Have y’all heard about this one? A late-night raid of City Hall and the Main Library here by 60 heavily armed sheriff’s deputies and posse members searching for illegal immigrants has escalated tensions between city officials and the county sheriff, who ordered the raid. The operation took place at 2 a.m. on Thursday, timed to […]

Borganomic politics from The Politico Barack Obama’s stop at Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken in Fayetteville, N.C., this afternoon underscored the continued resistance of some voters to his candidacy — and his identity. The trip, according to a pool report, offered “some powerful and at times ugly interaction.” Resistance? Why do I get flashbacks to […]

That is the question that The New Republic asks, and attempts to answer. After six paragraphs of leadup and discussing John McCain, the writers finally get to their defense of spreading the wealth But let’s get back to this apparently controverisal phrase–which, I gather, is going to remain prominent in McCain’s campaign rhetoric over the […]

Unfortunately, I’m feeling absolutely terrible right now and I’m not going to be able to continue updating RWN today. I’m going to email some of my guest bloggers and ask them to fill in at the last minute. Hopefully, they’ll carry the load. Either way, I should be back in action tomorrow.

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Michael Medved: For Conservatives, Obama’s changes would be permanent and devastating Oddee: 10 people who survived the impossible Dumb Little Man: Can you really redesign your own life? — John_Hawkins I Don’t Like You In That Way: Sarah Michelle Geller lingerie shoot […]

Identity What makes Obama “black?” It’s a question that’s been swirling in my mind for well over a year now. I’ve been putting off writing this, because I’m honestly afraid of what I might say. What will I feel? Will I be another Uncle Tom? Hell, what made President Clinton the “first Black President?” It […]

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, in an open letter to Sen. John McCain concerning why the pursuit of unnecessary AGW remedies will destroy America, included this very interesting paragraph: Britain and the United States, like England and Scotland on the first page of Macaulay’s splendid History of England, are bound to one another by “indissoluble […]

Will Joe Shanks from Knoxville be the next anti-Obama plumber to have his tax records combed with a fine-toothed comb? On second thought, probably not. After all, this Joe the plumber is not in a swing state that matters. Related: The anti-Gov. Palin Anchorage Daily News injects all kinds of insinuations about the original JTP […]

Ross Douthat, via Insty, describes his vision of “the conservative cocoon”: The cocoon is the constellation of mutually-reinforcing conservative institutions – think tanks and advocacy groups, talk-radio shows and websites – that can create the same echo-chamber effect that the liberal media has long produced, and that at times makes it difficult for the Right […]

My girlfriend wanted to go shopping for Halloween costumes on Thursday, during her lunch hour. Now, she works in downtown Sacramento and we live in Folsom, which presents a problem because there’s a good twenty or thirty miles between the two, and Al Gore tells me if I drive my car too much I’ll kill […]

Let the games begin! Breakin’ it down. As always, number in parentheses is margin the team is supposed to win by 1pm games San Fran at Giants (10) Steelers (9.5) at Bengels Titans (9) at Chiefs Vikings at Bears (3) Chargers at Bills (1) Saints at Panthers (3) Cowboys (7.5) at Rams Ravens at Dolphins […]

Yes. Per the Brad Blog, the massive GOP voter fraud to steal the election using electronic touch screens begins. Massive amounts of Democrats have had their votes switched At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines […]

I carpooled to a soccer game today. The driver, who is someone I don’t know very well, is a very charming man who is quite obviously a potential Obama voter. He wasn’t quite sure about me and, since he was a very civil individual, he never came out and either insulted McCain or lauded Obama. […]

The reason the mainstream media have jumped on “Joe the Plumber” is that his question exposes the essential socialism of Obama’s tax policies. I’m Joe the Plumber, too, as is Jimmie from JThe Sundries Shack. There are a lot of us out there, of all creeds and colors, and representing both sexes. There’s more good […]

I just assumed that Obama’s tax plan allowed an actual (if small) $500 to $1000 tax "cut" to most families.  I also assumed, based on Obama’s expansive plans to spend billions upon billions trying to "spread the wealth around," that any Obama tax cut would be short-lived and that the $500 "cut" is just a […]

I was perusing this ABC News article that offers a defense of ACORN, and a lot of things didn’t sit right with me about it. And indeed, an hour or two later I saw that Terry Trippany, CEO chief cook and bottle-washer of our parent site Webloggin and contributing writer to Newsbusters, shredded the hell […]

Watching John McCain struggle to explain why Obama’s relationship with Ayers matters (and why Ayers’ rise from terrorist to model citizen defines the very left liberalism that must be stopped, not rewarded on election day), I realized once more that everyone is still missing the point, and leaving out the most haunting and damning part […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Ali Akbar 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 Sunday ——- Michele Catalano from A Big Victory Ron Coleman from Likelihood of […]

So the Republican party today is “vulgar” according to Peggy Noonan: In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It’s no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism. When […]

Because they’re at least going to exploit what they believe to be available: The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields – more than double the previous estimate. Cubapetroleo’s exploration manager said drilling in the offshore wells would begin as early as the […]

“A plumber is the guy he’s fighting for,” The One sneers with distain. The swarm of Obamunists around him go nuts, hooting in derision. The reference is of course to McCain’s defense of Joe Wurzelbacher, who complained that Obama’s malevolent plans to inflict social justice by jacking up taxes will kill the dream of business […]

So what if Obama is elected? After four years, Americans will realize they’ve been sold a bill of goods by the left-wing media, and vote him back out again. Then we can live happily ever after. Right? Wrong. Four years is more than enough time to inflict permanent damage on this country, given the large […]

Here’s an email I received this week, “Hey John, I’m always interested in your opinions, so I hope that you can write on this. Since it looks quite likely at this point that Obama will win the election, what will happen in Iraq? Is there any hope of us winning, it seems like we are […]

The bad news is that the Weekly World News says that the coveted Bat Boy endorsement is going to Barack Obama, Obatma’s half-brother, Barack Obama, has received the political endorsement of America’s favorite precocious mutant: Bat Boy. This morning presidential nominee Barack Obama met the half-human half-bat who eagerly gave his endorsement through a series […]

Yesterday, I ran a poll asking RWN’s readers if they would like “to flip the ticket? That would mean Sarah Palin as the presidential nominee & McCain as the VP?” Here’s how it broke down, Yes: 73% (378) No: 27% (140) That’s either a ringing endorsement of Sarah Palin, a lack of faith in John […]

I’m taking a bit of artistic liberty by sticking the word liberal in here, but it fits the mentality of the people he was talking about way back in 1884, “(liberals) are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight […]

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.” — Unknown Deficit spending has been a contentious issue in American politics since we first became a country and started having ferocious arguments about how quickly to […]

“Jane’s Law: The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.” — Megan McCardle It could happen, you know. By “it,” I mean the worst nightmare of any conservative. In fact, odds are that in 2009, we’re going to have President Barack Obama, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Charles Krauthammer: Who’s playing the race card? Cracked: The 6 ballsiest scientific frauds people actually fell for Hot Air: Good news: Ohio moves to shut down “Joe the Plumber” 10Connects: Good samaritan in bizarre legal mess Egotastic!: Rihanna bikini pics. You can […]

Joe the Plumber was busy working under a kitchen sink, which is why he didn’t hear someone come up behind him. He was slammed in the back with a pipe wrench, leaving him crying in pain as he looked up at his attacker: Barack Obama. “You made one mistake, Joe,” Obama said. “You made too […]