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Continuing to read Garret's The People's Pottage , and found this gem of how Americans used to think, used to be. [Americans] were d...

The People's Pottage is a book by Garet Garrett, about what the New Deal meant for America. I'm just starting to read it, and if th...

The lovely, wonderful actress, Irene Dunne, with a magnificent performance of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes , followed by Fred Astaire and Ginger ...

Until now I haven't written about the sudden, precipitous descent into socialism that America is undergoing. But with every failed attem...

Episode Seven of Dae Jang Geum addresses the value of purpose in man's life, and the awful state of men without purpose. Having decided ...

Men of Harlech is a traditional Welsh song, which has many different versions of its lyrics. It tells the story of a Saxon invasion of Wales...

Some memorable lines or short scenes from movies I like. John Russel: "If it's all right with you, lady, I just didn't feel lik...

What can I say about Harriet Wheeler, singer/songwriter of The Sundays . Beautiful girl, beautiful voice, beautiful sense of life. Here is a...

One good thing the worldwide economic slowdown is achieving is the reduction in the price of oil - and the consequent trouble this causes fo...

(Russian RT-2PM Topol ICBM, on display at the 2008 Victory Parade in Moscow) The Bush Administration insists that the missile defense syste...

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wi...

Europe can always be counted on to provide leadership - on the road to the nanny state. In an article ( http://tinyurl.com/5ugdge ) today, ...

This is a still frame, or a publicity photo, from the movie Laura , starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price, among others. I love this photo...

I recently purchased the booklet called Glossary of Objectivist Definitions , which includes definitions by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, and H...

The movie reviews will contain spoilers. Last night I watched Roman Holiday , starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. It was Audrey Hepbur...

My favorite duet from my favorite opera. Sull'aria , from The Marriage of Figaro , by Mozart. The ladies are Kiri Te Kanawa and Ileana...

I confess I am unable to watch the Democratic National Convention. I am not a glutton for punishment. I know exactly the kind of anti-Ameri...

Some remnants of Romanticism may still be found in the popular media---but in such a mangled, disfigured form that they achieve the opposite...

Till There Was You There were bells on the hill But I never heard them ringing, No, I never heard them at all Till there was you. There were...

Merry Christmas in Love Lyrics by Marva Jan Marrow, music by Tony Renis, performed by Rene Olstead Things that tremble tingle like a bubble ...

Over the Fourth of July weekend the Sci Fi channel was having one of their periodic Twilight Zone marathons. One of the episodes I watched ...

The Stimulus: In a post ( http://www.icahnreport.com/report/2008/06/corporate-democ.html ) to his blog on June 18, Carl Icahn wrote about ...

In the late '60s and early '70s, America was embroiled in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Quoting Ayn Rand's paean to Apollo ...

Our dependence on Middle East oil is a common object of ridicule. The critics of this dependence are generally the same people who caused th...

Just a few pictures of the current group of Red Wings on the ice, plus one of Vlad for auld lang syne . . . Zetterberg: Filppula: Datsyuk:...

For the fourth time in the last eleven years, the Detroit Red Wings have won the Stanley Cup, awarded to the champion of the National Hockey...

In her movie diary for 1926, Ayn Rand gave the Cecil B. De Mille silent movie The Volga Boatman a rating of 5+, the highest rating on her s...

Silent movies seem to be an acquired taste. I usually have a hard time watching them. They seem hopelessly archaic compared to modern movies...

This review contains some spoilers. I recently finished watching a wonderful Korean television drama called Dae Jang Geum , aka Jewel in the...

Palestinian terrorists have been launching rockets into Israel on a daily basis for months. Occasionally, Israel responds by air assaults on...

Barack Obama has said that if he is elected President, he will pay a visit to Cuba to talk with its current ruler, Raul Castro. Castro, of c...

The Founding Fathers bequeathed to us a glorious Republic based on the inalienable rights of Man. We squandered that bequest long ago. How d...