Year: 2008

State government may have to make temporary spending cuts, but when it gets itself into deficit trouble from overspending, it turns to the one source of revenue it has – state taxpayers (unlike the Fed, states can’t just print money). And it also comes up with some innovative ways to both raise money and push […]

When they helped the poor, abused, underpaid, overworked masses, unions made sense. Child laborers, sweat shops, and indentured servitude were just plain wrong. We are soooo far from those days it’s not even funny. Mexico, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, all have to worry about worker exploitation. Other countries like Zimbabwe should just make […]

Dr. Helen answers a question from a librarian/teacher about goose-stepping 4th graders and how to help kids get properly educated about such things as capitalism versus socialism. In our kids’ school, the Third Grade project is starting a business, paying more rent for better space (the front classrooms), choosing partners, making a product or service […]

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Soros, George Soros’ son, made the following argument — such as it is — for supporting the popular vote over the electoral college, In his election-night victory speech, Barack Obama said he would be a president for all Americans, not just those who voted for him. But as […]

When I headed over to one of my favorite conservative websites, Lucianne, I received a warning in my browser, Since I know Lucianne isn’t some sort of warez/hacker site, I clicked through anyway and here’s what they had to say, Please, please, please, stop, stop, stop! We know some of you are getting a Google […]

“How hitler’s holocaust is like america’s civil right movement?” This oddball Dogpile search produced an errant hit on RWN for this article.

Because their allies in Michigan state government and Congress have given them every legal advantage, members of the UAW have been able to get paid far more than their skills were worth on the free market for decades. In one sense, it’s hard to fault them for that. After all, most people try to get […]

That’s the tag the Weekly Standard‘s John McCormack hangs on colleague Matt Continetti, who writes for NPR: Obama is popular, and his agenda is, too. A recent poll found that 60 percent of respondents support Obama’s plans for massive infrastructure spending. Voters may be split on whether or not to bail out the Big Three […]

Over half a million people in the Northeast were still without power yesterday, having been hit by global warming in the form of a vicious ice storm. Elsewhere, 13 inches of snow fell in North Dakota. We’re not even halfway into December. Do you think the conspicuously cooling climate will cause the moonbat establishment to […]

The disease infesting Hollyweird has progressed beyond mere hatred of America. Under the banner of environmentalism, Tinseltown has been marketing an increasingly open hatred of the entire human race — as exemplified by a tedious remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which Keanu Reeves comes from outer space to tell us that […]

Here’s what I am thinking is really going on…. Rod Blagojevich was peddling Obama’s Senate seat and trying to get paid. He discussed it with Rahm Emanuel, who then went back and talked it over with Obama. That makes perfect sense, right? Obama was obviously interested in who was going to fill his seat and […]

Do you support using TARP funds to give the Big 3 a 15 billion dollar bridge loan?YesNo  Free polls from Pollhost.com Would you support giving the Big 3 a 100 billion dollar plus loan next year?YesNo  Free polls from Pollhost.com

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Business & Media Institute: The media’s top 10 worst economic myths of 2008 Cracked: The 6 deadliest creatures that can fit in your shoe Power Line: It looks like the fix may be in to cheat Norm Coleman out of a Senate […]

Earlier this week, I had someone message me on Twitter and tell me they bought every book I gave an “A” rating to in the “The Last 125 Books I’ve Read” post. That was very flattering, but my guess is that most people can’t afford to buy that many books. So, I thought I’d recommend […]

It’s interesting how feminism works. Anything that offends them is grounds for SEXISM!!!, even if no one before has ever seen it that way. Who cares? A feminist says it’s SEXIST!!!, so therefore, it must be so. The newest example of SEXISM!!! we must all be on the lookout for? Holding enlightened, feminist women to […]

Only in the liberal MSM, and particularly the New York Times, can they have debates on what to call terrorists and whether they are actually terrorists WHEN 10 young men in an inflatable lifeboat came ashore in Mumbai last month and went on a rampage with machine guns and grenades, taking hostages, setting fires and […]

Pajamas Media columnist M.P. MacConnell writes, regarding the “How the Netroots Brought Down Obama’s Spymaster.” (Via Glenn.) Get this: Regardless of political affiliation, the “Netroots” (a term used to describe those whose political activism is primarily manifested online) are a mob, and as is normally the case in mob attacks, there are ringleaders. In this […]

It would be best if New Jersey, where I live, had taxation, social and economic policies that encouraged economic growth instead of discouraging it, but it doesn’t. And it is ironic that those most vulnerable to bad economic policy routinely vote into office the people most responsible for the policies that contribute to their misery […]

Welcome back Johnny Mac!! Oh, how I missed the “Maverick”, not the one we saw running for President, that was a phony. I’m talking about the one who is adored by the MSM, and loved by Democrats, the one that rips Republicans and defends the opposition: John McCain sideswiped the Republican National Committee on Sunday […]

You’ve already seen this story many times…as We, Anthem, 1984, Brave New World, THX-1138, Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, that weird Apple Macintosh commercial, etc. etc. etc…. …Chris Muir scribbled down his vision of it two weekends ago. It’s a vision worth repeating over and over, because it’s where we’re headed. All liberals agree we should […]

The Reuters reports on the last visit the President has made to Iraq before his second term ends (via Memeorandum): BAGHDAD (Reuters) – President George W. Bush made an unannounced farewell visit to Baghdad on Sunday, just weeks before he leaves office and bequeaths the unpopular Iraq war to President-elect Barack Obama. Bush flew secretly […]

A suspicious fire that severely damaged the Church in Alaska that Sarah Palin and her family attend is being labeled as arson and is being investigated as such. There is speculation that the fire was some kind of vengeful act against Governor Palin, who apologized to pastors in case the cause “in any way connected […]

Couldn’t resist snagging that headline from FARK The Indian navy captured 23 pirates who threatened a merchant vessel Saturday in the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden, where dozens of ships have come under attack by gunmen in recent months. The pirates were from Somalia and Yemen, two countries on the coast of the […]

Will this be the new meme to push governments to deal with AGW? Climate Change ‘hits poor hardest’ Sir David Attenborough and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have called on world leaders to do more to protect the poor from the devastating effects of climate change. The two were among 19 signatories of a letter to The Times […]

L’Audace! Le Outrage! The Editorial Staff have never been a huge fan of Patrick Fitzgerald. During the L’Affair Plame years the intrepid special prosecutor kept us all glued to our seats with inflammatory rhetoric about the need to investigate a non-crime whose perpetrator was known from the outset. Such conduct rightly outraged conservatives; however, media […]

(The great Robert Spencer took time out from his incredibly busy life to talk to me via email about his new book Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs) Is Islam itself the problem? Obviously “the problem” is rooted within Islamic texts and teachings that mandate warfare against and the […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– 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 Cassandra from Villainous Company Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William […]

“In a just, capitalistic world, Barney Frank would be living on the streets covered in his own excrement, but instead he gets to screw up business after business with no accountability because apparently he lives in a district where the citizens are constantly being outsmarted by squirrels.” — Frank J.

How obnoxious is it that the unions are coming to Congress, hat in hand, saying that the “Big 3” can’t even survive another month without billions of dollars in taxpayer funds — even as they balk at the idea of lowering their wages and benefits enough in 2009 so that the car companies have a […]

As predicted, George Bush is letting it be known that he is planning to use TARP funds to prop up the “Big 3” despite the fact that it’s clearly illegal. Also, given that there are 350 billion dollars worth of TARP funds remaining, Bush is setting a precedent that will be used to turn the […]