Year: 2008

On September 11, 2001, the New York Times ran a piece on unrepentant and unpunished communist terrorist Bill Ayers, the guy who launched Barack Obama’s political career from his living room. Ayers crowed that he wished he had done more in the way of setting off bombs in public buildings. More recently, the Gray Lady […]

Seattle moonbattery can be hazardous to your health, especially if you’re trying to drive through all this global warming. The moonbats running the city won’t use salt to keep its streets from turning into skating rinks, for fear it might end up in Puget Sound: To hear the city’s spin, Seattle’s road crews are making […]

Five Pieces of Liberal “Wisdom” That Need to Be Put Out to Pasture Why Liberals Lie About What They Believe 10 Of The Greatest Pieces Of Conservative Wisdom 10 More of the Greatest Pieces of Conservative Wisdom Why I Am A Conservative What Conservatism Can Do For America’s Middle Class 10 Differences between Conservatives And […]

Answering 20 Frequently Asked Questions About Conservatism Making The Case For A Federal Marriage Amendment Your Guide To The Liberal View Of Foreign Policy & Defending America How I Became A Conservative Star Trek’s Prime Directive And Conservatism Quotes From The American Revolution The Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell’s ‘The Vision Of The Anointed’ What […]

Since John has some special things lined up for Wednesday and Christmas, I just wanted to take the opportunity to wish everyone here at Right Wing News, all the commenters, regardless of political leaning, all the other authors, and, of course, our host, John Hawkins, a very Merry Christmas. In the spirit of the season, […]

When you live by identity politics, you are likely to suffer because of them. And that’s especially true when you throw nebulous terms like “change” around and allow others to project their meaning of the word back on you. That’s admittedly what Obama did during the campaign. And he’s seeing what I’d call the expected, […]

Here is my favorite prediction for 2009: the New York Times, the appallingly irresponsible flagship publication of the liberal elite establishment, which lays down the marching orders for the propagandists of the alphabet networks, may finally roll over and die next year: The New York Times (NYT) has to repay $400 million in debt in […]

Not even Santa Claus can stand above the rising tide of enviromoonbattery that has been swamping every nook and cranny of our culture. The Culture and Media Institute reports on the new children’s book Santa Goes Green: “You see, it’s like this Santa,” the book reads. “I’ve adopted a polar bear named Leopold. He is […]

Looking at the two highly visible Senate appointments of New York (Hillary’s seat) and Chicago (Obama’s seat), illustrates how the Democrat machine works. If Democrats could pick and choose their winning candidate without benefit of the people’s vote, this is what we would get. Caroline Kennedy or Andrew Cuomo for New York. Do the names […]

Anyone surprised? And with the holiday that dare not speak its name almost upon us, nowhere is that phenomenon more noticeable, or more indefensible, than in the advertising sales circulars of the national retail chains that come by the dozen in newspapers, especially on Sundays. A review of those sales brochures from the day after […]

I’d ask someone to correct me if I’m wrong, but, last time I checked, Obama won the General Election. Didn’t he? And he now has that pretty change.gov travesty active. So why in the hell is his campaign website still active? And we still get wacky things like this Would we be better off now […]

A HuffPoster’s screed blaming Sarah Palin for an alleged “brewing cauldron of racist anger” inspired my latest American Spectator column: The tactic of blaming Palin for “racist anger” toward Obama developed as a theme during the fall campaign, evidently based on post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking within Team Obama. Threats against Obama increased as […]

In his profile of Paul Weyrich for the DC Examiner, Lee Edwards writes: He was born on October 7, 1942, in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of working-class German Catholics. His father tended the boilers of St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital for 50 years. He was politically active from an early age: at 19, he and his […]

Glenn Reynolds links to James Surowiecki in the New Yorker, who asks, “Are Newspapers Doomed?“ “There’s no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has dried up. In the third quarter alone, it dropped eighteen per cent, or almost two billion dollars, from last year.” He also suggests something that I’ve […]

I’m aware that, as of the time this post is going up, the comments aren’t working. Judging by the error, I’m guessing that it has something to do with the new version of RWN that is being put into place for mobile users (That’s something mobile users have wanted for quite a while). I’ve alerted […]

The jihadists who were plotting to kill members of our military at Fort Dix have been found guilty, guilty, guilty. A jury has found five men guilty of conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said Monday. The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but […]

It’s hard to care about the election currently being stolen in Minnesota. It’s holiday-time and you’re baking (or eating) cookies, traveling to see family and generally taking part in the spirit (or spirits) of the season. I don’t blame you, I don’t. I want to leave the 2008 election behind and look toward the future […]

In his 2001 book, The CEO of the Sofa, P.J. O’Rourke wrote: The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take 100 of its most prominent numskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm. But of course, with every new bailout, the […]

AP gets the prize for the weekend’s most Orwellian lede: President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. Holdren appears to be a militant leftist first, […]

Humanity’s sins against Gaia didn’t start with SUVs, or even the invention of the steam engine. We began to cause global warming by indulging in agriculture thousands of years ago: [G]athering physical evidence, backed by powerful simulations on the world’s most advanced computer climate models, is reshaping that view and lending strong support to the […]

Via Rick, we learn of Nicholas Kristoff’s latest column, which isn’t news at all…the findings have been found, many times before. And for reasons I shall explain later, it will continue to be this way. Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet […]

Make mine a decaf, please: ‘Watermelon Roll’: More Racism from ‘Team Sarah’ There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days–a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama as he and his family get ready to move into the White House. It’s a mean-spirited bigotry that is […]

Um, OK, sure, whatever you say The odds of a “white Christmas” in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said. Did you ever notice (I’m typing in Jerry Seinfeld) that Climahysterics love to throw […]

I knew years ago, after fighting in the pro-life movement for unborn children, that one day we would legalize euthanasia. It was only a matter of time. Once a society has decided that certain life has value and certain life does not, then we slide down that slippery slope of determining who should die and […]

I’d like to share a few things I’ve been noticing, and ruminate over a few questions I’ve been having, about humility. Humility 1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one’s own worth; a sense of one’s own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; […]

This is actually one of the last areas I would have expected to see this kind of story, the Deep South, but, here we go After asking the state Board of Ethics last month whether library staff can accept inexpensive and homemade Christmas gifts from grateful patrons, St. Tammany Parish library officials last week received […]

This week, John Hawkins and Melissa Clothier are going to be on vacation. Taking their place will be an exceptional crew of guest bloggers. Karol Sheinin from Alarming News Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs Cassy Fiano Ed Driscoll Morgan Freeberg from House of Eratosthenes Will Teach from Pirate’s Cove RightwingSparkle Cassandra from Villainous Company Over […]

This is probably a misinterpretation of events, so take it with a grain of salt: Numerous neocons told me that a vicious purge is being carried out at [the American Enterprise Institute], spearheaded by vice-president for foreign and defense policy studies, Danielle Pletka. There can be no doubting that change is afoot at AEI. Recently, […]

Joe Gandelman provides a highly selective “history” to justify the sentence I’ve emphasized in bold: Democrat Bill Clinton had his big share of professional Clinton haters (both prominent and not so prominent would say things such as “He’s not MY President…”) and Democrats decried it and some Republicans defended it. Then came Republican George Bush […]

It isn’t important when the Dems nominate Barack Obama for the Presidential Election. Then it is important when McCain picks Palin as his running mate. Then it isn’t again, when the Democrats vote Obama into the newly minted “Office of the President-Elect” (I added a hyphen; I could not help it). Then it isn’t again, […]