Year: 2005

The way they talk about Hillary — you’d almost think she was destined to be President. The mainstream press dotes on her, Republicans fear her, and any cleverly crafted poll that makes her look good gets press for days. However, she has a critical flaw that certainly makes me unlikely to support her candidacy were […]

Despite Amnesty International’s recent statement that the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay is a ‘gulag‘, President George Bush today said that Amnesty is “not exactly like” the Soviet-era newspaper Pravda. Gulags were Soviet forced-labor prison camps where the communist government sent millions of its own citizens as political prisoners to be tortured, starved […]

And you’ll never guess who did it! Has the entire world gone mad? It’s not enough for Dana Milbank to imply that Bush ships people who criticize him off to Gitmo or Linda Foley to say US troops are targeting journalists. No one seems interested in these outright slanders, nor in their obvious lack of […]

Who says there are no heroes anymore? What about Sgt. Leandro F. Baptista? Who is Leandro F. Baptista you ask? A Marine who won a Silver Star for heroism under fire in Fallujah. And just in case you’re wondering, oh yeah, he earned it: With six men wounded and two vehicles out of action, Baptista […]

I was pleased to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with sydicated columnist Jack Kelly. Mr. Kelly is former Marine, Former Green Beret, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration. We discussed a number of topics including Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Israel, China, chickenhawks, the cycle of […]

Last week, I wrote about our infuriating and irresponsible catch and release policy for non-Mexican illegal aliens in Texas. In effect, if you cross the border in certain parts of Texas and you’re not from Mexico, not only do you have nothing to fear from the border patrol, they actually MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR YOU. […]

(*** It hardly seems as if it could be possible, but yesterday was the one year anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death. It seems as if it were only a few months ago that Reagan left us, and rereading those old posts is more…difficult that it seems as if it should be at this point. But […]

Question 1: “What, in your opinion, is the root cause for the liberal’s anti-2nd Amendment movement in the US?” — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: There are a lot of reasons that liberals don’t like guns. First and foremost among them is liberals tend to be elitists who have a very minimal level of faith in the American […]

Question: “What are the chances of us seeing actual tax reform during the Bush Administration? How about in the next 50 years? By reform I mean some sort of flat tax, VAT, or national sales tax that does away with the IRS.” — taxsucks Answer: While there would be a lot of conservative support for […]

— Look for another interview, a very good one if I do say so myself, with a columnist who shall remain nameless until Monday. — Because of Memorial Day, it has been a slower week than normal for my advertisers. How about making it up to them by clicking on a few them? Trust me, […]

Question: “The recent uprising in Uzbekistan and the brutal crackdown ordered by the Uzbek premier Karimov – is that his name?! – has highlighted an obviously hypocritical element of US foreign policy, where support or at least benign acceptance is given to this particular tyrant whilest other are condemend in the strongest terms. The problem […]

Question: “It seems every now and then there’s some big stir in the media about violence in movies, video games, and music. Video games in particular are a favorite to blame for causing violence in children and teens. I was just wondering what your take on the issue is? Do you feel violent video games […]

Question: “Assuming Rehnquist resigns by the end of the month or at least the session, who are your top choices to replace him as Chief Justice and who will fill the vacant seat?” — Yankees62387 Answer: There are only two justices on the current Supreme Court, other than Rehnquist, whom I like: Scalia and Thomas. […]

Question: “What should I do if a wishy washy RINO gets the nomination in ’08? I doubt someone like McCain will get it, but there are plenty of other people who are just as bad in my opinion who could very be nominated. I am not someone who feels that I have to vote for […]

Tomorrow will be Q&A Friday #17 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, […]

One of the things you’ll often notice, particularly around election time, is liberals proclaiming their undying affection and love for the military, the police, and Christianity. Why, if you suggest that they’re not sincere, they will pitch a fit! How dare you “attack their patriotism” by suggesting that they’re hostile to the military, suggest that […]

Free To Choose is a superb book, one that I would strongly recommend to anyone who wants to get a better understanding of economics. Enjoy the quotes! (continued…)

It seems to me that if the Liberal doctrine had never been invented, not only would the United States of America be much better off, the entire world would be better off. The tenets of liberalism are anchored in the concept – and falsehood – of equality. Liberalism, Socialism, Communism and even terrorism are all […]

Thanks to all of RWN’s readers for helping to make Conservative Grapevine’s debut a smashing success. Day 1, CG had 4000+ unique readers, added 65+ registered users, sold 4 blogads, & had 800+ hits driven to just one of the blogs listed. That’s not too shabby for a blog’s day 1. If you haven’t checked […]

I’m not sure whether it’s a good sign or a bad sign, but blogging has apparently reached the “internet bubble” stage where corporations wildly throw money around without getting much of anything in return. If you don’t believe me, just check this out: “Flycell Inc., New York, an 18-month-old provider of mobile-phone content such as […]

There isn’t a human being alive who knows what’s contained in the federal tax code. To put it in perspective: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which defined the American nation, is 272 words in length. Our Declaration of Independence is some 1,300 words. The Bible, which spans several thousand years of human history, is 773,000 words. […]

(*** Note: This page will be at the top of Right Wing News all day today. So please scan down below this post for updates. ***) Since February of this year, I’ve been working on a little side project, a second blog to go along with Right Wing News. Well today, it goes live. The […]

“Over the past ten years Eurozone growth is 2.0 percent annually compared to 3.3 percent in the U.S. Eurozone unemployment has averaged 9.2 percent versus 5.1 percent in America. Euro-style socialism has failed to deliver the goods or the jobs. The Continent has fallen woefully behind in productivity, capital formation, wealth creation, and entrepreneurship. In […]

In the past, to inspire people to suggest new music that I might be interested in and just for entertainment’s sake, I’ve posted the music I was currently listening to on RWN. But, thanks to wonders of modern technology, I can now tell you which songs I listened to the most over the last month. […]

“(W)hen we look at the third world, our heart cries out, as it should, but that doesn’t mean that those in the third world are victims of anything but nature. The appalling poverty of Sri Lanka or Mozambique is not some bizarre aberration that can be tracked to a cause we can cure. We are […]

The ramifications of Mark Felt’s revelation, that he was “Deep Throat,” have been discussed at length across the blogosphere today. However, one aspect of this story that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves is the massive, long-term damage Watergate did to the mainstream press. Howard Kurtz elaborates in his column today: “But it must also […]

Despite the successful debut of Conservative Grapevine, the new website that anyone who is not a Communist will love, today has not been a fantastic day. To splain why, I must take you back to yesterday afternoon when I unknowingly stood in the middle of a fire ant mound for 5 minutes having a conversation […]

What you’re about to read is outrageous, irresponsible, government at its absolute worst. It should merit front page newspaper stories in 3 inch high type, congressional hearings, and firings by dozens. But instead, it’s just another day for America’s lackadaisical border enforcement policy or more accurately, America’s border non-enforcement policy: “The number of illegal immigrants […]

Pretty unbelievable. The newspaper that got itself into such a tizzy about the supposed “outing” of stateside mom Valerie Plame now reveals all on the CIA’s successor to Air America, the air fleet that ferries the CIA into hot zones and moves terrorists to interrogations sites. It’s one thing to speak of the dimensions of […]

“The Op-Ed pages are filled with jeremiads about believers–principally evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics–bent on turning the U.S. into a theocracy. Now I am not much of a believer, but there is something deeply wrong–indeed, deeply un-American–about fearing people simply because they believe. It seems perfectly O.K. for secularists to impose their secular views on […]