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Now Up on the PJ Media Homepage

By Ed Driscoll | August 06, 2012 12:36 AM
  • How the Obama Campaign/Media Alliance Works, by Rich Baehr. If this were a hockey game, you could say that Obama is playing with a man advantage.
  • Remembering the Dead, from Selma, by Victor Davis Hanson. VDH looks back on meeting a pair of very different recently deceased authors, Gore Vidal and John Keegan.
  • The Intense Warrior Ethos of Act of Valor, by Andrew Klavan. And why 75% of critics missed out on it.
  • Five Angry Pieces, Revisited, by Ed Driscoll. Did Jack Nicholson’s legendary meltdown in 1970’s Five Easy Pieces inspire Adam Smith to videotape himself berating a Chick-fil-A drive-through clerk?
  • Cognitive Dissonance on the March, by David Solway. How getting it wrong is regarded as doing it right.
  • The Real War Redux: Syria’s Only One Battlefield, Stupid, by Michael Ledeen. The Iranian pot continues to boil.
  • The Politics of Parity and ‘The Odd Man In,’ by Patrick Reddy. Parity increases the profile of fringe candidates.
  • The 5 Most Politically Incorrect Ideas Smuggled into The Dark Knight Rises, by John Boot. Christopher Nolan, one of Hollywood’s most skilled practitioners of stealth conservatism.

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