Ben Stein loses NY Times column over endorsement

Monotone TV personality Ben Stein has been stripped of his Sunday New York Times business column because of his work as a pitchman for a credit monitoring company.

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Ben Stein cancels Vermont speech in evolution row

Comedian Ben Stein has withdrawn as the University of Vermont's commencement speaker because of complaints about his critical views on evolution in favor of intelligent design.

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Stein Crosses Party Lines, Helps Franken

Liberal Al Franken is good enough and smart enough to win some of conservative Ben Stein's money — and doggone it, Stein likes him.

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Ben Stein: Troops Were Snubbed at Oscars

Ben Stein says the people who were snubbed on Oscar night weren't the stars who were passed over for Academy Awards, but American troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The New York Times Fired Ben Stein For Hawking Sleazy Credit Products While Writing About Financial Matters. Unbelievably The Wall Street Journal Decides To Keep Mark Penn. The Columnist Tries To Snag Clients For His P-R Business After He Writes About Them.

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The low point of Ben Steinery was his August 12 2007, column, Chicken Little's Brethren, on the Trading Floor. Stein made the absurd argument that because sub-prime was so tiny relative to the US Economy, it was meaningless. Those who followed his advice lost millions.

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Ben Stein's TV ads for a scuzzy "free" credit product have finally caught up to him: The New York Times has fired Stein as a Sunday business columnist for violating ethics guidelines.

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Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

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How far has Ben Stein sunk? Far enough that I feel compelled to resuscitate the Ben Stein Watch, just to share this unfunny and positively harmful TV ad which is now being aired:

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Washington Policy Center 2009 Annual Dinner Wednesday October 6, 2009 Sheraton Seattle Hotel 1400 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 6:00pm - Reception | Dinner to Follow

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Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

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Dawkins' OU Talk Goes Off With Only Minor Hitches

Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," retired Oxford University professor, and outspoken agnostic and proponent of the theory of evolution was scheduled to speak Friday night as part of Oklahoma University's Darwin 2009 Project to observe the 200th anniversary of the …

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ACTOR AND right-wing ideologue Ben Stein withdrew from an invitation to speak at the University of Vermont's (UVM) commencement in the face of swelling opposition.

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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Comedian Ben Stein has withdrawn as the University of Vermont's commencement speaker because of complaints about his critical views on evolution in favor of intelligent design.

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Judge Jones, whose distinction prior to the Dover case was running the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, now has multiple honorary doctorates for rendering his decision, which he cribbed from the ACLU's Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.

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UVM President Daniel Mark Fogel spoke with members of the media Monday, Feb. 2, about the withdrawal of Ben Stein as UVM's commencement speaker. The following is a full transcript of the interview. To read UVM's press release about Stein's withdrawal, click here.

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50. Barack Obama

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Ruloff readily admitted Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed provoked rage in many quarters when it was released across the continent this year. And he knows it will continue to rile some now that it's come out in DVD.

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The problem now, as in 1929 to 1940, is that the economy is not functioning normally. It is shot through and through with fear, even terror. Worse yet, and unlike the situation in the Depression, government miscues have been only a part of the problem.

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WE will soon have a new leader of the United States. He will have considerable power, yet obviously not nearly enough to deliver on everything that has been promised.

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What we saw in the years of President Ronald Reagan — and now President Bush — was not in any sense a vindication of the genius Professor Friedman or the persuasive and charming Mr. Laffer.

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We think the conventional wisdom, now, is that Sarah Palin is a cynical appeal not to Hillary voters but to the Republican "base," which means religious white people. It's a last-ditch effort to win just one more with George W.

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Larry King — CNN's usually mild-mannered and non-confrontational host — took umbrage last night when his guest, conservative radio talker Larry Elder, tried to blame Bill Clinton for 9/11.

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What is the future? We will get through all of it. "This great nation will endure as it has endured," to quote F.D.R.

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Summary: On Glenn Beck, Ben Stein, while discussing Sen.

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AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services.

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"Since any field of biology, including evolution, is filled with unsolved problems, intelligent design can be invoked as the default explanation for any one of them," adds Brown.

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Ben Stein & Glenn Beck yuck it up, agree Iraq War hilarious!

Ben Stein was Nixon's Speechwriter & the Principal in Ferris Bueller movie ( "Bueller? Bueller?...") about a High School kid who skips school. Stein, a right-wing conservative, has been making the rounds of all the T.V.

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I was invited, probably by accident, to a preview in January of the independent movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring lawyer-economist-actor Ben Stein.

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