Year: 2003

If you want to know why we desperately need term limits, you need look no further that these numbers from the latest Dick Morris’ column… “The political parties have conspired in a massive deal to protect one another’s incumbents by so drawing congressional district lines that only four incumbent congressmen were defeated by insurgents from […]

Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt, President Bush’s nominee for director of Environmental Protection (EPA), said he plans to drain and pave the nation’s swamps, open all federal lands to vigorous strip mining and permit visitors to Yellowstone National Park to “harvest” one grizzly bear per day. “Humans have a manifest destiny to conquer and dominate […]

Anytime some bad happens there are always left wingers looking for a way to tie it to George Bush. Did it rain on your picnic? Then the Bush Family Evil Empire made it rain! Was your favorite TV show canceled? Bush probably made it happen because it was a threat to his reelection. Was there […]

— Ross Gittins writes an editorial LAMENTING all the choices we have today. Here are a few samples from one of the most ridiculous editorials I’ve read this year… “But though some choice is obviously better than none, I think choice isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, I’m starting to think choice […]

I often get the impression that liberals don’t have the foggiest understanding of how people become conservative. Maybe they believe radio talk show hosts hypnotize their listeners with the sound of their voice or Richard Mellon Scaife pays us all $5 a week under the table to vote Republican, but that’s not how it actually […]

— So Arnold is going to have Democrat Warren Buffet as his campaign manager? Could Schwarzenegger be anymore of a RINO? It’s like having a musclebound Jim Jeffers running for governor of California and yet so many Republicans are getting excited about Arnold’s candidacy. Since the choice is between a real Democrat (Davis) & a […]

New legislation requiring a Presidential “finding” for so-called “special ops” by U.S. military forces will help prevent terror attacks, according to a Senate source. The finding, similar to that used for covert intelligence operations, would have to be sent to the Senate before the special operations force could be deployed. “By forcing the President to […]

The Du’s own CaptainMidnight explains how Bush is going to deliver California to Arnold by engineering a terrorist attack (edited for brevity’s sake)…. ALERT! Tinfoil Hat Theory: Why Arnie is running. …We know the recall’s about getting a Repub Gov. in office in order to make California easier to steal, or make the 2004 Election […]

Here are a few quotes from & about Howard Dean, the man RWN wants to see receive the Democratic nomination. If you want to know why I’m rooting for him, just read these quotes and imagine the campaign ads Karl Rove will be crafting around them next year if Dean goes head to head with […]

For you convenience, here’s the breakdown of the two “worst” lists side by side. I swiped most of the code w/ permission from Angry Bear… Conservatives’ List Liberals’ List — HM: Roger Taney (5) HM: Boss Tweed (5) HM: James Earl Ray (5) HM: Michael Moore (5) HM: Charles Manson (5) HM: Joe McCarthy (5) […]

Michael Moore, author of ‘Stupid White Men’, filed suit today against Al Franken, author of ‘Lies and Lying Liars Who Tell Them’, for trademark infringement. According to the lawsuit, “Michael Moore’s ‘bitter liberal’ shtick is well established, and Mr. Franken has no right to confuse the reading public by releasing this sniping, vitriolic attack on […]

Remember how ridiculous Spike Lee looked when he sued Spike TV because he claimed people would associate the network with him? Well, Fox News has topped him. They’re suing Al Franken for using the term “fair & balanced” in the title of his new book. Plus they had some really nasty things to say about […]

I did not hear it myself, but according to Classical Values, G. Gordon Liddy read an entire post from RWN on the air… “John Hawkins says he was “very disappointed” to hear Rush Limbaugh (of whom he is a fan) airily dismiss blogging. But had this leading blogger been listening to Rush’s competitor, the G. […]

Here are my top twenty favorite blogs on the net right now — minus Scrappleface & IMAO which I decided to leave off because I use their material so often that it’s hard to be impartial where they’re concerned. 20) The Bleat 19) USS Clueless 18) Samizdata 17) Croooow Blog 16) Electric Venom 15) Inoperable […]

