Year: 2008

There has been a spate of newspapers going broke or out of business in the last few weeks. The Rocky Mountain News is for sale. So is the Miami Herald. The Tribune, which owns the Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun among others, are trying to stave off bankruptcy. Even the […]

You can only experience the thrill of voting for the first black President one time. From there on out, he’s just another guy in the White House.

We conservatives may be famous for “standing athwart history, yelling stop,” but there are a few traditions that aren’t worth preserving — like caganers. Apparently, in nations with backwards cultures — like France and Spain — these grotesque, pooping figures are supposed to be stuck in the corners of nativity scenes for children to find. […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Silence = acceptance Cracked: The 6 most pointlessly elaborate movie murder plots Jeff Jacoby: Skepticism on climate change Martin Durkin: How foreign aid destroyed Africa Egotastic!: Heidi Montag bikini pics. You can check out all those links and more by […]

Twitter seems to be reaching a tipping point on the right. More people seem to be getting on board every day, including big name peeps like Michelle Malkin. Of course, Twitter isn’t for everyone. Most updates are daily activities, post promos, or bits of conventional wisdom that you can fit in 140 characters or less. […]

Scared Monkeys has an awesome tribute to the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. It’s a day that, like 9-11, we should never forget – even though unfortunately all too many have. Randy Barnett, in Oahu, HI this week, has more thoughts. God bless our veterans, and for those who passed on that day and for those […]

SPF-30? Check. Towel? Check. Sunglasses? Check? M-16? Check. Everything a girl needs for a day in the sun at Camp Victory, Baghdad. Meanwhile, if you want to view two completely unhinged DU threads (9 on a scale of 10), we have: Steve_DeShazer: I’ll hate this rotten bastard as long as I live. I’ll teach my […]

It appears Mr. Obama’s New New Deal economic recovery plan involves a lot of handyman work. 3 points of his 5 point plan involve, well, fixing things. –ENERGY: “[W]e will launch a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Our government now pays the highest energy bill in the world. We need to change […]

It’s a brave new world, and their favorite son is not even in office yet: Workers who got three days’ notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won’t go home without assurances they’ll get severance and vacation pay. About 250 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and […]

then, like the Tin Man, you have no heart Full story here. Via Hot Air.

We won’t have William Jefferson (D-LA) to kick around anymore Nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, who has been battling scandals and a federal indictment for the past three years, lost his bid for re-election on Saturday. Holy cow, CNN actually mentioned Cold Cash is a democrat. That musta hurt! Republican challenger Anh “Joseph” Cao, an […]

The New York Times grants Bill Ayers 845 words on its op-ed page to defend himself. In the 11th paragraph, he twice uses the word “regrets,” but if you think he’s going to apologize or repent, think again: I have regrets, of course — including mistakes of excess and failures of imagination, posturing and posing, […]

And so do we! Doesn’t everyone? Anyway, we love Rush too! Here he is in Barbara Walters’s 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008 which I actually watched part of. Hat tip: Hot Air Crossposted from Stop the ACLU

Gerard opines. The real disaster for the Liberal/Left in the last 8-years was not that George Bush was religious, but that Bush’s religion was not the Liberal/Left’s approved religion; the Religion of the Self. They now have their new apotheosis in Obama, a man whose professed faith is plain to see — through. There does […]

It’s a consequence, in my view, of that famous John Kerry gray-world nuanced thinking: Lorraine Henderson, the Boston area port director for the Customs and Border Protection Division of the US Department of Homeland Security, was arrested at her home shortly before 8 a.m. after an eight-month undercover investigation during which a cleaner wore a […]

This is exactly the question that’s been on my mind… Why Is the Left So Threated By My Poll? By John Ziegler Writer/Director/Producer, “Blocking the Path to 9/11″ It has been quite a strange couple of weeks since I decided to commission a Zogby poll of Obama voters. I chose to do this at great […]

St. Wendeler has taken to throwing around the Ayn Rand phrase Aristocracy of Pull. His explanation of the meaning of the phrase means a great deal more to me than whatever’s in the book, which frankly didn’t make much of an impression and probably didn’t convey the idea that was intended. Perhaps, if I started […]

A harvest festival… in December?! Africa was traditionally… Marxist?! Regular RWN readers are the types who know the sordid truth about this pathetic, racist hoax holiday already, but if you have a hopelessly brainwashed leftist friend (or ten), ruin their holidays by setting them straight. Especially good to send to your kids teachers! PS: Have […]

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

So what’s happening in the great bailout scam? I mean, looking at what’s going on, I simply don’t know what else to call it. Does anyone understand the plan (to include those supposedly executing it)? Where is the money going, what are the controls on its disbursement and use, who is really in charge of […]

Believe it or not, flaky liberal conspiracy theorist “Excitable” Andy Sullivan is STILL trying to convince people that Sarah Palin faked a pregancy and that Trig is really her daughter’s son. His latest “evidence?” This picture from March of this year, That’s barely three weeks before she gave birth to Trig, a full-term, 6 pound […]

Incoming Obama administration director of speechwriting Jon Favreau (L) and a friend pose with a cardboard cutout of incoming Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a party. (Obtained by The Washington Post) This is from a story at the Washington Post. PS: Cue the feminist blogs howling about how men only view women as […]

Recently a Republican strategist, Michael Leahy made a Blog that includes the top Conservatives on Twitter. For once in my nerd life, I’m on the list. The people on this list range from strategists, to Republican national chairmen wannabes, and to bloggers like me. Why is this list important? Well, Twitter is just one new […]

On Fox and Friends, a hate filled atheist, Dan Barker from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, went on a vicious tirade against nativity scenes. Here’s the video, Here’s a quick transcript, emphasis mine, and each segment broken up into a different section, We atheists and agnostics love this time of year. The food, the family, […]

Burger King has launched a “Whopper Virgins” campaign, which involves traveling to remote parts of the world like Greenland and rural Romania and presenting people with free Whoppers and Big Macs to see which they like better. Moonbats are incensed at such capitalist exploitation: “It’s outrageous,” Sharon Akabas of the Institute of Human Nutrition at […]

Still not afraid of harmless “greenhouse gases”? Let’s try this: Greenhouse gases worsen ocean noise by raising acidity levels and causing sound to travel farther, making it ever harder for marine mammals to communicate, UN and wildlife experts said today. Other bad things that force whales to raise their voices include “shipping, oil and gas […]

Although Susan Estrich is very liberal, she’s not afraid to buck the accepted conventional wisdom on the left when she disagrees with it. That’s what makes her an intriguing columnist and political commentator — well, for a liberal anyway. But, many people forget that she was also Michael Dukakis’ campaign manager. In today’s column about […]

Hi all! I know you can’t watch videos at work and I know this video is long. Still, you need to watch this. And for my liberal friends, please watch this too. “The modern liberal has opted to become undiscriminate.” “They reject rational thought as a hate crime.” “They are incapable of rationally criticizing their […]

A very appropriate tagline applied to an old pic that fits in well with my Townhall column today, Image found at Free Republic.