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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Science: What evolutionists, environmentalists, and global warming Chicken Littles hope you never learn about science

by Tom Bethell

In science, dispassionate, objective inquiry reigns supreme, and researchers will readily give up their most cherished views if the evidence proves them wrong -- right? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Science, like virtually everything else these days, has become a highly politicized field in which the Left has worked energetically to present its pet theories and schemes -- all of which just happen to advance their case for the necessity for ever more government control over our lives. But in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, Tom Bethell, who has for several years been making the case for real science as opposed to its politically correct counterfeit in the pages of The American Spectator, sets the record straight about some of the most controversial and politicized issues of our time. (more…)

(added Dec. 20, 2006)

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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderReligion of Peace?: Islam's War Against the World

by Gregory M. Davis

Is the “War on Terror” Based on a False Hope?

In the days following 9/11, George W. Bush assured America and the world that Islam was a “religion of peace” and that the violent followers of Osama Bin Laden had twisted the true Muslim faith. Acting on this belief, President Bush and other Western leaders sent troops to the Middle East in an effort to bring freedom and democracy to the Muslim world.

But what if this “understanding” of Islam is based not on fact, but instead on equal parts wishful thinking and Islamic deceit? It would mean that the entire War on Terror is based on a faulty--and increasingly deadly--premise. (more…)

(added Dec. 07, 2006)

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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderHelp! Mom! The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity

by Katharine DeBrecht and Illustrated by Jim Hummel

Katharine DeBrecht and Jim Hummel, the team that brought you the first two HELP! MOM! books - There are Liberals Under My Bed! and Hollywood's in My Hamper! are back, with their funniest, most outrageous adventure yet. (more…)

(added Dec. 04, 2006)

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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderCulture Warrior:

by Bill O'Reilly

With three straight #1 bestsellers and the highest-rated talk show on cable TV, Bill O'Reilly is one of our nation's most formidable battlers in the culture war - and that's the subject of his latest book, Culture Warrior. In it, this unrelenting fighter for the soul of America marshals all of his celebrated firepower for the defense of traditional values against those who want to transform America into a secular-progressive country. The culture war, O'Reilly explains, differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated - and the stakes are even higher for those who love the values on which our nation is founded. (more…)

(added Nov. 29, 2006)

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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderTriple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him

by Peter Lance

In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California-even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda campaign of terror that culminated in 9/11. As investigative reporter Peter Lance demonstrates in this gripping narrative, senior U.S. law enforcement officials¿including the now-celebrated U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who personally interviewed Mohamed long before he was brought to ground-were powerless to stop him. (more…)

(added Nov. 22, 2006)

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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderMusclehead Revolution: Overturning Liberalism With Commonsense Thinking

by Kevin McCullough

Tired of political deceit, media spin, and academic manipulation? Are you concerned about the direction America is taking with regard to the important issues of our day? Do you want to make your voice heard, but just don't know how?

If so, then “MuscleHead Revolution” is for you. You'll learn effective tactics for taking a stand and fighting back in the war to restore the values and commonsense thinking that made America great. (more…)

(added Nov. 17, 2006)

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Click on Picture for Review and to OrderAmerica Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

by Mark Steyn

It's the end of the world as we know it…

Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.

And liberals will still tell you that “diversity is our strength” - while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the “separation of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.

If you think this can't happen, you haven't been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn - the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world - shows to devastating effect in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics. (more…)

(added Oct. 24, 2006)


Click on Picture for Review and to OrderThe Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism

by Prof. Paul Kengor

In this hagiographic account, political scientist Kengor (God and Ronald Reagan) makes the familiar case (made most recently by John Lewis Gaddis in The Cold War) that Reagan played a decisive role in ending the Cold War. (more…)

(added Oct. 20, 2006)


Click on Picture for Review and to OrderAmerican Mourning: A story of two families

by Catherine Moy and Melanie Morgan

“American Mourning” is the story of two families-the Johnsons and the Sheehans-that lost sons in the war against terror. Their sons were buddies-best friends since they first met at Fort Hood in Texas-but the two families have little else in common. (more…)

(added Oct. 17, 2006)


Click on Picture for Review and to OrderSize Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom (And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness)

by Joel Miller

Every American who doesn't wear PC blinders knows that the size of government places a huge strain on America's pocketbooks. In Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom (And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness), Joel Miller shows how, as government has gotten big and grown past the constraints put upon it by the Founding Fathers, it has become an active foe of the pursuit of happiness and even of the rule of law. He offers conclusive proof that the only way to secure the common good is for government to remain small -- not because government is evil in itself, but because people are created equal and deserve to be treated equally by their government, and Big Government does not and cannot do that. (more…)

(added Sep. 29, 2006)


Click on Picture for Review and to OrderThe Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money

by Timothy P. Carney

The myth is widespread that Big Business and Big Government are rivals - that Big Business wants small government, a “level playing field” and a bare minimum of regulation. Not so, argues Tim Carney in The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money. Carney, a freelance investigative reporter and protégé of veteran conservative political reporter Robert Novak, shows how some big businesses, together with elected officials of both parties, are doing everything possible to replace America's robust free market with a web of government handouts, stricter regulation, higher taxes, and other special favors to stifle competition. The losers: smaller competitors, less established businesses, consumers, and taxpayers.

