Year: 2006

The left side of the blogosphere is all up in arms about this story: “A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, […]

While John McCain was sucking up to Jerry Falwell this week-end, he took a shot at the blogosphere: “When I was a young man, I was quite infatuated with self-expression, and rightly so because, if memory conveniently serves, I was so much more eloquent, well-informed, and wiser than anyone else I knew. It seemed I […]

It’s no surprise that a country as big as America has its share of wackos, commies, freaks, America haters, and other assorted losers. What is a surprise is that so many of them have been able to get jobs teaching college students over the years. For example, consider Dr. Hiphappy, a “professor” at NC State […]

Make sure to head on over to RWN tonight at 8 PM, EST because I’ll be liveblogging the President’s speech on illegal immigration. Pre-Speech Thoughts At this point, I’m rooting for W. to do a 180 degree turn on illegal immigration and endorse the House Bill…but I’m not hopeful. My gut instinct is telling me […]

“If there is an honest debate about how many million people will be given a chance to come to America under the Senate bill, we’re told the number is between 30 million and 36 million people. When the average American learns that, they are going to be furious if the Senate Republicans allow that kind […]

Template A (note to editors: to be used after every terrorist atrocity): “Angry family members, experts and opposition politicians demand to know why complacent government didn’t connect the dots.” Template B (note to editors: to be used in the run-up to the next terrorist atrocity): “Shocking new report leaked to New York Times for Pulitzer […]

“The president’s popularity problem isn’t one problem, but three. Nearly all Democrats, most independents and a third of Republicans now disapprove of the job President Bush is doing, but they have different reasons for doing so. …To Democrats, no policy is more important than opposition to what President Bush is for, even if it’s what […]

Foreign & Domestic Border Troops Would Be Temporary, US Tells Mexico Duke Lacrosse DNA: Mystery Man Revealed: Accuser’s Boyfriend Is ‘Single Source’ Of DNA On Vaginal Swab USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Americans Oppose The Database 51%-43% (I Think The 63% Approval WAPO/ABC Result Is More Accurate) Feds Raid Ex-CIA Official’s Home Hugo Chavez: The ‘Final Hours […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below and consider this an open thread. And Rightly So A Briefing From Chris Simcox, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Co-founder Chez Diva Claim: The UN Finds Close To Or Beyond Weapons Grade Uranium In Iran (Is It Time To Bomb Them?) Conservative Blog Therapy DANEgerus Weblog […]

On Monday at 8 PM EST, President Bush is scheduled to give a major address on illegal immigration, undoubtedly because he’s hoping to stop the alarming drop in his approval rating that his soft stance on “undocumented workers” has led to over the past few weeks. The rumor is that he’s planning to put the […]

Over at The Huffington Post, Cenk Uygur had this to say: “Okay (Michael) Smerconish, show me how tough you are. I challenge you to a fight – verbal or physical. I promise to kick the living sh*t out of you, either way. I’ll stand in for all the people you call sissies and you stand […]

How about helping me out by taking a look at just a few of RWN’s advertisers? Even if you clicked on just 3 or 4 of them, it would really be great. And, as an added bonus, I’ve just listed the advertisers without mentioning their names, to sort of make it like a game…not a […]

Back in March, I put together an article called What Blogs Are Republicans In Congress Reading? Well today, I’ve finally got the follow-up post ready and this time around, I decided to expand the list and ask for responses from big name conservatives as well as Congressmen. With the members of Congress, I requested a […]

If you want to see how these pro-illegal immigrant politicians in Washington are hurting ordinary Americans, take a look at this story about an Arizona rancher named Ron White: Ron White sees two kinds of illegal immigrants on his ranch south of town. There are the dozens each day who simply pass through. They are […]

The Boston Globe did a man on the street piece about the NSA data mining that they undoubtedly hoped would be full of comments like this one: But Daniel Senie, a Verizon customer in Bolton, was outraged that companies would cooperate with the government. ”The corporations involved have long since made it clear customers are […]

Since it’s sort of a lazy Friday, I thought I’d post my favorite Hindu story (Can you tell I took a course on Eastern religions when I was in college?). Via Khandro.net, here’s the much retold story of Yudhishthira’s entry into heaven. Do keep in mind that a lot of the details of this story […]

