Year: 2005

“Once, after I had given a talk on the Constitution at a law school, a student approached and asked whether I thought the Constitution prevented a state from abolishing marriage. I said no, the Constitution assumed that the American people were not about to engage in despotic insanities and did not bother to protect against […]

Cindy Sheehan has gotten an enormous amount of fawning press coverage of late and she’s in heavy demand on the left. They want her to do speeches, appearances; you have to figure that the donations are just pouring into the anti-war group she co-founded, “Gold Star Families For Peace,” and can a book deal be […]

Just for the heck of it (It’s kind of a slow news day), I thought it might be worth taking a moment to address an argument that seems resurgent of late, that the Civil War wasn’t really about slavery. Instead the claim is that it was really a states’ rights issue. The reasoning here goes […]

Domestic Oklahoma Man Held Before Boarding Plane With Bomb ‘Able Danger’ Intel Could Rewrite 9/11 History The Family Of Fallen Soldier Casey Sheehan Pleads With Cindy Sheehan To Stop Her Political Grandstanding Bush Says He Sympathizes With Protester President Adds That Pulling Out Of Iraq Now Would Hurt U.S. Security (Free WAPO Reg Req) NARAL […]

Let’s hear it for the latest socialized medicine success! “QUEENSLAND’S Government has been accused of forcing more than 100,000 people to languish on “secret” waiting lists for surgery at hospitals statewide. Documents tendered to the Morris inquiry today revealed 108,571 patients in July last year were yet to receive an outpatients appointment, to determine if […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 215 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “Favorite People On The Right.” Representatives from 52 blogs responded. All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-12 unranked selections and were allowed to choose anybody on the right or […]

12) Dick Cheney: Cheney is pugnacious, experienced, and hawkish. W. could not have had a better VP to complement him. 11) Tom Tancredo: I admire his leadership on the illegal alien issue. 10) Walter Williams: He’s such a brilliant, crisp, clean thinker who can make complex subjects easily understandable. 9) Ann Coulter: As witty as […]

Kevin Drum over at Political Animal wrote a short post speculating on 10 reasons why people won’t vote for Democrats. That was a good idea — such a good idea that I decided to give it a try. Do keep in mind that I don’t necessarily agree with these reasons and that some of them […]

Christopher Hitchens has yet another brilliantly contrarian pice in Salon on the Iraq war. He asks the most critical question of the current time: does the antiwar side want us to lose in Iraq? How can so many people watch this as if they were spectators, handicapping and rating the successes and failures from some […]

Thanks goes out to the The National Journal’s Hotline for doing a nice piece on the Conservative Blog Advertising Network I’ve put together for Blogads. By the way, as the column notes, I do now have the ability to hand out invitations to Blogads (which is an invitation only advertising network). So, if you want […]

Foreign Four US Troops Killed; Iraqis Spar On Constitution Terrorists Kidnap Senior Iraqi Official Baghdad Mayor Is Ousted by a Shiite Group and Replaced (Free NYT Reg Req) Britain And US Warn Iran Over Links With Iraq Rebels Domestic For The Year: They Army Is 11% Behind Its Recruiting Goal, The Reserve Is 18% Behind, […]

“Dean contends Democrats have become so obsessed with winning the Presidency — which, because of the Electoral College system, is really 50 statewide elections — that they have abandoned their efforts in a great many states where they can’t win the big enchilada but could possibly win down-ticket races if only anyone in Washington had […]

…but they’re pretty funny. More here.

