Year: 2003

Ordinary Americans Getting The Message Out In Iraq: You want the embodiment of that, “be a pack not a herd” phrase that Glenn Reynolds likes to talk about? Then simply go to the, “Iraq Daily News.” It’s an Iraqi run website — one that generates a lot of traffic judging by the fact that it’s […]

An Interview With Mona Charen: I was very pleased to get a chance to do a phone interview with Mona Charen. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Mona’s work, she has been a speech writer for Nancy Reagan & Jack Kemp, she’s a CNN commentator, her syndicated column appears in more than 200 […]

The VRWC Commemorative Knives Are In: I received a letter today from VRWC membership chairman George Bush Sr and I decided to post it to RWN. I’m not really supposed to do that, but I’m sure that I can trust all of you not to spread it around — mainly because the VRWC is monitoring […]

Human Shields Aren’t Going To Stop Anything: As most of you know, quite a few Western human shields war tourists have gone to Iraq in an effort to stop the war. According to this article in the New York Times, there are 132 of them running around. You know, there is a little something about […]

Fisking Chuck Hagel: Chuck Hagel, who I put right up there with John McCain, Trent Lott, & Howard Coble in the “annoying elected Republican” category, weighed in on the war at Kansas State University. Hagel starts things out by waffling on his war stand, which incidentally is a big pet peeve of mine… I’m not […]

Feeling A Little Hot, Cold, Or Just Right ? Then It’s Probably Global Warming: This week the East Coast was hammered with massive snow and ice storms. DC was practically shut down, part of Maryland got four feet of snow and even down here in Charlotte NC, we were hit with a pretty nasty little […]

Ridge Offers New ‘Pre-Emptive’ Steps to Combat Terrorism by Scott Ott:(2003-02-20) — At his second news conference in as many days, Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge today announced another three-step plan for defeating terrorism. The new guidelines follow yesterday’s clever slogan “Make a kit. Make a Plan. Be Informed.” The department’s new website at Ready.gov […]

Reagan On Freedom, War, And Appeasement: Back in 1964, before Ronald Reagan had held political office, he gave a nationaly televised speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Although Goldwater didn’t win, “the speech” launched Reagan’s politcal career. “The Speech” is full of good stuff on the role of government and the economy, but it’s most […]

What’s So Great About America?: There are plenty of people out there who believe that America is the root of all evil and they can reel off a list of our faults as long as your arm. Indeed, plenty of things have happened in this country that we shouldn’t be proud of. Off the top […]

RWN’s Short & Sweet Guide To Creating Your Own Blog: Over the last few months I’ve gotten more than a few emails asking me for advice about how to create a blog. Well, if you want to be the next Glenn Reynolds, Charles Johnson, or Michele Catalano, today is your lucky day. I’ve been a […]

Wife Beating — Saudi Style: The Saudi government controlled Arab News has punched up an article condemning wife beating (you can’t prove a pun was intended). At first glance, you’d think that was a good thing. Especially in a backwards hellhole like Saudi Arabia where women are regularly treated like chattel. However, Arab News actually […]

In My World: Somewhere There Is A Very Angry Universe With Two Belgiums: “Impudent nations!” French President Jacques Chirac exclaimed at a press conference in his stronghold. He was greatly angered by the east European candidates for EU membership who issued pro-American statements and wished nothing more than to chide them publicly. “What you have […]

France Drools — New Europe Rules: Tony Blankley is furious with France because they recently threatened to block several nations in “New Europe” from enterting the EU over their support for the US… “Adding hypocrisy to thuggery, the French president lectured Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary that they should have “a minimum of understanding […]

To Bad It Wasn’t A Chemical Gas, Then Maybe They Would Of Wiped Out More Of The Pieces Of Sh*T: Most of you have probably heard about what happened in a Chicago nightclub early on Monday morning. Some pepper spray was released into the air and as 1500 people tried to get out the club, […]

Look Out, Jimmy Carter Is On Their Side! Snicker, Snicker: The Daily Mirror, an anti-war British paper, seems to be quite pleased with the fact that Jimmy Carter signed up for the “Daily Mirror’s Not in My Name campaign”… “It remains to be seen just how effective his influence can be on the warmongers. But […]

