Year: 2005

There was a lot of undeserved early buzz about a piece at the Old Grey Lady called, “Conservative Blogs are More Effective.” The long and short of this under-400-word article is that conservative blogs have a bigger impact than liberal blogs because we don’t tear into Republicans (Only someone who never reads conservative blogs could […]

Family members of fallen highway patrol officers and their supporters are rallying in Utah to fend off a lawsuit from atheists claiming that crosses erected on public highways in honor of those officers are unconstitutional, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The state chapter of says the officers should be memorialized, but not with Christian […]

Foreign Claim: Israel Readies Forces For Strike On Nuclear Iran Israel Denies Plans To Attack Iran (Free Jerusalem Post Reg Req) Abbas Approves Monthly Grant To Families Of Suicide Bombers Nuclear Talks Suspended Indefinitely: NKorea Al-Qaida Deputy: All Muslims Must Join Jihad To Avoid Defeat Of Militant Islam Arab And White Race Riots Break Out […]

RWN Returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below and consider this to be an open thread. Ace Of Trump And Rightly So Business Opportunities Weblog The Counterterrorism Blog Daisy Cutter Dr. Sanity Kennedy Vs. The Machine Michele RNC Video: Retreat And Defeat Democrats Target Centermass PS: Tomorrow, RWN will have a 468×60, 20 […]

It has been brought to my attention that the libs at CodePink are encouraging people not to buy war toys for their kids for Christmas. So we have pacifistic liberals acting like pacifistic liberals. There’s nothing surprising about that per se. But these 2 suggestions on CodePink’s were really obnoxious: Place “surgeon general-type” warning labels […]

From last to first… 10) Unleashed: You know how everyone always mocks chop socky movies for not having a plot beyond, “You killed my master and now you have to die?” Well, Unleashed has a nice, long, involved plot featuring Morgan Freeman (How did they con him into doing this?) and it actually detracted from […]

It’s almost time for me to put together the 40 most obnoxious quotes of 2005 and if you have any suggestions for quotes that you think should make the list, please let me know. My guess is that most of these quotes will come from liberals, but I’ll certainly add conservative quotes in as well […]

Popular lefty cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall, who has a knack for saying what liberals really think but are afraid to say, has a message for his fellow travelers on the left: “You can drop the “support the troops” shtick now.” That’s from Rally’s latest column. So is this: “What if they gave a war,” […]

Click 3: Please? Fantasy Fiction For Christians Hud’s Blog-O-Rama JackLewis The National Center For Public Policy Research Place A Bet On The Iraqi Dinar Realm Dekor’s Urban Equipment Report Software Piracy For Rewards Republicans For Black Empowerment RightWingStuff (T-Shirts) UCLA Survey

Ok, maybe I have an odd sense of humor, but I thought this unlikely Christmas cards from Fark was hilarious: Hat tip to Im_Just_An_Ordinary_Panda for creating this one.

Unbeknownst to me, yesterday was Ann Coulter’s 44th birthday. So, I thought a short tribute to Ann might be appropriate. Enjoy the retro Coulter from RWN! An Interview With Ann Coulter RWN’s Ann Coulter Interview #2 The Best Quotes From The Last Year Of Ann Coulter Columns (2005) RWN’s Top 25 Favorite Ann Coulter Quotes

“Perhaps a million illegal immigrants come into the United States each year, joining the 10 million or 20 million already here–nobody seems to know the number. Our borders are less borders than lines you cross if you want to. When you watch videotape of some of the illegal border crossings on a show like Lou […]

Foreign Iran’s Ahmadinejad Says Israel Should Be Moved To Europe (It’s Just A Matter Of Time Until They’re Bombed Either By Us Or The Israelis) Iran President Expresses Doubt Holocaust Happened UN Ceremony Includes Map Of ´palestine´ In Place Of Israel U.S. Reporter Denied Entry To Syria Because He’s A Jew Iraq Group Claims To […]

Specialist Joshua Sparling received only one greeting card this holiday season, which is more than any of the Muslim freedom fighters he killed ever will. But when he tore open the envelope and read the note inside, he was’t treated to warm words of gratitude or friendly yuletide well-wishes. Instead, Sparling was sucker punched by […]

