Year: 2005

As part of a third White House strategy to prop up the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, President George Bush announced today that Miss Miers is not “intellectually burdened” with detailed knowledge of the opinions of legal scholars regarding the Constitution. “Justice Harriet Miers will read the Constitution like I would,” said the president. […]

Harriet Miers Senators in G.O.P. Voice New Doubt on Court Choice (Free NYT Reg Req) Conservative Group to Broadcast TV Ad Opposing Miers Bush Refusal To Provide Miers Data Raises Confirmation Hurdle Speeches By Miers Scrutinized For Insights Judiciary Questions Dobson, Bauer on Miers Conservatives Escalate Opposition To Miers (Free WAPO Reg Req) LexisNexis Search […]

Spike Lee has apparently decided to hitch a ride on the same crazy train Louis Farrakhan has been riding over the levees in New Orleans: “Declaring “it’s not far-fetched,” movie director Spike Lee affirmed on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, that he believes Louis Farakhan’s allegation that a levee was destroyed […]

The BBC polled more than 15,000 people worldwide on whom they would want to lead a fantasy world government. The results were, particularly for conservatives, quite disturbing with people like Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Kofi Annan, and George Soros making it into the top 11. So, in order to get a different perspective, Right Wing […]

Of course, it goes without saying that there’s no way to definitively know whether the nomination of Harriet Miers is going to be withdrawn. However, there are now some signs that the Harriet Miers debacle may be drawing to a close. First off, there was a story in the Washington Times this week-end that suggested […]

“But the better solution to the huge increase in federal spending would be a constitutional amendment to hold the growth of federal spending to specific percentages of revenue unless there is a supermajority override by both houses of Congress. It is not a new idea–Delaware, for example, passed a constitutional amendment in 1980, when I […]

I just got a fundraising e-mail from the Democrats trying to use Tom DeLay’s mug shot against him. So, they have this whole letter bad-mouthing him, and there he is, smiling and looking like the nicest guy in the world. Picture from fundraising e-mail. I never had much of an opinion of Tom Delay before, […]

Harriet Miers Claim: The White House Is Trying To Develop An Exit Strategy On The Miers Nomination & Has Begun Vetting Other Nominees Senators Say Harriet Miers Lacks The Votes Needed To Be Confirmed Arlen Specter: James Dobson May Be Required To Testify Before The Judiciary Committee Two New Conservative Groups Form To Fight The […]

Just when you think the situation in Britain can’t get any more ridiculous, you read something like this: British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, […]

Late last month, the fine folks at Holtzbrinck Publishers offered, via email, to send me a complimentary copy of Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World, the newest book by the high priest of America haters, Noam Chomsky. Now you may be wondering: “Why in the world would they send this book to a right-winger?” […]

The political bombs are now dropping down on the Miers nomination so quickly that a single “quote of the day” just isn’t enough to cover it. First of all, remember how Harriet Miers botched a question about the equal protection clause in the questionnaire she sent to the Senate? Well, here’s some more scathing commentary […]

As far as I’m concerned, Kay Bailey Hutchison was out of line here, especially when she referred to perjury as a “technicality:” SEN. HUTCHISON: Tim, you know, I think we have to remember something here. An indictment of any kind is not a guilty verdict, and I do think we have in this country the […]

Today, Michelle Malkin’s new book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild (Hardcover), goes on sale. I can tell you for a fact that it’s a great read because Michelle asked me to take a look at a draft of the book a few months back and make some suggestions. When I received an autographed copy of […]

I first saw this story when it happened five or six years ago. It was so unbelievable that I’d clipped the story for discussion when I cover freedom of religion in my classes. A five-year old boy had drawn a picture of Jesus for an assignment in Kindergarten to draw a poster about how to […]

