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After Boston Bombing, Rightbloggers Turn on Immigration (Mexican or Whatever)

There's a bill working its way through Congress that would offer a "path to citizenship" to the sort of immigrants currently known in some circles as illegal. Though its application is general, it's obviously aimed at U.S. guests of the Mexican persuasion, and it only has a chance of passing because ... More >>

Beaten on Gay Marriage, Rightbloggers Begin Berating Straights

Maybe it's because everyone's sick of fighting over gay marriage. Maybe it's because our rightblogger friends' tactic of Adam-and-Steving the issue hasn't helped their increasingly hopeless cause, even within the Republican Party. In any case some of the brethren are working a new angle. Well, not ... More >>

Rightbloggers Take Cover as Gay Marriage Reigns Supreme

Last week the Supreme Court heard a couple of gay marriage cases and, with so many politicians and even some conservatives running to grab the rainbow flag, it seemed as if a corner on the contentious issue had been turned. How went the rightbloggers? Most continued to -- paraphrasing Buckley -- s ... More >>

"Rack" and Ruin: Rightbloggers Have a Messy CPAC

Last week the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) met at National Harbor in Maryland near DC. If you heard anything about it, you probably heard about a CPAC forum called "Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You're Not One?" that was every bit the dis ... More >>

Obama's SOTU Riles Rightbloggers Less Than Jokes About Thirsty Marco Rubio

Last Tuesday was the State of the Union address, in which the President laid out a bunch of plans and Republicans denounced them. Rightbloggers got into this with the aplomb you'd expect. But when rising GOP star Marco Rubio had a comical moment in his official Republican response, and people had ... More >>

Hillary, Roe v. Wade's 40th, and the Great Conservative Revival Not Working Out for Rightbloggers

Since the 2012 Presidential election, conservatives have been trying to think up ways to revive their movement. Last week a number of them approached the subject, including George F. Will (basically you're doing great don't change anything), Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (basically you're doing g ... More >>

The 12 Months of Crazy: Rightbloggers' Greatest Hits of 2012

It's been a hell of a year for conservatives, so naturally it's been a flaming, bloody hell of a year for our subjects the rightbloggers. If this is the sort of thing that gladdens your heart, then sit by the fire and let us brighten your holiday season by reviewing, month by month, the rightblogg ... More >>

Drop in Birth Rates, Rise of Single Voters Set Rightbloggers to Raving

The day-to-day business of rightblogging -- harrying Susan Rice, cheering on congressional Republicans, and so forth -- is not very satisfying to us, nor (apparently, from their tedious writing on those subjects) to them. So we were happy for them and for ourselves when some recent reports showed t ... More >>

Rightbloggers' Solution to Obama's Reelection: Bring Back Culture War and White People!

It would be cruel to take too much pleasure in the rightblogger reactions to last Tuesday's events. Lest we forget, Democrats too have been known to lose faith in their fellow Americans when a big election doesn't go their way. So let us, after a brief review of their wrathful ejaculations, focus o ... More >>

Rightbloggers Anticipate Romney Landslide, Denounce Nate Silver, Katy Perry

The election's Tuesday, and the whole political blogosphere is one endless screaming rah-rah for one candidate or another. We advise against all direct contact with it from now till next weekend. The preemptive victory dances of the left blogosphere are, as we never tire of paraphrasing Jed Leland, ... More >>

Rightbloggers Bash "Bully" Biden for Speaking Roughly to Poor Paul Ryan

The week before last, Obama phoned in his first debate performance against Romney, and rightbloggers were ecstatic that the challenger had "schooled" and "humiliated" the President. "If last night's debate was a boxing match," one of the brethren gloated, "a referee would have had to stop the fight. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Revel in Romney Rout, But Good Job Numbers Put Them Back in Tinfoil

Rightbloggers had one of their best weeks of the campaign. First their candidate, Mitt Romney, bested President Obama in a debate, and then the Labor Department posted a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate. Both events convinced them of impending electoral victory, as the first proved that the Presid ... More >>

Rightbloggers Declare Democratic Convention a Failure -- Which May Be Why It Succeeded

A week after the party of Kang had their national convention, the party of Kodoshad theirs in Charlotte, NC. It was a lively affair, with a floor fight strong-armed by party bosses, and big speeches by Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sandra Fluke, and some guy running a crap economy who nonetheless no ... More >>

