Year: 2009

Have you read up on Iceland’s implosion? The whole nation, roughly 300,000 highly educated, inter-related people who still believe in elves, plunged into economic chaos by the same means as Wall Street. I have read, and tried to understand, what happened in Iceland. It is such a spectacular flame out of such an interesting little […]

So David Broder pronounces the “Obama honeymoon over”: I think the shift began when Obama moved beyond the stimulus bill to his speech to the joint session of Congress and his budget message. For the first time, the full extent of his ambitions for 2009 became clear — not just stopping and reversing the steep […]

Ten days ago, I did a review of Watchmen: The Graphic Novel — and in it, I intoned, All that said, the Watchmen does not strike me as a graphic novel that will translate particularly well to film — even with 300‘s Zack Snyder directing. It’s just too disjointed and has too many weak plot […]

Last week, I mocked the DNC for the incredibly lame Rush Limbaugh billboard that their contest produced. Moreover, I thought that RWN’s readers could play the Democrats’ game and do it better. The Dems had 80,000 suggestions and here’s the best anti-Rush they could come up with. On the other hand, RWN’s readers only had […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Welcome, kids, to the brokest generation Flickr: A resignation letter on a cake. Five Fingers of Fury: The difference between between GOP and Dem dudes in a picture Time: Detroit’s beautiful, horrible decline in pictures Egotastic!: Eva Herzigova bikini pictures […]

What exactly do you have to do get put into jail for being a bona fide sex offender in Washington State? When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn’t come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer. . . […]

Via Glenn Reynolds, it appears that someone is questioning the crammed-down concept of “Obama the intellectual.” Indeed, that’s one of the themes of the last couple of days, as his Harvard Law Review “experience” is being questioned as well. Only I already asked that question in a post called, well, “Obama the Intellectual?” In June. […]

The NY Post’s Kyle Smith has a hilarious piece caricaturing the media’s favorite “conservatives” … essentially “conservatives” who don’t like authentic conservatives. A snippet: Dear Mainstream Media: I’m a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin. So can I please […]

(click here to view) John TreverAlbuquerque JournalMar 15, 2009 EditorialCartoonists.com

You know things are not going well with Obama’s talking points (this wasn’t really a promise, just a complaint and position by That One) when even the New York Times is calling him on it, albeit softly: Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some […]

“What has talk radio done for us lately?” That’s the title of Andrew Pavelyev’s new article at David Frum’s NewMajority.com. Since Frum has been making a new career out of critcizing Rush Limbaugh – complete with a widely discussed Newsweek cover story —  you can guess the thesis of Pavelyev’s wonkish article: “While not actually […]

A rather abundant number of years ago, I became aware of a whole subculture of humanity that I suspect exists within all societies that get things done. I shall call it, until such time as a better phrasing comes along, the “All Those Not Volunteering Take One Step Back” culture. A task arises, executive in […]

This is a tiny tempest metaphorical of a much greater thing, that which is being batted back-and-forth, from sea to shining sea, right now. Rush Limbaugh on President Obama’s plan to re-make the United States into a dirty little European-style socialist mud-puddle enclave: What is so strange about being honest in saying I want Barack […]

I am still trying to decide what I think about this situation: A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children’s parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills. Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home […]

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 B. Daniel Blatt from GayPatriot Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Cassandra from Villainous Company Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood […]

Baldwin Park democrat, speaking for probably several others: President Obama did not come down from on high. He is not a miracle worker. He can not wave a magic wand and make things miraculously happen. He is a mortal. A human being. Nothing more and nothing less. President Obama and his Administration hit the ground […]

Megan McArdle: Our sister publication asks analysts whether the administration’s economic forecasts are too optimistic. They would have gotten a more interesting discussion if their query had been “Is the Pope Catholic?” Of course they’re too optimistic. In fact, the word optimistic is too optimistic. A better choice might have been “insane”. Like Greg Mankiw, […]

Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, said this the other day about the possible effects of all of the spending the Obama administration was doing and planning: “What you’re doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don’t have, send it to different states — we’ll […]

Maxine Waters scandal….Democrats sure are rich! Know Thine Enemy: Socialists Beheadings are so silly! This just in: The World Is NOT In Fact Ending At This Present Moment. All Crisis Talk Was Just For My Own Amusement….Oh, And It Was Politically Useful. And It Was Fun! Enforcing the Country of Birth Proof clause…a new bill. […]

…there’s no place to go but down. Looks like President Obama is coming into the land of mere mortals, not that the press would portray him that way: A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the […]

I probably should have stuck this graphic from RWN reader DrucilaB in The Democrats’ Rush Billboard Fail post (We’re almost at 100 suggestions for the Obama billboard contest for Monday and there is still time to add yours), but this was good enough that it deserved its own post. Lol, awesome!

First KGB alumnus and current Russian strongman Vladimir Putin warned us not to commit economic suicide by going off the rails into socialism, now it’s the nominally still communist Chinese: China’s premier didn’t say it in so many words, but the implied warning to Washington was blunt: Don’t devalue the dollar through reckless spending. Premier […]

Tax and spend liberals have been driving anyone interested in producing wealth out of California, leaving the state on the brink of bankruptcy. Chairman Zero and friends must figure this won’t be a problem for them, because you can’t escape the federal Leviathan by moving from one state to another. But then, you could always […]

Barack Obama is trying to do nothing less than radically and permanently restructure the United States of America. He has already, in the very limited time he has been in office, spent more money we don’t have on things we don’t need than any President in American history — and he’s just getting warmed up. […]

Although I think the Democratic attacks on Rush are doing very little for them even as they build up his audience, there was one particular piece of their campaign that was worth copying, …The RNC could learn something from the “Send Rush a message” contest that the Democratic Party is running, We’ll go through all […]

30) Dan Gainor 29) Chuck Norris 28) Wes Pruden 27) Jay Nordlinger 26) Quin Hillyer 25) Mike Adams 24) Larry Elder 23) Brent Bozell 22) David Harsanyi 21) Jack Kelly 20) Jeff Jacoby 19) Kevin McCullough 18) Tony Blankley 17) Dennis Prager 16) David Limbaugh 15) Lorie Byrd 14) Burt Prelutsky 13) Rich Lowry 12) […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: QandO: A pictorial summary of the Obama nomination follies Cracked: 5 accidental inventions that changed the world Atlas Shrugs: 52 days, 52 mistakes for Obama. The List Universe: 12 last known speakers of a language Celebslam: Denise Richards bikini pics. Also, you’ll […]