Springfield Rifle
[See “He Wore a Yellow Stripe,” The American Spectator of April, 2007, under “Articles”]
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[See “He Wore a Yellow Stripe,” The American Spectator of April, 2007, under “Articles”]
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A liberal gets alarmed at the state of our education system and the education establishment that runs it so badly — but not too alarmed
An enjoyable account of Charles Dickens’s love affair with a much younger woman whose historicity, however, must remain largely speculative
A movie about self-satisfaction that is itself way too self-satisfied to have anything very interesting to say
More Christmas pandering to the kids. But do the kids really want to be pandered to?
Romeo Must Die, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, is a movie for martial arts enthusiasts featuring the grim and scary-looking Jet Li, allowed to play the good guy for once, as Han, a one-man enforcer of peace on rival gangs in Oakland, California. It is also a variant of the Romeo and Juliet story, as Han…