You want to see the sort of Islamic extremism that Muslims are exposed to in the Middle-East regularly? Well, then check out a few excerpt from an article in the New York Sun on Bridges TV: One religious figure who appeared October 3 said Muslims have a duty to change America and to increase their […]

“An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some […]

Foreign U.S. To Hand Iraq A New Timetable On Security Role (Free New York Times Reg Req) A Senior U.S. Diplomat, Alberto Fernandez, Said The United States Had Shown “Arrogance” And “Stupidity” In Iraq (He Should Be Immediately Fired) U.S. Sees Deadliest Month Of ’06 In Iraq Britain: Police In Manchester Have Been Told Not […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this an open thread, enjoy the links below, and have a great week-end! Rightroots: Keep The Money Rolling In And Help Save Congress The Hotsoup Conservative Forum Powerspoint Myers Briggs Clone Personality Test (I’m An ENTJ) Blue Crab Boulevard Riehl World View Blog Juice Calculator Video: In A […]

“When I asked Gore Vidal at dinner why the White House seemed so serene and at ease about the vote, he replied that, this time around, the Bush-Cheney henchmen could simply call on martial law. He glumly noted that we are so far down the road toward totalitarianism that, even if Democrats do win back […]

Yesterday, I was thrilled to get an opportunity to interview syndicated radio host and columnist, Larry Elder. What follows below is an edited transcript of our conversation. Read and enjoy! John Hawkins: Despite being lavished with favorable attention from the mainstream media, Air America just went bankrupt. Now, you’re a successful talk radio host, you’re […]

How about clicking on just a few of these ads? It helps support Right Wing News and it rewards advertisers for spending money on conservative blogs. So, hope you’ll help out! Link #1 Link #2 Link #3 Link #4 Link #5 Link #6 Link #7 Link #8 Link #9 Link #10 Link #11 Link #12 […]

Yesterday, I did a phone mini-interview with Bob Corker, the GOP candidate for the Senate in Tennessee. Corker’s race against Harold Ford is incredibly important because if the Democrats are going to take over the Senate, it looks like they’re going to have to beat Bob Corker to do it. So, with the election just […]

Unfortunately, pollsters haven’t been doing a good job of polling seats where the GOP has an opportunity to pick up seats. So, I’ve been scouring the polling data, making phone calls to campaigns, talking to contacts, I’ve come up with, at least for the moment, our top 6 pick-up opportunities in the House. The links […]

(Technical Problem) You can check Bethany’s latest Vlog at realVerse here.

Earlier today, as I was perusing the The Smirking Chimp, I ran across an ad for a company called CarryaBigSticker and I thought you might enjoy seeing a few of the stickers that apparently appeal to a liberal audience. Enjoy, read it and weep, you know, whatever does it for you:

The Wall Street Journal points to this release from the Republican Study Committee in the House of actual bills that House Democrats have proposed in this past Congress. Here are a few of those proposals that might interest people. Gas Stamp Act (McDermott, D-WA)—H.R. 3712. Creates billions of dollars in gas stamps each year for […]

Foreign Report: N. Korean Leader Regrets Test Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Israel ‘Cannot Survive’ OPEC Cuts Oil Production By 1.2m Barrels Domestic NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll: Only 16 Percent Of Respondents Approve Of The Job Congress Is Doing, The Lowest Level Since 1992 Dow Tops 12,000 House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra Has Suspended A Democratic Staff […]

You hear a lot of people saying that you can’t trust the polls and that they’re always slanted against the GOP. That’s actually not true. Rather than go into a long, detailed breakdown on polling data, let me give you some short and simple tips on how to actually get meaning out of the poll […]

Over at the most popular liberal blog on earth, The Daily Kos, diarist radio waves has a bold prediction: that Chimpy McBushHitler will actually cancel the election (These guys just keep getting crazier and crazier as time goes on): “Many of us have by now made the Bush/Hitler comparison. Most of us are good and […]

