Ben Stein

Saturday Drive: 2012 Fisker Karma

2012-02-18 09:26:00

The car: Fisker Karma The power: 403 total horsepower coming from two 201.5-horsepower (150 kW) AC motors, mounted just above the rear wheels. Torque is in the neighborhood of monstrous, with 981 pound-feet available at 0 RPM. That figure sounds like...

Matthew Broderick on his Ferris Bueller ad: 'I'm part of a virus'

2012-01-31 16:38:26

Super Bowl ads: Broderick's Ferris Bueller takes day off for Honda

2012-01-30 16:37:20

Say what? The Tea Party schedules a rally in Beverly Hills

2010-09-22 21:36:23

Monday's Talk Show

2010-11-21 21:34:09

Weekend TV Talk Shows: The way forward in Afghanistan is a featured topic

2009-11-27 21:34:17

Tuesday's TV Highlights: The Kennedy Center honors Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen, Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck and Grace Bumbry

2009-12-28 21:34:24

Brand X Files: Did Mel pull gun on Oksana? GOP wants to repeal Wall St. reform! Apple to recall iPhone 4?

2010-07-15 16:36:53

Thursday's TV Talk Shows: Larry King talks about Tiger Woods

2010-04-07 21:35:04

Obama's tax plan

2008-10-26 00:00:00

Does an income of $250,000 really make one "rich," as Barack Obama says? That's the point at which taxes would begin to go up under Obama's tax plan, and that's the annual income he cited in August when asked by Pastor Rick Warren to give his definition...

Teach the controversy?

2008-04-16 00:00:00

Today, Shermer and Lukianoff discuss efforts to include "intelligent design" and other such hypotheses in classroom curricula. Previously, they weighed allegations of instructor bias in college classrooms and debated what roles a school might have in...

Robert Redford revisits ‘All the President’s Men’

2013-03-13 16:43:19

Writer/economist/entertainer Ben Stein is 66 today. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for M Booth and Associates)

2012-11-14 18:04:00

Ferris Bueller star Ben Stein hosted the 2008 documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which bashed Darwinism. Stein has said that Darwinism is "a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies," "the most compelling argument yet for Imperialism," and the inspiration for the Holocaust.

2012-07-10 00:00:00

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) is not ill but playing hooky, Jeffrey Jones' Mr. Rooney (who is technically the dean of students) embarks on an all-out quest that sees him breaking and entering Bueller's home. A misdemeanor, probably, but an act certain to go on his permanent record.

2011-06-22 12:30:57

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