Zimbabwe was once one of the rare success stories in Africa. How much of a success story? We’re talking about an African nation that was actually exporting food. Then Robert Mugabe came along and he did something extraordinarily foolish. Here’s a RWN post from Megan McArdle back in mid-2005 describing what happened, When Robert Mugabe […]

Speaking of politicians, in a letter to the editor, a reader of the New York Times grumbled: “It’s amazing that Andrew Cuomo, who owes his whole career to his dad, may not get the Senate seat of Hillary Rodham Clinton (who owes her whole career to her husband) because David Paterson (who owes his whole […]

From The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. “If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life — that means all your results, both your successes […]

People keep comparing Barack Obama to Abrahan Lincoln — which is an enormous insult to a great man like Lincoln. Lincoln is not famous for talking a good game about hope and change or for being from Illinois; he’s famous for what he accomplished. He freed the slaves, won the Civil War, and preserved the […]

Some of my favorite Twitter posts from the last few days… stephenkruiser “Yes we can!” Monday on CBS. WTF?WTF?WTF?WTF?!?!?!? terrimurphy Terri Murphy’s Wisdom: “Success does not necessarily come from doing things right, but from doing right things” www.WomensWisdomNetwork.com RightGirl RT @andhisband: When Barack Obama is president, every Starbucks will have a pink unicorn that farts […]

It is not an inauguration so much as it is an “inaugurasm”. Today I caught a quote from Putin about Obama: “The biggest disappointments arise out of big expectations”. Whatever you think about the Russian Prime Minister, he has got it right. — Sullihan, a commenter at Pajamas Media

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Our permanent state of routine emergency Comedy Juice: 20 of the worst tattoos eve A Big Victory: The day eventually comes when your child asks you THE question. How are babies made, mommy? Here is the wrong way to discuss […]

If Al Gore is AGW’s “Hysteric-in-Chief”, James Hansen has to be the VHIC. And he’s out with the newest doomsday “runaway greenhouse effect” prediction in one of coldest winters in a few decades: Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert […]

Just when you were starting to believe that Liberals were compassionate, mostly because they tell you this non-stop to brainwash you, well, not so much CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien wants this dog gone. The newswoman and other members of a Chelsea co-op board are trying to evict a beloved family pet from a swanky loft […]

Every year around Super Bowl time I post an item about the NFL’s overzealous efforts to impose a gridiron grip on all aspects of its somewhat valuable SUPER BOWL trademark: In 2007, the NFL tried to claim ownership of the euphemism of choice for the Big Game, THE BIG GAME Later that year, someone picked […]

Maybe the AP’s been reading Newsbusters, the blog that was the first to notice the hypocrisy between how the AP treated Bush’s 2005 inauguration and Obama’s. AP writer Matt Apuzzo makes up for lost time in a piece published today with the headline “Obama hosting pricey party in a dicey economy” (via Wizbang): WASHINGTON – […]

Whatever happened to the good old days when people who got tats gone one that said “Mom” or the name of your husband/wife? Or just a cool design? Maybe something that showed you served in the US Military? This is nothing new, the Cult Of Barry, which is soon to make The Audacity of Hope […]

Israel runs out of fish in the barrel: Israel called off its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, saying Hamas was “badly beaten,” but the Islamist group vowed to fight on in a war that has killed 1,200 Palestinians in the coastal enclave. Within minutes of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announcing that a […]

WSJ has the accounts of some passengers from Flight 1549 who held onto a life raft that was trying to escape the scene, and we now have video of the landing. If I’m getting this right, the vid that AllahP posted is from the New Jersey side of the river; the plane comes into frame […]

As the price tag for the Democrats’ stimulus packages continues to climb, even as the federal governmetn faces a record budget deficit, I ask Obama supporters, who have such hope that their man will change things in Washington, if they can provide any evidence of such hefty stimuli actually providing anything more than a short-term […]

John asked me to cross-post a piece or two on Saturday. Glad to share this piece (slightly revised) which first appeared last night on my blog. –Dan On Thursday evening, while pounding away on the Stairmaster at my gym (the only place I watch MSNBC), I was “treated” to forty-five minutes (the length of my […]

The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus are heading to D.C. to sing at the inauguration. I had the opportunity to hear them perform yesterday at San Francisco City Hall, and their singing is just beautiful. They look lovely too, in their crisp uniforms — although it is funny the way […]

Decided five months ago, decision made public this week. Obviously in a desperate attempt by this lame-duck President to re-make his public image so he can selfishly trample away on our Constitutional rights in the last hours of his presidency: The New York Times reported: “A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued […]

Barack Obama’s pick for his new “climate czar”, Carol Browner, is an odd choice for this influential post. Not because her radical views about global warming and economics don’t line up perfectly with the latest far Left fads, but because her background is marred by incidents of racial discrimination that happened on her watch at […]

Yeah, you really should put down what you’re doing and go read up. If, after skimming, you don’t agree it was worth your time to do so, I can pretty much promise you weren’t doing anything worthwhile when you got interrupted. It was written by one F. A. Hayek between 1940 and 1944, and effectively […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Bookworm from Bookworm Room Cassy Fiano Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Gaypatriotwest from GayPatriot Morgan from House of Eratosthenes Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Cassandra from Villainous Company Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success […]

Here is your brain on liberal fiscal policies: California’s controller says he will begin a 30-day delay on tax refunds and other payments starting Feb. 1 because the state is running out of money. The solution, of course, isn’t to cut spending, scale back on largess and live within one’s means. The solution is to […]

Apparently Obama has decided Osama is no big deal. Or, “Gosh, those Bush guys weren’t so dumb afterall”: Barack Obama suggested last night that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefield was no longer essential and that America’s security goals could be achieved merely by keeping al-Qaeda “on the run”. “My preference obviously would be […]

One thing you can count on in American journalism: No matter how tight their budgets, no matter how many staff layoffs may come, editors will always find money to send a feature writer out into the sticks to write — in the manner of National Geographic reporting on a neolithic Borneo rain forest tribe — […]

You have to wonder what Freud would make of the moonbat obsession with bodily functions. They advocate making do with one square of toilet paper and want to ban flush toilets. Lefty bubblehead Drew Barrymore took a “poo in the woods hunched over like an animal” and described the experience as “awesome.” Now this: The […]

Everywhere you turn, moonbattery is in your face. Check out this design for water bottles: These are called the Bottle of M. M stands not only for moonbattery, but also for meltdown, because if you don’t recycle your water bottle, the polar ice caps will melt, and the cute polar bears and penguins will drown. […]

Paul Krugman has conclusively proven that the mainstream and the fringe have become one in the same on the left by encouraging Obama to try to jail the Democrats’ political enemies in the Bush Administration, Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. […]

This post is definitely going to be over-the-line or more aptly, below the belt, but sometimes you just have to do who what you gotta do. In this case, my lovely and talented pal, Ann Althouse, came across a piece of Obama kitsch over at The New Republic that just has to be seen to […]

I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview Tony Blankley about his new book, American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century. While I don’t agree with everything Tony had to say, most particularly on the draft, I think that he raised a lot of worthy points and […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Hot Air: The best conservative movies of the last 25 years. David Limbaugh: Bloodlust of the avenging left Ace of Spades HQ: A list of some of the ridiculous spending projects in the stimulus bill Egotastic!: Olivia Munn bikini shots Also, you’ll […]