June 8, 2013
PJTV Member Hambone2 wants to know if a conservative can be an atheist. Andrew Klavan and Bill Whittle toss this issue back and forth, and their answers may surprise you. Find out what they have to say on this episode of Klavan & Whittle.
Video linked here at original source.
Posted in Andrew Klavan, Bill Whittle, Conservatism, Religion
May 11, 2013
“The press pretty much covered this up to make sure Barack Obama would get elected.” Andrew Klavan
Posted in Andrew Klavan, Democrats/Progressives, Obama, Radicals, Terrorism
April 6, 2013
Andrew Klavan, author, screenwriter and political pundit for PJ Media, talks to PolitiChick Ann-Marie Murrell about Hollywood and the potential upswing in Conservative-principled films from the West Coast David Horowitz Freedom Center event.
October 8, 2012
As the media, government-run schools and state-sponsored artists promote the President’s agenda, Andrew Klavan takes us all to school for an important lesson on The Chosen One.
September 20, 2012
Sensitivity Training 101: Abandon all your principles. Defending ideals like individual liberty and freedom of expression can be offensive to others and dangerous to yourself.
The people who booed the God of love, now rush to the defense of a hateful Allah. The people who pissed on the Christ of redemption, now bewail the hurt feelings of a damnable Islam. The people who denounced the death of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, now make rationalizations as brown-shirted cops drag a man from his home at midnight for the crime of posting a video on YouTube.
I’m sorrowful, but I confess I’m not surprised.
Over the course of time, I have seen many people ruin and waste their lives. Good people, smart people, talented people who sacrificed the gift of existence to drugs, alcohol, bitterness, self-abuse, fear, and anger. In every case, always, I felt the root cause was unacknowledged shame.
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September 16, 2012
As President Obama explains his economic policy (or explains away the consequences of that policy), City Journal’s Andrew Klavan cuts through all the spin with this very, very important primer on both Obamanomics and the truth about capitalism.
September 4, 2012
Other people hem and haw, parse one MSM statement as true and another one as biased and so forth. But what Breitbart knew and what Nolte knows is that occasional accuracies in support of a lie are still lies. It is the corrupt intent that governs “mainstream” news that needs to be exposed and reformed. And expose it is what the Noltenator does every day with torching wit.
I have to admit that Big Hollywood’s John Nolte is a friend of mine. Believe me, if I didn’t have to admit it, you couldn’t drag it out of me with hot pincers. But really, friendship aside, how great is this guy? His takedowns of the Mainstream Media throughout this political season have been brilliant, devastating — Breitbartian is the only word I can think of to describe them. If you’re not following him on Twitter (@NolteNC), start following him. He exposes and mocks the dishonesty and corruption of our supposed “information brokers” in real time, crushing the MSM with such immediacy it’s like watching Rosemary’s Baby killed in its cradle. That’s a good thing.
Nolte left his beloved North Carolina many years ago to come out to LA and try his hand at filmmaking. He actually made a film that won high praise at some festivals, but his Maker (Mattel, as it happens) soon guided John where He wanted him to go. Nolte began commenting on, then blogging for, one of the first conservative film websites, and finally became its editor. From there, he was hired by Andrew Breitbart to start Big Hollywood, the first of the Bigs. He now not only continues to edit BH, he contributes terrific material to all the other Big sites as well.
I cannot tell you the number of times Breitbart called me to sing Nolte’s praises to the skies. Hiring Nolte, Andrew said repeatedly and lavishly, was one of the best decisions he ever made.
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August 1, 2012
“One guy walks into a movie theater with a gun and sews tears and pain. Five guys surround a piano and turn a silly little pop song into three minutes of pure, unadulterated joy. Surely, the human soul is a mystery. And in those times when one can choose which side of the mystery to be on, I’m going with the Piano Guys.” ~ Andrew Klavan
Posted in Andrew Klavan, Daily Music Video
July 15, 2012
Political correctness poisons everything it touches with dishonesty. But perhaps the honest ways of 40′s and 50′s American films have come to an end like the ways of the Apache! Political correctness poisons everything it touches with dishonesty. But perhaps the honest ways of 40′s and 50′s American films have come to an end like the ways of the Apache!
More honest than leftists, Pilgrim.
Traveling in New York — and blogging on the fly — I read an interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal this morning: Newsday’s Daniel Akst reviewing Sincerity by R. Jay McGill Jr. — a book about how the idea of sincerity developed and whether honesty is good for society and, if so, how much.
The review put me in mind of the old John Wayne western Hondo — a 70-minute long adaptation of a Louis L’amour novel, sort of a rip-off of Shane but well worth while all the same. The thesis of the story is that Wayne, a friend of the Apaches, has learned their highly truthful ways and essentially has to learn to tell the “noble lie” in order to join white civilization. Wayne laments the death of the more honest Apache way: it was a good way, but its time has passed. Compare this with Fort Apache, also with the much-maligned-by-leftists Wayne, in which the Apaches, led by Cochise, come off as peaceful and reasonable people abused by dishonest US government agents and by Henry Fonda’s martinet cavalry leader.
In both these excellent films, we see a nuanced portrayal of Apaches and white men both. No one has a monopoly on decency. Red and white humans are both humans, given to corruption and war.
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Posted in Andrew Klavan, Entertainment, History
June 17, 2012
Klavan: Seriously, if you need a laugh, watch my Manhattan Institute video first — it was posted 8 months ago — then read last week’s transcript below. As a conservative, I hate to collect Satire Welfare — free satire from the government. But in all fairness, I got there first!
Okay, this is just too hilarious not to post. Last week, Republican California Congressman Darrell Issa — who sometimes acts like the last sane man in government — had Bureau of Labor Statistics Acting Commissioner Josh Galvin up for questioning before the House Oversight Committee. At issue: what constitutes a “Green Job.”
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That’s the video. Here’s the real transcript, cadged from The Daily:
REP. ISSA: You did not want to come here as a witness. You are not a delighted witness. So let’s go through this. I asked you a question. You know the answer. Would you please answer it. If you sweep the floor in a solar panel facility, is that a green job?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: Thank you. If you drive a hybrid bus — public transportation — is that a green job?
MR. GALVIN: According to our definition, yes.
REP. ISSA: Thank you. What if you’re a college professor teaching classes about environmental studies?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: What about just any school bus driver?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: What about the guy who puts gas in the school bus?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: How about employees at a bicycle shop?
MR. GALVIN: I guess I’m not sure about that.
REP. ISSA: The answer is yes, according to your definition. And you’ve got a lot of them. What about a clerk at the bicycle repair shop?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
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Posted in Andrew Klavan, Entitlements, Government
Get off the Rubio bandwagon (Video)
Glenn continued, “listen to me. It is worse than universal health care. And in the coming days as we get closer, we will explain why it’s worse than universal health care. It is the death nail of the country. There’s no recovery from this one. None. No recovery."
Adam Carolla on Liberal Media Bias: You’re ‘Insane’ Not to Admit it Exists
Adam Carolla knows liberal media bias exists because he’s seen it up close and personal. So when he watches the mainstream press ignore President Barack Obama’s hypocrisy he simply chalks it up to more of the same.
Hollywood’s Hatred of American Culture
Find out how the negativity and self-loathing of modern Hollywood is just a small gear in the machine that brings down entire nations. What can we do about it? Well, we can walk right into the heart of Mordor and destroy the Ring of Power.
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