Year: 2005

Last week, I did an interview via phone with Sam Brownback (R-KS), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a Senator considered likely to run for President in 2008. On Tuesday of last week, I released the part of the interview relating to the judicial filibuster deal, since it was quite timely. But today, […]

Robert Kuttner is the latest lib to write one of those “here’s what we must do to save the Democratic Party” columns. Kuttner’s piece, like all the others I’ve read since the 2004 election, completely overlooks the stiffening donkey with his legs straight up in the air that’s square in the middle of the Democrats’ […]

There has been a lot of fretting and hand-wringing about the consequences of the French voting “non” on the EU Constitution. Of course the French — being the French — may have done the right thing, but they did it for the wrong reasons. The general consensus is that they voted against the Constitution because […]

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton visited a primary school in Ithaca, New York, to talk about her job as a senator. After her talk, she offered question time. One little boy put up his hand and the Senator asked his name. “Kenneth,’ he replied. “And what is your question, Kenneth?” she asked. Kenneth answered, “I have […]

The words to “Taps” are: Day Is Done, Gone the Sun, From the Earth, From the Hill, From the Sky, All Is Well, Safely Rest, God Is Nigh When Taps is played at dusk, it has a completely different meaning than when Taps is played during the day. No soldier really wants to hear it […]

“They had victims galore back in 1863, but they weren’t a victim culture. They had a lot of crummy decisions and bureaucratic screw-ups worth re-examining, but they weren’t a nation that prioritized retroactive pseudo-legalistic self-flagellating vaudeville over all else. They had hellish setbacks but they didn’t lose sight of the forest in order to obsess […]

I’m preparing to move this week-end and therefore I’m going to have to take a little time off to prepare. So Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, there will be no daily news and no posts on current events. On the upside, I will be running blocks of “best of posts” — roughly 30 per day, so […]

Rules Of Thumb (October 7, 2003) Take My Word For It, Jews Don’t Rule The World (November 6, 2003) The Chickenhawk Slur (November 13, 2003) Making The Case For A Federal Marriage Amendment (February 26, 2004) Why We Invaded Iraq (April 14, 2004) Get Your Antennae Up! (April 26, 2004) Answering 20 Frequently Asked Questions […]

Politically Correct Fairy Tales Cats or Dogs. Which are the Better Pets? A Day In The Life Of A Puppy The Saddam Hussein Fan Club Constant ‘Joke’ Calls From White House Putting Further Strain On Relations Between US And UN Behind The Scenes In Iraq With Wolf Streisand The Translation Guide For Middle Eastern Dictators […]

Q&A Friday #16: Controlling Immigration Q&A Friday #15: Why Did The Brits Allow The Israelis To Create A State? Q&A Friday #12: How Polarized Is The Country? Q&A Friday #10: How Do You Convince People That Republicans Aren’t Racists? Q&A Friday #8: Suggest Some Books Q&A Friday #8: How Long Did It Take To Build […]

Is America Better Off Being Feared Or Loved? (April 1, 2002) The Two Year Old’s Tantrum Over The Election That Never Ends (July 1, 2002) Confessions Of An Isolationist Wannabe (August 21, 2002) A Message From The Citizens Of The ‘Great Satan’ To The Rest Of The World (August 28, 2002) Reagan 101 (Feb 6, […]

The Top 125 Political Websites On The Net Version 5.0 The 3rd Annual Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States: The 2004 Edition The Third Annual Warblogger Awards For 2004 My Favorite 40 Bloggers: Second Quarter 2005 The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004 My Top 50 Songs Of All-Time The 2nd Annual 10 […]

Star Trek & “Death By Prosperity” Star Trek’s Prime Directive And Conservatism The 10 Greatest Star Trek Characters Of All-Time Star Trek Was Bad TV? BAH!

