Author: John Hawkins

In a ringing endorsement of our leadership in Congress, RWN’s readers found them to be inferior to random people from the phone book by a 6-to-1 margin. Would you like to replace every member of Congress with a randomly selected person from the phone book of the same political party? Yes: 86% (616) No: 14% […]

Here are the latest battleground state poll numbers for McCain. I don’t want to depress you, but the stats are extremely grim given the amount of time we have left before the election, That’s right. Obama is up in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, and Virginia — among others. You may be wondering how many […]

One happy side effect of the Obama campaign is that it’s going to destroy the effectiveness of the Left’s “That’s racist” attack forever. As the phrase is used more and more, in increasingly ridiculous ways, people are becoming numb to it — and if people are indifferent to being called racist, because it’s so overused, […]

For years, conservatives have been talking about the potential consequences of out-of-control spending — and guess what? The consequences are here. The markets are plunging, we’re probably already in a recession, and we may be genuinely headed towards a financial crisis of global proportions. And this crisis? It isn’t merely another turn of the wheel […]

Currently, there are 49 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and 2 Independents who caucus with the Dems in the Senate. That means the Dems need 9 more seats to get to 60, which would allow them to shut down any Republican filibuster attempts at will. At the moment, the situation is particularly precarious for the GOP. McCain […]

Last night on instant messenger, a female friend of mine sent me a link to a new book that Jessica Valenti over at Feministing is coming out with. Yes, believe it or not, this apparently isn’t some sort of off-the-wall parody — it’s a real book, After sending me the link, my friend’s comment was, […]

This week-end I caught David Zucker’s An American Carol. The general idea behind it is a Michael Moore stand-in wants to ban the 4th of July — and 3 ghosts, General Patton (yes, that General Patton), George Washington, and the Angel of Death try to straighten him out. The general idea behind the movie is […]

Per Rasmussen polling, Only half (49%) believe that the current Congress is better than individuals selected at random from the phone book. Thirty-three percent (33%) believe a randomly selected group of Americans could do a better job and 19% are not sure So, with that in mind, let’s see what RWN’s readers think. Would you […]

I just watched this opening from the movie Idiocracy and it seemed frighteningly plausible. Be forewarned, there’s some bad language in this, but take a look at it, and think about the demographic trends in the world today. It’s like the Peter Principle applied to the human race…

Here are the top 20 songs on my MP3 list right now. To be honest, I haven’t found a lot of great, new stuff to listen to over the last few months. Take a look at my list and suggest some new songs for me… 50 Cent: Hate It or Love It AC/DC: Thunderstruck Evanescence: […]

If you didn’t catch the debate last night, at least take a look at the highlight reel in this video. It doesn’t really give you the full flavor of the debate, but it does help you get an idea of why so many people are praising Sarah’s performance this morning.

Here are the results of the poll I ran last night on RWN, Who won the debate? Joe Biden: 18% (173) Sarah Palin: 76% (754) I didn’t watch the debate, but I am voting anyway like a dork.: 6% (61)

I’ve been telling people McCain probably has a 20% chance of winning these days and that if he’s going to pull it off, he’s going to have to shake things up. Why do I say that? First off, the bailout bill seems to have sucked most of the life out of conservatives that Sarah Palin […]

There’s supposed to be another bailout vote today in the House. If it goes through, there are a few things I want you to remember…. #1) “Everybody” didn’t agree that we needed to do a bailout at all. #2) “Everybody” didn’t say, “We have to do something,” immediately. #3) “Everybody” didn’t agree that the plan […]

“The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing […]

Who won the debate? Joe Biden Sarah Palin I didn’t watch the debate, but I am voting anyway like a dork.    Free polls from Pollhost.com

First off, I can’t complain too much about the fairness of Gwenn Ifill’s questions, but it is worth noting that she asked a couple of really wacky questions. Ifill asked a really foggy question about what would happen if someone got nuked. That one went to Palin first. She also asked another weird question about […]

There have been some complaints that the McCain campaign has been hiding Sarah Palin away and over prepping her, when they should be just turning her loose. Hence the debate over whether they need to “Free Sarah.” The McCain campaign’s rollout could have been better. They should have sent her out to do a lot […]

As I write, the DJIA is down about 300 points. This is being spun as based on uncertainty that the House will pass the Senate bill. Yesterday, stocks rose, spun as being based on the likelihood that Congress would indeed pass a bailout bill. Which is it, guys? Meanwhile, over in Europe, the European Central […]

“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.” — G.K. Chesterton “Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can’t stand the competition.” — Ann Coulter Conservatives have mocked the cult like atmosphere around the Obama Messiah, but how do you even […]

Former Democratic Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney, is in the news again because she claimed that the government murdered 5000 people during Katrina, dumped their bodies in a swamp, and then covered it up. “”In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I had a woman, I’ve never really said this in public, out […]

I like Fox News and think they do a much better job than their competitors, but Republicans in D.C. should realize by now that the views of analysts on Fox News are much more representative of Beltway Republicans than they are of the views of conservatives across the country. Put another way, if you’re hoping […]

The first poll I did on the bailout was put out prior to the bill failing in the House and the stock market doing its best trampoline impression as a result. So, I decided to do another poll to see if anybody’s mind had changed as a result. The initial poll results had 85% of […]

It’s painfully obvious that someone who’s writing a book called, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” especially one that is supposed to come out on inauguration day, has no business moderating a Vice-Presidential debate. Moreover, the fact that she didn’t “tell the Commission on Presidential Debates about the book,” tells you […]

I was talking to my buddy Skye from Midnight Blue and she was in a terrible mood because of the bailout and the way the GOP seems to be tanking prior to the election. As I tried to make her feel better, tongue planted firmly in cheek, I said “Hey, want me to put up […]

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said the $700 billion bank-rescue proposal under negotiation in Washington is “crazy,” with potentially “awful” consequences for the world’s largest economy. “Doesn’t this seem like lunacy to you?” said O’Neill, who was President George W. Bush’s first Treasury chief, from 2001 to 2002, in a telephone interview today. “The […]

Today, I had a conversation with an anonymous congressional aide. Part of this person’s job at the moment is to help come up with ways to sell the bailout to conservatives. Here’s a heavily edited snippet from our conversation that’s published with permission… John Hawkins: Heh. You have a brutal job. I feel for you […]

Last week, Kathleen Parker — who is an excellent conservative columnist — wrote one of the most controversial columns of the year. The column, which was rather cutting in places, suggested that Sarah Palin should quit as McCain’s VP, If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself. If Palin were a man, […]

If you need yet another reason to support term limits, I would refer you to the bailout crisis that we’re having and would say that provides as good a justification as you’re ever going to find. Now let me explain why I say that. First of all, the root of the bailout crisis is in […]