Month: August 2010

The Verdict for Ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich and Brother is IN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The long awaited verdict in the trial of former Democratic Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich and his brother is finally at hand — at least a little. Blagojevich has been accused of trying to sell for personal gain his influence to appoint a senator to replace Barack Obama when he resigned the seat to become […]

 

Now THIS Is Religious Tolerance

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

From Mediate: A predominantly Muslim high school football team in Dearborn, Michigan practices from 11pm to 4am during the daytime-fasting month of Ramadan. Since they practice at night, the players can eat and drink before, during, and after practice. Fordson High’s coaches realized that kids doing two-a-day practices in the August heat without eating or […]

 

Barack Obama’s Ground Zero Mosqapocalypse

Posted on by John Hawkins

“I’m hoping Obama’s endorsement will do for the Ground Zero mosque what it did for Corzine, Deeds, Coakley, & Specter.” — John Hawkins on Twitter In what may have been the biggest unforced error of his presidency so far, Barack Obama foolishly endorsed the mosque at Ground Zero at a Ramadan dinner, In his speech […]

 

Only Post-Consumer Toilet Paper May Touch Sheryl Crow’s Behind

Posted on by Dave Blount

When pop star Sheryl Crow called on Americans to save the polar bears by using only one square of toilet paper, the response was deafening laughter. Crow quickly retreated behind the highly unlikely “I was just kidding” defense. Maybe she should drop the singing and go into stand-up. Here she is joking again, via The […]

 

Building a Christian Church at Ground Zero Is Not as Easy

Posted on by Dave Blount

In the unlikely event that any RWN readers take seriously liberal claims that they are backing the Ground Zero Victory Mosque on First Amendment grounds, here‘s what happens when you try to rebuild a Christian church in the area: Nine years after 911, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero remains to be rebuilt. […]

 

Matt Lieglesias Has Advocated Lying Before

Posted on by John Hawkins

Liberals spend much of their time trying to hide what they believe from the public while conservatives are perpetually frustrated by the fact that the American people don’t seem to understand what we really believe. Both problems spring from a single source: liberals lie incessantly. That’s not to say that there aren’t conservative liars or […]

 

Last Chance To Win A $100 Raffle Ticket That Gives You A Shot To Go To New York & Meet Bill O’Reilly

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Society Of St. Vincent De Paul is holding a raffle — and it’s not just any raffle. The tickets for this raffle are $100 a pop; they’re worth every penny. I’ve given away 8 of them so far and I’m about to give away the last two tickets. Here’s what you can win, GRAND […]

 

Sci Fi Giant Ray Bradbury Slams Obama’s Era of Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The L.A. Times has a heartwarming story of literary giant Ray Bradbury who at 90 is not afraid to tell everyone exactly what he thinks. A gathering of admirers got an earful of Bradburyisms on the verge of his Aug 22 90th birthday celebration in Los Angeles. Bradbury railed against the “too many machines” that […]

 

Politico Ignores Dems. Culture of Corruption to Talk of GOP’s ‘Offbeat Candidates’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Interestingly, Politico is trying to rearrange this election’s narrative from the real one of widespread voter dissatisfaction with the Democrat status quo to one of “offbeat GOP candidates” that will “hurt the GOP.” Gee, why would that be, eh? As Democrats all across the land are either stepping aside so as not to face difficult […]

 

The Seven Greatest Presidents in American History

Posted on by John Hawkins

After talking about The 7 Worst Presidents Of The Last Hundred Years at Townhall last week, it seems natural to move on to the 7 greatest Presidents in American history. Since below average and mediocre Presidents are quite common while truly extraordinary Presidents are very rare, it seems appropriate to focus on the greatest Presidents […]

 

Latest Mosque Supporter TP: No One’s Complaining About The XXX Stores!

Posted on by William Teach

They little dhimmi liberals are digging deep to find some rationale for their support of the proposed mosque just a 600 yards from ground zero, in an area that was actually peppered with debris. Latest unhinged and clueless talking point, which, surprisingly, CBS News actually shoots down quickly Some victims’ families say the Islamic center […]

 

Proving That Those Recovery Signs Are Just Another Obama Propaganda Piece

Posted on by William Teach

CNS News does the work that the Old Media refuses to do Federal contractors receiving money for projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)–the $862 billion economic stimulus law President Barack Obama signed in February 2009–have been encouraged and, in some cases, required by the administration to post signs that say their […]

 

