Year: 2008

I’m on the radio with Rob Port from Say Anything’s tonight at 8:20 PM EST. It’s on WZFG AM1100 in South Dakota and you can listen live here.

It seems like each time some terrorist group attacks Israel and Israel responds we have to go about explaining “proportionality” again. That’s because it is obvious some self-appointed experts haven’t a clue. Some apparently think that a proportional response means the math must add up. If they only kill 2 or 3, that’s all you’re […]

At 4:07 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

Religions with limited appeal need to be spread by force. For example, atheism requires its adherents to believe there is no higher intelligence, and that all existence is a random, meaningless accident. This nihilistic view is both counterintuitive and unrewarding; consequently, its advocates prefer coercion to persuasion: The head of an atheist group that has […]

The liberal elite is gifted at using black skin to advance its figureheads, but that doesn’t mean moonbats want any darkies living in their neighborhood: ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) – As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud […]

The collapse of oil prices has created trouble for Iran’s petroleum-dependent economy: Iran’s president presented parliament with a sweeping economic package Tuesday that calls for scrapping costly state subsidies for fuel, water and electricity and raising taxes to make up for the steep slide in world oil prices. The move is a risky one for […]

“Look seans an old friend of mine and i didnt buy his performance at all — thought he did an average pretend acting like he was gay besides hes one of the most homophobic people i kno.” — Mickey Rourke on Sean Penn’s performance in ‘Milk’

I’m not sure whether to be more appalled that this anti-semitic sign was on display at a Pro-Palestinian protest in Manhattan or that someone who’s so stupid that he thinks you spell Jews — “juice” — is in our country. Please, please, please, let this idiot be some rich guy’s kid, here on vacation, who […]

5) Thought Of The Day: Too Big To Fail? The words “too big to fail” are often bandied about these days as an excuse to use billions more of our tax dollars to bail out yet another company. It seems to me that if a company is “too big to fail,” then perhaps it should […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ben Shapiro: Benjamin Button and the top 8 rules for good filmmaking Extreme Mortman: Top ten marketing flops bigger than Caroline Kennedy Thomas Sowell: The art of the impossible Open Forum: Ten tiny things every small business owner should do in 2009 […]

From Dale Franks at The QandO Blog, Since getting their behinds handed to them in the last two election cycles, people on the Right have been taking a long hard look at why they’ve turned into such losers. One of the areas of concern that have popped up as a result of this introspection has […]

From Conservative Grapevine, 20) The Corner: So, a union member walks into a whorehouse… 19) Ace of Spades HQ: What annoys me about all the big name conservative talk radio hosts. 18) Cracked: 7 bullsh*t rumors that caused real world catastrophes 17) I Don’t Like You In That Way: Emma Watson AKA Hermione in the […]

Here are RWN’s top referrers for 2008. Feel free to go check a few of these blogs out. After all, it’s only fair to send them a little traffic back for helping out RWN so much. Also, as a point of comparison — and because I’m a statistics junky — you can see the comparable […]

With a very long and rather painstaking two terms of the Bush Administration nearing its end, it’s nice to hear a few positive words about our country’s president being told. From a perspective that we seldom, if ever, see from the media, columnist Jay D. Homnick offers a few insights into President Bush’s character with […]

They’ve been spared a menace: A boat carrying international peace activists, including former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip sailed back into a Lebanese port on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy, organizers of the trip said. Air strikes are nothing compared to the […]

Unlike apologists for Hamas here in the US, such as the Juicebox Mafia (I can’t help it, that name fits that crew about as well as any I’ve seen) even the Palestinians on the West Bank understand who is at fault for the violence in Gaza right now: In his visit to Egypt, PA President […]

So, is Harry Reid going to condone Democratic corruption by appointing Blago’s man, Roland Burris, or is he going to deny a black man a Senate seat because he’s a racist? It’s, “Why do you want to keep the Senate all white, Harry,” or, “You said you wouldn’t seat a tainted Blago Senate appointee. Why […]

You had to know moonbat totalitarians wouldn’t let the Internet last forever. Britain’s Culture Secretary plans his attack: Andy Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web. He is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language […]

In case there are any doubts about whose side CNN is on in the conflict between Islamic terrorists and Western Civilization, check out this headline: World rallies around Palestinians amid Gaza offensive Former Democrat Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is equally subtle in her sympathies. A boat carrying international peace activists, including […]

Russian Igor Panarin’s theory about the break-up of the United States is being snickered at in the Wall Street Journal. For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse […]

To blame deregulation or Laissez Faire capitalism for the financial woes we have right now is not just getting it wrong, it’s getting it EXACTLY backwards. It was government regulations that forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are quasi-governmental entities, not truly private enterprises, to give home loans to people that couldn’t afford it. […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Fortune: 21 dumbest moments in business 2008 Wizbang: Liberals want to provide multiple safety nets for those who won’t or can’t take risks while treating ambitious, hard-working people as villains. Cracked: The 8 most misguided Sci-Fi versions of 2008 Popoholic: Elle Macpherson […]

Although I have probably been the single harshest critic of Mitch McConnell in the blogosphere, I have to say that for the 2nd time since Obama was elected, he has done the right thing in the clutch. (He also encouraged Senate Republicans to oppose the bailout of the Big 3.) Congressional Republicans on Monday said […]

Just in case you were wondering, I did get Patton a Christmas gift. This year, he got an American Kennel replica of his most hated adversary from the yard — the dreaded squirrel. The dog spent a good portion of the day chewing on ole Squirrely, but so far, the toy is holding up fine.

Never before have I seen an unintentional (?) parody that so perfectly summed up Barack Obama’s “hope and change” campaign, his supporters’ ridiculously high expectations for him, and his media portrayal — as the image on this t-shirt, If you’re so inclined, you can get the shirt here. Hat tip to E.M. Zanotti from The […]

7) The punditocracy goof’s up the Granite State: Because it’s not fair to just pick on the politicians, it’s worth remembering that this campaign season had an enormous number of twists and turns that proved pundits, pollsters, and “political experts” of all stripes wrong again and again. The biggest of these foul-ups was in New […]

British journalist Christopher Booker makes the claim that 2008 is the year “man-made global warming was disproved”. His three reasons are: First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. […] Secondly, 2008 was […]

Only Obamunism could produce soap guaranteed to make you feel dirtier. From the product description: What we’ve all been waiting for — a little hope, and Barack’s the man for the job. We made him purple, because we here at dugshop feel that he’s a true uniter, there are no red or blue states, we’re […]

The Obama phenomenon has been such a success, it has already inspired an imitation. Caroline Kennedy may not have Obama’s ethnic credentials or a name like a terrorist, but she is just as unqualified as the Moonbat Messiah, matches his aura of entitlement, and promises to do to nuclear power what The One wants to […]

If we pause for a minute to think about what we expected a year ago, we realize that we don’t have the ability to predict the future, a point I make in my latest column for Pajamas Media: In light of how things turned out, it is an amusing irony that in late 2007 it […]