John McCain is not the GOP nominee yet, but after his victory in South Carolina, he certainly has to be considered the front runner. With that in mind, let me give everybody in the conservative media two pieces of food for thought. #1) First of all, if McCain’s the nominee, there is going to be […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: The 5 most horrifying bugs in the world Charlotte Allen: Jena. The case of the amazing disappearing hate crime. Mark Steyn: Some fictional horrors of war The Superficial: A Kirsten Dunst photoshoot for Miu Miu. You can check out all those […]

Democratic Underground Thread Of The Day: Ann Coulter Inspires Liberal Fascism? Over at the Democratic Underground, Aptastik asks, Ann Coulter Is Speaking At My School – Need Protest Ideas So, recently, the president of the College Republicans at my university took over the student government and promptly cut our NYPIRG budget by $25,000 and reallocated […]

In Nevada, Mitt Romney crushed all opposition and Ron Paul edged out John McCain for 2nd place. In South Carolina, which was more hotly contested and was treated as the more important of the two primaries, John McCain won, Mike Huckabee finished just behind in 2nd place, and Fred Thompson edged out Mitt Romney for […]

Last week-end was pretty grim for conservatives. Duncan Hunter, who admittedly was already out of it, officially dropped out of the race and Fred Thompson finished in third place in South Carolina, which, barring a miracle, knocks him out of the running. I know that’s tough for some people to hear, but you gotta understand… […]

“When McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced legislation empowering Congress to comprehensively regulate U.S. industries’ emissions of greenhouse gases in order to “prevent catastrophic global warming,” they co-authored an op-ed column that radiated McCainian intolerance of disagreement. It said that a U.N. panel’s report “puts the final nail in denial’s coffin about the problem of global […]

This week-end, I caught the mega-monster movie, Cloverfield, at the theater — twice. Why did I watch the movie twice? Because Cloverfield was 1 part Blair Witch Project, 1 part Godzilla, and 3 parts AWESOME — and note, I didn’t say awesome, I said AWESOME, in all capital letters, which denotes exceptional awesomeness. Apparently, my […]

That’s Blogapathy. Cute little critter, eh? And, I gotta admit, Blogapathy has shown up for me regarding these primaries. At this point, I’m just not in to posts about the elections. How does one sustain the emotion throughout two years of election campaigning? If anyone asks me what is the biggest difference between Liberals and […]

If only it were this easy: A mailer from a congressional candidate’s campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner. The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land. In reality, it is a […]

Here’s an interesting tidbit of news, via Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter: Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a former president and the titular head of the Democratic Party. In recent weeks, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, […]

Ed Morrissey points to a story out of Nevada that just made me laugh. Bill Clinton talking to reporters: Today when my daughter and I were wandering through the hotel, and all these culinary workers were mobbing us telling us they didn’t care what the union told them to do, they were gonna caucus for […]

John McCain can’t help himself. I was watching the post-South Carolina interview on Fox where Sean Hannity threw McCain softballs. McCain still balked. (I’m not the only one noticing this. It was glaring.) On immigration, he “knows what to do because I’m from a border state”. He said that he understood that people wanted border […]

McCain wins South Carolina. Update: Michelle thinks this is the end for Huckabee. I hope so. Jeff Quinton has an excellent post on the Confederate flag factor. With 82% of precincts reporting, most everyone is calling it for McCain. The good news is that Lobo lost his bet to me. I won’t be buying a […]

Norman Podhoretz has a thoughtful, original and detailed piece at Commentary Magazine online: Stopping Iran: Why the Case for Military Action Still Stands. Here’s an excerpt from the middle. Regardlesss of where you stand on the Iranian nuclear situation, do read it all: As we have seen, Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, had […]

A lot of people are talking about the latest ARG poll showing a last minute surge for Fred Thompson. It puts him at 21% beating Romney for the third slot by nine. Rainy weather is dampening the turn-out of voters, and who knows which candidate that will favor. I would think that issue voters would […]

