Year: 2005

Joe Arpaio is called “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and that’s too bad. I say that because if every jail in America were run like this, I suspect that we’d have a significantly lower crime rate…. From Snopes, “Sheriff Joe Arpaio has banned smoking, coffee, pornographic magazines, movies, and unrestricted television in all his jails. Those incarcerated […]

Just as pro-war conservatives predicted, freedom is on the march in the Middle-East. The best pundit in the business, Mark Steyn, elaborates… “Consider just the past couple of days’ news: not the ever more desperate depravity of the floundering “insurgency”, but the real popular Arab resistance the car-bombers and the head-hackers are flailing against: the […]

“Iraq Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 115” — Feb 28, 2005 “The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win.” — Michael Moore, April 14, 2004 — “A suicide car bomber […]

In another setback for the Bush administration, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a national TV audience Saturday that he would impose democratic presidential elections on this tranquil Arab dictatorship. Mr. Mubarak — who has run unopposed every six years since becoming president in 1981 after the assassination of Anwar Sadat — called for “more freedom […]

Bill from INDC Journal (who has a great blog which I’d highly recommend) asks for someone who’s pro-life to talk about the implications of some abortion polling, “For a thorny example, I think that it’s fair to state that a popular socially conservative goal is the repeal of Roe v Wade, followed by incremental legislation […]

If you’re looking for a new conservative humor blog, make sure to check out The Nose On Your Face for “news so fake you’ll swear it came from the mainstream media.”

Perhaps it’s because so many left-wingers view the war protests in the sixties as the “glory days” of the liberal movement or because like Ted Rall, they believe that… “Losing to Third Worlders in PJs led Americans to decades of relative humility, self-examination and taking the moral high ground in conflicts such as Haiti and […]

A little pressure is exerted, and all of a sudden some people want to play ball: The Iraqi government said today that it had captured a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, a man who for several years headed the country’s domestic intelligence and security service, once the most feared agency in Iraq. The half-brother, Sabawi Ibrahim […]

Three things I wanted to note: 1) RWN received a very brief mention in a piece on MSNBC called “What Is A Blog?”. You can see the video here. 2) My “Applying The ‘Gannon Standard’” apparently went over really well with Jeff Gannon because he linked to it on his homepage. Too bad he sent […]

From the bombastic, blonde, bombshell: “Much of the left’s hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left’s new religion. The basic tenet of their […]

Since I’m blogging full-time, making sure my advertisers are taken care of is more important than ever. Why if all of these advertisers became unhappy with RWN and stopped buying ads, I’d have to go get another job. What would the MSM write then, eh? Maybe something like… “Blogging doesn’t pay for advertisers because readers […]

It speaks volumes about the forgiving nature of our French and German friends that they don’t run the Shrub out of Europe on a rail, especially in regards to recent events. Last week, Bush asked for $100 million to help improve the Polish Army. Yup, the KILBASA KORPS! Congress must have thought it was some […]

One more thing about Ted Rall’s challenge. This part of Rall’s latest post is actually ironic given things that Ted has written in the past… “Suffice it to say, this stuff pisses me off and should not be tolerated by anyone who purports to be a law-abiding American. And again: mainstream blogs like Kos should […]

Ted Rall has thrown down a challenge to the entire right-side of the blogosphere… “Several Bushist blogger types have written to assert that there are as many violent and threatening remarks and insults coming from liberals online as there are from conservatives against liberals. I’ve spent many sadly-lost hours online, and I say: no way. […]

10. You never could throw your full support behind John Kerry once you found out his first name is found in the Bible, of all places. 9. One of the few reasons you couldn’t bring yourself to assasinate the president is you’d have to actually buy a gun. 8. Your opinions and values carry more […]

Howard Dean is going to have a hard time helping the Dems make headway in the red states when he’s apparently looked at as such a radical and polarizing figure that Democrats like Kathleen Sebelius don’t even want to be seen with him… “Before his selection as DNC chairman this month, Dean said he would […]

As we’ve learned from watching the left side of the blogosphere’s bizarre and obsessive coverage of the Jeff Gannon AKA James Guckert non-story, it’s vitally important that we have “real,” “non-biased” reporters asking questions at White House press conferences…you know, like Dan Rather or Michael Moore. In fact, the left is such a stickler over […]

From the WAPO… “Rice’s coat and boots speak of sex and power — such a volatile combination, and one that in political circles rarely leads to anything but scandal. When looking at the image of Rice in Wiesbaden, the mind searches for ways to put it all into context. It turns to fiction, to caricature. […]

Liberals across America are today rejoicing, insurgents in Iraq are trembling in fear, and cowering monkeys in zoos all across America are waving their slices of cheddar in the air with abandon now that it’s official that the French are on board in Iraq! Yes, the frogs have hopped to the rescue once again, pouring […]

In his latest column, obnoxious lefty Ted Rall chucks a huge stone from the window of his glass house… “Bloggers want you to know that there’s a new sheriff in town. Edward Morrissey, writer of the right-wing blog Captain’s Quarters, boasts to the New York Times: “The media can’t just cover up the truth and […]

SLOVAKIA goes to a flat tax and private retirement accounts. The efforts of George Bush and the Republican government look rather pathetic when set next to the freedom agenda of the Slovaks: On Jan 1, 2004, Slovakia adopted a 19% flat income and corporate tax rate. The dividend tax and a plethora of tax exemptions […]

In an effort to strengthen Congressional Republicans’ resolve to reduce non-defense spending by one percent, President George Bush today offered to increase federal funding for research aimed at “stiffening the spines of elected officials.” “Scientists tell me there may be a genetic defect which allows members of my party to campaign against government waste but […]

I don’t want to say that I told you so but…wait, yes I do want to say, “I told ya so you liberals, told ya so!” From an article I wrote back on April 14, 2004 called “Why We Invaded Iraq“… “If a beachhead of democracy can be established in Iraq, there’s an excellent chance […]

Libertarian Ryan Sager wrote a column about his experience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that has drawn attention from Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, INDC Journal, Q&O, & Instapundit among others in the blogosphere. Why has the column generated so much heat? Mainly because Sager tapped into two wells of discontentment that Libertarians love to […]

Anybody Remember the “graveyard of empires” and the “brutal Afghan winter”? After the Taliban’s three-year struggle against a superior US force, there is growing optimism among the Americans and Afghan government that the end is close. More than 1,000 people have died in violence in the past 18 months, but attacks have tailed off since […]

Any old nutjob can opine that Jews control the media, Karl Rove set up Dan Rather with fake memos, or that George Bush had Paul Wellstone killed. However, it requires a particularly aberrant sort of creativity to come up with a conspiracy theory as implausible as the one Carol Rawle digitally scribbled on the pages […]

Now this would make a great T-shirt…. What do you say Rovester? 45% for me, 45% for you, and 10% to RWN reader HeartlessLibertarian for coming up with the idea?

What happens to a once great military alliance when the nations you’re partnered with cease to maintain serious militaries? Unfortunately, that is not a theoretical question for the United States. Mark Steyn elaborates… “In the column I wrote on September 11, 2001, I mentioned en passant that among the day’s consequences would be the end […]

The whole “feminism in the blogosphere” meme is cropping up again as it does every few months. After gaining experience by wading hip deep into the gory fray over why there aren’t more successful women bloggers not once, not twice, but three times, I can now give a short, succinct explanation of why there aren’t […]