Year: 2008

During Stalin’s show trials, even the most brutal communist apparatchiks could find themselves accused of being counterrevolutionaries. Likewise, even America’s First Black President, the guy with the office in Harlem, who has been said to be blacker than Obama, feels compelled to deny the thought crime of racism: It’s no use protesting his innocence. As […]

Denver is blowing a fortune on security for the Obamessiah coronation: [T]he city released a list of expenses related to the convention showing that the police were preparing for large demonstrations and mass arrests and that the department had spent $2.1 million on protection equipment for its officers, $1.4 million for barricades and $850,000 for […]

Maybe I’m writing too soon and too glibly as the real storm should hit my area around 1 p.m., but dang. The drama around a thunderstorm seems excessive. My mom called my yesterday from Michigan and proclaimed that a tropical storm cometh. She’s very concerned about the weather. I pay little attention unless I’m flying […]

…you’re dodging urine and feces in the streets of Denver later this month. Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes. The law, crafted in advance of the Democratic National Convention, was adopted unanimously by […]

It seems impossible that 18 years have passed since the controversial decision by the Ayala family who chose to get pregnant with a baby to save their daughter, Annisa, who suffered with leukemia. She needed a bone marrow transplant to save her life, but there were no matches. Her parents had another child who ended […]

Election Journal has put together a great video with scenes of St. Louis and valuable information about the city’s history of election fraud. “See Fraud? Cheating? Dirty Tricks? Were you intimidated? Have trouble voting? Someone vote for you? Long lines? Machines break?” If you witness any form of election fraud today in Missouri or elsewhere, […]

The website of the day is Sister Toldjah.    

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Arthur Herman: Climate hysterics v heretics in an age of unreason Hot Air: Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain’s Britney ad? The Sniper: 5 ways to scare a gal away forever Cara Ellison: The four most romantic […]

As a general rule, calling the left “oversensitive” about race is like calling the sun “hot,” but as Barack’s numbers have started to soften over the last few weeks, the Left has started to go around the bend. As a matter of fact, they can’t even see the bend at this point. You’ve seen all […]

Last night, a relatively non-political friend of mine asked me what was happening with the election. Here’s what I told her, edited slightly to clean it up. Anon: What’s up? I saw some of your recent posts, John :) …I was curious as to how you think the election is going. John Hawkins: It’s a […]

Violence in Iraq is down to 2003 levels, the Congress is in recess for a month, and frankly we’re entering what should be a very slow news period. So you can expect some “inside baseball” posts about the political campaigns as they enter their last 3 months (thank goodness) before the election. George Will hits […]

Why on earth would Nancy Pelosi go to such extremes as turning the lights off on her fellow Reps to prevent even voting on the possibility of allowing off-shore drilling? Does she want energy prices to keep climbing, and the economy to tank? In a word: yes. As NewsBusters reports, even George Stephanopoulos has gotten […]

A recent CNN headline screams: Exxon posts record $11.68 billion profit Wow, that works out to $1,485.55 per second! Those greedy bastards! Down with Big Oil! From now on let’s just drill our own in our backyards. But buried deep in the story we find paragraph 28: In addition to making hefty profits, Exxon also […]

My latest column at Townhall, Obama’s Top Ten Flaws That Will Cost Him in November, cracked the 7 most read and forwarded pieces this week. Being on a list like that with columnists like Ann Coulter, Thomas Sowell, and Charles Krauthammer is a real honor.

I wanted to give a special thanks to my co-bloggers at RWN who helped out last week, Dr. Melissa Clouthier Katie Favazza Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Gina Cobb Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William Teach from Pirate’s Cove Michael Illions from Polipundit MCQ from QandO Moonbattery

The New York Times is running a poor, poor, pitiful me story about an illegal immigrant who, happily, was deported by a hospital that was sued in return for doing a good deed, Eight years ago, (Luis Alberto) Jimenez, now 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Fla., suffered devastating injuries in […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Villainous Company: Photoshop: The special edition, Barack Obama Race Card Cracked: If websites came with warning labels… Stranahan: I’ve been banned at DailyKos because Of John Edwards Egotastic!: Audrina Patridge bikini pictures You can check out all those links and more by […]

Liberals tend to live in cloud-cuckoo land, where the average conservative is an evil, Nazi-loving David Duke who’s hellbent on sticking them in a camp so that we can turn the US into a theocracy. Meanwhile, back in the real world, there’s very, very little evidence to support these assertions. So, the way liberals get […]

The website of the day is Men’s News Daily.    

Via Hot Air, here’s what David Gergen had to say about John McCain’s latest outstanding ad, David Gergen: McCain’s “Moses” ad is code for calling Obama “uppity” In which the single dumbest, most paranoid racial charge of the campaign is recycled on national television by a former presidential advisor and current Harvard professor. I said […]

Previously on RWN, I put together a couple of articles that featured interviews with conservative women on dating (Part 1, Part 2). The articles were a big hit and I had several people ask me when I was going to do a follow-up with conservative men. Although I did want to do a follow-up, given […]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died. Two years ago this October, on the occasion of the even of elections, I wrote on Dean’s World the following about how and why I became a conservative. That story began with Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I recognized that I was a conservative during high school, when in support of a paper I was […]

It’s a slow news day, so why not throw a little humor out there? Here’s Kerry on today’s Meet The Press, interviewed by Tom Brokaw: MR. BROKAW: We’re going to get to all those issues, but I also want to raise what a surrogate for Senator Obama had to say to my friend Bob Schieffer […]

The pundits can rail against tactics, warn that particular methods of attack are risky, and even lecture candidates about the “low road”. But it is the voter who gets the final say about campaign tactics, strategy and messages. As much as they hate to admit it, Democrats should understand that the Swift Boat Veterans for […]

Afternoon break from politics and such. Personally, I find this pretty cool Palaeontologists digging in a brickyard in southern Poland have discovered the fossilised remains of a dinosaur that they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The predator dinosaur, given the working name “Dragon”, lived around 200 million years ago, team […]

With a history filled with cursing, (“F*ck you” to John Cornyn, “A$$hole to Pete Domenici, “F*cking jerk to Charles Grassley, screaming and throwing temper tantrums at fellow Republicans over the years, John McCain seems to save his admiration and glowing praise for Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore. On Nancy Pelosi, McCain was positively gushing with […]

On Saturday, August 2nd, more fools attempted to get their pro-active pre-surrender message out. Their “emergency call to to action,” if you will. They did it in many cities around the country, including Raleigh A group protesting against a possible war with Iran demonstrated in Raleigh Saturday. The North Carolina Coalition to Stop War on […]

Richard Reeves writes today that Barack Obama is a thinker, while John McCain is a “feeler.” Indeed, Reeves writes, Obama may be “too thoughtful.” Oh please. My first reaction to the premise itself is that Reeves has it backwards. Obama is, like most dyed-in-the-wool Democrats, 65% feelings and 5% common sense on matters of public […]