Year: 2012

The 20 Worst People, Places, and Things on the Internet.

Posted on by John Hawkins

20) Internet Novels: Although I probably spend a lot more time on the net than most people, there are just some things that don’t work well on the net. Internet novels fall into this category. Who wants to spend hours sitting in chair, straining their eyes, and hitting next over and over and over again […]

 

My Favorite 50 Movies Of All-Time

Posted on by John Hawkins

50): Pearl Harbor:: A long, semi-interesting love story combined with incredible combat scenes. If they’d cut the love story down to a more manageable size this one might have moved up 20 spots. 49): Falling Down:: Michael Douglas’s character is a complete psycho but you can still relate to what he’s saying and doing. Like the promo says, “An […]

 

Gay rights group claims responsibility for vandalism of Mars Hill church

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From the Washington Post. Excerpt: A satellite church affiliated with controversial Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll was vandalized early Tuesday (April 24) and a group calling itself the “Angry Queers” has reportedly taken responsibility. Stained glass and other windows were broken at the Mars Hill Church, according to a post on the Facebook page of Pastor […]

 

Concealed carry permitholder stops stabbing rampage in Utah

Posted on by Wintery Knight

Here’s a story from: KSL TV, in Utah. (H/T: All American Blogger) Excerpt: A man stabbed two people at the Smith’s Marketplace grocery store in downtown Salt Lake City before being subdued by a bystander. The attack took place around 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the store at 455 South and 500 East. According to […]

 

Final Landing of the USS Enterprise

Posted on by Michael Fell

The experience of watching the space shuttle Enterprise circle New York City on its way to JFK Airport can be described in many different ways. One of the words viewers most frequently used about the sight was “bittersweet”. As Enterprise piggybacked its way on a 747 to its final landing, Americans turned out in large […]

 

Memory Hole: Vogue Scrubs Syrian Fawning Article of Syrian Dictator’s Wife

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Look nuthin’ up my sleeve, presto! In a typical exercise of Old Media “ethics,” with the flip of the proverbial switch, Vogue erased from the Internet tubes its embarrassing puff piece on the wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. In 2011, to much international derision, Vogue published The Rose of the Desert, a puff piece […]

 

CNN’S Roland Martin: Racism is in ‘America’s DNA’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As far as race-baiter Roland Martin of CNN is concerned, America is guilty until proven innocent. Guilty of racism as some sort of original sin, one that can never be washed away by either deeds or absolution. On April 26, Martin got his inner Je$$e Jack$on on and tweeted: “I simply accept the reality that […]

 

With CISPA, Congress Turns Internet Websites Into Police

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 248-168 to pass CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Civil liberties advocates loudly protested the bill, claiming it will give government too much access to individuals’ personal information. The Obama administration is threatening to veto it if it makes it through both chambers of Congress. Congressional […]

 

Is There Really A Need To Panic Over a .29C Rise In World Temperatures?

Posted on by William Teach

Is there any need to implement massive Central Government regulations that include large transfers of money from the private sector to the government sector along with numerous lifestyle limiting burdens? (UK Daily Mail) World temperatures have remained almost stagnant in the last two decades, new figures have revealed. Temperatures across the globe rose by around […]

 

Here We Go: Ray LaHood Calls For A Federal Ban On Cell Phone Use While Driving

Posted on by William Teach

LaHood has been flirting with the notion of banning wireless phone usage for a few years, running it up the flag pole, pushing cities and states to ban the usage, but, many people stated that this was simply Ray thinking out loud, a little wishful thinking, nothing would happen. But, now (MSNBC) U.S. Transportation Secretary […]

 

Does Anyone Else Alive Take As Much Vacation Time As The Obamas?

Posted on by John Hawkins

What exactly is Michelle Obama doing that requires her to take so many vacations? They’re up to what, 16 vacations in 3 1/2 years? That’s better than a vacation every 3 months. Is there anybody else alive who takes this much vacation time and spends this much money while she does it? It cost taxpayers […]

 

American Crossroads Gives Obama Way Too Much Credit. He’s Actually Not Cool.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Is Barack Obama cool? Compared to say Barney Frank or Mitch McConnell, sure. Compared to people who are genuinely cool like say, Tim Tebow, Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Chuck Liddell, etc., etc.? No, he’s a bad joke. So, when Crossroads concedes the fact that Obama is cool, it’s making a huge mistake. You […]

 

