Year: 2005

The liberal blogosphere is up in arms about this church, which it believes is the victim of a politically motivated IRS investigation over a pre-election speech. Churches and other non-profits, as you know, are not supposed to engage in political activity. If they do, they lose their tax-exempt status. The sermon, while claiming not to […]

“(I)f you accord to terrorists all the rights of somebody who gets arrested for holding up a liquor store in Des Moines, you are going to lose to the terrorists, because when you accord them the full rights of somebody who is a criminal, you make it impossible to prosecute this as a war, which […]

Foreign Paris Riots Losing Steam. “Only” 482 Car Burnings, Two Schools Damaged, And Two Power Plants Sabotaged In France Last Night. Aussie Treasurer Peter Costello: “If You Are Somebody Who Wants To Live In An Islamic State Governed By Sharia Law You Are Not Going To Be Happy In Australia, Because Australia Is Not An […]

Take a look at this heaping hunk of crap: It looks like a really bad high school art project, doesn’t it? Well, guess how much this thing sold for? If you haven’t already seen the story, you probably came in way low… “A large-scale metal sculpture by American artist David Smith has become the most […]

At 2:30 today, I was fortunate enough to be invited to another conference call on Alito. This one featured Ed Gillespie, who’s billed as Alito’s sherpa up on Capitol Hill. The key thing they were trying to accomplish was to knock down the latest Democratic line of attack on Alito, which is that he may […]

Ross Douthat & Reihan Salam wrote a piece in the Weekly Standard about how the GOP’s domestic agenda should change in the Post-Bush era. Some of their analysis was good, some of it was bad, but the concept was terrific — and a terrific concept is worth stealing =D So, here’s my short, very generalized, […]

Oh, the irony just never stops up on Capitol Hill. On the one hand, we have puffed-up Senators threatening oil executives with a windfall profits tax and grilling oil executives about “obscene profits” that are less than a third of what corporations like Citigroup and Microsoft rake in. On the other hand, gutless Republicans in […]

“Of course, the oil companies have made a lot of profit lately, but so have many other businesses and industries. Although Exxon got big headlines for earning $9.92 billion in the third quarter, few analysts bothered to note that this only came to 9.8 cents per dollar of sales — well below that of many […]

How about helping me out with an article I’m working on by suggesting some of the greatest moments in the history of the blogosphere? I’m looking for things like the Trent Lott takedown and Rathergate and I’d hate to miss anything important. So, how about chipping in your two cents in the comments section?

Many of you may have already forgotten all the scaremongering about the draft that the left engaged in during the 2004 election…but not me. The Democrats ranted, they raved, they claimed that college students were going to be drafted and no matter how often the rest of us tried to interject some reality into the […]

Last night, as I was shopping at Wal-Mart, I walked past this mother, her baby, and her cute as a button daughter, who looked to be about 3 years old, and was, for some reason, holding on to two rolls of wrapping paper. So, the baby grabs something off of the shelf and the mother, […]

Domestic Voters Approved Ballot Measures To Ban Handguns In San Francisco And Urge The City’s Public High Schools And College Campuses To Keep Out Military Recruiters Voters Soundly Reject Election Changes In Ohio Evolution Slate Outpolls Rivals In Pennsylvania (Free NYT Reg Req) New York’s Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg Won By A Record Margin GOP […]

You may or may not have heard of Capitol Hill Blue, a liberal online mag. That would be understandable because they’re not particularly talented, noteworthy, or unique in any way, except for one thing: In my opinion, they like to make up wild stories about the Bush administration from whole cloth and attribute them to […]

There’s an important question that Americans need to ask themselves about the Paris Riots: Could the same thing happen here? Granted, there are some significant differences between this country and France. We do a better job of assimilating immigrants, have a much lower unemployment rate, a less cushy welfare system, tend to be much more […]

RWN advertiser and bookmark-worthy blog, Stop the ACLU, has done an interview with me via email. You can take a look at that interview here. You can read some of the other interviews that have been done with me at the following websites: The YNC.com on 9/29/2005 National Journal’s Blogometer on 8/16/2005 Election 2004 Debate […]

