Year: 2008

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Right on the eve of the Republican Convention, Gustav is headed towards the coast and it’s entirely possible that it will land on Tuesday of next week — possibly even in New Orleans. Since the Bush Administration has been unfairly blamed for the incompetence of the locals during Katrina, McCain needs to be ready to […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Joe Biden: Hair we can believe in The Corner: The Obama campaign is raising far less money than they thought they would when they gave up public financing Cracked: The 5 scientific experiments most likely to end the world Reader’s […]

No, I’m not drug-addled and crazy. I want to see what he has to say. “Delaware can get another Senator, but my boys can’t get another father.” Biden’s son is making a strong personal case for his father. Something no one has yet been able to do for Obama, I notice. Applause not as loud […]

If you wondered if I was truly a masochist, my willingness to liveblog Bill Clinton’s DNC speech should remove all doubt. So here I sit. Come back for highlights, ya’ll! 8:03 “Don’t stop believing”. They love him. Why does Hillary look constipated? She really, really doesn’t like her husband. 8:05 The love won’t stop. Look […]

You can’t hate him. He’ll say something embarrassingly stupid, but you can’t hate him. Joe Biden is the guy at the bar, a combination of obtuse know-it-all Cliff Claven and the former high school jock who got by with his winning smile but usually lost the big game. He has great stories about the old […]

The website of the day is Culture11.    

If the media is able to install Obama in the White House, he won’t stop at borrowing Deval Patrick’s speeches; he’s likely to emulate the affirmative action governor’s policies too. This should sound familiar: Patrick was elected as a Harvard-trained Chicago lawyer with little relevant experience, who ran to the left of the more established […]

Day one of the Democratic Convention was fairly lackluster once you got beyond the speeches by Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama. Day 2 was marginally better, but still not very good. First off, I was watching the coverage on CNN and found it bizarre that the Democrats had long periods with nothing happening on the […]

So yesterday, both Cassy Fiano and Rachel Lucas draw attention to an Oprah article where a woman verbally brutalizes her husband in print media for all to see. She points out his foibles in the head-scratching attempt to portray him as all men just naturally are: “moderately bad”. Men are bad. Her husband is bad. […]

“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech. These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only […]

Over at DoublePlusUndead, which is a great blog by the way, they have some fantastic pics from the Denver protests. I’d encourage you to go see them all, but in the interim, here are some of my faves,

It takes more than black skin to get into Harvard Law School. It also helps to have connections. Obama had a valuable one in his friend Khalid Al-Mansour, who prevailed upon civil rights activist Percy Sutton to write the admissions folks a letter of recommendation on Obama’s behalf. Here’s Obama’s old pal Al-Mansour holding forth […]

Let’s see; the McCain campaign is successfully cutting you to pieces with ads portraying you as an inexperienced, yet arrogant novice who’s more of a rock star than a politician. So, what do you do? If you’re Barack Obama, you have Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen open for you, have a Hollywood actress sing the […]

Just when gathered Democrats were about to convince the nation that they live in a miserable place and in miserable conditions, the Census Bureau has to report this: -Income. Median household income rose to $50,233 in 2007 after adjusting for inflation. That’s $665 more than a year earlier but still below the peak of 1999. […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer 3 questions. The following 67 blogs responded, Absinthe & Cookies, The Absurd Report, The Anchoress, Atlas Shrugs, The Baseball Crank, Basil’s Blog, Betsy’s Page, BizzyBlog, Dispatches from Blogblivion, Blonde Sagacity, Bluey Blog, Bookworm Room, Cara Ellison, Cold Fury, Cassy Fiano, Conservative […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cassy Fiano: Hey guys, did you know your wives are dreaming of divorce? Gawker: Protester raises crucial issue at convention Baskin-Robbins picks a side in the 2008 election — and it’s not yours. (A Baskin-Robbins rep wrote me to say that they […]

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.

If you don’t vote for Barack Obama. As commenter Wulf warned us in MichaelW’s disemboweling of Slate author Jacob Weisberg’s similar claim, “we may as well get used to this:” A prominent union leader on Tuesday blamed racism for Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) failure to build a big lead over GOP rival Sen. John McCain. […]

Looks like it’s Kobe Bryant, 1: Cris Collinsworth, 0. The main stream media doesn’t seem to care, but at least plenty of country-loving bloggers are all over this. When I first learned of Kobe Bryant’s words of patriotism about playing for the U.S. Olympic team (who handily won the gold this weekend), I immediately ran […]

Hey folks, because I love you so much and because I’m masochistic, I’m going to liveblog Hillary’s DNC speech. Be here or be square. A pre-speech taste: Dick Morris: “Hillary isn’t trying to outdo Obama. She’s trying to outdo Biden.” Well, that shouldn’t be too much trouble. Ed Rendell says that Obama is the new […]

Writing negative things about Barack Obama, NBC News or abortion, to name just three topics brings the hate–especially against women writers. A blog that I won’t dignify with a link, posted about Amanda Carpenter, Michelle Malkin, Debbie Schlussel and me in daily succession. Not one post attacked ideas but attacked the person, the woman. This […]

“We should be led by Osama bin Laden. I mean, Obama and Biden.” — Charlie Wilson of Charlie Wilson’s War fame (Thanks to Matt Lewis for posting the link.) Cross-posted at KatieFavazza.com.

The Obama machine is going to great lengths to prevent people from seeing this ad: From AP: Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations [from airing] the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign […]

“I openly – no, flamingly – endorse Obama, whether he says he’s for gay marriage or not. . . . I know under Obama, it will only be a matter of time until the country sees the legalization of gay marriage.” — Genre editor Neal Boulton You ever notice that Democrats, like John Kerry and […]

After reviewing the 2007 Senate vote ratings at the nonpartisan National Journal, I’m starting to make sense of Joe Biden as Obama’s VP pick. The Obamessiah has promised to unite the country, despite being the most extreme leftist in the entire Senate. That’s where Biden comes in: Obama could have gone with the second most […]

I DVR’d the Democratic Convention and just finished watching it (It was even worse than most of the Democratic debates, which is really saying something). Here’s a short review of the major events that happened , 1) They started with a pathetic piece that featured Jimmy Carter walking around New Orleans, bemoaning Katrina, which incidentally […]

Something about this story really rubs me the wrong way, A Connecticut youth baseball team with a phenomenal 9-year-old pitcher has been disqualified because its team is too good. The team, Will Power Fitness, has an 8-0 record thanks in large part to pitcher Jericho Scott, the New Haven Register reports. His pitching is so […]

Yesterday, I let RWN’s readers try to come up with the best nicknames for Obama/Biden ticket. Below are my faves. Feel free to vote for the best ones. The best nickname for the Obama/Biden ticket is…Bambi and Thumper.Barack and Ernie.Boo Boo & Yogi.Clean and Jerk.Pinko and the Brain.Smarmy and Smirky.The Blunder Twins.The Skipper and Gilligan.  Free […]

A small group of white power nutjobs apparently came up with some sort of ill conceived, meth inspired plot to kill Barack Obama and happily, were caught and will hopefully be sent to prison for the rest of their lives, CBS4 has learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible […]