Year: 2008

On this week’s edition of Right Wing News Radio at Blogtalkradio, I talked about the future of the conservative movement, conservatives vs. reformers, Republican leadership races, what will happen when Barack takes charge, Dems vs. Dems, and a few other assorted, sundry topics. Don’t miss it.

Liberals love to claim that conservatives are anti-science, but on manmade global warming, who has been pointing for years to scientific evidence that global warming is a farce while the left has been taken in by silly propaganda flicks about polar bears going extinct because too many people are driving SUVs? In fact, I suspect […]

All the messianic rhetoric and worshipful press coverage of Barack Obama seems to have sunk in because the American people have some extraordinarily high expectations for his first term, Nearly two-thirds of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday said President-elect Obama will change the country for the better. Twenty-five percent said […]

A group called Action First asked me to help publicize their efforts to save Saxby Chambliss’ seat in Georgia. Since they seem to be doing good work and since that seat is in more danger than most people realize, I agreed. Here is an excerpt from their email to me, …We need 200 volunteers to […]

Since the election, the left has alternately gloated, pleaded for conservatives and liberals to pull together to help Barack Obama in the name of unity, or shamelessly carped about “right wing rage.” The gloating is expected and the unity pleas are naive, but let’s talk about “right wing rage.” Among others, the Los Angeles Times […]

Over at National Review, James Gimpel has written a piece called “Center? What Center? The center is never a fixed position to move toward” that I agree with wholeheartedly. In fact, it echoes what I wrote earlier this week in a piece called “GOP Branding.” Here’s an excerpt from Gimpel that’ll give you the gist […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: 7 methods for coping with tragedy courtesy of James Bond Jay Nordlinger: 20 thoughts about Obama’s election Science Daily: Comparing happy and unhappy people. Popoholic: Alessandra Ambrosio swimsuit pics You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. […]

After a second crushing defeat in a row, it’s not surprising that there is a debate in the GOP about whether the party should move to the right or even further towards center. Like many conservatives, I’m of the opinion that we should move back to the right and try to formulate some new ideas […]

Jennifer Rubin is an excellent young conservative writer, but she needs to stop paying attention to David Brooks, a point on which I elaborate at AmSpecBlog: This panic-struck reaction to the debacle of 11/4 is what I sought to forestall in my columns of Nov. 5 and Nov. 12. First, there is the normal tendency […]

More GM bailout news: Momentum is building in Washington for a rescue package for the auto industry to head off a possible bankruptcy filing by General Motors, which is rapidly running low on cash. But not everyone agrees that a Chapter 11 filing by G.M. would be the disaster that many fear. Some experts note […]

Watching GM decline has been part of my family’s legacy. I’m a GM brat and many of my friends had dads who worked the line, were engineers, or somehow supplied the car companies. I’ve written before about watching Michigan die and this hasn’t been a sudden death. Ricky Van Veen shares a conversation he had […]

There is one good thing about the election of the Moonbat Messiah: the era of the misguided RINO John McCain is finally ending: The Republican Party will file federal lawsuits Thursday seeking to overthrow the McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance regulations, Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. “Mike” Duncan revealed Wednesday night at a private dinner […]

One of the big problems we have as a nation is that we’re engaging in a number of unsustainable practices that are politically unpopular to change. Here’s one of them, During the presidential election campaign many were dumbfounded upon hearing for the first time that at least a third of Americans pay no income taxes […]

Detroit is a Petri dish, in which mad scientists have allowed the loathsome bacterium that is liberalism to flourish without restraint. As a result of this misguided experiment, the former capital of industry has been reduced to a Third-World hellhole. The most liberal city in America has bankrupted itself, and now has its hand out: […]

In response to a listener’s question, Ted Nugent reeled off a rant about California and the country on my buddy Jaz McKay’s show that I thought was just classic — but the transcript wasn’t on Jaz’s website. So, I asked Jaz to send me the clip, transcribed it, and here it is. From Ted Nugent’s […]

