Year: 2005

Do you like pop-up ads? How about pop-under ads? Do you want to pay a weekly fee to read a blog? Do you like blogs that sell the emails of their subscribers? No, you don’t like any of those lame advertising techniques, right? The reason RWN has never used any of those irritating types of […]

Ron Brownstein wrote a column a few days ago for the LA Times that I’ve been meaning to discuss. It’s called “Internet, Polarized Politics Create an Opening for a Third Party” and here’s the crux of Brownstein’s argument: “We are now moving toward a very dangerous place for both parties,” (Joe Trippi) says. “It is […]

One regular claim made by the Democrats—especially during the 2004 campaign—was that the No Child Left Behind Act was “an unfunded mandate.” Well, we can add that myth to the list of debunked liberal lies: There are two things wrong with the [National Education Association’s] claim that NCLB is an unfunded mandate: The law is […]

WASHINGTON (IFOC) – After high-profile public appearances from baseball, football, and basketball commissioners before Congress, Major League Soccer repeated its demand to be subpoenaed to testify before the House Government Reform Committee. “We really need the publicity,” said commissioner Don Garber. “I swear, there are some games where you can hear a pin drop. And […]

Way back on Feb 22nd, I asked if there were anyone out there who wanted to do some web design for me. Well, to make a long story short, the project I needed the web designer for isn’t quite complete and I need help from a fresh designer to finish it….and ya know, not fresh […]

An article at the WAPO about declining talk show ratings has been drawing some attention around the blogosphere: What a difference an election makes. No, we’re not talking about the fortunes of a rich and powerful democracy. This is about talk radio. And even in the nation’s capital, post-election, people seem to have had their […]

Yesterday, W. was evacuated to the White House bunker after a false alarm: President Bush was rushed to a secure underground White House bunker and Vice President Dick Cheney was whisked outside the compound Wednesday because of a ”radar anomaly” — perhaps a flock of birds or pocket of rain — that was mistaken for […]

I watched Senator Kennedy’s historic speech on C-SPAN yesterday morning in awed silence. “…A man in dark hood and cape, standing on a cardboard box with electrodes hooked to his body. Naked men simulating lewd acts on each other. Naked civilians being chased by dogs. Rape. Murder. Sexual deviance. Free balloons for the kids. Everyone’s […]

Andrew Sullivan’s writing has clearly veered from deep confusion and inconsistency into the fringes of moonbat territory: “But in my darker moments, I wonder whether the war wasn’t a cover to persuade good, open-minded folk like Glenn (Reynolds) to enable the theocratic impulses of the Republican base. Of course, Glenn can wait and see. Gay […]

“I think the only people who could conceivably be talking about a draft are people who are speaking from pinnacles of near-perfect ignorance.” -– Donald Rumsfeld Hat tip to Lorie Byrd for the quote.

“Here is the undeniable, irrefutable truth of the whole controversy over John Bolton’s embattled nomination for the job as America’s ambassador to the United Nations. If John Bolton had been the nicest, sweetest, let-me-help-you-with-your-groceries, you-can-sleep-on-my-couch, I’ll-get-the-thorn-out-of-your-paw teddy bear to everybody he ever worked with or met, not a single Democratic senator on the Foreign Relations […]

As many of you are no doubt aware, Laura Ingraham had surgery for breast cancer yesterday. Luckily, it sounds like everything went well and of course, I wish her a speedy recovery. Someone called “nonews” also wished for Laura Ingraham to return to health….on the Democratic Underground Message Board. Doesn’t seem like a wise idea, […]

“The only plausible reason for keeping American troops in Iraq is to protect the democratic transformation that President Bush seized upon as a rationale for the invasion after his claims about weapons of mass destruction turned out to be fictitious. If that transformation is now allowed to run off the rails, the new rationale could […]

I was pleased to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with Byron York, a columnist at National Review & author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. We discussed a number of topics including Air America, Michael Moore, soft money, and a George Bush run theocracy =D You can read the interview by clicking […]

