Author: John Hawkins

Renee Ellmers Vs. Bob Etheridge: The Campaign Video

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I have to admit: I’m starting to take a real shine to Renee Ellmers. That’s not just because she’s a NC candidate or because her opponent, Bob Etheridge, comes across like a violent lunatic. It’s not even because she did a guest post for RWN back in May and gave her first written response to […]

 

The Right Side Of The Blogosphere’s Reaction To Obama’s Speech

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When even MSNBC doesn’t have a lot of good things to say about an Obama speech, you can be sure that conservatives are going to be SCATHING. So, let me give you my reaction to last night’s speech and then I’ll include some of the more notable reactions from the Rightroots to what Obama had […]

 

The Debbie Schlussel Experience Part 2: The Fixation

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Imagine, if you will, that you’re a normal person and then one day a quasi-famous mentally ill blogger becomes fixated on you the way Gollum was fixated on the Ring. Even though she hasn’t been setting the world on fire lately, she has been on TV, on the Howard Stern show and she’s written for […]

 

Rep. Steve King: Obama Favors Blacks Over Whites

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Conservative Republican Steve King said the following about Barack Obama, Democrats on Tuesday denounced an Iowa Republican congressman who says President Barack Obama favors blacks over whites, and a GOP candidate from Colorado canceled a fundraiser the Iowan was to keynote. Rep. Steve King, known for sometimes incendiary remarks about immigration, Abu Ghraib and other […]

 

Barack Obama Doesn’t Represent How The American People Feel About Britain

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One of the most ironic things about liberals is that they constantly fret about our image in the world. “Why that Cowboy George Bush is making people hate us!” If you heard something like that once over the last 8 years, you probably heard it a hundred times. So, what happens when a liberal like […]

 

Four Reasons There Shouldn’t Be a Mosque at Ground Zero

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There’s a time and a place for everything. For example, there may be nothing wrong with building a museum of Japanese military history, but would the place for that be Pearl Harbor? How about our First Amendment right to speak out — that’s important, isn’t it? So does that mean it’s supposed to be okay […]

 

Exclusive To Right Wing News: Bob Etheridge’s Opponent, Renee Ellmers, Responds To His Assault On A Student Film Crew

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As many of you are no doubt aware, Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge is in the news for assaulting a student who asked him a question. Here’s the video of the incident that’s turning up all over the place. Etheridge has already issued an apology for his odd and violent behavior. I have seen the video […]

 

Government Is The Same Everywhere: Slow, Stupid, And Incompetent

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Most people who read this story probably finished it thinking, “What a decent and:  : courageous fellow!” While I’d agree with that sentiment, I took something else away from the story entirely: In nearly 50 years Don Ritchie, 84, has saved at least 160 people at The Gap, a rocky cliff at the entrance to Sydney […]

 

It Took An Oil Spill To Teach Obama About The Limits Of Government

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The aftermath of:  the:  Obama oil spill or alternately, Obamatrina, has been fascinating to watch. For the first time in recorded memory, we actually have liberals, including Barack Obama, proclaiming that there are limits to what government can accomplish. Can the government create jobs by spending billions we don’t have? Can:  it : run the auto […]

 

The Alvin Greene Mystery: How In The World Did He Win?

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South Carolina is starting to become known for wacky political shenanigans. You had Mark Sanford walking the “Appalachian Trail.” Nikki Haley has had two allegations of affairs lodged against her — neither of which the public believed. Then there’s Jake Knotts, the lowlife who was rambling on about Haley being a “raghead” controlled by a […]

 

Paypal: Opposing Radical Islam Is Hate Speech?

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This week-end, Paypal dropped the hammer on Atlas Shrugs. Here’s Pamela Geller explaining what happened, The little money that Atlas generates (I have no large donors) is about to be cut off. Apparently the jihad is hard at work trying to kill free speech (and the bus ads and the 911 no mosque movement), preventing […]

 

The Corrupt Pelosi Congress Looks To Water Down Ethics Rules

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What do you do when too many of the sleazy members of your caucus are getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar? If you’re Nancy Pelosi, you try to weaken the ethics rules to keep so many of them from getting busted, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has privately indicated she is willing to […]

 

So, I Understand There’s Some Sort Of Soccer Thing Going On?

