Here are the latest standings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ordered using their Alexa traffic rankings. Yes, some of these are center-right, libertarian, or more middle-of-the-road sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis.
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Rantburg would be ranked at or near the top if we based this on the proportion of substantive, informative content.
It saddens me to say it, but a lot of right of center sites are simply about the outrage pr0n and collecting the Adclick bucks from the outraged; not actually informing people, let alone changing anything.
#3
Fascinating how many of them, like Rantburg, are not primarily oriented toward politics: The Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post, Watts Up With That, MEMRI.org, JihadWatch, and so on. And how many others thoughtfully analyze politics and policy, rather thsn emote.
I wonder what a similar chart on the left would look like.
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One thing about rantburg is the quality of the readers and participants. As well as the tolorence of the people and mods as well as the intolorence fir fools, trolls, and chew toys.
By the time the 2nd anniversary of the Bundy Ranch standoff comes around, many, if not all the armed participants will be in jail or indicted. The government has used social media to identify protesters, including the man who was photographed in the prone position, aiming his rifle from a highway overpass presumably at federal contractors. This is an inauspicious end to an effort to stop the government from violating property and civil rights using armed protests.
Patriot blogs I have read indicate that many of those who supported the standoff now believe the wrong tactics were used. Some of the remedies suggested include staying off Facebook and reorganizing how patriots and militia groups deal with government actions.
Make no mistake, despite all the self examination about how the protests and standoff were organized, and despite all the problems in both Nevada and Oregon, the government will brook no opposition to its policies and practices, and will regard interference from armed protesters as just another criminal act, one the response of which will include hard, armed military style kinetic action against its very citizens.
It seems that the only kind of protests to be allowed are those government approved issues. Global warming. More money for the poor. Or raciss kops gunning down black men. But protesting for your property or civil rights will bring the raw power of the government against you.
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Prices for used pistols and for used rifles were mixed.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Moving from confusion to recklessness before reaching disappointment...It is the void cycle that Saudi's Salman involved the "Charity Kingdom" in.
After receiving the first strike of the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, Saudi started to experience panic because of the historic steadfastness of the Syrian president Bashir al-Assad and allies.
The axis of resistance managed in Syria to strike the atonement scheme which was led and funded by the Saudi royalty.
After massacring the civilians in Leb, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, Saudi's rashness reached the extent of blacklisting Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
Many of Saudi allies were embarrassed and obliged to take into account the commands of the "Charity Kingdom," while others could not tolerate KSA's decision.As the decision which labeled Hezbollah as a terrorist group was taken, a storm of condemnations erupted in all the Arab countries to reject the Saudi escalation against the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... In addition to Iraq and Leb, Algeria abstained from supporting the decision. Moreover, wide public and political denouncements were launched in Tunisia whose president rejected to support the Saudi resolution.
The latest reports assert that Saudi will keep on escalating its stances against Hezbollah in order to match the Zionist attempts to strike the Resistance in Leb and Paleostine.
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Almanar and Lebanese are butthurt the Saoodis have cut off aid because of the Hezbis dog biting the hand that feeds
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#2
It's SO confusing...
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03/05/2016 12:18 Comments ||
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Cutting off Hezbullies; couldn't happen to nicer people.~
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03/05/2016 13:40 Comments ||
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>BLUF: [PJ Media] Which leads me to the real topic: Trumpophrenia. I suffer from it and it's only getting worse. I change my opinion about Donald almost every five minutes - and I can't be the only one. There may be millions of us. For some it's even more problematic. These people are not Trumpophrenic. They are Trumpophobic. And, if this Drudge link has any veracity, they have taken their problem to their shrinks.
I haven't gone that far - yet. But I am searching for a cure for Trumpophrenia before I have to reach for the Haldol. If he becomes president, I don't want any of us to become real life schizophrenics ourselves, unable to predict what our leader will say or do next.
But basically I think he's a good guy and his heart is the right place. His instincts for making America great again are also basically good. So I will make my plea. Donald, you and only you are the cure for Trumpophrenia. Do it. Take us out of our misery. If you want to be president, start acting like one. Now.
