Year: 2006

Via Right Thinking Girl, I ran across a bizarre article by a columnist named David Cobain. It’s called, “Osama Bin Laden…a guy I met in a bar,” but it might as well have been called “Osama Bin Laden: A love story,” because the guy literally comes across as smitten with Bin Laden. Here’s a sample: […]

The Rightroots 15 day challenge is over, but we’re still taking in money. Here’s how much we’ve raised so far for each of our candidates: Diana Irey (PA-12) $14,780 Ray Meier (NY-24) $10,179 Michael Steele (Maryland) $9,558 Mark Kennedy (Minnesota) $8,672 Van Taylor (TX-17) $7,090 Thomas Kean (New Jersey) $6,190 Michele Bachmann (MN-06) $5,604 Mike […]

Over at Ace of Spades HQ, Ace hammers Matt Drudge for waiting until a story broken by a blogger was picked up by a local paper to link it: “Drudge almost never links bloggers; it’s just a thing with him. So he waited until a local Arizona paper basically just retyped espressopundit.com’s posting and then […]

“For the first time in forty years, Lebanese soldiers deployed on the 112 kilometer border with Israel. Less than a thousand Lebanese soldiers took up positions along the border, although unarmed Hizbollah men often manned the border crossings as well. The Hizbollah guys appear to be in charge, and have the final say. …Hizbollah leaders […]

“Almost one in 10 British Muslims would not inform police if they suspected that someone of the same faith was involved in a terror attack, a poll suggested. The ICM poll for the News of the World found 9% of the 502 questioned would not tell police if they had such suspicions about a fellow […]

In his interview with Fox News, Clinton says that conservatives criticized him for being too focused on Bin Laden. I can’t figure out what he was talking about since most so-called neo-cons were all for going after terrorist groups in the 1990s. Ace dug up what the response was to Clinton’s missile attacks on bin […]

Domestic Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist On Sunday Said He Wants A Senate Vote Soon On An Immigration Bill Focusing Primarily On Border Security, But Acknowledged That Quick Passage Is Doubtful Clinton, Fox Anchor Battle in Interview An Anti-American 9/11 Memorial In Arizona Inspires Outrage GOP: A Family Of Four Earning $50,000 Today Would Owe […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, have a great week-end, enjoy the links below, and consider this to be an open thread. Agent Bedhead Black Sheep News Campaigners For The Right Dr. Melissa Clouthier Ghost Of A Flea Iraq The Model Irish Pennants Knowledge Is Power Michelle Malkin NoSpeedBumps Retro RWN: Patton Archives

Hugo Chavez made some moronic and rude comments about Bush at the UN, which included: “The devil is right at home. The devil — the devil, himself, is right in the house. And the devil came here yesterday. “Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this […]

Over at the Daily Kos, in a recommended diary, Bob Johnson suggests that Democrats, “Walk Out Of The Capitol.” “It’s time to shut down the government. Torture. The gutting of habeus corpus. And now this. An attack on Iran. These people are lunatics. Insane, fascist, psychotic, psychopathic, sociopathic lunatics. Our Democratic leaders must throw political […]

The New York Times has written a sob story about pear growers in California who suffered losses this year because they relied on illegal aliens who turned out to be in short supply this growing season: “Stepped-up border enforcement kept many illegal Mexican migrant workers out of California this year, farmers and labor contractors said, […]

Here’s a short excerpt from Ann Coulter’s latest column from Human Events this week, which was the version that I read and linked before today: “McCain, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Warner — or, as the Times now calls him, the “courtly Virginian” — want terrorists treated like Americans accused of crimes, […]

Here’s an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal editorial that points out how utterly and completely the United Nations has failed in dealing with Iran: “Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put on quite a show at the United Nations this week, and it’s tempting to dismiss it all as mere bombast. Except that their assertiveness […]

Domestic Republicans Reach Deal On Detainee Bill (Free New York Times Reg Req) Fitzgerald Given Way Out Of Libby CIA Leak Case. Judge Says He Can Dismiss Case If Classified Secrets Will Be Revealed Bill Clinton Accuses Bush Of Wanting To: Institutionalize What Happened At Abu Ghraib” Bush Ready To OK Border Barrier Bush On […]

