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by Mike Gray The National Center for Policy Analysis alerts us to a Washington Times report entitled "Europe's [...]
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Here's everything you could possibly need to know about this year's Emmy Awards. (more...)
"I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism," says New York Press film critic Armond White. Benjamin Kerstein agrees enthusiastically at Pajamas Media. I say it all goes back to New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, but her disciple Ebert certainly popularized her philistine leftist approach to film criticism, while lacking her knowledge of cinema and her occasional perceptiveness.What's the greatest Beatles song of all? Aleks Karnick says it's "Hey Jude," at Family scholars.org. (more...)
Fourteen-year-old celebrity manqué Kendall Jenner has posed in a skimpy bikini for a racy photo shoot. Story here. Commentary here. (more...)
National Review celebrates author Ray Bradbury on his 90th birthday. Essay here.
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‘CSI’ Meets the Wings of Man: Classic Movie Review
by Mike Gray Once upon a brief time, one of the hottest authors in Hollywood was Ernest K. Gann (1910-91). He wrote a lot about aviation topics, and since I'm an airplane fan I must've read all of his books and seen all the films adapted from them. Here's a list of his Hollywood efforts with flying as a background (from IMDb): - Blaze of Noon (1947) - Island in the Sky (1953) - The High and the Mighty (1954) - Fate Is the Hunter (1964) - The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1981) - The Aviator (1985) One of my favorite Gann films is Fate Is [Watch video/read story]
Omniculture
Six Worldviews That Rule the Universe »
by Mike Gray Author and minister David Noebel offers a [...]
Fourteen-year-old celebrity manqué Kendall Jenner has [...]
A Hopeful Look at America’s Future from Victor Davis »
by Mike Gray In an article on Pajamas Media, Victor Davis [...]
Worldviews
Stephen Hawking Says God Is Unnecessary »
by Mike Gray Alan Boyle writes on MSNBC's Cosmic Log that the widely-circulated quote from cosmologist Stephen Hawking needs some amplification: British physicist Stephen Hawking's latest book is already making waves with his observation that science can explain the universe's origin without [Read More]
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Politics
Watching the Watchers: The Desirability of Video Evidence and the Official Move to Limit It
by Mike Gray Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchers?) — Attributed to Juvenal, Satire 6 (writing in an entirely different context) Phil Elmore, on WorldNet Daily, reports on a disturbing trend, a move on the part of authorities to outlaw videographers when the latter catch the former abusing their Constitutional powers: Just [...]
Let There Not Be Light (At Least of a Certain Kind)
by Mike Gray The National Center for Policy Analysis alerts us to a Washington Times report entitled "Europe's light-bulb socialism": Beginning today, it is a crime to manufacture or ship for sale a traditional 75-watt incandescent light bulb in the European Union (EU), says the Washington Times. The United States is scheduled to begin a [...]
TV Network “Russia Today” Nominated for iEmmy on Behalf of the President — Obama, Not Putin
by Mike Gray Kim Zigfeld at Pajamas Media connects the dots: But now we’ll have to rethink the true meaning of tragedy. After all, you can’t blame a fox for stealing chickens. You have to blame the farmer who is too lazy to bother protecting the chickens properly. If Barack Obama had not been so sickeningly deferential towards [...]
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