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I initially became aware there was some sort of: :  soccer series, bowl, contest, kick-off — whatever they call it — going on because when I was scanning for links for Linkiest, I kept running across pictures of soccer hotties: Viva la socialism ball hotties! While I did peruse several of these “articles” (does a post […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 4 – April 10

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It used to be said “war is hell.” A more accurate description today might be “war is purgatory.” Political correctness demands that reason must prevail, even though war is conducted precisely because reasoning, aka diplomacy, has failed. We used to understand this. When America was threatened during WWll, we didn’t wring our collective hands wondering […]

 

The Democrats Come Up With A Brilliant “New” Immigration Strategy: Talk Tough About Security, But Support Amnesty

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No, seriously, folks, that’s the “new” plan. The Politico did a whole article on it, Long pilloried for being soft on illegal immigration, top Democratic officials have concluded there’s only one way they can hope to pass a comprehensive immigration bill: Talk more like Republicans. They’re seizing on the work of top Democratic Party operatives […]

 

We’re Getting Dangerously Close To Intifada Territory On Our Southern Border

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The hatred of America in Mexico and their bizarre sense of entitlement when it comes to breaking our laws is becoming ever more alarming. First of all, we have this story: Mexico has slammed the U.S. for its ‘disproportionate use of force’ after a boy of 14 was shot dead by an American Border Patrol […]

 

Talking With Joseph Nassralla: The Man Police Escorted From The Ground Zero Mosque Protest

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Last week-end, Robert Spencer from Jihad Watch and my friend Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs helped organize a roughly 10,000 person strong protest against the mega-mosque that’s being built at Ground Zero. This is a noble cause and Pamela, Robert, and the other people at Stop Islamization of America who are fighting the good fight […]

 

Tweet Of The Year: “Well, I Hope You’ll Die Soon, Stupid Hater, And Bring All Your Stupid Followers With You In Hell”

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Normally, I don’t bother to comment on angry tweets aimed in my direction. In fact, I generally block annoying people on Twitter. I don’t mind the fighting, but if I’m going to do it, I want to do it on my web page where it can draw an audience. So, earlier today, I popped off […]

 

A Rundown Of Yesterday’s Big Election Results.

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First off, in California, it was not a great day for conservatives although happily, down the ticket, birther queen Orly Taitz was trounced by Damon Dunn for Secretary of State. That’s the good news. On the other hand, Meg Whitman soundly beat Steve Poizner for:  governor of California, 64% to 27%. I really don’t like […]

 

The 25 Best Conservative Columnists Of 2010 (Version 2.0)

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25) Chuck Norris 24) Dennis Prager 23) Mike Adams 22) Tony Blankley 21) Larry Elder 20) David Harsanyi 19) Jeff Jacoby 18) Jack Kelly 17) Rich Lowry 16) Frank Fleming 15) Michelle Malkin 14) John Stossel 13) Dick Morris and Eileen McGann 12) Michael Barone 11) Karl Rove 10) David Limbaugh 9) Byron York 8) […]

 

Just One More Post About Putting Helen Thomas Out To Pasture

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Commentary on Helen Thomas being put out to pasture has not been in short supply on RWN. Here’s Warner Todd Huston, Melissa Clouthier, Kathleen McKinley & Donald Douglas all discussing Dame Helen’s dismissal here at RWN. However, since it’s still a hot topic and since I have a slightly different take on it, I wanted […]

 

The New York Times: Wouldn’t The World Be Better Off If The Human Race Went Extinct?

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Influential left-wing wacko Peter Singer, who has previously argued in favor of : infanticide and bestiality, has been allowed to write a column for the New York Times. In a saner world : that would make news, but there are so many lunatics, freaks, and monsters who’ve edged into the mainstream on the Left that people barely […]

 

Seven Reasons Why Israel Will Never Get a Fair Shake

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“Never again.” It’s what the world said after the Holocaust. Fast forward sixty five years and the only thing standing between seven million Jews in Israel and a 2nd Holocaust is their ability to fight for their own survival and the increasingly inconsistent support of the United States. It doesn’t matter that Israel is a […]

 

Matthew Yglesias: The Problem With The Economy? Too Much Fiscal Conservatism

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Yes, really. That’s what he’s arguing, If fiscal stimulus is so great, then why hasn’t the Obama administration’s massive stimulus program helped improve the economy? Well, via Mark Thoma, the answer is that there hasn’t been any net fiscal stimulus, all the Obama administration’s efforts plus the automatic stabilizers have done is mitigate the contractionary […]