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Heavy-Handed IRS Tactics Exemplify Progressive Mindset

May 17, 2013
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Heavy-Handed IRS Tactics Exemplify Progressive Mindset

Here’s a very revealing item for those interested in understanding the progressive worldview: the Internal Revenue Service has been accused, in addition to its many malfeasances already revealed, of asking people what they pray about. When queried about this in testimony before a congressional committee today, acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller could not bring himself to condemn such an outrageous intrusion into innocent people’s innermost thoughts: “It pains me to say I can’t speak to that one either. But that’s an —” Miller said. “You…

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Saint, Mrs. Bradley Return to Print, and Saint Will Be Back on TV

May 13, 2013
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Saint, Mrs. Bradley Return to Print, and Saint Will Be Back on TV

The republishing of classic genre fiction (which I know is a contradiction in terms for some people) continues apace as e-publishing and print-on-demand reduce publication costs. The latest good news: Amazon Publishing is reprinting most of the Saint novels by Leslie Charteris and the Mrs. Bradley books of Gladys Mitchell. Both series began in the late 1920s and lasted for several decades. Both still have very enthusiastic followings (and somewhat separate ones) among current-day aficionados of mystery and suspense fiction. Exemplifying this continuing interest, a…

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McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming

May 9, 2013
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McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming

Sen. John McCain wants to "let" cable customers buy channels individually, by forcing cable companies to offer them the option. Rest assured that the mandate, if implemented, will have the opposite of its intended effect and end up raising prices and reducing access to TV programming.

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NY Times Review Perverts a Baroque Opera

May 8, 2013
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NY Times Review Perverts a Baroque Opera

A review in yesterday's New York Times exemplifies an error I've found to be quite common these days: the idea that strong affection for a member the same sex is equivalent to homosexuality. This line of thinking degrades elevated feelings into a category of the merely bestial: the sex drive (not that there's anything wrong with that). . . .

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Walker’s ‘Hailstone Mountain’

April 15, 2013
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Walker’s ‘Hailstone Mountain’

Lars Walker, a regular contributor to this publication, just happens to be a highly talented and widely admired historical novelist. If you haven't read any of his books, you can remedy that quite easily tomorrow (April 16), for amazon.com is making his Hailstone Mountain Kindle edition free for one day. . . .

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Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

April 8, 2013
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Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

We in the United States should take good note of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's accomplishments. Thatcher's life's work is of immense relevance because today's United States has more in common with the Great Britain that Thatcher took over in 1979 than with the United States of 1981 when Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency after the inept Jimmy Carter administration. . . .

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Portrait of a Capitalist: PBS Show ‘Mr. Selfridge’

March 31, 2013
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Portrait of a Capitalist: PBS Show ‘Mr. Selfridge’

The new series on 'Masterpiece Classic' on PBS, 'Mr. Selfridge," is a balanced, sympathetic, and wise portrait of a capitalist, a welcome example of thoughtfulness in these politicized and ignorant times. . . .

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AETV’s ‘Bates Motel’ Worth Checking Into

March 27, 2013
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AETV’s ‘Bates Motel’ Worth Checking Into

A&E's new drama series, 'Bates Motel,' is another entry in the already overpopulated serial-killer genre, but it tries to do a bit more than just invent new ways to show gore and cruelty. In fact, its attempts to place in context the protagonist's eventual murderous behavior suggest an interesting social criticism. . . .

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Netflix Spending Generously on New TV Series; Amazon and Xbox to Follow

March 11, 2013
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Netflix Spending Generously on New TV Series; Amazon and Xbox to Follow

As reported here a few weeks ago, Netflix is making a strong commitment to original programming, as an online challenge to cable giants such as HBO and Showtime. The money Netflix is spending is even more than many analysts expected, according to Variety: CAA TV literary agent Peter Micelli was forthcoming about how Netflix — and other digital media upstarts — do business with Hollywood during a panel discussion Friday at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium. He went so far as to specify how much was spent…

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CW’s ‘Cult’ Presents Interesting Idea, but Does It Work?

March 8, 2013
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CW’s ‘Cult’ Presents Interesting Idea, but Does It Work?

The story line of the new CW show 'Cult' is reasonably complex. The protagonist, a newspaper reporter named Jeff Sefton, is searching for his troubled brother, Nate, who disappears in the first episode, leaving behind a blood-soaked chair in his apartment. The sister of the main character on the show-within-the-show (SWAS), named Meadow, is also missing, in the narrative of the SWAS—and this is where things really get weird and possibly headache-inducing for the unwary: numerous phone calls and texts from the ostensibly fictional Meadow…

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History Channel’s ‘The Bible: Beginnings’ a Dramatic Presentation of Bible Stories

March 6, 2013
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History Channel’s ‘The Bible: Beginnings’ a Dramatic Presentation of Bible Stories

The new five-part miniseries 'The Bible,' the first episode of which premiered on The History Channel Sunday night and will repeat tonight at 9:00 EST, is clearly a budget-conscious production but well worth watching. . . .

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AP Redefines ‘Husband,’ ‘Wife’

February 22, 2013
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AP Redefines ‘Husband,’ ‘Wife’

An Associated Press internal memo that suggested the company's widely used journalism style guide would not recommend the use of the terms husband and wife to describe same-sex couples raised much controversy in the past week. As was to be expected, AP backed down under the withering fire from homosexual activist groups . . .

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Press Bias Evident in New Jersey Beheading Blackout

February 21, 2013
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Press Bias Evident in New Jersey Beheading Blackout

Let's suppose that a Christian murdered two Muslims in, say, Jersey City, New Jersey. Let's further suppose that he cut off the heads and hands of his victims and buried them in a town southwest of Philadelphia. The press reaction? Based on past treatment of such atrocities as the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, we know that the media would instantly connect the killings to the alleged murderer's religious beliefs, regardless of the lack of any evidence that there was any causal relationship at all…

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Group Sues for Free-Speech Rights

February 20, 2013
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Group Sues for Free-Speech Rights

Christian demonstrators who were reportedly attacked and in fact stoned by Muslims last summer were banned from exercising their free-speech rights, by the local police. Nothing was done to prosecute their attackers. This happened not in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan but in the United States. . . .

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SNL’s ‘Djesus’ Spoof Raises Laughs, Hackles

February 19, 2013
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SNL’s ‘Djesus’ Spoof Raises Laughs, Hackles

Last weekend's 'Saturday Night Live' featured a parody movie trailer for 'Djesus Uncrossed,' an imaginary film in the Quentin Tarantino vein, in which Jesus Christ and his apostles seek revenge on the Romans after Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. It's as gory and vulgar as Tarantino's films, and rather funny. The video also does a good job of showing how far the teachings of Christ are from natural human impulses, and of course it illustrates how absurd and perverted Tarantino's film style is. Naturally the video…

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