Year: 2008

One of moonbattery’s most pernicious effects is the way it warps priorities. In Britain, which has all but succumbed to the disease, authorities in the governmedia crack down on white people calling each other “honky“… A white man has been prosecuted for racially abusing three white security guards. Jonathan Wicks was taken to court for […]

If you’ve watched the news, you know about the little “missing” girl from Vermont. Well, her remains were found yesterday on her uncle’s property. Vermont, it turns out, has a wonderful sex offenders rehabilitation program. Daniel Goleman (of Primal Leadership fame) enthuses in the New York Times fifteen years ago: The sex offender treatment program […]

Has the media love affair with Obama ended? While they aren’t taking the harsh shots at him yet, they are quietly starting to take the “hmmm, we’re just wondering” type as of late. Case in point (sorry, long excerpt to start) Last fall, Barack Obama explained why he hadn’t been wearing an American flag pin […]

At some point or another, I bet we have all played the whisper a rumor game. That’s where you start with some sort of legitimate story, whisper it to one person, who repeats it to another, and so on around the circle, till it gets back to you, and you get to marval how much […]

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, the media and punditocracy has focused their attention on the veepstakes. Speculation about Obama’s running mate reveals an enormous deficiency in the Democrats’ standard bearer. Most suggest that Obama needs someone with a military background, such as retired General Wesley Clark […]

We’re right in the middle of a feisty yet dreadfully dull election season — seriously, with patriot Obama and his patriot wife, I feel like I’m watching an endless loop of The Hope for Change Chronicles of Pretend Patriotism, where the story is stale, the acting is painful, and we’re all just commiserating over how […]

A big thank you to John for inviting me to post. Without further adieu, here goes: Love Thy Neighbor, the Farmer Finally! Someone is connecting the dots on how to please both lovers of the free market and lovers of the market. This Motley Fool piece is a great look at Wal-Mart and others who […]

Using planes as bombs worked so well on September 11, Muslim terrorists just might try it again: Private jets could be hijacked and used as “vehicle bombs” to target the public, the Government’s anti-terror chief has warned. Due to current lax security at small airports, such attacks would be “relatively simple” to orchestrate, according to […]

Investor’s Business Daily brings us the latest from probably the worst Majority Leader the Senate has seen in a very long time: The Dr. No of the drill-nothing Congress tried to deflect the issue of rising gas prices Monday by telling Fox Business News that there are costs we should worry about besides those stemming […]

Read Christopher Hitchen’s article and then come back and vote. His conclusion: I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. That being said, that’s not the real question, is it? […]

It looks like there really are two Americas. Blacks have their own country, with its own national anthem, as Denver discovered when René Marie performed the Black National Anthem at an official city event yesterday. At least one councilman was sane enough to object: This is the State of the City address. It’s not an […]

But the way I read it, the impact of speculation is such that any obvious steps we take toward energy independence (drilling, alternate fuels, conservation, efficient vehicles) will affect prices much more quickly than one might expect if supply and demand were the only variables involved. (Yes; I got the schedule mixed up; I thought […]

Ann Althouse wonders where the kids are. Makes me think about the book Where The Wild Things Are. Our neighborhood is full of kids, yet good luck finding evidence of them. Where are they? Swimming–in public pools or in pools in the back yard. Summer camp. There are camps for everything and since playing stick […]

One of the problems with fighting back against the disciples of anthropogenic global warming, and other silliness such as 9/11 Twooferism and Progressivism, is having to respond to them using rationality and facts and figures, which they then dismiss as being created by Big Oil, or whoever and/or whatever the current villain is. Bret Stephens […]

Who’s a big sweety? Who’s a big sweety? Yes you are! Yes you are! Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman’s hat A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman’s hat advertising a Scottish police force’s new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims.   Tayside Police’s new non-emergency phone […]

I don’t know how many times I saw the video in this post while I was in the Navy. It is a very important part of U.S. Naval history. Not once in all those viewings did I ever hear anyone claim that John McCain was responsible for the fire. Now I have. A Free Republic […]

The Washington Post is reporting that along with Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama got a sweeter than normal deal on his mortgage: The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below the average for such loans at […]

As one of the supposed anti-science conservatives liberals are always yammering on about, I was glad when President Bush vetoed the increase in federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. I wrote about adult stem cell success stories, and since June of last year, there have been even more exciting treatments: A middle aged man […]

Two Terror Alerts regarding Iran have come to my attention: 1. Iran announces plans to dig thousands of graves in anticipation of an attack on its soil. Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top […]

Chris Satullo, writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, penned an opus to the “Blame America” groupies: Put the fireworks in storage. Cancel the parade. Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time. This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement. For […]

In the Democrat Corner: DNC Prostest Will Be Behind A Fence: The fence around the public demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention will be chicken wire or chain link, authorities revealed in U.S. District Court today. That may allow protestors to be seen and heard by delegates going in and out of the Pepsi […]

Hello RWN readers, Let me take this time to introduce myself: I’m Skye, blog mistress of MidnightBlue and a contributor at Flopping Aces. I want to take a moment to thank John Hawkins for inviting me to guest post on Right Wing News today. I’ve been a fan of RWN for a number of years, […]

What’s happening in New York City this balmy summer day? The city bustles but there is little building going on ground zero. Prices are sky-rocketing. Government officials are wrangling (imagine that): In a report to New York governor David Paterson, Mr Ward said: “The schedule and cost estimates of the rebuilding effort that have been […]

See, what I meant about the ugly choices? Marrying Rosie O’Donnell can’t last long. It’s the ending that makes it all worthwhile. Cross-posted at Dr. Melissa Clouthier

There is one good reason for BHO to put Shrillary on the ticket. When his administration inevitably comes under fire for corruption and gross incompetence, he can defend himself be screaming about both racism and sexism, like Baltimore’s Mayor Sheila Dixon. Dixon, who has the extreme good fortune to be both black and female, has […]

Why would you be a bad guy in Texas? Everyone owns a gun and people really, really like to use them. Dave from Ace’s blog has been watching this case, as have I. He explains what happened: To recap: Joe Horn, a resident of Pasadena Texas observed two men (illegal aliens as it happens), burglarizing […]

The Heritage Foundation takes a look at what Obama promises for taxes should he be elected and what that means: Obama’s tax plan has two major components. First, he promises to end the Bush tax cuts, allowing the top two tax rates to return to 36% and 39.6%. Second, he promises to end the Social […]

Educational standards in moonbattery-addled Britain aren’t what they once were: A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly. The exam question was “Describe the room you are sitting in.” The student’s answer was “F— off.” “It […]

A while back in Washington, I was approached modestly by a man named Jim Edwards, who asked if he could tell me a little about his organization, NumbersUSA. I soon realized that this was a group I had supported and whose emails I still regularly receive, so I was happy to find out more about […]

To start off, as many of you have already read, Obama threw Wes Clark, if not under the bus, at least into the bumper “As he’s said many times before, Senator Obama honors and respects Senator McCain’s service, and of course he rejects yesterday’s statement by General Clark,” said Obama campaign spokeman Bill Burton. Is this what […]