Category Archives: Analysis

From Here to the Hunger Games

Posted on June 11, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

Sunlost: Underworld War is finished! A.J. Powers’ amazing talent is being funneled into a cover for it. Anyone who hasn’t read Sunlost yet, jump over to Amazon.com and pick it up ($3.99 on Kindle, and $12.99 in paperback [currently on … Continue reading →

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“Sharing” Faith

Posted on May 1, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

I have not posted in a while, but it’s because the sequel to Sunlost is alllmoooost readddyyyyy…. I swear! Anyway, I wanted to comment on this, er… actually, I wanted to adapt a comment I made about it on Facebook. … Continue reading →

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Red Dawn and America’s Greatest Weapon

Posted on March 12, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

Just watched Red Dawn and then glanced at a Breitbart rundown of the MSM reviews of the film. No one should be surprised that people on the left call such stories fascist. As Jonah Goldberg made clear almost a decade … Continue reading →

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Thinking Doesn’t Make It So

Posted on March 3, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

Hamlet: Let me question more in particular: what have you my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she send you to prison hither? Guildenstern: Prison, my lord! Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison. Rosencrantz: Then is the world one? Hamlet: … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary | Tagged absolute truth, Act 2 Scene 2, atheism, Batman, C.S. Lewis, Cogito ergo sum, Dark Knight Trilogy, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, God, God is dead, Hamlet, I think therefore I am, insanity, Laertes, logic, madness, Mere Christianity, Moral Argument, morality, Ophelia, Orthodoxy, post-modernism, relativity, René Descartes, Shakespeare, The Dark Knight, truth | 1 Comment

Divided We Are

Posted on January 16, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

There’s not a whole lot out there which isn’t being said. In a nation of 300+ million, you’re going to have one of each. When the deepest sources of passion are added to the mix, there is no limit to … Continue reading →

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Death or Discussion

Posted on October 24, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

Recently, I read Daniel Hannan’s Why America Must Not Follow Europe. You know he’s right, but you hate it at the same time. Mark Steyn‘s After America goes into greater detail on America’s embracing a steroid-infused version of the program … Continue reading →

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Thanks, Mark!

Posted on September 20, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

Thanks to Mark Steyn who linked my review of After America on his website! As I say in the oh-too-brief review, what makes Steyn’s writing so powerful is that he makes palatable our lamentable circumstance with poignant humor. We can … Continue reading →

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Infinite Next

Posted on August 29, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

Mirror mirror on the wall What do you give someone who has it all More, just to be sure I got what I wanted, so naturally I want more What I paid for, entertain me now All I want is … Continue reading →