The W32/Blaster-A Worm is wreaking havoc all across the net on anyone with a XP, NT, or Windows 2000 OS who doesn’t have their security patches. This one is really spreading fast. People hit with this worm are constantly being knocked off the net & forced to reboot. The fix for this worm is the […]

I’m sure most of RWN’s readers remember the Bloggers Select The 20 Worst Figures In American History article from last week. Well, that went over so well that I decided to do it again, but with left-wing bloggers making their selections this time. I ended up asking more than a hundred left-wing bloggers for their […]

I’m going to be taking a three day week-end which means that the next update of RWN will be Tuesday. As per usual when I go out of town, I’ve put up a few websites I like in the daily news section. If I’m not going to be here, maybe I can at least farm […]

I’m a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh which is why I was so disappointed when he said the following about bloggers today in response to David Hill’s dopey article that I discussed yesterday…. “In the audio links below, I treat you to my analysis of pollster Dr. David Hill’s column headlined “Bloggers Won’t Match Limbaugh.” […]

This article from CNS News hammers home a point I’ve been making for a long time — the problem with our education system is not money… “According to recent testimony by Heritage Foundation scholar Krista Kafer, despite “considerable” increases in federal education spending, nearly six in 10 high school seniors “lack even a basic knowledge […]

Everywhere you look on the net there are people who are all jazzed up about Arnold Schwarzenegger getting in the governors race in California. Bush says he’d be a great governor, Katie Couric is pulling out the long knives and the editorials are everywhere. Despite all this excitement, enthusiasm, and energy, I have to admit […]

I have grown to appreciate James Lileks writing over time and he has become one my favorite Conservative writers. So I decided to compile a list of my favorite Lileks quotes from his Newhouse columns. Read and enjoy! (Cont)

Back in December of 2002, I did my first evaluation of the Democratic field. Since then, things have really started to shake out. A lot of candidates (some of them were admittedly longshots to get in) have apparently decided not to run this time around. Their ranks include Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Gray Davis, Dianne […]

So I’m reading this article by a Republican consultant named David Hill who says that he, “doubt(s) that blogging or any specific bloggers will match Limbaugh’s record-setting pace for gathering influence in the political process”. That quote reminds me of when Bill Gates said, “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” It just seems to […]

Scott Ott from Scrappleface was giving me the blow by blow of Al Gore’s speech from this afternoon on instant messenger and I was responding with snarky commentary. I thought it was entertaing enough to post (after a bit of editing) and it has to be better than actually listening to Gore’s soul-deadening droning about […]

Ben Murnane wrote an article based on an email interview he did with me for a print zine in Ireland called “Totally Fushed”. Unfortunately, the internet edition of the mag is defunct, so I don’t have a way to link to Murnane’s article. However, I do have a copy of the original interview and I […]

— I think Kobe Bryant is in a lot of trouble. We’ve already heard that his accuser told a bellhop what happened and was “disheveled and had red marks on her neck and face immediately following her encounter with Bryant”. Today, it emerged that Bryant’s accuser had vaginal tearing. Folks, that combo is about as […]

Today, on the 58th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Nicholas Kristof wrote a convincing column about why dropping the bomb on Japan was necessary. Here are a few key excerpts… “…The Japanese scholarship, by historians like Sadao Asada of Doshisha University in Kyoto, notes that Japanese wartime leaders who favored surrender saw their salvation […]

Many people have noted (Dean Esmay for one) that the Democrats are positioning themselves to take advantage of another stateside terrorist attack. However, I am of the opinion that another attack on American soil would probably help Bush politically, not hurt him. Now that may seem counterintuitive, but let me explain my reasoning. To begin […]

So far, the Democratic candidates have been playing coy and not one of them has called or sent me an email begging for my endorsement. However, the time to bribe me has passed and I am officially ready to throw all of RWN’s might behind a Democratic candidate. But of course RWN’s loyal readers deserve […]

Gov. Howard Dean cemented his Democrat presidential frontrunner status today when he healed a man of leprosy then walked across the surface of a small lake to his next campaign appearance. The Vermont Governor also shocked the pundits with his simultaneous appearance on the covers of Time, and Newsweek. Print journalists are writing about all […]