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Book Reviews: Black House, Ricochet

Black Houseby Stephen King and Peter StraubThis is a sequel to the book, The Talisman, penned all those years ago by the same two authors and good friends. It is not necessary to have read The Talisman...

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Tom Perkins: Return to Aristocracy

There has been a lot written of late about inequality. Unsurprisingly people on the Right tend to defend inequality in general and the massively increased inequality of the past 40-50 years as a good...

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Michael Dunn Guilty on 4 Out of 5 Counts

Per USA Today:JACKSONVILLE — Michael David Dunn faces at least 60 years inside a prison cell for firing 10 bullets toward a group of teenagers in a sport-utility vehicle during an escalating argument...

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HBO Game of Thrones Season Four Trailer: Vengeance

Payback is a mother...... or so some people say. Other people say that you set out for revenge you had better dig two graves. Still others were known to say that when winter comes and the cold winds...

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Thank You Note

We'd just like to throw up a quick post thanking all of our readers, old and new, current, past and hopefully future, for stopping by to read what we have to write, think about it and hopefully...

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Game of Thrones Complete Season Three Offer

Greetings!We have four copies of HBO's Game of Thrones Complete Season Three. There are two Blu Ray/DVD copies and two DVD copies. Some special features include deleted/extended scenes, introductions...

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Juror #4 in Michael Dunn Trial Speaks Out

Right on schedule! Juror #4 in the Michael Dunn trial has hit the interview circuits, with her first apperance on ABC's Nightline. I am pretty upset about this verdict and even more stunned to hear...

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Obama Administration: DHS Proposal for National License Plate Tracking

If you're like millions of other people, you probably woke up this morning, had breakfast, and performed the usual toiletries that clean, psychologically normal and healthy people perform. You then...

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Self-Defense In Detroit Home Invasion

A Detroit mother opened fire Monday night when three suspects broke into her home. Surveillance cameras caught it all.The mother tells 7 Action News she "didn't have time to get scared." When she heard...

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Movie Reviews: Ender's Game

Ender's Gamedirected by Gavin HoodEnder's Game was based upon the book of the same name by the author Orson Scott Card. I had not read the book so I watched the movie with no preconceptions. There were...

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Racism and Ted Nugent: Then and Now

Asa Carter Then:Ted Nugent Now:Any Questions?The enemy is the same as it's always been. I'd like to know where are the Republicans who constantly bleat that the base of their party is not in large part...

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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Vetos SB 1062 "Religious Freedom" Bill

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Vetos SB 1062 "Religious Freedom" Bill  Transcript of Full Remarks:My agenda is to sign into law legislation that advances Arizona. When I addressed the Legislature earlier...

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Feminist Marriages: More Equality, Less Sex?

I wanted to write on this quite some time ago but the person who reviews my paid work had different ideas about my priorities. So this is a modified and much mellower version of the original post. The...

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Movie Reviews: Almost Human, Orphan

Almost Humandirected by Joe BegosNo this is not the Fox Sci-Fi drama starring Michael Ealy and Karl Urban. It is however a low budget 80s style throwback horror flick that is deliberately reminiscent...

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And the Winner is ......... 12-Years a Slave!

Before Steve McQueen brought this story to film, non of us knew the story of Solomon Northup. Personally, I had never heard of the Mr. Northup or his autobiography. Honestly, I didn't even know that...

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Fellow Christians, the Law Does NOT Belong to Us

Most of you are familiar with the phrase "separation of church and state."  It's a doctrine that our country was founded upon after our founding fathers learned the hard way that mixing religion with...

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Dogs and Ice Cream

Technically speaking you're not supposed to give your dog milk or milk based products or anything with artificial sweeteners included. But many pet owners don't know that. And many other pet owners...

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Book Reviews: Two Trains Running, Flesh

Two Trains Runningby Andrew VachssI hadn't read anything by Andrew Vachss in a long time. Two Trains Running (the title comes from a Muddy Waters blues song) is a period piece and one of the hundreds...

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HBO Game of Thrones Season Four Trailer: Secrets

Another promo trailer drops for the new season. As usual if you've read the books or otherwise know what happens this season please keep that fascinating information to yourself, won't you?...

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Why we need Government: North Carolina and Duke Energy Ash Spill

I'm not a huge fan of overly expansive government. I think that, especially on matters of conscience, privacy and police powers, the federal and state governments have over the course of the last fifty...

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