Year: 2007

Soon, this will be all of us GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn’t want to leave Greenburgh. Greenburgh doesn’t want her […]

Ed Morrissey was on a teleconference with Rep. Michele Bachmann who relayed the following news: [T]he National Assembly passed a pension bill, a critical step in reconciliation. That did not get much mention in the American media, but the Sunnis now have government pensions denied them after the fall of Saddam, which should alleviate much […]

Gallup reports — utterly buried in an article about how Hillary Clinton is America’s most admired woman (not the subject of this post) — that none other than President George W. Bush is America’s most admired man. (Via Instapundit.) That is the same George W. Bush who lives on Pennsylvania Avenue. Not his father, the […]

The only Canadian magazine to publish the infamous “Mohammed cartoons”, the Western Standard, is no more, but their group blog, The Shotgun, remains active. After some initial defiance, the new owners just apologized to a well-known Muslim troublemaker; he’d gone to the police (?!) complaining about anonymous anti-Muslim comments at the blog. I hope their […]

On Saturday and Sunday, RWN will have guest bloggers. Then on Mon and Tues, RWN will have retro RWN posts. On Wed, RWN will have guest bloggers. EM Zanotti from The American Princess and The Corner Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Michael […]

Making The Case For The Loser-Pays System Nuclear Naivete — We Can’t Just “Get Rid Of Nukes” On Anti-Intellectualism Outsourcing Is Nothing To Be Worried About Rules Of Thumb The Social Security IOU Take My Word For It, Jews Don’t Rule The World Thank You Big Corporations! The Conservative Thinking Behind The War On Terrorism […]

3 Illegal Immigration Myths 9 Ways To Make America A Better Place To Live The Difference Between Liberals, Conservatives, And Southerners Why I Am A Democrat A Conversation About Abortion Answering 20 Frequently Asked Questions About Conservatism Hillary Clinton’s Crash Site Photos. Caution-Gory Footage The Top 10 Things I’ve Learned From Watching My Dog Coming […]

Here’s a heartwarming holiday story that will be sure to tug at your heartstrings: ALBANY, Ga. – A military working dog wounded in Iraq during a rocket attack that killed its Marine handler was adopted Friday by the slain Marine’s family. Cpl. Dustin Lee’s family planned to take home the bomb-sniffing dog — named Lex […]

Political edition Ron Paul: the chicken is our last best hope in saving the Constitution! Hillary Clinton: well, Bill was getting a little frisky, so….. Joe Biden: the chicken just wanted to get from one side of Delaware to the other Mike Huckabee: the chicken was emulating my tax policies as governor Fred!: The problem […]

Uh, not exactly. Another classic of media dissembling. The lede: Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California. The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in […]

Maureen Dowd (via I/P): Certainly Bill wants to repay Hill for those traumatic times when he had to hide behind her skirt. And certainly he feels that his legacy is tied to her. He suggests to Matt Bai in today’s Times Magazine that she can be F.D.R. to his Teddy Roosevelt, getting through the ideas […]

Every Christmas, after the presents are opened and breakfast is being made, I read this first in the paper. It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely do papers outside of the NY-NJ-Conn area see it in print, and […]

It wins the holiday messages from candidates hands down! He completely keeps overt politics out of it, and doesn’t even appear in it! Very classy, and doesn’t even plug his website. The subject matter is right on. This gave me chills. He could have went the overtly political route like Huckabee and Hillary, but he […]

Jay from Stop The ACLU here. First off, I just want to thank John for allowing me the honor of posting here. For my first post here, I’m gonna go retro and reach back to 2005 for one of my classics. Its an interview with former ACLU lawyer, Rees Lloyd. “For God And Country Forever […]

I see that John Hawkins has already covered this with a list of the top 20 stories of 2007 (so I’ve made some quick adjustments to this blog entry to reflect that), but hot off the “presses” is Don Surber’s list of the top 10 stories of 2007. Here is his list. (Go to his […]

Located: the stupidest anti-Mark Steyn post so far — in his highly publicized fight against the radical Muslims who want to silence him and Canada’s oldest magazine — complete with grammatical and factual errors. And my take down.

