Year: 2005

Question: “Would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a teenager if possible? As a baby?” — oneisnotprime Answer: Even if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, it probably wouldn’t have prevented WW2 and it’s entirely possible that it could have made things worse. After all, Hitler did not rise […]

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Question: “How would you counter someone’s argument that the Bible is liberal and Jesus was a liberal? This counteracts the “religious right” theory. (A simple google search of jesus+liberal should yield enough hits that I don’t need to list their arguments here)” — Agent_Westy Answer: Oh yeah, Jesus would approve of abortion, gay marriage, and […]

Question: “Do you ever get sick of politics?” — Oneisnotprime Answer: Only once. During my college years, I started doing some work for the Mecklenberg County Republican Party. I stuffed envelopes, did some minor league work on some campaigns, and even manned the headquarters solo, answered phones, etc. I was new to politics back then, […]

Question: “Do you play video games much, and if so, what are your favorite games and/or systems?” — Clint Answer: At one time, I really loved gaming. Way back in the day in the arcade, I loved Heavy Barrel, NARC, and Samurai Showdown. I can also remember playing Nintendo games like All-Star Baseball and Tecmo […]

Questions: “Do you read every post on every string in RWN?” — Harry “Hawkins, have you ever thought of putting up an RSS feed of your stories? It would be a nice feature IMO.” — bjlillo “Do you plan on expanding RWN is any fashion? Thread formats? Bandwidth? Design? Navigation?” — D-Vega “1- Why did […]

Foreign Millions of Iraqis Vote in Relative Peace. Turnout Appears To Be Over 70% Iraq Mistakenly Freed Terror Leader Six Iraqis In Jordan Charged With Vote Rigging Domestic Bush Accepts McCain’s Ban on Torture (How Many Americans Will Die Because Of This?) Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits On Spying In U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say […]

Today is Q&A Friday #29 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 […]

How many thousands of Americans will end up dying because of this? “President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain’s call for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror. Bush said the agreement will “make it clear to the world that this government […]

Radley Balko over at his fine blog, The Agitator, responded to that last post on Cory Maye and you can read what he had to say here. After reading Radley’s post and few other comments about the Maye case around the blogosphere, let me add a few quick notes to what I said about the […]

Radley Balko over at his excellent blog, The Agitator, has managed to draw a lot of attention to the case of Cory Maye, a cop killer, scheduled to be executed for his crime. Unfortunately, Radley initially got a lot of important facts wrong about the case and although to his credit, he has corrected those […]

I haven’t gotten around to seeing the new King Kong movie yet and to be honest, I’ll probably end up catching it when it comes out on DVD. The original was kind of a depressing story to begin with and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe & Harry Potter and […]

President George Bush today, confirmed a recent Newsweek magazine cover story, admitting that he’s “living in a bubble” — isolated and aloof. “I confess that I don’t wake up each day on the same planet as Newsweek’s editors,” said Mr. Bush. “So, I guess I’m isolated from the world where the U.S. is always wrong, […]

Foreign Iraqis Vote For First Full Parliament Since Saddam Iranian President Calls Holocaust A ‘Myth’ Iraq Border Chief Denies Forged Ballots Seized Bush Acknowledges Faulty Iraq Intelligence. But He Says War Was Still Justified To Oust Saddam, Create Democracy NATO Is Proving To Be Of Minimal Use In Afghanistan Domestic 51 Terror Suspects Nabbed Trying […]

This afternoon, I was invited to participate in a RNC conference call with Dan Senor. According to the intro Patrick Ruffini from RNC sent us: “Mr. Senor served as the chief Coalition spokesman and senior advisor to Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, and was one of the longest serving American civilians in Iraq, entering Iraq […]

The U.S. House today passed a bill to reduce federal spending on such programs as NCLB, health care, job training, and other so-called discretionary items. The vote was 215-213, in favor of less discretionary spending by the federal gummint. The partisan breakdown of that vote was: 0/200 = Democrats in favor of less spending (0%). […]