While channel surfing I caught the end of an interview with Ben Stein on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show. Stein caught me a little off guard by calling Special Prosector Patrick Fitzgerald a “thug.” Stein, understandably enough, is not a fan of politics entering the criminal courtroom. Even taking into account his history as a Nixon […]

Ever wonder why Democrats want another investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq? Perhaps because three past independent investigations all concluded the same thing, that there was no manipulation of intelligence, and the Democrats are trying to create one that will say the opposite? The Robb-Silberman Commission On The Intelligence Capabilities Of The United States Regarding […]

“It is one thing to know in theory that France has undergone major ethnic changes over the past 30 years and another thing altogether to confront a mass ethnic insurgency. The figures are inescapable. There are about 60 million inhabitants in continental France, plus 2 million citizens in the overseas territories (essentially the French West […]

Foreign State Of Emergency Declared In France French Riots Continue Despite Curfew Threat Leaders Fiddle As France Burns Paris Prosecutors Opened An Inquiry Tuesday Into Two Young Bloggers Who Urged French Youths To Riot And Revolt Against The Police US Denies Using White Phosphorus On Iraqi Civilians Annan, Bolton Clash On Syrian Cooperation With UN […]

At the end of a column on the Paris riots in which he slammed the French for racism and for their treatment of immigrants, conservative columnist Ralph Peters stepped over the line when he said: “Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete […]

One of the things that has become crystal clear since the Bush administration made the mistake of appointing Patrick Fitzgerald as a special prosecutor over “Plamegate,” is that Valerie Plame’s job in the CIA was no secret despite the protestations to the contrary from her husband, serial liar Joe Wilson. In fact, there are now […]

When you try to evaluate the performance of a government, it’s often useful to compare what it’s done to another government in roughly similar situations. So, let us compare the disaster relief performance of the US to that of one of our Western European “allies,” France. First, we’ll start with the USA. After Katrina, Bush […]

“Real estate prices are at their highest levels in history, as are homeownership and Americans’ average net worth. Unemployment also is lower than the average during any of the past three decades. Yet Americans are very down, and one third even think the economy is in a recession. Is consistently negative media coverage influencing public […]

Bush Puts Paris to the Torch When Bush began this silly little “War on Terror” of his, he promised it would make the world a better, safer place for everyone. Apparently, he forgot to include the peace-loving Muslim peoples in his “brave new world”, for ever since 9/11 he’s gone out of his way to […]

“If anything, the Bush Administration has understated the world intelligence community’s evidence on Iraq’s WMD program. CIA Director George Tenet – a Clinton appointee held over by Bush – called the case that Saddam had WMDs a “slam dunk.” The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which Tenet produced in 2002, contained such dire predictions as: […]

Foreign Rioting Spreads To 300 Towns In France 10 Officers Shot As Riots Worsen In French Cities (Free NYT Reg Req) France Imposes Curfews As Rioting Spreads Australia Foils Terrorist Attack U.S. And Iraqi Troops Battle Insurgents Domestic Bush Declares: ‘We Do Not Torture’ Senators Defend Bush On Torture Ban Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy […]

John McCain is an arrogant fool whose latest nauseating attempts to curry favor with the liberals in the media may eventually result in the loss of countless American lives: “Girding for a potential fight with the Bush administration, supporters of a ban on torturing prisoners of war by U.S. interrogators threatened Friday to include the […]

Given the situation, this is so ridiculous that it’s almost funny: “One of France’s largest Islamic groups issued a fatwa against rioting on Sunday after officials suggested Muslim militants could be partly to blame for violent protests scarring poor neighbourhoods around the country. The Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF) quoted the Koran and the […]

This sounds more like a bureaucratic snafu than the Department of Defense acting in bad faith, but the results are the same: “Department of Defense decision to renege on war-time promises to pay bonuses to more than a dozen re-enlisting Washington National Guardsmen has sparked outrage from prominent elected officials and state National Guard officers […]

More Iranian grotesquerie from the Telegraph, with thanks to Scaramouche: Iranian state television has broadcast a cartoon that glorifies suicide bombings against Israelis, depicting a young boy blowing himself up after being told: “Go and show the Zionists how brave and heroic are the children of Palestine.” And how hateful and mad are their elders. […]