Year: 2005

Because I’m so fair and balanced, I’d like to give you more perspective on the liberal view of hurricane Katrina. I know that you may be surprised that there’s “hurricane spin,” but that seems like an apt description of “Put the N*ggers in the Superdome: Part II” by someone called “Flip Floss.” This post is […]

Make sure to check out my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, for some of the best stories from around the blogosphere like: — Rob’s 80 year old grandfather tells a great Patton story — Rall savages Sheehan? That’s a surprise — SGT. C was shot through the throat. “He was offered the opportunity to fly to […]

Brace yourselves, folks, because this IS NOT satire, although it may be a sign of a apocalypse: “A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers – as long as they don’t do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used […]

Hurricane Katrina Hundreds Feared Dead On Storm-Ravaged U.S. Coast New Orleans Filling With Floodwaters Due To Breached Levee (Free Wapo Reg Req) Katrina Damage May Bring $26b In Claims Looting Takes Place In View Of La. Police (Don’t They Issue Them Guns?) Some Police Officers And Firefighters Join In Looting (They Deserve To Be Hung) […]

Mark Tapscott wrote a generally sensible column about his frustration with Republicans in Washington who aren’t sticking to conservative principles. Unfortunately, Tapscott titled the column: “Is it time for conservatives to dump the GOP?“ Oh, oh, man does that title just grate on me. “Is it time for conservatives to dump the GOP?” Isn’t that […]

derby378: Hurricane Katrina proves that Bush must be IMPEACHED, and NOW. Just watch the FReepers howl: “Do the DUmmies think Bush can prevent hurricanes? Will they claim he LIHOP’ed Katrina like they claim he LIHOP’ed 9/11?” No President can prevent a hurricane, but a competent President can prepare for the inevitable so that, when a […]

1) Some people are saying that Iraq’s Constitution will lead to a theocracy. Is that true? Religion does play a more substantial role in Iraq’s Constitution than it does in our Constitution here in the United States. However, not only does the Iraqi Constitution not create a theocracy, it has numerous clauses that guarantee the […]

So, I’m headed over to the Democratic Underground to look for threads blaming George Bush for hurricane Katrina. I know that might sound a bit odd, but lefties have blamed Bush for absolutely everything under the sun at one time or another, so why should Hurricane Katrina be any different? But, when I arrived at […]

Scalia spoke to students at Chapman University and he sure didn’t hold back on what he thought about having the courts decide matters better left to elected legislators. Speaking before a packed auditorium, Scalia said he was saddened to see the U.S. Supreme Court deciding moral issues not addressed in the Constitution, such as abortion, […]

Domestic Katrina Floods Gulf States, Killing 55 “The City Of New Orleans Is In A State Of Devastation. We Probably Have 80 Percent Of Our City Underwater. With Some Sections Of Our City, The Water Is As Deep As 20 Feet” Insurers Estimate Damage At $9 Billion, Among Costliest U.S. Storms On Record (Free NYT […]

“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of […]

This piece from Tom Bevan at RealClearPolitics was so spot-on that I had to post a big chunk of it. Go read it all when you’re done…. “…(I)f you take some of the arguments (of the anti-war left) (which spans the “netroots” crowd at Daily Kos all the way to the New York Times op-ed […]

Cindy Sheehan, the “Rosa Parks” of the anti-war movement, continued to make an idiot of herself over the week-end. Now, since a lot of people are sick of her, it might be tempting to ignore her idiocy. However, since she’s a beloved woman in the anti-war movement, a woman who could fairly be said to […]

I’m not an expert on hurricanes and I’m in the middle of a big article I’m working on for tomorrow, so I’m not going to live blog the hurricane. But, this is a big story and I wanted to give you some other sources that are all over what’s happening: Blogsnow Drudge Report Instapundit Michelle […]

“Yes, a brutal insurgency continues to threaten the Iraqi people, an insurgency which has killed some 25,000 Iraqi civilians since April of 2003. But Saddam Hussein, even by conservative estimates, butchered 1.5 million Iraqis during his 25 years in power (not counting the one million who died in the war he started with Iran). So […]