Harriet Miers Miers Backed Race, Sex Quotas. She Made Diversity A Texas Bar Goal. (Gag — Free WAPO Reg Req) Insiders See Hint Of Miers Pullout Claim: Some Republican Senators In The Judiciary Committee Are Planning To Vote Against Miers Miers Failed To Mention Ethical Concerns In Sweetheart Land Deal Miers’ Answer Raises Questions. Legal […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this to be an open thread. Have a great week-end! Althouse The Baseball Crank The Channel Changer Danielle Crittenden: The Right’s Woman Problem. It’s Not A Free Grope, But It’s Similar Daily Pundit Harriet Miers’s Blog!!! Rich Lowry: The Miers Nomination Might Be The Most Catastrophic Political Miscalculation […]

Question: “Given how big a deal President Bush makes out of “staying the course” and “not looking at polls”, do you honestly believe there is any realistic chance that the Miers nomination might be withdrawn, and if it is not withdrawn, do you want her to be rejected by the Senate, knowing that this may […]

Question: “Why is the Valerie Plame affair hanging in so long? The root of the investigation is that she was covert at the time that Robert Novak published his article. Her own supervisor has stated that she was not, so what is the issue, besides trying to smear President Bush?” — geoweeg “Here is my […]

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Question: Which of the following is the real reason President Bush refuses to go before the nation and commit us to a man-on-the-moon-style energy independence program, in which America vows to do what it takes to wean ourselves from fossil fuels in the next 10 years: 1. The thought hasn’t occurred to him. 2. He’s […]

Question: “I would like to know more about the UN wanting to take over the internet. To me, this is very disturbing. Can they actually do it? If so, how is this possible since it was invented by Al Gore?(I had to throw that in). Is there any way that we (bloggers, readers, the average […]

Question: “John – Have you got any good ideas what happened to the 9 Billion dollars that went missing in Iraq while Paul Bremer was in charge of the “Iraq Provisional Coalition”? — Rduke Answer: This is an old story, but, yes, I can tell you what happened. The money was spent on, “salaries, operating […]

Question: “Would you ever be interested in holding political office?” — oneisnotprime Answer: Like most people, I think I’d enjoy being a Governor, Congressman, Senator, or President. However, a guy like me, who’s not rich or famous, could never get that high in politics without doing years and years worth of Republican Party grunt work […]

Question: “Are there any shows on TV right now worth watching?” — maledicta Answer: Here are the TV shows I currently have TiVo set to record: Drawn Together Family Guy Firefly House Reno 911! Sealab 2021 The Simpsons South Park Surface That’s all the TV I watch these days, unless there is someone I particularly […]

Harriet Miers Byron York: The Miers Support Team: Gloomy And Demoralized. Now They’re Discussing Stopping Her Visits To The Senate Miers To End Her Counter-Productive Visits With Senators Miers Gives Wrong Dates In Questionnaire; Firm Was Sued During Period Omitted After the Home Run On Roberts, a White House Balk On Miers? (Free WAPO Reg […]

Today is Q&A Friday #25 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian perspective; heck, it […]

Lefty Mark Morford, whose columns always seem to read like he took one acid trip too many in high school, is more horrified, shocked, and outraged than a PETA member in a butcher shop. You’re probably thinking: “Nothing unusual about that, Hawkins. You know how these liberals are. They’re always shocked and outraged about something […]

Pity — and I mean that — the poor people at the Republican National Committee that have been tasked with trying to find positive articles to send out about the increasingly ludicrous Miers nomination. Today, they’ve sent out two Miers-related releases and both of them were noteworthy primarily because they were so lukewarm in their […]

Laughably, George Bush has called Harriet Miers, the “best person I could find“ for the job of Supreme Court justice. Of course, that suggests that he didn’t look very far. If you don’t believe that, let’s compare Harriet Miers not to the average person, not to the average lawyer, but to another lawyer, with no […]

On the season premiere of South Park last night, they poked a bit of fun at the slow response to Katrina, but they spent most of the show lampooning the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the media, and the hysteria over global warming. Early on, there was a particularly funny bit of media mockery that […]