Year: 2006

The oddest non-story/story of the last couple of days has been the speculation that Bush is going to Pocket veto the Secure Fence Act, which would build 700 miles of fencing on the border. Mickey Kaus got the ball rolling based on, well, basically nothing — and because of the almost Hunter Thompsonesquely weird and […]

North Korea’s big, “welcome to the nuclear club,” bash apparently didn’t work out as well as expected: “U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used […]

— From John Zogby: “This could very well be a pox-on-both-parties election. The Republicans are severely wounded, but while Democrats are leading in the House races, it’s hard to see any enthusiasm there.” Right now, the voters seem to despise both political parties. While that hurts the GOP the most, because they hold the most […]

“Look, if you want John Paul Stevens replaced on the Supreme Court with a carbon copy, pro-choice, pro-racial preferences Justice, stay home. If you want Donald Rumsfeld hauled before Congress every week justifying the war rather than fighting it, stay home. If you want spending to increase even above the levels you are unhappy with […]

The United States of America has a huge problem with illegal immigration. Many say this is the fault of America for being so super awesome that everyone wants in. This is a valid criticism. The current proposal to handle the problem is to build a wall along the Mexican border. Of course, natural selection means […]

Foreign U.S. Circulates Draft Resolution At U.N. Calling For Sanctions On Pyongyang Blast May Be Only A Partial Success, Experts Say (Free New York Times Reg Req) N Korea ‘May Be Preparing Second Test’ Japanese Premier Says Japan Will Soon Take ‘Stern’ Measures Against N. Korea Elections Muhlenberg/Morning Call Poll: Casey 46%, Santorum 41% Republicans […]

Apparently, the Norks have tested a nuke. In one sense, that doesn’t change anything. Most analysts thought it was highly likely that the North Koreans had acquired nuclear weapons during the Clinton Presidency and this just confirms it. On the other hand, the 6-way talks with North Korea have been going nowhere of late, perhaps […]

Last week, Kos wrote this in a short diary entry: “My wife and I just got back from the 12-week ultrasound, and seeing that everything looks healthy and normal, I think it’s safe to announce that yes, we’re about six months away from having our second child. The due date is early April. And while […]

Good for Jack Kingston: “Today, I sent letters to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Rahm Emanuel and DNC Chairman Rahm Emanuel requesting that they also come before the House Ethics Committee in regards to what they or their staff might have known about Mark Foley and his activities. The letters were also signed by 10 […]

Here are some results from a very telling poll at the Democratic Underground: Note that the agnostics and atheists outnumber the Christians by more than 2 to 1 — and let’s face it, would anyone be the least bit surprised if these numbers held up pretty well among white, liberal activists? It would actually go […]

Over at Democrats.com, cmkay is mourning the loss of Nedmentum up in Connecticut: “Ned Lamont was the blogosphere’s first primary victory, but now he’s probably going to lose the general election. I seldom see his name on the blogs any more. I see negative things about Lieberman, but never anything positive about Lamont. Why is […]

This is absolutely priceless. They support the troops, but don’t know what they look like. Blackfive has had the best response to this so far: Seriously, though, how screwed up must you be to post about how much your party supports the troops, but not know who your troops are? ‘Embarassing’ hardly begins to describe […]

“Look: denouncing someone else’s speech is free speech. Refusing to support someone else’s free speech is, in effect, a hallmark of freedom. Cutting someone’s head off for what they say, isn’t free speech. What is so difficult to understand about that?” — Jonah Goldberg

Foreign North Korea Claims To Have Conducted Nuclear Test South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, Set To Be Formally Endorsed As UN Chief Kofi Annan’s Successor Monday Opec Chief Calls For Immediate Output Cut Outspoken Putin Critic Shot Dead In Moscow Several Hundred Iraqi Police Poisoned 20 Militiamen Killed In Clashes In Southern Iraq Domestic […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this to be an open thread, enjoy the links below, and have a great week-end! Rightroots Has Cracked $200,000! In Border Fence’s Path, Congressional Roadblocks Galley Slaves Game: Chaos Faction Harold Ford Called Self A Lawyer But Did Not Pass Bar Exam Juche Blog Musing Minds The People’s […]

