What’s in a Cliché?
Article Author(s): Stephen Cox People who live in white houses shouldn’t throw words. Or something like that.For a long time this column has been harping on the idea, or fact, that President Obama is...
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Article Author(s): Gary Jason The shocking story of government seizures of assets.Well, you can knock me over with a spotted owl feather!Eric Holder — yes, the same leftist hack who has turned the US...
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Article Author(s): Jo Ann Skousen Films you may like. You heard it here first.With 150 feature films, 106 shorts, dozens of panels and live presentations, nine days, a dozen theaters, thousands of...
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Article Author(s): Lori Heine There is no such thing as a collective person.In our media-saturated culture, we tend to see the people in the news as embodiments of grand sociopolitical realities.Thus,...
View ArticleIs Passably Principled Progressivism Possible?
Article Author(s): Lori Heine There may be a logic that exercises the intellect, rather than strangling it.Try reading the title of this essay aloud. It sounds a lot like “Peter Piper picked a peck of...
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Article Author(s): Robert Watts Lamon Costs of the War on Drugs.In Honduras, a country whose murder rate is 18 times that of the United States, citizens kill one another with impunity. In El Salvador,...
View ArticleFrom Compton to Congress
Article Author(s): Sean Malone Three unlikely musicians make a case for free speech.There are very few movies I would describe as explicitly “libertarian," but as unlikely as it may seem, F. Gary...
View ArticleNone Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Article Author(s): Stephen Cox Come with me; it’s time for your Rorschach test.Looking back over the linguistic events of 2015, I wondered whether this column should offer an award for the Most...
View ArticleTotal Regime, Total Propaganda
Article Author(s): Gary Jason Every object had its use.Choozoo: We went up and down that pile of dirt for four days. Fixed bayonets, hand to hand. Fought ‘em something fierce. They gave back as good...
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Article Author(s): Wayland Hunter Even if you believe it, you know it would be too silly to say.People make up their ideas of the world by listening to what other people say — in a speech, on a...
View ArticleThere Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Reverse Mortgage
Article Author(s): Jo Ann Skousen But it can make a really good movie.Hell or High Water is a classic film about down-on-their-luck bank robbers and the gruff-but-tenderhearted sheriff who doggedly...
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Article Author(s): Robert H. Miller It doesn’t have to be like Mr. Rogers’.The first time we saw Connie she was packing a snub-nosed .38. It was strapped snugly to her narrow hips, which were wrapped...
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Article Author(s): Wayland Hunter Knock, and the door shall be opened.Libertarians are of two minds about government.To some, the state is a system of entrenched powers and interests unwilling to...
View ArticleThe Right to Be Let Alone
Article Author(s): Bruce Fein Something to remember on Independence Day.It is the best of times for government snooping and surveillance.It is the worst of times for privacy and the Fourth...
View ArticleMaking It Official
Article Author(s): Stephen Cox How to become deceased.My remarks this month are about official abuse of language — a phenomenon so protean that it’s hard to decide where to start grabbing it. I’ll...
View ArticleYou Won’t Like This Video
Article Author(s): Wayland Hunter But you should watch it anyway.On December 9, National Review ran a story, written by David French, about the police killing of a man in a hallway of the La Quinta...
View ArticleCaesars Non-August
Article Author(s): Stephen Cox How long will you abuse our patience?I should have known. The first time I saw Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on TV, he was wearing four gold stars on each side of...
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Article Author(s): Stephen Cox The firing of Andrew McCabe.The firing of Andrew McCabe, long the number two person at the FBI and during part of 2017 its interim director, rejoiced my heart, which was...
View ArticleCasualties of the Drug War
Article Author(s): Jo Ann Skousen A war without good guys.White Boy Rick is a rough and complex biopic based on the story of Richard Wershe, Jr., the youngest (at 14) undercover drug informant ever to...
View ArticleThree Smart, Suspenseful Movies
Article Author(s): Jo Ann Skousen Looking beyond Halloween scares.The leaves are settling, the goblins are gone, and you have a bowlful of leftover candy that you convinced yourself you would need for...
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