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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

At a time when conservatives regularly promote limited government and condemn further encr...

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TCM Thrillers (March 15 – 21)

This week: * Monday—Stone walls do not a prison make. * Tuesday—One should never overl...

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From 30k Ft. New Left Radicals Look Like Tea Party Activists

If more conservatives and classical liberals worked at the New York Times, would conservat...

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NBC’s ‘Community’ an Exemplary Sitcom

In addition to its well-publicized, disastr0us experiment with moving Jay Leno to primetim...

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The Golden Age of Rock n’ Roll

I’ve remarked to my children several thousand times how great the rock n’ roll era fro...

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Why Are Conservatives Rare on College Faculties? Blame It on the Conservative Movement

There has been a bit of internet discussion on this question the last week or so, and a go...

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Climate Scientist to Colleagues: Don’t Dismiss Climategate

The 13th Annual Energy & Environment Conference, held in Phoenix Feb. 1-3, isn’t th...

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The Narrative that Drives American Politics Is Sustained by Culture

In an almost excellent article at the Weekly Standard, Jeff Bergner tells us that the only...

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Satirical Mysteries from James Powell

A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Ganelon or Another by James Powell Crippen & Land...

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Who’s to Blame for Dearth of Conservative and Libertarian Professors?

That is a very good question asked by Daniel B. Klein at Minding the Campus. Two researche...

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Sci-Fi Classic: ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’

David Lindsay's 1920s novel A Voyage to Arcturus is a great work of philosophical fiction,...

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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

President Obama will be delivering his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night...

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Naomi Wolf: Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw is an Icon of the Decade

I never watched an episode of Sex and the City. But it’s not difficult to get the gist o...

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Victory for Freedom of Conscience as University of Minnesota Backs Away from Ideological Screening for Ed Students

You may remember a recent piece about political correctness on steroids at the University ...

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TCM Thrillers (January 4 – 10)

  This week: * Monday—William Holden finds it tough playing a violin with boxing glove...

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TCM Thrillers (December 28 – January 3)

This week: * Monday—A silent Sherlock battles a silent Moriarty, silently. * Tuesday�...

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TCM Thrillers (December 21 – 27)

This week: * Tuesday—Barbara Stanwyck can't heal herself. * Wednesday and Thursday—B...

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Benjamin Wiker Explores Darwin Myth

The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin (2009) by Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D. Regne...

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TCM Thrillers (December 14 – 20)

Out of the Past (1947) This week: * Monday—Jack Palance acts suspiciously—no kid...

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Harlequin Rewrites History

You'd think that when you fork over your hard-earned money for a book you'd be getting t...

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The Totalitarian Mindset and Global Warming

Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal argues that “climate change” enthusiasts ar...

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Update on Minnesota PC Teacher Training Curriculum

A previous post, “Mind-Boggling Mind Control in Minnesota” revealed just how f...

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The Siren Song of Statism

   It's definitely worth your time to listen to all five parts of Peter Rob...

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An Asinine Defense of the Burkha, from a Liberal

  Over at Infinite Monkeys blog, where I cross-posted my quick-hitting humorous ...

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The Manhattan Declaration

Chuck Colson and a dozen evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox leaders last week announced a...

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Mind-Boggling Mind Control in Minnesota

According to a report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, those that are licensed to teach in...

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Comment of the Week: ‘The Prisoner’ Demystified

There were several very interesting exchanges in our comments sections this past week, inc...

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Is American Cultural Influence Declining?

Despite a decade of America being dumped on from every corner of the world, and with the c...

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AP Becoming a Parody of CNN

     In an ideologically monolithic media environment, it’s...

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Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer

  Dorothy Rabinowitz at the Wall Street Journal points out something that was ob...

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The Power of Culture In the March of The Left

The left’s totalitarian statist agenda didn’t fall with the Berlin Wall. (mo...

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Novel Depicts Triumph of Socialist-Hedonist State

   Washington, DC-based speechwriter, journalist, and fiction writer Michae...

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Current Election Could Herald Rejection of Elitists of Both Parties

   Off-year elections are usually not particularly interesting, but in the ...