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Government: 1 big traffic jam
Wednesday August 20, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- 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 ...

McCain's boots defeat Obama's suits
Wednesday August 13, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- 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 ...

Obama's predicament: War wasn't about oil
Wednesday August 06, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- 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 ...

New slogans for Barack Obama
Wednesday July 30, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- 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 3 points. (According to USA Today/Gallup, John Mc ...

The greatness of 'The Dark Knight'
Wednesday July 23, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- 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 g ...

I got married last week
Wednesday July 16, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- 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 ...

Why America is the greatest country on Earth
Wednesday July 02, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- I was sitting at lunch with a colleague a few weeks back, and he mentioned that he did not understand the general media hubbub over Michelle Obama's unpatriotic statements. "So she said that she hadn't been proud of America in her adult life," he said. "So what?" I answered that m ...

The patriotic Jew
Wednesday June 25, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- Why don't Jews believe in Judaism? A poll this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life contained some stunning results regarding American Jews: Six in 10 American Jews expressed some doubts about God's existence. That number is one in four for Roman Catholics, mainline Protestan ...

Why I'm voting Democrat
Wednesday June 18, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- A new video on YouTube is taking the Internet by storm. Entitled "I'm Voting … Republican," the satirical clip depicts actors playing conservative Americans of all shapes and sizes explaining why they would vote for the GOP. "Arnold Jones" says he's voting Republican because "all o ...

The 'pregnant man' freak show
Wednesday June 11, 2008 by Benjamin Shapiro -- The media seem bizarrely obsessed with the story of "Thomas Beatie," aka Tracy Lagondino. Beatie, a woman who legally changed her sex to "male," retained all of her internal female organs at the same time she took testosterone, grew a beard and had breast removal surgery. She then "married" her l ...

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Ben Shapiro, 24, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School. In "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth," Ben shows how students are duped into becoming socialists, atheists, race-baiters and narcissists. His latest book is "Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House."

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