Author: John Hawkins

Steve Schmidt and Jill Hazelbaker from the McCain campaign ran a blogger teleconference today. Here are the notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Opening Statement Next week, we start the Service of America tour where John McCain will be introducing himself to America. We’re announcing that here first. From here, they gave lots of details […]

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to talk to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and I asked him about an argument that has been made many times in the blogosphere, especially since John McCain became our nominee. That question and Mike Duncan’s answer, which I thought was very good, follows, Here’s an argument that I don’t agree […]

“A measure of hypocrisy is necessary to a functioning society. It’s quite possible, on the one hand, to be opposed to the legalization of prostitution yet, on the other, to pull your hat down over your brow every other Tuesday and sneak off to the cat house on the other side of town. Your inability […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: The 5 most ridiculously over-hyped health scares of all-time Pat Buchanan: Uprooting the new racism Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Is she fat? Mediabom: Joss Stone bikini pics You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. Don’t forget to […]

There’s an enormous inconsistency in the way that global warming is argued that Al Gore’s latest comments are right in line with, Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man – among them, Vice President Dick Cheney – are acting like the fringe […]

The very fact that the NAACP has so little to do that they’re bothering to get involved in a case like this is a pretty good argument that the organization no longer has a serious reason to continue to exist, The Florida branch of the NAACP says a bill that would ban students from wearing […]

The website of the day is Ezra Levant.

Ross Douthat has a great piece in The Atlantic on how Hollywood is returning to the themes of the 1970s due in large part to the Iraq War: Nothing in this commentary, however, bears much resemblance to the way American popular culture actually has evolved since 9/11. The latter-day cowboys have conspicuously failed to materialize: […]

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Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Hillary: swiftboated! Topless Robot: The 10 most insane, child-warping moments of ’80s cartoons George Will: Conservatives more liberal givers Celebslam: Penelope Cruz in a bikini You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. Don’t forget to […]

“If America is looking for a second term of the Jimmy Carter Administration of high taxes at home and weakness abroad vote Obama. I doubt they are.” — A McCain Staffer

One of the things that you hear constantly from Obama supporters is that the super delegates absolutely have to hand Obama the Democratic nomination or his supporters, particularly his black supporters, will defect and cost the Democrats the general election. For example, here’s Jim Vandehei & Mike Allen from the Politico Unless Clinton is able […]

Back in 2002, in one of the most disgraceful, unpatriotic displays by members of Congress in American history, loathsome liberal Democrats, Jim McDermott and David Bonior actually went to Iraq before the war and did what amounted to public relations work for Saddam Hussein. Believe it or not, it turns out that they were in […]

The website of the day is McCainBlogette.

Over at Slate, Anne Applebaum has a column that suggests that the U.S. “Boycott Beijing.” Now, I think the Chinese are monsters who enslave their own people, are a negative influence around the world, that it was a huge mistake to reward them with an Olympics in the first place, and that what they’re doing […]

One of the differences between conservatives and animal rights wackos is that conservatives put a significantly higher value on the lives of people than animals. Not so the wackos. For example, take a look at what’s happening to this poor couple in Britain, Since floods ruined their :£1million home, John and Margie Histed have been […]

Yesterday, I mentioned that my pal Skye from Midnight Blue was assaulted by a liberal “peace protestor” this week-end. The video is now out. It’s worth taking a look at it. Update #1: From Katie O’Malley at Human Events, More chillingly, last weekend a man attending a Chester County Peace Movement (CCPM) peace vigil in […]

Just to do a little something different, I decided to put together a list of what are, in my humble opinion, the best looking conservative t-shirts out there. After taking a while to look around, in no particular order, here’s what I came up with, Nuke the Moon Old School Reagan Republican Attack Machine Bush […]

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Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: 6 endangered species that aren’t endangered enough TimesOnline: The ten craziest parking tickets of all time Cassy Fiano: Feminists get outraged over — are you read for this — Taco Bell’s “misogynist” hot sauce Egotastic!: Ashlee Simpson bikini pictures You can […]

The more time the Democrats spend doing this, the better as far as I’m concerned, John McCain is scheduled to deliver a major foreign policy speech Wednesday in Los Angeles, one with a heavy Iraq focus, but chances are, Democrats won’t be listening. They’ve already distilled his views into an easy-to-remember formulation: 100 years of […]

Andrea Bartz over at Alternet is pushing…ah, just take a look, Makeup for Men: Rethinking Masculinity An increasing number of men are reaching for the “guyliner.” But is it socially acceptable? …I didn’t want to like it. I like my men mannish — five o’clock shadows, hunting vests, burly arms that can lift me off […]

America’s best protest photographer, Zombie, hit the latest dirty hippy war protest in San Francisco. As you look at these pics, remember that liberals who think like this will end up in the White House, making decisions, if Barack of Hillary become President, Hat tip to Little Green Footballs for the Zombie story PS: My […]

The website of the day is Rightwingsparkle.

In the midst of the flurry of anti-war articles like this one we’ve been seeing over the last week as the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war came and went, the renewed focus from the mediots and their liberal allies in the punditocracy and blogosphere on US war casualities in Iraq coming after the 4,000th […]

It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 1st 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 […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Victor Davis Hanson: Are we lynchers and crucifiers? Cracked: History’s 10 most terrifying contraceptives John Yoo: The Democrats’ super disaster Celebslam: Simona Fusco looks great in a bikini You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. Don’t forget […]

Daily Kos diarist TJ Colatrella is ripping a page out of Hugo Chavez’s book and suggesting that we nationalize our oil industry, Nationalize the American Oil Industry..! If we as a nation are to move forward into The 21st Century and address the crisis of energy then we must Nationalize the American Oil Industry..and eventually […]

I’m not quite sure how I missed this back when it happened in early February, but it’s still too good to pass up, “Straight talking American icon Willie Nelson today told a national radio show that he thought the twin towers were imploded like condemned Las Vegas casino buildings, as the country music superstar forcefully […]

Rarely do I ever say this, but good for Nancy Pelosi, China has called US House speaker Nancy Pelosi a “defender of arsonists, looters and killers” after she visited the Dalai Lama and criticised Chinese “oppression” in Tibet. Pelosi “turned a blind eye to merciless rioters” in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the Xinhua state news […]