Rightbloggers Rejoice as Ryan Revives Romney, Reaganesquely

The ideologically fluid Mitt Romney surprised a lot of people this weekend by choosing as his Vice-Presidential running mate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, a hardcore conservative best known for frightening off independent voters. Democrats portrayed the choice as a gift. So did rightbloggers, often for ... More >>

Rightbloggers: Obama's Immigration Order is Tyranny, and the White House Heckler's a Hero

Last week President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to pass the DREAM Act, sort of enacted DREAM Lite himself, temporarily allowing young illegal immigrants who'd come here as kids off the deportation hook. Mainstream conservative reaction ranged from discomfiture -- because Republicans had be ... More >>

Indian Giver: Rightbloggers' Yuks at "Fauxcahontas" Elizabeth Warren Turn to Trail of Tears

Liberal fave Elizabeth Warren is running for Scott Brown's Senate seat in Massachusetts. Just after she announced in September, polls showed her six points behind the incumbent; now, she's running about even with him. Yet if you'd only been following rightbloggers on this race, you'd assume that sh ... More >>

Racist with an Explanation: Rightbloggers Defend John Derbyshire

Last week John Derbyshire, a now-former writer for National Review, published elsewhere an article that was plainly racist -- by which we mean, its racism was not veiled or masked in the manner that has become common among rightbloggers, but overt; it asserted that black people were less intelligent ... More >>

Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

Rightbloggers Prepare to Swallow Their Santorum and Root for Romney

Since the recent Iowa one-two finish by Romney and Santorum, there've been a couple more debates and a lot of palaver about the GOP Presidential race. But let us level with you: Despite all our jokes about The Next President of the United States of The Week/Month, it's become painfully obvious tha ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce the End of the Iraq Occupation and the "Horrific Murder" of Gaddafi

The American people have long been sick and tired of our occupation of Iraq, and on Friday President Obama called ally-ally-in-free. You'd think there'd be little cause for dissension; as Glenn Greenwald noted, the deadline was agreed to in the Bush era. But you know how it is with rightbloggers ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Cause of England's Riots: Gun Control and Black People

Riots broke out in London and other parts of England last week. The evident catalyst was the controversial killing by police of Mark Duggan; but, as with the Rodney King beating that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, it's unlikely that one small event could have caused so much fury and violence. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Compare Large National Protests (Union) Unfavorably with Large National Protests (Koch Brothers)

Last weekend rallies were held in all 50 states in support of the teachers' union in Wisconsin. And at the Wisconsin state capitol, at least 70,000 people came out on Saturday to protest Governor Walker's attempt to break the union. Sounds like a big deal, right? Hundreds of thousands of people tur ... More >>

Rightbloggers Comfort the Real Victims of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Themselves

After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had en ... More >>

The 10 Best Rightblogger Rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, And More!

What a horrible year it's been. There's been something to annoy everyone, and everyone took full advantage: The health care bill, the Tea Party, the BP spill, the Ground Zero Mosque, the Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart rallies, the Republican Comeback, the enhanced TSA patdowns, WikiLeaks -- and every bi ... More >>

Ground Zero Mosque Story Confirms It: Conservatives Are The Honky Party

Last week we considered whether conservatives and their host body, the GOP, were attacking non-white Americans so much that they now constituted America's Honky Party. We did not then spend much time on the almost-not-quite-at-Ground Zero Mosque controversy. But President Obama's recent defense of ... More >>

Rightbloggers Look Back in Anger at The Anti-American World Cup

"It's hard work, politicizing your whole life," read the subhed of Matt Labash's article in the rightwing Weekly Standard. At last, we thought when we saw this, they're going to own up to it! We can stop writing this accursed column -- and, freed of their delusions, conservatives can begin to live ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Sex and the City: Still Hate Sex, and City, But Love That Anti-Muslim Angle

The reviews are in, and Sex and the City 2 looks like the season's biggest critical bomb. Though the film drew a decent crowd in its opening weekend, it was lambasted by critics both highbrow ("almost avant-garde adventure in aimlessness" -- Wall Street Journal) and low ("Sucks in the city" -- New ... More >>

Rightbloggers On Healthy Conservative Debate: Shut Up! (Whoops, We Mean: Epistemic Closure!)

