Columns

by Lynn Mandaville The United States State Department plays a very important role in the ways America interacts and interrelates with other nations around the world.  One aspect of those…

Review of War for the Planet of the Apes **** (out of five stars) Currently in wide release by Walter G. Tarrow Get your hands off me, you damn dirty…

Philosophy 101 with Plato’s Republic was my introduction to the concept of inductive reasoning and later anecdotal evidence. My earliest brush with inductive reasoning was the statement, “This is a…

Neruda **** and The Handmaiden *****  by Walter G. Tarrow Uniquely crafted tales from Chile and Korea screening at the Traverse City Film Festival: Neruda, available on Netflix, about Chilean…

by Lynn Mandaville When I first read Army Bob's column "Unhinged Left Can't Get Over Losing the Election" I found myself quite put out. Because Bob paints with a very…

The state of Illinois is broke and getting “broker”! Over the weekend, they passed a $5.4 billion tax increase. In the realization of how to cut your own throat because…

(In anticipation of the Traverse City Film Festival July 25 through July 30) When I watched, saw, experienced, yes, experienced, because a movie is more than just moving pictures, my…