#3
Jeebus, I am in the never, never land of taking another look at Cruz, smary bastard that he is.
Silver-lining City, we are going to have an open convention for the first time since what? Dewey? I look forward to the 24/7 coverage. I suspect it might be historical, epic even. I wish Dr. Thompson had known before hand about this, he might notta blown his brains out over the breakfast table.
#4
It amazes me that the US conservatives had a proven capable man who fit Conservative bona fides and is quite popular and yet discarded him. Perry seemed ideal. Trump should not have gotten past the basic fact checking any rational person would do.
#7
I am/was a Perry/Walker fanboy. Look where that got me
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03/05/2016 12:05 Comments ||
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Recall Perry was indited by a Liberal Austin (TX), which charges were later found to be [sorry] unfounded.
Done in by the liberal smear machine, including the media.
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03/05/2016 12:12 Comments ||
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I liked Perry too. But he had that brain freeze when he couldn't remember all the departments he'd cut. It's not like I never had a brain freeze but I never ran for president either. What really beat Perry though was all the Establishment money that went to Romney. It would seem at this point that the only way to beat Establishment money is to run a guy who can fund his own campaign and get the media to talk about him without him even spending his money. I must admit that after that last debate Cruz and Kasich looked like the grown ups while Rubio and Trump looked like a couple of quarrelsome, stupid little boys. Part of that at least, the Trump part, was certainly Rubio's plan. Even so I'm past the emotional part. But I still don't trust Kasich, he still looks too Establishment, and I still don't think that Cruz can beat the Beest. I still want a candidate who is at least willing to talk about the problems we have with China and immigration. So when the emotion runs out we still have to be rational.
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#10
A Walker/Perry fan also.
HOWEVER, neither of them had that make up needed to take down the GOPe and they are the real enemy because they should be the opposition to the Dems but are in fact on the same side. The statist, corporatist, graftocrat side of which Hillary is the titular head.
I think Cruz can and will do it if he gets the chance. Trump can if he wants to, but, I'm afraid he'll turn out to be a go along to get along less classy version of GHWB.
#11
Dear Roger,
Please accept my sympathy concerning your delicate mental condition. Perhaps it will assist you to remember that this election is neither about your phrenias or mine. It's about the candidates.
Granted, the mental stability of at least one of the candidates (specifically the one you mentioned) is very suspect indeed. Even a minimal amount of stress seems to send him into a blathering outrage.
His outrageous conduct, during the debates, brings back mental images of Nikita Khrushchev beating on the podium with his shoe.
But we must admit that even with his mental instability, Khrushchev was a pretty good leader... for a communist. And the candidate under discussion (in your article) embodies many of the same traits and philosophy of Nikita Khrushchev.
But it remains imperative to remember that electing him president is no panacea for either your phobias or mine.
My advice to you is to kick back, take a tranquilizer and just let it go. Just bask in the realization that the candidate causing you such emotional trauma, probably has less than zero chance of becoming president anyway.
~
#12
There was a preventative, securing the borders and quit firing Americans literally on the job with foreigner replacements. For a few pieces of silver you betrayed the body of the people. You have no loyalty to us, we owe no loyalty to you and your institutions.
#13
" firing Americans literally on the job with foreigner replacements. " Like Trump and his backing of H1B and outsourcing, and his abuse of H2B to hire imported labor instead of hundreds of Americans that applied for jobs at his business? Look up h2b mar-a-lago trump, here is a starter:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-exclusive-idUSKCN0Q62RQ20150802
Blue Collar people, Trump is fooling you, duping you, wake up fools. Vot for someone else, anyone else other than Hillary or Bernie. Trump is using you.
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03/05/2016 17:44 Comments ||
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#14
Remember the ultimate goal. it ain't over until the fat cankles swell!
#15
Good Heavens, another paid troll unseen before. \
Hey darling, both parties colluded to strip Americans of their jobs. So, why worry about Trump other than he understands why the people are upset while both of the parties in a position to actually do something now, just sit on their asses. A good business gives his clients what they want in the 'deal'.
