Joseph Farah from Creators Syndicate

The New Prohibition for 01/02/2008

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

One lesson every American claims to have learned is that Prohibition was wrong, a mistake and a sad chapter in U.S. history, when the government tried to deny citizens something they wanted.

But I'm not at all sure what lesson Americans actually learned from the ban on the sale of spirits because ever since then, we've been banning products with far fewer harmful effects.

A couple ...

Updated: Wed Jan 02, 2008

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Waterboarding Is Not Torture for 01/09/2008

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Americans simply are losing their ability to distinguish right from wrong.

I don't know how else to put it. Up is down, day is night, left is right and right is wrong.

A good illustration of my thesis is the growing political consensus around the idea that the U.S. should stop using any effective interrogation techniques that make our terrorist enemies uncomfortable — even t ...

Updated: Wed Jan 09, 2008

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Which Candidate Has a Mental Disorder? for 01/16/2008

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The famed Mayo Clinic offers up some signs and symptoms for narcissistic personality disorder. I'd like you to look over the list of telltale indications of this mental problem and decide for yourself whether it applies to any of the presidential candidates — male or female.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I think it does apply to one in particular. Because I don't want to prejudice your d ...

Updated: Wed Jan 16, 2008

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The Light Bulb -- Still a Good Idea for 01/16/2008

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Have you ever noticed how we associate the light bulb with a good idea?

I mean, what happens in a comic strip when a character gets a good idea? You see a little light bulb over his head.

There's a reason for that: The light bulb really is a good idea.

And by light bulb, I mean the incandescent light bulb invented by that great American Thomas A. Edison. I do not mean the n ...

Updated: Wed Jan 16, 2008

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Global Warming or Climate Change? for 01/23/2008

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Maybe it's the weather — cold. Maybe it's the season — winter. Maybe it's the year — election.

Or maybe it's a case of hedging one's bets. But I've noticed a not-so-subtle shift in the rhetoric from those who would like to do away with private property, nation-states, freedom, the rule of law, the will of the people, and all the other essentials of self-government &mdas ...

Updated: Wed Jan 23, 2008

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America's Immune Deficiency Syndrome for 01/30/2008

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The headlines are kind of alarming these days.

Old, forgotten diseases suddenly are making a comeback. And new strains of old plagues are deadlier than anything previously seen.

You've heard of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Is America's immune system under attack?

The latest news out of San Francisco is not good. A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly b ...

Updated: Wed Jan 30, 2008

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The Gravest Threat of All for 02/06/2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

It's a presidential election year, in case you hadn't noticed.

Candidates are talking about health care, education, day care, economic stimulus packages, unemployment benefits — you name it. Almost every political issue imaginable is on the radar screen, including all of the above and dozens of others that have nothing to do with constitutionally limited government.

And yet ...

Updated: Wed Feb 06, 2008

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Barack 'Che' Obama for 02/13/2008

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

As Barack Obama continues to clean Hillary Clinton's clock in primary after primary, maybe it's time to take this guy a little more seriously. He could be the president of the United States.

His appeal, especially when compared with "Shrillary," is understandable. He looks good. He sounds good. He seems like a nice guy.

Shrillary is anything but likable; and her voice so ...

Updated: Wed Feb 13, 2008

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When Socialism Comes to America for 02/20/2008

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day, America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." — Norman Thomas, American socialist

I've been thinking deeply about those famously prophetic words spoken by America's premier socialist ...

Updated: Wed Feb 20, 2008

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I Can't Wait To Be 'Expelled' for 02/27/2008

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

There's a movie coming out in April, and I can't wait to tell you about it. It's called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

Imagine what Michael Moore might produce if we forcibly administered sodium pentothal to him. That would be "Expelled."

It's a documentary in which my old friend and colleague Ben Stein takes on the role of Michael Moore under the influen ...

Updated: Wed Feb 27, 2008

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Time for Debate on Health Care for 03/05/2008

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

If America is not careful, soon it could see one-seventh of its gross domestic product nationalized — the biggest step toward socialism this country ever has taken.

That's what will happen if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton is elected president and the Democrats control the Congress. (Heck, it might even happen if John McCain is elected.)

The consequences of placing the nati ...

Updated: Wed Mar 05, 2008

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What Are Red Letter Christians? for 03/12/2008

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

There's a movement afoot to seduce evangelical Christians into anti-biblical, socialist, tyrannical politics — the kind currently energizing Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

I know this because I just read a new book by the self-proclaimed godfather of the movement: Tony Campolo. Yeah, you remember him as Bill Clinton's spiritual guru.

The book is a manifesto of sorts, ...

Updated: Wed Mar 12, 2008

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Scalia Is Wrong About Abortion for 03/19/2008

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I seldom have found myself in disagreement with Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. He has a brilliant mind, and he knows and reveres the Constitution and the American form of government. But he's wrong about abortion. Recently, he told students at the University of Central Missouri that the subject of abortion is not found in the Constitution:

"The reality is the Consti ...

Updated: Wed Mar 19, 2008

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Obama Digs Hole Deeper for 03/26/2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

When I heard Barack H. Obama compare his white grandmother — unfavorably, I might add — to his racist hatemonger of a pastor, I realized this guy would step on anyone to get to the top.

In a speech being hailed by his supporters as historic, Obama explained: "I can no more disown (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him t ...

Updated: Wed Mar 26, 2008

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Hillary's Sociopathic Lies for 04/02/2008

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I have waited a good long time to weigh in on Hillary Clinton's lies about surviving sniper fire in Bosnia. I did so because I wanted to give the former first lady a chance to repent. She hasn't.

All she has been willing to say about her repeated and demonstrably false claim to have landed in Bosnia in 1996 under sniper fire is that she "mis ...

Updated: Wed Apr 02, 2008

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US Gets Serious About Border for 04/09/2008

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I have some good news to report: Washington finally is getting serious about building a border fence.

Some $23 million has been allocated for engineering teams that will focus on smuggling tunnels and building a sturdier, impregnable border fence. The resources of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been directed to help with the project. That's the good news.

The bad news is th ...

Updated: Wed Apr 09, 2008

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Going the Way of Rome for 04/16/2008

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"The budget should be balanced. Public spending should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 B.C.

Not long after making the prophetic proclamation above, Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman senator, was assassinated.

It's not ...

Updated: Wed Apr 16, 2008

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No Good Guys in 'Palestine' for 04/23/2008

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Why does the U.S. government continue to promote the creation of an independent state of Palestine, which never has existed in the history of the world, is born of terrorist violence, and is pledged to the destruction of Israel? Even more interesting, why does the Israeli political and cultural elite support this movement?

I know this is not the first time I have raised these troubling q ...

Updated: Wed Apr 23, 2008

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The False Religion of Global Warming for 04/30/2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hysteria: a psychiatric condition variously characterized by emotional excitability, excessive anxiety, sensory and motor disturbances, or the unconscious simulation of organic disorders, such as blindness, deafness, etc.

That's how my dictionary defines hysteria. It's a good definition — especially insofar as the way I use the word to characterize the pathological obsession with t ...

Updated: Wed Apr 30, 2008

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For President: None of the Above for 05/07/2008

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It's probably no secret to anyone who reads my column regularly that I will not be voting for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president.

But I also will not be voting for John McCain.

I could tell you all the reasons and have expressed them already in a number of columns in recent months. But this time, I'll let someone with whom I seldom agree express them for me.

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Updated: Wed May 07, 2008

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