In my opinion, here are the top 10 Civil War generals in order. Agree? Disagree? Feel free to discuss in the comments section… 1) US Grant (N) 2) Robert E. Lee (S) 3) William Tecumseh Sherman (N) 4) Stonewall Jackson (S) 5) Nathan Bedford Forrest (S) 6) Phil Sheridan (N) 7) George Meade (N) 8) […]

“Iraq is just like Vietnam except: We occupy Hanoi. We’ve captured Ho Chi Minh. The North Vietnamese have just held a free and democratic election. The North Vietnamese are working on a new constitution. Yes, Iraq is just like Vietnam.” — Art Fougner

Foreign Sunni Negotiators Refuse To Endorse Constitution Israel: A Suicide Bombing Has Injured At Least 10 People At A Crowded Bus Station Bush Calls For Patience On Iraq Mission Germany: Gerhard Schroeder Down By 12-14 Points With Time Running Out In Election Domestic New Orleans Evacuated As Hurricane Katrina Heads Their Way US Heading For […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, here are some links to keep you busy: Absinthe & Cookies Althouse The Anchoress Atlas Shrugs Betsy’s Page Mary Katharine Ham’s Soapbox Michelle Malkin Not A Desperate Housewife NYgirl Right Thinking Girl She Who Will Be Obeyed Sister Toldjah Sisu Transcended Trying To Grok

Question: “(H)ow do you explain the fact that right-wingers consistently side with Israel and left-wingers with the Palestinians? Thanks, Josh” — oneisnotprime Answer: In all fairness to the left, they tend to be split on Israel. However, I’d say that the reason that they’re split is because even though Jews are a small percentage of […]

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Question: “John: The president’s job approval rating is dropping into the low 40’s, not good. If he falls much farther than this, he’s going to have big problems trying to get things done. 3 things I think are hurting the President. Iraq, the border and Increasing fuel prices. Now, the average Joe probably doesn’t pay […]

Question: “With a popular leftwing pundit like Kos openly attacking the DLC for being “too conservative”, do you foresee a schism within the Democratic ranks in the immediate future?” — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: Despite what a lot of people seem to think, the Democrats are actually much more split than Republicans. As the party has relentlessly […]

Question: “Are there any Dems that you would support for the Presidency over some of the “less desirable” Republican candidates? I know you don’t have a lot of faith in a Rice candidacy (for example), but are there any Dems that, if given the nod, you would support instead of her (or another choice that […]

Question: “Since you put a lot of effort into dumping all over Condi, who is the conservative candidate that fits all eight of your qualifiers that you’d like to see get the nom in 2008? That’s the main question, but I’ll take the opportunity to rip on some of the others from Ruffini’s poll: Guiliani: […]

Foreign Iraqi National Assembly To Vote On Constitution Today China A Staging Ground For Computer Attacks. Hackers Able To Penetrate Unclassified U.S. Government Networks Bolton Throws UN Summit Into Chaos. Bush’s Envoy Demands 750 Changes To Reorganisation Plans (Give ‘Em Hell) Domestic US Army Re-Enlistment ‘Strong’ Anti-War Protests Target Wounded At Army Hospital Cindy Sheehan, […]

Today is Q&A Friday #21 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 […]

“The fact is that we are not experiencing casualty rates anywhere near past conflicts, nor for that matter as bad as during peacetime. There were weeks in Vietnam when 350-400 Americans died, and in other wars thousands would die in single battles. Nothing like that is happening now. From 1983 to 1996, more than 18,000 […]

If you need any proof that fringe wackoism is now considered to be completely mainstream on the left, then you need look no further than recent statements by George McGovern and Cindy Sheehan. To begin with, here’s McGovern: “Along more political lines, McGovern recognized Kerry in the audience and said the crowd would be calling […]

After the disastrous gas lines of the seventies & the much publicized rolling blackouts in California, which were both caused by price controls, you’d think that people would finally start to figure out that the laws of supply and demand cannot be changed by government decree. But unfortunately these lessons appear to have been lost […]