary, criticism, news and knick-knacks tha...

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Hayek’s Critique of Marxist Utopian Socialism

By Mike Gray On WND, Ellis Washington continues his cruise through Benjamin Wiker's 10 Bo...

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‘Obamacare’ Assumptions Expose Widely Differing Views of Constitution, Role of Government

By Mike Gray Obamacare is a disaster. Rather than liberate the American health care syst...

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Is the Deck Stacked Against Women in the Workplace?

by Mike Gray But if inequality of pay is a result of human nature and a free society, a gr...

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Criminal Protagonists Criticized

The contemporary glut of stories in which a criminal is the protagonist is far from an una...

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“Innocence by Association” — Public Schools, Propaganda, and the Gay Push for Respectability

by Mike Gray School administrators often claim that expressions of disapproval of homosexu...

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Hollywood Bought Your Novel—Now What?

You've spent hour after hour, day after day, week after week fashioning your contribution ...

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Chez Panisse or Red Lobster? The Fault Line Between Middle America and the Academic Elites

by Mike Gray “Do you know what the favorite restaurant of the white working class is?”...

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‘Better With You’ Concept Outdoes Execution

As ABC attempts to solidify its popular block of Wednesday sitcoms, the new show Better wi...

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FOX’s ‘Lone Star’ Fails to Inspire Confidence

The FOX Network has had success in recent years with dramatic programs that feature a bit ...

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Ten Things I Learned from Watching ‘Mission: Impossible’ Reruns

By Robert Champ When I was a kid back in the 1960s, I used to love watching Mission: Imp...

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Radio Host’s On-Air Joke Creates Furor

The lack of sense of humor award for the week goes to numerous listeners to Matt Patrick's...

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NBC’s ‘The Event’ Sets Record: Jumps the Shark in First Episode

NBC's The Event has probably been one of the most widely anticipated new series of the cur...

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Affleck’s ‘Town’ Does Well in Opening Weekend

As Hollywood has known since the 1960s, heist films, also known as caper movies, are gener...

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TNT’s ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ Struggles to Overcome Genre Cliches

TNT's latest new series, the crime drama Rizzoli and Isles, finished its season a few days...

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On the “Liberal Novel”

by Mike Gray He was never going to stop talking. The act of intercourse had been a mere ca...

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About America’s “Ruling Class” and the Prospect of a Constitutional Revolution

by Mike Gray Never has there been so little diversity within America's upper crust. Always...

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‘Virtual Morality’ by Christopher Hill, An Academic Writes What He Knows

Virtual Morality By Christopher Hill Pushcart Press, 220 Pages, $24.50 A review by Mary...

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Hilaire Belloc and The Servile State

by Mike Gray On WND, Ellis Washington highlights an English liberal with conservative inc...

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Is “Who Created God?” an Illogical Question?

by Mike Gray Don Batten at CMI says yes: This question [of who created God] is a major ob...

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Does Morality Have Any Bearing on “Immigration” Policy — And What About the Law?

by Mike Gray Justice is no longer blind in America — it is politically correct imbroglio...

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Have Living Dinosaurs Been Sighted in New Guinea?

by Mike Gray . . . or are the natives just having some fun with the white man? Decide for...

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Steampunk, Anyone?

by Mike Gray I'm not "into it," as they (used to) say, so I'm not recommending any of th...

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Is Glenn Beck Right About the Progressives?

by Mike Gray . . . at a time when there is a serious debate about first principles—and w...

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Nationalized Medicine Hits the Silver Screen

John Boot (a pseudonym) recommends a new film, Never Let Me Go, characterizing it as "Huxl...

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Into the Singularity — Stephen Hawking’s Uncaused First Cause

by Mike Gray In spite of what the atheist press is telling you, it’s looking bad for ath...

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A Hundred and Thirty Trillion Dollars Might Not Be Enough

by Mike Gray If you think Washington is bad about debt management, says Kevin Williamson ...

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“Beyond Political Solutions” — The United Nations Ponders a Cure for Climate Change

by Mike Gray The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, ...