Year: 2006

The New York Times has an article on the so-called “Ghetto Tax:“ “Drivers from low-income neighborhoods of New York, Hartford and Baltimore, insuring identical cars and with the same driving records as those from middle-class neighborhoods, paid $400 more on average for a year’s insurance. Those were just two examples among several cited in a […]

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Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, we have this news out of Connecticut: “In the Connecticut U.S. Senate race, Ned Lamont (D) has surged ahead of Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and now holds a razor-thin 51% to 47% lead among likely Democratic primary voters, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. In possible general election matchups: …Running […]

Foreign Israeli Troops Battle Hezbollah Guerrillas In Lebanon IAF Foils Rocket Transports From Syria IAF Attempts To Assassinate Hizbullah Leadership 2 Children Killed by Hezbollah Rocket In Nazareth Lebanon ‘Has Been Torn To Shreds’ Turkey Signals It’s Prepared To Enter Iraq Taliban Vow Revenge After Being Smashed By Coalition And Afghan Forces

Yesterday, I got together with Mimi Miyagi, a former porn star running for Governor of Nevada as a Republican. Her campaign is quite a ways back in the polls at the moment, but I thought she’d still be a fun interview — and she was! What you’ll find below is an edited transcript of our […]

“By 2010, the integration of Mexico, Canada and the U.S. will be almost complete. Congress and the media will not know what happened. Americans will be as clueless as ever; thanks to the complicity of the brain-dead media, the triumph of a bloodless bureaucratic elitist coup will become a reality, or close to it.” — […]

Gallup has a new poll out comparing the Democratic and Republican 2008 candidates on an “acceptable/not acceptable” basis. You can take a look at the numbers here. A few things of note from the poll: — First place among Republicans is Rudi, with 73% acceptable rating and only 23% calling him unacceptable. Those are nice […]

From Lebanon: Americans wiped away tears, hugged relatives and grumbled about evacuation delays Wednesday before boarding a luxury ship that was to carry them from war-torn Lebanon. Crew members of the Orient Queen welcomed aboard parents pushing strollers and clutching their children. Many expressed frustration that it had taken the U.S. government so long to […]

Helen Thomas: The United States is not that helpless. It could have stopped the bombardment of Lebanon. We have that much control with the Israelis. MR. SNOW: I don’t think so, Helen. Helen Thomas: We have gone for collective punishment against all of Lebanon and Palestine. MR. SNOW: What’s interesting, Helen — Helen Thomas: And […]

Foreign Israeli Ground Troops Enter Lebanon Israeli Tanks Move Into Gaza Refugee Camp Forty To Fifty Percent Of Hizbullah’s Military Capability Has Been Destroyed In The Six Days Of The IDF Counter-Attack Hezbollah Fires Rocket-A-Minute At Israel Israeli General Says Lebanon Offensive Will Last Weeks (Free New York Times Reg Req) British Officials Privately Acknowledged […]

George Allen: A reliably conservative Reagan Republican. We could use another 60-70 Senators just like him in the Senate. Tom Coburn: The man who’s always on point against government spending in the Senate. Jim DeMint: He’s conservative, pugnacious, and looks particularly impressive beside of the other Republican Senator from his state, Lindsey Graham. Jack Kingston: […]

Today, I was fortunate enough to get in on a Human Events / Heritage Foundation listen-in on a conference with Newt Gingrich. Newt, who came across very well, mainly focused on the war on terror, which he did again refer to as World War 3. He had a lot of interesting things to say and […]

Chuck Schumer is complaining that the Democratic Party can’t explain what they stand for to the American people. “We don’t have 80 words” to sum up the Democratic agenda. We don’t have eight.” Conservatives generally have no problem explaining what they want to do, although Republicans often fall short of their ideals once they get […]

“Just as the Republican Party pays obeisance to the demands of the 37% of its base that is white evangelical Christian, the Democrats feel they must not offend the 22% of their core voters who claim no religious affiliation. Why not? Because although they make up less than one-quarter of the coalition, these secular Democrats […]