(added Sep. 25, 2006)


Click on Picture for Review and to OrderBack-Fired: The faith that gave birth to tolerance is no longer tolerated!

by William J. Federer

How did America go from Pilgrims seeking freedom to express their Judeo-Christian beliefs to today's discrimination against those very beliefs in the name of tolerance? “Back Fired” chronicles the history of this disturbing development now rampant in our country. (more…)

(added Sep. 18, 2006)



Restaurants


Movies

Annapolis

Here's something I'll bet that you didn't know but that Justin Lin's Annapolis will tell you. The point of attending the United States Naval Academy -- at least if you are a blue collar kid from the wrong side of the river (not the Severn but the Delaware, by the way) and employed in the local ship-building industry -- is to find yourself a pretty midshipwoman, get her to teach you all she knows about boxing, and then climb into the ring with the Academy's heavyweight champ so as to win you a place in the elite company of midshipmen. Oh, and by the way, you may from time to time have to put up with some sort of educational activity in the intervals between boxing matches.

--American Spectator--


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Munich

Without the bullwhip and hat, but with his camera, his moviola, and his trusted young sidekick, Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg has set out to do what no great head of government alone or in concert, no statesman, not even Winston Churchill, not even the United Nations when it was still shiny, hopeful, and had clout, has been able to do since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire - solve the riddle of the Middle East.

--Yale Kramer, American Spectator--


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The Chronicles of Narnia

Who owns Narnia?

Hollywood?

Or Christians?

In these polarized times, with millions at stake, fighting over the cultural legacy of a fictional kingdom created by a man who died 42 years ago isn't as crazy as it sounds. (more...)

--Denver Post--


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Jarhead

“Time is on my side,” sang the Rolling Stones on my car radio as I made my way home from the theater after seeing “Jarhead,” the much-anticipated new film about Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the first Gulf War. Based on the award-winning book of the same name by Anthony Swofford, a veteran of that war, and published in 2003, it is a very personal account of a young Marine sniper who can't wait to see some action. That eagerness and its ultimate frustration is what drives the film, which shows that in many ways anticipation can kill just as readily as a bullet from the enemy.

--Wanniski.com--

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Oliver North: It's pretty clear that those making movies in Tinsel Town don't know any real men like Aaron Mankin. They apparently prefer cowardice over courage; witless whiners to real patriots; gutless wimps and hollow phonies to men who know the meaning of self-sacrifice and integrity. That's the only conclusion one can draw after seeing Hollywood's latest anti-military travesty - “Jarhead.”

--TownHall.com--

Added November 11, 2005


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Good Night, and Good Luck

Tom Snyder: There are few facts on display in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” actor George Clooney's liberal version of CBS-TV news commentator Edward R. Murrow's 1953 feud with Joe McCarthy, the fiercely anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin.

Added October 9, 2005

--WorldNetDaily.com (MOVIEGUIDE®)--


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Chronicles of Narnia

Ted Byfield: Canada's liberal press has greeted Disney's coming movie version of C.S. Lewis' “Chronicles of Narnia” with a delicate note of caution. “Be alert for hidden Christian messages,” warns the Toronto Globe and Mail's movie reviewer Liam Lacey.

Added September 26, 2005

--WorldNetDaily.com--


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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Fr. Brian W. Harrison, O.S.: Some of you may have seen over the last year or so that I have sounded the alarm in several Catholic magazines about a couple of viciously anti-Catholic movies disguised as “history”: “King Arthur” (2004) and “Kingdom of Heaven” (2005).

Added September 26, 2005

--Seattle Catholic--


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Valiant

Review by James Bowman:
England's WWII heroism is the latest venerable myth to be trashed by Disney.

(Added Aug. 23, 2005)

--American Spectator--


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The Great Raid

Reviewed by James Bowman.

--American Spectator--


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Movie Review: Mel Gibson's ‘The Passion’

NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly reviews a special preview showing of “The Passion of the Christ.”

--NewsMax.com--


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(added Nov. 4, 2002)


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'President Hillary' Movie Bombs

A movie that glorifies "President Hillary Clinton" is one of the biggest box-office and critical bombs of 2002. The studio knew "The Adventure of Pluto Nash" was such a stinker it repeatedly delayed the release date and, in a rare move, refused to screen it for reviewers. Star Eddie Murphy refused to do any publicity for it.

--NewsMax.com--


PEARL VETS GIVE NEW FILM 2 THUMBS DOWN (review)

Brave New Idiocy - John Podheretz reviews Spielberg's 'A.I.'



TV

Kate Brasher (Saturdays, CBS)

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