Ben Shapiro from Creators Syndicate

I Got Married Last Week for 07/16/2008

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

I got married last week. Hence my absence from this space for the first time in seven years. It was a beautiful wedding in Acre, Israel, overlooking the ocean at sunset. My father wrote the music for the processional, which brought everyone to tears. My bride looked stunning, of course. We broke the glass, we danced, we ate and we celebrated until deep into the night.

Outside the wedding ...

Updated: Wed Jul 16, 2008

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The Greatness Of "The Dark Knight" for 07/23/2008

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

Last Thursday night, my wife and I went to a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight" (warning: there will be mild spoilers). I'm normally an early-to-bed early-to-rise type, so our decision to view the new Batman movie during the witching hour was not an easy one. I was not a fan of comic books growing up, so it wasn't a decision bred by obsession, either. We saw the first showing of ...

Updated: Wed Jul 23, 2008

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New Slogans For Barack Obama for 07/30/2008

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

Barack Obama's messianic tour of Europe is over. And, like Jesus, he has risen again — in the polls. According to Gallup's daily tracking poll, Obama is now up 8 percent among registered voters. According to Rasmussen, his lead is a whopping three points. (According to USA Today/Gallup, John McCain actually leads Obama among likely voters by 4 percent. But God knows that Jesus' poll numbe ...

Updated: Wed Jul 30, 2008

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The Democrats' Big Problem: The War In Iraq Wasn't About Oil for 08/06/2008

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

This 2008 presidential election cycle has been jam-packed with irony. John McCain has been forced to rely on the 527 groups he so despises; Barack Obama has been denounced by members of the black community but embraced by upper class whites; the Clintons have been rejected by the very media that put them in power.

But perhaps the most ironic fact of the 2008 election cycle is this: John ...

Updated: Wed Aug 06, 2008

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McCain's Boots Defeat Obama's Suits for 08/13/2008

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

A man, they say, can be judged by his friends. If that's the case, then Barack Obama can surely be judged by George Clooney. The UK Daily Mail reported this week that the "Ocean's Eleven" actor regularly speaks with and text messages the presumptive Democratic nominee, advising him on everything from fashion to foreign policy. "George has been giving him advice on things such as ...

Updated: Wed Aug 13, 2008

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Government Is One Big Traffic Jam for 08/20/2008

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Late Sunday night, my wife and I drove from Sacramento, Calif., to Los Angeles. We figured that it would be wise to leave Sacramento in the early evening to avoid traffic. At 7 p.m., we climbed into the car and headed for Interstate 5, the major highway connecting Northern California and Southern California.

For the first five hours of the drive, things went as planned. The highway was r ...

Updated: Wed Aug 20, 2008

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Barack Obama's Big Mistake: Successfully Distributing His Message for 08/27/2008

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Campaigns usually collapse because of gaffes — off-the-cuff actions that accidentally reveal the true nature of candidates. And the Barack Obama campaign has had more than its share of revealing gaffes: Obama's statement that rural voters turn to God, guns and racism because they have no jobs; his explanation that proper tire gauge use would fix high gas prices; his self-aggrandizing exho ...

Updated: Wed Aug 27, 2008

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The Hypocritical, Woman-Hating Left Targets Palin for 09/03/2008

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once remarked.

Where, then, are the liberal women when it comes to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin?

Palin became the first woman to grace a Republican ticket on Friday, August 29, when Senator John McCain selected her as his running mate. The following day, ...

Updated: Wed Sep 03, 2008

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MTV: Where Virgins Go To Die for 09/10/2008

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Virginity is hilarious, according to MTV Video Music Awards host Russell Brand. After Brand was done encouraging Americans to vote for Barack Obama because George W. Bush is a "retarded cowboy fellow," he attacked the Jonas Brothers for wearing promise rings, rings intended to demonstrate support for abstinence until marriage.

"I'm beginning to wonder if the Jonas Brothers ...

Updated: Wed Sep 10, 2008

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Obama Can Use E-Mail, But He Can't Run A Country for 09/17/2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Last week, the Barack Obama campaign ran an ad against John McCain. The ad didn't target McCain on policy or even on personality — it targeted him on his age. While a picture of a disco ball is seen, followed by one of McCain in huge square-framed glasses, the narrator announces, "1982!" "John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years. But McCain h ...