Some people claim that conservatives just aren’t funny — which isn’t true, especially in the political arena. There are actually a lot more funny conservative blogs than liberal blogs out there. Just name to few, there’s Ace of Spades HQ, Tim Blair, BlameBush!, IMAO, Iowahawk, The Nose On Your Face, Potfry, Scrappleface, and Wuzzadem among […]

…Over the past few weeks, our enemies have challenged thesovereignty of the State of Israel and the safety of its residents – first in the southern sector, then on the northern border, and deeper into the home front. Israel did not seek these confrontations. On the contrary. We have done a lot to prevent them. […]

Foreign Olmert: “We Will Search Every Compound, Target Every Terrorist Who Assists In Attacking The Citizens Of Israel, And Destroy Every Terrorist Infrastructure, Everywhere.” Olmert Vows No Mercy for Terrorists Bush Caught On Mike: “What They Need To Do (Is) To Get Syria To Get Hezbollah To Stop Doing This Sh*t.” Video Of Bush’s Private […]

Whatever the problem may be, you can always count on the UN to propose a hopelessly unworkable solution to it. The fighting between Lebanon and Israel is par for the course: “French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday joined British Prime Minister Tony Blair and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in calling for the […]

“The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die.” — Bill Clinton Hat tip to Polipundit for reminding me of the quote.

I was a big wrestling fan when I was a teenager and one of the best “bad guys” in wrestling was Nikolai Volkoff. Back in the eighties, he played a Commie goon who’d walk around the ring waving a Soviet flag and he’d infuriate the fans by singing a “Russian National Anthem” before his matches. […]

Over at the WAPO, Glenn Frankel is the latest person to speculate about the, “oooh, so scary,” pro-Israel lobby. Here’s a sample to give you the flavor of his long article about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: “It’s not that Olmert is a more commanding figure than Ben-Gurion. Far from it. No, it’s about […]

They’ve got another nifty thread going over at the Democratic Underground. It’s called, “Poll question: Is supporting Bush tantamount to Treason?” Just to make it clear that this isn’t hyperbole, that the person who started the thread means what he says, this picture (it’s edited down a bit) was posted under the title. So, in […]

“In the old days, the idea of fear of a nasty response from a well-armed power often acted as a deterrent (remember that word?) to attacking that country. In fact, that was one of the reasons countries had armies and weapons–not necessarily to use them, but to keep from having to use them very often; […]

“If the benefits of the current generation of migrants are small, the costs are large and growing because of America’s vast range of social programs and the wide advocacy network that strives to hook low-earning legal and illegal immigrants into these programs. A 1998 National Academy of Sciences study found that more than 30 percent […]

Foreign U.S. Evacuation Teams Arrive In Lebanon Hezbollah Rockets Kill 9 In Israeli City Israel Steps Up Raids After Haifa Attack Israel Has No Plans “At This Present Moment” To Attack Iran And Syria Shimon Peres: “There Are Iranian Officers Belonging To The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Among Hezbollah And They Operated The Missile.” (I Doubt […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be an open thread, and have a great week-end. Yoni When Katherine Harris Attacked A TV Pundit, Insiders Say The Incident Revealed The Depth Of Problems With Her Campaign — Which Was Hit Again By Six Staff Departures. (The Harris Campaign Is […]

…I would further strongly urge Democrats who don’t believe marriage is between a man and a woman but who feel they ought to pretend to believe this in order to win elections (a plausible position) need to do a better job of pretending. I’ve heard a shockingly large number of politicians say things, in rooms […]

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Last night, my liberal pal Dani Cutler and I had a conversation on instant messenger about Israel’s fight with its neighbors and I thought it might translate well into a post on RWN. I got permission from Dani to post it and here it is, cleaned up a bit for clarity’s sake: John Hawkins: So […]

The Democrats have a lot of trouble appealing to religious voters not only because of the positions that they hold on issues like gay marriage and abortion, but because there are a large number of liberals who are extremely hostile to religious people. So, how can the Democrats appeal to the religious voters out there […]