The Hollywood studio DreamWorks has the rights to Lassie, the TV show about a heroic collie that is the third longest running TV drama of all time (behind Gunsmoke and Law & Order). But the studio thinks the character is too old-fashioned for a new
The Hollywood studio DreamWorks has the rights to Lassie, the TV show about a heroic collie that is the third longest running TV drama of all time (behind Gunsmoke and Law & Order). But the studio thinks the character is too old-fashioned for a new
You may know of Pastor Hans Fiene from his uproariously funny and theologically profound Lutheran Satire videos. He now has another forum, The Federalist, in which he has published the definitive critique of mega-pastor Joel Osteen. His wife has created an uproar for saying that
American political theory tends to believe that democracy is based on universal human values and is the right form of government for everyone. But, as columnist Richard Cohen says, after rehearsing the fiascos of “the Arab Spring” and other seemingly democratic movements that ended in
I remember well our teacher reading to us fifth graders the novels of Laura Ingalls Wilders, which were based on the author’s childhood on the American frontier. Her descriptions in The Long Winter of the blizzards, the isolation, and Pa surviving in a snow bank
I’m a little late on this, but I just learned the details. You will remember a few years ago when a Harvard professor announced the discovery of an ancient manuscript fragment in which Jesus refers to “my wife” and says “she will be able to
We might agree that Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine, while regrettable, doesn’t concern us. But if Vladimir Putin did the same thing to Estonia, another bordering country with a large and complaining Russian minority, we would be at war. That’s because Estonia and the other
The Islamic State/ISIS has beheaded another American and posted the video for the world to see. (more…)
Daniel J. Flynn has written a book entitled Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America. He writes about a time when “intellectuals” spoke to “the common man,” and how many in the demographic of “common man” (and woman) distinguished themselves as
Karen DeYoung and Dan Balz of the Washington Post give a litany of everything that has been going wrong in our foreign policy lately and marvel at President Obama’s admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet.” (more…)
One of my favorite TV shows has been Longmire, an extremely well-done mystery series centering around a modern-day sheriff on the high plains of Wyoming. It’s critically-acclaimed and one of the A&E Networks’ top-rated shows. So the network is cancelling it. The reason why–even though
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