Year: 2003

A New Way Of Spinning Tax Cuts: If political rhetoric were a road, the phrase, “tax cuts for the wealthy” would be a waist deep rut because Democratic pols and pundits use it so often. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about getting rid of the marriage penalty, giving people a tax credit for having […]

More Mainstream Media Coverage For RWN: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer discussed RWN’s A Blogger Symposium On The Media & The Blogosphere in an editorial. They quoted yours truly and ***gasp of shock*** even included a link to RWN, which is believe it or not fairly rare when it comes to the online version of newspapers. On […]

Gun Control Helps Criminals: If you want to know what’s wrong with gun control then you don’t have to look much further than this story… “As his back door was kicked in Monday afternoon, a South End homeowner – confined to his bed because of a disability – called 911 with one hand and grabbed […]

Paranoid Man Actually Being Watched By Government By Shawn M. Thorgersen : NEW YORK-Agents from a top secret government agency admitted yesterday, on condition of anonymity, to spying on Jack Holderstadt, a Burger King Assistant Manager in Ronkonkoma, Long Island. “I knew they were out to get me!” exclaimed Holderstadt at a press meeting. “My […]

Turning Young Minds Full Of Mush Into Cyber Criminals: It’s ridiculous that any college would have a course like this… “A university course in Canada teaching students how to create computer viruses has been met with derision by angry industry watchers, who believe it will create a pool of future virus writers. The ‘Computer Viruses […]

Friends & Enemies In The Post-Iraq World: There are quite a few interesting stats in the latest Pew Poll that I thought were worth commenting on. In fact, there’s so much stuff in here worth talking about that I’m going to have to keep my comments short or this post will end up being ridiculously […]

Threat Level Upped to Red When Broker Says “Enron” by Scott Ott: The Homeland Security Department briefly increased the national security threat level to “Red” this afternoon when a Wall Street Broker apparently used the word Enron in a sentence. Fighter jets were scrambled over New York City, and some school children donned gas masks […]

Miscellaneous: A few things of note… — Many blogs entered our “Link RWN & Win Contest“, but only a few sent us enough traffic to qualify. Here are the blogs that qualified… IMAO, Right We Are!, The Catholic Samurai, Gut Rumbles, 4Ranters, Sgt. Hook, & Curmudgeonly & Skeptical. And the two big winners are…..Right We […]

According To The Guardian, America Is Practically A Dissent Free Zone: This editorial by the Guardian’s Gary Younge about the lack of dissent is America is so far off the mark you’d think it was written by a space alien observing human beings for the first time. Just look at how far he goes out […]

This Is Pathetic — Even For The French: France put America’s security at risk by undercutting the war in Iraq & they’ve worked hard to rally Europe and the rest of the world against us. Make no mistake about it, France has acted like an enemy nation that views it’s own success as being tied […]

Hypocrisy Overload: I wanted to post this snippet from today’s Raspberry column because I thought it was so incredibly hypocritical and because I’ve heard similar sentiments voiced over & over again by other lefties… “(The Democrats) lost an election that should have been theirs on a gimme, requiring, for instance, only that their standard-bearer carry […]

A Blogger Symposium On The Media & The Blogosphere: Thanks to Juan Gato from The Shallow End, Susanna Cornett from Cut On The Bias, N.Z. Bear from The Truth Laid Bear, & Eugene Volokh from The Volokh Conspiracy for participating in our latest symposium. Read & enjoy! (Cont)

Humpty Dumpty & The Old World Order: There’s no question that the relationship between America and Europe has changed drastically in the post 9/11 world. Victor Davis Hanson explains what the difference is… “Our troubles with Europe are said to arise from differing views of the world order and an imbalance in military power. Yet […]

An Economist Andrew Sullivan Isn’t: Sully shows all the critical thinking skills of Maureen Dowd after a three martini lunch as he reviews a poorly written article in the Financial Times about America’s future deficits. Here’s a quote from the article and Sully’s comment… “The study’s analysis of future deficits dwarfs previous estimates of the […]

Europeans Shocked By The Obvious: Apparently the Euroweenies are shocked, shocked I tell you, at the mundane comments that Paul Wolfowitz recently made to Vanity Fair. Conservatives have been saying about the same things that Wolfowitz just did for months. Let me show you what I mean by posting Wolfowitz’s “controversial” statements said along with […]

Frank Tips for Meeting With Jacques Chirac By Frank J: President Bush will be meeting with Jacques Chirac today for the first time since the war, so I have some tips for him about the meeting: * Start by working the body. You’ll want to start slow, which means a series of punches to his […]

The Questions Conspiracy Theorists Need To Ask Themselves: Because I regularly read through offbeat websites in order to compile new editions of “Anyone can post on the internet“, I get a lot of opportunities to peruse the latest crackpot conspiracy theories. During any given week I may read about Planet X, the Illuminati / Free […]

I Still Expect To Find WMD In Iraq: I have to admit that I was surprised that we didn’t almost immediately find with Weapons of Mass Destruction after we took Iraq. After all, you don’t refuse to tell how you destroyed your WMD, have thousands of chem protection suits made for your soldiers, refuse to […]

The Link RWN And Win Contest: I want to promote RWN’s new forms of advertising & the page at the same time, so I came up with a little contest for all the bloggers out there. Here’s how it works… The contest runs from Tuesday, May the 27th through Sunday, June the 1st. To be […]

You Don’t Sue Just Because Your Kid Hurts Himself On A Playground: This sort of lawsuit is a ridiculous waste of time and money… “The mother of a 9-year-old boy injured when he accidentally hung himself on playground equipment at an East Palo Alto elementary school last year is suing the Ravenswood City School District […]

Males Proven A Minority, Demand Equality From Female Oppressors By Shawn M. Thorgersen: NEW YORK – Research proving that there are more females than males in the United States has prompted men to gather in protest against the female majority. “We’re a minority, and we’re going to complain like a minority!” shouted one protester. “We’ve […]

Premonitions Of An American Holocaust: It’s a shame that Premonitions Of An American Holocaust isn’t being updated anymore because I think I could have gotten multiple editions of ACPOTI (Anyone can post on the internet) out of it. Not only is the author loony, she posted emails from her deranged readers as well. There was […]

Not Only Is It Bad Idea, It’s None Of The Government’s Business: It’s only a matter of time until we hear a Democrat in Congress calling for this to be done in the United States as well… “A British legislator has proposed banning sport utility vehicles from congested city streets, and his comments prompted howls […]

The Left Should Take A Tip From Freud On War & Taxes: Nine days after 9/11, George Bush said, “And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From […]

Uday’s Depravity: Uday Hussein may have been more vile, savage, & evil than even his father. Just reading these excerpts about Uday from an article on Hussein’s sons gave me the willies. I could just imagine living in Iraq before we liberated the country and being at the mercy of this cold-hearted degenerate… “…Uday (demanded) […]

The Real ‘Dynamics Of A Blogosphere Story’: There have been a couple of articles getting a lot of attention lately that discuss how stories pick up steam and get bigger in the blogosphere (You can read them here & here). Let me be the first to tell you — both of those stories are as […]

Rumsfeld Apologizes for Hyping Saddam Threat By Scott Ott: U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized to Senate Democrats today for pre-war “hyping” of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. “I’m sorry Senators Biden, Rockefeller, Byrd, Roberts and others,” said a contrite Mr. Rumsfeld. “We overestimated the threat posed by a lunatic dictator, who […]