Media Still Dream about Their Dreamy Candidate John Edwards

Posted on by Dan Gainor

Sen. John Edwards was a dream presidential candidate for the media — a: populist, lefty lawyer with face and even hair for TV. (Especially: the hair.) The North Carolina senator was a self-made man who also made millions of dollars along the way and won the Democratic endorsement to be the vice presidential candidate in 2004. He […]

 

“Crucify Them”: The Obama Way

Posted on by Michelle Malkin

One of President Obama’s radical eco-bureaucrats has apologized for confirming an indelible truth: This White House treats politically incorrect private industries as public enemies who deserve regulatory death sentences. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Al Armendariz, an avowed greenie on leave from Southern Methodist University, gave a little-noticed speech in 2010 outlining his sadistic philosophy. “I […]

 

Obama Administration’s Repeated Abuses Are Extension of Extreme Liberalism

Posted on by David Limbaugh

Every day, we get a new kick in the gut from the Obama administration. Most recently, Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was caught on video articulating his view of the agency’s role in enforcing its regulations. Armendariz said: “It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages […]

 

The Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States For 2002

Posted on by John Hawkins

If being annoying was a crime, there are a lot of liberals who would be sitting on Death Row in Texas waiting for them to crank up “Old Sparky.” But until now, these “serial annoyers” have never gotten their proper due. Well, RWN thinks that’s a crying shame. That’s why we’ve punched up a list […]

 

100 Of The Most Popular Political Websites On The Net

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over the last few months here at RWN, my favorite blogs have been ranked, I’ve had other people rank their favorite blogs, and I’ve regularly listed the web pages that send me the most traffic. Today, I thought it might be interesting to see which political websites actually receive the most traffic. So I picked […]

 

Why is the Georgia Democrat Party Employing a Convicted Criminal?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For some unknown reason, the state Democrat Party of Georgia’s Political Director, one Ali Rashad Richey, is a man with a long arrest record and no one seems the last bit worried about it in the Peach State — neither politicians nor the media. This man’s arrests are for such offenses as burglary, assault, battery, […]

 

In 2008, John McCain Ignored Vote Fraud to Avoid Civil Unrest

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Leaked emails from the intelligence group Stratfor recently revealed some shocking allegations of massive Democrat voter fraud in 2008. The emails revealed by WikiLeaks say that the McCain campaign decided to ignore the wide spread voter fraud in order to avoid massive civil unrest — even though it meant he’d lose the White House. The […]

 

Good News: TSA Defends Enhanced Pat Down Of Terrified 4 Year Old

Posted on by William Teach

After all the issues the other year with the TSA, it’s amazing that these kinds of incidents continue to happen (AP) – The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the child was forced to undergo a pat-down after hugging her, with security […]

 

E.J. Dionne: Romney’s Economic Plans Are Radical Because They Don’t Include Goverment

Posted on by William Teach

In Liberal World, the only entity that can truly make the economy grow is The Government Romney’s principled, radical view for America It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve. […]

 

Horror You Will Never Get Out Of Your Brain Again: Bronies

Posted on by John Hawkins

Thank you very much, Kurt Schlichter, for introducing me to yet another cultural trend that I wish I didn’t know exists: The Bronie. The easiest way to say it is just to say it: There are grown men out there who devote themselves to the rainbow-unicorn-sparkly-pastel fantasy world of the children’s TV show “My Little […]

 

Romney Doing The Job Republican Establishment Just Won’t Do

Posted on by Ann Coulter

The actual Republican Establishment —- political consultants, The Wall Street Journal, corporate America, former Bush advisers and television pundits — are exhorting Mitt Romney to flip-flop on his very non-Establishment position on illegal immigration. Both as governor of Massachusetts and as a presidential candidate, Romney has supported a fence on the border, E-Verify to ensure […]

 

Decline or decadence?

Posted on by Victor Davis Hanson

Almost daily we read of America’s “waning power” and “inevitable decline,” as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Yet much of the new American “leading from behind” strategy is a matter of choice, not necessity. Apparently, both left-wing critics of U.S. foreign policy and right-wing Jacksonians are tiring of spending […]

 

If Mormonism Is Fair Game, so Is Jeremiah Wright

Posted on by Larry Elder

A well-regarded Republican strategist at a private gathering recently warned, “And just wait until they play that Mormon card.” By “they,” he meant the Obama campaign and its complicit media cheerleaders. Lawrence O’Donnell, only days later, gave his viewers a historical tutorial on the Mormon religion, darkly suggesting that we all should be afraid, very […]