“I don’t really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That’s why people say war is hell. At no point during a successful war, I mean, nobody would say after D-day, “Well, that went well.” When Americans are dying you never say that’s a great thing. But […]

Jeff Jarvis over at Buzzmachine asked people to “list your favorite 10 TV shows ever — but not the dutiful ones, the ones you like for a reason.” Sure! 10) X-Files: For a while, this was a fun show. Mulder and Scully would find some monster or alien, they’d stop it in the end, but […]

While questions continue to be raised as to whether Judge John Roberts used his influence to fiendishly give two orphans a loving home, damning new evidence has come to light concerning his children – evidence that may put the kibosh on his Supreme Court nomination once and for all. The Roberts kids are no strangers […]

When you finish up with RWN today, make sure to check out my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, for links to some of the best stories in the blogosphere today. Like: — Cindy Sheehan: Using and being used. — Egyptian Prof: Muslims Had Nothing to Do with 9/11 — “I believe a dirty Zionist hand carried […]

Foreign Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Says It Appears That Some Weapons In Iraq Are Coming From Iran Australia: Islamic Leaders Won’t Condemn Bin Laden Domestic Rep: Officials Monitored 3 Hijackers Before 9/11 Attacks Fact Check: NARAL Falsely Accuses Supreme Court Nominee Roberts Claim: Illegal Immigration Costs Florida $4.3 Billion a Year Conservative Group I’ve Never […]

The extremist wackos who run PETA are so far out there that they’ve managed to even offend their liberal brethren in the NAACP by comparing how animals are treated to slavery: “A two-hour animal rights demonstration on the Green Monday sparked outrage instead of sympathy from the public. “This is the most racist thing I’ve […]

Like most Americans, I believe in showing a certain amount of respect for the dead. When someone dies, whether you like him or not, you should at a minimum keep your mouth shut and send your condolences to his friends and family. If you like the person or even if you don’t particularly like him […]

You’ve heard about the Big Air America scandal, haven’t you? If not, I’ll let the inimitable Mark Steyn explain it to you: “Speaking of shivering coatless girls in Bush’s America, spare a thought for the underprivileged urchins of the Bronx. The Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club, a nonprofit social-services organization in New York, receives […]

More on the “kidnap victim of the week” stories here, at RWN. Hat tip to Something Awful for the graphic.

“Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, […]

Foreign Tehran Ends Freeze On Nuclear Program Pentagon Expects to Temporarily Send More Troops To Iraq Before Election (Free WAPO Reg Req) UN Oil-For-Food Probe Names Two Suspects Treason Threat Cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, Leaves UK Domestic Bush Says New Energy Bill Vital To U.S. Economy Oil Prices Top $64 A Barrel In New High […]

It’s always fun to go moonbat gigging in the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground, find comments from a few choice loonies, and serve them up for entertainment. But sometimes, you don’t even have to work that hard because the moonbats charge right out of the swamp, yowling at the top of their lungs, and […]

You ever been in pain? Not minor pain, like a skinned knee or extremely intense agony, like the sort caused by a broken leg, but something inbetween? Pain that’s bad enough that it drastically cuts into your quality of life and just makes life miserable for you? Now imagine feeling like that, hurting like that, […]

Everybody with me now: “Awwwwwwwwwww, poor guy!“ “A hate-spewing imam who has collected over $450,000 in welfare payments from the British government is complaining it would be unfair to deport him because it would cause his four wives and their families to suffer. …In past rants, Shiek Bakri has lauded the 9/11 hijackers as “magnificent” […]

“Can you name great presidents who were known as moderates? Can you name any important historical speeches or writings that called for greater moderation? By definition, moderates are not leaders. Leaders confront evil and pounce on opportunities. They ask us for excellence and sacrifice. They make decisions and take responsibility for them. Rather than accept […]

If I were asked to vote for my favorite blogging trend, it would be attractive women creating blogs featuring lots and lots of pictures of themselves. First it was Xiaxue and now I’ve found another one, Diary Of A Fired Flight Attendant. You know what? Someone should do the Nick Denton thing with this whole […]

Today on my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, there are 14 links to the best stories in the blogosphere just waiting for you to take a look at them. For example, you’ll definitely want to see: — Moonbat Blog Taxonomy: More than you wanted to know about the big names on the left side of the […]