Democrats Continue to Loot Food Stamp Fund, Now Helping the SEIU

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Medicare is broke.:  A record number of Americans are on food stamps thanks to all of the economic stimulus being thrown around by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.: : So, what do Democrats do when they are finished looting Medicare; they move on to the next and hope no one notices.:  Not so.:  The Hill reports […]

 

The Disturbing Tweets From the Official Ground Zero Mosque Twitter Account, Park51

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Let’s clear up a few things. I follow the gentleman who is the official twitterer account of Park51 (The Islamic Community Center). According to him a recent Haaretz story that claimed the owners were abandoning the project is untrue. Also, he claims the recent comments by Hamas does represent them, and has no bearing on […]

 

When The Race Card Doesn’t Work, The Next Card For A Democrat To Play Is…

Posted on by John Hawkins

After people laughed off Maxine Waters’ attempt to escape her ethics woes by playing the race card, she moved on to the next most frequently used card in the Democratic deck, So, who does Maxine Waters blame next for her corrupt attempt to funnel taxpayer money into her own pocket? Let’s see, she’s played the […]

 

Video: Those (Liberal) Voices Don’t Speak For The Rest of Us

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Republican Study Committee has unveiled a great ad contrasting what Republicans believe and what Democrats believe. Juxtaposing one of Reagan’s great speeches with the words of the Democrats of today, the ad shows how Republicans venerate freedom while Democrats venerate their own power and an ability to command and control all of us. As […]

 

“Transparency” Mask Dropped

Posted on by Dave Blount

Gradually the mask slips away, revealing the adolescent Marxist tyrant beneath. The ballyhooed “transparency” that was supposed to mark Barack Hussein Obama’s conspicuously secretive administration has been officially dropped: President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a partisan ex-lobbyist who is […]

 

Survey of Dem’s Most Loved Republicans: A Guide on Whom to Fire?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill conducted its annual survey of how congressmen feel about each other and the answers are instructive. The survey found that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D. Calif.) is the most partisan, unwelcoming, hard to work with politician in all of the House of Representatives. But the list of Republicans that congressional leftists […]

 

Illegal Alien, Deported Twice, Kills 14 Year Old In Texas

Posted on by William Teach

But, hey, let’s send a minimal force of National Guard troops down to the border, people who are not actually going to secure the border, just hang in the background as support personnel. That way, the federal government can be complicit in more despicable acts such as this (14 year old Shativia) Anderson was robbed […]

 

Big Announcement: Right Wing News Is Sponsoring Homocon

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Log Cabin Republicans have long been an annoyance. They’re a gay “Republican” group that withheld their endorsement of George Bush in 2004* and they essentially sound identical to every liberal gay group that you run across. In other words, there’s nothing meaningfully Republican about the Log Cabin Republicans or any point to their continued […]

 

10 Reasons 2010 Isn’t the Year of the Lefty Woman

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

By Lori Ziganto and Jenn Q. Public Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal … The June electoral primaries settled it for the media: 2010 will go down as the Year of the Woman. Always susceptible to the seductive powers of a good identity politics narrative, the pundit class eagerly weighed in with variations on the […]

 

Charlie Crist Hearts Obama and the Ground Zero Mosque

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Florida’s newly “independent” governor, Charlie Crist, has come out in full support of the Ground Zero mosque by supporting Obama’s position: Gov. Charlie Crist, R-Fla., who was among those who met with Obama on Saturday, lauded the president’s position. “I think he’s right – I mean you know we’re a country that in my view […]

 

President Hussein’s Ramadan Gift Bag

Posted on by Donald Douglas

O-Box Cutters. At American Digest: At Barack Hussein Obama’s taxpayer-funded Ramadan dinner last night, not only did the alleged president give the assembled Muslims the tremendous gift of support for building the Ground Zero mosque, but he also gifted them with the multi-purpose “Presidential Seal Boxcutter” which will soon be available in the Cordoba House […]

 

How many Brits will take this as advice on what to do, instead of what not to do?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Great Britain – the people who brought us hooliganism – are hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics. I’m sure they’ll do a fine job, or at least as fine a job as any other nation does. Part of that job is: dealing with such a wide variety of cultures. So: Britain’s national tourism agency issued guidelines […]

 

New Court Decision: Congress Can Withhold ACORN Funding

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Looks like ACORN lost another round in court last week. New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision to re-instate Congressional funding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ruling that halting funding did not violate the group’s rights. Congress finally cut off federal funding to ACORN […]