Year: 2009

And Then The Climate Alarmists Came After My Soft Toilet Paper

Posted on by William Teach

The drum beat against toilet paper is continuing, this time by those oh so responsible and respectable folks at Greenpeace, who are know for their rational actions The issue over tissue in the bathroom – the really super-soft stuff – is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by many Americans. Anti-green, according […]

 

Right Wing News 2012 Political Poll Results And Analysis

Posted on by John Hawkins

Yesterday, I polled RWN’s readers on the following question: If the 2012 Republican primary were today, which of these candidates would you vote for? The results were a surprise, not because of who came in first, but because of the huge margin and how weak the rest of the field turned out to be in […]

 

Why Copenhagen Is A Waste Of Time Even For Global Warming Alarmists

Posted on by John Hawkins

For the length of this post, let’s set aside the fact that not only is there no manmade global warming going on, there’s no global warming at all occurring right now. Let’s say that I’m a global warming alarmist who’s absolutely convinced that manmade greenhouse gasses are going to super heat the earth and kill […]

 

The 50 Best Quotes From Self-Help Guru Jim Rohn

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last week-end, self-help guru Jim Rohn passed away from pulmonary fibrosis. Rohn was a giant who spent decades helping people improve their lives and after getting a request from RWN reader Eric Neill, I decided to put together a “best-of” list of Rohn’s quotes. Enjoy! Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. If […]

 

WH Job Summit Results: Spend More Borrowed Money

Posted on by McQ

How did I know that would be the inevitable outcome? President Obama will propose using $200 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to support creating jobs, White House officials confirmed Monday. The president, in an economic speech before the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, will argue that the money would be well spent by […]

 

ClimateGate and the UN: New Red Scare over Green Lies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Believe it or not, the UN just whined that climategate is the Russian’s fault. It appears that the United Nation’s position is that the obvious cover-up of the false doctrine that is global warming perpetrated by global warming “scientists” is not the fault of the lying scientists, but that of the assumed “paid” Russian hacker […]

 

Gay Santa

Posted on by Dave Blount

Is nothing sacred to the militant moonbats bent on corrupting every aspect of our society? The answer: that’s right, nothing. So who knew? Santa Claus is a ho-ho homosexual. When the story goes public, it rocks the world. Well, at least in writer-performer Jeffrey Solomon’s “Santa Claus Is Coming Out,” his newest one-man show exploring […]

 

Government Admits: Social Security Is Unsustainable Ponzi Scheme

Posted on by Dave Blount

Bill Frezza discovered that our rulers have abandoned the pretense that Social Security is anything but an unsustainable Ponzi scheme when his 26-year-old son received a startling admission from Big Government in the mail: The two-page pamphlet entitled “What young workers should know about Social Security and saving” reminds us that 50 million, or one […]

 

A Liberal Lawyer Asks: Is It Okay For Me To Discriminate Against Conservatives?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Sigh. That was the question posed in yesterday’s popular Ethicist column, in the New York Times. Here’s the question that a reader posed to columnist Randy Cohen: While interviewing law students for jobs as paid summer interns and full-time associates for my firm, I noticed several had résumés listing their activities in the Federalist Society. […]

 

How The Left Went Wrong By Not Getting It Right About Sarah Palin

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Sarah Palin turns out to not be the mindless, soulless creature the left painted her to be during the 2008 election season. The liberal press, the leftist bloggers, and the activists who hate Sarah Palin succeeded in turning Sarah Palin into a cartoon during the election cycle and many people were inclined to believe them. […]

 

Bible Story At Christmas Celebration Cut Because Of One Complaint

Posted on by William Teach

I really don’t think we have to guess the Party affiliation, do we? MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) — It has been a part of Maryville’s holiday traditions for nearly a quarter of a century, but Monday night the Bible was removed from their Christmas celebration. One complaint changed the local ceremony, with the long-time argument of […]

 

Moonbat Throws Tomatoes At Sarah Palin, Hits Cop Instead

Posted on by William Teach

Notice that liberals always say they are the peaceful ones, the adult ones, the smart ones, yet, whenever a story likes this comes up, you know they are a Democrat voter A man was arrested for throwing tomatoes at Sarah Palin during her book signing on Monday at the Mall of America. Jeremy Olson, 33, […]

 

Podcast: Ali Akbar Talks Political Strategies From Texans To Palin

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Health care debating, governor to president making and Sarah Palin hating all get discussed in this fast hour. You can find Ali Akbar here. Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn’t on the radio, you can find her at melissaclouthier.com and on Twitter. Her username is MelissaTweets.

 

Al Gore Inspires Me To Write Poetry

Posted on by John Hawkins

Apparently, Al Gore has branched out from inventing the internet and making millions selling carbon credits to morons, to writing poetry. Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, poet, and human tree. Is there anything Al Gore can’t do? Via Weasel Zippers, here’s Al Gore’s precious little poem: One thin September soon A floating continent disappears […]

 

Four Colossal Holes in the Theory of Man-Made Global Warming

Posted on by John Hawkins

Repeating the words “scientific consensus” over and over and telling sad stories about polar bears does not qualify as “science.” So, why is it that the people who insist that Man-made global warming is based on science, not politics, always get shaky and defensive when people want to actually talk about the reasoning behind it? […]

 

Why Aren’t Businesses Hiring? EPA For One Reason …

Posted on by McQ

As regular readers know, we’ve been talking about why businesses are sitting on the sidelines and not hiring at the moment. Businesses don’t like unsettled questions about the arena in which they must operate. Health care legislation will effect the cost of doing business. Until that is settled, there’s little incentive to take a chance […]

 

Cap and Trade Will Make Oil for Food Look Like Chump Change

Posted on by Duane Lester

I hate to break this to you, but the whole goal of the cap and trade plan isn’t to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide. It’s to level the economic playing field. Not my words, by the way. Those are the words of former French President Jacques Chirac. EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem said the […]

 

Important Climate & Energy Policy Discussion Last Week

Posted on by Lee Doren

The American Petroleum institute has outlined important public policy considerations in light of Congress hinting at a shift in energy legislation. First, API’s Jack Gerard and Rep. Ed Markey had a good conversation at the API/Newsweek panel discussion on Tuesday evening. Here’s a link to the transcript from the event. Second, API’s President Jack Gerard […]

 

Max Baucus Uses His Position To Take Care Of His Girlfriend: Will The Left Remain Silent?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Just substitute, say, Senator Coburn [I picked Coburn because he has been a strong voice on health care] for Senator Baucus: In nominating his girlfriend for the job of U.S. attorney, Montana Sen. Max Baucus didn’t disclose the relationship to the White House, Montana’s other senator or a local attorney tapped to review potential candidates, […]

 

Climategate: Global Warming & Ridiculing The Ridiculous

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

How seriously is Copenhagen going to be when no one believes that global warming is really happening? Not too seriously. Iowahawk captures the spirit: Narrator This is the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, home of one of the largest nesting populations of climate scientists in Europe. Gentle ant’s-eye scene of idyllic campus […]

 

Safe Schools Pervert Still on the Job for Obama

Posted on by Dave Blount

Shockingly, Obama’s “Safe School Czar” — the militant pervert Kevin Jennings — is still on the job, thanks to the liberal establishment media studiously ignoring revelations into the depravity he has used his opulently remunerative position at the head of GLSEN to inflict on children. Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for […]