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Today’s New Low In Politics Is Brought To You By The Ivory Coast

Politics started getting nastier during the Reagan years onward and it has gotten particularly cutthroat since Bush got into office. For example, comparing Bush to Hitler has become so commonplace that it’s passe. Even worse, when William Rehnquist died, there were lefties publicly talking about how they wanted to expel various bodily fluids all over […]

Daily News For December 21, 2005

Domestic Both Bill Clinton And Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Orders That Allowed Warrantless Searches The National Security Agency Accidentally Intercepted Some Domestic To Domestic Calls (Free NYT Reg Req) Sen. Pat Roberts Puzzled By Sen. John D. Rockefeller’s Concerns About The Bush Administration’s Warrantless Domestic Surveillance Program Since Rockefeller Privately Said He Supported The Program […]

A Teleconference With Sentors John Cornyn And Jim DeMint

A little earlier today, I was fortunate enough to be invited by the Senate Republican Conference to be on a teleconference with Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) to talk about the “Patriot Act and DOD authorization bill.” Vitter didn’t end up making it, but John Cornyn (R-TX) replaced him. Cornyn started things […]

A Legal Disclaimer For Your Christmas Cards

There are a lot of great gifts that you can receive this time of year, but the one thing no one wants shoved into their stocking is a lawsuit filed by an overzealous atheist or member of the ACLU! That’s why you should write out this disclaimer ,* helpfully provided by the Urban Family Council, […]

Bush Announces Do-Not-Wiretap List — Satire By Scott Ott

Just days after the New York Times released classified information about eavesdropping by the NSA on Americans linked to international terrorists, President George Bush at a news conference today announced creation of a new website which allows people to voluntarily exclude their phone numbers and email addresses from NSA wiretap lists. The new National Do […]

Daily News For December 20, 2005

Domestic Bush Vows Domestic Surveillance To Continue FBI Watched Activist Groups Suspected Of Being Tied To Terrorists Or That Had Links To Violent Or Disruptive Activities (Free Nyt Reg Req) Lawmakers Don’t Rule Out Patriot Act Deal Bush’s Approval Ratings Climb To 47% New York City Transit Workers Strike Clergy To Protest At White House. […]

The New Comeback Kid!

That was then… “There sure are a lot of excited Democrats out there who think they’ve got George Bush and the GOP right where they want them. They think they’re going to get the Senate back, they think they’re going to get the House back, they think it’s going to be their year in 2006. […]

Why Liberals Hate War By Lee

I’m an excellent multitasker, and often times I do some of my best thinking when I’m doing four things at once. Such was the case the other day at work, the day of the Iraqi elections. Like everyone else I had been reading the news reports, and also the naysaying coming from the Democrats. I […]

Excerpt Of The Day: Steyn On The Defeaticrats

“The Iraq election’s over, the media did their best to ignore it, and, judging from the rippling torsos I saw every time I switched on the TV, the press seem to reckon that that gay cowboy movie was the big geopolitical event of the last week, if not of all time. Yes, yes, I know: […]

Daily News For December 19, 2005

Domestic Congressional Leaders Agree To $42 Billion In Budget Cuts (Free NYT Reg Req) Rice Defends NSA Eavesdropping (Free NYT Reg Req) Gonzales: War Powers Authorized Eavesdropping Sen. Reid Calls Us Congress ‘Most Corrupt In History’ But Denies Personal Wrongdoing Colin Powell: White House ‘Never Told’ Of WMD Doubts Trent Lott Unsure Whether He Will […]

Week-End Links

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below and consider this to be an open thread. Ace Of Spades HQ The Anchoress Ankle Biting Pundits Betsy’s Page Tim Blair Byrd Droppings GOPINION Hugh Hewitt IMAO Instapundit JunkYardBlog Men’s News Daily Michelle Malkin Powerline Small Dead Animals Relapsed Catholic Mark Steyn PS: I still […]

Q&A Friday #29: 4 What-If Scenarios

Question: “What are your “what-if” scenarios for US involvement in any or all of the following situations? 1. Israeli strike on Iranian nuke facilities. 2. Iran nuking Israel. 3. Chinese invasion of Taiwan. 4. Total economic collapse in North Korea.” — Mike_M Answers: Out of order.. 2) The Iranians will — if we’re lucky — […]

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Q&A Friday #29: Was Jesus A Liberal?

Question: “How would you counter someone’s argument that the Bible is liberal and Jesus was a liberal? This counteracts the “religious right” theory. (A simple google search of jesus+liberal should yield enough hits that I don’t need to list their arguments here)” — Agent_Westy Answer: Oh yeah, Jesus would approve of abortion, gay marriage, and […]

Q&A Friday #29: Do You Ever Get Sick Of Politics?

Question: “Do you ever get sick of politics?” — Oneisnotprime Answer: Only once. During my college years, I started doing some work for the Mecklenberg County Republican Party. I stuffed envelopes, did some minor league work on some campaigns, and even manned the headquarters solo, answered phones, etc. I was new to politics back then, […]

Q&A Friday #29: Do You Play Video Games?

Question: “Do you play video games much, and if so, what are your favorite games and/or systems?” — Clint Answer: At one time, I really loved gaming. Way back in the day in the arcade, I loved Heavy Barrel, NARC, and Samurai Showdown. I can also remember playing Nintendo games like All-Star Baseball and Tecmo […]

Q&A Friday #29: Site Maintence And Tech Questions

Questions: “Do you read every post on every string in RWN?” — Harry “Hawkins, have you ever thought of putting up an RSS feed of your stories? It would be a nice feature IMO.” — bjlillo “Do you plan on expanding RWN is any fashion? Thread formats? Bandwidth? Design? Navigation?” — D-Vega “1- Why did […]

Daily News For December 16, 2005

Foreign Millions of Iraqis Vote in Relative Peace. Turnout Appears To Be Over 70% Iraq Mistakenly Freed Terror Leader Six Iraqis In Jordan Charged With Vote Rigging Domestic Bush Accepts McCain’s Ban on Torture (How Many Americans Will Die Because Of This?) Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits On Spying In U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say […]

Q&A Friday #29

Today is Q&A Friday #29 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 […]

Americans Will Die Because Of McCain’s Torture Amendment

How many thousands of Americans will end up dying because of this? “President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain’s call for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror. Bush said the agreement will “make it clear to the world that this government […]