Ben Shapiro from Creators Syndicate

Is the Constitution for Everybody? for 02/08/2012

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

According to The New York Times, the American Constitution is losing popularity with people around the world. "The Constitution," writes Adam Liptak, "has seen better days ... its influence is waning." Liptak points out that in 1987, over 160 of the 170 countries on Earth had cribbed from the Constitution — but today, few countries do. Why? Liptak suggests, quoting Pro ...

Updated: Wed Feb 08, 2012

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The Republican Party Becomes the Whig Party for 02/01/2012

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

In 1831, Henry Clay formed a new political party. He called it the Whig Party. His goal was to ensure Jeffersonian democracy and fight President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat. Over the course of the next 20 years, the Whig Party achieved several presidential victories. But as slavery assumed more and more national importance in the political debate, the Whig Party began to shatter. Southern Whigs ...

Updated: Wed Feb 01, 2012

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The Euphemisms of ‘Pro-Choice' Evil for 01/25/2012

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

This week marked the 39th anniversary of the greatest American moral tragedy of the 20th century: Roe v. Wade . And yet the left cheered this anniversary with the enthusiasm of an intoxicated teenager stumbling on a free copy of Penthouse. Planned Parenthood, which rakes in millions each year by performing abortions, asked via Twitter, "How has #Roe changed your life?"

Updated: Wed Jan 25, 2012

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Time to Purge the Republican Party for 01/18/2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

A blonde finds lipstick on her husband's collar. Suspicious that he's cheating on her, she heads to a local gun shop and buys herself a pistol. That night, she hides in her bedroom closet. Sure enough, the husband comes home with his redheaded secretary on his arm and leads her to the bed. As they began to caress, the wife jumps out of the closet and holds the gun to her head.

"Swee ...

Updated: Wed Jan 18, 2012

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Keep Their Feet to the Fire for 01/11/2012

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mitt Romney is an enormous squish. On the squish scale, he falls somewhere between Jabba the Hut and Slimer from Ghostbusters. He can't be trusted on conservative philosophy, and he can't be trusted to act as a principled conservative while in office.

And that may be the best thing for the conservative movement.

Since the days of Herbert Hoover, conservatives have rallied around R ...

Updated: Wed Jan 11, 2012

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The Great Conservative Sell-Out for 01/04/2012

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Much of the conservative punditocracy has declared that Mitt Romney is the consensus conservative candidate. If he is, he's the least consensual consensus candidate in modern political history — the man can't break 25 percent with a sledgehammer. While his supporters shout from the hills that Romney essentially tied for the win in Iowa, his glass remains three-quarters empty, with no-name ...

Updated: Wed Jan 04, 2012

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America's Big Loser 2011: Americans for 12/28/2011

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

In North Carolina this week, a young man named Mostafa Kamel Hendi hit upon a plan to make ends meet in this rotten economy: He decided to knock over a local gold store. Tape shows this determined and enterprising flower of American youth strolling into the store, hoodie over his head, and then gesturing to the clerk, Derek Mothershead, to shove some money in a plastic bag.

Mothershead, ...

Updated: Wed Dec 28, 2011

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No on Mitt Romney for 12/21/2011

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

In the Meredith Wilson musical "The Music Man," a small Iowan town faces the sinister wiles of a big city con man, Harold Hill. In introducing themselves, they sing, "We could stand touchin' noses / For a week at a time / And never see eye-to-eye. But what the heck, you're welcome, / Join us at the picnic. You can eat your fill / Of all the food you bring yourself."

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Updated: Wed Dec 21, 2011

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Poverty Doesn't Make Thieves -- Liberalism Does for 12/14/2011

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

This week, the Los Angeles Times reported a wave of theft plaguing area high schools. The objects at stake? Tubas. According to South Gate High School music teacher Ruben Gonzalez Jr., thieves broke into the band room and stole nothing but tubas. A few weeks before, thieves took eight sousaphones from a Compton high school. Either the original cast of "The Music Man" is criminally eag ...

Updated: Wed Dec 14, 2011

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Where Have Our Cojones Gone? for 12/07/2011

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Last week in Boston, a seven-year-old boy named Mark got into a fight with a bully. The bully put his hands around the boy's throat and began to squeeze. That's when Mark fought back; he kicked his aggressor right in the family jewels. In a normal society, we'd celebrate Mark. Throw him a ticker tape parade or something. Bullies need a sharp kick to the testicles. That's how you convince them t ...

