Author: John Hawkins

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” — Fake Thomas Jefferson Actually, Thomas Jefferson never said or believed that, which makes perfect sense given that he was a very wise man and that phrase is nonsense. Dissent can indeed be patriotism, but it can just as easily be foolishness, disloyalty, or even treason. Moreover, it’s […]

I’ve previously interviewed Peter Schweizer about his superb book, Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, and I thought he did a great job. So, when I saw that Schweizer had an important new book out, Makers and Takers: Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer […]

Good for Texas! THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The U.N.’s highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to stay the executions of five Mexicans on Texas death row pending review of their cases. …Earlier, President Bush issued a directive to the state courts to abide by the decision and also asked Texas specifically to review […]

A few days ago, I was working legs at Gold’s Gym and I decided to try doing step exercises, which is something I don’t normally do. So, I walk up to a step, which is essentially a wide plastic stool, and I do a few left-legged steps and despite the fact that I had already […]

When the war in Iraq turned out to be much longer, bloodier, and more expensive than those of us on the right thought it would be, we had to eat a little humble pie. Happily though, the Left is now starting to have to deal with the fact that they were 100% wrong about the […]

“We are winning and if we adopt Sen. Obama’s proposal for a set date for withdrawal, this very fragile success that we have achieved will be jeopardized. Senator Obama was wrong when he said [the surge] wouldn’t succeed. He was wrong when he said we’ve lost the war. And he is wrong today when he […]

You want to know what’s funny? A bunch of faux-objective liberals who are dying to see Obama win the election, trying to claim that they’re not making fun of him because there’s just nothing worth mocking about the guy. The New York Times actually did an entire piece on this ridiculous subject and it’s riddled […]

This is incredibly tacky and tasteless, A controversial billboard in Orange County has a picture of the burning World Trade Center and the message, “Please Don’t Vote for a Democrat.” The man who paid for the ad says he’s trying to help Republicans, but officials with both political parties are calling the billboard inappropriate. …The […]

John McCain was one of the Senate’s biggest advocates of comprehensive immigration reform, which entails putting illegals on the path to citizenship while simultaneously putting security reforms in place that would be thwarted at the first convenient opportunity by members of Congress. The American people rejected that plan and conservatives were on track to reject […]

“No matter who we elect to Congress and as President, they are still stuck with some realities. There’s a long historical perspective pdf file up at OMB, and the following figures are taken from tables 8.3 and 8.4, whch are on pages 140 and 141. Since 1962, national defense spending has shrunk from 9.3% of […]

A TV show in Britain is causing a controversy because they’ve portrayed a member of a certain religion decapitating a member of another religion for religious reasons. Read all about it, A BBC drama has triggered a barrage of complaints after it showed gruesome images of a Muslim being beheaded. Bonekickers, about a group of […]

The LA Times has a section full of reader submitted signs. This one really stuck out, Honorary mention: this one was pretty creative, too.

I’m not sure if this tool was designed to be used to mock Obama or whether it’s just a happy accident that it works so well for that purpose, but either way, it makes some great Obama campaign posters,

On Feb of 2007, RWN released an interview with Dennis Avery, the co-author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years. The first interview with Dennis Avery was one of my all-time faves because I have never talked to anyone who does a better job of quickly and precisely demolishing the alarmism and silliness of the […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Patrice Lewis: Ode to (manly) men Ralph Peters: The dissent deceit — not patriotism’s highest form Jonah Goldberg: Ego-bama — swallow some of that pride WorldNetDaily: Court battle over daughters pits dad against kidnappers. Criminals seek ‘custody’ alleging Christians converted to Islam […]

God, in his infinite mercy, may forgive him for this, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do, “A Sevier County man is suing his former church in South Knoxville, after he claims he was overcome by the spirit, fell backward and hit his head. Matt Lincoln, 57, says pastors at Lakewind Church […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them about their least favorite elected Republicans. The following 42 blogs responded, The Absurd Report, The Anchoress, Argghhhh!, Bad Example, Betsy’s Page, BizzyBlog, Bluey Blog, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Gina Cobb, Conservatism Today, Conservative Grapevine, Conservative Punk, Doubleplusundead, Election Projection, Eternity Road, Elocutio, Exurban League, […]

“As a multilingual immigrant (English, Russian, enough Hebrew and Spanish to get by) I’m not exactly worried about those strange people from strange lands. I’m one of those people! But yes, I’m an English only partisan and here’s why: it’s better for the immigrants. I know this from experience and I know this for a […]

“In my last post I joked that Obama wants to take my money and give it to people who don’t work as hard as I do. As with all gross generalizations, there are plenty of exceptions. But how does it hold up as a generalization? When I was a kid, I was mowing lawns, working […]

There’s a ridiculous myth that RINOs in DC have been spinning about illegal immigration and it goes something like this: Hispanics vote almost entirely based on the illegal immigration issue and if Republicans deliver an amnesty, Hispanics will be so grateful that the percentage of them voting Republican will go from roughly 30% up to […]

Yesterday, RWN covered the kooky Dallas county commissioners who thought the term “black hole” was racist. Well first off, there is now video of this and it is hilarious. Let me transcribe what one of these idiots said — and, yes, this is real and he was serious — this is not some sort of […]

Liberals always claim that socialized medicine will reduce the costs of health care as opposed to raising them. However, the federal government is so ossified, hapless, and hidebound that it can’t do anything as well as the private sector. If you want to speed something up, improve it, or make it function more efficiently, the […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them about their favorite elected Republicans. The following 42 blogs responded, The Absurd Report, The Anchoress, Argghhhh!, Bad Example, Betsy’s Page, BizzyBlog, Bluey Blog, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Gina Cobb, Conservatism Today, Conservative Grapevine, Conservative Punk, Doubleplusundead, Election Projection, Eternity Road, Elocutio, Exurban League, Fraters […]

This is a little dated, but it’s so outstanding that I had to post it anyway. From Ann Coulter’s website… MESSAGE FROM THE POLISH TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN TO THE U.S. TROOPS – Subject: 4th of July Greeting Dear Friends Two hundred and thirty two years ago, when your forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence, they […]

The title you’ve just read was stolen from an absolutely brilliant column from Ralph Peters that says something that people desperately need to hear, “The point isn’t that military solutions are always the best solutions – any problem that can be resolved without bloodshed should be handled peaceably. But we’ve got to stop playing pretend: […]

“Way back in June, Sen. Barack “middle name not permitted to be mentioned” Obama campaigned on the theme of “Change We Can Believe In.” Now, several days later, his theme should be “Change We Can’t Keep Up With.” Apparently, the change he was calling for was not for Washington politics, but for his primary campaign […]

Hoo boy, I think there are now two new patron saints for the church of political correctness… A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. …Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in […]

Obama starts off this clip by opposing English as an official language, seems to emphasize that teaching kids Spanish is more important than teaching them English, and then says Americans are an embarrassment because they only know one language when they go to Europe. It may be the one of the most grotesquely arrogant, out […]

In all seriousness, are people wearing these shirts? I mean, despite the fact that these shirts are fascinating — sort of the same way a train wreck is — I just don’t see Jonah Goldberg or Michelle Malkin wearing these shirts to the mall… (Be forewarned, there is an obscenity on one of the shirts […]

Americans are vastly more generous with their time and money than Europeans. According to social demographer Arthur C. Brooks, in 1995 (the last year international data on giving was available), Americans gave 3 1/2 times more money to charities and causes than the French, seven times more than Germans and 14 times more than Italians. […]