You think comparing Bush to Hitler is innapropriate? Well, you’re right — it is — but, I can top it. Just wait until you see who The Huffington Post’s RJ Eskow is comparing executed quadruple murderer and Crips co-founder Tookie Williams to…. “This season, America celebrates a holiday whose premise is that God himself came […]

A lot of people, myself included, were panning the idea of using trailers to house Katrina victims because of the enormous cost involved. It turns out that not only are they expensive, but — unsurprisingly if you think about it — it takes too long to get the trailers set-up on a large scale to […]

Just when you think Cindy Sheehan just can’t get any wackier, we get this pic from a Vanity Fair spread on her: She’s. Pretending. To. Sleep. On. Her. Son’s. Grave! For. A. Vanity Fair. Photo-op!!! What the hell? Sometimes words just fail me…

50) Tom Cochran: Life is a Highway 49) Black Crowes: Hard to Handle 48) New Order: True Faith 47) Van Halen: Why Can’t This Be Love? 46) Motley Crue: Home Sweet Home 45) Nixons: Sister 44) White Zombie: More Human Than Human 43) Kid Rock: American Bad*ss 42) Church: Under the Milky Way 41) U2: […]

Foreign Abbas-Linked Group Tries To Kill Sharon. Al Aqsa Fires Rocket At PM’s Ranch In Hopes Of Taking Out Israeli Leader Iran Could Have Nuke Bombs In 3 Years: Israeli Army Iranian Cleric: Muslims Could Nuke Israel Iraqi Border Police Seize Truck Seized Hauling Load Of Bogus Ballots Condi Rice: World Not Helping With Saddam […]

After reading this article on snitching, I’m well prepared to believe that there are serious problems with the way our nation’s police forces use informers. But this seems a little bit crazy to me: Finally, as the T-shirt controversy illustrates, snitching exacerbates crime, violence, and distrust in some of the nation’s most socially vulnerable communities. […]

Honorable Mention #1) Iran Works To Acquire Nuclear Weapons: A story that didn’t get that much attention in 2005 could lead to a war in the Middle-East in 2006. Honorable Mention #2) Bush’s Social Security Reform: …Wait for it, wait for it, goes nowhere. Honorable Mention #3) The Political Battle Over Iraq Continues: The Democratic […]

Another dangerous criminal was caught in the act by Washington D.C.’s finest. The city may have one of the highest murder rates in the country, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing $5 jaywalking tickets to the mortally injured. Charles Atherton, a former secretary of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts that advises the government […]

Without regard to their ideological leanings, content, or quality, here’s an unranked list of the 20 best blog names out there — in my humble opinion of course…. Apesnake Battlepanda Boing Boing Catholic Ragemonkey Chase Me, Ladies, I’m In The Cavalry ChuBlogga! Hi! I’m Gordon Zaft, why isn’t everyone? I Killed Che Guervara Last Girl […]

“What a perfect arrangement: The only country that every country has a right to condemn can be relied upon to do the world’s dirty work. This is the underlying mindset as the West contemplates a nuclear Iran. When push comes to shove, the Israeli air force will take care of the problem, so the world […]

Domestic California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Denied Clemency On Monday To Former Crips Gang Leader Stanley Tookie Williams, Who Is Slated To Be Executed Early On Tuesday (Applause) Who Died In New Orleans? The Racial Breakdown Doesn’t Look Like The MSM Would Have You Believe Florida Judge Upholds Rush Limbaugh’s Doctor-Patient Confidentiality Judge Orders Extension Of […]

Via Traffic Non-Santa, some dopey revolutionary sabre-rattling from Salon’s Cary Tennis: At a certain point in the near future, if the current oligarchy cannot be removed via the ballot, direct political action may become an urgent and compelling mission. It may then be necessary for many people in many walks of life to put their […]

The guy at the top may have changed in the Palestinian territories, but the support for terrorists obviously hasn’t: “The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has approved a new law, providing monetary grants to the families of suicide bombers. Abbas gave his approval just six days ago, a day before a suicide bomber […]