Mockingjay, written by Suzanne Collins, is the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy. The rebellion has begun and Katniss Everdeen is its symbol. She is the Mockingjay. Rebels from District 13, which was long thought destroyed, have rescued Katniss from the arena of the Seventy-fifth Annual Hunger Games. Her ally, Peeta Mellark, has been taken...
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Catching Fire, written by Suzanne Collins, is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. The story begins after Katniss Everdeen and her male companion Peeta Mellark, also from District 12, have won the Hunger Games. They forced the Capitol to declare two winners, which does not sit well with the dictator of Panem, President Snow....
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The Hunger Games,written by Suzanne Collins, is an exciting tale of survival. It is written in the present participle which I found interesting since most novels are written in the past tense. The story is set many decades in the future, in a place once referred to as North America, where natural disasters and...
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A new book is challenging the assumption that the world’s most infamous pirate was an Englishman. It claims that he was a South Carolinian. Brian Hicks has the story for” The Post and Courier”: Almost everything we know about the origins of the famous pirate Blackbeard comes from a seven-word phrase in an 18th-century...
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Carrying on the tradition of tyrants and warlords throughout history, top US leaders brag about torturing people and promoting wars around the planet. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is stirring up controversy as he begins to promote his memoir, telling NBC’s Dateline, for example, “there are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington.” The...
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Libertarian professor Walter Block, the author of The Case for Discrimination, writes about the difference between government and private individual discrimination. He tackles some of the implications of a world devoid of all discrimination. He also explains the free-market incentives created for those subject to discrimination in the following article from Mises.org: In the days of yore, to say that...
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MacDonald King Aston, the author of Yankee Babylon and the webmaster of Fire Eater, was very kind to write this original piece for SNN: The question comes from my book Yankee Babylon (in the chapter Under a Southern Sun). The allusion is to the Song of the South, the Disney film released on 12 November 1946 (and...
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Thomas E. Woods, author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, discusses the few Leftists and many libertarians working to shift the balance of power away from Washington and toward local control; why it’s still hard to shake the nearly 150-year old misconception that secessionists are slavery sympathizers; why an...
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Joel Garreau’s book “The Nine Nations of North America” was published in 1981 and divides the continent into distinct cultural entities, of which Dixie is one. Much has changed since 1981 in terms of demographic shifts, but the book’s focus on the cultural and therefore truly national nature of the various regions of North...
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