Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Shapiro’s book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, already is one of several I’ve chosen for vacation reading. He’s now releasing excerpts from his interviews: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuYvfN_eqzw[/youtube] See more revealing videos here. (And by revealing, I don’t mean underwear shots, I mean “thought”
Continue readingBoth the SEALS and Charlie Sheen have been in the news lately, the SEALS for an extraordinarily well-planned, brave and effective operation, and Charlie Sheen because he’s a drugged-out piece of human detritus. Did you know, though, that the two — that is, the SEALS and Sheen — have something
Continue readingLast night, after Andrew Breitbart had already left to catch his plane, a few of us hung around to chat and to try to answer one question: what was the takeaway from Breitbart’s talk? Eat their eyeballs? Women’s dominance in the Tea Party means that men are eunuchs? The fact
Continue readingMy husband and I recently watched two movies about the military. Or rather, I should say, he watched one and I watched the other. The movies’ tones were instructive, especially because I later got corroboration for my sense that Hollywood’s post-Vietnam hostility to the military has real world consequences (that
Continue readingEngland’s Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded in the 13th Century as part of a convent, eventually transformed itself into the world’s first facility dedicated to the mentally ill. By the 16th Century, when it housed only the mentally ill, it was famous for the cruelty with which those patients were treated.
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ornhIAKY2Y[/youtube] Hat tip: Sadie
Continue readingSomeone took the time to track the nature of the bad guys in Hollywood action flicks from the 1980s to the present. It won’t come as a surprise to any of you that she discovered that “the overall winner of the villain tally is American military/government/law enforcement.” In the 1980s, Russians
Continue readingI never liked Jean-Luc Godard movies. I go to movies to be entertained, not bored. He failed my simple test. Aside from being (in my mind) a boring film maker, it turns out that he is, as well, a deep, blatant, vicious antisemite. Of course, if you’re a New York
Continue readingThe Chris Coons-Christine O’Donnell debate over the First Amendment has cast into stark relief the fact that the Left believes the First Amendment’s purpose is to keep religious people out of the public square. I’ve blogged on this point before, so I won’t belabor it. I’ll only say briefly that
Continue readingThey seem to have deviated significantly from the book (which simply describes a series of picaresque adventures), and it’s in 3D, which gives me a headache, but it actually still looks like a good movie. I’ll certainly be at the theater to see it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGUVkO0cRM[/youtube]
Continue readingHBO has recently premiered Boardwalk Empire, a lavish new series that seeks to recreate Atlantic City chicanery during the Prohibition era. HBO really went to town on this one. Not only did it get Martin Scorcese to direct (leading me to ask my husband, disingenuously, “didn’t he used to direct
Continue readingI’ve written several times at this blog about the need to take back popular culture and make it more consistent with American values. (Indeed, I think every conservative blogger has written the same thing.) This Englishman, speaking of the disaster of British multiculturalism, perfectly articulates why a country must celebrate
Continue readingStand With Us is an extraordinarily important organization. I cannot emphasize that enough. Its goal is to counter the calumnies that an unholy union of Leftists and Islamists spread against Israel, especially on college campuses. The Stand With Us founders realized something that American Jews and other friends of Israel
Continue readingI already mentioned how impressed I was by Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech, which I posted here, and listed to in its entirety while folding laundry. Listening to Reagan made that task go much faster. It’s a fabulous speech, with each idea — most of which are as relevant today re
Continue readingAs an actor, Kevin Costner has never floated my boat. I just don’t get him. That’s okay. Where it really counts, he’s a mensch. Wish there were more like him.
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