Year: 2009

Right Wing News emailed more than 265 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer several questions. 55 bloggers responded. The bloggers were asked to select answers to the following questions (because some bloggers skipped particular questions, gave answers that weren’t listed, or gave answers that were difficult to categorize, there are not 55 responses to […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: The New York Times: What happens when the New York Times interviews Ann Coulter? Mark Steyn: Rush Limbaugh vs. David Frum Tacky Weddings: Tacky wedding pictures I Don’t Like You In That Way: Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza in a bikini Also, you’ll […]

During the 2008 presidential campaign, people speculated whether someone like Barack Obama, who has never really run anything or had any major achievements other than winning political office, could handle a three AM crisis call. Well, as it turns out, Obama has been such a bumbling incompetent that he probably couldn’t handle a trip through […]

Patterico does it by producing a 2006 poll: The difference, of course, is instead of 51% of Democrats telling a polling company they wanted Bush to fail, an influential conservative came right out and said it about Obama. The point for the left? You can quite pretending you’re witnessing something never seen before and climb […]

The Obamination Administration has finally figured out what’s wrong with our collapsing economy: energy costs are too low. From the Washington Times: Mr. Emanuel said energy costs are too low anyway. U.S. car companies have relied too long on gas-guzzling autos and failed to invest in alternative energy vehicles, he said, and contended that the […]

In Britainistan, Muslim police officer Javid Iqbal is suing because people laughed at his beard. Have a look: Not laughing at this guy’s beard would be like not sneezing after you snorted a shaker-full of pepper up your nose. The put-upon Religion-of-Peacenik also claims that other officers “pulled faces at each other if told they […]

Here’s how you pull a Three-Brigade Monte: President Obama promised to drawdown Iraqi troops. He was going to pull out a brigade from Iraq. So, he does–he withdraws the troops from Iraq and puts them in Afghanistan. That means there are less troops in Iraq and more in Afghanistan, right? Well, not exactly. Then, the […]

So, last week Drudge puts up a link to a story about two different women teachers having sex with a 13 year old boy student unbeknown to one another. Nice. Why can’t crazy women just be strippers and prostitutes? Now, they’re foisting their antisocial behavior on children. A couple thoughts: 1. Yes, society is degrading. […]

What’s next? I’ll tell you what’s next… The mortgage “crisis”. The housing “crisis”. First of all, it’s NOT a crisis. it’s a scam! By the liberal mainstream media and the government in order to try and get responsible people, to pay, for irresponsible peoples mistakes. I’m going to solve the problem for you right now. […]

One of the false premises that undergirds much of the Democratic Party’s behavior since Obama got into office is that through brilliant, decisive action, the geniuses up on Capitol Hill can blunt the impact of a recession. Hence, we have crooks like Chris Dodd — the man on Capitol Hill who’s most personally responsible for […]

I was pleased to once again (Previous interviews here and here) talk with Thomas Sowell about his new book, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, which I have read twice and would highly recommend. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my conversation with Thomas Sowell. Enjoy! Barack Obama has publicly said that he […]

On Thursday of last week, I wrote a post complaining that The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s 19th Annual Legislative Conference was scheduled to begin today and there were exactly 2 Republican Congressmen and no senators scheduled to attend. Now, how much sense does this make, folks? Everybody knows the GOP is losing Hispanics […]

“With Clinton we got high taxes (bad) but balanced budgets imposed by the spending caps in Congress (good). With Bush we got tax cuts (good) but deficits (bad). With Obama we get tax hikes (bad) and astronomical deficits (bad).” — Victor Davis Hanson

Before Obama was elected, when Obama was promising a rainbow in every pot and a kitten riding a unicorn for every child, posters bearing his visage and words like “hope” and “change” seemed appropriate. Why, once he was elected, everything was going to be wonderful in America by sheer virtue of his wonderfulness! The reality […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Can America, the engine of the global economy, pull the rest of the world out of the quicksand? RealityWired: 12 pics of amazing old roads Cracked: The 5 most retarded wars ever fought Hollywood Tuna: Elisha Cuthbert bikini pictures Also, […]

A scheme that Bernie Madoff probably approves of (Wall Street Journal) Jim Rogers is not happy with the Obama administration. Ever since the White House unveiled its costly climate program, the CEO of Duke Energy has been arguing the proposals amount to nothing more than a tax. Indeed. Mr. Rogers belongs to the U.S. Climate Action […]

Barney Frank has gotten very full of himself. So full, in fact, that his memory isn’t working as well as it probably should: House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is pressing state and federal authorities to seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that helped cause the current crisis. “Rules don’t work if […]

David Frum’s feelings are hurt: …I’ve received a great deal of e-mail. Most of these e-mails say some version of the same thing: if you don’t agree with Rush [Limbaugh], quit calling yourself a conservative and get out of the Republican Party. There’s the perfect culmination of the outlook Rush Limbaugh has taught his fans […]

Good news: Former first lady Barbara Bush was transfered out of ICU yesterday and into a private room, two days after having heart surgery to replace her aortic valve. The video below is from a news segment NBC’s Today Show did on Mr. and Mrs. Bush’s special relationship. It includes old and new footage, the […]

On Facebook last week I sent a message to 100 or so politically-engaged FB “friends” along the lines of, have you ever noticed that on the Internet there’s almost nowhere to breathe if you’re a conservative but not a libertarian? In fact I did a search of “groups” on Facebook using the word “libertarian” and […]

Harold Meyerson: Take it from a democratic socialist: Laissez-faire American capitalism is about to be supplanted not by socialism but by a more regulated, viable capitalism. And the reason isn’t that the woods are full of secret socialists who are only now outing themselves. Judging by the failures of the great Wall Street investment houses […]

I know, I know, it’s a shocker. Oh, OK, you’re probably saying to your computer screen “well, duh!”, particularly regarding the last word of the headline. Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown But, hey, those are the excuses used to say why Obama treated Gordon Brown, PM of Britian, basically […]

If you ever watch Keith Olbermann, you know that he loves to bash people for what he apparently sees as an inferior education. And I guess he can, because he went to an Ivy League school. Oh, wait, Ann Coulter busted that wide open: Indeed, Keith is constantly lying about his nonexistent “Ivy League” education, […]

The gal who started the Marin conservative gatherings that I’ve had the pleasure of attending sent out a broadcast email reminding all conservatives, especially those trapped in blue communities, that it’s not enough to sit at home, read the blogs and complain. We have to work towards a change in 2010. If we wait to […]

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 […]

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday They draft the white trash first,’round here anyway I done two tours of duty in Vietnam — “Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle Songs like “Copperhead Road” and CCR’s “Fortunate Son,” not to mention numerous award-winning Hollywood movies, perpetuate stubborn Vietnam War myths about the American soldiers who fought […]

Hillary Clinton has inadvertently stumbled on a rallying cry for the Obama Administration: GENEVA–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations. She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with […]

David Brooks, 3 days after a semi-courageous, “what-the-heck-is-going-on” column, received calls from the senior staff at the White House and quietly got back in line: In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders. They see themselves as pragmatists who inherited a government and an economy that have been […]

…We’re thrilled that the American people are suffering because it’s allowing us to scare people into implementing our agenda in the false hope that it’ll fix their problems. The Republican Party should be saying exactly that and publicly excoriating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for these remarks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience […]

We can hope. Michelle Malkin notes the tightening of belts everywhere (except Congress and the White House): Team Obama’s image experts, perhaps hung over from all the Camelot-recreating Wednesday cocktail parties that are now a signature of the new administration, have fallen down on the job. The man who scolded Americans for wasting energy and […]