Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Thomas Sowell: False solutions and real problems Cassy Fiano: Babies NOT released to Octomom! Octomom: “I didn’t ask for any of this” Word Around The Net: The Watchmen: Nietzsche vs. Rand Zen Habits: The fine art of decision-making – 7 tips for […]

Folks, now that I am writing for RWN, I can provide you with the information I regularly receive from the American Petroleum Institute. Below is an email from Jane Van Ryan of API regarding taxes on Energy. At the bottom is a link so that you can get politically involved to prevent politicians from increasing […]

Once a community organizer, always a community organizer, I suppose – from an email I received recently from the Obama campaign email list: The current debate in Washington over President Obama’s budget has made one thing clear — ensuring our long-term prosperity won’t come without a fight. Partisan voices and special interests are showing real […]

John Hawkins has offered me the great opportunity to join the Right Wing News team, and I would like to take this time to introduce myself. Since launching “Copious Dissent – Your Daily Dose of Liberty,” I have been linked to most of the major Right-Of-Center blogs, including Rush Limbaugh’s #2 headline last week. For […]

I just got off a teleconference with the following Congressmen: Chief Deputy Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and Congressman Mark Kirk. What follows are my notes, not quotes from the teleconference. The Opening Statement Jim Jordan: This budget is unbelievable. It is going to run the 10 largest deficits in history. To do any […]

The AIG bonus brouhaha has a positive side: it vividly demonstrates that the government should mind its own business, neither bailing out nor hyper-regulating private enterprise. Also, thanks to Chris Dodd, it’s providing some comic relief: Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG: 0.985, 0.2049, 26.27%) […]

Whatever happened to the hippies who were finally made to come down after spending nearly two years living in somebody else’s trees in Berkeley? Most of them are probably teaching college classes or serving in the Obama administration, but some have gone on to exciting new adventures: A veteran Bay Area activist is in stable […]

Oh, to have a Democrat Senator’s luck! Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

Turns out talk of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” is another form of Leftist projection. Have you ever heard of Townhouse? This is news to me: Townhouse is a closed by-invitation-only liberal listserv begun by blogger and Democratic campaign consultant Matt Stoller [hmmm….no mention of Stoller’s participation in Townhouse on his Wiki or bio, -ed.]. Participants […]

“…American minorities of color — especially blacks — are often born into grievance-focused identities. The idea of grievance will seem to define them in some eternal way, and it will link them atavistically to a community of loved ones. To separate from grievance — to say simply that one is no longer racially aggrieved — […]

So, what do you think? Is it worth 21 million dollars? I’m looking at that floppy octopus arm Obama is holding the change in and the fact that this painting is for sale on eBay and thinking, “no.” On the other hand, the artist is playing it up for all its worth, Make An Offer […]

Everyone is upset that AIG took bailout money, but yet, is still giving out bonuses that they are apparently legally obligated to pay out. The President of the United States is admitting that he’s trying to find a way to circumvent the law in order to block the bonuses, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: Does Obama know what he’s doing? Cracked: 5 ways ‘common sense’ lies to you everyday The Chive: The worst tattoos ever Celebslam: Anna Kournikova bikini pics Also, you’ll want to see these vids on Right Wing Video, […]

“In ordinary times, people who do no more than describe the world around them are seen as pragmatists, while those who imagine fabulous alternative futures are viewed as radicals. The last couple of decades haven’t been ordinary, however. …(T)he pragmatists were the ones simply looking out the window and noticing that the real world was […]

What follows are my notes, not quotes, from a teleconference with Senators John Thune and John Ensign about the upcoming budget battle. Opening Statement John Thune: The budget that has been proposed clearly contradicts Obama’s promise of fiscal responsibility. It’s the largest tax increase in American history. It spends too much, taxes too much, and […]

I mentioned last week that there was a narrative building which could be quite detrimental to the Obama administration. That narrative started with the British press, in a snit about the treatment of British PM Gordon Brown during a visit to the White House, noting that the administration seemed “overwhelmed”. Supporters claimed that was normal […]

Comrades, revise your Newspeak dictionaries at once: The European Parliament has banned the terms ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ in case they offend female MEPs. The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita. Guidance issued in a new ‘Gender-Neutral Language’ pamphlet instead […]

No doubt Arlen Specter was well rewarded for selling out his party and his country by supporting the obscene Porkulus package. The 30 pieces of silver he will get for voting to abolish secret ballots for unionization are already on the table. Angling for a critical Senate swing vote to pass the “card check” bill […]

Have you read up on Iceland’s implosion? The whole nation, roughly 300,000 highly educated, inter-related people who still believe in elves, plunged into economic chaos by the same means as Wall Street. I have read, and tried to understand, what happened in Iceland. It is such a spectacular flame out of such an interesting little […]

So David Broder pronounces the “Obama honeymoon over”: I think the shift began when Obama moved beyond the stimulus bill to his speech to the joint session of Congress and his budget message. For the first time, the full extent of his ambitions for 2009 became clear — not just stopping and reversing the steep […]

Ten days ago, I did a review of Watchmen: The Graphic Novel — and in it, I intoned, All that said, the Watchmen does not strike me as a graphic novel that will translate particularly well to film — even with 300‘s Zack Snyder directing. It’s just too disjointed and has too many weak plot […]

Last week, I mocked the DNC for the incredibly lame Rush Limbaugh billboard that their contest produced. Moreover, I thought that RWN’s readers could play the Democrats’ game and do it better. The Dems had 80,000 suggestions and here’s the best anti-Rush they could come up with. On the other hand, RWN’s readers only had […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Welcome, kids, to the brokest generation Flickr: A resignation letter on a cake. Five Fingers of Fury: The difference between between GOP and Dem dudes in a picture Time: Detroit’s beautiful, horrible decline in pictures Egotastic!: Eva Herzigova bikini pictures […]

What exactly do you have to do get put into jail for being a bona fide sex offender in Washington State? When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn’t come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer. . . […]

Via Glenn Reynolds, it appears that someone is questioning the crammed-down concept of “Obama the intellectual.” Indeed, that’s one of the themes of the last couple of days, as his Harvard Law Review “experience” is being questioned as well. Only I already asked that question in a post called, well, “Obama the Intellectual?” In June. […]

The NY Post’s Kyle Smith has a hilarious piece caricaturing the media’s favorite “conservatives” … essentially “conservatives” who don’t like authentic conservatives. A snippet: Dear Mainstream Media: I’m a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin. So can I please […]

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You know things are not going well with Obama’s talking points (this wasn’t really a promise, just a complaint and position by That One) when even the New York Times is calling him on it, albeit softly: Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some […]