Year: 2006

The Brussels Journal has a very interesting and detailed look at the failures of the European social welfare mode: Why is Europe performing so poorly? Europe’s deficient performance is incompatible with its huge potential as the world’s largest single consumer market. Its slow growth contradicts its unequalled industrial productivity and infrastructure, its outstanding education level […]

Domestic Senate Panel Approves Amnesty Bill That Would Allow 11 Million Illegals To Become American Citizens (This Is An Absolute Outrage) Illegal Aliens Waving Mexican, El Salvadoran, Guatemalan And American Flags Protest On The Freeways In LA ‘Dirty Bombs’ Crossed U.S. Borders in Test A Study Shows That The Number Of Illegal Immigrants Working Is […]

I was fortunate to get an opportunity to do an interview, via email, with Claire Berlinski about her new book, Menace In Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too. We discussed secularism in Europe, anti-Americanism, France, the future of America’s “special relationship” with Britain, among other topics. You can read the interview here.

As most of you are no doubt aware, there were multiple pro-illegal immigration rallies this week-end, the biggest of which was in Los Angeles. Here’s part of the AP report on the LA Rally: More than 500,000 immigration rights advocates marched in downtown Los Angeles yesterday, demanding that Congress abandon attempts to make helping illegal […]

Initially, I was jazzed to see that Ben Domenech from Redstate was tapped to blog for the Washington Post. You see, I’ve long thought that the time would come when big papers and corporations would start raiding the blogosphere for talent. So, today it could be the WAPO picking up Domenech, but tomorrow it could […]

“For all intents and purposes, “Impeach Bush” is the new “I’m moving to Canada”: a Moonbat impulse designed to demonstrate to the world how much they really, really, really want to get back into power, but which, in the end, will hurt Democrats more than Republicans, by a damn sight. It is, indeed, a terrible […]

John Aravosis contends that liberals are much less angry and nasty than their conservative counterparts. They have terrorists – pro-lifer murderers. Who do we have on the liberal side who outright murders their political opponents? Well, there are various ecoterrorist groups like the Animal Liberation Front, the Animal Rights Militia, Greenpeace, and others. The various […]

Foreign Officials: Case Dropped Against Afghan Christian Afghan Paper Calls For Release Of Christian Convert CAIR Calls For Release Of Afghan Christian Conversion A Thorny Issue In Muslim World Britain: An Islamist Terrorist Sold Poisoned Burgers From A Street-Corner Van And Planned To Contaminate Beer At A Football Stadium Iran to Go Nuclear This Year, […]

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Question: “Can someone please explain something to me? I am hearing alot about the abortion issue and how each fetus deserves life. What confuses me, however, is how can conservatives be pro-birth, and yet anti-programs to help children? It seems that conservatives strongly dislike “entitlement” programs for needy citizens (most of whom are children). The […]

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“I`ve read that polls may be down and are down in some instances. They do tend to go up and down depending on circumstances. And if every time a poll went down, somebody changed their policy or changed their position or tossed in the towel, we wouldn`t have a country today. There have been plenty […]

Question: “Now that Russia & China are presenting an united front and actually have made it clear they want iran to build a bomb – even they can not be stupid enough to think or try to convince us that they think that this is anything other than Iran wanting to build and likely use […]

There were a lot of 2008 related questions, so I’m going to answer them all in one big block. Question #1: “Hey, John. Love your site, I visit almost daily. Anyway, I would like you to handicap the Republican primaries in 2008. Is McCain as strong as he looks? The conservative types I hang around […]

Question: “Hey John, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (I know im a week late but there was Q&A last friday!) I have a (related) question. Do you get much international traffic to your site or is it predominantly american? There is alot of interest in american politics here in ireland and I am just curious. Keep […]

Question: Were you popular in high school? — oneisnotprime Answer: Early on in Junior High School and High School, I wasn’t particularly good with people, lacked self-confidence, was shy, and wasn’t particularly athletic. I did make my high school baseball team for one semester, but spent the whole season on the bench. This was pretty […]

Question: “Hi John, I’m a longtime reader, 2+ years. I was thinking about the problem of the liberal media lately and I wondered hwo the situation could be fixed. I recalled a recent article (who’s source I cannot remember) that showed with unerring facts, how the broadcast media invitably drew it’s “subject of the day” […]

Question: “It’s apparent that there’s still a strong feeling of isolationism and protectionism in the American electorate. However, Republicans tend to favor open markets, Democrats tend to support international institutions, and both parties support open borders. Neither party is really catering to the isolationist/protectionist sentiment yet. Do you think that either party (or perhaps a […]

Foreign 3 Ungrateful Peace Weenies Rescued By American And British Hostages In Iraq Rice Calls Karzai on Christian Convert’s Fate Afghan Judge Won’t Give In To Pressure. Islamic Clerics Say Even If Christian Convert Released, They’ll ‘Cut Off His Head’ A Newly Released Pre-War Iraqi Document Indicates That An Official Representative Of Saddam Hussein’s Government […]

Today is Q&A Friday #36 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian perspective; heck, it […]

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The “distraction” meme is one of the most regularly reoccurring conspiracy theories that you see on the left today. Here’s how it works: #1) An event happens #2) Liberals point to poll numbers, some trumped up charge made by Democrats, or some other form of difficulty for the President being hyped by the media (and […]

(Hillary) Clinton renewed her pledge to oppose a bill passed in December by the House that would make unlawful presence in the United States _ currently a civil offense _ a felony. The Senate is set to consider a version of that legislation, as well as several other bills seeking to address the seemingly intractable […]

Over at the Weekly Standard, Allan Carlson is claiming that social conservatives don’t get the respect they deserve in the GOP: “Moreover, when push comes to shove, social conservatives remain second class citizens under the Republican tent. During the 2004 Republican convention, they were virtually confined to the party’s attic, kept off the main stage, […]

Who came up with this blockheaded idea? The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent a message to bar patrons last week. TABC agents and Irving police swept through 36 Irving bars and arrested about 30 people on charges of public intoxication. Agency representatives say the move came as a proactive measure to curtail drunken driving. North […]

— Is it wrong that I wouldn’t mind seeing this movie? “When U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited this city last month, Egyptians had an unusual choice: watch her on TV as she expounded on issues of war and peace in the Middle East, or go to a neighborhood movie theater and see her […]

Foreign British Terrorist Tried To Buy Nuclear Weapon From Russian Mob A Spanish Judge Has Charged 32 Suspected Islamic Militants Over An Alleged Plot To Blow Up The National Court In Madrid Britain Pushes For Military Option To Restrain Tehran President Bush Said Wednesday That He Is “Deeply Troubled” That An Afghan Man Is Being […]

A lot of conservatives have pointed out, correctly, that the critics of the war in Iraq lack perspective. For example, you constantly hear liberals comparing Iraq to Vietnam, but seldom do you hear their pointing out that the number of soldiers killed in Iraq throughout the entire length of the war is about the same […]

For the first time, RWN has made the incredibly hot Melissa McNamara’s Blogophile column over at CBS. Here’s a little background from Melissa’s column and the quote she used: New American Foundation fellow Phillip Longman’s op-ed last week made lots of conservative bloggers jump for joy, and put some liberals on edge. Longman uses population […]

A lot of liberals buy into flakey ideas and conspiracy theories, but they usually try to hide what they believe from the general public. However, there are two times when they tend to blurt out the truth. The first is when they get particularly frustrated by something they perceive as a Republican/conservative victory. For example, […]