The Top 6 Candidates For The GOP Nomination In 2008 Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee A Quick Look At The Candidates For Election 2008 Hillary In 2008 — How Tough Will She Be? 2008 Analysis: It’s Wide Open On The Republican Side

An Interview With Ann Coulter (June 26, 2003) RWN’s Ann Coulter Interview #2 (October 22, 2004) An Interview With Milton Friedman (September 16, 2003) The David Frum Interview (January 27th, 2004) RWN’s 2nd Victor Davis Hanson Interview (January 9, 2005) The G. Gordon Liddy Interview (December 22nd, 2003) An Interview With David Limbaugh About His […]

Pro-War Conservatives Predicted Iraq Would Help Spread Democracy In The Middle East The Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell’s ‘The Vision Of The Anointed’ RWN’s Favorite Donald Rumsfeld Quotes Great Patriotic Quotes If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People Version 3.0 RWN’s Favorite George S. Patton Quotes Quotes Of Note From Every […]

If The Media Treated Basketball Games Like They Treat The War On Terror The Canadian Menace Canadian Man Mildly Offended That America Isn’t Threatening To Invade Canada Why I Am A Democrat If Planned Parenthood Wrote The Next Harry Potter Book… The RWN Real-Estate Sale The RWN Idiot Test Americans Don’t Like Soccer Because It’s […]

This morning, I did an interview via phone with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The full interview will be going live on Tuesday of next week, but since everybody is talking about the judicial filibuster deal that was cut last night, I thought I should go ahead and release […]

As a society, we have a tendency to define deviancy downward. The things that are shocking to one generation end up being accepted in a matter-of-fact manner by their grandchildren. When that happens, it leads to the sort of bizarre situation we’re seeing in Eugene Oregon: The Human Rights Commission’s quest to include gender identity […]

Here’s the short version of the deal that was cut on judicial filibusters — at least what’s being admitted publicly at the moment: 1) Judges William Myers and Henry Saad get tossed over the side. 2) 7 Republicans, John McCain (AR), John Warner (VA), Mike DeWine (OH), Susan Collins (ME), Olympia Snowe (ME), Lindsey Graham […]

When Robert Mugabe took the lands of white farmers five years ago to redistribute to sqatters and peasants (and many well-connected blacks as well), it caused an agricultural collapse that has repeatedly brought the country to the brink of famine. Now the ripples are spreading. Agricultural exports were the main source of foriegn exchange; now […]

“I’m sorry, sir,” The restaurant manager apologized, “but I’m going to have to ask you to leave.” I folded my arms. “I see. Is it because I’m wearing nothing but my undershorts?” “You’re getting warm,” he replied. I didn’t want to do anything for my “birthday”. Personally, I find the act of celebrating the exact […]

Thomas Paine was an enormously important figure in American history chiefly because of a pamphlet that he wrote called “Common Sense” which was released in early 1776 and is widely credited with whetting America’s appetite for revolution. Here are some of the best quotes from “Common Sense”… “Society in every state is a blessing, but […]

During his chat with Tim Russert, Howard Dean inadvertently revealed the truth about liberals: that they’re closet socialists. Here’s Dean and Russert going back and forth about self-admitted socialist Bernie Sanders: MR. RUSSERT: In your home state of Vermont, there’s a vacancy for the United States Senate about to occur. Bernie Sanders, the congressman from […]

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words… Hat tip to The Corner for the pic.

“No one can devise a formula for getting rich. But I can devise a formula for getting poor. Don’t work. Convince yourself that your life reflects the decisions of others and not yours. Be the perennial victim. This is the toll that the welfare state has taken…It introduced a culture of poverty. Most Americans, regardless […]

You’re going to be shocked shocked to read this, but when you buy a prisoner a bus ticket and tell him to transfer himself to another prison, sometimes he’ll decide to run. When federal prison officials decided to transfer drug dealer Dwayne Fitzen from one prison to another, they bought him a one-way bus ticket […]

Since Friday’s announcement by a Sunni Muslim cleric that Baghdad’s Sunni Mosques would close for three days to protest killings blamed on Iraqi security forces, consumers said they’re struggling to find alternate sources for weaponry. “My children and I stood on line at a back-alley dealer for seven hours just to buy mortar rounds,” said […]

“Team America: World Police” is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen and it was put together by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park”. After watching the movie on DVD last night, I decided to put together the best quotes from the movie. Do keep in mind that this wasn’t […]