Earlier today, I got in on a teleconference with Majority Whip Roy Blunt, Congressman Dan Lungren and Congressman Ed Royce in order to talk about illegal immigration. Here are some of my notes from the discussion (These are not quotes): My question to Roy Blunt: Mr. Blunt, can we get a commitment from you that […]

“An attack on Bush is an attack on all Americans…’You do not come into my country, my congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear […]

When we started the whole 15 day challenge, I figured it wouldn’t be all that hard to pull in 100 contributions for each of our 21 candidates. However, we got off to a really slow start and something that normally is a big positive, a high dollar per contribution average, really worked against us. By […]

It has been a while since I last ranked the best opinion columnists in the business, so I figured it was time to do it again. Here are my current faves in order… 30) Heather Mac Donald 29) Mac Johnson 28) Bill O’Reilly 27) Wesley Pruden 26) Mary Katharine Ham 25) Michael Graham 24) Michael […]

It’s time to reevaluate the Senate races again, although it’s still early and these rankings will change between now and the election. The higher the rating is, the greater the chance is that the seat might change parties. Dark Horse Races: (These are real long shot races) 15) Bernie Sanders* (I) vs. Richard Tarrant (R) […]

This is an appalling story on so many different levels: “Velasco Elementary School’s principal said he has been taken aback by a controversy that has arisen from his campus’ Mexican Independence Day celebration, and he apologizes for offending parents. During a short school assembly Friday, several parent volunteers read a pledge of allegiance to the […]

Kathryn Jean Lopez quotes Charles Rangel at the Corner. “His plans for raising taxes on American families and small businesses: “Democratic Representative Charles Rangel vowed to reach out to Republicans if his party wins control of the House in November, while acknowledging that they may find his plans for changing tax policy unpalatable. “Rangel’s accession […]

Foreign Shiite Militias Are Encouraging Children — Some As Young As 6 Or 7 — To Hurl Stones And Gasoline Bombs At U.S. Convoys, Hoping To Lure American Troops Into Ambushes Or Provoke Them Into Shooting Back At U.N., Chavez Calls Bush ‘The Devil’ Bush Would Send Troops Inside Pakistan To Catch Bin Laden Muslims […]

Oh, what a lame little puff piece the people at Newsweek have written about psychopathic holocaust denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here’s a little sample: “A day after slamming the Bush administration for its Middle East policies in an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this morning told a group of international […]

I’ve never had much luck with golf. I played a few times when I was a teenager, but I wasn’t THAT into it and I had a couple of rotten experiences with the game. In one of the first rounds of golf that I ever played, I had no idea what I was doing — […]

We have some enormous news: RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Announces Rightroots Challenge See below. The Chairman just sent this e-mail setting out the biggest Rightroots challenge yet. If Rightroots meets its September goal to support each of its 21 candidates by midnight tonight, Chairman Mehlman will send an e-mail to the RNC’s entire list of […]

With the elections coming up in November, it’s important for the American people to take a hard look at how both political parties intend to handle the war on terrorism. Republicans believe in winning the war in Iraq, aggressively pursuing terrorists far from our shores, and using our intelligence assets to prevent another attack. On […]

From the comments section of the latest Rightroots post “Nothing on Rightroots (but good luck on that). Just want to say, heavy props on advertising Sam Harris’s book on your site; these days, that kind of thing takes guts. And if there’s one thing morally/intellectually destroying this nation/the world, it’s organized religion. No question of […]

As a general rule, if the mainstream media is discussed on RWN, they’re being beaten like a bongo drum at…..ehr, somewhere they hit bongo drums a lot. But, for once, let me single out an article for praise. It’s a piece by James Healy at USA Today. Here’s the key excerpt: “A hefty 42% of […]

Here are the latest totals: Mike Whalen (IA-01): 75 Chris Wakim (WV-01): 76 Scott Tipton (CO-3): 77 Jeff Lamberti (IA-03): 80 Rick O’Donnell (CO-07): 80 Max Burns (GA-12): 83 Chuck Blasdel (OH-6): 84 John Gard (WI-08): 84 David McSweeney (IL-08): 86 Ray Meier (NY-24): 88 Peter Roskam (IL-06): 92 Ralph Norman (SC-05): 94 Andrea Lane […]