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Looking for Votes, Rightbloggers Explore "Conservative Reform," Find Pretty Much Conservatism

Last week rightbloggers remained occupied with the recent D.C. scandals, which some of them expect to result in the President's impeachment; they even have a March on Washington and a shady poll to give them hope. We expect they will result in some sort of impeachment, if only of certain people's ju ... More >>

Rand Paul Addresses Rightbloggers, Who Receive Him Well, Despite All Those Black People Getting in the Way

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul spoke at historically black Howard University last week, and it was a major event. No, he didn't seem to win any black votes for the GOP -- even his fans admit as much. But white people of the rightblogger variety were all over it, and that's what counts. Some ... More >>

Rightbloggers Not Having a Great "Happy 10th Anniversary Iraq War" Party

Last week was the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. For friends and family members of the thousands of Americans and allies killed or wounded in that struggle, or of the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, wounded or displaced, it probably wasn't a happy one. We don't know whether these ... More >>

Nomination of Republican Hagel Gives Rightbloggers a Chance to Reach Out Ha Ha No Not Really

Obama has nominated Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. Hagel is a former Republican Senator, so you would expect Republicans to appreciate the gesture. Or you would if you lived in the earlier, simpler time before rightbloggers. In our current era, alas, nothing proposed by the Kenyan Pretender ... More >>

Pencil-Sharpening Machine David Rees Talks Malcolm Gladwell, William F. Buckley, Telepathic Pencil-Sharpening and More

Pencil-sharpening maven David Rees turned the non-fiction writing series at the Mid-Manhattan Library upside-down Tuesday night with his edgy pencil-sharpening workshop -- based on his instructional book How to Sharpen Pencils. Rees, a former full-time political cartoonist, is like the Liam-Neeson- ... More >>

Rightbloggers Ride Rush Limbaugh's Slut Wagon Into a Ditch

Remember the Clarence Thomas hearings, and how David Brock (then a right- rather than a left-wing operative -- yes that's how long ago it was!) called Anita Hill "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty"? Remember how decent people were outraged by this appalling breach of decorum? Boy, those we ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Wall Street, Which Is Totally Not Like the Tea Party Because Hippies

Back during the Tea Party heyday, months ago, rightbloggers would applaud the guys and gals in tricorners who gathered in public to protest the "ruling class" that, they said, was destroying America, and agitate for a new Revolution. The Tea Party seems to be fading, and now we have Occupy Wall Str ... More >>

Some Squawk, But Debt Ceiling Budget Fight Goes Just the Way Rightbloggers Want It

Last week the Congressional fight over America's debt ceiling became a full-blown hostage situation, with Republicans demanding, in exchange for what has been during previous Administrations a pro-forma procedure, major budget concessions from Democrats -- and getting them. At this writing, there s ... More >>

Rightbloggers on the Death of Osama Bin Laden: Eh, No Big Whoop. Thanks, President Bush!

Osama Bin Laden is dead. We heard this last night from President Barack Obama. He was not wearing a flight suit, nor did he appear on the deck of an aircraft carrier in front of a banner saying MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Rightbloggers were generous in their praise of the military personnel who effected ... More >>

Rightbloggers on DADT: A Slow March Toward Tolerance, With Side Trips to Insanity

This weekend the Senate repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the 17-year-old policy that allowed gays to serve in the U.S. military only if they could conceal their sexual orientation. The bill awaits Obama's signature. You might expect rightbloggers to be angry about it, and some of them are -- hila ... More >>

Rightbloggers Say They'll Change The Constitution to Fix Problems You Never Knew You Had

Two years ago, conservatives were on the ropes. But the GOP victories in last month's elections have them dreaming big again. They're back to talking about destroying the Democrats once and for all. Even Newt Gingrich is talking about running for President in 2012, which shows how general the optimi ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn't know that? You must have mis ... More >>

Libertarian Fire Department Lets House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay $75; Rightbloggers Applaud Free Market, Suffering

People often say that the Republican Party has become much more conservative than it used to be. But they don't talk much about how conservatism itself has become more... hmm, how to put this politely -- let's say, detached from traditional American beliefs and standards of behavior. We're not talk ... More >>

If 9/11 Can't Bring Us Together, Rightbloggers Figure, Let It Tear Us Apart

On the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, some rightbloggers (including, we must admit, some of whom we never expected it) were actually somber, reflective, even moving. But most of them were their usual belligerent selves. Amid their howling one could make out a theme, appropriate to t ... More >>

Prop 8, Michelle Obama, Ground Zero Mosque: Are Conservatives Basically The Honky Party?

