Daily Archives: July 17, 2010

Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

July 17, 2010
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Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor; 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help; The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin (reviewed here); and Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case Against God. Audio only: 21 minutes 28 seconds. Some of the people he discusses include Plato, the Anti-Federalists, and Ayn Rand, who we learn hated Ronald Reagan and conservatives in general. Amazon.com lists the works Wiker covers in 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Aristotle’s Politics Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton The New Science of Politics, by Eric Voegelin The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville The Federalist Papers The Anti-Federalists The Servile State, by Hilaire Belloc The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek The Tempest, by William Shakespeare Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien The Jerusalem Bible Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand —Mike Gray

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TCM Thrillers (July 19 – 25)

July 17, 2010
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TCM Thrillers (July 19 – 25)

This week: * Monday—It’s a sci-fi blitz! * Tuesday—Destroy a few German cannons? Piece of cake. * Wednesday—Four films with murder and a flick that could have used one. * Thursday—Uh-oh, jury duty. * Friday—Spend the day with the Bowery Boys in ten films. * Saturday—A whodunit—with submarines. * Sunday—Shut yo’ mouth! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monday—July 19th 6:00 AM—The Manster (1962) A mad scientist turns a reporter into a two-headed killer. 7:15 AM—The Killer Shrews (1959) A maniacal scientist creates a formula that turns your average shrew into a giant, man-killing beast. 8:30 AM—The Wild, Wild Planet (1965) Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders. 10:15 AM—War of the Planets (1965) Martians with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth. 12:00 PM—The Green Slime (1969) A mysterious fungus invades a space station and turns the inhabitants into monsters. 1:45 PM—Soylent Green (1973) A future cop uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food. 3:30 PM—2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Tedious sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution. 6:00 PM—2010 (1984) In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter. 8:00 PM—Captain

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Woods Shows Good Character in Spontaneous Gesture

July 17, 2010
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Woods Shows Good Character in Spontaneous Gesture

A classy gesture by Tiger Woods at the British Open in St. Andrews, Scotland: Woods steps aside for retiring rival Watson. Story here.

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