#16
So Procopius2K, you surrender, give up and refuse to fight if you cannot get a perfect situation? Rather a cowardly positiion, and hardly one that works in the real world in places like Route Irish, or COP Keating.
Fight what? A rigged game? The establishment runs a Lucy Van Pelt program, promise them to hold the ball and then yank it away every single time. It's all about power and money, and those who have it aren't going to give it up gently.
I'm just waiting for all the hate and fear mongering to result in an assassination attempt. No one will be able to clean themselves of association afterward.
[PJ Media] Sources close to the good doctor have told Independent Journal Review's Benny Johnson that Donald Trump is most likely to receive Carson's endorsement. "Trump was contacting Dr. Carson regularly during the campaign and remains in contact," a former Carson staffer told Independent Journal Review on condition of anonymity. "I would not be surprised if the first call Ben got today was from Trump." The staffer added, "The chance of Ben jumping onboard with Trump is very real."
Another former Carson staffer said, "Carson would be the crown jewel of an endorsement for Trump." The retired neurosurgeon would bring a degree of moral support to the real estate tycoon, who has taken hits from evangelical leaders for being indecent and untrustworthy, and Marco Rubio has repeatedly denounced him as a "con artist." Carson, by contrast, is well regarded as a moral man, primarily by evangelicals.
Carson's former Iowa campaign chair Rob Taylor said Trump would "rarely say anything ill of Carson." If he were Trump, Taylor said "Carson would be my #1 pick for VP. He has the balance and reasonability that Trump needs."
#5
I hate to remind Rob Taylor that Trump compared Ben Carson to a pathologically unstable person "a child molester, a sick puppy, a child molester" back in November of 2015.
Rubio is showing how ill tempered and unsuitable Trump is by goading him. Its not Rubio that seems concerned with the size of things, its Trump who reacted like a 12 year old in public.
Perhaps Trump should be more concerned with fascist statements about ordering our military to commit war crimes and they must obey becuase he is Der Furher, oops I mean The Leader... "I'm a leader. I’ve always been a leader. I’ve never had any problem leading people. If I say do it, they’re gonna do it. That’s what leadership is all about." He has no clue about military leadership, jsut scummy business practices and being a Boss not a leader.
Take his lying to the rubes backing him on immigration, when he has advocated and abused H1B and H2B visas. Now he is "flexible" on immigration, and admits he told the NY Times that the immigration stuff was just an election ploy? Hey Trumpites, how it feel to have been played?
The issue is not Rubio, its the duplicity of Trump that should be of concern. You cant get more silver spoon establishment than him (born rich, uses the government and crony capitalism, harvard etc), yet people delude themselves into seeing anti-establishment somehow.
Rubio is finished anyway since he apparently cannot win his home state. So now its down to a split convention or else Ted Cruz.
If not Cruz (Or in a brokered convention possdibly Kasich or Rubio), then its Hil-liar-y vs Tantrum Trump. With either of those two, big government, K-Street and the insiders win, while constitutionalism, small government and individual freedom lose.
Wake up and wake those around you who are Trump followers before its too late.
The real issue is as Noone wrote, the protected (and connected) vs the unprotected. If it was a constitutional republic the other issue would be important. However, we blind ourselves intentionally because we 'believe'. No different than the socialists. No, there is no 'right' man to make it all work again. We're past the period of a nation of laws, those only apply to the 'little people' to keep the game going. It's really a choice of 'champion' as it was in Rome. The others all represent in one way or another the establishment which has no need for 'consent' other than you paying your taxes on threat of loss of liberty and giving over your sons and daughters to defend their power (cause they don't give up theirs). You get to choose Caesar, Pompey, or Crassus.
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#5 I hate to remind Rob Taylor that Trump compared Ben Carson to a pathologically unstable person "a child molester, a sick puppy, a child molester" back in November of 2015.
I thought I was watching the process fairly closely, but I don't remember any of this. Link please.