Here’s the Right Wing News week-wnd guest blogger line-up this week-end. Don’t be surprised if a few of these people end up not making it since this is the week-end before Christmas. Saturday ——– Rob Port from Say Anything EM Zanotti from The American Princess and The Corner Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Cassy […]

Earlier today, I hammered the Huckabee campaign for not getting back to me within 3 days time on an immigration question I had for them. Well tonight, I received a pleasant call from the lovely and talented Charmaine Yoest, who works with the Huckabee campaign. She apologized for the campaign’s delay in getting back to […]

Yesterday, I got together with Fred Thompson’s wife, Jeri Thompson, for a phone interview as she traveled around Iowa. Unfortunately, near the end of the interview, while she was running low on time, she hit a bad cell. At that point, I lost her permanently and wasn’t able to reconnect with her to get in […]

20) Anna Nicole Smith dies and no one can figure out who the father of her child is because she apparently slept with 1 out of every 10 adult males on the planet earth within 3 months of when her kid was conceived. 19) Larry Craig’s “wide stance” got him into trouble in an airport […]

There has been some controversy over Mike Huckabee’s Illegal Immigration plan. As written, it looks fantastic, but people have persistently been claiming that it’s actually a variant of Mike Pence’s stealth amnesty, touchback plan. So, I figured that I would get in touch with Mike Huckabee’s campaign, clear this up once and for all, and […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Live Science: 7 medical myths even doctors believe Yahoo! Finance: The 101 dumbest moments in business, 2007 Newsbusters: The NYT’s worst quotes of the year Daily Mail: Posh Beckham braves the cold front to go shopping – bare-legged in a miniskirt You […]

Over at The Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty is wondering about a “conservative crack-up.” One of my readers suggested that, no matter who the Republican nominee is, the 2008 GOP primary will be marked by a tear between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives. Social conservatives have looked at Rudy Giuliani leading the national polls for much […]

One of the stories that’s really circulating in the blogosphere right now is about Ron Paul’s ties to white power and Nazi groups. Here’s Ace of Spades HQ covering the Paul/Stormfront connection, Ron Paul Poses With Stormfront Nazi Don Black & Son …He is oddly reluctant to give up a mere $500 from the Nazi, […]

As you may know, I am on the board of Slatecard, which is an outstanding PAC that is dedicated to raising money for Republican candidates. Well, Slatecard is trying to raise enough money to get a booth at CPAC, which will be the 2nd biggest conservative event of the year behind the Republican National Convention. […]

Some people will tell you that the world is so big and complicated that one man can’t make a difference. Tom Tancredo is living proof that those people are wrong. In the fight against illegal immigration, Tancredo practically started out as a one man gang, but over time, more and more people rallied to his […]

I recently read Rick Warren’s The Power To Change Your Life and I decided to put together a list of the best quotes from the book. Enjoy! “Acts 4 records the first serious opposition to the apostles’ preaching of the Gospel in Jerusalem. When the authorities threatened them, they banded together and prayed. But notice […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: There’s a Huckabee born every minute Newsbusters: Dishonest reporter 2007 awards Brent Bozell: 2007: A loony-left year Popular Mechanics: The ethanol fallacy Celebslam: Kate Del Castillo wore a bikini You can check out all those links and more by clicking […]

First of all, watch this Hillary Clinton “Christmas” video. No, it’s fine, go ahead. I’ll wait… Ok, have you watched it? Now, what did you notice? Here’s what I saw, 1) A wooden, joyless Hillary Clinton giving out poll tested “gifts” that are paid for with other people’s money. How typical for liberals. We’re going […]

Rod Dreher has a great column up about Mike Huckabee, “Huckenfreude! That’s blogger Ross Douthat’s splendid word – taken from schadenfreude, the German term for taking pleasure in the misfortune of others – to describe glee over the miseries Mike Huckabee’s candidacy is inflicting on the GOP establishment.” Although I am not a fan of […]