Tag Archives: Ben Shapiro

Feb 28

Teachers Unions Opt for Plastic Sugery on Taxpayers’ Dime

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The health plan for teachers union members in Buffalo, NY apparently includes liposuction and nose jobs – and we pay for all of it.

As CNN reports:

The sweet deal that all the 3,400 teachers in Buffalo are eligible to get under one of their insurance plan options, they are billed nothing for any plastic surgery procedure, such as botox, liposuction, tummy tucks, and there is no deductible …. Last year, Buffalo’s schools spent $5.9 million on plastic surgery which is also known as a cosmetic rider. And Buffalo teachers have had this rider for nearly four

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Feb 27

Obama Admin Hooks Up With Gay Activist Who Created Santorum Google Bomb

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Dan Savage is one of the more repulsive columnists in America. He writes a sex advice column titled “Savage Love,” in which he describes in grotesque detail all sorts of fringe sexual practices.

He’s also an anti-religious bigot. Just take a look at his newest column, in which he writes the following about Mormons:

You know how Mormons “baptize” dead people who weren’t Mormons—including Holocaust victims—because Mormons believe they have a right to choose Mormonism for the deceased? And you know how the Mormon Church says that being gay is a choice? The same church that doesn’t

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Feb 24

Obama Campaign Attacks Koch Brothers, Blames Them For Gas Prices

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In an unprecedented attack on two private citizens, the Barack Obama campaign has issued an email from Jim Messina, the campaign manager, specifically targeting the Koch brothers.

Here’s the text:

In just about 24 hours, Mitt Romney is headed to a hotel ballroom to give a speech sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a front group founded and funded by the Koch brothers.

Those are the same Koch brothers whose business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump, and who have bankrolled Tea Party extremism and committed $200 million to try to destroy President

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Feb 17

The Santorum Surge: Two Problems for Conservatives

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Rick Santorum’s big bump in the polls this week, particularly in Michigan, where he is now running ahead by a margin of 39%-24% according to one poll, and 33%-27% in another, has to put a scare into the Romney campaign.  But it reveals two basic facts about the campaign – neither one of them good for conservatives.

First, it shows that Romney, who is still the presumptive favorite (Santorum isn’t on the ballot in Indiana or Virginia, and will have a difficult uphill battle in Arizona and Massachusetts and New York), is having serious problems connecting

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Feb 16

Government Loses Money Minting Money

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Seriously. According to Time, the new Obama budget proposes using cheaper metals to manufacture pennies and nickels. Apparently, it cost the feds 2.4 cents to actually manufacture a penny and 11.2 cents to manufacture a nickel. So we’re losing money making money.

The feds suggest that we make money-production less expensive. They do not, however, suggest that we make our money worth more by, for example, not inflating the currency.  Right now, those copper pennies in your pocket are already made of zinc for the most part, and our nickels are mostly copper.

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Feb 16

Government Motors Increases Profits, Freezes Salaries

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Remember when Michael Moore staked out Roger Moore of General Motors in Roger and Me, claiming that GM’s brutal capitalism earned the company profits while it mistreated workers?  Well, where’s Moore when you need him?

Yesterday, the largely Treasury Department-owned GM (32%) announced that it would freeze the pay of all 26,000 of its US employees, and would dump its pension contributions, as well as slashing bonuses. This even as it announced that it had posted an $8 billion profit in 2011.

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Feb 15

Why Mitt Romney Will Win the Nomination

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Rick Santorum is surging in national polling.  As Ed Morrissey notes, in a two-man race, Santorum beats Mitt Romney among Republicans by a sweeping 55% to 34% margin.  In other words, ouch.

But while many pundits suggest that Santorum has a real chance to win the nomination, so long as Newt Gingrich stays in the race, that seems increasingly unlikely.  Romney currently leads the delegate count by a count of 123 to 72; Newt Gingrich has 32 delegates, and Ron Paul has 19.  Santorum isn’t on the ballot in Virginia (49), or more crucially, in Indiana

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Feb 13

Obama Requests $1 Billion…To Get Right Names on Social Security Checks

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According to President Obama’s budget proposal today, his budget would continue “investment in program integrity by providing $1 billion to ensure benefits are paid to the right person and in the right amount.”  Yes, you read that correctly: we are supposed to spend one thousand million dollars in order to achieve what American Express does correctly every single day (or, come to mention it, what the Dewey Decimal System did for books 100 years ago).

Social Security fraud and waste, of course, is a very real problem.  In 2008, the Social Security Administration was so negligent [...]

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Feb 13

Obama Budget Forecasts 8.9% Unemployment for the Entire Year

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As Talking Points Memo points out this morning, President Obama’s proposed budget forecasts an average unemployment rate of 8.9% for the entire year.  It also forecasts a GDP growth of 3% next year, which is a rosy figure considering the fact that Obama’s tax increases will kick in January 2013.

The question, of course, is why Obama would forecast such an extraordinarily high unemployment rate.  There are two answers.  First, it allows him to project similarly extraordinarily high economic growth if his plans are implemented – after all, if you keep the baseline down, that makes [...]

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