Whenever liberals start carping about “tax cuts for the rich,” I respond by saying that with “the rich” paying nearly all of the taxes in this country it’s sort of hard to give the “poor” any tax relief at all. After all, you can’t exactly cut or rebate something that doesn’t exist in the first […]

The AP is reporting that Mitt Romney has won the Nevada caucuses (via Gateway Pundit): Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada’s caucuses Saturday while John McCain and Mike Huckabee dueled in the South Carolina primary, a campaign doubleheader likely to winnow the crowded field of presidential rivals. Democrats shared the stage in Nevada, where Hillary Rodham […]

Toronto blogger Mike Brock went to a public forum yesterday, ostensibly a “debate” about the Mark Steyn/Maclean’s case (Steyn and the mag are accused of “flagrant Islamophobia” for publishing an excerpt from his book America Alone.) Two of Steyn’s belligerent Muslim accusers spoke at the event. The organizers tried to shut Mike up when they […]

Here’s the Right Wing News week-end guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Rob Port from Say Anything EM Zanotti from The American Princess and The Corner Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Cassy Fiano, who also blogs at Wizbang Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of […]

Yesterday, I interviewed Jonah Goldberg about his new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Before we really get started, give us the Jonah Goldberg definition of fascism. A short definition would simply be — […]

Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine complained that, “There is nothing inherently “conservative” about the war in Iraq, and nothing inherently objectionable to the idea that we should have a more humble, skeptical and cautious foreign policy. The way that Paul, Hagel, et al, have been virtually drummed out of polite Republican circles for […]

On Saturday, Republicans will have their primaries in South Carolina and Nevada and the Democrats will have a primary in Nevada. In South Carolina, McCain and Huckabee appear to be fighting it out for the top slot while Mitt and Fred are battling for third a few points back. Both Huckabee and Fred really need […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Victor Davis Hanson: St. Reagan. Idealizing ideological purity. Hugh Hewitt: Mark Steyn and Hugh on whether the GOP can put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Daily Mail: British anti-whaling protester held on Japanese harpoon ship offered whale meat for dinner Egotastic!: Natalie […]

An email I received yesterday, John, As a Conservative, you have to be questioning why McLame is getting these poll numbers. This doesn’t make sense to me especially what he put us trough with old fat Kennedy this past summer on the immigration nightmare. I just don’t believe these polls. Any real Republican would never […]

This central point of this poorly reasoned column by Steven Stark over at RealClearPolitics caught my eye, “If the surprise results in New Hampshire had an unanticipated benefit, it is this: they exposed the myth, once and for all, that the Internet has made political reporting and analysis far better than it once was. Alas, […]

As you all know, I support Fred Thompson and his policy ideas. Yet, many of you wonder, “What is Frank J.’s vision for America?” Well, off the top of my head, here it is: FRANK J.’S VISION FOR AMERICA A fist in every hippie’s face. Criminals on fire, running around the streets. Every time you […]

10) Tom Tancredo: “Out Tancredo Tancredo” 9) Mike Huckabee: The Gates of Hell 8) Rudy Giuliani: Splattering Ron Paul 7) Mike Huckabee: “We’ve had a Congress that spends money like…” 6) Mike Gravel: “How did I ever get here?” 5) Mike Huckabee: “Jesus was too smart…” 4) Rudy: Lightning 3) John McCain: “Tied up” 2) […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Mitt Romney is manifestly the best candidate. Trump University: Donald Trump’s 20 top success tips Canongate: 9 people who died laughing Cracked: The 6 most unsettling medication side effects Popholic: Rachel Bilson’s sexy GQ photoshoot You can check out all […]

Originally, I was rooting for Barack Obama to beat Hillary in the Democratic primaries because she’s such a corrupt, detestable, dishonest woman who acts as if she’s some kind of feminist icon despite the fact that everything she has achieved in her life has been based on riding her husband’s coattails. However, it is getting […]

Cue the Darth Vader theme as the all-powerful state reaches further and further into people’s lives in California, Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and […]