Author: John Hawkins

Quite understandably, there has been furor over some of the health care provisions that the Obama Administration bizarrely slipped into the Stimulus bill. What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle […]

Hat tip to Reverse_Vampyr for the image.

I did an interview by email with Roger Simon about his book, Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror. Enjoy! A lot of people talk about how being a conservative can hurt someone’s career in Hollywood. Is it true? Is that really a major impediment to success? The word “major” […]

Over at Townhall today, Pat Buchanan has a column called, “‘Buy American’ — or Bye-Bye America.” Here’s an excerpt from it, For the stimulus bills of both Houses have a “Buy American” provision mandating that in “public works” only U.S. iron, steel and manufactures be used. The provision came out of the appropriations committee of […]

Remember when Obama tried to walk through a window? Well now, he has bumped his head on a helicopter door. Is it too late to start doing regular drug tests on this guy? I mean, maybe Cokey McChange has gotten back to his old habits and is so out of it that he has trouble […]

I don’t know whether to be horrified at the mere existence of this site or to laud the American ingenuity that led to it — although I am really leaning towards horror. What site? Why….hoo, boy — Sh*tsenders.com. Now, you may be thinking, “Gee, I got a dog. I could do that myself.” However, here’s […]

1) First of all, it’s very debatable whether stimulus bills work at all. As Walter Williams has pointed out, “In stimulus package language, if Congress taxes to hand out money, one person is stimulated at the expense of another, who pays the tax and is unstimulated. A visual representation of the stimulus package is: Imagine […]

The Republicans have wisely raised holy hell over both the bailout of the Big 3 and the stimulus package. In both cases, the Democrats were bloodied more than the Republicans. In part that’s because the GOP couldn’t go much lower with the public and their base anyway, but we’ve got to take our victories where […]

* This stimulus bill is huge, so disastrous, and so harmful to our country that even though Obama has been in office for less than a month, I think it’s already fair to label him as one of the worst Presidents in American history. * Where’s the leadership from Mitch McConnell on this stimulus bill? […]

“The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages. The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the past two […]

SC Governor Mark Sanford — who is one of the rising stars in the Republican Party — gets it exactly right on the stimulus, A problem that was created by building up of too much debt will not be solved with yet more debt,” Gov. Mark Sanford said Sunday, making a reference to the federal […]

Ann Coulter has a new book out, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America. In an effort to promote her book, Ann has done her 5th interview with RWN. What follows are the questions that were emailed to Ann and her replies. Enjoy! How does our society promote single motherhood? For a full answer, […]

American society as a whole, and politics in particular, has become considerably ruder, cruder, less civil and more paranoid than it used to be. There are a lot of factors that have contributed to this latest round of cultural degeneration, but I think the internet deserves to get more than a smidgen of the blame […]

The timing of this move says a lot about how much confidence these nations have in the United States now that Barack Obama is President, A Russian-led bloc of post-Soviet nations has agreed to establish a rapid-reaction military force to combat terrorists and respond to regional emergencies, Russian media reported Wednesday. The decision came a […]

There is a virtually unlimited number of wasteful programs that are being subsidized by the stimulus bill, but there’s one in particular that deserves extra attention because it is emblematic of so much of what’s wrong with our government today, The massive economic stimulus bill moving through Congress is being watched closely by arts groups […]

Many people have been so distracted by Obama’s horrendous stimulus package and the rank incompetence he displayed in picking a staff that they’ve failed to notice how his weakness is encouraging our enemies around the world. Iran, which has correctly pegged Obama as a weakling that they can push around, is already making a mockery […]

Rarely do I say nice things about Mitch McConnell, but I really love this line about the stimulus, “If you started spending the day that Jesus was born and you spent a million dollars every single day, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion dollars.” — Mitch McConnell

The left’s fascist impulse to control and censor their fellow citizens are never far from the surface. Here’s the National Hispanic Media Coalition proving that to be true, In a petition to the FCC this week, the National Hispanic Media Coalition claims that hate speech is “prevalent” on national cable news networks and wants the […]

Some of my favorite Twitter posts from the last few days… RightGirl: Do you know there’s an Obama theme for WordPress? I threw up a little in my mouth secrettweet: 12806 I’m afraid that all of my friends will leave me if I continue to rant about politics, environmental destruction, and global injustice. darthvader: The […]

Douglas Feith was the Undersecretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld and he was heavily involved in invasion planning for Iraq and Afghanistan. His book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, has just come out in paperback and it is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to […]

From War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism “Critics commonly suggest that every problem is the result of some policy maker’s error. But policy making often involves choosing to accept one set of likely problems over another.” – Introduction, P. xiv “Law enforcement is mainly an after-the-fact apparatus. […]

Fresh off of getting enmeshed in the Blago pay-for-play Senate seat scandal, Rahm Emanuel is breaking DC zoning laws, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s right-hand man, lives in a basement apartment on Capitol Hill rented to him by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. Just one problem: He’s not allowed to live there. That’s what private investigator Joseph Culligan […]

According to Nancy Pelosi, we’re going to lose 500 zillion, jillion jobs per month until the stimulus package is passed, Many conservatives have mocked Nancy for this ridiculous statement, but as per usual, the right-wingers are missing something very important. As the all-knowing and wise Lightbringer who leads us has pointed out, there are actually […]

Now the socialists in the Obama administration are moving to actually micromanage what people can be paid, Later this morning the White House and Treasury Department will announce new restrictions on executive compensation on financial institutions receiving government funds. An Obama administration official tells ABC News that under the new rules, companies receiving exceptional assistance […]

Here at the beach, we’re having the hardest snow I’ve seen since I moved here. This is actually the first time I’ve seen the snow stick on the ground. Of course, that doesn’t make us Green Bay or anything, but still, I’d like to thank Al Gore for going so over-the-top in an effort to […]

Liberals say we don’t. This story says that we do. North Korea to ‘Test Missile Capable of Striking U.S.’ North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning. The Yonhap News Agency in Seoul quoted South […]

It seems to have escaped the notice of very few people that the Democratic Party is incessantly calling for taxes on the American people even as some of its highest ranking members have cheated on their taxes. This has produced a bevy of great quotes today, “Change… It Used to Be We Found Out About […]

“The grand Keynesian myth is that you can spend money and thereby increase demand. And it’s a myth because Congress does not have a vault of money to distribute in the economy. Every dollar Congress injects into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy. You’re not creating new demand, you’re […]

Liberals view the government as a force for good that should be used at every possible opportunity to reorder people’s lives. This is an outgrowth of the liberal belief that most people are stupid and unable to ascertain what’s in their own best interests without the intercession of their superiors (liberals) to show them what’s […]

I just finished a teleconference with one of my favorite senators, Jeff Sessions, on the Stimulus bill. What follows are my notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Opening Statement From Jeff Sessions I still think people are not recognizing the size of this bill. It’s the largest spending program in the history of the country […]