Last week Judge Vaughn Walker's decision setting aside Prop 8 in California unleashed plenty of grumbling from rightbloggers. As it involves gay people, this was to be expected. There was also rightblogger outrage, also expected, that Michelle Obama and her daughters had a swell, privately-funded v ... More >>

At Gay Pride, Rightbloggers Try to Keep It On The Down-Low, But Some Out Themselves

Pride Week's a fun time to rightblogger-watch, because rightbloggers just don't know what to do about the gays. They must know straight America is losing its antipathy toward gay people -- Hell, even TGI Fridays is down with Pride. And some insist that the gay-hating stuff is behind them, too. Bu ... More >>

Heads Up, New York -- After Times Square Bomb Attempt, Rightbloggers Will Pretend to Care About You Again

Bad news, New Yorkers: Once again, rightbloggers are pretending to care what happens to you. You may remember that right after 9/11 it became trendy for conservatives to gush over New York and Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani. Then, when it became apparent that New Yorkers still weren't going to vo ... More >>

The Kids are Alright -- Unless They Vote for Ron Paul at CPAC, Say Rightbloggers

The 37th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which took place in D.C. last week, came at a happy time for conservatives, what with the recent election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the increased visibility of the Tea Party movement due to their own recent convention, and a wav ... More >>

Rightbloggers Keep It Sweet on Haiti -- Unless You Attack Rush, Are Obama, Etc.

The disaster in Haiti has obsessed both mainstream media and bloggers, and for the most part rightbloggers have been exceptionally well-behaved about it. Even some normally obstreperous critics have praised Obama for his interventions, and if they piled on Danny Glover for attributing the quake t ... More >>

Mangano Defeats Suozzi in Nassau, Pending the Court Stuff

​It appears Democratic Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi has lost the November 3 election to Republican challenger Edward Mangano. A recount of the votes, including paper, absentee and affidavit ballots, shows that Suozzi's 237-vote margin has faded and Mangano holds a 390-vote lead -- this o ... More >>

GOP Purge Continues with Graham Censure, Conservative Challengers

​It looks like the call by Erick Erickson of RedState to "purge" the Republican Party in the wake of the NY-23 loss is getting some traction: the Charleston County, South Carolina GOP has actually censured Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for cooperating with the enemy, that is, the Democrat ... More >>

Gay Marriage Revoked in Maine

​Yahoos displeased by the results in NY-23 may take comfort that Maine appears to have rejected the marriage equality bill that was passed by its state legislature in May. For example, National Review's Thomas Peters: "My favorite part of last night's election coverage was watching Rachel Mad ... More >>

Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize FTW (Update: Rightbloggers React!)

​ Apparently somebody thinks promising to close Gitmo and stop torture, making a speech to the Arab world, and in general not being so much of a dick as most recent Presidents deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. What do we know? Maybe all previous winner Muhammad Yunus' microlending doesn't have ... More >>

Obama Accepts Nobel Prize, Signaling End of Failed Presidency

​President Obama, despite the urging of his mortal enemies, appears to have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he is "both surprised and deeply humbled." Rush Limbaugh calls the award an "embarrassment," which surprises us, as we thought Limbaugh incapable of embarrassment. At National Re ... More >>

Rightbloggers Explain How Obama is Trying to Trick Veterans into Killing Themselves

A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that President Obama, in the middle of a contentious health-care debate, has a 57 percent approval rating. This sounds pretty good till you get to the spin: it's 12 points lower than it was in April. Hence, "Polls Show It's Time for Democrats to Drop ... More >>

Birther or Not, Here They Come! Rightbloggers Work the Obama Birth Certificate Angle

As you may have heard, there is among certain people a controversy as whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States. They generally believe that Obama's certification of live birth and the confirmation of Hawaii's State Department of Health are either bogus or insufficient. When lawyer ... More >>

Palin to Resign Governorship of Alaska, Expected to Focus on Complaining

Today Sarah Palin announced that she would not seek a second term as Governor of Alaska -- in fact, she will resign her position and step down at the end of the month. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnel will then be sworn in as Governor. The 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate didn't take questions; loca ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Sotomayor: Everything They Hate

Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has stirred some interesting debate, but we who follow rightbloggers will forever remember it for the reaction of National Review's immigration expert, Mark Krikorian. It's as distinctive as Roman Hruska's defense of G. Harrold Carsw ... More >>

Obama Picks Sonia Sotomayor of The Bronx for Supreme Court

Sonia Sotomayor has a Wikipedia page, so in just a few minutes you can know more about Obama's pick to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court than we do. You probably already know that she is a homegirl, born in the South Bronx. You may get a glimpse of the conservative case against her at Natio ... More >>

