Year: 2004

Question: “How do you feel about the fact that Rummy has prohibited photography in Iraqi prisons following the torture scandals? The media may very well be blowing this out of proportion yet this course of action reminds me of the three monkeys and thus ‘see no evil’.” — Ryan via email Answer: Although that story […]

I was really happy with the way the first Q&A Friday turned out. There were a lot of good questions, I had time to pump out a lot more material than normal, and everyone seemed to be pleased with how things went. So today, I’m doing it again. If there’s a subject you’ve been wanting […]

Warning Will Robinson, warning!!! What you are about to read is, I repeat, is, a REAL news story, not satire…. “Protesters delivered a message yesterday to the national spelling bee: Enuf is enuf! Members of the American Literacy Society picketed the 77th annual spelling bee, which is sponsored every year by Cincinnati-based Scripps Howard. The […]

Back in August of last year, I put together a list of my favorite columnists. Since it has been a while, I thought now would be a good time to list my current faves again. Of course, you should keep in mind that these sorts of lists change — sometimes quite a bit — over […]

If you enjoyed this fake campaign ad from Broken Newz, you can see more of their work here.

For a while now, I’ve been meaning to punch something up on some of the people on the right who…well, let me be charitable and say “get on my nerves”. Other than one exception, which will be noted, I don’t detest these people, but let’s just say that I wouldn’t put anybody here on my […]

We can’t well judge where we stand on victory in Iraq – and how much more needs to be done – without stepping back and reviewing what our objectives there were in the first place. I’m not looking so much to answer all these questions in this one entry as to frame the issues: 1. […]

So while I’m vacationing this week-end, I decide to take in a movie. Unfortunately for me, I chose to go see “Shrek 2,” a festering, execrable, dung heap of a children’s movie that will undoubtedly turn every child who watches into a perverted cross between Marv Albert and Michael Jackson. Some of you probably think […]

After I’d already arrived at the beach last Friday, I received the following email from RWN reader, Jeremy J. Luzier. Here’s what Jeremy had to say… “Dear Mr. Hawkins, I visit your site every weekday, and I would like for you to include on your site next week a critique of the Constitution Party. http://www.constitutionparty.com/ […]

One of the things many bloggers have long believed is that weblogs are able to influence public opinion, despite not receiving massive amounts of traffic, because large numbers of influential people read blogs. In other words, blogger influence comes mostly from “the who”, not the “how many”. So, in order to test that hypothesis, I […]

Once again, it’s vacation time at RWN. I’ll be out of town, kicking back and relaxing, for the next few days. Of course, that means there will be no updates until Wed of next week. But when I get back, I’m going to release an article that will turn the blogging world on its ear…well, […]

Everyone has heard about Al Gore’s insane tirade yesterday, but is he really now so insane that’s he’s a menace to society? To find out, I had my crack research team find out whatever they could about the one know as Al Gore. FUN FACTS ABOUT AL GORE * Al Gore’s father was also a […]

Lately, it seems that not a day can pass without Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry and their ideological soul mates in the mainstream media making acerbic comments about how the Bush administration has handled the war on terrorism. For those of us who disagree with them, it is easy enough to “attack […]

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a puff piece on that murderous commie swine, Che Guevara. Just get a load of the opening to article… “Che Guevara is widely remembered today as a revolutionary figure; to some a heroic, Christ-like martyr, to others the embodiment of a failed ideology. To still others, he is just […]

Meet Courtney Glowczewski, a 13 year old kid with a small right arm and leg because of cerebral palsy. You can easily imagine how tough that would be for anyone to deal with, especially a 13 year old kid. But Courtney doesn’t sound like the type of person who’s using her disability as an excuse. […]

Thank you, President [insert name here], honored graduates, esteemed faculty, indebted parents and fidgety, watch-monitoring guests. It is indeed a great honor and privilege to speak to you today, as [name of college] is widely known as “the Athens of [local area]” and “the Cradle of [typical profession of employed alumni]s.” I am also honored […]

One of RWN’s readers from Florida, Jas, sent me a $60 Amazon gift certificate because she said she enjoyed reading the page for the last couple of years. Well Jas, I thought you might like to know what I spent the money on. I grabbed a copy of “WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain” for […]

An infuriated Al Gore gave an anti-Bush speech yesterday and I think this picture will tell you just about everything you need to know about it…

Gas prices are at a record high right now (if you don’t factor in inflation or count other countries), so I thought as a public service I’d list some ways to save gas while getting where you need to go. Walk PROS: No costly equipment needed. Powered by renewable fuel source. CONS: No civilized man […]

Just for entertainment’s sake, here is what I’m listening to right now…. Dr. Dre & Ice Cube — Natural Born Killers Fozzy — Stay Hungry House Of Pain — Boom Shalock Lock Boom Insane Clown Posse — Let’s Go All The Way Insane Clown Posse — Boogie Woogie Wu Gravity Kills — Goodbye Kid Rock […]

Today at the Democratic Underground, a website so typical of left-wing thinking that John Kerry himself links to it on his official blog, the lefties are freaking out about the terror alerts. Not because they’re worried about terror mind you, but because they think it’s some sort of eeeeeevvvvviiiiillllll Bush plot. Here are just a […]

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the pearly gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked St. Peter, “What are all those clocks?” St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-clock. Every time you lie the hands […]

Everywhere I’ve turned today, I keep running across the same bogus claim that Al-Qaeda has 18,000 members. That number comes from a report by a British think tank called the International Institute of Strategic Studies. So how did the “super geniuses” at the International Institute of Strategic Studies determine that there are 18,000 potential members […]

It’s bad enough that the mainstream media hasn’t given the discovery of artillery shells in Iraq, one filled with sarin and the other containing traces of mustard gas, anywhere near the attention that it deserves. But, in this story about Hussain Shahristani, the man who may be the premier of a new interim Iraqi government, […]

10. “For those who say this war is excessive, I propose a twenty percent reduction in the size of Ted Kennedy’s head and a hundred percent reduction in the sounds coming out of it.” 9. “I’ll hand over Iraq when they leggo my Eggo.” 8. “For those who are vehemently opposed to the war in […]

Boy, did I luck up or what when I ran across the kook website called the Above Top Secret forums? I mean how long has it been since I did an edition of ACPOTI (Anyone Can Post On The Internet) that focused on a bunch of nutjobs babbling about how demons, aliens, and the Bible […]

Just a little note for the Democrats and the media, you’re drinking a little too much of your own bathwater right now. Bush’s press coverage has been as bad as it gets for about two months now, I’m hearing about how conservatives are divided, Bush’s approval numbers are lower that ever and the left is […]

Last week, I put out My Favorite 40 Blogs For The 2nd Quarter Of 2004. Well, although those 40 blogs are great, there are a lot of top notch blogs that didn’t make the list. So, I decided to put out another list of 50 blogs that I like & check at least semi-regularly. If […]

After the stunning triumph of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the winner of the coveted Palme d’Or headed to the Gulf state of Qatar to accept another best film award from Al Jazeera. The Arab network’s Palme d’Tree award recognizes Mr. Moore’s anti-Bush documentary as a “stunning journalistic and […]

If there was such a thing as a mainstream media magazine, it might look something like this…