Year: 2005

A story that has been getting a lot of play today is titled “Diet sodas linked to obesity.” Here’s the crux of the piece: “Just when you thought the news about losing weight couldn’t get any worse, try this: A review of 26 years of patient data found that people who drink diet soft drinks […]

Poor Bjorn Lomborg. He is engaged in what is probably a fruitless task – trying to use logic and a knowledge of tradeoffs to examine whether the Kyoto Treaty should be put into effect. First he looks at what scientists advocating action on Kyoto don’t tell us. They do not tell us that even if […]

It has been almost 3 months since I last ranked the best opinion columnists in the business, so I figured it was time to do it again. So here’s my current faves in order… 30) Fred Barnes 29) Bill O’Reilly 28) Ralph Reiland 27) Heather Mac Donald 26) Larry Kudlow 25) Linda Chavez 24) Robert […]

It’s kind of late, I’m exhausted, and that top 100 Americans list right below this post is pretty spiffy. So, no morning content today. The next update should be around noon. *** Update #1 ***: Since I’ve updated now, consider this an open thread.

After putting together a list of the 40 greatest Americans of all-time last Friday in response to the awful list of the 100 greatest Americans compiled by readers at the The Discovery Channel, I felt compelled to finish the job. So, I put together a 100 greatest Americans list for RWN. You’ll notice that it’s […]

Democratic flack Eleanor Clift offers some “helpful” advice to Republicans (Shouldn’t we be the ones giving them advice since they keep losing elections?): “Conservatives will have to decide who they hate more in 2008, Hillary Clinton or John McCain. That’s how a veteran of the Reagan White House sizes up the current field. The religious […]

I can’t say that I know a whole lot about California Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) — well, other than the fact that he looks to be about as crooked as a dog’s hindleg. Take a look at this sweet deal Cunningham got and tell me it doesn’t look just as sleazy as Hillary Clinton’s […]

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that only a third of Americans believe the economy is in good shape. How is this possible? The deficit is shrinking. We’ve seen 24 straight months of economic growth and the unemployment rate is down to 5.1%. The trade deficit is down. Housing starts are up. […]

Lefty Howard Fineman explains the real problem with Howard Dean’s (the Republicans are) “pretty much a white, Christian party” comments — if the Republicans are the party for Christians, what does that make the Democrats? “But Dean’s real problem may not be his mouth but his mind-set. He and his aides seemed genuinely mystified at […]

Today on my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, you can find a tribute to real men, an explanation of why the Euro is bad for Europe, A call for Reparations for the victims of Gitmo, and a post on patriotism and the press — among other posts. Make sure to check it out Conservative Grapevine, bookmark […]

The Discovery Channel is doing a show on the 100 greatest Americans and is allowing people to vote on their selections. At this point, they’ve weened it down to 25 choices, and quite frankly, a lot of the selections are just godawful. I mean we’re talking about a list that includes Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, […]

You have to wonder how many people are actually aware of the enormous impact our “lawsuit lottery” culture has on medical expenses. Sure, it’s easy to count the costs of gargantuan awards paid out to victims of malpractice, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Once you look below the surface, there is a […]

“For a host of reasons, reparations are a terrible idea — unjust, illogical, and dangerous. Living white Americans bear no culpability for slavery, and living black Americans never suffered from it. It would be unthinkable to make individuals responsible for the wrongdoing of their distant ancestors, or to require them to enrich the great-great-great grandchildren […]

Charles Krauthammer puts his finger on what we should be really debating when we debate these judicial nominations: how they think and decide. Instead their opinions are over-simplified and then given code-words to make them sound so terrible. Since few people are going to actually read what these judges have written, we end up debating […]

Someone has got to clue the Pentagon in on the fact that the press is not their friend, that the press is going to smear, undercut, and generally put a negative spin on every single thing that they do. You’d think the Pentagon would understand this, but they keep sending reporters out with the troops […]

“For example; a friend of mine worked in a small business that had 5 employees. The parking lot had 7 spaces, so everyone was able to park in the lot and still leave room for guests. It was not the kind of business where customers frequently came on site, but when one did, parking was […]

“Of course, the bulk of Bush’s 2003 tax cuts on dividends and capital gains will help people with the highest incomes, but they pay the most taxes in the first place. The tax cuts will also help the entire 100-million-strong investor class — about 50 percent of U.S. households. But when the new IRS income […]

Today on my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, there are stories about a blogger fired for blogging, more Dean beatdowns from Dems, breast feeding, illegal aliens, John Kerry’s medical records, taxes and more. If you want to know what’s going on around the blogosphere without having to read through 90+ blogs a day, CG is a […]

Today’s Democratic Party is fundamentally incapable of dealing with terrorism in a serious and substantial way. Want evidence? Well, despite all the tough talk we heard from Democrats in the run-up to the 2004 election, now that the heat’s off, we have prominent liberals like Joe Biden & Jimmy Carter calling on the Bush Administration […]

“What will future generations think when they see the front pages of our leading newspapers repeatedly preoccupied with whether we are treating captured cut-throats nicely enough? What will they think when they see the Geneva Convention invoked to protect people who are excluded from protection by the Geneva Convention? During World War II, German soldiers […]

The word is out on John Kerry’s transcript at Yale and “shockingly,” his grades were even lower than those of fellow Yalie, Chimpy McBushHitler, who we all know is dumb as a post because liberals keep repeating “he’s dumb” ad nauseum, like brain damaged parrots. Here are the goods on Kerry’s Ivy League marks: “During […]