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Will Declaration Entertainment Cure What Ails American Culture?

July 11, 2010
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Will Declaration Entertainment Cure What Ails American Culture?

“I hate Hollywood! A bunch of Lefties producing nothing but anti-American, anti-business, hyper-violent, hyper-sexualized crap! While we’re at war with fanatics who want to destroy America, Hollywood makes movies that paint us as the enemy, as moral reprobates. Hollywood is pushing a political agenda rather than making good, wholesome movies Americans want to see.” Anyone familiar with conservative critiques of Hollywood’s Entertainment-Industrial Complex has heard all this and much more besides. In the “Culture War,” Hollywood is enemy number one. Political commentator and journalist Bill Whittle is stepping up his activism in the so-called Culture War with Declaration Entertainment. Its mission is to make the kinds of movies Hollywood used to make – Movies about Freedom and Sacrifice, Hard-Work and Self-Reliance, Faith and Family. (emphasis in original) Declaration Entertainment builds its business model on subscribers, dubbed “Citizen Producers.” These “Citizen Producers,” for about ten bucks a month, will … gain access to behind the scenes looks at your movies as they are being made. Participate in live video chat with actors, writers, and directors. View behind-the-scenes videos of casting sessions, location shoots, special effects creation, editing and scoring. Win chances to appear in the movies and attend opening night red carpet premieres.

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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

March 18, 2010
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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

At a time when conservatives regularly promote limited government and condemn further encroachment by the federal government into the nation’s health insurance system, the last thing they should be doing is lending support to a program that will increase the government’s role in citizens’ lives. Unfortunately, that is exactly what one noted conservative is doing when it comes to education in America. Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn encourages conservatives to follow his lead in endorsing the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), a set of national education standards developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. CCSSI will be the bridle by which the federal government controls schools that willingly accept Race to the Top Fund sugar. According to the National Association of State Boards of Education the Obama administration is supporting this initiative to develop common standards by allocating part of the billion “Race to the Top” funds towards the common core initiative, including $350 million for the development of common assessments. In pitching CCSSI to conservatives, Finn noted that CCSSI emerged not from the federal government but a voluntary coming together of (most) states, and the states’ decision whether

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Fiction Friday

January 29, 2010
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Fiction Friday

Some in Hollywood might think folks on the Right have limited artistic ability and should stick with on investment banking and talk radio. Others, with a more open mind, believe people should pursue any vocation to which they feel called. A novelist in Minneapolis, thankfully, is not taking career advice from Hollywood. The Culture Alliance’s latest Fiction Friday newsletter focused on the work of Lars Walker, particularly West Oversea. Lars Walker has written five novels, Erling’s Word, Wolf Time, The Year of the Warrior, Blood & Judgment,  and West Oversea: A Norse Saga of Mystery, Adventure and Faith. Anthony Sacramone, writing at First Things blog “First Thoughts,” had this to say about Year of the Warrior, a sequel of sorts to West Oversea: Wow. From the first sentence I was hooked. An Irishman taken as a slave by vikings passes himself off as a Catholic priest in Norway amid warrior heathen—and blood-curdling wackiness ensues. It’s fun, at times funny, and always compelling storytelling. It mixes fiction with history, faith with doubt, and most important, it’s wise and subversive, conveying a gospel message not just to the worshipers of Thor and Odin but to the readers as well. The law has

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Fiction Friday’s focus on Robert B. Parker

January 22, 2010
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Fiction Friday’s focus on Robert B. Parker

On Monday, Janaury 18, 2010 Robert B. Parker joined Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane in that great heavenly mystery writer’s group. A massive heart attack struck Robert Parker down while seated at his desk working on his latest novel. This week’s issue of The Culture Alliance’s Fiction Friday newsletter focused on Mr. Parker’s work. Tom Nolan, editor of Ross Macdonald’s The Archer Files: The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator, notes that Parker “revivified the P.I. genre” building upon aspects of the genre’s greats: he bantering dialogue of Raymond Chandler, the concern for young people expressed by Ross Macdonald, the swift action of Dashiell Hammett, even the violence of Mickey Spillane. Nolan continues: He wrote dialogue that at once informed, amused and gave a sense of character; and he conjured characters a reader wanted to spend more time with—especially Spenser, a fixed point in a footloose world, take him or leave him. A pragmatist whose ethics were situational. A tough and decent type who did what needed to be done in the service of a moral cause, affirming the worth of the individual regardless of race, sexual orientation, social status, age or occupation. He

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Student Sheds Light on Necessity for Reform in K-12 Schools

January 13, 2010
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Student Sheds Light on Necessity for Reform in K-12 Schools

There is a great deal of energy and resources spent addressing the issue of Left-wing domination on America’s colleges and universities. David Horowitz has done yeoman’s work documenting the networks indoctrinating students in higher education. Groups such as the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Institute for Humane Studies, and others work diligently combating the illiberal education provided in many colleges and universities. This quote, from Lloyd Marcus writing for the American Thinker, reminds us that we need to focus as much, if not more so, on K-12 education: “Years ago, a white friend’s son came home from middle school in tears over the cruelty of our founding fathers against Native Americans. Today, that kid is a 23 year old America-hating Marxist. Thank you public schools for your liberal America-sucks curriculum.” Years later K-12 students are getting much of the same as reported by a student in the Chicago, Illinois area, who is currently in the 12th grade. Her class schedule includes Advanced Placement English, Advanced Placement European History, Pre-Calculus, Theater Arts, French, and Gym class. When asked if she has ever experienced what might be considered indoctrination in any of her classes she responded: All the time! The books we are given

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