Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

May 21, 2013
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Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona Handyside

I have written previously in this publication about the French film director Eric Rohmer (http://stkarnick.com/?p=4963) .  Rohmer (1920-2010) was a widely and deeply cultured man and his  marvellous cinema is one of the most beautiful and intelligent.  Its focus is on character more than plot and relies heavily on dialogue while at the same time is sensitive to the beauty of the world. Before becoming a full-time filmmaker, he was a critic and editor of Cahiers du Cinema, one of the most influential journals of…

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Honest Value in John Sandford’s ‘Stolen Prey’

May 20, 2013
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Honest Value in John Sandford’s ‘Stolen Prey’

 [Weather] said, “Look, whatever – I’m not talking about all of that. I’m talking about our daughter.” “I know you are,” Lucas said. “And like I said, we’re all a little crazy, but basically, and overall, Letty’s okay.” “How do you know?” “Because she’s just like me,” Lucas said. “And I’m okay, mostly.” I’ve praised John Sandford’s “Prey” novels, starring Minnesota state cop Lucas Davenport, more than once in this blog. It’s a pleasure to be able to report that Stolen Prey, the latest volume in paperback, maintains the high quality of a series that a lesser writer might have…

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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 don’t know whether or not that would be an appropriate question to ask an applicant?”…

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Ralph Peters Raises ‘Cain at Gettysburg’ to Great Heights

May 15, 2013
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Ralph Peters Raises ‘Cain at Gettysburg’ to Great Heights

Lee would have to be mad to send his divisions across that field. And Hunt was sure he would do it. When I finished reading Ralph Peters’ Civil War novel Cain at Gettysburg, I almost checked my clothing for blood spatter. Up until now Michael Shaara’s epic novel The Killer Angels has been considered not only the best Gettysburg novel ever written, but the best possible Gettysburg novel. It’s been a long time since I read Shaara’s book, but I’m fairly certain that, for all its virtues, it didn’t have anything like the impact on me that Cain at Gettysburg…

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Happy Parent 1 Day!

May 14, 2013
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Happy Parent 1 Day!

On Sunday when I woke up from my slumber I turned to my wife and said, Happy Parent 1 Day! She laughed. Little did I know how prescient I was. Sometime later that day I come upon an article that explained, surprise, surprise, that the Department of Education is going to Eliminate 'Mother,' 'Father' from federal student aid forms! Just as I predicted, out with father and mother, in with Parent 1 and Parent 2! Why only two, I’m not sure, but we’ll eventually “progress” beyond such an archaic distinction. What I wonder it who determines who 1 or 2…

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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 new TV series based on the Saint character is in production, which may have contributed…

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The New Scarlet Letter

May 10, 2013
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The New Scarlet Letter

What do Tim Tebow, the US Military, Chris Broussard and Chick-fil-A have in common? They are all examples in 2013 America that our cultural elites HATE Christians, and will do anything they can to silence, delegitimize, stigmatize, and demonize them. Western cultural elites have always hated Christians, but the boomer venerated 1960s started a process of culture forming professions being taken over, so to speak, by secular progressives. By now media, entertainment and education/academia are totally dominated by these people who literally despise conservative Christianity. Yes I know, those are some serious blanket statements, and I know that not every…

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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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Secular Liberal Sees ‘Consensus’ on Redefining Marriage as Terrifying

May 9, 2013
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Secular Liberal Sees ‘Consensus’ on Redefining Marriage as Terrifying

Most Americans who have an opinion about the current obsession to redefine marriage tend to think the only people standing athwart history yelling “STOP!” are conservative religious folk. They would be wrong. Certainly a large majority of people who embrace traditional morality based on revealed religion do not accept the notion that marriage is a malleable social construct that can be willy-nilly defined any which way we choose. But redefining marriage is such a bad idea, and as importantly is being done in such a tyrannical way that some secular people are beginning to sound the alarm.

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A Tale of Tomorrow

May 8, 2013
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A Tale of Tomorrow

An Arthur C. Clarke story adapted for television: "It was intoxicating..."

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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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Cultural Caricature of Christians as Hypocrites is Affirmed in Flawed Study

May 7, 2013
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Cultural Caricature of Christians as Hypocrites is Affirmed in Flawed Study

I’m not a big fan of the Barna Group, a “research organization focused on the intersection of faith and culture.” I normally like such intersections, because our secular cultural elites like to keep them clear and they get annoyed when people of faith, especially conservative Christians have the temerity to think their views actually deserve a fair hearing in the public square. Why I particularly don’t like Barna is because their polling is unnuanced and inaccurate, specifically regarding how people in America perceive conservative Christians.

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“The Fifth Witness” Is First Rate

April 29, 2013
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“The Fifth Witness” Is First Rate

“I just don’t know why you can’t have it both ways. You know, give unbridled effort in your defense but be conscientious about your work. Try for the best outcome.” “The best outcome for who? Your client? Society? Or for yourself? Your responsibility is to your client and the law, Bullocks. That’s it.” I gave her a long stare before continuing. “Don’t go growing a conscience on me,” I said. “I’ve been down that road. It doesn’t lead you to anything good.” I’ve said before that, although I’m a big fan of Michael Connelly, I’m not a big Mickey Haller…

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Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep

April 28, 2013
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Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep is a  fictional drama about former members of the violent radical leftist group, the Weather Underground (that actually existed).  A number of them went underground after a bank robbery  in Michigan committed by  some of its members in which a bank guard was killed.  The film opens thirty years afterwards when one of the perpetrators decides to give herself up.  The film follows the ramifications of this on other former members, of whom Robert Redford (who directed the film) is the main character, a respectable attorney, a widower and devoted father of an eleven year old…

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You’ve Got to Be Kidding!!! Bill Maher Defends Christianity!!!

April 21, 2013
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On my morning visit to Real Clear Politics I see a link that makes me think I must have woken up in an alternate reality, where Spock has a beard and Bill Maher is a defender of the Christian religion. That link proves to be real, ‘Maher To Defender Of Islam: Equating Christianity And Islam “Liberal Bullshit.”‘ Bill Maher, atheist extraordinaire, who has said that religion, most especially Christianity, is a mental disease, actually has a moment of clarity and rebukes a liberal agenda pusher trying to equate Islam and Christianity.

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