Guy Benson is the host of The Guy Benson Show on 560 WIND-AM in Chicago. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Eighty-five thousand cheering fans. Pyrotechnics. A dramatic, temple-style backdrop. Such was the scene in Denver Thursday night as Barack Obama accepted his party's presidential nomination with "great humility." As... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/08/31/obamas_radical_delegate b87159ee-804c-4246-ad81-e58f217d829d Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT It's a piece of political conventional wisdom that's been repeated many times: The cover-up is usually worse than the crime. A series of votes by Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate, however, turns that famous... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/08/17/obamas_infanticide_disgrace b2fb6b6f-d85f-4781-ad69-2091475bab3a Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:01:50 GMT Barack Obama contemplates the latest offering from one of his favorite hip hop artists, Ludacris: Thank goodness I found my iPod before leaving Berlin. I should've known I left it in the hotel gym, considering how... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/08/04/ludacris_does_politics 1907d0bc-ef8a-48ef-b45b-9658998df071 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:15:36 GMT What angers Barack Obama? The answer to this question may not be entirely clear, but at least a partial answer lies within the pages of the current New Yorker magazine. The controversial edition has generated far... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/07/21/when_obama_attacks 1446b255-5579-4189-95d9-717f63a656cf Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:18:36 GMT Schoolchildren across America have forever loathed the dreaded summer reading list. Having just completed a grueling academic year filled with long division and state capital memorization, most kids cringe when that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/06/22/summer_school_for_democrats 586d5840-2516-4f25-9428-5c14dba57249 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:03 GMT Chicago's sordid political machine churned out another felon last week. Ho hum. That's business as usual in the Windy City, unfortunately. As news bulletins blared the latest political casualty, Northsiders and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/06/08/obama_and_the_convicted_felon 0675dc47-e196-41d2-8420-6ec1dff3dacd Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:32:58 GMT By now, everyone's heard of Sen. John McCain's "Straight Talk Express," on which Mr. Maverick routinely shoots the breeze with members of the press. What many Americans may not know is that Sen. Barack Obama has his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/05/25/beware_obamas_bus 29dd5a18-5425-4083-8ed5-ee68755c6505 Sun, 25 May 2008 21:59:44 GMT John McCain delivered an important speech at Wake Forest on Tuesday, but how many Americans even heard about it? Much of the media was too busy obsessing over the latest twist in the Democratic primary to pay McCain's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/05/11/constitutional_empathy 5ed13bb5-638c-485f-91ba-86d3ff48bf69 Sun, 11 May 2008 15:15:03 GMT When George Stephanopoulos so rudely queried Sen. Barack Obama about his long-standing connections to unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers during a recent Democratic debate, many conservative newshound http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/04/24/debunking_obamas_ayers_fact_sheet 466c2e97-a573-4fb8-83b4-a9d0b51fa529 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:16:06 GMT "John McCain is a good man. He's an American hero. We honor his service to the nation. But he's made some bad decisions about the company he keeps." This magnanimous pronouncement from Barack Obama in February sounded... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/04/13/obamas_buddy_list e387f544-be07-40fe-93b0-4346d60c97fd Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT If a salacious political firestorm is the media equivalent of Christmas morning, the events of the past few weeks have packed American punditry's stockings to the brim. From the appalling videos of Jeremiah Wright, to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/03/30/teflon_john_democrat_attacks_fall_short 346ea865-8350-4f92-8e40-5a46bfd3f54a Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Senators John McCain and Barack Obama share precious little in common aside from their mutual status as presidential frontrunners. Their policy, biographical and demographic differences are too numerous to list. Their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/03/16/the_rock_star_and_the_road_warrior 98e3d99e-173e-4449-92de-e638bcd7d49b Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT It's been a rough few weeks for mainstream American journalism. The self-appointed gold standard of print journalism and one of the nation's top journalism schools have each descended into scandal, and in both cases,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/03/02/journalists_anonymous 424443b5-c31b-47f2-8ac1-addac58692a6 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:07:52 GMT By now it's a familiar tale: On July 27, 2004, Barack Obama strode to the podium at the Democratic National Convention and captivated the nation with a soaring and memorable keynote address entitled "The Audacity of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/02/17/the_opportunistic_rise_of_barack_obama ffd54281-d939-4110-af29-83d0dc3e5253 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT "I'm as old as dirt, and I have more scars than Frankenstein." Senator John McCain trots out this self-deprecating assessment with relative frequency on the campaign trail, often eliciting chuckles from his audience. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/02/03/mccain_hip,_not_hip-replacement 2b32ea2b-094c-43ac-9ea6-103b4c4b5be3 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:52:19 GMT