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Daily News For August 29, 2006

Foreign 40 Killed As Shiites Battle Iraqi Forces Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki: “The Violence Is Not Increasing. We’re Not In A Civil War. Iraq Will Never Be In A Civil War. The Violence Is In Decrease And Our Security Ability Is Increasing.” Annan Booed In Hezbollah Stronghold Ahmadinejad Claims Holocaust Invented To Embarass Germany Court […]

A Mini-Interview With Rightroots Endorsed Candidate Chris Wakim

Chris Wakim has a very impressive background. He’s a Christian conservative who is the grandson of immigrants from Lebanon. He was educated at West Point and Harvard and then went into the military, where he worked his way up to “Captain in command of a mechanized infantry company in the Fourth Infantry Division.” Chris also […]

Weapons For Hezbollah Means No Money For Lebanon

Seldom do I have a kind word for Democrats on matters of National Security (because seldom do they deserve it). Moreover, as a general rule, it is not in my opinion helpful for a single member of the House to take it upon himself to interfere with America’s foreign policy. That being said, in my […]

He Made The Sign Of The Cross! Call The Police!

The anti-Christian zealotry in the United States hasn’t gone this far yet, but give the ACLU and their liberal buddies enough time and I’m sure they’ll get around to it: “Footballer gets criminal record for making sign of the cross The Catholic Church has condemned the cautioning of a Polish footballer for gestures which allegedly […]

Excerpt Of the Day: Democrats And “Values Voters”

“…(O)n the eve of the 2004 election, an election dominated by “moral values” voters (despite what some have written), fully 42% of Americans saw the Democrat Party as “friendly toward religion.” Of course, the Dems got walloped in 2004, largely because they were so remarkably out-of-step with the values of those “values voters”. The Dems […]

Which Is More Dangerous? Philadelphia Or Iraq?

If you’re a young, black American, would you be safer serving in Iraq or walking the mean streets of the city of Brotherly Love? The answer may surprise you: “Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops in Iraq. […]

The Lone Voice In The Wilderness By Sister Toldjah

This woman’s got the right idea: Caption: Marge Trowbridge, a lone supporter of President George W. Bush, carries a sign claiming she is surrounded by idiots as she walks in front of an anti-war protest on Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, Maine, Saturday afternoon Aug. 26, 2006. President Bush is visiting his parents for the weekend […]

Daily News For August 27, 2006

Foreign Ten British Holidaymakers Among 21 Hurt In Turkish Resort Explosions Defying U.N., Iran Opens Nuclear Reactor Fox News Crew Freed After Gaza Ordeal — Forced To Convert To Islam At Gunpoint UN Will Not Stop Syria Sending Weapons To Lebanon (Israel Should Start Bombing Again) Hezbollah Leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah Said In A TV […]

Week-End Links

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be an open thread, and have a great week-end! Help Rightroots Reach $50,000 For Our Candidates! The 2,996 Project Daily Pundit Chinese Storms Leave 15 Million Homeless David Frum’s Diary Hoystory Mark Levin Fan Polipundit The Real Ugly American Rhymes With Right […]

A “Death To Israel” Rally In America?

This is just disgraceful: “Members of Utah’s Jewish community are alarmed by a proposed demonstration that will call for “Death to Israel.” A man – whose name wasn’t available Thursday – has applied for a free-speech permit from Salt Lake City to demonstrate on sidewalks near City Hall on Wednesday. The city is reviewing the […]

Gary Hart: Bush Is Going To Become Emperor!

Like most people, I normally pay little heed to Bill Clinton 1.0 AKA Gary Hart. But, Hart wrote a piece on the Huffington Post that was so vacuous that it deserved a response. Hart discussed the, “demise of the ancient Roman Republic and its transition to the Roman Empire,” and specifically the Roman Emperor, Augustus, […]

Misc Commentary For August 25, 2006

— If the mainstream media were objective, instead of biased to the left, wouldn’t this be front page news? A security operation was helping to curb an increase in violence in Baghdad in recent months after a surge of bombings and shootings, America’s two top generals in the Middle East said. …Army Gen. George Casey, […]

An Abortion That Turned Into Murder

From World Magazine: “Police and prosecutors in Hialeah, Fla., are investigating an abortion clinic incident that has all the markings of murder. On the morning of July 20, an 18-year-old girl walked into the A Gyn Diagnostics Center to abort her baby at 23 weeks. She had received medication to dilate her cervix the night […]

Hitler’s Eatery To Get A New Name By Betsy Newmark

The owner says he didn’t realize that some people would be so offended by his calling his restaurant “Hitler’s Cross” and so he’ll give it a new name. Puneet Sablok said he would remove Hitler’s name and the Nazi swastika from billboards and the eatery’s menu after it had angered so many people. He had […]

Daily News For August 25, 2006

Foreign General: Iran Training Shiite Insurgents (Free Wapo Reg Req) Israeli Poll: 63 Percent Of Israelis Feel That Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Failed In Managing The War In Lebanon And Should Resign. Only 29 Percent Believe The Prime Minister Is Fit To Continue Leading The Country U.S. Generals Say Baghdad Violence Slows Denmark: Four Charged […]

Misc Commentary For August 24, 2006

— John McCain has hired a new staffer for his future failed run at the presidency: Nicco Mele, a former webmaster for the Howard Dean campaign. What’s the matter? Couldn’t he even find a prominent Republican web guru, like Patrick Ruffini, that would work with him? — Speaking of 2008, some people have asked me […]

The Daily Kos Strategy For Dealing With Terrorists: Talk It Out!

Over at the Daily Kos, Daily Kos diarist gshenaut, thinks we should have a nice, long, conversation with the terrorists, perhaps in a nice cafe, with soft music, tea, and burka clad waitresses: “Let’s take an extreme example: should the US enter into official negotiations with representatives of al-Qaeda? I believe that most Americans would […]

A Short Introduction To Conservative Videoblogging

Vlogging really seems to be getting more popular on the right side of the blogosphere, so I thought it would be a good time to do a short post about it. Although she’s not a conservative, you have to give credit to Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom for proving that vlogging can draw a big audience: […]

“The Protestant Crusade Conspiracy” By Mark C.

Well, what else would a nice Saudi boy believe about a plot to bomb German trains? I mean the Catholics had their Crusades in the Middle Ages and the Protestants need their own now. Other Muslims in Germany have other ideas. This just in: The Lebanese men suspected of having deposited bombs on German trains […]

Daily News For August 24, 2006

Foreign U.S. Homeland Security Forbidden By Law From Tactics Brits Used To Foil Attack Iraqi Authorities Say The Number Of Violent Attacks Has Gone Down By 30 Percent. The U.S., Using Different Calculations, Says Such Attacks Have Decreased By 22 Percent The Number Of U.S. Troops In Iraq Has Climbed Back To 138,000 U.S. Spy […]

Putting Iraq Into Its Proper Perspective

Day after day, since we went into Iraq, the mainstream media has inundated the public with the same sort of slanted, biased coverage of the war that you’d have expected to get from Pravda at the height of the Cold War. They’ve been excessively negative and hysterical. They’ve demonized the troops, been soft on the […]

Amateur Hour in Terrorism by Frank J.

Well, the good news is that Steve Centanni and his cameraman Olaf Wiig are alive. The bad news is that they were apparently kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorists who were stuck in all the “special” classes at terrorism school. First, it takes more than a week before the “Holy Jihad Brigades” made any contact to […]

The Liberal “Baby Problem”

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Arthur Brooks is pointing out the left’s “baby problem”: Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They’re not having enough of them, they haven’t for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if […]