Updated: Wed Sep 17, 2008

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Some Jews Ain't So Smart for 09/24/2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Jews, according to both anti-Semites and philo-Semites, are smart folks. Anti-Semites claim that Jews are highly intelligent — and therefore threaten the world via conspiratorial monetary and political control. Philo-Semites point out that Jews have provided a vastly disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as various leading scientists, philosophers, writers and artists.
Updated: Wed Sep 24, 2008

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Obama, Not Bush, The Quasi-Fascist On Free Speech for 10/01/2008

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama poses as a champion of true American values. He sees himself as "a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

In reality, though, Barack Obama is just another in a long line of Chicago-style, free speech-squelching political thugs springing from the festering pit of Democratic machine politics.

His rhetoric quashes debate. For al ...

Updated: Wed Oct 01, 2008

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An Open Letter To College Students for 10/08/2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Dear College Students,

I know you've been enthusiastic about the Obama candidacy this campaign season. I know it because the media says so. I know it because the polls say so. Most of all, I know it because your professors say so. Because for all the talk on campuses across the country about standing up to authority, for all the talk about thinking for yourself and forging your o ...

Updated: Wed Oct 08, 2008

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The Jewish Case Against Barack Obama for 10/15/2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama is the most dangerous candidate for the State of Israel since its creation in 1948. He is not, as Professor Alan Dershowitz recently put it, a "true friend of Israel" any more than Jimmy Carter was. He is certainly not "much better for Israel" than John McCain, as potty-mouthed comic dunce Sarah Silverman put it.

Any American Jew who votes for Obama ought ...

Updated: Wed Oct 15, 2008

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You Know You're An Elitist If… for 10/22/2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

This election cycle has exposed an enormous divide across the country. It's not the divide between black and white; it's not even the divide between liberals and conservatives. It's the divide between elitists and the rest of us.

Elitism is a state of mind. Not everyone in New York and Los Angeles is afflicted by it, and not everyone from Jackson, Mississippi is free from it. Elitism is ...

Updated: Wed Oct 22, 2008

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The Obama Administration for 10/29/2008

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

November 3, 2012, WASHINGTON D.C. — Tomorrow, Americans return to the polls, four years after electing Senator Barack Hussein Obama their commander in chief. Though the incumbent president trails in the polls, his aides still hold out hope that he will be able to engineer an improbable victory.

Dissatisfaction with the depressed economy, America's tenuous situation abroad, and a sp ...

Updated: Wed Oct 29, 2008

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Americans Embrace Childish Unity for 11/06/2008

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Great Election of 2008 is over. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States.

Now is the time to ask what this election was about.

Here's what this election was not about: Barack Obama. It was not about his record: He didn't have one. It was not about his views, which are radical in the extreme. It was not about his associations: Americans didn't care about ...

Updated: Thu Nov 06, 2008

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The Sheer Idiocy of Following Youth Movements for 11/12/2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Campbell is an obscure writer for the Fort Collins, Colo. But on Oct. 26, he penned what serves as the perfect window into the mind of many Barack Obama supporters. Campbell attended an Obama rally with his 11-year-old son, Turner. Turner was excited by Obama's typical “American Dream” stump speech. Campbell himself was excited not by Obama, but by his son's reaction: “Fo ...

Updated: Wed Nov 12, 2008

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The Never-Ending Bailout and the End of American Economic Dominance for 11/19/2008

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Our political leadership — folks like President George W. Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President-elect Barack Obama — told us that the government would save us. They said that the economic crisis was so dire, so grim, that we needed to allow the government to spend our money to bail out Wall Street. They stated th ...

Updated: Wed Nov 19, 2008

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Unions Fight to End American Capitalism for 11/26/2008

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

In the 1979 film “Norma Rae,” Academy Award-winner Sally Field, playing a textile worker, chats with Ron Liebman, a union organizer. “I know the union's the only way we're gonna get our own voice, make ourselves better,” he tells her. She nods. “I guess that's why I push,” she says.

Today's labor unions aren't pushing for a voice. They're pushing for better benefits; they're pushing for ...

Updated: Wed Nov 26, 2008

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