The Top Ten Ways North Korea Could Look Even Crazier By Frank J.:While we wait (and wait and wait) for inevitable war with Iraq, North Korea is still trying to crazy their way to our attention. Now they are claiming they can beat us in a nuclear war. “In the North Korea-U.S. nuclear standoff, which […]

The Non-Existent Anti-Immigrant Agenda: I felt a need to respond to Cathy Young latest snide editorial in Reason in which she makes the claim that Conservatives have an “anti-immigrant agenda”. To begin with, there is no, “anti-immigrant agenda.” Conservatives simply think there should be some standards applied to immigration whereas far too many liberals and […]

The New York Times Is Outraged By Saddam’s “Male Only” Golf Course By Marni Malarkey: The New York Times has stunned readers and media watchers by announcing on today’s editorial page their “full, 200% support” for a US invasion of Iraq, “whether it is unilateral or not.” The change of heart came when the Times’ […]

I Seen 3 Aliens Who Was Like Humans Who Started This Thing With Me: One of RWN’s readers (I accidentally deleted his email, he can write me if he wants credit) clued me in to the existence of the Mind Control Discussion Forum. As the name suggests, this is a forum for people who believe […]

Odds & Ends: Just a few odds and ends that were significant enough to comment on, but perhaps not worth an entire post on their own… — It’s been said that the purpose of NATO is to Keep America in (from becoming isolationist), The Soviets out (of Europe), and Germany down (from starting another war). […]

Leaked Memo Reveals Liberal Radio Network Plan By Scott Ott: (2003-02-17) — Nationwide, no liberal talk-radio show has ever succeeded, while numerous conservative hosts have built large audiences. Now, a group of wealthy Democrat donors has put $10 million behind a plan to start a liberal radio network built on a radical concept. According to […]

Useful Idiots On Parade: There were more “peace” (might as well have been Pro-Saddam) rallies across this world this week-end. Here’s a banner from one of them that I cribbed from A Small Victory… Lovely sentiment eh? I’m tempted to simply toss up a few provocative pics and quotes and make fun of the role […]

Exclusive Interview: Chirac Advises Bush How to Avoid War: Shortly after his exclusive interview with Time Magazine, French President Jacques Chirac sat down in the Elysee Palace for an even more exclusive session with an unnamed ScrappleFace editor. Here are key excerpts of that interview: Why is France shirking its military responsibilities to its oldest […]

The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’: There have only been two European leaders in the last century that I actually respect and admire. One was Winston Churchill and the other is Margaret Thatcher. That being said, I was looking forward to reading “Statecraft” and finding out a bit more about how the “Iron Lady” […]

Gone To The Beach: I’m taking off at noon today and heading to the beach for a short vacation. I will not return until Sunday afternoon. That means there will be no further updates of RWN until Monday. However, rather than leave today’s news on the page until then, I am going to put up […]

A Tribute To Saddam: If all goes well (my fingers are crossed) Saddam will be introduced to the business end of a cruise missile within the next 45 days or so. That’s why RWN has decided to go ahead and get our “tribute to Saddam” in now, before he actually dies and everyone is cheering […]

An Open Letter To France By Ian Wolff: We here at RWN have a long, proud tradition of bashing the French. Yes, we loathed France when loathing France wasn’t cool…well, it was always cool, but you get the general idea. So I’d like to thank Ian Wolff for his fine anti-French rant…and for reminding us […]

In My World: Rumsfeld: I’d Rather be Killing Commies By Frank J: Osama bin Laden is said to have released a new tape calling evil terrorist retards to arms if the U.S. attacks Iraq. In his taped message, he instructed terrorists in battle strategies aimed at causing the highest number of American casualties. These involved […]

Alliances Are A Two Way Street: The following exchange between Colin Powell and Ernest Hollings does a pretty job of highlighting the different way that Conservatives and liberals tend to view our alliances with other nations… “NATO “is breaking itself up” over Iraq, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday as the alliance plunged […]