Liberal E. J. Dionne Jr. has noticed the drop in Bush’s approval ratings and is optimistically predicting a “Revolt of the Middle“against the Republican Party… “But something important has happened since President Bush’s inauguration. America’s moderates may not be screaming, but they’re in revolt. Many who reluctantly supported the president and the Republicans in 2004 […]

Friday, in the midst of a heated lefty-dominated conversation regarding — what else — the “non-mythical” status of global warming and how Bush & Co. are destroying the earth, the part of me that just can’t shut up happened to win the mental tug-of-war and blurted, “I suppose now would be a bad time to […]

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: I LOVE TAXES! April 15th is like Christmas for Progressives, and I look forward to it every year. I admit that I sometimes become mildly miffed that my paychecks keep getting smaller and smaller, but I’m fully cognizant that it’s because the wealthiest Americans […]

Business Week wrote an article predicting a corporate takeover of blogs. Here are a couple of quotes from the piece: “A prediction: Mainstream media companies will master blogs as an advertising tool and take over vast commercial stretches of the blogosphere…. Take a look at blog advertising today, and it’s hard to see a glittering […]

A college professor teaching a wacky course? How could it happen here — here in “Police State USA:” “The classroom where North Carolina Wesleyan College’s only political science professor is teaching a course titled “9/11; The Road to Tyranny” has become the latest battlefront in the ongoing campus culture war. On Tuesday, the six students […]

Look for the next update around 6 PM EST today — roughly. I’m going to be tied up until then. *** Update #1 ***: First of all, all of you readers in my comments section are pervs. Like I’d let some chick tie me up…yeah, right. I mean look, I think Ann Coulter is hot, […]

Senate Democrats have made a sudden shift in tactics over judicial filibusters. It is no coincidence that just as it is reported that Republicans have the votes to ban judicial filibusters that the Democrats suddenly want to compromise. As we reported earlier, David Broder suggest a “compromise” in his column in the Washington Post: all […]

There has been lots of charges of John Bolton having an anger problem. This is quite common, and I came up with a list to tell whether your nominee for the U.N. ambasador has an anger problem. Luckily enough, the items are ten in number. TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR NOMINEE FOR THE U.N. AMBASSADOR MAY […]

This must be very reassuring to all of the former satellite states of the USSR that spent the entire war pinned to the ground under the iron boot of the “Evil Empire:” “Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” […]

Lee over at Right Thinking From The Left Coast read the post on pulling the trigger on the nuclear option that was up Friday at RWN and generally agreed, save for one crucial caveat: “I’m torn on “going nuclear.” I totally agree with John that, morally and intellectually, it’s the right thing to do. The […]

Democrats would probably be more supportive of Mr. Bolton’s nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations if, in the above cartoon, Mr. Bolton: A) Was chasing Tom DeLay. B) Was chasing Pope Benedict XVI. C) Was clutching a fistful of oil-for-food vouchers. D) Was trying to catch the woman so he could […]

Perhaps you’re wondering what the Appalachian Fruit Laboratory in Kearneysville WV wants to do with $3,638,000 of your hard-earned tax dollars. Maybe you want to know why animal waste management in Bowling Green KY costs the federal government $2,300,000. (What are those animals eating — too much of that Appalachian Fruit?) Possibly you just want […]

The circulation of daily U.S. newspapers is 55.2 million, down from 62.3 million in 1990. The percentages of adults who say they read a paper “yesterday” are ominous: • 65 and older — 60 percent • 50-64 — 52 percent • 30-49 — 39 percent • 18-29 — 23 percent. Americans ages 8 to 18 […]

On Friday, I posted on the Michele Catalano interview done by the Citizen Journalist Report radio show. Here’s a short description of what happened from my previous post: …Jeff & Bill really bent over backwards to pick a fight with her. Just about every question was goofball sarcasm. … (Then) Michele went INSANE. I’m talking […]