Year: 2006

Atrios, Kevin Drum, and Andrew Sullivan have been knocking heads over the economy. Here’s a short summary from Outside The Beltway of the positions they’re taking: Duncan Black and Kevin Drum call B.S. on Andrew Sullivan’s statement that, “I’m in favor of Bush’s tax cuts, but want spending cuts to match them; I favor balanced […]

Evangelist Charles Colson on the travesty of justice unfolding in Afghanistan: Abdul Rahman is on trial for his life in a Kabul court. His crime? Converting to Christianity. According to reports, Rahman converted to Christianity sixteen years ago while working for a Christian group that helped Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan. When he returned to […]

The Shrub was handed a golden opportunity (yesterday) morning to level with the American People about his real reasons for attacking Iraq, reasons that Helen Thomas would be more than happy to explain to him if he’d just open his ears and listen. Instead, he used the solemn third anniversary of his illegal and immoral […]

Foreign Some U.S. Officials Fear Iran Is Helping Al Qaeda They Say Intelligence Suggests That The Regime Lets Key Figures Plot. But The Picture Is Cloudy (Free LA Times Reg Req) Bush Defends Decisions On Iraq War U.S. Cautiously Backs Afghan Christian Set To Be Murdered For His Beliefs By The Government. Monitoring Situation While […]

Last night, on the fly, I came up with a little exercise that I, political wonk that I am, thought would be fun. I decided to give myself 24 minutes to come up with 24 laws/policies/changes that should be put into effect in America on the domestic front. These changes could affect the powers of […]

Rock legend Carlos Santana gets all geopolitical and gives everyone the benefit of his like, wisdom man: Carlos Santana quoted his old friend Jimi Hendrix in an anti-war message here today and said his philosophy is the antithesis of President George W. Bush’s. “I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and […]

RWN made Howard Kurtz’s Media Notes column in the Washington Post again. This time around, he quoted heavily from “The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008” article that I wrote last week. “John Hawkins at Right Wing News reminds us that some ardent conservatives don’t trust McCain either–and resent his media profile: There is […]

“Here at home, I’m also encouraged by the strength of our economy. Last year, our economy grew at a health 3.5 percent. Over the past two and a half years, the economy has added nearly 5 million new jobs. That’s more than Japan and the 25 nations of the European Union combined. The national unemployment […]

If you want to see how the mainstream media plays the spin game, then take a look at a piece MSNBC has written about Naji Sabri, Saddam’s foreign minister, who became a CIA informant before the invasion. To begin with, here’s the headline and the opening of the article: “Iraqi diplomat gave U.S. prewar WMD […]

You know, it’s funny. The media and Democrats have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off for years now telling everyone that all is lost in Iraq and it’s Bush’s fault. We can’t win! Civil War is right around the corner! We’ve got to cut and run! Woe is us! Abandon all […]

Foreign Bin Laden Sought ‘Joint Operations’ With Saddam Bush Warns Iran On Israel Claim: ‘US Could Wipe Out Iran Nuke Program In Two Days’ (Free Jerusalem Post Reg Req) Anger Over Christian Convert In Kabul Who Faces Death EU To Hand Over $78 Million To Hamas Led Government Afghan Ambassador Raps Protesters Who Said Country […]

No newspaper in America gets better pics from the anti-war rallies than Zombie, whose latest finds were from an anti-war rally in San Francisco on March 18th. Of course, that’s largely by design. When you have liberal reporters, sympathetically reporting on an event you can be almost sure that they support — like an anti-war […]

(*** Note: On the one hand, there are lots of spoilers in this review. On the other hand, the film was terrible. Thumbs way, way, down. So, it’s probably no big deal if you read the review because you’re not going to want to see the movie anyway. ***) One of the dilemmas conservative critics […]

For — I don’t know — at least, a good, solid three years now, conservatives have been yapping, complaining, and kvetching non-stop about two issues on the domestic front: out-of-control spending and our government’s refusal to take a tough stand against illegal immigration. Yet, here we are, in an election year and what are we […]

