Year: 2008

I always love it when one of my favorite conservative cultural advocates is able to articulate a concept precisely as I feel it but thus far have been unable to logically frame into words. Star Parker has done exactly this in her latest article about Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin. When it seems as though […]

The snooty intellectual elite, as represented by Foreign Policy magazine and its readers, has selected the top 20 intellectuals of our time. Here’s the top 10: 1. Fethullah Gülen 2. Muhammad Yunus 3. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi 4. Orhan Pamuk 5. Aitzaz Ahsan 6. Amr Khaled 7. Abdolkarim Soroush 8. Tariq Ramadan 9. Mahmood Mamdani 10. Shirin […]

Regarding the Obamessiah’s overseas media extravaganza, Britain’s left-wing Guardian remarks: Barack Obama has found his people. But, unfortunately for his election prospects, they’re German, not American. Why not? Germans invented socialism, and have spent two generations wallowing in the sort of ethnic guilt Obama is hoping to ride to the White House. But even among […]

After seeing everyone from Joan Rivers to Madonna manage their aging faces, I have come to the conclusion that facial plastic surgery does not work. Well, if your definition of beautiful is a strangely shiny and taught skin and bizarrely jutting cheekbones, it works. Otherwise, it’s just plain freaky. Madonna was never the most beautiful […]

Name another single type of organization that could get away with this sort of political coercion of its membership: The mighty Service Employees International Union (SEIU) plans to spend some $150 million in this year’s election, most of it to get Barack Obama and other Democrats elected. Where’d they get that much money? That’s a […]

One of the features that was added on RWN in the last redesign was a rating system for posts. I’m writing this post because currently, less than 1% of RWN’s readers are actually rating posts. I’d love to see that number go up for 2 reasons: #1) The number of people who rate articles helps […]

David Petraeus, the general responsible for turning Iraq around with the surge, is putting out the word that a timeline is a bad idea, The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn’t buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal. Gen. David Petraeus, the Iraq commander, said in an […]

I just got a fundraising call from the McCain campaign. After the lady gave me her pitch, I told her that I would not give him another dime as long as he supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants (I would have just said amnesty, but then I would have gotten the, “No, no, […]

The comparisons being made between John Edwards and Larry Craig make little sense. Craig was convicted of solicitation, a crime, if a feeble one. Edward’s only crime is a moral one–if you have morals or believe in a moral code, which the Left does not. “Edwards Love Child, Yawn” is about the reaction. The better […]

A few weeks back, NHK, which is a Japanese public television network, got in touch with me and invited me to participate in a panel on nuclear weapons issues in New York. That panel, which featured 15 Americans and 15 people from Hiroshima, Japan discussing nuclear weapons for a few hours happened last week-end and […]

On Friday, I wrote the following about evil, At the RightOnline summit at Austin, we actually discussed the nature of “evil” for a while. While most people think of “evil” as a greasy character, twirling his mustache while planning to hurt the innocent for the sheer joy of it, that’s not an accurate description of […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ace of Spades HQ: My run in with peaceful protesters. Right Wing Nuthouse: The top ten things that creep me out about Obama Hog On Ice: Let white folks tell you what to eat. Los Angeles decides only caucasians are smart enough […]

While mingling amongst the guests, I heard the following: — “Bush is an idiot.” — “Getting shot down in a war zone doesn’t automatically make McCain qualified to be CIC.” — “They shouldn’t have tried to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about an affair. All guys lie about affairs when first confronted about them. Bush […]

I’m not really one for doing reviews, particularly book reviews. Typically, I will dive into a new book before I can even get around to writing a review, but, I have found the new book by Harry Turtledove, The Man With The Iron Heart, rather interesting. Via Amazon What if V-E Day didn’t end World […]

Robert Spencer on Muslims and “hate speech” laws: [T]he unrelenting and unanimous practice among Muslims of labeling any honest discussion of the elements of Islam that jihadists use to teach violence and supremacism as “hate” will bear bitter fruit in this: if it indeed becomes illegal in the U.S. to say something that Muslims deem […]

