Roberta McCain, mother of John McCain, when asked about her son’s support from the Republican base by Steve Scully of C-SPAN said: Roberta McCain: “I don’t think he has any. I don’t know what the base of the Repub–maybe I don’t know enough about it, but I’ve not seen any help whatsoever.” We can only hope [...]

It is getting worse folks. The West is on its way out.  This from the London Times, January 24, 2008: A children’s story based on the tale of the Three Little Pigs was rejected for an award after judges became concerned that it would offend Muslims. The animated virtual book for primary school children, The Three [...]

The Daily Princetonian reports on Monday that all of the political contributions for the 2008 presidential candidates made by Princeton faculty members…surprise, surprise….have gone to Democrats!  Princeton employees overall gave a ‘modest’ 92.4% to Democrat candidates.  But what about other elite universities? “Princeton employees’ overwhelmingly high support for Democratic candidates — 90 percent of donors who listed the University as their employer gave [...]

Ron Guhname over at Inductivist has been doing some eye opening statistical work on the General Social Survey (GSS) conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.  The GSS has been conducted every year since 1972, with the last round completed in 2006. What particularly stood out was the post from January 16, 2008 entitled If Conservatives [...]

  Breaking news: Bob Grant will be given a 77WABC Lifetime Achievement Award at the TALKERS Magazine New Media Convention in June.  The link on WABC radio website is here. Kudos to WABC/Talkers for having backbone and congratulations to Bob Grant for many years of broadcasting excellence.

Yesterday, Radio & Records, a radio industry trade publication owned by Nielsen, decided to withdraw its Lifetime Achievement Award it was intending to bestow upon the grandfather of conservative talk radio, the great Bob Grant.  The reason?  Here is the post from Radio & Records website: “Upon further review and consideration of Bob Grant’s complete body of work, [...]

Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard fast attack boats threatened three U.S. naval warships entering the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday: “I am coming to you,” a deep, thickly accented voice says in English over the radio. To that, an unidentified sailor aboard the Hopper, speaking into a radio, asks the boats to identify themselves and steer clear. [...]

Hmm…seems like Hillary was pretty quick on the uptake on this one as if she was prepared this was coming.   Can anyone say ‘plant’?   We are talking about the Clintons after all.

Time may have bestowed its Person of the Year accolade on Vladimir Putin and the AP may have selected the Virginia Tech massacre as “the” story for 2007 but we here at RWO have a different take on the year’s events. We ask ourselves who were the heroes of 2007? A heavy debt of gratitude [...]