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My NEW Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND! Check out FREE audio and video highlights from this week in conservative talk radio: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt and more. PLUS local media types assess the impact talk radio had on Scott Brown’s victory. What came in after my deadline: Rush Limbaugh’s […]

The main story’s at the Huntsville Times, “University of Alabama in Huntsville Biology Professor in Custody Regarding Deadly Shooting at Faculty Meeting.” But AOSHQ has a report, “Three Dead at University of Alabama at Huntsville as Woman Denied Tenure Opens Fire.” And FWIW, here’s this from Professor Bishop’s RateMyProfessors page: Neuroscience essentially turns into a […]

I wrote yesterday about the “black ‘copter tea party” meme, which is the latest MSM/netroots initiative to discredit and marginalize the tea party movement. In the wake of Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts (where grassroots activists and tea party tweeps helped propel Brown’s campaign to victory) you might have noticed the ratcheted effort on the […]

This piece at Media Matters is a good representation of the current state of Palin Derangement Syndrome. But Sarah Palin’s prospects look brighter than ever, from where I’m sitting, and to that effect, Ronald Brownstein pretty much nails it in his piece this morning, “Palin’s Beer-Track Populism“: As a potential general election candidate in 2012, […]

To start the debate off, let’s look at the stupid, which, unshockingly, comes from Russ Belville at the Huffington Post. Russ is a National Organization for the Reform Of Marijuana Laws, as well as the host of the NORML Show Live. And, yes, his picture at the HuffPuff Post does look exactly like the stereotypical […]

WASHINGTON–A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress. Good grief. The rats are deserting the sinking ship. Who thought there would come a day when there wouldn’t be a Kennedy at the Capitol? It’s ironic that this time last year […]

For those of you who don’t know, Debra Medina is a candidate for Texas Governor, and has had the support of many in the Tea Party movement. I just heard Debra Medina on the Glenn Beck radio show, and she really messed up badly. Glenn Beck said that people had accused her of being a […]

Here is yet another deciphering of the magic of Sarah Palin. This time it’s by Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, who at least doesn’t try to personally smear her as so many others do. Liberals and media elites keep writing and writing about her, trying to understand her appeal. They are amusing to read because […]

These are actually funny! You can send these to anyone with an e-mail. Take a look. You know if Time Magazine doesn’t like it, it must be good. I thought I might take this opportunity to give you some inexpensive ideas for Valentines Day. There are two gifts that have been appreciated the most by […]

Governor Palin currently leads most polls as the top choice of conservatives for the GOP nomination. Though the media and even fellow conservatives are counting her out, stranger things have happened. I mean, who for example believed Barack Obama could win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing?: :  I hope Hillary Clinton is working on […]

The QOTD for today actually comes to us from a NY Times editorial in 2005 which clearly states their understanding of the job of an opposition party: Mr. Bush has reacted by railing against Democrats for obstruction — as if Democrats are duty-bound to breathe life into his agenda and, even sillier, as if opposing […]

From Catholic San Francisco: In a recent interview with Eleanor Clift in Newsweek magazine (Dec. 21, 2009), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about her disagreements with the United States Catholic bishops concerning Church teaching. Speaker Pelosi replied, in part: “I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to […]

I first posted on Alabama’s re-election seeking Attorney General, Troy King,: due to an ongoing grand jury investigation. I’ll return to that, as I’d rather not dwell too long on what’s below. But it needs to be addressed. The special grand jury met Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Montgomery. King’s chief of staff, Chris Bence, […]

The Obama administration ignored the anger and frustration at the Townhalls across America regarding the health care bill. They ignored the 9/12 march where hundred of thousands of Americans came from hometowns everywhere to voice their objection. They ignored the Senate doctors. They are ignoring the growing tea party movement. They are ignoring the polls. […]

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. — P. J. O’Rourke Paul Krugman’s latest missive from the heart of outoftouchastan is a reprise of the same complaints that have appeared everywhere on the left since Scott Brown was elected: What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than […]