Updated: Wed Dec 07, 2011

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Muhammad Hates Diversity for 11/30/2011

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

This week, in Oakland, Calif., America saw yet another stellar example of the glories of diversity. At a taping of a rap music video in that fair city, eight people, including a one-year-old child, were shot. When a classical music video goes wrong, somebody busts a string. When a rap music video goes wrong, somebody busts a cap.

Such observations, however, are now taboo. We're not supp ...

Updated: Wed Nov 30, 2011

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Giving up Our Freedom, One Turkey at a Time for 11/23/2011

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The first object of government, wrote James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 10, was to protect the American people from deep turkey fryers. Oh, wait. That was Janet Napolitano, who this week had her Department of Homeland Security release a two-minute video highlighting the incredible danger to Homeland Security posed by these kettles of horror. "We recently tested several models of deep f ...

Updated: Wed Nov 23, 2011

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Penn State: The Banality of Collaborative Evil for 11/16/2011

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

When the Israeli government captured Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann, journalist Hannah Arendt was struck by the fact that Eichmann appeared to be a nondescript accountant type. He was not highly intelligent, and he did not appear to be particularly vicious. This led Arendt to the conclusion that anyone could, under the right ideological circumstances, become evil. Evil, she said, was banal.< ...

Updated: Wed Nov 16, 2011

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What Is Obama Thinking? for 11/09/2011

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

That's the question that has to be on everyone's lips at this point. We've spent trillions of dollars of taxpayer money we don't have — to no avail. We've created massive new entitlement programs without funding them. We've emboldened class warfare artists to take to the streets, littering America's public spaces with human debris — all with presidential backing. We've kowtowed to d ...

Updated: Wed Nov 09, 2011

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From Arab Spring to Springtime for Hitler for 11/02/2011

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

There are reports out of Washington, D.C., this week that the Obama administration is in a regular tizzy about the possibility that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear facilities without U.S. help or permission. According to a senior State Department official, the Obama administration is so worried that Israel will go it alone that they are finally placing pressure on China and Russia to sanction ...

Updated: Wed Nov 02, 2011

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What a One-World Government Looks Like for 10/26/2011

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

"Imagine there's no countries," John Lennon warbled in his inane song "Imagine." "It isn't hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for ... Imagine all the people / Living life in peace / You may say that I'm a dreamer / But I'm not the only one / I hope someday you'll join us / And the world will be as one."

They believed in those pathetic dreams in Europe. In ...

Updated: Wed Oct 26, 2011

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Death of A Hero for 10/19/2011

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

There are very few people we come across who profoundly touch our lives — parents, teachers, friends. Almost all have one aspect in common: They spend copious amounts of time with us.

Then there are the rarities, folks who move us deeply even after just a few meetings. These are people who don't require time to make their presence felt. These people leave their indelible mark simp ...

Updated: Wed Oct 19, 2011

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How Players Unions Are Killing Sports for 10/12/2011

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

This year, we may not get to see Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers play. The people of Italy probably will. While the National Basketball Association lockout continues, Bryant is considering a deal worth $5 million for one year from the Virtus Bologna. He's not the only NBA player who might appear overseas. Deron Williams of the New Jersey Nets signed a contract with the Turkish team Besikt ...

Updated: Wed Oct 12, 2011

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The Tea Party vs. The Establishment for 10/05/2011

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The stars are aligned for Mitt Romney. In every Republican debate, he has been left relatively untouched by the moderators and by every candidate save Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. He continues to ride high in the national polling, holding steady at near one quarter of the likely Republican primary voters. The Republican Party bigwigs, including key funders on Wall Street, are throwing their suppor ...

Updated: Wed Oct 05, 2011

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Does Fast and Furious Put Impeachment on The Table? for 09/28/2011

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

"The story is one of not covert activity alone," intoned Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, "but of covert foreign policy .... It is a tale of working outside the system and of utilizing irregular channels and private parties accountable to no one, on matters of national security, while ignoring the Congress and even the traditional agencies of executive foreign policy making. The sto ...

Updated: Wed Sep 28, 2011

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