Year: 2007

Bringing back the military draft would make it easier to meet recruiting goals but the negatives would outweigh the positives, a new Congressional Budget Office study found. The report, requested by Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., chairman of the defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, says that drafting people could make it easier for the […]

Palestinian Media Watch has a new report on Nahoul’s continuing adventures and more: Blood libels on Hamas TV (not yet online, in full below): The promotion of hatred of Jews through their depiction as cold-blooded murderers is a recurring theme on Hamas TV. Over the weekend at least 2 broadcasts presented these images. One was […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be an open thread, and have a great week-end. Deport Them Now Media Mythbusters See The Incredible Job The Photoshop Artists At Redbook Did On Faith Hill Soldier’s Angels Stop The ACLU Inoperable Terran Atlas Shrugs Nealz Nuze Dr. Sanity Daily Pundit […]

Over at the Daily Kos, America’s premiere liberal blog/online mental asylum, there is a recommended diary by someone named slw0606 — recommended — so this is the best of the best over at the Daily Kos, about how Bush is going to turn America into a dictatorship rather than leave power in 2008. Here are […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: The Superficial: Britney Spears hits the beach in her underwear. Heather Mac Donald: When newspapers and black leaders assault the police, small wonder that criminals follow suit. CelebSlam: Sara Sidle from CSI goes surfing — in a bikini. Memri: Arab Columnist: Let’s […]

Hooray! A bunch of old commies, famous incompetents & bureaucrats are getting together to solve all the world’s problems for us… “An “extraordinary collection” of independent world leaders led by Nelson Mandela gathered in Johannesburg on Wednesday to commit themselves to tackling global problems. “This group can speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and […]

Earlier this week, Hugh Hewitt did an interview with General David Petraeus and today, he wrote a column talking about the Left’s vicious attacks on Petraeus for appearing on his show. All I can say is that Petraeus better get ready, because the Left is going to do everything in their power to destroy his […]

From last to first… Currently Reading — Atul Gawande: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science 80) Bob Novak: The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington (B+: I really enjoyed the book, which covers Novak’s 50 years of reporting in Washington, which mostly seemed to consist of meeting important people for lunch, […]

If you listen to the Democrats, you’ll hear that the war in Iraq was poorly planned and that Bush didn’t think far enough ahead about the consequences of our actions in that country. Now that we have the benefit of hindsight, it’s hard to argue with that. Bush should have done a better job of […]

“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.” — Ann Coulter Bizarrely — or maybe not, since Democrats almost always oppose any measure that would actually make it harder […]

Over at the Democratic Underground, there is a thread on a man’s Hummer that was vandalized. Here’s the synopsis of the story, “On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage. […]

I’m of the opinion that Barrack Obama would be a complete joke in the general election. The guy’s nothing but a very liberal empty suit, with a little bit of charisma who’s doing OK in the Democratic primaries because he’s not Hillary Clinton and because of his empty talk about bipartisanship, not a word of […]

If you want to know what’s wrong with the Republican Party, as much as anything, it’s that we have too many guys like Don Young in Congress, “Rep. Don Young attacked his fellow Republicans on the House floor Wednesday, as he defended education funds allocated to his home-state of Alaska. “You want my money, my […]

Transsexuals are severely mentally ill people who should be treated with therapy instead of being allowed to deform themselves with unnecessary surgery. The whole idea that you can take a man — or a woman — operate on their genitals, pump them full of hormones, and do a few other assorted cosmetic alterations and then […]

The trashing of “Saint Cindy” on the Left continues. This time, it’s Niall Stanage at the ultra left-wing Guardian who’s basically conceding that the right was spot on about every single nasty thing that we ever said about Cindy Sheehan — now that she’s running against Nancy Pelosi. Funny how that works, isn’t it? “Even […]

“President Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore and much of the mainstream media are incorrect when they claim the number of Americans without health insurance to be 40 to 50 million, with the actual number possibly under 10 million. So says the Business and Media Institute, a Virginia-based division of the Media Research Center, a nonprofit […]

“Red” Russ Feingold has always been a favorite of the netroots and with good reason — he’s about as liberal as you can possibly be if your name isn’t Karl Marx. But, after Russ wrote a Daily Kos diary saying that he wouldn’t support impeachment — not because Bush and Cheney don’t deserve it, mind […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Trying To Grok: The piece of crap list. Hollywood Tuna: Kim Kardashian hits the beach in a bikini John Stossel: Where Michael Moore is wrong. The New York Post: Jon Lovitz roughed up Andy Dick over the murder of their “Saturday Night […]

We’ve been hearing a lot — and understandably so — about David Vitter’s possible daliance with a prostitute years ago. However, it now appears that there is a much bigger fish on the line who may be guilty of the same thing. Let’s see how eager the mainstream media is to look into this, “Esperanza […]

House Republicans, including Duncan Hunter, whom I consult for, and Dana Rohrabacher, have been fighting to get a pardon for Compean and Ramos, the border agents who were sent to jail for more than a decade each after shooting a fleeing drug dealer in the butt after they believed he was pulling a gun on […]

Barrack Obama showed the typical liberal lack of respect of the Constitution in talking about Supreme Court Justices, “After a speech heavily critical of the new Supreme Court in front of a Planned Parenthood Action Fund conference in Washington, the presidential candidate said he would look into potential nominees’ hearts when deciding whom to select […]

Over at the Corner, they’ve been having some back and forth over which animal has been more beneficial to mankind, dogs or cats, which is sort of like asking what’s the more important invention, the car or the lava lamp. On the side of the lava lamp is John Hood, “According to a number of […]

“The American military will never lose the war in Iraq…if lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.” — Joe Lieberman

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Given Bush’s tepid response to Iran and his troubling willingness to close Gitmo, I consider this to be an encouraging sign that he hasn’t lost his nerve on Iraq, “President Bush shocked Capitol Hill staffers and Republican leaders Monday when he crashed a meeting at the White House to deliver a blunt message that he […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: A habitable world. Celebslam: Chatting with Lindsey Lohan about naked pics stolen from her computer + bikini pics of Lindsey. IMAO: Everything you need to know about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a single motivational poster. Ace of Spades HQ: Judge: Rape […]

There are certain almost incomprehensible stories that you see semi-regularly repeat in the news. For example, it’s a given that every few weeks you’re going to read about some crazy cat lady who has 50 cats, 40 dogs, 5 birds, and the whole lot of them are starving to death in knee deep feces in […]

“America’s first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks. Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, […]

For years, the amnesty and open borders crowd has been telling Americans that illegal aliens are essential to the economy and that we just can’t get by without them. On the other hand, people like me have been telling you that’s complete piffle and that the market will adjust and the economy would get by […]

Yeah – that’s really essential to the nation’s survival…. The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today released a list of Senate earmarks slated to be included in the Fiscal Year 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill. The 1,016 earmarks total nearly $392 million, and include millions for questionable projects […]