On Friday of last week, the media was looking at what was happening in Iraq and screaming, “Civil War! Civil War! Civil War!” at the top of their lungs. Here’s what I was saying at the same time: “(T)he media has been saying the exact same thing they’re saying today for 3 years, they’ve been […]

Foreign Sunnis And Sadr’s Shiites Make Peace Al-Qaeda Militants Seize Control Of Kabul Prison Wing In Afghanistan Americans Hand Front-Line Security To New Iraqi Units Eurolefties Fund Iraq Insurgency Bolton Blasts ‘Sex And Corruption’ At U.N. Iranian Advisor: We’ll Strike Dimona In Response To U.S. Attack (Of Course They’ll Try) U.S. To Send Palestinians Humanitarian […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this an open thread. Have a great week-end! A Chequer Board Of Nights And Days Chuck Norris Facts Davids Mendienkritik Independent Women’s Forum Libby Legal Defense Trust The Muslim Madonna New Rasmussen Poll: Dems Favored Over Bush On National Security (Gah! Thank You Port Deal!) Samizdata Scott’s Blog […]

Question: “I second the question about America’s…darkest moment(s). I bet there are some interesting perspectives here on that issue.” — President_Friedman Answer: Next week, I’m going to actually try to do a piece ranking America’s greatest (and worst) moments. So, how about adding your thoughts in the comments section? Then, next week, I can go […]

Question: “What was/were America’s greatest moment(s)?” — covok48 Answer: Believe it or not, I thought about asking this as a poll question for bloggers several months ago. Unfortunately, this would be impossible to poll on for a number of reasons. Not only would the response be very skewed towards the events of the last 30-40 […]

Much thanks goes out to Michelle Malkin for selecting RWN as one of her 20 favorite blogs. You can see all of Michelle’s faves over at Technorati.

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Question: “I’d seriously like to know your honest opinion of the Bush presidency. Without any partisan cheerleading. Just as background, I joined the Republican Party while in my mid-twenties because I believed so strongly in Reagan’s vision of limited government. Yet I feel that, with the exception of foreign policy, the Bush administration has been […]

Question: “If Iraq were to really fall into a full-blown “civil war” (like the media keeps pining for), how do you think that Bush, Blair, and the rest of the world would react? With Bush’s “declining popularity” and world-wide animosity to any American foreign intervention, do you believe that the US can/should intervene in any […]

Question: “If you could rewrite the US Constitution yourself, what would you change from the original version?” — mightysamurai Answer: There’s no need to go back in time and do a rewrite since the Founding Fathers did give us an Amendment process that we, in my opinion, seem far too reluctant to use these days. […]

Question: “What ever happened to the RWN t-shirt? I went to get one (a while back) and it wasn’t available.” — bob_the_great Answer: The short version is this: I set up a deal with a T-shirt company to do a RWN T-shirt. They helped me design it, we put it on sale, and…it just didn’t […]

Question: “How do you think the present history of the Mid East would be different if the Ottoman Empire had not have gotten involved in World War 1?” — jcl Answer: That’s an absolutely fascinating question, particularly if you assume that they made it through WW2 without being broken up as well. Imagine the whole […]

Question: “what ever happened with your moderator plan?” — simulacre Answer: I implemented it ]=D Yes, that’s right, folks, there are mods among you. You may have talked with them, read their posts, and thought you were merely conversing with other RWN readers. But, instead you were talking to RWN’s version of the secret police: […]

Foreign Iraq Sectarian Violence Kills 130 US Military Denies Iraq On Brink Of Civil War Sunni Party Quits Iraq Government Talks After Mosque Bombing Mosque Bombing An ‘Evil Act,’ Bush Says Iraq The Model: In The Aftermath Of The Shrine Attack Bill Roggio: Looking For Signs Of Civil War In Iraq Bahraini Shiites Answer Sistani […]

Today is Q&A Friday #34 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian perspective; heck, it […]

A couple of days ago, when I wrote about the port deal, I essentially said that I wasn’t sure whether it could be dangerous to our security or not, but that political considerations would eventually kill the deal. Well, after reading numerous articles (here’s a good one) that went into more detail about what Dubai […]

One of the things that perpetually amazes me is that anyone pays the slightest bit of attention to Capitol Hill Blue, which is in my opinion, a lefty scam blog that continually claims to have these big scoops about what’s going on in the White House. Their standard modus operandi is, again in my opinion, […]

Mediocrity shouldn’t be celebrated, losers shouldn’t be rewarded, and it sends the wrong message when you give children awards just for showing up: “When a youth basketball league in Framingham finishes its season next month, every fifth- and sixth-grader will receive a shiny trophy. Even those on the last-place team. ”We want them to be […]

That gets batted around every so often, and it (understandably) enrages liberals. And yet, it seems to me that there’s a kernel of truth there. Not in the literal sense: liberals do not vote Green or Democrat just because they like the logos. But the left, as a movement, does not have any very coherent […]

“So long as Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, my view is we don’t have a partner in peace, and therefore shouldn’t fund a government that is not a partner in peace. I thought the elections were important. I was one voice that said the elections should go forward on time. But I […]

…Patton is still doing great.

Foreign Shrine Attack Brings Civil War Warning Iraq The Model: Holy Shia Shrine Bombed In Samarra. As If We Didn’t Have Enough Problems Already! Bill Roggio: Dome of the Golden Mosque Destroyed ‘Sunni Militants’ Killed In Basra U.S. Says Will Help Rebuild Bombed Shrine Christian Revenge Attacks On Muslims Lead To At Least 20 Dead […]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton? slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies – or even a government-funded “School of the Jihad.” …President George W. Bush has long favored laws that require states to provide vouchers, a position that earned him the allegiance of conservative […]

“You ask why an American company can’t run the ports, John. Ah, but there is one. And only one. And it’s called Halliburton…” — John Podhoretz Can you just imagine the reaction from the left if Bush scuttled the UAE port deal and then Halliburton took over? Bwahahahaha! Talk about hilarious!

A lot of blogs are chattering about wacko David Irving’s 3 year prison sentence in Austria that he received for denying the existence of the Holocaust. Although Holocaust denial is a particularly odious, ignorant, and malignant belief, making it into a “thought crime” is even worse. That’s why Austria made a mistake. Let people get […]

South Korea is a wealthy, advanced country that has twice as many people as its deranged, impoverished neighbor to the North. Since that’s the case, why in the world are we still hanging around and defending them from their Northern brethren? Especially since it seems that the only people in that country who like us […]

All the work conservatives have done over the years that culminated in putting John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court may be about to start paying off: “The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a new-look court […]

Domestic Bush Shrugs Off Objections To Port Deal (Dumb) Frist To Offer Bill Halting U.S. Port Deal House Speaker, Dennis Hastert, Asks Moratorium On Dubai Port Deal New Jersey To File Suit Against Sale Of Port Operations Three Charged In Plan To Attack U.S. Military In Iraq Bush Budget Targets Military Health Costs South Dakota […]

Yesterday, Jimmy Carter — being Jimmy Carter — wrote an article urging Americans to continue to support the Palestinians despite the fact that they pulled the lever at the ballot box for Hamas — a genocidal terrorist group that openly opposes making peace with Israel and tells anyone who’ll listen that they want to kill […]

The Bush Administration is getting hammered from both sides of the aisle for allowing a UAE owned company to take over the operation of 6 American owned ports that were previously run by the British. Should the Bush administration INITIALLY have put the kibosh on the whole thing? Maybe, maybe not. Apparently, the Department of […]