If you want to see what the American economy would look like if it were completely unionized, you don’t need to look any further than France. The economy in France has long been stagnant and the rampant unemployment there is a huge problem: “Unemployment is the top political issue in France, where the national average […]

“The worst month of U.S. military deaths in Vietnam was May 1968: 2,316 lives. The second worst month in Vietnam was February 1968: 2,293 lives. According to the website ICasualties.org, which tracks U.S. military deaths in Iraq, the total U.S. military deaths in Iraq since March 20, 2003 is 2,317 lives, one more than the […]

Byron York explains in terms that we laymen can understand why Bush was on firm legal ground with his warrantless surveillance program. Read his background and discussion of In re: Sealed Case from 2002 and you’ll see why Bush’s legal advisers believe that he is on quite firm basis for the NSA surveillance program. And […]

Foreign As Iraq War Heads Into 4th Year, Bush Pledges ‘Complete Victory’ (Free WAPO Reg Req) Cheney: Iraq Not In Civil War, Predicts Success Former Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi: “We Are Losing Each Day As An Average 50 To 60 People Throughout The Country, If Not More. If This Is Not Civil War, Then God […]

RWN returns Monday! Until then, consider this to be an open thread, enjoy the links below, and make sure to take a look at some of the fantastic guest bloggers who filled in today. Lorie Byrd from Byrd Droppings & Polipundit. Cassandra from Villainous Company. Michael Fumento from C-Log & Michael Fumento.com. Patrick Hynes from […]

Whether they acknowledge it or not, the GOP has a genuine moral values problem. I have written about this subject over at the American Spectator and at my blog Ankle Biting Pundits. Essentially, the GOP has completely and thoroughly alienated its base, perhaps because it believes their electoral strength in 2004 was based on something […]

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The MSM, sitting on their fat butts in comfy offices in the U.S., would have us think Iraq is a tumbling house of cards. Oddly enough, journalists who go over there seem to have a different opinion. Among them is Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, whose March 17 column is “Fighting Smarter In Iraq.” He […]

Al Gore is at it again. This time, after promoting his forthcoming eco-freako home movie “An Inconvenient Truth” (why does every liberal think they are qualified to be a movie producer these days?) to a group of conservatives, Al claims he was bum rushed by free market types who had suddenly seen the light and […]

I was tipped to the ABC website report on the Iraq documents while listening to Rush Limbaugh just a few minutes ago. I have stated before that I can’t imagine what it would take now to convince the media and Democrats that they could have been premature (and frankly, dead wrong) about their declarations that […]

Rich Lowry has an interesting piece today over at National Review Online regarding what he calls “the non-McCain primary,” that is, the race to be the guy to take on McCain for the GOP nomination in 2007 & 2008. To Lowry’s thinking, the race boils down to two attractive presidential aspirants: Sen. George Allan from […]

It’s been a few years since I observed that scientists seem to find adult stem cells wherever they look. Well now Japanese researchers have harvested stem cells from human menstrual blood, according to a report just released at a medical conference. That’s not nearly as strange as it sounds, since it’s been known for some […]

Rich Lowry makes the right argument on illegal immigration: the empirical one. This is, ultimately, the only tack likely to withstand charges of racism and garner bipartisan support for serious immigration reform: President George Bush, a strong supporter of the guest-worker program, has long said that “family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.” We […]

That crazy Jim Hoft. He is actually suggesting that news organizations, like the AP, should consider including some facts along with their Bush-bashing rather than just picking up and relying on previous bogus stories they find at the top of their Google searches. What is he smokin’? Like that is ever gonna happen. But seriously, […]

No matter your political affiliation, it is hard to think of a more divisive and distressing issue than abortion. It looms in the background of every political race, every judicial confirmation hearing; forcing candidates to walk a gauntlet between zealots on both sides of the issue. During the Roberts hearings abortion assumed such importance that […]

It is impossible to arrive in New York and feel pessimistic. It is the only city in the world that demands and inspires you live up to your potential – and scorns you when you fail. But no matter what, one always, one begins one’s relationship with New York on a positive note. I certainly […]