Author: John Hawkins

Almost a week ago, I predicted that the Democrats are so corrupt that they won’t remove Charles Rangel from his leadership position for cheating on his taxes. Again, it’s worth noting that this is a man who’s in charge of the Ways and Means Committee, a man who’s advocating a huge tax increase — and […]

A simple question: is the National Organization of Women, which claims to represent all women, more interested in pushing liberalism or in advances for all women? I think this definitively answers that question in exactly the way you’d expect it to be answered, National Public Radio reported on Morning Edition today that the National Organization […]

30) Tony Blankley 29) Mike Adams 28) Wes Pruden 27) Bill Kristol 26) Mona Charen 25) Kevin McCullough 24) Kathleen Parker 23) Larry Elder 22) Ralph Peters 21) Byron York 20) Dennis Prager 19) David Limbaugh 18) Mike Gallagher 17) Victor Davis Hanson 16) Michael Barone 15) Rich Lowry 14) Lorie Byrd 13) Jeff Jacoby […]

….or alternately, CNN gets pwned. Hat tip to The Jawa Report for the story.

Nationally, John McCain has a small lead that’s probably about 2-4 points in real terms. Furthermore, if the election were held today, John McCain would probably win it. Additionally, the enthusiasm, party identification, and money gaps between the parties have closed considerably. Obama is running a horrible campaign, Michigan and Pennsylvania appear to now be […]

One of things I do semi-regularly here at Right Wing News is read the big political tabloid trash stories and analyze them so that you don’t have to do it. Granted, most of these stories are nothing but unprovable rumor and innuendo, but every once in a while, they do turn up a John Edwards […]

It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 3rd quarter of 2008. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how […]

The New York Times’ pet “conservative,” David Brooks, wrote a really odd column — odd for a “conservative” anyway — complaining that the Right doesn’t care about social issues. Here’s the closing part of his column, That language of community, institutions and social fabric has been lost, and now we hear only distant echoes — […]

Our British cousins are living in a country that is rapidly becoming a bad movie: one part Mad Max, one part 1984, and one part Idiocracy. In other words, what was once the greatest nation on earth is in a spiral downward that appears to be growing ever faster. One area in particular where Britain […]

Question: “When my wife and I decided to start a family, we had many long talks about how important it was that she, as the mother, be able to stay home and dedicate herself to raising the baby. When we discussed the possibility of me staying home, we kind of just laughed about it. Both […]

Question: “Just a couple of weeks ago, everyone — including you, John — was writing off Bobby Jindal as too young and inexperienced to be McCain’s VP. Yet the selection of Sarah Palin has turned even those who mistrusted McCain for years into his fervent supporters — including, you, John. But the thing is, Palin […]

Question: “In recent weeks, you’ve shown us many examples of very corrosive postings and commentary from liberal websites regarding conservatives. Some of the comments are repulsive both in language and in the ideas they portray. I think most people would agree that over time, the anger and vehemence of the rhetoric between right and left […]

Question: “Any advice for someone getting into political blogging as a hobby and not a full time job?” — Dick_Nixon Answer: The key thing with blogging is to figure out exactly what you want to do from the start. Personally, I knew from the moment I started doing political blogging that I wanted to make […]

Want to know why Obama is losing right now? It’s because his campaign has bought into a false idea being peddled by the liberal netroots. You see, if you listen to the lefties, they’ll tell you that Democrats lose elections because they don’t fight back hard enough against Republicans. What happens, according to these clowns, […]

When Sarah Palin was selected as John McCain’s VP pick, it caught the mainstream media completely flatfooted. Most of them acted as if they’d never even heard of her, despite the fact that conservative bloggers had already selected her and Mitt Romney (they tied) as their most desired VP picks for John McCain. Moreover, the […]

From Reuters, “Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, there is no consensus outside the United States that Islamist militants from al Qaeda were responsible, according to an international poll published on Wednesday. The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on […]

The liberal idea of “diversity” is 2 white guys, 3 white women, 2 black guys, 2 Hispanic women, and an Asian transsexual all having the exact same left-wing ideas on every issue. The conservative idea of diversity could be that exact same group of people or even just 10, straight, white males or 10 Hispanic […]

This week on my Internet Radio Show, one of the subjects we discussed was that some people have complained that liberals who point out that Palin is hot are really sexist. I can’t say that I agree and that’s not just because plenty of other conservatives have also pointed that out also; it’s because she’s […]

Even as they do everything humanly possible to try to increase the number of abortions short of running television commercials urging more mothers to murder their children, liberals always insist that they want abortions to be “safe, legal, and rare.” Yet today, we get this article from the LA Times bemoaning the fact that Sarah […]

The choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s VP has been particularly galling to elitist liberal snobs who are appalled that a mere conservative woman might actually be the first female VP. Here are excerpts from 4 of the most snobbish scribblings about Sarah Palin. You decide which one is the most condescending, “It’s like […]

Hat tip to my buddy Rachel Lucas for this image, which has been growing on me a little more each day.

“These are serious times and they call for a serious debate…spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change.” No, really, go ahead and guess. Here’s a hint: it’s the politician in America who has spent most of the campaign season pretending to be outraged about attacks aimed at him […]

“What if, God forbid, McCain lives? All this discussion about Palin really ignores one fact: the vice-president is just a spare tire. As vice-president John Nancy Garner put it, the job isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss.” — Daily Kos diarist, Harl Delos You know those Kossacks, they’re all class…

In the GOP, the American people gave the GOP a much deserved boot in the rear end, in part, because of corruption issues. In return, they got the least competent, least popular Congress in history — which is run by Democrats. They also got more corruption as evidenced by this story about Charlie Rangel, Embattled […]

The McCain campaign already has an ad out hammering Obama for his “lipstick on a pig” comment that many people, including my own co-author Melissa Clouthier, believe was deliberately aimed at Palin, Whether it was intentional or unintentional, this was a huge screw-up by Obama for three reasons. #1) Judging by the reaction, his own […]

Over at the British Guardian, liberal Jonathan Freedland has written a column telling Americans how they better vote. A large portion of the column is dedicated to peddling already disproved stories about Sarah Palin, but then he moves on to this, But what of the rest of the world? This is the reaction I fear […]

I’ve seen liberals in the mainstream media really stretch to come up with a “scandal” before, but this latest story in the Washington Post is one of the biggest reaches I’ve ever seen. The headline is “Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home Taxpayers Also Funded Family’s Travel” and it’s on page A01 of […]

It’s always a good idea to take focus group data with a grain of salt. Heck, for that matter, it’s a good idea to take pretty much everything said by the mainstream media about politics with a grain of salt. Here’s just one more reason why that’s the case, A Detroit Free Press editor expressed […]

Granted, the Skipper never wanted to raise your taxes, Gilligan never supported banning all hand guns, and neither of them liked to pal around with unrepentant terrorists and anti-white reverends, but it still fits pretty well anyway. I mean, can’t you just see Joe Biden whacking Obama with his hat after B.O. said something dumb […]

This is a strong, new video from the McCain campaign. The voice guy is what really makes it hum. Hat tip to Hot Air for the video.