Can you believe this classless, lame poll at the Daily Kos? Oh wait, it’s not from the Daily Kos, it’s from CNN and as I write this, it’s currently on the front page. Can you imagine this sort of headline for a liberal? Would we ever see, who is stupider: Barbra Streisand, George Soros, or […]

I’m scheduled to be on the Tammy Bruce show at 1:32 PM EST to talk about the 4th Annual Warblogger Awards. As far as I can tell, there is nowhere you can listen to the show live for free so I’ll have to let you know how it went when it’s over. *** Update #1***: […]

Patrick Ruffini over at the RNC set up a blogger conference call with a couple of Republican Congressman who just got back from Iraq. One of the Congressman, Jack Kingston, got in late on the call because he was at the White House, so the majority of the call was handled by Congressman John Kline […]

If the Democrats were to ever get their way and implement socialized medicine in the United States, here’s the sort of nightmare situation we’d see as a consequence: “One of the most decorated British fighter pilots of the Second World War has sold his medals, diaries and other memorabilia partly to pay for a hip […]

On Tuesday, after I hyped Dawn Yang as the most drop dead gorgeous woman walking planet earth at the moment, I couldn’t help but notice that her name, which had dropped off of Technorati’s top 10 searches, rocketed back up the list again (Did I do that?) Combine that with the fact that one of […]

Isn’t it something that, in the coverage of Saddam’s trial, his antics of telling the judge off and saying that he won’t return to the trial gets equal coverage of the terrible stories that the witnesses are telling? Or, rather it’s not even equal coverage. In this story from Reuters, it isn’t until the sixth […]

Fellow blogger Brian, over at Iowa Voice just lost his job. Ouch. I’ve been there and it’s no fun, although unlike Brian, I was lucky enough not to get laid off until after Christmas. So, why don’t you head over to Iowa Voice, pad his stats a little bit to help with advertising, and if […]

Domestic Airline Passenger Who Made Threat Killed A Federal Law Enforcement Officer Fired His Gun On A Passenger Jetway ‘Holiday’ Cards Ring Hollow For Some On Bushes’ List (Free WAPO Reg Req) Sears Puts ‘Merry Christmas’ Signs In Its Stores ‘Silent Night’ Secularized. School Changes Beloved Christmas Carol To ‘Cold In The Night’ With All […]

Unfortunately, the Iron Lady has taken ill and will have to spend the night in the hospital. On the upside, Margaret Thatcher should be out of the hospital in the morning. But of course, a few of the folks at the Democratic Underground are well, unfortunately, behaving as we’ve come to expect them to behave […]

“An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was about to take off, officials said. No bomb was found. The man, identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, was gunned down on […]

From last to first… (Currently Reading) Dean Koontz: Dark Rivers of the Heart 30) Robert Leckie: Story of World War I (B+: I bought this one sight unseen so I didn’t realize it was for young adults and therefore shorter than the normal Leckie book. Still, it was an excellent overview of WW1. Probably the […]

“The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date that will live in infamy,” he began, and concluded by asking Congress to declare war on Japan. Congress did, with but a single disssenting vote. …The war lords of Japan might […]

Democrat National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean will join the USO Christmas tour this month, bringing holiday cheer to troops in Iraq with an inspiring musical message of hope entitled “We’ll Retreat ‘fore Christmas.” “Like all Democrats, I support our troops,” said Mr. Dean, who yesterday told WOAI radio in San Antonio, Texas, that Iraq […]

Gallup’s annual Ethics Poll is out and there are no real surprises here. The annual poll asks Americans to rate, on a scale of one to five, the honesty and ethical standards of those in 21 professions. Here are this year’s results. The number after the profession indicates the percentage of people polled who rate […]

Domestic Kerry: ‘U.S. Soldiers Terrorize Kids’ Bush Slams Howard Dean’s Comments On Iraq Police Baffled by Booby-Trapped Pens (Free LA Times Reg Req) Valerie Plame Is Set to Leave the CIA (Free LA Times Reg Req) Angry Anti-War Activists To Hound Hillary Clinton Former Florida Professor Acquitted Of Terrorism, Jury Deadlocked On Other Charges. Prosecutors […]

So, a few days ago, I’m looking at the top searches on Technorati and I see the name Dawn Yang. I have no idea who Dawn Yang is, but I decide to check it out on a lark and this is Dawn Yang… Oh. My. Gawd. That is the most unearthly beautiful woman I have […]