Author: John Hawkins

Unlike many conservatives, I think polling is extremely useful — provided you understand how to use it. You have to know which polls are reliable and which ones aren’t, be on the lookout for bias, pay more attention to trends than single polls, and understand that polling numbers are snapshots in time, not statues, forever […]

The moment I first heard my co-blogger Melissa Clouthier use the phrase “Party of Yes,” I knew a column would eventually come out of it because that phrase so perfectly describes today’s Democratic Party. No matter how bad the idea, the Democrats are willing to say, “yes, yes, yes” and throw a few billion dollars […]

Today, I had an interesting conversation with one of my sources in the Senate. This person, who’s very sharp, had some intriguing things to say about how the votes and timeline are looking for health care and immigration behind-the-scenes in the Senate. What follows is a sightly edited transcript of our conversation (and, yes, I […]

Admittedly, when Obama came into office, he had a tough economy to deal with. So, in all fairness, he can’t be blamed for all the problems we have. However, Obama is spending so much money and interfering in the market so gratuitously that he’s creating a much bigger crisis than the one he’s trying to […]

* There’s a world of difference between a good cause and a good cause you’re willing to pay for out of your own pocket. * I understand Republicans in Congress don’t like criticizing a POTUS w/ a high approval rating, but they need to call him on his radicalism. * When liberals start to care […]

After doing The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics last week, I thought that in order to be fair, I should feature the women on the Right as well. So, in the spirit of the Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful lists, I present to you “The 15 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media.” Do keep […]

It’s hard not to notice that the media was doing more economic “woe is me” stories about people suffering during the fat years of the Bush era than they’re doing now, when Obama is destroying whole industries and permanently damaging the economy with his spending. Here’s one that you definitely wouldn’t have seen during the […]

Are you a guy out there dating a liberal? Do you find it tough to get her the right kind of gifts? The sort of gifts that say, “Yes dear, it’s true that we don’t agree politically, but I do respect your beliefs.” Then, today is your lucky day, because Mio Destino’s “Yes We Can-Can” […]

I’ve written about Hal Turner, the violent white supremacist nutjob, before. Turner has a bad habit of encouraging violent attacks on election officials. Here’s what he wrote last time, After we kill them; what to do? After the pending Second American Revolution results in killing the people who have wrecked this country — yes, you […]

We think we can’t survive without deficit spending — but we soon won’t be able to survive with deficit spending, either. — Tony Blankley International pressure — diplomacy only works if there’s leverage. It sounds wonderful — ‘Let’s go talk to people’ — but you better have leverage in order to make diplomacy work. — […]

Senator Sam Brownback put on a teleconference today about closing Guantanamo Bay. What follows are my notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Sam Brownback’s Opening Statement About 3 weeks ago, I went to Gitmo. I have visited a number of prisons in the US and this was one of the nicer prison facilities I’ve been […]

My theory has long been that if Democrat was elected in 2008, conservatives would be energized and liberals would lose steam. There is some evidence that this is happening. For example, from a WAPO Story about the liberal Take Back America conference, That ambivalence could account for the lethargy at this year’s conference; as Fox […]

Via Newsbusters comes this story that simultaneously explains why California has so many budget problems and why it’s so difficult to cut spending, In a time when fiscal responsibility from politicians seems to be a thing of the past, NBC’s “Today Show” and ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” criticized California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for […]

Obama obviously timed his speech in Cairo (2 PM local time) to minimize the number of people in the states who might be tuning in live to see it in the States (before 8 AM). That was a good move given the alarming naivete that was on display from the man who’s supposed to be […]

Isn’t it funny that liberals have spent years falling all over themselves to protest when people call this a Christian nation, but now — we now have the most liberal President in our nation’s history declaring that we’re a Muslim nation. The reason this has been called a Christian nation is because it was originally […]

Over at Slate, William Saletan, who’s pro-abortion, tries to make the argument that pro-life conservatives should logically want to murder abortion doctors in a piece called, Is it wrong to murder an abortionist? If abortion is murder, the most efficient thing you could have done to prevent such murders this month was to kill George […]

This story has gotten some attention, but not nearly enough, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reaffirmed his faith in a strong dollar and reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar-denominated assets are safe. “We believe in a strong dollar,” Geithner said in a question-and-answer session after a speech to students […]

After the debacle that was Playboy’s Hit Piece On Conservative Women, I thought, “Someone should do this right.” I mean, can’t we simply admire the female form without being jerks about it…ehr, much? So, I thought about doing a list of the hottest conservative women bloggers in politics — but, I realized it wouldn’t work […]

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” — A corruption of a quote by George Santayana Not so long ago, Argentina ran up a crushing debt. Eventually, when it become clear that Argentina was unable to pay, it led to an economic collapse in that country that made the Great Depression […]

From Conservative Grapevine. 20) WebUrbanist: 15 incredible images that look altered but aren’t 19) Cracked: 7 completely unrealistic movies plots that came true 18) Right Wing Video: Eliza Dushku bikini dancing from “The New Guy” (Hot) 17) Regretful Morning: 5 incredibly impractical military weapons (actually used) 16) Atom: The six creepiest abandoned place 15) Weasel […]

1) Lack Of Personal Responsibility: As a society, we encourage a “victimhood mentality” and an overweening government that never met an issue it didn’t want to dive into with both feet; so we shouldn’t be surprised that so many Americans expect to be rewarded for failure. If GM fails, we’ve got to step in and […]

This morning I received a press release for one of the most vile posts I’ve seen in a long, long time. It’s a piece by a New York writer by the name of Guy Cimbalo, in Playboy. The basic premise behind the article is picking 10 attractive conservative women, demeaning them with poorly written, obnoxious […]

* If the Right acted like the Left, we’d be demanding the guy who killed Tiller be freed so he could be given a job as a professor. * Conservatives have pro-business principles. Liberals give failing businesses 100s of billions of your money. Which makes more sense? * Too many people are assuming they can […]

Robert Stacy McCain, Melissa Clouthier, Erick Erickson and I have been complaining about the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s decision to endorse Charlie Crist in the Florida Republican Primary despite the fact that there was already an outstanding, viable, conservative candidate, Marco Rubio, in the primary. The NRSC is supposed to represent all Republicans, so why […]

From Right Wing Video, 10) Christian The Lion (If you haven’t seen this already, you should watch it now). 9) M1A1 Abrams Tank Runs Over A VBIED (carbomb)

As a pro-life Christian, I don’t have any qualms about unambiguously condemning the man who murdered abortionist George Tiller as he went into church, Dr. George Tiller, whose Kansas women’s clinic frequently took center stage in the U.S. debate over abortion, was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita church Sunday […]

Via Five Feet of Fury, I came across a story at Gawker that seems to show “Mancow” Muller’s waterboarding was faked! Here’s the key email that was sent, one day before he was waterboarded, From: [redacted] Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM To: [redacted] Cc: [redacted] Subject: Re: URGENT You are a ROCK […]

As everybody who reads RWN knows, I do love the trash tabloid beat and when I see a story like this one on the Globe, you know it has to make Right Wing News, The story is built around Larry Sinclair, whom I’d currently put at about the Seymour Hersh, Bill Burkett, Scott Thomas Beauchamp […]

We’re getting too much lip service and not enough action from the Obama administration on nuclear power, and the impression is being left that we can run this big, complex country on electricity from the wind, the sun and the earth. …Climate change may be the inconvenient problem, but nuclear power is the inconvenient answer. […]