Year: 2007

It can be very difficult for the average person to sort through where the 2008 Republican contenders stand on illegal immigration. That’s because it’s a complex, nuanced issue (especially when you get into voting records), because it’s very difficult to compare the records of say a mayor, a governor, and a senator, and most importantly, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: War, like life, is not a movie CNSNews: An interview with Ann Coulter The Side Of Kim Du Toit: 15 things I don’t want to hear about on TV anymore The Grumpiest: Gemma Atkinson parades through a shopping mall in […]

First they changed Superman’s, “Truth, Justice, and the American way,” to “truth, justice and all that stuff,” in the latest execrable, feminized Superman movie. Now, they’re going to defile, “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,” by making the team into an international agency, “Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the […]

As it goes in Britain, so it will eventually go here if the Democrats have their way to force socialized medicine on the United States, Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS – with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year. And by the end of the […]

Let this thread over at the Daily Kos be a warning to you: life is bigger than politics. Yes, politics and ideology are important, but you shouldn’t take things to such an extreme that you let it make you miserable or wreck your relationships with your friends or family. Granted, sometimes you will run into […]

“If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn’t be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it’s the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix’s bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in […]

My latest column at Townhall, The End of America As We Know It did very well at Townhall last week, Let’s see, sandwiched between Sowell and Stossel on most viewed and Coulter and Adams on forwards. That’s not too bad for a little fish in the world of pundits, like me.

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Am I the only one who is just not digging the Presidential contenders of any political stripe? I’ve tried to analyze the ennui and it comes down to a couple things, maybe a little bit of each: 1. All the contenders seem like “C” students who are overachieving. 2. None of the contenders are all […]

Presidential hopeful John Edwards promises that if elected president, he will introduce an entire new suite of programs similar to the programs introduced with the New Deal John Edwards says if he’s elected president, he’ll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity. To do it, he said, […]

Last Thursday, I blogged about House Ways and Means Chair Charlie Rangel’s “tax reform” plan, which really does nothing but trade off one set of bad tax laws for another set. But Rangel’s plan, as bad as it is, pales in comparison to the type of “tax reform” plan former Clinton Sec. of Labor Robert […]

As mentioned in before in many posts, the focus of the political fight here about Iraq is on national reconciliation. But it should be noted that despite the fact that it still hasn’t happened on a national level, reconciliation is happening in Iraq. A prefect example of that is in Diayla province where the provincial […]

I think they are confusing “being at work” with “doing actual work” (via NY Times. Have you ever noticed that stories that are even somewhat negative tend to appear in the Gray Lady on Saturday? The editors must go on a serious bender on Friday nights) Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly […]

If the government can do for health care what it’s done in California for firefighting — acknowledged by even the meanest libertarian / free-marketer as a core mission of any government — then be very afraid of the Hillary Clinton Administration. And eat a lot of apples. More: “We are overwhelmed with bureaucratic regulations and […]

Of course, that isn’t always true. There are the Paris Hilton’s of the world who live extravagantly on the riches amassed by their smarter, harder-working ancestors. And there are those who simply luck into wealth or collect it through nefarious means. But, generally, the reason the guy in the “rich” part of town has a […]

The man who parades around as the crusader for the common man, John “Breck Girl”/”Silky Pony” Edwards, has found a truly worthy opponent. He’s decided to take on a college student, a grad student doing a story about why Silky, the crusader for the poor, has made his campaign headquarters in a wealthier area of […]

The New York Times has decided that opposition to illegal immigration has to be based in race hatred. It couldn’t possibly be based in anything else: Think of America’s greatest historical shames. Most have involved the singling out of groups of people for abuse. Name a distinguishing feature — skin color, religion, nationality, language — […]

A few Canadian columnists who deserve higher profiles: Tolkien biographer Michael Coren, whose high media profile means he has the dubious distinction of getting more death threats than anyone on this list. His latest column is on the Portland middle school/birth control controversy. Erudite polymath and poet George Jonas, author of Reflections on Islam. RWN […]

Here’s the Right Wing News Week-End guest blogger line-up this week. Saturday ——– Rob Port from Say Anything EM Zanotti from The American Princess and The Corner Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Cassy Fiano, who also blogs at Wizbang Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William Teach from Pirate’s Cove […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination for President in 2008 and the 1-5 candidates they’d least like to see as the Republican nominee in 2008. Representatives from the following […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: Illegitimate offspring: The 10 most tenuously connected movie sequels Hot Air: Bill Clinton to Truthers: “How dare you” Hugh Hewitt: Hugh chats with Mark Steyn Egotastic!: Kim Kardashian Playboy video preview You can check out all those links and more by […]

“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” — T. S. Eliot Like most conservatives, I am an optimist with an unshakable faith in the United States of America and the benevolence of a just God who looks down upon us. Yet and still, the lack of seriousness our […]

Remember Andrew Meyer, the jackass who asked stupid questions at a John Kerry event, then disturbed the peace, and eventually got tased for resisting arrest? At the time, I said that, Andrew Meyer deserved to be tasered. Well, it has taken a little while, but the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has confirmed that as […]

If this tale from Col. David Hunt is true, and I would guess that it is, it’s an outrage that should lead to firings and policy reviews throughout the US military, Besides, these things are of little consequence when you realize how we missed, squandered, screwed up, made a mess of and were massively risk […]

Rick Hasen has a post on whether the people running Stephen Colbert’s network would violate the law by letting him “run for President” while also putting him on TV. The post is titled Does Viacom Get the Media Exemption for Stephen Colbert’s Promotion of His Candidacy on the Colbert Report? In other words, does our […]

It just might, if this Rasmussen surveyis correct: King Middle School in Portland, Maine recently joined the small group of middle schools that distribute birth control pills to their students. Most Americans aren’t impressed. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 71% of American adults think it’s a bad idea. Just 19% of […]

There’s a lot of talk about how divided the Republican Party is, but I’m not sure we’re in significantly worse shape than the Democrats at this point. If you don’t buy that, take a look at this poll from the Daily Kos, When 48% of the readers at the Daily Kos believe that, “progressives (should) […]

Yesterday, Drudge unleashed a devastating document drop on fabulist Scott Thomas Beauchamp and his enablers at the New Republic. For those of you who haven’t followed the story, Beauchamp is a solider who made up horrific stories about what he had seen in Iraq and then published them anonymously at the New Republic. After bloggers […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Have you hugged an Islamo-Fascist today? Rachel Lucas: I’m not saying that the kid in the anti-violence group who was shot deserved it.. The Superficial: English lingerie model Danielle Lloyd wears a bikini Cracked: The 10 most terrifyingly inspirational ’80s […]

From the Associated Press via Fox, Hillary Clinton: Dental Surgery Evokes Romance in Bill WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton says husband Bill often brings her romantic gifts: a giant wooden giraffe from an African trip, for example, and a Chanel watch that reminded him of teeth. What’s so romantic about a giant wooden giraffe or […]