— Maybe this guy should have gone in a different direction with his legal strategy: “A Chicago man apologized for spreading his feces around a courtroom during his trial on drug charges.” — This is sort of a good news, bad news story: The federal budget deficit estimate for the fiscal year just completed has […]

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem impossible to imagine something like this in America’s future: “Radical Muslims in France’s housing estates are waging an undeclared “intifada” against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union […]

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For a moment, let’s set morals aside and coldly consider whether it would be politically smart to get rid of Dennis Hastert right now. First of all, let’s be clear: this scandal is a negative for the GOP any way you slice it. The American people generally think that Congress is corrupt, partisan, and doing […]

From:Gerardo Montaño (gerardo@*****) Subject: THE STATE OF MY NATION NOT ONLY IS IT EXCITING TO READ POLITICAL BLOGS, BUT IT’S ALSO A GREAT PLACE TO ENGAGE CITIZENS ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AT THE MOST POWERFUL LEVELS AND AGENTS OF CHANGE…STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED (PAID IN) REPRESENTATIVES. By the way… what exactly defines a […]

We’re moving right up to the $200,000 mark with Rightroots and I encourage you to continue chipping in. But, if you’ve already given money to Rightroots and are looking for some other conservative candidates to support, here are some other non-incumbents that I think are worth helping, even though they’re not Rightroots endorsed. Mac Collins […]

Looks like we upset our lousy neighbors to the South by having the audacity to try to keep their citizens from illegally entering our country with a wall: “Mexico says it may go to the United Nations to challenge US plans to build hundreds of kilometres of fences on its southern border. The Foreign Secretary, […]

One of the downsides to the internet age is that sometimes things that are better left private, end up splashed all over the blogosphere and the Drudge Report. Just to give you one example, the mainstream media may guard the name of any women involved in a high profile rape case, but these days their […]

Fred Phelps and the rest of his God Hates F*gs lunatics have cancelled their plans to protest at the funeral of those Amish children killed by a deranged gunman: “A Kansas church group that planned to demonstrate at the funerals of five Amish girls killed in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse has dropped the […]

Check out Larry Elder’s latest column, “Virginia’s Senator Allen suffers from double standard on racism,” mentions some N-bomb quotes from Webb’s books. So, it looks like the post I did on the topic finally broke out of the blogosphere to a wider audience.

How long will it be before our tax dollars here in the states end up being spent on “art” of this sort? “The Melbourne-based Snuff Puppets company – which receives up to $50,000 in public funding – will put on a charity performance of The Twin Towers Show on Friday. Snuff Puppet artistic director Andy […]

“But now, the same Democrats who are incensed that Bush’s National Security Agency was listening in on al-Qaida phone calls are incensed that Republicans were not reading a gay congressman’s instant messages. Let’s run this past the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: The suspect sent an inappropriately friendly e-mail to a teenager — oh also, […]

Domestic US Border Fence Signed Into Law Dow Hits 2nd Straight Record-High Close Pennsylvania Man Charged Al Qaeda Plot Attempt Court Says Eavesdropping Program Can Continue Libs Rush The Stage To Prevent The Minutemen From Speaking Brent Scowcroft: Bob Woodward Made Up Quotes Attributed To Me Foley Scandal Ex-Aide To Foley Says He Alerted Hastert’s […]

— Right now, Robert Novak is projecting that the Democrats will pick up 12 seats in House, 3 seats in the Senate, and 3 Governorships. If that were the case, the GOP would keep control of Congress. — Speaking of which my current projections have the GOP losing 5 seats in the Senate, 9-14 in […]