Ben Shapiro

A new poll from CNN/ORC shows that President Obama remains Teflon despite the fact that he designed the upcoming fiscal cliff to speculation. Even though Obama insisted on massive defense cuts and huge tax increases as the two alternative parts

Today, White House officials – but not President Obama – met with the US Chamber of Commerce to discuss the fiscal cliff situation. In 2010, the Democratic National Committee suggested that the US Chamber of Commerce was taking “secret foreign

According to the White House, hitting the fiscal cliff and forcing across-the-board tax hikes would slam the economy to the tune of $200 billion. The White House sent an email this morning making precisely this point, hoping to pressure Congressional

Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) threatened changes to the Senate filibuster system, which forces most measures to receive 60 votes in order to receive an actual vote. The filibuster has been a centuries-old constitutional traditional driving compromise rather

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor of the Senate today to slam President Obama for his kowtowing to the radical left on tax policy ahead of the much-dreaded fiscal cliff. McConnell said that talks have now

The Obama Administration Interior Department has famously attempted to shut down vast swaths of federal lands to oil drilling. Their corruption is well known. Nonetheless, the latest scandal from the Interior Department is particularly worthy of note. Over the weekend,

Just when you think the government can’t get any crazier comes a loony story from the 1950’s: the Eisenhower administration actually considered whether to nuke the moon in order to deliver a message to the Soviet Union. The Asian News

Nothing says Christmas like leveling of the sexes. That’s what’s in the stocking in Sweden, where the country’s advertising standards prevent gender stereotyping. That means that Toys “R” Us in the country is advertising dolls for boys and guns for

You know your city is bankrupt when the firefighters are scraping together dimes to buy toilet paper. Welcome to Detroit. According to WWJ Newsradio 950’s Rob Sanford, Detroit firehouses are experiencing shortages of soap, hand towels, and toilet paper. That’s

A single mom from Chicago is now suing the city, claiming that the $105,000 in parking tickets she racked up is not her responsibility. Her boyfriend, she alleges, bought a used car from her uncle for $600, registered the car

The National Republican Senatorial Committee had a rotten track record in 2012. But now they’re looking to get more deeply involved in picking candidates at the state level, hoping to foreclose Tea Party primary challengers like Richard Mourdock (R-IN). “There’s

President Obama wants to raise taxes on anyone earning more than $250,000 per year. But according to the left-leaning Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, leaving the Bush tax rates in place for those earning up to $1 million would do little

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is widely considered a potential candidate for president in 2016. That speculation was fueled last week by Paul’s statement on national television that he wouldn’t rule out running in 2016. But in order for Paul to

Today, multiple high-ranking Republicans announced that they were willing to raise taxes as part of a deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” breaking the pledges they had made to Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform. Said Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC)

Remember those idiotic Barack Obama t-shirts and hoodies from his election campaign website? Turns out they weren’t so dumb after all. According to campaign manager Jim Messina, the campaign raked in some $40 million from all that Obama paraphernalia. The

Americans may have just re-elected President Obama, but they’d rather have a backup quarterback with broken ribs to their Thanksgiving dinner. According to a new Nielsen survey, 23 percent of Americans would like to have Tim Tebow of the New

Missouri Republicans are fighting back against the imposition of Obamacare, stating that costs to the state far outweigh any potential benefits of the program. Obamacare wants states to expand their Medicaid rolls, with the state eventually picking up a significant

Today in Atlanta, union protesters tried to slow or block shoppers from entering Walmart. Approximately 24 union protesters set up a picket line across the driveway of an Atlanta Walmart, apparently harassing but allowing cars through the picket line. One

In this year’s round of Black Friday shopper madness, K-Mart has checked in. In South Sacramento, chaos broke out after store workers gave people in line vouchers; others in the line began screaming and cursing. One particularly upset gentleman began