Year: 2008

In a bombshell development today, John McCain’s vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin announced that she is throwing her support behind Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama. "After learning that Colin Powell, Tina Fey, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, the entire liberal media establishment, Republican Ken Adelman, Louis Farrakhan, Andrew Sullivan, Peggy Noonan, Jeremiah Wright, […]

It sure has been fun today to watch the left embrace their favorite “Uncle Tom” now that he’s seen the “error of his ways” and endorsed Barack Obama. It is interesting to see how various parts of the left have handled it. For instance one nimrod on Craigslist says: No one will be surprised that […]

So, what is one to do when the more expensive Global Warming friendly disposable diapers HURTS the environment more then the old-fashioned reusable? YOU BURY THE STORY, OF COURSE!: A government report that found old-fashioned reusable nappies damage the environment more than disposables has been hushed up because ministers are embarrassed by its findings. The […]

Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury has completed her ad about the connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers: I’m not so sure about the music, but I think she gets the point across. Personally, at the moment I’m more fixated on Obama’s economic shortcomings, but they are both important issues. Via Right Girl. […]

No, not just a Zogby poll (sometimes too optimistic for our side); Reuters and C-Span also participated. I’m hoping that means the methodology was reasonably balanced. The good news: margin of error is 2.9 points on this. So we’re in a dead heat. Of course, I need to go back and check on the Electoral […]

Moonbats oppose all efficient means of generating the energy we need to survive, and nuclear power is no exception. The latest line of attack: nuclear power plants are hurtful to baby fish. Have a hanky ready… For a newly hatched striped bass in the Hudson River, a clutch of trout eggs in Lake Michigan or […]

A new site is being put together by a colleague of Ace of Spades to keep track of reporters who do not fact-check their stories adequately, who display undue bias, or who go after less-newsworthy targets (e.g., Jodi Kantor serving up warmed-over gossip about Cindy McCain as “news”). The project is very likely too late […]

The New York Times reports that the candidates, all of them, have been less than forthcoming about their health histories. The most information shared has come from McCain–the old guy recovering from skin cancer. Most interestingly, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have been the least open. Obama gave a one page letter and Palin has […]

How awful — yet another militant moonbat has fallen victim to a hate crime: A Muslim student attacked at Elmhurst College in what school officials described as a hate crime had found anti-Islamic slurs and a swastika scrawled in her locker a week earlier, police and students said Friday. The 19-year-old sophomore told police a […]

The polls could be wrong. There could be a split between the popular vote and the electoral college vote. Obama Barack could end up losing the election. But let’s say he doesn’t. Given what we’ve seen about a willingness to use the state to enforce opinion from Barack Obama (not that John McCain is blameless)… […]

Have y’all heard about this one? A late-night raid of City Hall and the Main Library here by 60 heavily armed sheriff’s deputies and posse members searching for illegal immigrants has escalated tensions between city officials and the county sheriff, who ordered the raid. The operation took place at 2 a.m. on Thursday, timed to […]

Borganomic politics from The Politico Barack Obama’s stop at Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken in Fayetteville, N.C., this afternoon underscored the continued resistance of some voters to his candidacy — and his identity. The trip, according to a pool report, offered “some powerful and at times ugly interaction.” Resistance? Why do I get flashbacks to […]

That is the question that The New Republic asks, and attempts to answer. After six paragraphs of leadup and discussing John McCain, the writers finally get to their defense of spreading the wealth But let’s get back to this apparently controverisal phrase–which, I gather, is going to remain prominent in McCain’s campaign rhetoric over the […]

Unfortunately, I’m feeling absolutely terrible right now and I’m not going to be able to continue updating RWN today. I’m going to email some of my guest bloggers and ask them to fill in at the last minute. Hopefully, they’ll carry the load. Either way, I should be back in action tomorrow.