Domestic Questions And Answers About The NSA Phone Record Collection Program President Bush Makes Remarks on NSA Data Mining Program Senator John Kyl On The Data Mining Program: “This Is Nuts. We’re In A War And We Got To Collect Intelligence On The Enemy, And You Can’t Tell The Enemy In Advance How You’re Going […]

What is the common thread in these stories? — (A) Duke woman drinks all afternoon, then attends frat party where she inhales marijuana smoke from a vaporizer. She then files rape charges after waking the next morning with the feeling “something had happened”. Police had no trouble tracking down the “perpetrator”. The accused rapist helpfully […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “favorite columnists.” Representatives from the following 44 blogs responded… Aaron’s CC, Ankle Biting Pundits, AtlanticBlog, Atlas Shrugs, Backcountry Conservative, Being American in T.O., Betsy’s Page, La Shawn Barber, Blackfive, Blue Crab […]

USA Today has revealed that the NSA has a massive collection of phone records. Here are the key details (Emphasis mine) “The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told […]

What an arrogant “priss” VANITY FAIR contributing editor James Wolcott is — just take a look at the opening to a post on his blog“ To infiltrate myself among the people and impersonate a commoner (the better to understand the culture we’re in), I made one of my secret incursions into Macdonald’s for breakfast this […]

Over at Forbes, Paul Johnson is talking down the whole party system: “What we in the West should be considering is to what extent we can get along without highly organized and all-powerful political parties or, at the least, how we can reduce their influence. Why shouldn’t we encourage more independent individuals to run for […]

Domestic GOP Reaches Deal on Tax Cuts (Free WAPO Reg Req) April Tax Revenue 2nd-Highest in History (Thank You Tax Cuts) Senate Plan Devised To Deal With Illegal Immigrant Hiring Claim: U.S. Border Patrol Officials Provided Office Space Inside Their Headquarters To Mexican Consulate Officials, Allowed The Consulate To Dictate The Agents’ Activities, And Gave […]

Ms. Deborah J. Spero, Acting Commissioner U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20229 Dear Ms. Spero, According to recent reports, the United States Border Patrol has provided the Mexican government with surveillance information about the location of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. If true, these allegations […]

As we learned from prominent liberal blogger Atrios, the left wants to make it easier to get an abortion, raise taxes, promote gay marriage — and he believes we should be a little nicer to captured terrorists, darn it! As we also know, the left is just dying to cut and run in Iraq, they […]

Israel has a bold new plan and I think it’s a great idea: Israel will give the Palestinians until the end of the year to prove they are willing to negotiate a final peace deal, and will unilaterally set its final borders by 2008 if they don’t, Israel’s justice minister said Wednesday. The statement by […]

This is despicable: Parents of students at an Albany Park charter school are demanding the dismissal of a teacher who they say made slurs against Mexicans during a seventh-grade art class. Students in the class said the teacher, angry because she believed students had gotten paint on her jacket, said that “all Mexicans are criminals” […]

Editor and Publisher did a survey of 527 randomly chosen newspaper journalists at 218 daily papers across the country. The results? They weren’t so pretty and this particular statistic really stood out: “More than half of the surveyed journalists reported working with “a peer involved in fabrication, plagiarism or other deliberate misconduct,” the survey stated.” […]

“A look inside the latest numbers suggests several reasons, but it appears the president’s stand on immigration is the biggest drag on his support among Republicans—even more damaging than the disapproval caused by rising gas prices. Of several issues specifically covered by the Gallup poll—the economy, foreign affairs, the situation in Iraq, terrorism, immigration, and […]

Domestic U.S. Customs and Border Protection Denies They Have Reported The Location Of The Minutemen To The Mexican Government (Their Spokesman Confirmed It In The Original Article) Tancredo Rips Government’s Spying On Minutemen CBS News/New York Times Poll: Bush Approval 31%. Congress Approval At 21% John Conyers: U.S. Owes Slavery Reparations Foreign Disorganization Worries Al-Qaida […]