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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Bad Immigration Policy Is Leading to the Gradual Destruction of America’s Culture

May 30, 2011
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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Bad Immigration Policy Is Leading to the Gradual Destruction of America’s Culture

By Mike Gray The combination of intended and unintended consequences, and legal and illegal immigration, is transforming American society. — Mark R. Levin American laborers stand to be the biggest losers when “immigration” is allowed to proceed unchecked, but in a bitterly ironic development labor unions stand to win big from it. Mark Levin explains: The unions view the large influx of both legal and illegal immigrants as a new source of political clout that favors their allies in the Democratic Party and potentially adds membership…

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

September 26, 2010
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute comes to Seattle, WA on Saturday, October 16th for a half-day conference on “Moral Imagination in Literature: The stories we tell, the people we become.” Visit the Pacific Northwest for a weekend, spend a Saturday afternoon in stimulating conversation, then enjoy an excursion to the oldest continually operating farmers market in the United States, Pike Place Market.

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Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended

July 12, 2010
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Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended

Author Harper Lee and her groundbreaking novel To Kill a Mockingbird have received a well-deserved defense in the Washington Post, exactly fifty years after the book’s publication. The fact that such a thing is necessary indicates the truly terrifying amount of stupidity and arrogance that stain the contemporary mainstream media. Columnist Kathleen Parker’s defense of Lee and her only novel is rather weak, but at least she attempts it, rebuking the spectacularly overrated writer Malcolm Gladwell’s meandering article in the New Yorker on the subject.…

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‘The Second Day of July, 1776, Will Be the Most Memorable Epocha in the History of America…’

July 2, 2010
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‘The Second Day of July, 1776, Will Be the Most Memorable Epocha in the History of America…’

Independence Day may be my favorite holiday. Sure, I love Christmas and Thanksgiving, and Easter and St. Patrick’s Day are not without their charms. But America’s birthday is a holiday like no other. Over the past eight years or so, with two exceptions, we’ve helped put on a large block party, complete with games, food, strong drink, music, patriotic readings, and, when the sun goes down, plenty of fireworks. I love the fellowship. I’m dismayed at the ignorance of some of my fellow Americans, of…

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James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck

March 25, 2010
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James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck

“King of the World” director James Cameron is holding a grudge over Glenn Beck making a joke about him when Beck had a show over on the unwatched CNN Headline News network three years ago. Beck said the man who foisted “Titanic” on the world — especially Celine Dion’s awful “My Heart Will Go On” upon the culture — must be at least in the running for election to become the Anti-Christ. It was a joke. Did I mention it was three years ago? But, apparently,…

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The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

March 22, 2010
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The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

It’s almost getting tiresome to me, this picking on Peggy Noonan for her naivete concerning Barack Obama. Almost. She’s coming around to the truth of Obama’s hard leftism and the phoniness of his HopeyChange campaign rhetoric slower than my quest to lose that extra 20 pounds I’ve been carrying around for five years. At some point, I expect Noonan’s BS meter to finally redline, and read a column in the vital Wall Street Journal in which her great talents are righteously unleashed on Obama. But…

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Forget the White House: Imagine the Sarah Palin Show

February 25, 2010
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Forget the White House: Imagine the Sarah Palin Show

As time goes by, more folks on the Right realize that there’s more to America than what happens inside the DC Beltway. Furthermore, they are beginning to discover that what happens in New York and Hollywood drives what happens in Washington DC. Fox News Channel political commentator and columnist Andrea Tantaros is one of these folks, and she has a radical idea for the person many would consider conservatism’s brightest star: Forget politics and go into daytime television. Sarah Palin, Tantaros argues, is too great…

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Surprise: Daily Kos Poll Identifies Republicans As Extremists

February 21, 2010
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Surprise: Daily Kos Poll Identifies Republicans As Extremists

Before I comment on the results of the poll, one question: Where are the polls that show the extremism of self-identified Democrats, liberals, or progressives? Why is it that the word “extreme” applies onlyto views on the right? Certainly we can chalk this up to media bias, and all the rest of the predictable conservative complaints, but part of it is that conservatives generally never refer to liberal/left policies and views as “extreme.” Maybe that’s a tribute to the fundamental decency of most conservatives and…

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The Mount Vernon Statement – Well-intentioned but Short-Sighted

February 19, 2010
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The Mount Vernon Statement – Well-intentioned but Short-Sighted

Conservative leaders got together and decided, “What we need to do now is pretty much what we’ve been doing since 1955.” These leaders seem to have declared that what happens in Washington DC will be their raison d’être for another 60+ years. The US Marines have an unofficial motto when facing dire circumstances, “Improvise, adapt and overcome.” If only the conservative movement would take this saying to heart. The Mount Vernon Statement is a document by conservative leaders to “recommit [themselves] to the ideas of…

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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

January 26, 2010
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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 — and it should be an interesting address in the wake of the Massachusetts Miracle and the collapse of ObamaCare in Congress. Certainly, the speech-writers have been working overtime this week to make the proper (and, hopefully, humblng) adjustments. The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank peopled by scholars of a libertarian bent, is going to be live-blogging Obama’s speech. It will be using the “Cover it Live” program, which means…

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‘Up’ Success Could Bode Well for Positive Change in Hollywood

June 4, 2009
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‘Up’ Success Could Bode Well for Positive Change in Hollywood

      The unexpectedly big box-office and critical success of the animated film Up tells a lot about how Hollywood works–and doesn’t work.

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Studios, Filmmakers to Blame for Hollywood Dramas’ Lack of Box Office Appeal

April 27, 2009
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Studios, Filmmakers to Blame for Hollywood Dramas’ Lack of Box Office Appeal

        Escape was the theme once again for U.S. moviegoers last weekend-but don’t blame the audiences.  

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‘Watchmen’ Graphic Novel Is As Good As They Say

March 5, 2009
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‘Watchmen’ Graphic Novel Is As Good As They Say

                The Watchmen graphic novel is indeed a fine work of narrative and visual art, writes TAC correspondent Hunter Baker.  

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Is It Time to Reject the Label of ‘Conservatives’?

February 11, 2009
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Is It Time to Reject the Label of ‘Conservatives’?

              The term ‘conservative’ has become confusing to the public and sends a false message about what the modern right should be about, writes Mike D’Virgilio.  

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It’s the Culture, Stupid!

October 30, 2008
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It’s the Culture, Stupid!

        Facing a serious beating in the upcoming elections, the American right is riven by recriminations and despair. But its poor performance is not because the movement’s basic ideas are unappealing. It’s because the right has ceded to the left the place where ideas are actually formed: the culture.    And that can change, Mike d’Virgilio writes.    

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