Year: 2006

A lot of attention has been given lately to President Bush’s most recent poll numbers. Just for the record, here is my take on the current batch of approval numbers. I will also attempt, in this same post, to bring in the subject of comparisons being made of Russ Feingold’s effort to censure President Bush […]

Today, I will not be available for most of the day and RWN will have guest bloggers filling my shoes. Those guest bloggers will be: Lorie Byrd from Byrd Droppings & Polipundit. Cassandra from Villainous Company. Michael Fumento from C-Log & Michael Fumento.com. Patrick Hynes from Ankle Biting Pundits & The Channel Changer. Right Thinking […]

“Many months after the fall of Baghdad, a number of senior Iraqi officials in coalition custody continued to believe it possible that Iraq still possesed WMD capability hidden away somewhere. Saddam attempted to convince one audience that they were gone while simultaneously convincing another that Iraq still had them,” the report says. Senior Iraqi officials […]

Paul Craig Roberts, the lunatic paleocon who used to work for the Wall Street Journal and in the Reagan Administration, is speculating that Bush is going to stage a nuclear attack on America so that he’ll have a good excuse to nuke Iran. Here’s the latest from Roberts’ nutty new column: ‘Is another 9/11 in […]

The left-side of the blogosphere is ratcheting up the pressure on the Democrats in the Senate to support Russ Feingold’s censure motion and it’s having an affect: “Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the third U.S. senator to back a move to censure President Bush over the warrantless wiretapping program. She joins Sen. Tom Harkin […]

Over at Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson seems to be interpreting these comments by radical Islamic psychopath Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a less-than-subtle admission that he intends to build nuclear weapons and launch them at Israel. I think he’s right… “Our enemies on the one hand oppose our nation’s acquisition of nuclear energy and on the […]

This probably isn’t representative of the views of most people on the left, but the sentiment was just so outrageous that I just couldn’t bear to pass it up… Odin2005: It’s things like this that make me support population control. Theocons have no respect to the enviroment, Gawd told them to multiply like rabbits and […]

You don’t even have to go beyond this short, first paragraph of a piece at Reuters to see exactly what’s wrong with the way the media covers Iraq: “Three months after it was elected, Iraq’s parliament was finally sworn in on Thursday but the 20-minute session was an empty formality that did nothing to break […]

Domestic Feingold Accuses Democrats Of ‘Cowering’ Over Censure Issue Tarheel Terrorist Tried To Kill Americans Out Of “Love For Allah” Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush & Republicans Pew Poll: Bush Approval 33% Harris To Stay In Race For Senate Seat Lawyers for Libby Subpoena Reporter and New York Times (Free NYT Reg Req) Lots Of Abu […]

Here’s an absolutely priceless exchange from a sadly all too typical (See here, here, & here) Democratic Underground thread called “Americans are among the stupidest people in the world.” antifaschits: for myself, I am thinking about emigration. slackmaster: Do you think emigrating will make you smarter? antifaschits: it will keep me out of a Haliburton […]

There is no Republican up on Capitol Hill more disliked by his own GOP brethren than John McCain. That’s why, despite the size of his fan club in the mainstream media, McCain seems rather unlikely to capture the party’s nomination for President in 2008. Here’s a short, but sweet primer that may help explain why […]

Over at USAToday, Phillip Longman worries that liberals are slowly breeding themselves into extinction. Incidentally, he’s probably right to be worried: “Today, fertility correlates strongly with a wide range of political, cultural and religious attitudes. In the USA, for example, 47% of people who attend church weekly say their ideal family size is three or […]

Many Republicans, with good reason, are worried about the elections in November of this year. But, never fear, because James D. Miller has the ultimate solution. An idea so powerful, so — let’s call it what it is — unbelievably awesome — that voters will flock to the GOP banner by the millions in order […]

“My enemies say my career would have gone nowhere without affirmative action. I don’t think that’s true, but because there is affirmative action, they can say that. There are no blacks who are free from that stigma, and that’s a terrible thing to do to people who are trying to succeed on their own. I […]

Foreign Reprisal Killings Leave At Least 85 Dead In Baghdad (Free New York Times Reg Req) Palestinians Surrender After 10-Hour Siege Abbas Group Threatens To Kill Israeli PM. Also Warns It May Murder Israeli President, 2 Kidnapped British Citizens N.Korea Army Threatens Pre-Emptive Attack Iran’s Supreme Leader: No Retreat on Nukes (Let’s Bomb) Milosevic’s Son […]

The Democrats have been putting politics ahead of national security for roughly four years now, but it looks like Russ Feingold’s partisan and ridiculous attempt to call for the President to be censured has finally been judged by Republicans up on the Hill as going beyond all bounds of decency. Here we have George Bush […]

I’ve put together the best quotes from Larry Elder’s The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America and you can read them here.

