Year: 2006

Question: “Is there any one underlying reason that the Democrats are in a Kamikaze death spiral into irrelevance?” — n_obrain Answer: Here’s their problem in a nutshell: Liberals are much farther from the American mainstream than conservatives are. In fact, if the left ran on the sort of liberal agenda that people like Kos, Moore, […]

Question: “Why is it that when I put “rightwingnews” in Yahoo the top links are sites like Stormfront and your site is nowhere to be seen? It doesn’t do that on Google, and unless “rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com” is entered in Yahoo your site doesn’t even show up on the top of the results. I haven’t bookmarked the […]

Question: “Was Coretta Scott Kings funeral more or less political than Pat Tillman and Ronald Reagans respective funerals? Is it partisan to speak the truth?” — faithfull Answer: No comment on Pat Tillman’s funeral because I didn’t see it and have never even heard anyone suggest that it was “political” before. As to Reagan’s funeral, […]

Question: “In the face of the severe damage done to our intelligence gathering efforts by the wiretapping story, what, if any, reforms do you think would correct the problems and environment that led to this disastrous leak? Do you believe that our laws need changing to allow legal action against media outlets that publish such […]

Question: “I have a question, John: What’s your position on statehood for the District of Columbia? I realize that might not be a question of great interest to everyone else but I’d love to have a conceptual framework within which to consider the constant whining and keening here in the DC area and I greatly […]

Domestic Harry Reid Aided Abramoff Clients, Records Show Agreement Reached On Patriot Act Changes (The Changes Are Extremely Minor. Works For Me) Howard Dean: “All We Ask Is That We Not Turn Into A Country Like Iran Where The President Can Do Anything He Wants.” FEMA’s Brown May Testify About White House Discussions On Katrina […]

Today is Q&A Friday #33 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 […]

The lefty impeachment bandwagon seems to be picking up steam. Here’s a pic from another one of these liberal loon groups taken by Bryan Preston at CPAC: Let’s see: they chose a grab bag of dubious, highly partisan charges, none of which are supported by the facts, and claim that Bush should be impeached because […]

What is the lesson to be learned here? 1) Muslims threaten Europe with boycotts and violence and demand press regulations. 2) Europe begins the process of outlawing images deemed offensive to Muslims. Lesson: If you want Europe to adopt sharia (Islamic) law, simply threaten then. My guess is that next Muslims will demand an end […]

Earlier this week, I was fortunate to get an opportunity to do an interview with Kate O’Beirne about her new book, Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. We discussed feminism, sexual harassment, the wage gap, women in the military, & women’s […]

A few years back in Zimbabwe, uber-genius dictator-for-life, Robert Mugabe, came up with a “brilliant” idea: persecuting all the white farmers in the country and stealing their land. Granted, these people were pretty much feeding the entire country, but hey, who needs food, right? Well, now that the country is in the middle of a […]

“Some Democrats are furious that their party doesn’t have its own ideas. Other say they do have ideas, they’re just keeping them secret for now. That sounds a lot like the high school geek who insists that his girlfriend is really hot but lives in an undisclosed location in Canada. …A man may take to […]

Foreign Suicide Blast, Clashes in Pakistan Kill 22 Taliban Offer Gold Reward For Murder Of Dutch Cartoonists Chirac Warns Media Over Cartoons Rice: Iran, Syria Stoke Cartoon Anger Bush Urges End To Violence Over Cartoons Islamic Groups Call for End to Riots Yahoo Accused In Jailing Of 2nd China Internet User Domestic ‘Pen Pals’ Mccain […]

Right Wing News is often unfairly labeled as a partisan, conservative blog when really, this blog is just dedicated to presenting people a fair, balanced, and unbiased look at the news. Just like the New York Times and CNN! Now most people might say, “But John, the blog is called Right Wing News! You spend […]

Jim Geraghty of National Review’s TKS had a column in the Washington Times today giving bloggers most of the credit for stopping the Harriet Miers nomination. “The withdrawal of the Miers nomination and the subsequent dynamics of the fight over Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito demonstrate that the debate in Washington is now set by […]

