A Former Gitmo Inmate Tries To Slip Across The Border, Perhaps To Commit The Terrorist Acts That Americans Just Won’t Do

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 […]

 

Excerpt Of The Day: What Would A Day Without Illegal Immigration Look Like?

“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 […]

 

Daily News For April 28, 2006

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 […]

 

Some Good News On The Andrea Clark Front

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 […]

 



What’s So Special About Gasoline? By Jane Galt

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 […]

 

In My World: Snow Day — Satire By Frank J.

“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 […]

 

Daily News For April 27, 2006

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 […]

 

Time Is Running Out For Andrea Clark

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 […]

 

Tony Snow Was Right. Racism Isn’t A Big Deal Anymore

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 […]

 

Crashing The Gate Isn’t Exactly Flying Off The Shelves

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 […]

 

An Outbreak Of RINOitis in Virginia

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, […]

 



Amnesty For Illegals? Never Again!

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, […]

 

Daily News For April 26, 2006

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 […]

 

25 Things

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 […]

 



An Andrea Clarke Update

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. […]

 



The Sad Case Of Andrea Clarke

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 […]

 

In Defense Of Exxon

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 […]

 

The Fox News Effect

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 […]

 

Charlie Sheen. Not Such A Good Guy?

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 […]

 

RWN Mentioned In The Philadelphia Inquirer

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 […]

 

It Is About Time By Lorie Byrd

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 […]