Comments from Ben Stein

If they know of him at all, many folks think Ben Stein is just a quirky actor/comedian who talks in a monotone. He's also a very intelligent attorney who knows how to put ideas and words together in such a way as to sway juries and make people think clearly.

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The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary, Sunday, 12/18/05.

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important?

I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.

If this is what it means to be no longer young, it's not so bad.

Next confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred ya rds away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.

But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

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Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe

"Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth." With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his movie? Is the movie full of "junk science"?

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Lots of Political News today...

Check this out... President Bush decides that a Video Conference is not good enough, so he heads over to Bagdad to meet with the Iraqi government directly. Awesome...

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Oh, and Karl Rove is not going to be charged for any crimes in the CIA case around Valerie Plame... I'm so sorry this did not work out for you Michael Moore and George Soros... NOT!

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Secure the border - Conservatives only?

Why is border security a Conservative or Liberal issue? Don't we all want to secure our country and obey our laws? I guess not. If enough of us don't like a particular law, should we just ignore it? Well hey, I don't like paying taxes, I think I'll stop. You think that's silly? That's exactly what is happening with our immigration laws. Charles Krauthammer says it well.

##That's my opinion##

Voting machine 'hacker' runs for congress

The bloke who claimed that he was asked by a US elected official to build a program which would hack into electronic voting machines is standing for election.Against Congressman who sought to hire him

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A good idea gone bad -- Clint Curtis for Congress

I saw this on Digg and had to check him out. I agree with his points on corruption, but the rest of his platform is Democratic talking points. You can check out his web site here:

Clint Curtis for Congress: 24th District Florida

I left the following comment to him:

Mr. Curtis,

Although I applaude your wishes to unseat Mr. Feeney (my current representative) I have to say that you will not have my vote. Quite simply your uneducated stance on the Iraq war is one based to insite the Democratic base (Liberals) to vote for you and is not one based on ideals and principles. It is hard to believe that with the rest of your conservative stances you would stoop so low as to cow tow to the Liberal constituancy of the Democratic party.

I am a registered Republican, however that is not how I vote. The issues that are motivating me, and most of my contacts, are the Fair Tax, reduction of government, and morality. You have one out of three as I see nothing that would champion the reduction of government or promotion of a free tax.

Thank you for your time.

We need to take back our government from the Democratic and Republican parties. This gentleman is a classic example of someone who has compromised his own values already for the sake of getting the money to run for congress. What does that say?

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The worst bill you've never heard of...

Check this out:

IPac - Blog

Let's kill this thing!

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