Author: John Hawkins

Getting hate mail is part of being a blogger and the longer you’ve been around and the more traffic you get, the more hate mail you receive. After a while, it all blends in together. “You (string of random curse words thrown together). I can’t believe you (don’t want to kill babies/don’t like Barack Obama/are […]

If you loved the best quotations from Ann Coulter’s 2008 columns, you’ll probably also love the next series: The best of Mark Steyn’s quotes from 2008. Enjoy! Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could […]

You can also expect the Democrats to go back to the “right-wing rage” meme as soon as the glow starts to wear off of Obama. After all, he ran as an “everything to everyone” candidate. He portrayed himself as a diehard liberal and a moderate, a hawk and a dove, a tax cutting free marketer […]

When the establishment lines up behind a candidate in a Republican primary, it makes that candidate hard to beat. Look back to Pat Toomey vs. Arlen Specter in 2004 and Lincoln Chafee vs. Steve Laffey in 2006 for two great examples of that. In both cases, the establishment was the decisive factor in beating candidates […]

It’s the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it’s screwed up because there’s not enough government oversight (it’s the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of “reform.” — Ann Coulter And yet, the fact is that “me Tarzan, you Jane” is […]

We are in the middle of a recession and Americans are hurting. People are losing their jobs, they’re struggling to pay bills, and we’re having a huge debate about health care, much of which is being driven by the cost of care. Meanwhile, we’re spending exorbitant sums on the health care of illegal aliens: Last […]

After spending four years getting all fired up about Iraq, the issue almost completely dropped off of the radar screen the moment Barack Obama was elected. However, that’s only because Bush’s success with the surge made it clear that Obama was taking over a war we were winning handily. A loss at this point would […]

Pat Toomey is an outstanding conservative candidate and his numbers in Pennsylvania look good right now. He has an excellent chance to knock off the winner of the Arlen Specter/Joe Sestak primary battle and add a seat in the Senate for the GOP. What follows are my notes, not quotes, from a NRSC teleconference call […]

Before he lost the presidential nomination in 2000, John McCain was a fairly reliable conservative vote. After McCain lost, he became a squish. Thus, you see John McCain’s all too typical of late ACU rating of 63% for 2008, but his lifetime rating of 81%. My theory about that has always been fairly simple: Because […]

There was a ballot initiative in environmentally conscious Seattle that tells you a lot about the American people’s real attitude towards environmental issues: Seattle voters have rejected a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores. The city’s incumbent mayor didn’t fare much better than the […]

On Twitter, there’s a hilarious “#obamacarefacts” tag that has started getting a lot of attention. I’m not sure if it started as a pro-Obamacare trend or not, but now it’s chock full of hilarious tweets ripping on Obamacare. Here’s are some of the best of the bunch: @jephjacques under ObamaCare, Twitter will be replaced by […]

Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft posted this video of the Democrats giving themselves a standing ovation for blocking George Bush’s attempt to reform Social Security: From there, Hoft goes on to note this story: Social Security could face a deficit within two years,” U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus predicted here Tuesday. “The situation is much […]

I met Bob Novak once at the RightOnline conference in Austin. I quickly walked up to him and asked him for a picture. I got the impression he wasn’t wild about the idea, but he graciously smiled for the camera anyway: My friend Emily Zanotti had been standing with me when Novak walked up and […]

“You can almost feel the conventional wisdom shifting, day by day, from more Democratic gains in 2010 to big GOP gains in 2010.” — John Hawkins, April 2010 That shift I mentioned back in April? It’s now fully in place. At Netroots Nation, they were telling people to expect to lose 20-50 seats. Now, the […]

There have been a spate of stories about people bringing guns to Townhall meetings. Most people on the Left have been treating it like an outrage, while on the Right, it has generally been shrugged off with a “It’s their right” and left at that. In my view, it’s a bit more of a complex […]