We're not accustomed to think of rightbloggers as intellectuals. For one thing -- as we have ample opportunity to observe here every week -- they sure don't act like intellectuals; in fact, they seem allergic to logical argument, and sometimes even committed to a backwards Bizarro World version of i ... More >>

Rightbloggers Dispute Racial Slur Charges By Any Means Necessary

There are many fronts in the dismal daily death-struggle that is American politics. A particularly boggy one is race. Rightbloggers are keenly aware that the President whom they like to accuse of socialism and fascism is black, and also that picking on black people is not considered cool these days ... More >>

Does Instapundit Owe James Clyburn an Apology?

​Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, the most prominent libertarian tenured public school professor on the Arpanet, thinks an apology might be in order from House Majority Whip James Clyburn, one of the african-american lawmakers who reported being called a "nigger" by protesters in Washington yes ... More >>

Pete King Decides Against Senate Race

​Lots of movement in the 2010 Senate race today: shortly after imported prospect Harold Ford Jr. switched to a pro-gay-marriage stand in probable anticipation of a run at Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete King has backed off his latest "look" at entering the race. The Long Island Republican Congressman ... More >>

Crotch-Bomber Fails to Blow Up Plane, in Yet Another Disaster for Obama

There are a few ways to look at the case of the thwarted holiday crotch-bomber. On the one hand, we have a deluded fellow who, allegedly assured of eternal glory by jihadists who bade him sew explosive chemicals into his underwear, set his lap on fire during a Delta flight and, instead of the coo ... More >>

Senate Passes Health Care Bill; Democrats Doomed, Say Rightbloggers

​The Senate passed its version of the health care bill this morning on a straight party vote. The bill now has to be reviewed by the House of Representatives and reconciled with its own bill, which will probably take some time, especially as President Obama is now also pushing for a new jobs b ... More >>

Turnout High in Maine Gay Marriage Referendum

Turnout is reported heavy in Maine, where voters are faced with a referendum on the marriage equality law passed last spring. ("No" on Question 1 means yes to keeping gay marriage.) State officials say voting is exceeding expectations, and over 100,000 absentee ballots have been filed. This is see ... More >>

Nightmares Before Halloween 4: Allegedly Religious, Lesbian-Porn Dracula Sequel

​If jack-o-fetuses don't instruct your local children in the true Christian meaning of Halloween, you may wish to try on them Dracula: The Undead, a sequel to the famous vampire potboiler co-authored by Dacre Stoker, a descendent of original author Bram. It sounds like what you'd expect -- mor ... More >>

KANSAS ON THE RIGHT

We're not in Borat anymore

Birther of a Nation: Poll Finds Less Than Half of Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.

Maybe you heard that top conservative magazine National Review dissed the birthers -- that is, the folks who believe Obama is not really President because he was born in Kenya or somewhere like it. But it's going to take more than that to bring this patriotic movement down! According to a Daily Kos/ ... More >>

Happy (War on the) 4th of July!

We all know about the War on Christmas -- the annual struggle of Bill O'Reilly and others to keep people from treasonously wishing you "Happy Holidays" instead of acknowledging the birth of Our Lord. But did you know about the War on Independence Day? Stephen Colbert made a joke out of it on his ... More >>

NY-20 Post-Election Spin Continues; Both Sides Confident

A voting machine recanvass in the deadlocked Tesdisco-Murphy House race has dropped Murphy's lead to 12 votes. More such inspections take place tomorrow. Democrats claim that the absentee and overseas ballots, which have until April 13 to be heard from, will give Murphy a 210-vote margin, based on ... More >>

Rightbloggers Not Really Enjoying the Inauguration

"I'm a lefty," Obama said as he signed his first Presidential document. "Get used to it." Some people never will. Rightbloggers found their own ways to celebrate the Inauguration. Michelle Malkin, for example, passed the morning with an "Inauguration cliche count... plus: Obamedia Orgy Watch." "New ... More >>

The Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008

Excited (not to say deranged) by the long Presidential campaign, conservative bloggers -- rightbloggers, in our affectionate parlance -- were in top form this year, and outstripped the sleepy Main Stream Media in every way. If mainstream Republicans were content to call Obama a socialist, rightblogg ... More >>

Rightbloggers on McCain's Chocolate Sandwich

RightBloggers on the New Yorker's Obama Cartoon Cover

Rightbloggers on Father's Day, Guns, Knives, and Unloved Commuters

The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere

A confederacy of dunces

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Those Uncomfortable Righty Whiteys

Get Lost

A hint about not slamming the door behind you when you leave

Rummy Is So Yummy

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Purity and Power

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