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Michael Medved: For Conservatives, Obama’s changes would be permanent and devastating Oddee: 10 people who survived the impossible Dumb Little Man: Can you really redesign your own life? — John_Hawkins I Don’t Like You In That Way: Sarah Michelle Geller lingerie shoot […]

Identity What makes Obama “black?” It’s a question that’s been swirling in my mind for well over a year now. I’ve been putting off writing this, because I’m honestly afraid of what I might say. What will I feel? Will I be another Uncle Tom? Hell, what made President Clinton the “first Black President?” It […]

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, in an open letter to Sen. John McCain concerning why the pursuit of unnecessary AGW remedies will destroy America, included this very interesting paragraph: Britain and the United States, like England and Scotland on the first page of Macaulay’s splendid History of England, are bound to one another by “indissoluble […]

Will Joe Shanks from Knoxville be the next anti-Obama plumber to have his tax records combed with a fine-toothed comb? On second thought, probably not. After all, this Joe the plumber is not in a swing state that matters. Related: The anti-Gov. Palin Anchorage Daily News injects all kinds of insinuations about the original JTP […]

Ross Douthat, via Insty, describes his vision of “the conservative cocoon”: The cocoon is the constellation of mutually-reinforcing conservative institutions – think tanks and advocacy groups, talk-radio shows and websites – that can create the same echo-chamber effect that the liberal media has long produced, and that at times makes it difficult for the Right […]

My girlfriend wanted to go shopping for Halloween costumes on Thursday, during her lunch hour. Now, she works in downtown Sacramento and we live in Folsom, which presents a problem because there’s a good twenty or thirty miles between the two, and Al Gore tells me if I drive my car too much I’ll kill […]

Let the games begin! Breakin’ it down. As always, number in parentheses is margin the team is supposed to win by 1pm games San Fran at Giants (10) Steelers (9.5) at Bengels Titans (9) at Chiefs Vikings at Bears (3) Chargers at Bills (1) Saints at Panthers (3) Cowboys (7.5) at Rams Ravens at Dolphins […]

Yes. Per the Brad Blog, the massive GOP voter fraud to steal the election using electronic touch screens begins. Massive amounts of Democrats have had their votes switched At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines […]

I carpooled to a soccer game today. The driver, who is someone I don’t know very well, is a very charming man who is quite obviously a potential Obama voter. He wasn’t quite sure about me and, since he was a very civil individual, he never came out and either insulted McCain or lauded Obama. […]

The reason the mainstream media have jumped on “Joe the Plumber” is that his question exposes the essential socialism of Obama’s tax policies. I’m Joe the Plumber, too, as is Jimmie from JThe Sundries Shack. There are a lot of us out there, of all creeds and colors, and representing both sexes. There’s more good […]

I just assumed that Obama’s tax plan allowed an actual (if small) $500 to $1000 tax "cut" to most families.  I also assumed, based on Obama’s expansive plans to spend billions upon billions trying to "spread the wealth around," that any Obama tax cut would be short-lived and that the $500 "cut" is just a […]

I was perusing this ABC News article that offers a defense of ACORN, and a lot of things didn’t sit right with me about it. And indeed, an hour or two later I saw that Terry Trippany, CEO chief cook and bottle-washer of our parent site Webloggin and contributing writer to Newsbusters, shredded the hell […]

Watching John McCain struggle to explain why Obama’s relationship with Ayers matters (and why Ayers’ rise from terrorist to model citizen defines the very left liberalism that must be stopped, not rewarded on election day), I realized once more that everyone is still missing the point, and leaving out the most haunting and damning part […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Ali Akbar Bookworm from Bookworm Room Cassy Fiano Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Morgan from House of Eratosthenes Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Sunday ——- Michele Catalano from A Big Victory Ron Coleman from Likelihood of […]

So the Republican party today is “vulgar” according to Peggy Noonan: In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It’s no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism. When […]

Because they’re at least going to exploit what they believe to be available: The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields – more than double the previous estimate. Cubapetroleo’s exploration manager said drilling in the offshore wells would begin as early as the […]