The New York Times’ editorial board has come out in favor of a proposal to do away with the electoral college. Here’s their basic argument: “The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic. Everyone who remembers 2000 knows that it can lead to the election of the candidate who loses the popular vote as president. But […]

“Arlen Specter apparently has been reading a little too much of Tom DeLay’s press releases. He told the press that Congress is now “beyond cutting the fat and beyond the bone. We’re down to the marrow.” Specter wants to introduce more expansion in health care, education, and worker safety (by “billions of dollars above the […]

“The US has lost 12 soldiers so far this month in Iraq. In the month of February, the US lost 58 of its finest in the War in Iraq. As sad as these numbers are, we are seeing a low number of US fatalities since the media declared a Civil War in Iraq. The average […]

“In the last five months alone, the Border Patrol has arrested 42,722 aliens with criminal records attempting to cross the border. Among them were 6,770 felons; 148 persons wanted in connection with a homicide; 42 associated with a kidnapping; 164 associated with a sexual assault; 298 associated with a robbery, 1,957 wanted for assault, and […]

“A couple of years back, I began some generalization or other by saying, “The difference between America and Canada is . . .” And the American I was imparting this insight to interrupted me with: “The difference between America and Canada is that Americans don’t care what the difference between America and Canada is.” — […]

Domestic The White House Response To Feingold’s Call For Censure Of The President: “If Democrats Want To Argue That We Shouldn’t Be Listening To Al Qaeda Communications, It’s Their Right And We Welcome The Debate. We Are A Nation At War.” Dems Object To Censure Resolution Vote Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure (We Need […]

Do you realize how mind bogglingly disingenuous the pro-illegal immigration position in this country has become? Unless you absolutely pin them down, the pro-illegals crowd refuses to make any distinction whatsoever between immigrants who come here legally and those who don’t. They’ll tell you that we SHOULD police the border, that we SHOULDN’T let criminals […]

Russ Feingold, who looks to be sucking up to the Kos crowd on the net in order to build momentum for a run at the presidency in 2008, is calling for the censure of President Bush because he had the audacity to order warrantless wiretaps of people in the United States who were conversing with […]

This week-end in Memphis, there was a much anticipated 2008 straw poll at the Southern Leadership Conference. Here are the results, courtesy of the fine folks at the Hotline (Out of 1311 non-spoiled votes): Bill Frist: 526 Mitt Romney: 205 George Allen: 147 Pres. Bush (write in): 147 John McCain: 66 Mike Huckabee: 54 Write […]

If you’re wondering why Hillary is talked about as if she’s a lock to win the Democratic nomination in 2008, despite the fact that a lot of Democrats seem to doubt whether she can win, then take a look at these behind-the-scenes details from an article on Mark Warner in the New York Times and […]

American peace activist Tom Fox was taken hostage in Iraq a few months ago, and this week he was murdered by his captors. He seems to have been shot execution-style, a single shot to the head, with his hands tied behind him. He was also tortured, and not the faux Abu Ghraib kind, but real, […]

Domestic Democratic Senator Russ Feingold Calls For Bush’s Censure Frist: Feingold Censure Talk ‘Dead Wrong’. Gives Aid And Comfort To America’s Enemies 30 Democrats In The House For Bush Impeachment Inquiry Arrest of Ex-Bush Aide, Claude Allen, Shocks Associates (Free WAPO Reg) Southern Leadership Conference Straw Poll Results The Army National Guard Is Reeling In […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, have a great week-end and consider this to be an open thread. Blogs4Bauer bRight And Early Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha: CAIR — Islamists Fooling the Establishment Eckernet Iowa Voice Tim Kane: How Zogby Slanted His Poll Of The Troops Representative Jack Kingston’s Blog PunditDrome RNC Video: Who’s The […]