Year: 2007

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mavrixonline: Serena Williams’ almost had a Janet Jacksonesque wardrobe malfunction during a recent visit to Miami Beach (w/pics) Florida Today: U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney’s ‘terrible top ten’ on immigration bill Film School Rejects: The 10 best ultra-violent films of all-time. Paul Weyrich: […]

One of the more bizarre claims of the open borders crowd is that the amnesty bill in the Senate is actually popular and that it’s only opposed by a small, but vocal minority. Their evidence for this assertion is several polls that show that the majority of the American people are not opposed to a […]

From Newsbusters, As already noted on NewsBusters, former CBS anchor Dan Rather appeared on Monday’s edition of “Morning Joe” and lobbied for a “a strategic withdrawal from Iraq.” He also found time to twice bash his “Evening News” successor Katie Couric for dumbing down and tarting up the news. After giving the standard caveat that […]

The Associated Press reports on some studies of the deterrent effect of capital punishment. “Science does really draw a conclusion. It did. There is no question about it,” said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. “The conclusion is there is a deterrent effect.” A 2003 study he co-authored, and […]

And David Obey threatens to stop all earmarks if Republicans continue making a fuss. Ummm… your offer is accepted in principle. I put the blame for this on President Bush. What a shock, I know. The fact of the matter is that these earmarks have no leglislative or legal force; they’re stuck into the Congressional […]

For years, I’ve heard the fantastic tales of untapped black wealth beneath the sun-beaten Iraqi earth. So, when the mayor of Fallujah insisted he had no gas to run school and hospital generators, I had to ask the obvious question, where’s the gas? From day one, we’ve seen the slogan “No war for oil” painted […]

Folks, I hate to tell you this, but I am hearing that the Senate amnesty bill is going to be coming back up for another vote, probably within a month’s time. Translation: The arrogant “noblemen” AKA as senators are furious that mere peasants AKA as “you” have thwarted their amnesty bill and no matter how […]

A suicide bomber has struck in Kenya, “The Kenyan capital was rocked Monday by a bomb blast thought to be the work of a suicide bomber who blew himself to bits while clutching a copy of the Koran, injuring dozens of people. “It was a bomb explosion and body parts have been thrown apart,” policeman […]

Today is the 20 year anniversary of Reagan’s famous speech calling for Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall!” Here’s part of the speech, including those legendary words, on video, If you’d like to read the entire speech, you can do it here.

Back on January 25th, I wrote about Genarlow Wilson, a 17-year-old who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for receiving consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old. Wilson’s case was particularly grating because of some bizarre quirks of Georgia law, “When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th […]

This is a thing of beauty.

If this is true — and I do mean “if,” because I am not so sure that it is — everyone involved with making this decision should be forced to resign. “The insurgents who kill our young soldiers are ruthless, but we have sometimes been cautious in our response. Take the question of targeting bomb […]

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It has been about 3 months since the last time I ranked my favorite 40 blogs, so I thought it was about time to do it again. 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, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ace of Spades HQ: John Edwards’ former campaign blogger: “Break something. Set something on fire. Tonight you can find a way to resist.” Mark Steyn: How a lame joke on immigration became a reality. Cassy Fiano: A cute, new Cassy Fiano pic. […]

After writing my Proving The 9/11 Conspiracists Wrong column for Townhall last week (it finished just outside the top 10 for the week), as you’d expect, I received a lot of email from deranged truthers who insist that 9/11 was an inside job. So, I thought it might be interesting to post some excerpts from […]

Uh oh… “US President George W Bush drew gasps at the Vatican on Saturday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as “sir” instead of the expected “His Holiness”, pool reporters said.” So when do we get the follow-up articles that start out like this, “Today, tens of thousands of outraged Catholics took to the streets […]

The GOP seems to be under the impression that conservatives have a duty to support their policies and decisions in office. This is exactly backwards and is the sort of thinking you’d expect from Feudal lords, not from American politicians. Conservatives put these Republicans into office to represent our views and the reason they’re not […]

On Saturday, I spend about 25 minutes doing the Meet the New Press radio show. We discussed, “(The)(i)mmigration (b)ill collapse, San Francisco(‘s) attempts to get rid of the Blue Angels, Duncan Hunter, NH Debate, (whether it’s) (T)ime to winnow the field (?), (and the) Ames straw poll pullouts by McCain and Guiliani, Fred Thompson.” You […]

John McCain is, happily, still fighting for amnesty. I say, “happily,” because I don’t think it’s going to work, but it will probably sink his presidential campaign, which is good news for conservatives. But, here’s the latest spin from John Kerry’s first choice for Vice President, “The status quo is de facto amnesty – fact,” […]

Granted, Kucinich is making himself look foolish by getting a lawyer involved, but Glenn Beck was still being extremely crude, “Dennis Kucinich has consulted with a lawyer about radio talk host Glenn Beck’s on-air comments knocking Kucinich’s marriage. The lawyer has written to Beck’s bosses. …Clear Channel is the parent of Premiere Radio Networks, which […]

“This morning’s New York Times publishes a moving tribute to Ted Kennedy’s efforts to save his sinking Oldsmobile of an immigration bill as it plunged to the ocean floor. If only liberalism’s last lion had shown such determination and interest in saving Mary Jo Kopechne.” — Dean Barnett PS: Hawkins’ note: I’d say the same […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this to be an open thread, enjoy the links below, and have a great week-end. Rasmussen Polling: Why the Senate Immigration Bill Failed Relapsed Catholic Michelle Malkin: Sanctuary Nation Or Sovereign Nation: What Can You Do? Bush Hopes To Revive Immigration Bill Star Parker: Why Americans Don’t Like […]

A GOP aide, who’s one of my sources in the Senate, gave me the rundown on what happened to the Senate bill today. After the cloture vote failure at noon on Thursday, Harry Reid could not get unanimous consent to call up amendments to the bill because Jim DeMint refused to give his consent. This […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Dr. Helen: Your right to leer. Daily Mail: U.S. hands over a $10m bounty in briefcases for the killing of Muslim leaders. Cassy Fiano: Kissing for women 101. GlossLip: Kim Kardashian’s butt is the veritable definition of a badonkadonk (w/ pic) Maggie […]

According to a poll by Rasmussen, 22% of all Americans and 35% of all Democrats believe that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. Perhaps that’s because it’s not at all unusual to hear bizarre theories about 9/11. If you spend a lot of time on the internet, you’ll hear everything from Bush […]

When it comes to fighting against the amnesty bill in the Senate, I fought it as hard as anybody you’re going to run across. I created the Payback Project and threatened to organize a Googlebomb of Republican senators who voted for the bill if it passed. Additionally, I wrote about the amnesty bill every day, […]

It’s no secret that a lot of liberals hate the military, but only in cities like San Francisco, where they dominate the political scene from top to bottom, do they politically dare to do things like this, “The annual aerial show by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels — a San Francisco tradition dating back to […]

Hillary: Is She Too Dumb To Be President? Boy, do I love this powerful, new, anti-Hillary meme. From Investor’s Business Daily, “Sen. Hillary Clinton’s fans suggest that her brilliance outshines her character flaws. But if she’s so smart, how did she flunk the D.C. bar exam, one of the easiest in the nation? …From another […]

People don’t like Paris Hilton and by “people,” I mean me, you, and pretty much everyone else except whichever random guy she happens to be sleeping with tonight. That, along with the feeling that she got a break because of her celebrity status, is why there is so much discussion, a lot of it angry, […]