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Ref #10, I now remember this interview. An unfortunate turn of phrase in reference to a potentially incurable mental condition, but I do not think Trump intended to label Carson as a child molester.
#12
Carson seems more qualified to be surgeon general. Trump needs to select a VP that has good track record of success in politics and governing (not necessarily in Washington) since Hillary has no experience in management and Trump has no GIVERnment experience.
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#6 Nil desperandum, P2k, nil desperandum. I figure: if Russians could kick out the communists and Israel could kick out the socialists (few people realize just how strong a hold the Israeli Labor party had on Israel's economy & social institutions); there's hope for you. Of course, it'll probably won't happen at the ballot box---sorry.
[DAWN] SARTAJ Aziz, adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs, is no amateur or wide-eyed newcomer to foreign policy. So when Mr Aziz decides to speak frankly to a US think-tank audience about the leverage that the Pak state has over the Afghan Taliban, it is hoped that a great deal of thought went into the revelations.
To be sure, what Mr Aziz has claimed -- that sections of the Afghan Taliban leadership reside in Pakistain and that Pakistain has nudged those leaders to the negotiating table by threatening to restrict their movement, withholding access to medical facilities and clamping down on family life -- is neither surprising nor new.
Indeed, the leverage that Mr Aziz described is in line with what American officials in particular demanded that Pakistain use in early 2014, when the push for talks with the President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. -led Afghan government was first made. But the question remains: why now?
First, however, Mr Aziz’s candour ought to be welcomed. For years Pakistain has clung publicly to an unrealistic, untrue and untenable position -- that the Afghan Taliban leadership is predominantly based inside Afghanistan and that the Afghan government was shifting blame for its failures to limit the Taliban’s activities onto Pakistain.
Second, the full range of Mr Aziz’s words in Washington needs to be considered. The foreign adviser stressed that both in the past and in the present, Pakistain’s influence with the Taliban has its limits -- that, effectively, the Afghan Taliban do what is in their own interests and Pakistain cannot dictate policies to them.
Perhaps, then, Mr Aziz was trying to correct the historical record while simultaneously trying to impress on interlocutors -- in Afghanistan, the US and China -- the real-world limits of Pak influence with the Taliban.
That approach has a possible dual benefit: it prevents the Afghan government from automatically blaming Pakistain and puts the onus on Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... to make talks successful.
What remains to be seen is the extent to which the army-led security establishment here backs Mr Aziz in his risky approach. Silence in the coming days and weeks will be interpreted as an implicit endorsement of the foreign adviser’s stance. That would be welcome on two levels.
First, it would suggest that the military and civilian sides of the state are in fact able to work together. Second, it would indicate that the old culture of secrecy and denial in the ranks of the military leadership may be changing.
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[DAWN] THERE are few things as predictable in the country as the reaction of the religious right to progressive causes, especially the empowerment and protection of women.
When the regressive is confronted by the progressive, a meltdown is inevitable. Continuing that peculiar tradition is Mohammad Khan Sherani, chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology and champion of many a dubious cause.
He has claimed that not only is the recent pro-women legislation passed by the Punjab
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[Ynet] Israel is no longer facing a "lone wolf" intifada - now these wolves hunt in packs as pairs and sometimes trios band together to commit terror attacks.
Since the beginning of the current escalation of violence, there have been 13 attacks committed by pairs of Death Eaters from the West Bank or East Jerusalem. This trend is slowly beginning to challenge the perception that attacks are mainly carried out by "lone wolves" - single attackers - who go out to commit an attack without telling anyone of their intentions in advance.
Two or perhaps three Death Eaters committed the attack on Wednesday night in Har Brakha, while two others - Labib Azzam and Muhammad Zaghlawan, both 17 year old students from the Paleostinian village of Qaryut - committed the attack at the Eli settlement earlier in the day.
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Assuming individual competence, 1/2 the chance the op will screw the pooch. Also have a ready "counselor" on hand should the other have second thoughts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
I'll take Trumpophrenia over this. 
