Year: 2005

“(G)uns are used more than twice as often defensively as criminally. When armed men broke into Susan Gonzalez’ house and shot her, she grabbed her husband’s gun and started firing. “I figured if I could shoot one of them, even if we both died, someone would know who had been in my home.” She killed […]

Hat tip to Steve Sack from the Minneapolis Star Tribune for the cartoon.

Harriet Miers The Supreme Court Nomination Of Harriet E. Miers Suffered Another Setback On Wednesday When The Republican And Democratic Leaders Of The Senate Judiciary Committee Asked Her To Resubmit Parts Of Her Judicial Questionnaire, Saying Various Members Had Found Her Responses, “Inadequate,” “Insufficient,” And “Insulting.” (Free NYT Reg Req) Miers Doesn’t Report Prior Business […]

This Spanish Judge sounds more like he’s trying to win plaudits on the cocktail circuit than get to the bottom of a “crime”: “A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a […]

The reaction on the right to the Harriet Miers nomination has ranged from tepid support, to bitter disappointment, to outrage and calls for Miers to withdraw. Here’s a sample of just some of the negative commentary on Miers from the right. Read all of the quotes here

For whatever reason, the number of people becoming infuriated at purely fictional racial slights seems to be on the rise. We have people raving that Bush hated black people because he couldn’t magically fix everything in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Then we saw William Bennett being accused of promoting “genocide” after saying that aborting […]

As someone who has been a frequent critic of George Bush’s illegal immigration and border security policies, I thought it was worth giving him credit for at least starting to talk tough on illegal immigration: “President Bush said yesterday that his goal is eventually to expel “every single” illegal alien from the United States as […]

Harriet Miers has filled out a Senate Questionnaire that gives more evidence that she was personally against abortion. In that same questionnaire, she also said that she opposes judicial activism. Should that change anyone’s mind? No, not one iota. Wondering why? Well, let me tell you a little story about a name that strikes terror […]

Harriet Miers Republican Senator Ensign: Miers Vote Too Big “Just To Trust” Bush Rep Senator David Vitter: “Like Many Others, I Have A Lot Of Questions And Some Concerns, Quite Frankly, With The Harriet Miers Nomination.” Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) And Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) Are Calling For The White House To Turn Over Internal Documents […]

— Is it inevitable that Harriet Miers will be confirmed if she makes it to the Senate? Not at all. In fact, with the furor over the Miers nomination still going strong and three weeks (or more) left until her confirmation hearings, Time says, “congressional Republicans are now sweating the Miers vote count and tell […]

One of the oddest stories that has come from the mainstream press in a while is this article which features a description of the contents of Karl Rove’s garage. Rove’s wife, Darby, raised the white garage door one morning last week to show journalists outside the million-dollar brick home that the deputy chief of staff, […]

Contact your Senator today and tell him or her what you think about Bush nominating Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

You want to see multi-culturalism at its most twisted? Then look no further than this bizarre and repulsive argument made by lawyer in Australia: “A violent gang rapist should have been given a lesser sentence partly because he was a “cultural time bomb” whose attacks were inevitable, as he had emigrated from a country with […]

“The American strategy of bringing democracy to Iraq is succeeding. So are the tactics that are being used to implement it. While the results are unknown, just the fact that the elections were held and were mostly violence-free is a victory in and of itself. The fact remains that the United States is achieving its […]

Despite what your local newscasts – your ‘Freeway Chase Channel 7’s and ‘Warehouse Fire Fox 13s’ – might lead you to believe, seems living in relatively safe times: The nation’s murder rate declined last year for the first time in four years, dropping to the lowest level in 40 years. Experts said local rather than […]

Harriet Miers Specter, White House At Odds On Her Position On Privacy Case Right Ups Ante On Miers Mitt Romney On Miers: “With Regards To The Miers Nomination, I Think A Lot Of People, Myself Included, Are Disappointed In Many Respects, Not Despondent Of Course, But Disappointed” Charles Schumer On His Meeting With Miers: “I […]

From Time: “Bush’s friends contend that it is the conservative élite, not the President, who miscalculated and that self-righteous right-wingers stand to lose their seats at the table of power for the next three years. “They’re crazy to take him on this frontally,” said a former West Wing official. “Not many people have done that […]

After Iraq’s historic vote this week-end, it’s worth taking just a few moments to contemplate what has been accomplished in Iraq since we invaded back in March of 2003. When we arrived in Iraq, it was run by a maniacal, America hating, terrorist supporting dictator, who had ties to Al-Qaeda, and a history of using […]

One of the things we’ve heard frequently repeated by Harriet Miers supporters is some variation of: “It’s wrong to call for Harriet Miers to withdraw before her hearings because she should have a chance to speak!” Sorry, don’t agree. Here are 4 reasons why… #1) Harriet Miers has every opportunity to speak right now. She […]

It’s no secret that Louis Farrakhan is a moonbat, a kook, and about as loopy as a truckload of Cheerios. But, did you know that he’s actually crazy? Not crazy as in, “I think Karl blew up the levies in New Orleans as a distraction,” crazy, but, “I think the FBI and the Unions have […]

RWN’s blogger poll on Harriet Miers got a passing mention in a CNN On The Blogs segment where they spoke with Erick Erickson of Red State and Lorie Byrd of Polipundit. You can watch the video here. I was also quoted in a BusinessWeek column by Richard S. Dunham and Lee Walczak. President Bush took […]

“There are now nearly 120 army and police combat battalions [about 750 men each] that are ‘in the fight.’ And ‘in the fight’ by the transition readiness assessment means they are either Level One, Level Two or Level Three. Now certainly, roughly 80 of those are Level Three, which means ‘fighting alongside.’ In other words […]

“It is really amazing how things have changed in Iraq; three years ago Saddam “won” 100% of the votes in a pathetic referendum that he designed in order to give legitimacy to his reign while yesterday even security detainees were allowed to express their opinion on the constitution through voting and the government and parliament […]

On Wednesday of this week, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview foreign policy guru Richard Perle via phone. Mr. Perle was an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration and was a chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee during George W. Bush’s administration. During the interview, we discussed […]

Over the past few days, there have been several columns and articles written focusing on the “big year” Democrats are going to have in 2006 like, “Bush’s fall should give Democrats hope,” “The conservative crack up,” & “Democrats See Dream of ’06 Victory Taking Form.” So, is it all true? Is the GOP in trouble […]