Year: 2007

Elvira Arellano, who spent more than a year camped out in a church to escape the long arm of the law has finally, at long last, been deported. Here’s the liberal spin on this from Ezra Klein, The important part of this story, as Atrios notes, is that there is now an 8-year-old American citizen […]

Yesterday, I ran an interview that I did with Robert Novak. It was widely linked and, for the most part, was favorably received. However, there were more than a few bloggers complaining about these comments that Novak made about bloggers. For example, here’s Rusty Shackleford from The Jawa Report I really wish Hawkins had gone […]

* Is Michael Vick’s career really over? Michael David Smith at the New York Sun certainly thinks so, Vick agreed to make the plea in exchange for a lenient sentence, and he is expected to serve a year or two in prison, meaning he will be a free man some time in 2008 or 2009. […]

The Associated Press, among other outlets, featured prominently earlier this week a story of a gay Gulf war veteran who passed away and the church that canceled his memorial service the day before it was supposed to take place once they found out through pictures submitted to the church as part of the memorial that […]

Presidential candidates are always placed under a lot of scrutiny, and thus it’s imperative to avoid mistakes. Here are some basic ones every candidate should be aware of: COMMON CANDIDATE MISTAKES * Racial and Ethnic Slurs: Strangely, this one keeps having to be reemphasized. Before you say anything, check to make sure it doesn’t have […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Speaking of sanctuary, where’s ours? Newsbusters: Former CNN reporter suggests Hurricane Dean God’s wrath against Bush Egotastic!: Jennifer Lopez bikini pictures. Popular Mechanics: The Popular Mechanics Guide to surviving natural disasters. Victor Davis Hanson: Why study war? You can check […]

Over at the Huffington Post, where almost the entire audience is in the later stages of Bush Derangement Syndrome, a lot of the readers are taking sick pleasure in Tony Snow leaving the White House. It’s not enough for them to simply be excited that a political adversary is getting out of the game; no, […]

For this post, I’m going to set aside my personal preferences in the 2008 race and talk about which candidates are most likely to capture the nomination. Keep in mind that it is still early and the race is very fluid, so this analysis could and probably will change quite a bit over the next […]

“…(P)roponents of man-made global warming fears that enjoy a monumental funding advantage over the skeptics. (A whopping $50 billion to a paltry $19 million for skeptics) — yes, that is billion to million.” — Newsmax

One of the points worth making about Al Gore and Company’s hysterics about global warming is that they’re not even offering solution #1 to the problem that they say exists. Put another way, even if Al Gore and Company are right and mankind is causing global warming — and to be honest, I don’t think […]

My latest Townhall column, “8 Reasons Why Conservatives Must Defeat Hillary,” was the 8th most read column on Townhall this week. It’s nice to pull that off every so often.

Apparently, this little girl acquired this t-shirt at the launching of Paris Hilton’s new clothing line, Didn’t this kid have any responsible adult supervising her who could explain to her that Paris Hilton is a stupid, spoiled whore and that she shouldn’t want to have a picture of someone like that on her t-shirt? PS: […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be an open thread, and have a great week-end! Media Mythbusters Michael Medved: The Perception Of Powerlessness No Spanish? No Job, Teachers Told Theodore Dalrymple: How Societies Commit Suicide Lee’s `Enter The Dragon’ To Get Remake Embracing Momminess Addicting Games Cox & […]

Now, I will be the first to admit that the GOP was very disappointing in the 2006 election cycle and although the Republicans have improved significantly in a lot of areas, they’re still not doing as much as conservatives have asked them to do on spending, corruption, immigration, and foreign policy. That being said, while […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Celeb Slam: Linda O’Neil bikini pics. Cassy Fiano: The Huffington Post weeps with outrage over Padilla’s conviction. Victor Davis Hanson: Media hubris. Enough with anonymity. Cracked: The 5 stages of a successful relationship (in a romantic comedy) You can check out all […]

Just when you thought the Goracle couldn’t get any wackier, “I ran into Al Gore at a climate/energy conference this month, and he vibrates with passion about this issue — recognizing that we should confront mortal threats even when they don’t emanate from Al Qaeda. “We are now treating the Earth’s atmosphere as an open […]

Apologies must be in this year, Danes sorry for looting and pillaging MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to […]

David Beckham is, for those of you lucky enough not to know anything about soccer, the Michael Jordan of the sport. Because of that — and because he’s married to the ultra hot Posh Spice, you can’t help but hear about the guy. So, yesterday, I ran across this story, “Bored like Beckham: Posh fails […]

Oh, the horror of it all!!! When, oh when will we conservatives finally pay heed to the Goracle and change our evil ways? Oh, wait a second – that headline is from 1922: D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the […]

Guess who gets TEH OUTraGE!!1 from Mahablog on the Padilla conviction? It goes right where it belongs – Michelle Malkkkin!! When a few righties stopped by to challenge the almighty, allknowing Mahablogger on her rhetoric, she shut the comments down. Effectively STIFLING DISSENT, as it were. High fives all around today! Another terrorists goes to […]

The CIA may be good at what they do, but even they can’t assassinate imaginary figures, “Farda News reports that George W. Bush has had a meeting with a group of American Muslims three weeks ago. In that meeting, he has learned about the Islamic Messiah, Imam Mahdi. Reportedly, CIA has set up a group […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again. Rush Limbaugh: Conservatism 101: elevate the bottom, don’t punish the top. The Superficial: Pics from Kim Kardashian’s Complex magazine spread. IMAO: English condensed into a single motivational poster. You can check […]

From the AP: McCain: Immigration Issue Led to Threats ASPEN, Colo. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday that the issue of illegal immigration angered people unlike no other, including the unpopular war in Iraq, and sparked unprecedented death threats against him. Maybe I am getting a bit blase about this, but people […]

One way or the other, we will be bringing a lot of American troops home next year, The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday he was preparing recommendations on troop cuts before he returns to Washington next month for a report to Congress, and believes the U.S. footprint in Iraq will have to be […]

Do these numbers really seem to gel? First, from the New York Post, “A surprising 94 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives – although far fewer in New York and other Eastern states think they’re better off than they were five years ago, according to a new survey. The Harris Poll […]

Pat Hynes and Soren Dayton have been writing about how the GOP/conservatism is stacking up to Democrats/liberalism. Here’s Dayton’s take on it, “First, the GOP has (had?) succeeded for nearly 20 years at really critical points. The Cold War was won. Welfare rolls were cut and poverty fell. Tax rates were cut nearly 50%. Inflation […]

Over at Slate, they’re pointing out the results of a study on the accuracy of the MSM and how willing they are to make corrections. Honestly, the mainstream media didn’t do so well, Maier’s study relied on data gathered from 10 metropolitan newspapers: the Boulder Daily Camera, the Charlotte Observer, the Detroit Free Press, the […]

It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 3rd quarter of 2007. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Hollywood Tuna: Anne Hathaway in a bikini. Fred Thompson: Sanctuary cities. Boing Boing: Fish that feed on dead skin cells are a nice spa treatment (w/pic). Media Bistro: Half Hour News Hour shelved. You can check out all those links and more […]