Year: 2009

What a surprise: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea. Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for […]

Pretty much everyone is disgusted with Mark Sanford’s appalling weakness and irresponsibility. But the disgraced governor has a long way to go before he hits bottom. At least Sanford was in love with his mistress, in contrast to Bill Clinton, who has always been known to chase anything in a skirt with no more affection […]

Question: “Have you been paying any attention to Jerome Ersland case here in Oklahoma, and if so, do you have any thoughts about whether his actions crossed the line into murder or not?” — President_Friedman Answer: For those who are unfamiliar with it, here’s a succinct wrap-up of the Jerome Ersland case, Ersland, of Chickasha, […]

Question: “Did you ever expect Atlas Shrugged to really come true? How additionally disturbing do you find it that entitlement and sloth seem to have replaced “The Strike” as the sleeper hold on productivity that is accelerating the looter/moocher death spiral?” — Mike_M Answer: The actions the Bush Administration in its last days and Barack […]

There is no human quality I admire so much as the courageous force of determined persistence. And I learned that from old No. 27: When he was 16, Bill McCain told his mother, “You won’t ever have to worry about me again.” He left the family farm in rural Randolph County, Alabama, and moved 40 […]

Question: “Is The “Deadliest Warrior” the coolest concept for a television show ever?!” — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: I watched all the episodes from the first season of the Deadliest Warrior and I liked the show a lot. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the show pits different warriors from different eras against each other. […]

Transparency! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.) will not commit to giving senators and the public a full week to read and review the final version of a health-care reform bill before he holds a final vote on it. Reid confessed at his Thursday news briefing that he did not have “a lot of […]

Time and time again, I and others have pointed out that the whole anthropogenic global warming silliness is not about “saving the planet from mankind,” but about control. People might have believed in it a bit more if the people who pushed it the hardest weren’t the worst CO2 offenders, but, regardless, let’s ask John […]

“Moreover, if the better part of valor is for America to stand neutral between freedom and Islamic oppression, why are liberals trying to credit Obama’s ridiculous Cairo speech for emboldening the Iranian protesters? The only reason that bald contradiction doesn’t smack you in the face is that it is utterly preposterous that Obama’s Cairo speech […]

Yesterday, June 25, to commemorate the day North Korean soldiers invaded their southern neighbor and began the Korean War, an anti-America rally was held in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Approximately 100,000 citizens were present as the communist regime stated there would be a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” for any attack led by […]

Right before Nancy Pelosi wants to push Cap and Trade, we find out from a Whistle Blower in the EPA that the science has been suppressed. Who is against science?

I couldn’t decide which story to post, so, a double shot of silly government goofiness, starting with Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders When 22 senators started working over the first health care overhaul bill on June 17, the news cameras were pointed at them — except for NPR’s photographer, who turned his lens […]

Apparently it will according to some who have actually beaten their way through the entire bill and read the contents: The Ways and Means Committee’s proposed bill language (pdf) would virtually require that the president impose an import tariff on any country that fails to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions. Of course in this […]

Comrade Obama’s friends in the abortion industry aren’t going to like this. North Carolina taxpayers are giving teenagers $1/day to refrain from getting pregnant: The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies. Brown said she […]

I was reading through Mark Sanford’s emails to his mistress in Argentina and it’s hard to even imagine how humiliating it must be for everyone involved, including his wife, to see those emails in the paper. Furthermore, despite myself, I felt a twinge of pity for Mark Sanford after reading this passage, “While all the […]

Have you ever been frustrated because you needed something done and couldn’t get a person on the other line who had the authority, competence, or even just the human compassion to listen to your problem and try to fix it? Most of us have been there at one time or another and it’s extremely frustrating, […]

* Could the Iranian regime have been emboldened to murder the protesters by the wimpiness of Obama’s Cairo speech? * Incidentally, now would be a really great time for Mark Sanford to pull an Arlen Specter. Just saying. * The Iranian people are in desperate need of large numbers of guns and explosives. The CIA […]

Doing a Q&A Friday every other week on RWN was a long running tradition — well, “long-running” for the internet anyway. However, over the time, the number of questions I was getting dropped off significantly, so I decided to discontinue the practice. However, I’ve had some requests to give it another shot and I’ve decided […]

From my special report today in The American Spectator: Neil Barofsky is “SIGTARP,” the special investigator general whose job is to keep an eye on disbursement from the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the $3 trillion financial bailout that was rushed through Congress in October. Last week, Grassley sent a stern letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy […]

The Right has taken the Mark Sanford affair particularly hard for at least three reasons. 1) News of John Ensign’s affair just broke. Having another affair hit the news so soon afterwards is frustrating to conservatives. 2) Unlike Ensign, Mark Sanford was a legitimate 2012 contender and was viewed as one of the biggest rising […]

54% of Americans favor smaller government/less services, up 4 percentage points in one year (full poll here). Certainly, the number has been higher, but, will the trend continue as Independents, moderates, and wishy washy fell for hopeNchange Republicans wake up to the Nanny State progressive agenda of the Democrats? Also in the poll, Republicans need […]

OK, I’ll admit, I did not watch, ore really even read, anything during the day Wednesday as ABC News and The White House became one and the same. But, see there were two little problems for Obama and his “I’m not going to do away with private insurance *wink wink*” agenda: Mark Sanford, and ABC […]

Wow. When Mark Sanford originally was “missing” for five days, I defended him — at least to a certain extent. Yesterday, when the “Mark Sanford is Missing” story hit Drudge, I thought it was tremendously unfair to Sanford. Couldn’t the guy take a four day week-end without people proclaiming he is “missing?” …because he has […]

“Brave Sir Obama ran away. Bravely ran away, away! When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Obama turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet He beat a very brave retreat, Bravest of the brave, Sir Obama!” — A slightly edited version […]

Right before the weekend, Pelosi and Obama want to destroy the Country.

I’ve been saying all along that barring some sort of unforeseen mishap, if Sarah Palin decides to run in 2012, she will start out as the favorite to take the nomination. There are two reasons for that. First off, as I have been saying for quite a while, she has a very strong, enthusiastic base […]

Democrats are feminizing America in more ways than one: A “man-cession.” That’s what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a […]

Congratulations to Archbishop George Niederauer, who beat out Carrie Prejean to win the coveted Pink Brick award, which was granted by militant homosexuals who continue to throw tantrums over the passage of Prop 8, banning the sacrilege of homosexual “marriage”: At the urging of a member of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, the San Francisco […]

You’ve heard of Perez Hilton, right? The obnoxious bully who insults people all day long on his huge gossip blog and draws semen dribbling out of their mouths on their photos? Well, after picking a fight with Carrie Prejean on gay marriage at the Miss USA (Nobody has yet been able to explain why a […]

My guest tonight on Right Doctor my radio show for RFCradio.com is Saul Anuzis, former state chair of the Michigan Republican Party and contender for national chair this last time. Saul is also working for American Solutions on the Card Check issue. In addition, he’s been named as one of 13 Republicans to be part […]