Author: John Hawkins

Over at the The Guardian, they’ve got a story on — believe it or not, a Burger King body spray, Still can’t think what to get him for Christmas? Socks don’t seem to cut it any more? Fret no longer because Burger King is here to help. The mass purveyor of grilled meat is offering, […]

After the grandstanding Iraqi reporter tossed his shoes at George Bush, the media’s focus wasn’t on how Bush had made it possible for this moron to throw his footwear at a world leader without being fed, head first, into a paper shredder five minutes later while his family watched, it was on what a great […]

Although I absolutely cannot stand John McCain, so much so that I put a higher priority on seeing him beaten in his 2010 Arizona primary than I do on defeating any Democratic senator, I think he has gotten a bad rap for these comments, Sen. John McCain said Sunday he would not necessarily support his […]

The final “Barneycam” video is out and unfortunately, I have to say it’s not one of the better ones. Sure, they have lots of cameos from Olympic athletes, but where’s the Barney in the Barneycam video? Personally, I wanted to see more of Barney running around the White House and playing with toys. So, with […]

Yesterday, I put up a couple of polls on the Big 3 bailout. Here are the results. Do you support using TARP funds to give the Big 3 a 15 billion dollar bridge loan? (567 votes) Yes: 5% No: 95% Would you support giving the Big 3 a 100 billion dollar plus loan next year? […]

The LA Times has done a story on Anthony Pellicano being sentenced to 15 years in prison. Unsurprisingly, they failed to mention his most famous clients, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for running an illegal wiretapping operation that gathered information for a […]

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Soros, George Soros’ son, made the following argument — such as it is — for supporting the popular vote over the electoral college, In his election-night victory speech, Barack Obama said he would be a president for all Americans, not just those who voted for him. But as […]

When I headed over to one of my favorite conservative websites, Lucianne, I received a warning in my browser, Since I know Lucianne isn’t some sort of warez/hacker site, I clicked through anyway and here’s what they had to say, Please, please, please, stop, stop, stop! We know some of you are getting a Google […]

“How hitler’s holocaust is like america’s civil right movement?” This oddball Dogpile search produced an errant hit on RWN for this article.

Because their allies in Michigan state government and Congress have given them every legal advantage, members of the UAW have been able to get paid far more than their skills were worth on the free market for decades. In one sense, it’s hard to fault them for that. After all, most people try to get […]

Here’s what I am thinking is really going on…. Rod Blagojevich was peddling Obama’s Senate seat and trying to get paid. He discussed it with Rahm Emanuel, who then went back and talked it over with Obama. That makes perfect sense, right? Obama was obviously interested in who was going to fill his seat and […]

Do you support using TARP funds to give the Big 3 a 15 billion dollar bridge loan?YesNo  Free polls from Pollhost.com Would you support giving the Big 3 a 100 billion dollar plus loan next year?YesNo  Free polls from Pollhost.com

Earlier this week, I had someone message me on Twitter and tell me they bought every book I gave an “A” rating to in the “The Last 125 Books I’ve Read” post. That was very flattering, but my guess is that most people can’t afford to buy that many books. So, I thought I’d recommend […]

“In a just, capitalistic world, Barney Frank would be living on the streets covered in his own excrement, but instead he gets to screw up business after business with no accountability because apparently he lives in a district where the citizens are constantly being outsmarted by squirrels.” — Frank J.

How obnoxious is it that the unions are coming to Congress, hat in hand, saying that the “Big 3” can’t even survive another month without billions of dollars in taxpayer funds — even as they balk at the idea of lowering their wages and benefits enough in 2009 so that the car companies have a […]

As predicted, George Bush is letting it be known that he is planning to use TARP funds to prop up the “Big 3” despite the fact that it’s clearly illegal. Also, given that there are 350 billion dollars worth of TARP funds remaining, Bush is setting a precedent that will be used to turn the […]

“The fact is, we seem to be in a kind of moment of madness in Washington, where day by day, step by step, massive expenditures and undertakings are contemplated that would radically alter the relationship between the people and their government and that would have been simply unimaginable, with good reason, just a few months […]

If you just found a large sum of money and could easily walk away with it, what would you do? This immigrant bagboy found $10,000. He turned it in. Why? Here’s what he said, “I teach a Sunday school with 10-year-old kids and I always tell them to do the right thing.” 75 year-old Billie […]

One of the arguments that’s being kicked around is that the stock market will take a big hit if the “Big 3” don’t get bridge loans — so, therefore, Bush now has to use TARP money for the loans in order to prop up stock values. While I would not be surprised to see the […]

One of Barack Obama’s biggest supporters, Colin Powell, is now offering up his sage advice to Republicans, The Republican party must stop “shouting at the world” and start listening to minority groups if it is to win elections in the 21st century, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday. …”I think the party has […]

This graphic was swiped from Maggie’s Farm.

“If all we want are jobs, we can create any number — for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just […]

This was originally posted at 10:34 PM EST, Dec 11, 2008. It’s from an instant messenger conversation with one of my sources in the Senate. Anon Senate Aide: Auto bailout dead. John Hawkins: Dead dead? What happened? =D Anon Senate Aide: Negotiations ended, no deal. John Hawkins: Until next year or for a day or […]

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” — Author unknown “Every time you take a rich man down, you take a 100 poor men with him.” “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in […]

Dr. Helen, in a post explaining why intellectuals tend to sympathize with criminals, quotes Theodore Dalrymple, Intellectuals need to say things that are not immediately obvious or do not occur to the man in the street. The man in the street instinctively sympathizes with the victim of crime; therefore, to distinguish himself from the man […]

Anti-Semitic incompetent Jimmy Carter made news by declaring that he would meet with Hezbollah. Now, Hezbollah has made news by declaring that they won’t meet with Jimmy Carter, Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah has refused to meet visiting former US president Jimmy Carter to discuss legislative elections set for the spring, Carter’s spokesman said on Wednesday. […]

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same Last week I wrote a column called “Before We Carve Barack Obama’s Face on Mt. Rushmore.” It was about the rapturous honeymoon period that Barack Obama is experiencing at the moment. Well, judging by the latest numbers from this Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, Americans […]

There’s a very poorly thought out argument that we seem to be hearing more and more of lately. It goes something like this, “We already do (horrific idea X). Therefore, that’s justification for doing (horrific idea Y).” Some examples of this sort of thinking include, “We’ve already bailed out the banks. Therefore, we should definitely […]

From the incomparable Michelle Malkin, At noon Eastern today, five true maverick Republicans will announce their support of a UAW bailout filibuster in Washington. Senate sources tell me GOP Sens. Shelby, Ensign, and DeMint (as I noted yesterday) will be joined at the press conference by Sens. Vitter and Coburn. Our own Gang of Five! […]