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When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Car
Care
Chores
Episodes
Flying
Maids
Notion
Reason
Take Care
Television
Wake Up
Loved
Early
Extraordinarily
Robot
Wake
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President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Anger
Administration
American Life
Competence
Frustration
Members
Odd
President Obama
Totally
Actual
Obama
Constantly
Express
Substitute
Unsettling
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Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Banging
Beijing
Cold
Cold War
Dominance
Frightened
Geopolitical
Opening
Reminding
Seeming
Rise
War World Cold War
Drums
Specter
Thousands
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Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Religion
Government
Court
Discussion
Moral
Pits
President
President Obama
Substitution
Supreme
Supreme Court
Traditional Marriage
Wisest
Against
Obama
Among
Coffin
Final
Nail
Road
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Sign
Toward
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In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Actuality
Blame
California
Cash
Educated
Sun
Wonderful
Enjoying
Highly
In Fact
Recommend
Wonderful Place
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'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Adaptation
Bible
Environmentalism
Film
Green
Morality
Process
Radical
Ridiculous
Turns
Although
Aspects
Bound
Deep
Wrong
Gets
Merely
Noah
Story
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Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It depends on whether Obama ate his Wheaties or not.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Citizens
Depends
Executive Branch
Groups
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
President
Vice President
Obama
Ate
Believes
Branch
Executive
Joe
Vice
Whomever
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Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
God
Happy
Government
Care
Commandments
Covetousness
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Long
Petty
Prosperity
Should
Socialism
Spite
Ten
Ten Commandments
Three
Turns
Why
Much
After
Make
Discussions
How
How Much
How Much Money
Least
Violates
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Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Diversity
Foreign Policy
Gaps
Islam
Muslim World
Notion
One Way
Policy
Turns
Picture
Obama
Bridge
Burns
Entire
Existing
Street
Foreign
Global
Instead
Muslim
One-Way Street
Respects
Tells
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Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Accountability
Capitalism
Capitalist
Characteristics
Individual
Individual Responsibility
Produce
Relevant
Responsibility
Units
Useful
Seen
Consume
Either
Requires
System
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Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Department
Executive Branch
Immunity
Presidential
Sitting
Thanks
Branch
Executive
Justice Department
Literally
Meet
National Television
Strangle
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The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Jobs
Failure
Government
Bankruptcy
Boost
Capitalism
Cities
Detroit
Employment
Enough
Generous
Government Spending
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Job Creators
Order
Pension
Plans
Promise
Simple
Spending
Voting
Tax
Job
Against
Allow
Grow
Campaign
City
Creators
Flee
Repeat
Story
Wash
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Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Failure
Attributes
Finest
Impossible
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Media
Members
Opponents
Our Time
Political
Political Opponents
President
Voters
Worship
Obama
Affecting
Capabilities
Excuses
Finds
Human Being
Nay
Praises
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Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Altruism
Capitalism
Contrast
Dislike
May
Moral
Results
Socialism
Want
Will
Because
You
Exist
Exchange
Simply
Forced
Give
Help
Owe
Product
Redistribution
Service
Something
Starve
Than
Voluntary
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By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Jobs
Criticism
Giving
Opposing
Professors
Serving
Uninterested
Viewpoints
Life Freedom Power
Among
Respond
Student
Harass
Intimidate
Likely
Student Body
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The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Marriage
Society
Argument
Assault
Direct
Dramatic
Gay
Gay Marriage
Groups
Herring
Law
Red
Refuse
Religious
Ridiculous
Will
Come
Affect
Perform
Them
State
Federal
Governments
Marriages
Move
State Governments
Strip
Ways
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The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Business
Behalf
Candidates
Grassroots
Hate
Loyal
Organization
Party
Republican Party
Tea
Tea Party
Begin
Stand
Almost
Run
Favor
Flag
Interests
Minute
Solely
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The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
God
Allegiance
Charity
Higher
Higher Power
Irrelevant
Welfare
Welfare State
Above
Actual
Greatest
Name
Collective
State
Greatest Obstacle
Makes
Obstacle
Private
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The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Government
Adverse
Force
Form
Interest
Population
Religious
Tyrants
Utilizing
Control
Government People Control
Government People Know
Against
Greatest
Bulwark
Communities
Families
Government Control
Government Control People
Rather
Religious People
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It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Obamacare
Prayer
Symbolic
Advocate
Blindly
No Wonder
Push
Violate
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It was always foolhardy for Republicans and conservatives to stake their objections to Obamacare on the number of sign-ups; Social Security is going bankrupt despite 100% enrollment. The reality is that Obama was always destined to hit his required numbers because, after all, he has the power of government to compel action.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Action
Despite
Destined
Enrollment
Foolhardy
Security
Social Security
Power Government Always
Obama
Hit
Compel
Conservatives
Number
Republicans
Stake
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During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Depression
Great
American Economy
Crime
Easy
Excellent
Great Depression
Levels
Rose
Actually
Again
American
Free
Alligator
Life Great Free
Nearly
Dropped
Entire
Fell
Non-Existent
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Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Afar
Deals
Meetings
Miles
Skype
Thanks
Vote
Communications
Distant
Thousands
Visit
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President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Conflict
Embrace
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Ready
Stage
Vision
Obama
Advocate
Biggest
Branch
Controlling
World Stage
Executive
Legislative
Muscular
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Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
God
Success
Acknowledgment
Charity
Justification
Left
Moral
Poor
Poor People
Property
Rejects
Rich
Rich People
Socialism
Sovereignty
Anything
Concept
Simply
Over
Nor
Owed
Superior
Utterly
Whatsoever
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Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama's frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Administration
Crucial
Despite
Eye
Incompetent
President Obama
Public Eye
Remains
Weak
Springs
Obama
Bet
Field
Larger
Solid
Re-Election
Status
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When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Optimistic
Barack
Bigger
Creating
Democracy
Fragmented
Liberal Democracy
President
President Barack Obama
Soviet
Soviet Union
West
Obama
Barack Obama
Believed
Belong
Bonds
Direction
Embraced
Fell
Free Markets
Gradually
Inexorably
Instead
Liberal
Markets
Union
Puts
Scholars
Shifted
The Only Thing
Weaker
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