Not that it’s that big of a deal, but we hit 10,000 visitors sometime in early October… it took 11 months to hit that milestone. Today, we hit 15,000 visitors. 5,000 in the past month. I can’t imagine what would cause so much interest in our site this past month.

We also in the latter part of October posted our 500th article. We think that’s just the tip of the iceberg, and hope to see significant growth as we develop The Conservative Reader over the next year.

In noting these milestones, I just want to thank the writing team for TCR: Thomas Laryea, DJ Durant, Dr. Bob Stouffer, Renea Smith, and BitHead. You have[...]

Here’s a transcript of last night’s debate.

If I get time, there’s a number of points I’d like to break out of it. But for now, a quick overview of who won and who lost.

If there’s one thing that the blogging Democrats and their pre-written declarations of an Obama victory in the debate last night proves, it is that BS is a renewable resource. Last night, the left side of the spin floor similarly had nothing but the same tired nonsense we’ve seen this entire cycle.

Welcome to the new look for The Conservative Reader!
We’ve implemented a new WordPress theme to help provide a cleaner and easier to read look.
Although we’ll be tweaking the site over the next several weeks, please observe the following changes:

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From the Business and Media institute:
There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But [...]

To those of you who are Internet Explorer users, I apologize for the fact that you were unable to get to The Conservative Reader during the past 12 hours.  I’m not 100% sure of the cause of the problem, but it has something to do with a tool called “Sitemeter” that I use to track [...]

Doh!
All of my images have been gone from about noon today until 11:30 PM.  I just realized when I upgraded to 2.5.1, I forgot to reload my backup of the “uploads” folder.
I’m really sorry about that.  Everything should be tidy again now!

I’m still getting caught up on things political. Like, Laura Ingraham is now doing a weekly show on Fox called “Just In”. I have yet to see it, but if you’re a fan of her radio program, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
Speaking of Laura’s radio show, evidently she’s in the middle of some [...]

Went ahead and ran the upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1.
It’s a breath of fresh air.
Before too long, there will be additional changes, including a new theme.  More on that later.

If you don’t see any other posts for a day or two, it’s just that our internet access is down. We had some kind of outage that should be repaired sometime Monday, but it might be Tuesday before you see anything substantive. Sorry about that. (had to use a public wifi to [...]

Tonight, Bithead shares some thoughts resulting from this story by James Joyner at Outside The Beltway.  Various questions can be pulled out of the discussion, and James makes it clear that Fowler (a blogger), who attended the fundraiser where Obama talked about “guns and religion”, acted appropriately in recording and releasing the content.
Although I don’t [...]