5 Things That Republicans In D.C. Need To Understand

Last weekend at the Defending the American Dream Summit, I had the opportunity to talk behind-the-scenes with some Republican staffers. During our back-and-forth exchanges, here are some of the things I told them that I thought their bosses should understand: 1) It’s going to take time to re-establish trust: During the Bush years a lot […]

 

The Top 10 Most Viewed Videos On Viral Footage For September

From Viral Footage: 10) Insurgents accidentally blow themselves up in Afghanistan 9) TheNoseonYourFace: Czars (Funny Song) 8) All the single babies (Hilariously Awesome) 7) Steve Crowder: Keith Olbermann DESTROYS Glenn Beck!! (Funny) 6) Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis (I loved this) 5) Ann Coulter drops the p-bomb on TV over liberal […]

 

The Defending The American Dream Summit Picture Drop (17 pics)

Last week-end, I was at the Defending The American Dream Summit in DC. That little shindig was thrown by the folks at Americans for Prosperity and it was heavily attended — around 2000 people were at the event, which isn’t too shabby for a political hootenanny. I drove to the conference, which turned out to […]

 




I Get Emails: Funny Graphic Of The Day + Bush Vs. Obama

Let me say the same thing today that I said about Bush when he was President: Although I think Bush did a much better job on national security issues and foreign policy than people give him credit for, he was a huge disappointment on the domestic front. Yet, horrible approval rating and terrible messaging aside, […]

 


Health Care: Treating A Life And Death Situation Like A Mere Political Game

I believe that one of the unspoken reasons for the furious tenor of the health care debate has been the profoundly non-serious way the whole issue has been handled by the Democrats. We’re talking about a government takeover of 1/6 of the US economy — so, this is an issue that will literally affect the […]

 



The People Defending Roman Polanski Are Grotesque Human Beings

That scumbag, Roman Polanski, who has been given a free pass for decades after raping a 13 year-old-girl, may now finally face justice — and some people don’t like it: From a Swiss jail, director Roman Polanski told his lawyer to fight any attempt to extradite him to California to face 31-year-old rape charges. “He […]

 

Reactions From The People On The Right Voted “Least Favorite” By Conservative Bloggers

On Friday, the Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Least Favorite People On The Right (2009 Edition) poll was released on Right Wing News. Intriguingly, some of the people who made the list responded and I found their responses to be quite revealing. Here’s Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs’ reaction to being detested by many of […]

 

The Conservative Tea Party Protests & Townhalls Vs. The Liberal G20 Protests

Just about every slur that you can imagine has been thrown at people who attended tea parties and townhalls this summer. They’ve been called “tea baggers,” “racists,” “thugs,” “Nazis,” “un-American,” & “mobs.” The attendees of these events have been incessantly attacked by the media, grossly insulted by members of Congress, and accused of fomenting violence, […]

 

Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Least Favorite People On The Right (2009 Edition)

Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of people they considered to be the least liked and respected people who were generally thought to be on the Right. Representatives from the following 52 blogs responded… All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, And Rightly So, […]

 

This Week In Quotes: September 18 – September 25

The way you persuade a voter to your cause is to keep the initial intellectual buy-in as low as possible. The same way you’d induce a casual player to play poker — you don’t tell him it’s $50 minimum bet, $150 maximum raise. You bring him into a low-stakes game with a tiny buy-in. Schwarzenegger […]

 


Poll: Who would you most favor as GOP nominee in 2012?

Over at Instpundit, Glenn Reynolds has up a poll asking people who they’d like to see as the GOP nominee in 2012. Since RWN’s readership is probably a little more conservative and a little less Libertarian, I wanted to see how the numbers matched up. With that in mind… Who would you most favor as […]

 

It’s Time For A Congressional Investigation Into Sibel Edmunds Allegations

Sibel Edmunds was a Turkish and Farsi translator who worked for the FBI after 9/11. Eventually, after a dispute, she was fired. The FBI says it was for legitimate reasons. Edmunds says it was for whistleblowing. Since then, she has been trying to draw attention to her claims while the FBI reaction has been to […]

 

Digg On Obama’s Agenda: They’re Pretty Lukewarm On It

Digg isn’t a political website per se, but it is an extremely popular, leftward leaning link website. So, when I noticed they had a thread about this… Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President […]

 

Dick Morris Knows How To Kill Obamacare

Dick Morris has done an absolutely fantastic video talking about how to stop Obamacare: Now you’re probably saying, another health care argument? We’re hearing these day in, day out, all over the place. What makes this one so exceptional? I’ll tell you what makes this one great: In this video, Dick Morris completely ignores ideology […]

 

Prince Charles Urges The Commoners Not To Live Like Him

From the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do files comes Prince Charles’ latest suggestion for how the riff-raff should live their lives: Prince Charles urges people to abandon car in favour of walking and public transport The Prince, who has two Jaguars, two Audis, a Range Rover and still drives an Aston Martin given to him by the Queen […]

 

Energy Secretary Steven Chu: The American Public Is Like Teenagers Who Need To Be Taught How To Act

One of the most irritating traits of liberals is their paternalistic, we’re smarter than everyone else because we’re Lefties shtick. I don’t care if you’re talking about cousin Cletus the hog farmer, who quit school in third grade and has an IQ that’s barely in the high double digits, if he’s a liberal he thinks […]

 

5 Reasons Obama’s Election Is Bad For Race Relations

Because of our nation’s extremely complex history with racial issues, there have never been any “good old days” for race relations in America. We began as a slaveholding nation that simultaneously held the contradictory belief that “all men were created equal,” actually fought a civil war in large part over slavery, and eventually we moved […]

 

Cash For Clunkers: The Debacle That Keeps On Giving

There were so many things wrong with the cash-for-clunkers program that it was hard to keep up with them all. The program quickly ran out of money, there were horrible paperwork snafus, a large percentage of the money was used for foreign cars, perfectly good cars were destroyed during the process, they’ve only handled about […]

 

The Left’s Suicidal Anti-American Impulses On Foreign Policy

“While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” — Ann Coulter When it comes to foreign policy, liberals are like sheep who have a desperate need to find a wolf and bare their throat to him. You can see a […]

 




Marco Rubio Vs. Charlie Crist: A Tale Of 10 Straw Polls

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is supposed to represent Republicans — aren’t they? Heck, they’ve got the word “Republican” right there in their name. They certainly don’t hesitate to hit up Republicans for money. They also bill themselves as THE organization to give to if you want to help elect Republicans in the Senate. Yet, […]