Year: 2005

“The Census Bureau’s latest projection of population shifts, the first in eight years, shows a dramatic movement from the North to Southern and Western states over the next 30 years. The study points to a political movement as well. Heavily Democratic states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Michigan will go on losing […]

Thanks in large part to a Fark link to my Debunking 8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq article, Right Wing News had its best day ever yesterday. At the end of the day, RWN finished with 59,071 daily unique visitors and 74,296 pageviews. Mucho thanks to Fark, Hugh Hewitt, Polipundit, Power Line, Betsy’s […]

Blogging isn’t all fun and games and writing articles that bring in 30,000+ readers just from Fark alone. It also means that you get cranky, incoherent, and yet still wildly entertaining hate mail from liberals. Now, some bloggers don’t share their hate mail, they don’t put it out there. But, being the compassionate conservative that […]

Myths debunked in this column include: 1) George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 2) A study released in March of 2003 by a British medical journal, the Lancet, showed that 100,000 civilians had been killed as a result of the US invasion. 3) The Bush Administration claimed Iraq was responsible for […]

I’ll grant you that Joe Wilson is a lying partisan, publicity hog. I’ll also grant you that Valerie Plame’s “secret identity” wasn’t exactly secret (see here & here) before she was “outed” by Novak’s column. Furthermore, despite all the “super secret squirrel” stuff we’ve heard about Valerie Plame, she isn’t exactly camera shy. Also, for […]

“President Bush needs to keep two facts in mind as he looks to replace retiring Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor (and, should he step down, Chief Justice William Rehnquist). The first is that he can win confirmation of almost any conceivable nominee for the High Court, screams of protest by Democrats and hostile media […]

“The post-9/11 world is not primarily a war between civilisations — the West vs Islam — but a war within one civilisation: ours. It’s a long existential struggle between those who believe that Western values — or, to be more precise, the values of the English-speaking world — are one of the great blessings of […]

At The Corner, they’re discussing illegal immigration and John Derbyshire noted that he received emails from “numerous readers” saying: “It’s nice to talk about deporting illegal immigrants, but how on earth would we do it? There are millions of them. Get real.” “How on earth would we do it?” It’s actually much easier than most […]

*** It goes without saying that all the nominees being mentioned are qualified to be on the Supreme Court and would be originalists and strict constructionists unless I specifically say otherwise. Also, since in the end it’s one man’s call, there’s always the possibility that the President will select a candidate who is not even […]

Charmaine Yoest in London via Powerline says the many of the Londoners she has interviewed just hours after the terrorist attack on their subway system think the bombings are Tony Blair’s fault: “I interviewed three very ordinary, normal teenaged English Muslims… All three seem to be parroting Muslim talking points: ‘The bombings were a conspiracy […]

Yesterday, all across the left side of the blogosphere, willfully ignorant liberal bloggers were seizing upon the attacks in London as evidence that the “flypaper theory” is bogus — which just goes to show what a poor grasp of foreign policy issues they have. Nobody has ever claimed that fighting Al-Qaeda in Iraq makes the […]

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“… We should remember the origins, history and tradition of the uniforms worn with pride by militaries around the world. For example, a long time ago, Britain and France were at war. During one battle, the French captured an English colonel. Taking him to their headquarters, the French general began to question him. Finally, as […]

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill “America has no truer friend than Great Britain.” — George Bush Hat tip to the Ministry of Defense for the flag. Hat tip to the Bull Moose Blog for the suggestion.

Terrorists have hit the Brits. From the BBC: “London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of “about six explosions”, one on a bus and the others related to Underground stations. He says he believes the six affected areas are Edgware Road, King’s Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and […]

whatever4: “Oh yes. This surely takes public attention away from Rove. Anyone that can’t see that is either a fool or lying; this will be the news for days. Inbetween stories of Martha Steward and baby tigers with heart defects. This will certainly distract many people. And every little distraction helps the neocon monsters. People, […]

I just heard the short statement by Tony Blair trying to condemn the terrorists for hitting London at the time the G8 is meeting at Gleneagles, in Scotland. Tony Blair is a liar, but his statement showed he is also a fool. When he entertains his master, pResident Bush, what does he expect – that […]

“True, we could go ballistic if Gonzales is the nominee, especially given his love of torture, but he’s about as close a shot to another Souter that we’ll get under this administration. Precisely the reason the Far Right hates him is the reason I’d be willing to give him a pass. He’s not perfect. He’s […]

It’s bad enough when liberals trash our troops who are fighting far from home to protect this country and to help the Iraqi people towards freedom, but now at least one of them is going after the soldiers who fought and died to defeat the Japanese in WW2. From a weepy, whiny column by James […]

“The fundamental goal of the next Supreme Court justice should be to create a record that would not inspire Sen. Chuck Schumer to say, as he did of Justice O’Connor last week: “We hope the president chooses someone thoughtful, mainstream, pragmatic – someone just like Sandra Day O’Connor.” That’s our litmus test: We will accept […]

“Compounding the GOP advantage is what I call the Roe effect. It is a statement of fact, not a moral judgment, to observe that every pregnancy aborted today results in one fewer eligible voter 18 years from now. More than 40 million legal abortions have occurred in the United States since 1973, and these are […]

Here is a quick tale of the tape, so to speak, regarding some of the leading contenders to be nominated to replace Justice O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court (in no particular order): 1) Emilio Garza Age: 58. Experience: Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Philosophy: Conservativism/constructionism. Misc.: In light of the explosive […]

The mainstream media regularly traffics in speculation, rumors, anonymous charges, bogus politically motivated allegations, but when some anonymous bloggers try to get in on the action, the WAPO feels compelled to punch up a story on this possible threat to Democracy. Here’s the crux of the WAPO’s article: “First came this posting on the site […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine, my other blog. Today on CG, you can see links like: — I kill, I molest, I blog: Joseph Duncan’s frightening weblog — The left and the military — There is no God but the Supreme Court and Nancy Pelosi is their prophet Read CG, bookmark it, and […]

See if you can guess where this passage appeared: Democrats signaled that whoever the nominee is, their three likely lines of attack will be to assert the White House did not consult them sufficiently, then paint the nominee as ideologically extreme and finally assert that the Senate had not received sufficient documents about the candidate. […]

You think the Democrats are gnashing their teeth over Sandra Day O’Connor being replaced on the Supreme Court? If this rumor being peddled by the American Spectator turns out to be true, this nomination will look like a British tea party compared to what’s coming… “Rumors are already swirling about a possible third retirement after […]

A lot of conservatives are gearing up for a public relations battle to support Bush’s nominee (as long as it’s not Gonzales). While that’s all well and good, this isn’t the same sort of fight Republicans had on their hands with Bork or Thomas. Back when Bork was voted down and Thomas had so much […]

“O’Connor is often praised for having been “unpredictable.” The suggestion is that she was non-ideological, impartial, fair. But the truth is that she was “unpredictable” because she was arbitrary. She was dangerously unwilling to think about whether and when judicial review can be justified in a democracy, and because of that unwillingness to think, her […]

Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, today criticized President George Bush’s as-yet-unnamed replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as a “brutal, Bible-thumping, right-wing ideologue who hates minorities, women and cocker spaniels.” “He or she is clearly outside the mainstream of American values,” said Sen. Kennedy. “President Bush has again ignored the Senate’s ‘advice and […]