I’d ask someone to correct me if I’m wrong, but, last time I checked, Obama won the General Election. Didn’t he? And he now has that pretty change.gov travesty active. So why in the hell is his campaign website still active? And we still get wacky things like this Would we be better off now […]

A HuffPoster’s screed blaming Sarah Palin for an alleged “brewing cauldron of racist anger” inspired my latest American Spectator column: The tactic of blaming Palin for “racist anger” toward Obama developed as a theme during the fall campaign, evidently based on post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking within Team Obama. Threats against Obama increased as […]

In his profile of Paul Weyrich for the DC Examiner, Lee Edwards writes: He was born on October 7, 1942, in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of working-class German Catholics. His father tended the boilers of St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital for 50 years. He was politically active from an early age: at 19, he and his […]

Glenn Reynolds links to James Surowiecki in the New Yorker, who asks, “Are Newspapers Doomed?“ “There’s no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has dried up. In the third quarter alone, it dropped eighteen per cent, or almost two billion dollars, from last year.” He also suggests something that I’ve […]

I’m aware that, as of the time this post is going up, the comments aren’t working. Judging by the error, I’m guessing that it has something to do with the new version of RWN that is being put into place for mobile users (That’s something mobile users have wanted for quite a while). I’ve alerted […]

The jihadists who were plotting to kill members of our military at Fort Dix have been found guilty, guilty, guilty. A jury has found five men guilty of conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said Monday. The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but […]

It’s hard to care about the election currently being stolen in Minnesota. It’s holiday-time and you’re baking (or eating) cookies, traveling to see family and generally taking part in the spirit (or spirits) of the season. I don’t blame you, I don’t. I want to leave the 2008 election behind and look toward the future […]

In his 2001 book, The CEO of the Sofa, P.J. O’Rourke wrote: The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take 100 of its most prominent numskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm. But of course, with every new bailout, the […]

AP gets the prize for the weekend’s most Orwellian lede: President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. Holdren appears to be a militant leftist first, […]

Humanity’s sins against Gaia didn’t start with SUVs, or even the invention of the steam engine. We began to cause global warming by indulging in agriculture thousands of years ago: [G]athering physical evidence, backed by powerful simulations on the world’s most advanced computer climate models, is reshaping that view and lending strong support to the […]

Via Rick, we learn of Nicholas Kristoff’s latest column, which isn’t news at all…the findings have been found, many times before. And for reasons I shall explain later, it will continue to be this way. Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet […]

Make mine a decaf, please: ‘Watermelon Roll’: More Racism from ‘Team Sarah’ There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days–a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama as he and his family get ready to move into the White House. It’s a mean-spirited bigotry that is […]

Um, OK, sure, whatever you say The odds of a “white Christmas” in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said. Did you ever notice (I’m typing in Jerry Seinfeld) that Climahysterics love to throw […]

I knew years ago, after fighting in the pro-life movement for unborn children, that one day we would legalize euthanasia. It was only a matter of time. Once a society has decided that certain life has value and certain life does not, then we slide down that slippery slope of determining who should die and […]

I’d like to share a few things I’ve been noticing, and ruminate over a few questions I’ve been having, about humility. Humility 1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one’s own worth; a sense of one’s own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; […]

This is actually one of the last areas I would have expected to see this kind of story, the Deep South, but, here we go After asking the state Board of Ethics last month whether library staff can accept inexpensive and homemade Christmas gifts from grateful patrons, St. Tammany Parish library officials last week received […]

This week, John Hawkins and Melissa Clothier are going to be on vacation. Taking their place will be an exceptional crew of guest bloggers. Karol Sheinin from Alarming News Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs Cassy Fiano Ed Driscoll Morgan Freeberg from House of Eratosthenes Will Teach from Pirate’s Cove RightwingSparkle Cassandra from Villainous Company Over […]

This is probably a misinterpretation of events, so take it with a grain of salt: Numerous neocons told me that a vicious purge is being carried out at [the American Enterprise Institute], spearheaded by vice-president for foreign and defense policy studies, Danielle Pletka. There can be no doubting that change is afoot at AEI. Recently, […]

Joe Gandelman provides a highly selective “history” to justify the sentence I’ve emphasized in bold: Democrat Bill Clinton had his big share of professional Clinton haters (both prominent and not so prominent would say things such as “He’s not MY President…”) and Democrats decried it and some Republicans defended it. Then came Republican George Bush […]

It isn’t important when the Dems nominate Barack Obama for the Presidential Election. Then it is important when McCain picks Palin as his running mate. Then it isn’t again, when the Democrats vote Obama into the newly minted “Office of the President-Elect” (I added a hyphen; I could not help it). Then it isn’t again, […]

Apparently, Instapundit thinks comparing apples and oranges is better than making solid analytical arguments when you think you can make a cheap score against one of those old-fashioned “morality” based public policies: IS SELLING PEOPLE PORN worse than robbing them? Apparently, the Justice Department thinks so. Perhaps things will be better in this regard under […]

I do truly like these types of cheerful stories more then the ones about people trying to do away with Christmas, don’t you? EAST WENATCHEE (Washington) — Dressed head-to-toe in military fatigues, her camouflage pants tucked into combat boots and her hair pulled back in a tight bun, Maureen Peltier stood nervously outside a classroom at […]

Michael W at QandO dissects the NYT’s hit piece here. They’ve done a “blame Bush for the subprime meltdown” piece like this once before, but this one takes it to knew heights (or should I say lows?). No matter what anyone’s feelings are right now for Bush after the auto bailout he announced Friday, there’s […]

Preferably in a horrible way. Snuffed. Capped. Sacrificed for the greater good. These are from movies (or parts of movies) I have actually seen 1. Jar Jar Binks. I don’t really need to explain, do I? Actually, it was George Lucas who needed to be sacrificed, but, he wasn’t an actual character in the movie. Anyhow, […]

Her rich boyfriend pays her rent, lavishes her with gifts, and takes her on luxury vacations. So why isn’t everyone congratulating Melissa Beech on her good fortune? In a society that long ago discarded the ideal of premarital chastity, youthful fornication has lost its shock power. If Miss Beech were merely sleeping with a college […]

Liberal ideology, and the average liberal’s self-image, is founded on — let’s be polite about it — myth and misinformation. Throughout the 20th century, liberals have excused and explained their latest utopian “solutions” to manufactured “problems” using twisted history. As it turns out: DDT isn’t dangerous, Alger Hiss was a spy, the Rosenbergs were guilty, […]

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 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 Sister Toldjah William […]

This Caroline Kennedy thing is like a bad soap opera. It brings up a seeming trend and problem which I’d like to see nipped in the bud. Legacy and entitlement in the political system. Just because daddy was a politician, and considered by some to be a good one, doesn’t mean daughter has the same […]

Gasoline where I am is back down to $1.49 a gallon.  The national average right now is about $1.65 a gallon.  The Eco-Marxists aren’t happy with the price of gasoline being low.  If you remember during the primaries, even Barack Obama said the price wasn’t bad, it just rose too fast. To the green mafia, […]

Question: “John, first off, I’m a big fan and loyal reader for several years now. You have even added me to your friends on MySpace. Keep up the good fight! Now my question is: Why is it that the RNC and republicans in general are not interested in these lying, thieving, cheating, liberal democrats steal […]