Cox & Forkum, who may be the best editorial cartoonists on the planet, take aim at the American mainstream media for refusing to show the Danish cartoons: They also note that CNN is actually running a little disclaimer on their articles saying that “CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for […]

I haven’t talked a lot about Bush’s warrantless wiretaps, so I thought I should take a few moments to unequivocably let people know where I stand. This was a secret program and revealing it to the world helped our enemies. That’s why I believe the people responsible for leaking the details of it to the […]

Paul Craig Roberts, a man who was once, (admittedly long, long, ago) a fairly reliable conservative, has now gone so far off the deep end that even the likes of Pat Buchanan may start to get a little nervous about associating with him. From Roberts’ latest editorial in Counterpunch (Counterpunch! What self-respecting conservative would ever […]

Foreign Israel’s Ambassador To The United States Danny Ayalon: ‘Iran Is World’s Most Serious Threat Since WWII’. Must Be Stopped By The End Of This Year. Ex-Officer Spurned on WMD Claim Three More Die In Cartoon Protests In Afghanistan Taiwan Says It Needs More US Missiles To Counter China Threat Domestic A House Republican Whose […]

Originally, the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten commissioned and posted the now notorious Mohammad cartoons to prove a point: that members of the media were self-censoring themselves out of fear of Muslim extremists. As we’ve found out since then, not only was that occurring then in Europe, it’s still occurring today. More importantly, our own mainstream media […]

“I went to the Coretta Scott King funeral and all I got was this lousy liberal political rally.” — Cold Fury “At a service Monday night, the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton galvanized the crowd with fiery speeches that blasted the government and public figures for trying to make the King legacy their own […]

When you blog for a living, deciding whether to allow an advertiser to use your site as a forum to get their message out can be a tough call. Of course, like any capitalist, you want to make as much money as you can. On the other hand, Gawd, some of these people who want […]

From Carl Sheeler, a Democrat running for the Senate in Rhode Island, here’s a billboard he obviously thinks will convince liberals to vote for him in the primary: Yes, why don’t more Democrats start calling for Bush to be impeached for listening in on the conversations of people talking to Al-Qaeda without a warrant and […]

After a day in which Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced tough questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about the legality of America’s best-known secret terrorist surveillance program, the National Security Agency (NSA) said it would alter its wiretap protocol to reduce the threat to civil rights. Under the new procedures for intercepting a telephone call […]

Foreign Protests Over Muhammad Caricatures Continue; Four Killed In Afghanistan Iranians Hurl Petrol Bombs At Austrian Embassy Iran To Publish Holocaust Cartoons Claim: Syria Behind Torching Of Danish Buildings? Lebanese Leader Accuses Damascus Of Using Undercover Soldiers In Cartoon-Protest Attacks Cleric Calls On Mohammed Cartoonist To Be Executed Dutch Politician: ‘Everyone Is Afraid To Criticize […]

1. “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean you can insult people’s most cherished beliefs.” Actually, that’s precisely what “freedom of speech” means. If only the most inoffensive opinions are protected, what’s the point? 2. “We have decided not to publish the cartoons out of respect for Islam.” What do you call a newspaper that won’t show […]

As you likely remember, Charles Pickering was one of the judges filibustered by the Democrats. After spending a year on the bench as a result of a recess appointment by President Bush, the judge retired and decided to write a book. Last week, I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to do an interview […]

Usually, RWN doesn’t cover sports, but the day after Super Bowl Sunday is an exception. Not because of the game, but because Democratic consultant Bob Fertik over at Democrats.com must have been even more out of his mind than usual when he wrote this… From a post called (Are you ready for this?) “Is Rove […]

“(The American media) won’t publish (the Danish) cartoons, but they will run anything they can get out of Abu Ghraib. Both sets of images provoke Islamic anger; note how the media behaves when that anger is directed at them.” — Tim Blair

If there were such a thing as a best fake protest sign of 2006, this would be it so far… Hat tip to Ace of Spades HQ and Wuzzadem for the pic.