Jack Kemp, 1935-2009

When Jack Kemp -- the former Buffalo Bills star, Congressman, HUD Secretary, and Republican Vice Presidential candidate, who died of cancer this weekend -- was derided at a function as a mere football player, his daughter retorted, "My daddy wasn't a football player: He was a quarterback." Kemp wa ... More >>

Communism, Death of Man, "Kumbaya for your Karma": The True Meaning of Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, and you know what that means -- the launch of a Disney film, and re-education as to how Earth Day is a communist plot. "I wonder how many of the millions worldwide participating in Earth Day festivities actually know who Lenin was?" writes Bill Croke at the American Spectator. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Angry Iowa is Making Them Get Gay-Married

Gay people are supposed to know about show tunes, so they'll understand when we say: There's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you. The Iowa Supreme Court has unanimously said a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. New York and California have not done so much for the cause of mar ... More >>

After NY-20 Election, Spin War Begins

We'll have to wait a few weeks for the absentee ballots and inevitable court challenges to tell us who won last night's Tedisco-Murphy special election in New York's 20th Congressional District. But with national attention focused on the race, operatives are struggling to paint the tie in a good li ... More >>

NY-20 Election Today

Today's that special election in New York's 20th Congressional District between Scott Murphy (D) and Jim Tedisco (R) for Kirsten Gillibrand's old seat. We encourage all eligible citizens to write in Eric Sundwall (pictured), the Libertarian who was kicked off the ballot by Tedisco supporters (includ ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Easter Eggs, Notre Dame, Earth Hour, Etc.

In earlier Obama days, when the market was tanking, rightbloggers talked about the "Obama Dow Jones Death Watch," "Change we cannot afford," "DOW Collapse Signaling Fear of Socialist as President?" etc. Politics West huffed that Obama, "has essentially never been an investor," and that he and hi ... More >>

Rightbloggers Culture-War For John Galt, Against Jon Stewart and Meghan McCain

In Sunday's New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that culture warriors -- that is, those "intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years" -- are being "laid off" in the Obama era, because people are too concerned with the genuine crisis of the economy to ... More >>

Upstate Election Draws Big PAC Money, Giuliani

The race for Kirsten Gillbrand's vacated congressional seat is attracting the interest of national conservatives hoping to winnow the Democratic lead in the House. The Our Country Deserves Better PAC promises a large cash infusion to GOP candidate Jim Tedisco's campaign. This committee, which ran ... More >>

As Economy Tanks, Rightbloggers Say Obama is Just Trying to Scare Us

Job losses are accelerating. Big companies on both sides of the Atlantic -- including carmakers who are not part of the Big Three, and insurers -- are posting big losses. Banks are closing. Etc. All this you know. To stop the bleeding, President Obama last week pushed hard for a giant stimulus p ... More >>

NY1: Gillibrand Switching on Immigration

New Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's "hinted" change on immigration -- which was presaged by her employment of a Bronx power broker's consulting firm -- is apparently proceeding on schedule. NY1 says Gillibrand has told their "sister station NY1 Noticias" that she will "support immigrant-friendly initia ... More >>

Out There In The Dark: Rightbloggers Go Hollywood!

As we get closer to the actual transition, rightbloggers are shifting gears. They're losing interest in the remaining pre-inaugural Obama business. We probably won't see anything like the Hillary Clinton Constitutional crisis again. Leon Panetta's CIA appointment drew some criticism on the grounds ... More >>

Bristol Palin Has Her Baby; Wedding Suggested

Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol had a 7 lb., 7 oz., baby boy on Sunday, whom she and her boyfriend have named Tripp. To celebrate, some rightbloggers are pushing the happy couple to get married pronto. "What's up with this 'baby first, marriage later' thing?" asks Robert Stacy McCain. "What's wrong w ... More >>

Times Seeks to Please People Who Hate It

Daily Flog: Honey, I Shrunk the Vote/ Screwed the Kids/ Forgot My 7 Houses

RightBloggers on Obama Tour

Doctors With Borders

Bioethics matures into a formal academic field—and faces an identity crisis

Seeking to Comprehend the Roots of Militancy

Democrats, Rejoice: Right Says Wrong on Harriet Miers

Conservative disappointment at Bush’s Supreme Court pick

Huffing, Puffing

Arianna vindicates bloggers' cherished belief that worldly fame and wealth count for nada

Four More Years?

Bile for Bush fuels a boom in readers, advertising for lefty magazines

Taking the Lead, Again

Feature Writers Rely on Old Tricks