According to the Enquirer, Cindy McCain has been playing the field with “a long-haired man who resembles ‘a washed-up ’80s rock musician.’” The ENQUIRER’s exclusive bombshell expose as Sen. John McCain’s wife, Cindy, is caught with another man! Not only that but multiple witnesses have caught the pair lip locking on several other occasions. “I […]

Congressional investigations of the current administration is EXACTLY what the electorate wanted when they put Democrats in power in all three branches. I’m so glad the Democrats are in touch with the voters in a way the Republicans just aren’t. The New York Times reports: Topics of open investigations include the harsh interrogation of detainees, […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “Least Favorite People On The Right.” Representatives from the following 46 blogs responded… The Anchoress, AtlanticBlog, Axis of Right, BizzyBlog, Blonde Sagacity, Bookworm Room, Bull Moose Strikes Back, The Chronicles Of […]

“It’s good to finally meet with you,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to President Obama, “and I am happy you didn’t insist on any preconditions. I just want to start these talks by saying there was no Holocaust.” Obama sat there silently. “Furthermore,” Ahmadinejad continued, “I will destroy Israel and dance around its stinking corpse!” Obama said […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: GOP vote declines less than New York Times profit Zomblog: San Franscisco’s World Can’t Wait protest in pics Cracked: The 6 biggest *ssholes in the animal kingdom. Pam Meister: Calls for post-election unity fail the giggle test Project Liberty: What […]

Yeah I know, “nice” – the guy hasn’t even been inaugurated and I’ve already questioned whether he’s a one-term president. But I’ve had a theory that no matter which candidate won the presidential election, he’d be a one-term president. My thinking is that the economic situation would dictate that, not being particularly better in 2012 […]

With the election over, look for a steady stream of unseemly revelations to quietly bubble to the surface of the miasmal swamp known as the Obama campaign — like this one: Hamas held a meeting in the Gaza Strip several months ago with aides to President-elect Barack Obama, but the terror group was asked to […]

Bureauweenies of the Caerphilly council in South Wales have officially declared the word “British” to be offensive: The idea of “British” implies a false sense of unity — many Scots, Welsh and Irish resist being called British and the land denoted by the term contains a wide variety of cultures, languages and religions. Also forbidden […]

Hey, remember when we had to get those bad mortgages off the books of the banks right now or our entire economy would collapse? Remember what they said? “No, you don’t understand, it has to be done right this second! Now, now, now! No time to think! No time to get expert opinions! You’ll make […]

For the record, Democrats: Refuse to build more coal-fired power plants because they spew deadly (that’s a joke folks) carbon dioxide into the atmosphere Refuse to drill in ANWR because its bad for the environment and those poor porcupine caribou Idolize Al Gore because he drives a Prius Key Hummers because the burn so much […]

Today at 1 p.m., live online, California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore will announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat in California currently held by Barbara Boxer. You can see the announcement live here. I spoke to Chuck DeVore earlier this week and found him to be a breath of fresh air, particularly following the recent […]

Have you heard this song, yet? It’s sung by Beyoncé and called “If I Were A Boy”. It’s really a feminist’s lament. [Pretty pictures of the singer in the video–her official video couldn’t be embedded.] Here are some of the lyrics: If I were a boy I could turn off my phone Tell evveryone it’s […]

I wasn’t a fan of Christopher Hitchens before the elections and I’m even less of one now since he voted for Barack Obama, but I do think there is something to what he says here, There is an element of the “wannabe” about all this–something that suggests that, if the clock were to be rolled […]

(Hawkins’s Note: My friend Elizabeth told me she was going on a date last night through a service called Crazyblinddate.com and I invited her to write it up for RWN — and she did. Of course, I also advised her to write her social security number on her arm, so they could identify the body […]

Hi all, you’ve read it here first, but I expanded the article about John McCain not defending Sarah Palin for Pajama’s Media. Well, today in passing, I heard snippets from a John McCain interview where McCain put forth his defense. Finally. It’s too little, too late. He also said something in his half-joking manner that […]