Over the next few days, you’re probably going to hear people talking about Hot Soup, a brand new website with a lot of high profile members. Well, they recruited me to participate in the project, which has other people involved — like Ed Gillespie, Lance Armstrong, Donna Brazile, Mary Matalin, & John McCain, Berkeley Breathed, […]

From ABC: George Stephanopoulos: “You’ve used some pretty tough rhetoric. You said this election is ‘a choice between Republicans and Democrats who want to wave the white flag of surrender in the war on terror.’ Can you name a Democrat who wants to ‘wave the white flag of surrender’?” President George W. Bush, referring to […]

Now that it has become apparent that the GOP is in a real dogfight to hold onto Congress, a lot of Republicans who had tuned out before are starting to wonder where their campaign contributions can have the greatest impact. Well, let’s think about that. Governors’ races and Senate races tend to be big money […]

For the last few months, whether you’re talking about Republicans or Democrats, politicians in competitive races have fallen into one of two camps: politicians who are tough on illegal immigration and politicians who are pretending to be tough on illegal immigration. Since that’s the case, it would seem to be a no-brainer to trumpet the […]

“Every movie needs a villain. Towel-heads and rednecks — of which I am one. If you write that word, please say that. I mean, I don’t use that pejoratively, I use it defensively. Towel-heads and rednecks became the easy villains in so many movies out there.” — James Webb

Just for the fun of it, here are the TV shows I’ve got my Tivo set to record regularly: Blade: The Series: Incredible first season! CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: I can’t get into the other CSI shows for some reason. Dog the Bounty Hunter: I just started watching this. So far, so good. Family Guy: […]

Elections Survey USA: Steele 46% vs. Cardin 46% McCaskill Campaign Implicated In ACORN Voter Fraud Scandal DNC Takes Out Loan For DSCC George Allen Press Release: Daily Kos Gives Webb Over $130,000 In Tainted Money. Webb Joins Forces With Liberal Blog That Gloats About Contractors Mutilated In Iraq Mike Tyson Campaigns For Michael Steele (Ugh) […]

Whether the GOP holds onto Congress or not, it’s clear that there needs to be some changes in the way that they’re conducting business. That may mean some changes in leadership. It may mean instituting more party discipline so that members who sell out the base on key issues pay a bigger price for it. […]

Originally, ABC PAC told us that the 15th of October was the last day that they could guarantee that they could get the money that Rightroots raised out to the candidates we’ve been supporting. Well, last night, they informed us that has changed and that money contributed to the candidates can make a difference right […]

Okay, I admit it. As the election approaches, I am feeling a creepy sense of paranoia. My right brain reads the newspapers, studies the polls and thinks we are looking at a blow-out next month–Dems conquer at last. My left brain hoots in derision. Get real, sucker. …When I heard the news flash that a […]

From an email I received a few minutes ago: “John, I know this is not Q&A Friday, but I have a question I would like your opinion on. What happens to the Dems if they don’t win either house of congress or just pick up one in November? A lot of analysis has been poured […]

Would you like to see what the average liberal today believes, live and in living color? Then head on over to The Smirking Chimp, a wildly popular, mainstream liberal weblog. So, what sort of “mainstream” ideas does this “mainstream” liberal blog promote? Well, what you’re going to read below are some quotations from articles on […]

Outing specialist Mike Rogers has “outed” Senator Larry Craig as a closet homosexual. And he promises more to come. The Democrats want to make this an election about gay sex. And people say the Republicans deserve to lose? UPDATE: Craig denies the allegations. UPDATE x2: I truly believe this sort of tactic is going to […]

Well, at least somebody seems confident about the GOP chances: White House political strategist Karl Rove yesterday confidently predicted that the Republican Party would hold the House and the Senate in next month’s elections, dismissing fallout from the sex scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. At a luncheon with editors and reporters at The Washington […]

There has been a lot of back and forth among conservative bloggers about whether the Republicans deserve to win this year and perhaps it would even be a salutary lesson for the Republicans to lose their majority. The thinking goes something like this: the GOP have lost their focus on conservative principles and become just […]