Scott Holleran

New Left America

Scott Holleran — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:21:33 +0000

Years ago, Hillary Clinton, speaking as the president’s wife, went on NBC’s Today Show and complained of what she called a “vast right-wing conspiracy” without citing evidence. She said there was a conspiracy to discredit her husband over the scandal of his having an affair with an intern. It turned out that there was a [...]

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Movie Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)

Scott Holleran — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:21:41 +0000

If you’ve ever had a feeling of anticipation prior to attending what you hope and have reason to believe will be a grand and exciting party, where the guest is immersed in celebration of something worth celebrating and eventually reaches an elevated sense of lightness, only to attend and be let down and disappointed, feeling [...]

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Nothing to Celebrate in Boston

Scott Holleran — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:37:51 +0000

There is nothing to celebrate in Boston, despite that city’s spirited efforts at recovery since last week’s deadly jihadist terrorist attack. What we now know, starting with the fact that the Boston bombings are, as I suspected, motivated by Islamic terrorism, a term which is arguably redundant, is that the government – on every level, [...]

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Bombs Bursting in Boston

Scott Holleran — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:10:22 +0000

“The world mourns with Boston,” read the headline for this morning’s edition of the leftist Boston Globe, owned by the leftist New York Times Company, as it appears on Boston.com. It is a perfectly vacant, nondescript condensation of today’s low journalism, distorting the facts and meaning of yesterday’s terrible news. The headline is not true. In [...]

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Movie Review: 42

Scott Holleran — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:25:41 +0000

Jackie Robinson is the subject of the poorly named 42, an overly sentimental movie about how to change a culture one man at a time that can’t help but be powerful and moving. Unlike other fact-based historical films centering upon an individual, such as Good Night, and Good Luck and Schindler’s List, there is fundamental [...]

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Maher’s Hard Left Turn

Scott Holleran — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:29:43 +0000

Comedian Bill Maher recently railed against Ayn Rand in his repudiation of libertarianism in an amusing if ignorant display (watch it here) that underscores that the woman who created Objectivism is right to reject libertarianism. Maher has been a left-wing libertarian and his renunciation, which is putting his comments kindly, is both a full hard [...]

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Spring 2013

Scott Holleran — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:12:54 +0000

This is just a quick update. I’m behind on my site newsletter, so if you’ve signed up, please bear with me. I am busy writing, editing, tending to business concerns and working on stories in progress. Everything takes longer than anticipated and, while some stories fall through, others make progress, some faster than others. This [...]

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Activism

Scott Holleran — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:56:07 +0000

From the day I first became an activist – when my best friend told me that his family’s home was being seized by our hometown government when we were in the third grade (as I recently wrote about here) to this black day in our nation’s history, March 23, which marks three long years of [...]

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Pope Francis

Scott Holleran — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:19:04 +0000

Naming himself after St. Francis of Assisi, a Catholic who claimed that he answered God’s call to “repair my church in ruins”, a 76-year-old priest from South America became the first Jesuit pope yesterday and, breaking from small, hierarchical rituals, reminded the world that people currently want to believe, i.e. have faith, more than they [...]

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Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Scott Holleran — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:15:17 +0000

Lacking the courage of its conviction to trump nihilism with idealism and never achieving anything close to incredible, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone performs in fits and starts. That’s too bad, because its theme that magic should evoke the feeling that “anything in the universe is possible” – as against the notion that one can never be [...]

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