Year: 2006

This is very disturbing: As the nation continues to debate what to do about our southern border, I thought I would point out a piece of informaton I found in a cache of documents released by the Pentagon in early March. In connection with a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press, the Pentagon released thousands […]

“Perhaps the May 1st boycott should give America a glimpse into “A Day Without ILLEGAL Immigration.” What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that […]

Domestic May 1 Illegal Alien Protest Aims To “Close” Cities Senate Oks $2 Billion To Stop Illegals California Lawmakers Support Illegal Immigration Rally On Monday Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds Robert Byrd To President Bush: We Can Impeach You CIA Warns Ex-Agents Over Talking To Media Senate […]

The attention the Andrea Clark case has gotten has finally started to pay some dividends. In other words, give yourself a pat on the back, folks, because your phone calls may have saved a woman’s life. First off, from Hyscience: “The family learned of a facility in Illinois that is willing to accept Andrea and […]

1) Good Policies Are Good Politics: Too often these days, Republicans will go along with policies that are bad for the country, simply because of polling data that is, as often as not, heavily slanted towards the Democrats. But, what they forget is that the new media may not be as big as the liberal […]

Illegal aliens come into our country knowing they are illegal. Why should I care about regularizing their status? I can see the (substantial) downside of it, in terms of encouraging more illegal immigration and all the social problems that attend that. But what is the upside that I should care about that supposedly outweighs the […]

Today I’m writing about oil and gasoline (er . . . petrol) prices. Just in time, Daniel Drezner asks a great question: So, here’s my question to readers… why is a spike in gas prices considered such a political crisis? [You’re the political scientist… why don’t you have an explanation?–ed.] I have one, but it’s […]

“It’s time for you to get to work, Snowman. By the way, that’s your new nickname,” President Bush told Tony Snow. “Nobody likes me anymore, but you have to spin things so everybody thinks I’m the super-coolest person ever. And you have to convince all the press to only write nice things about me. So […]

Domestic & Foreign Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship (Gag! — Free WAPO Reg Req) Welfare To Kids Of Illegals At $276 Million In Just LA Pentagon Hopes To Pull 30,000 Troops From Iraq By Years End Andrea Clark Is Not the Only One Rove Testifies 5th Time On Leak. Bush Aide Is Said To […]

I spoke to Andrea’s sister, Melanie Childers, again today to get an update on what’s happening. To begin with, she said that a lot of pro-life people have been calling the hospital and she thinks it’s having a real effect on them. She said that she hopes people keep it up. (The contact page for […]

Over at The Raw Story, they’re trying to make hay with some comments Tony Snow made about racism back in 2003: “Here’s the unmentionable secret,” Snow said on an October 2003 edition of Fox News Sunday, “racism isn’t that big a deal anymore.” Snow argued that “no sensible person supports” racism, arguing that the problem […]

From Drudge “A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of “blogs” and political power, DAILY KOS ‘CRASHING THE GATE,’ has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN’s BOOKSCAN. [NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at the retail level; the rest coming […]

What in the world is going on in Virginia? “Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) rejected an increase in gas taxes to pay for transportation improvements, prompting a leading Republican ally in the Senate to accuse the governor Tuesday of pandering to national anxiety about rising fuel prices. On Washington Post Radio’s “Ask the Governor” program, […]

In my book, when a thug wielding a “plank of wood” breaks into your house by knocking the door down and yells “I’m going to kill you,” there is no such thing as using “too much force” to stop him. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to agree in Australia. After the aforementioned intruder smashed his way […]

The results of RWN’s 2006 demographics survey (via Blogads) are now live. Here are a few details that caught my eye: — 88.4% of RWN’s readers are male. — Roughly 65% of RWN’s readers make $60,000 a year or more. — 93% of RWN’s readers have “some college” or better. — 60% of you have […]

