Year: 2003

Misc. Commentary: Here are some things I wanted to mention that probably weren’t quite developed enough to merit their own posts… — Judging by these numbers, Germany is nation full of raving moonbats… “Almost one in three Germans below the age of 30 believes the U.S. government may have sponsored the September 11, 2001, attacks […]

Survey: Many Germans Believe U.S. Sponsored Hitler By Scott Ott: About a third of young Germans believe the United States attacked itself on September 11, 2001, and that Adolf Hitler was a Cleveland-born foreign exchange student sponsored by the FBI. The survey of 1,000 people for the weekly Die Zeit (The Pimple), also showed that […]

10 Books That Had An Impact On Me While I Was In High School & College: I was (and still am) a voracious reader and I thought it might be interesting to share some of the books that really stuck with me as I was growing up. Keep in mind that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend […]

The Hugh Hewitt Interview: I did a phone interview with Hugh Hewitt yesterday. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, Hewitt is a regular columnist for World Net Daily & the Weekly Standard. He also has a syndicated radio show that currently runs on 42 stations. Hugh is one the up and […]

Iraq Today Vs. Postwar Germany: James Taranto found something I’ve been looking for all over the web, info about casualties and resistance in post WW2 Germany. Contrary to what the hysterical anti-war lefties would have you believe, the fact that we’re seeing resistance is nothing new. Here’s some info on the Nazi Werewolf guerilla movement […]

“Wimpiness” Vs “Machismo” In 2004: Is it just me or are the Democrats really coming off as an even bigger group of weenies than usual lately? On Sunday, we had the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller who voted for the war responding the question “in your view, in hindsight, was the […]

Saddam to Offer Eulogy at Sons’ Funeral By Scott Ott: Saddam Hussein may deliver the eulogy at a state funeral for his sons, Uday and Qusay, who died suddenly today in Mosul. The elder Hussein was invited to speak at the funeral by the commander of allied ground forces in Iraq, Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo […]

Post Of The Day From The Democratic Underground — I Wish Queasy And Duh-day Were Still Alive: Although there was a mixed (mostly negative) reaction to this statement on DU, I really wonder if this was a relatively common reaction among the hardcore anti-Bushies that they’re too embarassed to admit in public… thermodynamic: Doesn’t a […]

No More ‘Catch & Release’ For Illegal Aliens?: Our country is not and has not been serious about fighting illegal immigration. We don’t devote adequate staff and resources to patrolling our borders, we haven’t cracked down on businesses that hire illegals, many states coddle illegal aliens and their children by giving them benefits that should […]

Is History Sexist?: Meryl Yourish (among other people) got a bit huffy because no woman ranked in the top 20 Greatest Figures In American History article that went up yesterday. Here’s some of what Meryl had to say… “Notice also that there is not a single woman on the list of the “greatest figures in […]

The Top 25 American Athletes Of All-Time: The Bloggers Select The 20 Greatest Figures In American History article that I put up yesterday was such a blast that I’ve been considering doing some sequels. I thought about getting blogger opinions on the greatest American athletes, entertainers, songs, & movies of all time. I’m actually leaning […]

A Quasi-Movie Review Of ’28 Days Later’: There were two things that jumped out at me about ’28 Days Later’ — a film right out “Night of the Living Dead” school of horror. The movie starts off with some animal rights whackos breaking into a lab and freeing a virus infected monkey. That monkey then […]

Know Thy Enemy — North Koreans By Frank J: I just realized I’ve never done a Know Thy Enemy(tm) segment on the North Koreans. If we ever have to fight them, it’s likely my brother, Joe foo’ the Marine, will have to go out there. I don’t want him to get killed, because, if he […]

Bloggers Select The 20 Greatest Figures In American History: Out of all the titans in American history — Presidents and generals, inventors and entrepreneurs, reformers and revolutionaries — have you ever wondered who the best of the best were? Well, we here at RWN wondered about that too and that’s why we decided to email […]

Misc Commentary For July 18th: A few things worth talking about that didn’t merit their own posts… — Here’s more info from an intelligence assessment by the CIA last October that backs the Bush admin position on the SOTU speech flap… “The report asserts that Baghdad “if left unchecked…probably will have a nuclear weapon during […]

If You Think Bush Is Another Hitler, You’re Either Ignorant Or Delusional: It has become relatively commonplace to hear people on the left compare Bush to Hitler. In fact, it happens so often these days that it’s tempting to just simply write these people off as screwballs and ignore them, but it deserves more of […]

Put Career Criminals In Jail & Throw Away The Key: I’m a big supporter of laws that are very tough on repeat offenders,” but some people — judges included — don’t agree. Here’s one case in question… ” A judge reluctantly gave a man life in prison after a $20 burglary, saying he had no […]

Critiquing Glenn Reynolds’ Advice For Democrats: Glenn Reynolds pointed out a few issues he thought the Democrats should hit in 2004. Here is the crux of what Reynolds had to say with my thoughts afterwards… “…(T)he administration’s unwillingness to look into the intelligence failures leading up to September 11. That the September 11 attacks occurred […]

FAQS & Advertisers: Two things… 1) There are three sets of frequently asked questions I’m looking to work on: A) An Israel FAQ: Any questions people have about Israel’s history will be discussed. Things like the USS Liberty, Israeli spy rings, & Sabra & Shatila will be covered. B) An Iraqi War FAQ: This will […]

Radio Interview With Patrick Johnston: I did an interview today with Patrick Johnston of AM 1430 WION. He’s on in the Western/Central Michigan region and his show runs between 10:00am to 11:30am. The interview will be running tomorrow. Unfortunately, there’s no internet feed so you won’t be able to hear it unless you live in […]

Good News From Iraq: Amir Taheri has spent several days in Iraq and what he found largely flies in the face of the negative spin our press has put on things… “…ONE fact is that a visitor to Iraq these days never finds anyone who wants Saddam back. There are many complaints, mostly in Baghdad, […]

Download A Song, Go To Jail: I masticated Orrin Hatch back in June for advocating the destruction of hundreds of thousands of PCs because it “may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights”. As bad as that was, Democrats John Conyers and Howard Berman have gone one step farther; they want to […]

White House Says Deficit Will Reach $455 Billion This Year, But Doesn’t Want To Control Spending: Here are a few budget numbers…. “The Federal budget deficit will be $455 billion, roughly 50 percent larger than the White House estimated in February, the President’s Office of Management and Budget said this afternoon. …The sluggish economy, the […]

Bush Pushed Dubious Claim About Saddam’s Sanity By Scott Ott: The American Psychiatric Association today challenged President George Bush’s pre-war claims that Saddam Hussein was a “madman.” The original data for the assertion came from a British dossier which was based on a French summary of an Italian intelligence briefing intercepted by the CIA in […]

Misrepresenting What Bush Actually Said In The SOTU Speech: There sure are a lot of people out there playing fast & loose with the truth about what Bush actually said in his State of the Union Speech. Again here’s the controversial line from the speech… “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought […]

I Saw A Lizard Cloaking Himself….. I Think I Am Part Lizard: I ran across a page called Light Think that I thought might be freaky enough to merit being included in an edition of ACPOTI (Anyone Can Post On The Internet). However, I was going to give them a pass despite the fact that […]