The “Bush Lied” Meme By Betsy Newmark

Fred Hiatt does a good job, in one column, of destroying the Democrats’ partisan effort to produce a phony Intelligence Committee report demonstrating that Bush and Cheney lied in order to get us into Iraq. But dive into Rockefeller’s report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling […]

 


Conservative Grapevine Promo

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Say Anything: Helping Obama out with some new campaign signs Remedicated: 15 of the weirdest home remedies and folk treatments ever Cracked: The 11 most badass last words ever uttered Egotastic!: Ashley Alexandra Dupre bikini pictures – Spitzer’s hooker goes to the […]

 


The Obamessiah sans Teleprompter

Small surprise McCain is trying to get Obama to agree to town hall type unscripted debates. The Obamessiah without his teleprompter is like Popeye without his spinach. Via Gateway Pundit: Clean and well-spoken? Let’s just say clean — if you don’t count his associations. Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ, on a tip from V […]

 

Krugman tries the race card

Paul Krugman resorts to some rather specious history in an attempt to lay racism at the feet of the right. Krugman today notes that some feel the election of Barack Obama to the presidency would transform America. Not so, says Krugman. Instead there’s something else at work: Mr. Obama’s nomination wouldn’t have been possible 20 […]

 



Political Correctness And Rape Victims

When political correctness gets so out-of-hand that a woman who has been raped can’t say the word “rape” at her assailant’s rape trial, people need to stand up and say that’s unacceptable, It’s the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her. She was raped. But a judge prohibited her from […]

 

No Slacker Left Behind

The concept of “no child left behind” has reached a new extreme of pernicious absurdity in North Carolina’s moonbatty Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district, which is considering making 61 the lowest possible grade students could receive — even if they turn in a blank test. Explains educrat Sherri Martin: There is little or no evidence that […]

 





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Conservative Grapevine Promo

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Obama, political viagra. Now is when you get worried. Cracked: Nectar of the broke: The world’s 5 worst ways to get drunk No Quarter: The Michelle Obama “whitey” tape really exists — I swear! Cityrag: Rihanna bikini pics You can […]

 



Email Issues

Last week, when RWN changed servers, there was an issue with my email. For about a week, emails sent to johnhawkins-at-rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com bounced. So, if you sent me an email during that time, I didn’t receive it. However, my email should be working fine now.

 

Why US Energy Independence Won’t Happen Anytime Soon

In 1972, the US imported 12% of its oil needs. Now we’re near the 50+% range. In those intervening thirty-something years, we, as a nation have done very little to address that problem. R.J. Samuelson, addressing the proposed cap and trade program, provides a litany of why it is a bad idea. A cap and […]

 

Hillarina Concedes, Throws Support Behind Barry O.

After a several months long brutal primary battle, and two days after their super secret meeting at Dianne Feinstein’s home in DC, Hillary Clinton finally made it official yesterday that she is conceding the race for the Dem presidential nomination, and throwing her support behind Barack Obama: Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for […]

 

Voting For Commander In Chief

Fred Kagan at The Weekly Standard breaks it down It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years. As the situation in Iraq deteriorated during 2006 and the war reached its […]

 


Definition of a Conservative

We have all heard the comments about the Republican Party lacking a brand and direction, while Conservative debate over what Conservatives are the movements leaders and strongest candidates. As many Conservatives around the Country try to answer questions about what it means to be a Conservative, an equal number are also asking that question. Enter […]

 

The great brain

My friend Pamela Geller offers, in somewhat more polemic language than I would use, a nonetheless compelling antidote to the largely unexamined conception — to some extent uncritically passed along by me — that Barack Obama has serious intellectual achievements of which he can rightly boast. I very much appreciate the point. It’s one I […]

 

Obama the Totalitarian “Lightworker”

You had to figure that the San Franfreakshow Comical’s Mark Morford — the quintessential left-wing bigot — would be a fan of someone who would earn the sobriquet Barack O’Bigot. But Morford’s slavish worship of the empty skin Dems have chosen as their affirmative action nominee would embarrass even Chris Matthews. Slobbers Morford: Barack Obama […]

 

Goodbye, Harriet McBryde Johnson.

We need more like her. If she gets her wish, and we do manage to eliminate the “disabled Gulag,” we will probably get more like her, and the world will be richer for it. Thanks for the thoughtful tribute, Ed. (X-posted at Little Miss Attila.)

 


Help Wanted: Presidential Running Mates

Robert Novak mentions the Jindal buzz in the New York Post: Jindal-mania naturally has my friends in Louisiana concerned that a national Presidential campaign will spirit the state’s new Governor away. Much as I despise a “bean counting” approach to ethnic/gender diversity, I do believe that—all things being equal—the McCain campaign would be better off […]

 

Hannity on the Obama-Khalidi connection

Add another one to the ever-growing list of radical connections and friendships. Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat toady, got $75,000 through Obama and Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers from the Woods Foundation, and later Khalidi returned the favor by hosting a fundraiser for Obama. Obama “lavished praise” on Khalidi in 2003 when the former PLO functionary […]