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The Influence Of Bloggers On General Elections

Over at Democrats.com, cmkay is mourning the loss of Nedmentum up in Connecticut: “Ned Lamont was the blogosphere’s first primary victory, but now he’s probably going to lose the general election. I seldom see his name on the blogs any more. I see negative things about Lieberman, but never anything positive about Lamont. Why is […]

Daily News For Oct 9, 2006

Foreign North Korea Claims To Have Conducted Nuclear Test South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, Set To Be Formally Endorsed As UN Chief Kofi Annan’s Successor Monday Opec Chief Calls For Immediate Output Cut Outspoken Putin Critic Shot Dead In Moscow Several Hundred Iraqi Police Poisoned 20 Militiamen Killed In Clashes In Southern Iraq Domestic […]

Week-End Links

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this to be an open thread, enjoy the links below, and have a great week-end! Rightroots Has Cracked $200,000! In Border Fence’s Path, Congressional Roadblocks Galley Slaves Game: Chaos Faction Harold Ford Called Self A Lawyer But Did Not Pass Bar Exam Juche Blog Musing Minds The People’s […]

Misc Commentary For Oct 6, 2006

— Maybe this guy should have gone in a different direction with his legal strategy: “A Chicago man apologized for spreading his feces around a courtroom during his trial on drug charges.” — This is sort of a good news, bad news story: The federal budget deficit estimate for the fiscal year just completed has […]

Could What’s Happening In France Happen Here?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem impossible to imagine something like this in America’s future: “Radical Muslims in France’s housing estates are waging an undeclared “intifada” against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union […]

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The Political Ramifications Of A Hastert Resignation

For a moment, let’s set morals aside and coldly consider whether it would be politically smart to get rid of Dennis Hastert right now. First of all, let’s be clear: this scandal is a negative for the GOP any way you slice it. The American people generally think that Congress is corrupt, partisan, and doing […]

I Get Emails: Random Hate Mail I’ve Received — Enjoy!

From:Gerardo Montaño (gerardo@*****) Subject: THE STATE OF MY NATION NOT ONLY IS IT EXCITING TO READ POLITICAL BLOGS, BUT IT’S ALSO A GREAT PLACE TO ENGAGE CITIZENS ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AT THE MOST POWERFUL LEVELS AND AGENTS OF CHANGE…STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED (PAID IN) REPRESENTATIVES. By the way… what exactly defines a […]

Non-Rightroots Endorsed Candidates Worth Supporting

We’re moving right up to the $200,000 mark with Rightroots and I encourage you to continue chipping in. But, if you’ve already given money to Rightroots and are looking for some other conservative candidates to support, here are some other non-incumbents that I think are worth helping, even though they’re not Rightroots endorsed. Mac Collins […]

Mexico Getting Worked Up Over A Wall

Looks like we upset our lousy neighbors to the South by having the audacity to try to keep their citizens from illegally entering our country with a wall: “Mexico says it may go to the United Nations to challenge US plans to build hundreds of kilometres of fences on its southern border. The Foreign Secretary, […]

Foley Cybersex With Teen Part Of A Prank?

According to the Drudge Report… “According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal. According […]

Mike Gallagher Rides To The Rescue

Fred Phelps and the rest of his God Hates F*gs lunatics have cancelled their plans to protest at the funeral of those Amish children killed by a deranged gunman: “A Kansas church group that planned to demonstrate at the funerals of five Amish girls killed in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse has dropped the […]

The Snuff Puppets Vs. America

How long will it be before our tax dollars here in the states end up being spent on “art” of this sort? “The Melbourne-based Snuff Puppets company – which receives up to $50,000 in public funding – will put on a charity performance of The Twin Towers Show on Friday. Snuff Puppet artistic director Andy […]

Excerpt Of The Day: Spying On Foley Vs. Spying On Al-Qaeda

“But now, the same Democrats who are incensed that Bush’s National Security Agency was listening in on al-Qaida phone calls are incensed that Republicans were not reading a gay congressman’s instant messages. Let’s run this past the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: The suspect sent an inappropriately friendly e-mail to a teenager — oh also, […]

