Year: 2006

This week-end, a book by Reginald Bohannon called, Coming Out Of The Republican Closet: Coming To Terms With Being Black, Patriotic, And Conservative, caught my eye. So, I contacted Mr. Bohannon and set up a phone interview with him. What you’re about to see is an edited transcript of our conversation: John Hawkins: I found […]

Ready for part 2 of Dani Cutler’s interview with me for her podcast show, Truth Seekers? Well today, Dani put up the 2nd part of the interview and you can listen to it here. As per usual, Dani was extremely nice, and we had talked about Ohio in 2004, the candidates in 2008, whether America […]

One of the oddest things about a lot of liberals is that simple displays of support for the troops or patriotism actually irritates them. For example, consider this recommended diary at the Daily Kos called, “Please take the magnets off your cars.” “I’ve just finished reading clammyc’s diary (Okay wingnut troop supporters – try to […]

Last night, John Jacob was defeated by Chris Cannon. Cannon took 55.8% of the vote and Jacob pulled 44.2%. Combine the very low turnout with the final two polls that had Cannon up 49-42 and Jacob up 45-44 and I have to say that I’m a little surprised that Jacob didn’t do better. My expectation […]

Foreign Israeli Troops Enter Gaza; Bridges Hit (Give ‘Em Hell Israel) Olmert: Military Strike Will Continue New Hamas-Fatah plan recognizes Israel Iraqi Says Attacks on U.S. Won’t Be Pardoned (Free New York Times Reg Req) Domestic House Republican Leaders Are Expected To Introduce A Resolution Today Condemning The New York Times For Publishing A Story […]

Look who made the Salt Lake Tribune today for something I wrote in the comments section at Human Events’ Right Angle Blog: “Utah Republican Party Chairman Joe Cannon says he’s trying to stay neutral in his brother Rep. Chris Cannon’s primary battle, but it didn’t come across that way in comments he posted online last […]

Rick Santorum is up for re-election in 2006 and he’ll be going head to head with Bob Casey. Santorum is generally considered to be the most vulnerable Republican in the Senate and he’s polling well behind Bob Casey right now. However, Santorum is an excellent campaigner with the advantages of incumbency and Casey seems to […]

Over at the very liberal blog, Whiskey Bar, Billmon wrote a long, interesting, albeit unsurprisingly slanted to the left, post about the motivations of the publications on the left in pursuing the Ko$ola scandal: “The real question in my mind is what the attack puppies are trying to accomplish. Surely they must understand that in […]

The The Top 8 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Is a Weaker Candidate Than People Think column I wrote for Human Events inspired at least one…uh, let’s call it a creative response that was just forwarded over to me today. Enjoy the paranoia from one Mr. Timothy Willis: “Last month it was “Can she be stopped?” […]

Despite all the global warming hysteria that people on the left try to whip up, there is one major problem that gets very little attention: even if you believe global warming exists and that man is causing it, there is no practical solution to the problem. Even most of the hard core “true believer” environmentalists […]

Jason Furman argues in Slate that, contrary to what organized labor would have you believe, Wal-Mart is actually good for the working class. A range of studies has found that Wal-Mart’s prices are 8 percent to 39 percent below the prices of its competitors. The single most careful economic study, co-authored by the well-respected MIT […]

Domestic Bush Slams Leak Of Terror Finance Story Cheney: New York Times Harms U.S. Security Scrawled Bush Threat Sparks California Port Scare Flag Burning Amendment One Vote Shy The University Of Colorado Announced Monday That It Will Dismiss Controversial Professor Ward Churchill (About Time) Dick Morris: Joe Lieberman Will Lose Primary Limbaugh Detained At Palm […]

If the Israelis wanted to do so, they could squash the Palestinians like a bug under a child’s sneaker. The Israelis could kill them by the tens of thousands, they could drive them off their land, and there’s precious little that the Palestinians could do to stop them. So, the Palestinians are able to continue […]

“The New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public’s right to know in some cases might override somebody’s right to live.” — Tony Snow

Tomorrow, John Jacob and Chris Cannon are going to go head to head in a Republican primary, in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District. Cannon is a 5-term incumbent with an excellent conservative record — except on illegal immigration, where he supports the Senate amnesty plan. John Jacob is a raw political rookie who’s also very conservative […]

“Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records. King, R-N.Y., said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the nation’s chief law enforcer “begin an […]

Courtesy of the New York Times, here’s some of the most demeaning marriage advice you’ve ever seen from some devil-shrew named Amy Sutherland: “I love my husband. He’s well read, adventurous and does a hysterical rendition of a northern Vermont accent that still cracks me up after 12 years of marriage. But he also tends […]

So, I’m cruising eBay, looking for wacky auctions and I struck gold in the form of a seller called enchanted_whispering. What’s so unique about her? Well, enchanted_whispering sells spells at between $14.54 and $36.39 a pop. What kind of spells? Well, she has quite a range. According to one of her auctions, she can cast […]

Foreign Al-Aksa Claims Biological, Chemical Capabilities (Free Jerusalem Post Registration Required) U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts (Free New York Times Reg Req) Saddam Thinks U.S. Will Beg For His Help Video Shows Russian Hostages Killed 2 Israelis Die After Terrorists Crawl Through Tunnel To An Attack Israeli Post Domestic Murtha Says U.S. Poses […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, have a great week-end, enjoy the links below, and consider this to be an open thread. Video Of The Coulter Appearance On Hannity & Colmes Where RWN Is Mentioned TimChapman Blog Muslims ‘Still in Denial’ About 9/11, Pew Survey Finds A Study Of Giving To Katrina Victims Shows That […]

Richard Morin at the WAPO presents these captivating study results: “Are Republicans stingy but principled while Democrats are generous but racist? “I wouldn’t put it quite so starkly,” said Stanford University professor Shanto Iyengar. He would prefer to call Democrats “less principled” rather than bigoted, based on his analysis of data collected in a recent […]

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One of the wacky tricks that the left used in the 2004 elections was to suggest a draft themselves and then use the buzz that created as evidence that the Republicans would actually have a military draft if Bush was reelected. That sounds completely nonsensical, but it’s exactly what they did, and because their pals […]

Over at the Daily Kos, there’s a recommended diary at krazypuppy, that explains that the terrorist ring down in Miami was busted — get ready for this — in order to distract people from John Kerry’s attempts to cut’n’run in Iraq. No, REALLY! He believes this and worse yet, so many Kossacks agree with him […]

“Seven young men arrested in an alleged plot against the Sears Tower were part of a group of “homegrown terrorists” who sought to work with al-Qaida but ended up conspiring with an informant, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday. …The alleged terrorists – five U.S. citizens, a legal immigrant from Haiti and a Haitian national […]

Yesterday, the champion of the unhinged left in the blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga went after the liberals at the New Republic for roughing him up on the Ko$ola story. “This is what the once-proud New Republic has evolved into — just another cog of the Vast RIGHT Wing Conspiracy. If you still hold a subscription […]

“The duo of Eric Lichtblau and James Risen have published the details of yet another classified national-security program. This time, they exposed the workings of a database of financial records that the administration has used to track al Qaeda’s banking transactions: The Bush administration has made no secret of its campaign to disrupt terrorist financing, […]

Over at Think Progress, they’re using Dan Bartlett’s courtesy against him: “Matt Lauer gave Bush councelor Dan Bartlett the opportunity to point out one person “calling for the white flag of surrender.” Bartlett couldn’t do it. LAUER: The white flag of surrender — that’s a very dramatic and harsh expression to use against the Democrats. […]

From the WAPO: “Doug Hattaway, a Democratic communications consultant who worked for Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000, recalled a moment of epiphany during a focus group of Democratic operatives and marketing professionals he attended last year. The participants were asked to say what Democratic accomplishments they were most proud of. Their responses filled several […]

Domestic Seven Arrested In Sears Tower Plot Senate Rejects Calls On Iraq Troop Pullout House Approves Weaker Line Item Veto Successful Missile Intercept Reported In Us Sea-Based Defense Test Celebs To Join Cindy Sheehan In Hunger Strike (Go Hunger!) Supposedly, Chafee’s Not Leaving the GOP Foreign Former Defense Sec. Perry Wants N. Korean Missile Destroyed […]