Everything you need to know about the Amnesty bill meeting that Bush, McCain, and some of the other pro-illegal Republicans in the Senate attended is right here: “I’m not in the habit of patting the president on the back and sending him accolades, but I have to say that this meeting that we just had, […]

Domestic Bush, Senators Agree On Alien Citizenship, Shut Out Critics (We’ve Got To Fight This Amnesty Bill) Oil, Gas Prices Drop on Bush Supply Move (Good Move) Bush Threatens To Veto Bloated War-Funds Bill (He Should Make Good On His Threat) Confirmed: Tony Snow New Bush Press Secretary. Fox News Commentator To Take Over For […]

Inspired by 50 Facts at Right Thinking Girl. 1) Classic movies I’ve never seen include The Godfather, Raging Bull, Citizen Kane & Deliverance. 2) A rule I picked up from reading about Robert Ringer talking about real estate also applies to the blogosphere. It’s not just about making money, it’s about getting paid and when […]

It’s like clockwork. Every few months, some disgruntled hack with an ax to grind turns up and vomits up some chunk of information, as often as not, old information, that is supposed to discredit the Bush Administration. Then the liberals in the media latch onto it, blow it up way out of proportion, and try […]

“Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic. It’s just not going to work. You can hear people out there hollering it’s going to work. It’s not going to work. It just — and so therefore, what do we do with people who are here? And this is one of the really important questions Congress […]

Andrea Clarke’s story is starting to gain some traction. WorldnetDaily has now picked it up. Also see The Sad Case Of Andrea Clarke. *** Update #1 *** The Schindler family is now in the game. Excellent! The Terri Schindler Schiavo, Center for Health Care Ethics Inc., Throws Support Behind Family of Andrea Clark Washington, D.C. […]

Taxes cost you about $0.42 per gallon on average. So the next time you hear Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) worrying about the price of gas having an impact on “working families,” such as those who I imagine work for him, just remember that the Federal government could lower the price of gas $0.184 per gallon […]

Yup: THE crown prince rejects a bevy of beautiful princesses, rebuffing each suitor until falling in love with a prince. The two marry, sealing the union with a kiss, and live happily ever after. That fairy tale about gay marriage has sparked a civil rights debate in Massachusetts, the only US state where gays and […]

Yesterday, as I was perusing the Democratic Underground, I ran across a very troubling story. I’m reposting it here, so that you can read it just as I did last night (The phone numbers presently are x’d out, although you can read them in the original post)… Th1onein: KILLING MY SISTER – WE ARE PROTESTING […]

A House GOP leadership aide said that Hastert also responded to calls for hearings into the pay package for Lee Raymond, who retired as Exxon Mobil’s chief executive in January. According to a recent proxy filing by the company, Raymond received $48.5 million in salary, bonuses and incentive payments last year; exercised more than $20 […]

One of the biggest problems the left has in this country is that they no longer have a stranglehold on the flow of information. 25 years ago? AM radio was nearly dead, Fox didn’t exist, and there was no blogosphere. Today? The left still has an advantage in getting their message out via most of […]

Most of you have heard about the messy split-up between Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. But, the news reports don’t do it justice. Unless you read the 17 page declaration from Richards, you just can’t get the full effect. Here’s a summary of just SOME of the charges on each page (Of course, we should […]

Hugh Hewitt wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer about how the newspaper business is dying and he gave RWN a nice mention. “And political news-gathering isn’t less vibrant today than 20 years ago. It is a golden age of information availability even as the old elites and gatekeepers drown their sorrows at the corner […]

I am sick to death of hearing about what a failure Iraq is when that determination cannot possibly be made until at least a decade from now. I am sick of the good news from Iraq being ignored by those whose job it is to report all the facts. I am sick to death of […]

…Remember what they used to call “climate change”? “Global warming.” And what did they call it before that? “Global cooling.” That was the big worry in the ’70s: the forthcoming ice age. Back then, Lowell Ponte had a huge best seller called The Cooling: Has the new ice age already begun? Can we survive? The […]