It has been almost 6 months since I last ranked the best opinion columnists in the business, so I figured it was time to do it again. So here’s my current faves in order… 35) Ralph Reiland 34) Hugh Hewitt 33) Phyllis Schlafly 32) Bill O’Reilly 31) Joe Scarborough 30) Cal Thomas 29) Mona Charen […]

Deacon from Power Line makes a great point about today’s Democratic Party: “Things seem a bit curious these days over at the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton is re-positioning herself towards the center to the general acclaim of her party. Meanwhile, though, the party’s dominant left-wing attacks Joe Lieberman, the Democrat who most prominently occupies the […]

When we have the President of Mexico in essence saying that we should tear down walls on the border because it’s getting in the way of their citizens illegally immigrating here, there should be outrage on Capitol Hill: “President Vicente Fox said Wednesday that walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, such as one approved last month […]

If you’ve cruised the net over the last day or so, on the right or left, you can’t help but see ANWR, ANWR, ANWR everywhere. The 51-49 vote in the Senate to open drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is causing Liberal Democrats to gnash their teeth in grief and conservative Republicans to get […]

A San Francisco County judge, who struck down California’s ban on homosexual marriage, today ruled on the same basis that separate restrooms for men and women are unconstitutional. Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer likened the division of washrooms to laws requiring racial segregation in schools, and said there appears to be “no rational purpose for […]

The king of all conservative dogs, Patton, stares at his paw as he drifts off to sleep — and yes, he’s doing great.

Hat tip to Knowledge Is Power for the graphic.

Before Blogads hit the scene, nobody in the blogosphere was making any money selling advertising. But now, thanks to Henry Copeland and Blogads, there are a number of bloggers (myself included) making decent money blogging. So, I was happy to get a chance to do a mini-interview with Henry about advertising in the blogopshere and […]

Pollster John Zogby, a Democrat, argues that President Bush’s plan to reform Social Security will likely fail but that it’s nonetheless shrewd politics. “Why would the president risk his political capital on a plan that appears doomed to failure? I think the answer lies well beyond the politics of any single reform plan. And the […]

Don’t let Susan Estrich or any of the caterwauling feminist professors at Harvard see the statistics on women policemen in the latest Ann Coulter column or it’ll be yap, yap, yap =D: “The inestimable economist John Lott has looked at the actual data. (And I’ll give you the citation! John R. Lott Jr., “Does a […]

Jeff Jarvis and Michelle Malkin are having a little back and forth over this statement that Jarvis made: “Don’t judge the blogosphere only by 100 blogs on top of some list. That’s so old media. There are eight million blogs — and 7,999,900 of them that get more traffic and more links and more interest […]

Globe hopping cutup P.J. O’Rouke has written a nifty little piece for the WSJ about the boondoggle known as mass transit. It’s a must read piece because if knowledge is a weapon, P.J. is armed for bear with stats like these: “…There are just two problems with mass transit. Nobody uses it, and it costs […]

* If a corrupt, bloated bureaucracy can’t solve it, then it’s best left festering. * Genocidal dictators, beware our harshly worded letters. * Having discussed at length almost every major crisis in the past 60 years. * If our baby-blue helmets don’t scream seriousness, then are non-binding resolutions do. * Chosen by 4 out of […]

Folks, how about giving my advertisers a few extra looks? Come on — just a few clicks, that’s all I’m asking for. Certainly, if you don’t want to do it, I can’t convince you. I mean clicking on my ads isn’t for everybody. For example, here are some people who probably would not click on […]

It’s for another scintillating episode of — drumroll please — anyone can post on the internet (ACPOTI)! Today’s edition of ACPOTI features a website called “The Watcher Files: Human Reptilians, Aliens, Abduction, Secret Government, Black Projects. Now would be a great time for a Howard Dean joke, but that wouldn’t be fair since this is […]

“Democrats bluntly served notice Tuesday that they intend to slow or stop most Senate business if Republicans unilaterally change the rules to assure confirmation of President Bush’s controversial court appointments. Any such change would mark “an unprecedented abuse of power,” Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. “The Senate should not become […]

I find it ironic that John C. Dvorak, whom I’ve only heard of because he writes a column slamming blogging every few weeks which inevitably draws stern rebukes from across the blogosphere, has his own blog. But even more ironic is this egocentric line from Dvorak’s latest column: “Having become a blogger myself, I feel […]

From Lorie Byrd of Polipundit and Byrd Droppings: Betsy Newmark has an excellent commentary on a Howard Kurtz article about a recent report on journalism. The report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism “purports to show that Fox broadcasters insert more opinion into their broadcasts than the other cable news shows.” Kurtz reports: In […]

Steven Levy’s latest column, “Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?,” is like fingernails on the blackboard to me. After noting that “anyone can write a Weblog” and saying that blogging is “supposed to be the ultimate grass-roots phenomenon,” Levy then goes on to quote a bunch of […]

“Your eyes, they deceive you. Go home. There is nothing going on here but the normal, every day bustle of the Lebanese market place.” Content used with permission of Jeff Goldstein from Protein Wisdom. You can read more of his work by clicking here.

Karl Rove, George Bush’s hired political gun, has been so successful that he has spawned a number of conspiracy theories in Democratic circles. If something bad happens to a Democrat, you can almost be certain that someone is going to try to pin it on Karl Rove. Here are just a few of the things […]

Austin Bay thinks that the era of the hard left is over, and the Truman Democrats will reemerge: “9/11 marked the end of multi-cultural nostrums dear to the Democrat’s hard left. It marked the end of welfare states as we know them –now the strategic game’s either globalize or die. The “die option” bifurcates: either […]

Liberal hero Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, is mostly known for ignoring California law and illegally allowing almost 4000 gay marriages which were all later nullified by the courts. But now Newsom has decided to do for law enforcement San Francisco what he did for marriage. From a press release by the SAF: […]

Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, right? Wrong! At least if you’re in Waterville, Maine where the police arrest designated drivers: “Five more Colby College students were summonsed over the weekend and charged with possession of alcohol by a minor — this, after nine Colby students were charged Friday with similar offenses. The increase in […]

I’m not sure whether buying an ad on RWN was a good idea for the corrupt clowns at the United Nations given the thrashing I gave them for it, but selling the UN an ad turned out to be a great move for me. So far, I’ve been linked by Glenn Reynolds and the queen […]

Ever since the first bomb was invented 5000 years ago in Egypt by Alfred Nobel, bad people have used them to blow up innocent civilians. Mainly in Israel. However, for the first time since then, the The UN has vowed to take concrete action to put a stop to these heinous acts. Secretary General Kofi […]

One of the hot topics in the blogosphere over the last few days has been an enormous rift in the Republican Party over immigration. That’s a good thing because this is an issue that deserves a lot more attention. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that A-list blogger and popular radio host […]

Welcome To Harvard comrade! The school where all students are equal! Why, the very idea that one member of the proletariat could afford to have something that another member could not is so infuriating that the school paper, the aptly named Harvard Crimson, has written an editorial denouncing such capitalist practices! Read and learn comrade, […]

This MSNBC story called “Activists fight for electric cars” is fascinating reading because it’s an important cautionary tale, although MSNBC doesn’t intentionally try to present it that way. But, let’s do a bit of reframing and put things into perspective. Originally, a bunch of environmental activists threw a fit in California and convinced them to […]

Some of you may have noticed my new advertiser: the United Nations Foundation. Now, I must admit, it seems very odd to me that the UN is advertising on RWN. In fact, it’s kind of like the KKK buying an ad at the ADL website. You know — who would imagine it? But, I am […]