Although racism certainly exists in this country, it has become blessedly rare and marginalized. Some of the best evidence you can find for that is Barack Obama’s election as President. Only in a country as colorblind as America could a black man easily win the Presidency when 75% of the votes were cast by white […]

Many people believe, erroneously, that old people can’t figure out new technology. This was something that came up while I was at RightOnline. Does this really make any sense? While there may be SOME physiological changes that make it harder to “teach an old dog new tricks,” they can’t be too significant given the number […]

This week-end, I headed up to the RightOnline Conference in Pittsburgh that was put on by Americans for Prosperity. It was a great event, I had a fantastic time, and I’d recommend these AFP conferences to everyone reading RWN. To give you an idea of what they’re like, I’m going to give you a basic […]

(I missed putting up “This Week in quotes” on Friday because I was at RightOnline. Still, there are too many great quotes in there to skip. So, enjoy!) I have found myself saying, in conversation, “I’m afraid Obama is going to kill me.” Now, I’m not picturing him or one of his minions coming over […]

I’m at the Right Online Conference in Pittsburgh today and tomorrow — so’s Melissa Clouthier. I meant to post about this last night before I left, but I got behind schedule and wanted to make sure that I got at least 7 hours sleep before I drove. That’s right; I drove from the Carolina coast […]

These comments from Obama, comparing the public option to the competition between the Post Office, Fedex, and UPS are just mind blowing. I’d encourage you to watch the video, but here’s a rough summary. * Obama claims that the public option would have to be self-sustaining, without taxpayer funding. * He points to UPS and […]

There are plenty of ignorant people in the world and some of them are on the Right. So, whenever a noose is hung, a swastika’s drawn, a flyer is put up with the wrong date for an election in a black area, etc, etc, it is entirely possible that someone on the Right is responsible. […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of people they considered to be the most influential on the right. Representatives from the following 40 blogs responded… All That Is Necessary, The Anchoress, Argghhhh!, AtlanticBlog, Atlas Shrugs, Basil’s Blog, BitsBlog, BizzyBlog, Melissa Clouthier, Conservative Compendium, Conservatism […]

There is what’s supposed to be a sympathy evoking story about an illegal alien who got a kidney transplant in the Chicago Tribune. This story, when you know all the facts, is actually unbelievably obnoxious: As he pushes his cart around the Southwest Side selling steamed ears of corn, sliced cucumbers and other street food, […]

Per Dana Loesch, this poster is popping up all over the place in Missouri: Of course, you can’t slap that image up in your own hometown. So, I made it flyer-size. Click right here to get your copy. PS: If you put any of these up, snap pics and email them to me. PS: Know […]

In the early days of Barack Obama’s presidency, his approval rating soared to dizzying heights as many Americans thought we had entered a new era of hope, change, unity, bipartisanship and uplifting speeches. Then, Obama moved on to actual governance and suddenly, for the first time in his political career, he had to primarily rely […]

Surprisingly, Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi have doubled down on their strategy of demonizing ordinary Americans who have shown up at Townhalls to speak to their representatives about health care. Trashing American voters who have the audacity to disagree with their lords and masters in Congress doesn’t seem to me to be a winning political […]

I have found myself saying, in conversation, “I’m afraid Obama is going to kill me.” Now, I’m not picturing him or one of his minions coming over to murder me, but I am afraid that as I get older and need expensive care to keep me alive that I will be told I cannot have […]

This is a scene from my living room last night: Yes, my cat-hating Jack Russell mix, Patton, is happily chowing down next to a kitten. That kitten was running around on the porch, ran in the house past Patton, and started eating his food. Then Patton just started eating next to him like it was […]

Question: “Name 10 books every young man should read before his 18th birthday.” — President_Friedman Answer: Great question, but tougher than you’d think to answer. Still, let me give it a shot — although I am only giving out 8 books. (My right hand girl, Melissa Clouthier, already did a list, but since we only […]