Year: 2005

So far this week at RWN, the blogosphere has gone ga-ga over the idea of Condi running in 2008 and Dick Morris has declared that she is the only candidate who can beat Hillary in 2008. But, personally? I’m not sold on Condi as a candidate — at all. Moreover, I have to wonder if […]

It has been about 3 months since the last time I ranked my favorite 40 blogs and I thought it was about time to do another ranking. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have of course moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, […]

Nobody and I mean nobody, is as skull shatteringly brilliant at eviscerating liberals for their foibles, flaws, double standards as Ann Coulter. Just read her withering response to the latest crybaby liberal meme: that George Bush should be spending all that money on the inauguration… “The spokesman for Clinton’s 1993 Inaugural Committee said the inaugural […]

I looked forward to participating in some anti-Bush protests downtown today, but I accidentally showered this morning and blew all my plans. So I went to work instead, and the boss brought a radio into the break room so we could all “appreciate the magnitude of this dark day in American history”. Most of the […]

It looks like Spike Lee was right. Mr. Michael “Bowling for Columbine” Moore’s bodyguards do carry guns, “Filmmaker Michael Moore’s bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York’s JFK airport Wednesday night.” Here’s what I said about this back in August when it was just speculation based on something Spike Lee said […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 200 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination for President in 2008 and the 1-5 candidates they’d least like to see as the Republican nominee in 2008. Representatives from 50 blogs […]

You think you actually want your car? Nonsense! You’ve just been tricked into believing that driving a car is more convenient than riding the bus. Tricked by who you may ask? By corporate America fool! No, really! Just read today’s post of the day from the DU and you’ll see what I mean…suckers! JanMichael: “Y’all […]

You know what I find incredibly ironic? That at one point in this country, we had people out in the streets, marching, protesting, being spit on, cursed, arrested, and sometimes even beaten and killed because they thought it was vitally important that we here in America “judge each other not by the color of our […]

The Democratic National Committee released a statement yesterday stating there’s “a darn good chance” their party could be competitive in the South “no later than 72 years from now.” DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe, who somehow still has a job, said “bold measures” were necessary and, if immediate action is not taken, the Democrats “will end […]

Last night on Hannity & Colmes, a young-looking female who proclaimed that she was from “counterinaugural.org.” During the show, Sean Hannity read to her a statement from ANSWER (Act Now To Stop War And End Racism) proclaiming that the best way to stop Bush’s tyranny was to try and disrupt the inauguration and “rise up” […]

From Michele Catalano at A Small Victory… “So what I’m really wondering here – guys, this is for you – is this: What is sexy? And I mean physically, so don’t cop out and give me that “a woman with a brain is sooo sexy” line. Do you honestly like a woman who looks like […]

In Importance of the Election 101 we discussed the varied nature of the Iraqi insurgency and how the upcoming election gives the Iraqi government a political opportunity to cleave off the native insurgents from foreign jihadis. Today, Belmont Club looks at the attempts to provide security for the upcoming election, the refusal of American and […]

If you want to understand how ill-equipped liberals are to fight the war on terror, you only need to read this post by Jesse Taylor from Pandragon. After reading my 40 Question Reality-Based Community Quiz, Taylor took umbrage at the following question, “24) In your opinion, is sleep deprivation a form of torture?” Of course, […]

A groundbreaking 3,000-word report commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan revealed today that the epidemic of global poverty could be eradicated “practically overnight” if wealthy nations would simply give large amounts of cash to the U.N.’s anti-poverty efforts. “This research shows that the root cause of poverty is the absence of money,” said Mr. […]

I’m a big Dick Morris fan and I was pleased to get an opportunity to do a short, email interview with him. I may not always agree with every thing that Morris says, but I always pay attention because he has one of the sharpest minds in politics. You can read the interview by clicking […]

I’m a big fan of Hugh Hewitt, but for the most part, I’m going to have to disagree with him on his latest column: Black Blog Ops: Blogs are popular and influential, but could they be used for political dirty tricks? Or worse?. Here’s the money excerpt from the piece, “Like a reverse Atlantis, a […]

Frustrated and unhappy at losing yet another election, and angry about losing power in general, Liberals are now trying to convince America that President Bush should not hold an inauguration celebration while the country is at war and South Asia is recovering from a tsunami. The funny thing about Liberals is, they always manage to […]

As anyone who pays attention to the left knows, they’re dangerously naive about national security matters. But this statement by MLK’s widow Coretta Scott King, who’s still taken seriously by a lot of people on the left, is a frightening combination of ignorance and childlike innocence… “It’s as if he were writing for this period. […]

Facing criticism for his move to negotiations to set “appropriate limits” on suicide bombings. Mr. Sharon even put an opening proposal on the table for a Suicide Attack Protocol which would limit Palestinian terror groups to a monthly quota of one bus explosion in a crowded marketplace and two border checkpoint bombings while negotiations continue […]

Carol Morello from the Washington Post contacted yours truly to comment on the innauguration so that I could be a voice of reason in the article she was writing on the subject….Ok, she didn’t say I was there to be a “voice of reason,” but that’s what I was. Just take a look at what […]

Many people on the left refer to themselves as members of the “reality based community” which is quite fascinating when you consider all of the bizarre beliefs and conspiracy theories that they buy into. So, as I was pondering this, I thought back to the 8 questions that Kevin Drum came up with a while […]

It has been quite a while since the anthrax mailings have stopped and the FBI was never able to find out who was responsible. However, like OJ, those crazy kids at the Democratic Underground have never given up their search for the real killers, and now they’ve cracked the case! So was it a rogue […]

I watched this discussion on C-Span between Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer on whether or not the Supreme Court should make references to International court decisions in their own decisions. It was fascinating. To my mind, Scalia was so much more persuasive. He pointed out that the justices are selective, only choosing those foreign decisions […]

As the mainstream media give more attention to blogs and more Americans hear about them for the first time, there are many myths about blogging being spread (many by the MSM itself). As a service to the public (an IMAO exists solely to the benefit of the public), I will now list those myths and […]

Hey all you tree hugging, electric car driving, solar panel hippies, it’s people like you who’re responsible for global warming….or so say climate change scientists like Dr Peter Cox … “Cutting down on fossil fuel pollution could accelerate global warming and help turn parts of Europe into desert by 2100, according to research to be […]

You can tell there’s a hot topic at Instapundit when Glenn Reynolds actually opens up a post for comments. In this case, there’s a little blowback over the whole Armstrong Williams debacle for Kos who got sanctimonious over the whole thing and in effect said that until it was revealed who else — if anybody […]

As someone who has said that the GOP needs to make more of a pitch to black Americans, I can tell you that these statistics from the latest Larry Elder column are music to my ears and should scare the hell out of the Democrats… “Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America’s […]

Normally, I don’t bother to talk about anarchists because well….they’re pretty much irrelevant losers. However, today I stumbled across a passage written on the Anarchist Resistance to the 2005 Presidential Inauguration that was too good to pass up… “Four years ago anarchists marched on the Inauguration, hundreds strong. The police set up check points forcing […]

Michael Chertoff, President George Bush’s nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, said today that if he’s confirmed by the Senate his “job number one” will be to protect the civil rights of illegal aliens suspected of terrorist activities. “We’ve been over-eager in the past to detain men whose crimes consisted of little more than breaking […]

The Los Angeles Times’ Robert Scheer thinks the global threat posed by al Qaeda is just a figment of our overactive imaginations. To back up his assertions, he relies on a documentary aired on the BBC: “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear,” a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently […]