and the fact it is the only blog beside Drudge that I can read easily with my bad eyes. Sadly, people with good vision don’t know how painful it is. Going to a larger text size is not the same thing. Hotair is so painless.

Newsmax changed to a format that kills me to read. Delicate san serif Arial, Microsoft’s favorite sadistic font, torments as the letters cling to each other and become one.

I enjoy many of the unique contributors to Newsmax. I often go there to double check Drudge. It is my second news source. Their science articles are great. I found a toothpaste that rebuilds enamel and ends tooth sensitivity through a Newmax article about a new medical compound. But that darn font!

HotAir is a great achievement and deserves all the praise.

Nice job with the July 4th relaunch, Townhall.Pretty impressive stuff. Keep up the good work! …

Aug. 13, 2006 – Alabama Liberation Front supplies “homegrown jihad” video to HotAir. Sept. 24, 2006 – HotAir announces that it was ranked in the Top Five conservative blogs for the month of August by Nielsen. Coincidence? I don’t think so …….

BTW, Powers may not feel that there is no demand for moderate left-wing voices, but I’ll be there is one for moderate left-wing voices in bikinis. She should explore the demographic for that.

Kirsten Powers told me the other day she’s essentially given up blogging because there’s no demand for moderate left-wing voices.

That’s depressing. And it’s similarly disappointing to see moderate right-wing voices swing farther away from balanced views. Compare Glenn Reynolds after 9/11 to Glenn Reynolds now. Republicans go right, Democrats go left. I can’t wait for shouting matches of “America is a terrorist state!” vs “Nuke Mecca!”

Allahpundit, in the spirit of preventing the dialog from going to crap, and seeing as how you’re the most moderate contributer here at Hot Air, you should set up a weekly link-trading feature with KP. You agree to find and link to a reasonable blog post by a moderate Democrat, and she agrees to find and link to a reasonable blog post by a moderate Republican. Plus… it’ll give you two something to talk about… to break that ice that is holding your relationship back.

RE: KP

NOOOOOOOoooOOOOOoooOOOOooo!!!!!!!!11!!!!11111one

Now do you think she’ll change the header image?

http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/site/c.iqLTI2OBKlF/b.932833/k.CB9C/Home.htm

1. HotAir is the One True Conservative VBlog and Allah Pundit is the Messenger.

2. Visit HotAir Five Times Daily, With Your Back to Mecca.

3. Must abstain from reading MSM for 30 days before any election cycle.

4. Contribute Financially to organizations who help those who have sacrificed to protect us and to those whom we have liberated.

5. Must make a pilgrimage to Ground Zero at least once in your lifetime.

Looks like Newsmax has dipped downward. And what was that pre-September spike that knocked Newsmax, and all the rest, out of the ballpark?

Hot Air is has been my favorite place on the internet since its very first day.

Of course my total adoration of Michelle is at the base of it.

But Allah (and Bryan & Ian) do a superb job of keeping things up to date and focused, and they seem to pick up most of the news topics that I’m personally obsessing on at any given time.

I started out on Lucianne and kind of like the format there, given the limitations of text only. Free Republic is a great place too, but their structure provides much chaff and only a little wheat. The others mentioned… I only visit them when I get a lead provided here or on FR.

Hot Air is, I think, a groundbreaking innovation; the first news/politics oriented site to really exploit all the great techniques and technology that the internet makes possible.

I see a bright future for this trendsetting place.

Kudos to all the staff, contributors and (most of) the regular citizen commentators involved.

Maybe you can hire K.P.? Be the “FOX” of blogs?
(Allah, hows your concentration?)

…now if we could only make the donkeys horses drink!

The reason we’re up above MM.com, LGF, and Instapundit in that category is because we got two monster Drudge links late last month: one for the Conan O’Brien plane-crash skit at the Emmys, the other for Kyra Phillips making a tinkle with her mike on on CNN.

What defines a conservative website, and what does the list look like? Or are they just looking at this month? You’re nipping at Charles’ heels, like Jay Leno to his Letterman at the outset of the Late Night Wars, but he would seem to have you beat over any stretch.

Then again, Hot Air has only been here for five months, so just imagine where you could be once you’ve had nine months in your meteoric rise! At this rate, you’ll be quoted on the floor of the United Federation of Planets in no time.

Michelle, Bryan, Allah and Ian, you guys have done an awesome job with Hot Air. This place rocks, the Vent is revolutionary and the world is noticing.

I wonder what percentage of Kos hits are actually conservatives driving by just to keep tabs on the enemy?

Keep it up Michelle, Brian, Allah, et al. You guys RULE!

How did Lucianne not make the list? If it weren’t for Lucianne, how many of us would never have found out about HotAir?

Anyway, #5 this year, #1 next year. Rock on, Michelle!

because there’s no demand for moderate left-wing voices.

She just figured that out?