Year: 2007

Last year, I created and led Rightroots, a group of bloggers who raised money for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle. In roughly three months time, we raised more than $275,000 for conservative candidates. That’s not bad considering how lousy the election cycle was for Republicans, the limited technology we had to work with […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Newsbusters: ‘Journalists’ tell Howard Kurtz why good news from Iraq shouldn’t get reported Mark Steyn: Princess Diana’s murder and Islamoparanoia Cracked: Crazy eight: The top crazy girlfriends in movie history Popholic: Anna Kournikova bikini pictures You can check out all those links […]

Probably, yes. But, instead of pushing for democracy, which has required much more blood and treasure than we expected, we would have just changed “son-of-a-b*tches.” By that, I mean that there’s an old saying that goes, “He may be a son-of-a-b*tch, but he is our son-of-a-b*tch.” In Iraq, our son-of-a-b*tch would have probably been a […]

Late last Friday, after I’d answered all the Q&A Friday questions for the day, I received a good question that I thought merited a response. Rather than post an answer after 5 PM on Friday, when traffic drops like a paralyzed Egret, I decided to take on the question today, Hello Mr. Hawkins, I’ll certainly […]

Apparently, that is what some Muslim medical students in England want. They are refusing to even study diseases that might result from sexual or drinking behavior that they disapprove of. And some are even refusing to treat women. Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually […]

They’re not even hiding it anymore. Guess it got too hard with all of that free-speech on the Internet dogging them all the time. They’re essentially treating Iraq coverage as if it were sports coverage of a team’s season. Except they don’t report the wins, and only report the losses. So only report the enemy’s […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be open thread, and have a great week-end? The Sundries Shack Defending The Dream Speeches Walter Olson: Hofstra Law School’s New Guest Lecturer On Legal Ethics: Disbarred Felon Lynne Stewart Draw A House And Find Out About Your Personality — Supposedly Atlas […]

Mitt Romney is charismatic, an excellent fundraiser, and a man who can genuinely claim to be an outsider in a year when the American people are sick to death of politics as usual in Washington. Additionally, Mitt has an excellent political strategy for 2008, one that catapulted John Kerry to victory in 2004: win Iowa, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ace of Spades HQ: The Anti-American party: 19% of Democrats say world would be better off with US defeat in Iraq; another 20% aren’t sure Robert Tracinski: The historic significance of Atlas Shrugged Egotastic!: Alessandra Ambrosio bikini pictures from GQ UK Cracked: […]

Question: “As a regular reader of your blog for the past year or so, I enjoy and respect your opinions as they are typically quite accurate and realistic. I was curious, however, what your opinion was on the following issue. You highlight blog/diary entries from liberal “progressive” sites which seem to defy any type of […]

Question: “Name some of the most frightening or suspenseful books and movies you’ve ever seen or read.” — maledicta Answer: Off the top of my head, some of the movies that come to mind include, 10) Cube 9) Pitch Black 8) The Blair Witch Project 7) Final Destination 6) The Thing 5) Penny Dreadful 4) […]

Question: “Ron Paul’s presidential campaign raised more than $5 million this past quarter. That puts him ahead of all other “second-tier candidates” and is pretty comparable to the amount raised by John McCain, who’s also about $2 million in debt. What do you make of that?” — maledicta Answer: On the upside, that means his […]

Question: “Do you think a republican nomination of Giuliani would tear the republican party apart and not only hurt it in this election but further down the line to.” — adam123 Answer: After James Dobson and Company have already very loudly and publicly pledged to support a “third party ” in 2008 if Rudy is […]

Question: “Hillary seems to have a commanding lead for the Dem nomination from national polls, yet her lead seems to vanish when the polls go to state by state breakdowns. She also doesn’t perform as well as Edwards in most head-to-head polls versus Republicans, even though Edwards is still last among the Dem frontrunners in […]

Today will be Q&A Friday #75 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, […]

At 4 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

Despite the insane paranoia in this thread, the childlike faith shown in the Democrats in Congress is almost touching. The attitude is something akin to, “Well, of course Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Company wouldn’t sell us out for the sake of politics, so that evil Dick Cheney must be threatening their families!” Of course, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Pretend to be all that you can be Michael Medved: The Founders intended a Christian, not secular, society Cracked: The 8 least-threatening comic book villains The Bastardly: Retro link: Playboy’s girls next door model slutty Halloween costumes! Yay! You can […]

Although there are a number of things I don’t agree with in his latest column, Tony Blankley is certainly spot on when he says that, “The GOP Needs a Survival Instinct.” Ever since George Bush was reelected in 2004, he has come across as being completely uninterested in pleasing his base or the American people […]

The secessionist cranks are at it again, In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk. Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like […]

Hillary Clinton is promising to give illegals amnesty and billions of American tax dollars, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as president she would push an immigration bill with a path to legalization that unites families. “We’ve got to deal with immigration to be sure that we’re going to get back to doing what is […]

This is an obnoxious lawsuit, Target Corp., the second-largest U.S. discount store chain, lost a bid Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company’s website wasn’t accessible to the blind. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco rejected Target’s request to dismiss the case. She also certified the case as a class action, […]

It’s the perfect combination of sin taxes, nanny-statism and taxpayer-funded welfare — all in the name of the children. …The story now is Bush’s October 3 veto of a massive expansion of the government-run State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The media couldn’t resist scripting the veto as a vote against children. What’s at stake, […]

Last night I was in on a teleconference with Republican National Senatorial Committee Chairman, John Ensign. Here are my notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Ensign’s opening statement This is definitely going to be a tough election cycle, but it’s better than it looks on the surface. Here are the Democrats’ top 4 challengers to […]

This quote from Huffington Post columnist Stan Goff is so ironic that it’s almost funny (emphasis mine), Right-wing buffoon Rush Limbaugh takes a swipe at Iraq veterans who oppose the war… who can defend themselves quite nicely, if they even feel inclined to respond to this kind of schoolyard boy-baiting. Democrat flaks jump on this […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Investor’s Business Daily: Rush Limbaugh vs. the real phonies IMAO: Fred Thompson’s principles including: “Children are stupid. Someone needs to do something about that or I will destroy them.” Celeb Slam: Brooke Burns wore a bikini Walter Williams: Betrayal of the civil […]

I think the obnoxiousness of these comments from the Democratic Underground speak for themselves. Bravo: Resolved: Punching William Kristol in the f*cking face should not only be legal… it should be mandatory! Here’s the latest from William the Bloody: “Any time I hear something described as a heartless assault on children, it’s a pretty good […]

Over at the Corner, Larry Kudlow had this to say about illegal immigration, Meanwhile, Rich Nadler’s WSJ op-ed explains why a deportation, criminalization, and “enforcement first” policy is a huge electoral loser for the GOP. I mentioned this last week. Why can’t the message on immigration be a balanced one? Border security plus earned-legalization — […]

“It’s troubling that some Democrats have taken a comment by Rush Limbaugh about “phony soldiers” totally out of context in order to find some moral equivalence to get them off the hook for refusing to condemn the MoveOn.org ‘Petraeus’ ad. The only thing phony about this is the contrived controversy.” — Jon Kyl “Tailgunner Joe” […]

Continued bad news for the left is good news for America, For five years, Yale Law School has fought to restrict military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon’s policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. But with the federal government threatening to withhold $350 million in grants if […]