I keep waiting for that headline and yet it never comes. Nope. The headline is really this and gotta love MSNBC man, don’t say it, guys. Don’t. You. Dare. Say. It: “Chinese group vows Olympic game attacks.” A group, eh? Must be a Christian group! Oh, wait. The subheading says this: “Muslim separatists also claim […]

I‘m sure you heard about 9 soldiers being killed in Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago. As AP reported it, it was a “setback”, the “newly established base” there was ‘abandoned’ by the Americans. That, of course, was the extent of their coverage. Steve Mraz of Stars and Stripes and Jeff Emanuel tell the rest […]

Usually, I start this type of story out with “I bet you think this was found in the Credentialed Media” or “I wonder if the CM will cover this,” or something to that effect, and the story comes from a source such as Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this case, THE main newspaper component of the Credentialed Media, […]

Written by Kender and crossposted from STACLUAs if the ACLU’s hypocrisy regarding the Boy Scouts and religious organizations weren’t enough now we have them stepping up and stating “the evidence you have is old.” In its latest filing before the federal district court in Dallas on behalf of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) […]

A few days ago, Dr. Roy Spencer gave testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer. To say his testimony wasn’t at all what she wanted to hear, would be an understatement. Highlights: Regarding the currently popular theory that mankind is responsible for global warming, I am very pleased […]

A Muslim immigrant named Mustafa Taj approached four teenagers at a subway station in Calgary [Alberta, Canada]. He demanded of them, “who’s Jewish?” When sixteen-year-old Nichola Cordata said “me”, Taj said “I’m Muslim and hate Jews” and slapped her face and pulled her hair. Cordata’s friends tried to help, and they were beaten, and one […]

And what is the cause? The cause, quite simply, is money. Money is the root of all evil. Well, that’s certainly the case in Washington, D.C. where Congress seems to believe that your hands on your money is evil, while their hands on your money is good. The Republicans have one issue that nearly every […]

While in Germany posing as a world leader, addressing the sort of rally not staged there since the 1940s, and soaking up the adoration of people who don’t like this country very much, Obama was scheduled to pay a visit to American troops. But this leg of the trip was abruptly canceled for mysterious reasons. […]

Things aren’t going well for Kwame Kilpatrick, who as mayor of America’s most liberal city could be said to personify the politics of moonbattery: DETROIT — A 36th District Court judge restricted Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s travel and revoked his personal bond today during a bond hearing, one day after the mayor was accused of assaulting […]

I’m just wondering what you think. Is the Obama momentum still building or do you think that there will be a backlash coming soon? It has already started in a way with the “mocking” of his unbearable lightness of being, but I don’t expect the United States press to stop the lovefest. However, will the […]

Buzz, buzz, buzz. You can’t turn anywhere without Obama’s speech in Berlin being discussed. The kool-aid drinkers are orgasmic. The opposition is in spin mode. But what about reaction elsewhere? One of the more interesting articles I found was that by Gerhard Spörl in Speigel Online. In his lede, he pretty well sums it all […]

Senator Jim DeMint is again one of the last defenders of conservatism and common sense in the face of a massive taxpayer bailout of the corrupt Democrat enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: For proof of how powerful they remain, even in their straitened circumstances, look no further than Majority Leader Harry Reid’s refusal even […]

Over at the Smirking Chimp, Ernest Partridge is riffing about evil, In words consistent with what I have read of, and about, Gustav Gilbert, he is portrayed in the 2000 TV film “Nuremberg,” as telling the Head Prosecutor Robert Jackson (Alex Baldwin), “I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mike Gallagher: Moral relativism is killing our country Listverse: 10 more unsolved mysteries of the world FBI: The top ten myths in FBI history Popoholic: Vanessa Hudgens bikini pictures You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. Don’t […]