Author: John Hawkins

If you’re Barack Obama, you’ve got to be starting to sweat. According to Reuters/Zogby, John McCain has gone from 7 points behind you last month to 5 points ahead of you with likely voters. Worse yet, you’re at 41% in the polls, which may even be worse than it looks because of the Bradley Effect. […]

Jennifer Lopez for allegedly saying that she, “couldn’t understand why everyone is talking about that swimmer,” according to a GMA source. “She couldn’t come up with (eight-time gold-medal winner Michael) Phelps’ name, and then she yammered on about how she was the one training for a triathlon just six months after giving birth, and how […]

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Soviet foreign minister Sergey Lavrov writes, However, it must be remembered that, as between any other major world powers, our bilateral relationship can only advance upon the basis of reciprocity. And that is exactly what has been missing over the past 16 years. I meant precisely that when I […]

You know what the best liberal blog on the net is? No, it’s not the Daily Kos. The HuffPo? Not even close. How about Firedoglake? It’s not in the same ballpark. It’s actually Roseanne Barr’s blog. Why is it so great? Well, picture Kos sitting down to write for a couple of hours, but getting […]

According to the Politico, McCain is going to announce his Veep pick on August 29th, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to celebrate his 72nd birthday on Aug. 29 by naming his running mate at a huge rally in the battleground state of Ohio, Republican sources said. That’s a week from Friday, and the day after […]

There hasn’t been a lot of footage from the Saddleback forum out there, partially because McCain beat Obama’s brains in, which the media isn’t going to want to cover and partially because a lot of the best parts didn’t break easily down into soundbites. However, there is one moment from the event that I wanted […]

Despite the fact that Barry is getting even more fawning coverage from the mainstream press than usual, is raking in the money, has more enthusiastic voters, and has the political winds at his back, he’s essentially tied with John McCain right now. Take a look at the latest numbers from Real Clear Politics and you’ll […]

Michele Catalano wandered into a — I don’t know exactly how to describe it, other than a “man hating store” — and had a visceral, negative reaction to the experience, I don’t understand women who go out of their way to express their hatred of men. I have two ex husbands and I’m not anywhere […]

Supposedly, Obama is going to announce his VP selection this week. That seems entirely possible and with that in mind, here’s a very quick, very dirty rundown on the names that are being floated, Joe Biden: Gaffe prone, but has foreign policy experience, is underrated as a speaker, and would be a reassuring old hand. […]

One thing conservatives like me have been pointing out again and again, is the Left is fiercely hostile to Christianity. That’s because, for the most part, the hard core Left, the ones with their hands on the levers of power in the Democratic Party at least, have far more atheists and agnostics in their ranks […]

In the end, what the election may come down to is McCain being clearly much more qualified to be President than Obama vs. Barry’s money, more enthusiastic voters, and a favorable political climate for Democrats. In other words, McCain may be flawed, but he’s far and away the best man for the job by a […]

John McCain has always run an uneven campaign. At times, you sit there scratching your head for weeks at a time trying to figure out what he’s doing and then, next thing you know, his campaign starts looking like it’s run by some sort of hybrid clone of Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, and Ed Rollins. […]

This attack ad is a take-off on the classic Jesse Helms “Hands” video, Credit goes to: Sarahk from mountaineer musings who played Hillary, her hubby Frank J. from IMAO, who videotaped her, and Scott Lanter, who read the script that I wrote. Enjoy!

7:52: My expectation is that this debate (although it’s not really going to be a debate per se) is going to be pretty fluffy. Probably not a lot of really tough questions. 7:56: Questions I’d like to see, but probably won’t — to McCain on adultery and Barack Obama on his Muslim childhood (and yes, […]

After watching this video, my reaction keeps swinging back and forth between “Wow, that is really cool in a ‘sciencey’ sort of way” to “Good grief, that is freaking creepy!” Unfortunately, I think the latter reaction won, which means my budding career as a scientist who sticks living brains into robots is probably going to […]

I’m all for creative, anti-Democrat t-shirts, but this is a little much, There are certain things that should be avoided in politics and one of them is jokes about assassinating people on the other side of the aisle. Sure, it may just be a goof, but it’s inappropriate given that every so often, deranged people […]

“But as Obama becomes more hawkish on Afghanistan, the antiwar movement and Democrats face a splintering process between those who want to militarily defeat the Taliban (the Vote Vets PAC, Tom Matzzie, Rand Beers and his “liberal” National Security Network etc.) and nearly all the mainstream peace groups who believe that Afghanistan and Pakistan are […]

There’s one thing — and just one thing — that I admire about Jerome Corsi: that is his genius for self-promotion. He was involved with the Swift Boat Vets, which created an electoral earthquake during the 2004 election, his was the primary guy behind the North American Union hoax, which was much discussed, and now […]

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you just might be a liberal if… * You’re sure the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to abortion and gay marriage, but not the right to own a handgun. * You think Dan Quayle is the dumbest Vice-President we ever had because he believed a flash card that misspelled “potato,” […]

Although it would be a disaster for the country if Barack Obama got into the White House, at least we’d be able to recycle all the old liberal memes that were used against George Bush. For example, Barack Obama has not only never served in the military, he probably can’t even find the countries we’re […]

Today, RWN brings you a creepy story out of Denver right out of the “thank God he never got that far” files, Police confirmed Wednesday that they found about a pound of sodium cyanide in a Denver hotel room where the body of a Canadian man was discovered earlier this week. Police spokesman John White […]

It has been hard to escape the fact that the Left has completely given up on the idea of a color blind America. The Democratic Party openly advocates discriminating against white Americans via Affirmative Action and black Democrats were voting for Barack Obama at a 90% clip by the end of the Democratic primaries based […]

Since history always repeats itself, there have been a lot of people trying to figure out which election we’re repeating this time around. Is it Lincoln vs. McClellan? Wilkie vs. FDR? Bush vs. Dukakis? I’d say it’s Reagan vs. Carter. Now, that’s not to say Obama is another Reagan. To the contrary, Reagan was de […]

Sure it’s safe to put a novice like Barack Obama in the White House; after all, Al-Qaeda isn’t a serious threat anymore, right? Alleged Mata Hari of Al Qaeda Could Provide ‘Treasure Trove’ of Intelligence …When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a […]

Liberals, being liberals, make certain assumptions when it comes to foreign affairs. Among them are, #1) Whatever happens in the world, if it’s bad, must somehow be the fault of the Bush Administration and/or America. #2) Any country that is allied with America, by virtue of being allied with America, must be in the wrong […]

There certainly will be some racist Democrats and Independents who won’t vote for Obama because of his race. That’s an undeniable reality. There were also Christians who wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon, men who wouldn’t vote for Hillary because she’s a woman, blacks who wouldn’t vote for Hillary because she […]

“In my opinion, the choice could not be more clear: between one candidate, John McCain, who’s had experience, been tested in war and tried in peace, another candidate who has not. Between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who […]

Hat tip to Gateway Pundit for the graphic.

There are a couple of columns I’ve read this morning about the Russo-Georgian war that have stuck with me. The first is by Spengler and while I don’t agree with most of what he has to say, there were some points he made that shouldn’t be discounted, If Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were president […]

The McCain campaign has put out another ad that hits the same themes as the now famous “Celebrity” and “The One” ads, Hilariously, Jake Tapper over at ABC is cranky because so many white women are featured in the video, How many young white women professing adoration for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, can you count […]