Over at The Corner, Yuval Levin has put together an outstanding, succinct explanation of the how both conservatives and liberals view the health care debate: The difference between most conservatives and most liberals on health care is not a difference of degree but a difference of direction–a difference on the question of which we way […]

A bunch of interesting polls have emerged today. One finds Obama at his lowest job performance rating yet. Of course, as you might expect, Republicans mostly disapprove of his job performance. Democrats, on the other hand, generally approve. But what gets his job approval rating to 44% approval, 47% disapproval in this Marist poll are […]

As always, it’s nice to see that secular liberal society has it’s standards and priorities in tact. The latest controversy that caused such a huff with the likes of the Huffington Post has been the highly anticipated “pro-life” ad run by Focus on the Family that featured college football player Tim Tebow. Yes, the horror. […]

It’s a never ending cycle in this country: You point out that the public schools are doing a lousy job, they claim to be underfunded, they’re given a lot more money, a few years later people point out that the public schools are still doing a lousy job, and the whole cycle repeats. Yet, if […]

Joseph Farah from WorldNetDaily and Andrew Breitbart got into an argument at the Nashville Tea Party Convention about the birther issue. Not a shock there. But, something Joseph Farah said needs to be rebutted: I told Farah that his speech was getting negative attention already, and that Breitbart, who’d taken the stage after him, had […]

I had so much fun Sunday at the rally for Gov. Perry that featured Sarah Palin at the Berry Center in Houston Texas. First Ted Nugent rocked the house with the National Anthem. Dan Patrick warmed up the crowd, although they needed no warming up. I met people who came from San Antonio and Austin. […]

UPDATE – I posted this without looking, and so didn’t notice Warner’s post on the same subject, posted about ninety minutes before mine. Oops. END UPDATE. Andrew Sullivan, writing about Sarah Palin’s speech at that big Tea Party thingie this weekend: I was too busy tapping away at my laptop to notice this little high-school […]

I’m taking the Saints by 3 in a high scoring affair. What ya got? BTW, a note on comments: RWN was upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1, which, from what I have read, makes some interesting changes in the interaction between comments and various spam and moderation plugins, as well as internally, so, sometimes comments are put […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Bailey Barber greeted us at the front door of her family home Saturday morning with ecstatic news. “We’re going to a parade,” announced the 6-year-old daughter of Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber. Retail politics requires a relentless press-the-flesh effort on the part of the candidate, and Barber hit the streets Saturday. After […]

Glenn Reynolds snapped some shots, “SOME PICS FROM SARAH PALIN’S SPEECH.” And CNN has a clip, “Palin Blasts Democrats in Tea Party Speech“: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drew many standing ovations from a friendly crowd Saturday night as she blasted Washington Democrats and the Obama administration in a keynote speech for what was billed […]

A pretty favorable piece from this morning’s New York Times: “Palin, Visible and Vocal, Is Positioned for Variety of Roles.” But more critically, at Politico, “Palin’s Risky Bid to Lead Tea Party“: After flirting coyly for months, Sarah Palin this weekend launches an aggressive play to become the leader of the tea party movement, a […]

From Gateway Pundit, “Andrew Breitbart at National Tea Party Convention to Media: “It’s Not Your Business Model That Sucks, It’s You That Sucks” (Video): Transcript from Newsbusters, “Breitbart to Media at Tea Party Convention: ‘It’s Not Your Business Model That Sucks, It’s You That Sucks!’“: When I watched Contessa Brewer on MSNBC raise the question […]

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. Enjoy FREE audio and webcam highlights from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Micheal Savage, Mark Levin and many more.

Now, that’s got to be a compliment, or something! I saw Mike Reicher and Gretchen Meier at last night’s Newt Gingrich lecture. They were sitting right in front of me, on the floor actually, during the talk. In fact, that’s Mike Reicher on the right in this picture, where we see Speaker Gingrich exiting stage […]

I don’t use the old-fashioned term “liberal” to describe today’s political left, and while my view on this has been firmly grounded in abstract ideological thinking (which some, in futility, have challenged), it’s interesting we have some confirmation of such leftist identification in David Paul Kuhn, discussing Gallup’s new poll, “Majority of Dems View Socialism […]