Daily News For Oct. 5th, 2006

Domestic US Border Fence Signed Into Law Dow Hits 2nd Straight Record-High Close Pennsylvania Man Charged Al Qaeda Plot Attempt Court Says Eavesdropping Program Can Continue Libs Rush The Stage To Prevent The Minutemen From Speaking Brent Scowcroft: Bob Woodward Made Up Quotes Attributed To Me Foley Scandal Ex-Aide To Foley Says He Alerted Hastert’s […]

Misc Political Commentary For Oct 4, 2006

— Right now, Robert Novak is projecting that the Democrats will pick up 12 seats in House, 3 seats in the Senate, and 3 Governorships. If that were the case, the GOP would keep control of Congress. — Speaking of which my current projections have the GOP losing 5 seats in the Senate, 9-14 in […]

The Latest Masochistic Republican Flogfest

One of the many differences between the Republican and Democratic parties is the way that they deal with scandals. The Democrats’ first instinct is always to circle the wagons and lash out furiously at anyone who attacks “their guy.” On the other hand, Republicans have a much different approach. Although, in all fairness, we do […]

What Passes For “Mainstream” Liberal Thought These Days

The Smirking Chimp is an extremely popular liberal weblog. Just to give you an idea of how popular it is, it pulls roughly 4 times as much traffic as Right Wing News does. So, it’s very fair to call it a mainstream liberal weblog. So, what sort of “mainstream” ideas does this “mainstream” liberal blog […]

The Most Competitive Senate Races For 2006 (5th Edition)

It’s time to reevaluate the Senate races again, although it’s still early and these rankings will change between now and the election. The higher the rating is, the greater the chance is that the seat might change parties. Dark Horse Races: (These are real long shot races) 15) Jon Kyl* (R) vs. Jim Pederson (D) […]

A Conservatives With Attitude Podcast Roundtable On Mark Foley

Last night, I got together with Lorie Byrd , Betsy Newmark , and Ed Morrisey for a GOP USA Northeast Conservatives With Attitude Podcast roundtable on the Mark Foley scandal. The podcast runs about 35-40 minutes and it wasn’t bad for a blogger podcast, especially since I managed to drop the term, “naked piggy pile,” […]

It Wasn’t A War For Oil, It Was A War For The Mahdi?

According to the Times Online…. “THE followers of Moqtada al-Sadr believe that the US invaded Iraq to prevent the return to Earth of their sect’s messiah-like figure, the Mahdi, or 12th imam. Hojatoleslam al-Sadr claims that his militia is preparing for the day when the Mahdi, the last direct descendent of the revered Shia figure […]

Daily News For October 4, 2006

Domestic New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote Bush In Favor Of Foley Investigation Attorney: Clergyman Molested Foley As Teen Gingrich Says Hastert Shouldn’t Resign Over Handling Of Page Scandal Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress Miami Herald Publisher Resigns; Journalists Paid For Promoting Cuban Democracy Elections Public Opinion Strategies: […]

Quote Of The Day: Is What’s Good For Hastert Good For The Washington Times? + The Dkosopedia On Gerry Studs, Before The Foley Edits

“The (Washington) Times just lost its human resources manager because he tried to seduce a 13-year-old girl online. Using the logic of the Times, there is only one thing to do: Wesley Pruden, editor in chief, must resign.” — Don Surber Update #1: Here’s part of the description of the Daily Kos’s dkosopedia on Gerry […]

A Teleconference With John Ashcroft

John Ashcroft has a new book out called, Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice. As part of his promotional efforts, he did a teleconference with some bloggers, myself included. Here are the notes that I took on Ashcroft’s comments (These are not quotes). Enjoy! — The idea that wartime detainees must be charged as […]

Rightroots: The RNC Email Has Gone Out!

The Republican National Committee has sent out the email for Rightroots that they promised us when we met our goals in the 15 days challenge. It went out this afternoon and we were at roughly $130,800 when they sent it out. At the moment, we’re at $144,826 and rising. It’ll be interesting to see where […]