Author: John Hawkins

The Republicans should thank the political gods for showing them favor and turn this into a huge election issue, U.S. federal fuel taxes should be boosted as much as 40 cents a gallon to finance highway, bridge and transit work, a panel created by Congress recommended. The increase, phased in over five years, would help […]

The Big Dog has apparently come to believe that he’s such a good liar that he can make anyone believe anything, no matter how implausible it is, The former president trumpeted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments while painting Obama as the “establishment” candidate who would bring only the “feeling of change.” “One candidate says […]

It sounds like Bush is going to announce that he will issue an executive order instructing government departments and agencies to ignore all earmarks in the Appropriations omnibus bill that were not specifically entered into the bill signed into law. Typically, lawmakers put most of their earmarks into committee reports that are not officially part […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Flabber: Video: Family Guy’s top 10 most humiliating Meg moments The Atlantic: Video: Fred Thompson’s new South Carolina ad Cracked: 5 kick-*ss sci-fi apocalypses (That could actually happen) The Superficial: Paris Hilton bikini modeling – You can check out all those links […]

If you’re going to be watching the Democratic debate tonight, make sure to head over to RWN and refresh regularly to see the liveblogging. 8:51: Hillariously, I think Dennis Kucinich is going to be allowed to participate in this debate because of a court order. Too bad Mike Gravel won’t be there, because he’s a […]

This time around, I’m going to have to forego making predictions because the polls are essentially a wash between Romney and McCain, BUT Democrats can vote in Michigan and since they don’t have a competitive race, you’d have to think a lot of them would vote in the Republican primary, which would seem to favor […]

Although, as I pointed out earlier today, A John McCain’s head-to-head poll numbers against Clinton and Obama are excellent, the flip side of that is whether those numbers can hold up over the long haul given how strongly he is disliked by conservatives. To give you an idea of the sort of loathing John McCain […]

“Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it. The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as […]

Although I’m certainly not a fan of John McCain, in the interests of fairness, I do think I should point out that his head-to-head polling numbers vs. Obama and in particular, against Hillary, are really good. From SurveyUSA (Which should have polled Fred Thompson’s numbers as well, but didn’t), First of all, from Missouri, a […]

Someone told me that Neil Boortz read some of my John McCain column on the air yesterday. Can anyone confirm that?

A friend sums it up: “so, in other words, she moronically starts a fight on race with the black guy, it predictably blows up in her face, and now she wants to make nice as if he were the one who started it?” — Kathryn Jean Lopez

“The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say. And my commitment to begin […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Scott Trask: Ten recurring economic fallacies, 1774-2004 Burt Prelutsky: All kidding aside, Obama for President?!?! Cracked: Rosie O’Donnell to Fred Durst: The 7 most bizarre celebrity blogs The Grumpiest: Tila Tequila goes for the schoolgirl look You can check out all those […]

Do you enjoy awesomeness? If so, you will enjoy this video and you will be voting for Fred Dalton Thompson. PS: Here’s the original, just in case you haven’t seen it yet. PS #2: If you’re inspired to give Fred a few bucks, you can do it here.

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Capitalism is the real ‘agent of change’ Megan McArdle: Hillary cries yet again? Cracked: The 6 most insane game shows from around the world The True Story: One of the coolest shark pics you’ve ever seen The Grumpiest: Bikini pics […]

Mike Huckabee’s campaign manager Ed Rollins has been ceaselessly pilloried on the Right for saying, “It’s gone. The breakup of what was the Reagan coalition — social conservatives, defense conservatives, anti-tax conservatives — it doesn’t mean a whole lot to people anymore.” While my gut impulse is to disagree with Rollins, the rapid rise of […]

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“I still want to see (Obama) run for the nomination though and not just because he won’t win the general. The Democrats always act as if disagreeing with a black man is caused by some sort of racist impulse. That’s why, for the most part, they ignored anti-semitic crank Al Sharpton during the last Democratic […]

“I am so tired of pink men bombing brown children and rationalizing it as fighting terrorism. I am so tired of pink men telling women (of all colors) what to do with their wombs–which connect with their brains–in case you forgot. I am so tired of pink men telling us we should stay in Iraq […]

I haven’t put up any Patton pics in a while, so I figured I’d go all out and put up a video of my giving the dog a new toy. Enjoy!

Today’s NYT marks the start of the “War Torn” feature, “A series of articles and multimedia about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have committed killings, or been charged with them, after coming home.” The first installment begins with the obligatory gut wrenching anecdotes and then gets to the point: The New […]

Here’s the Right Wing News week-end guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Rob Port from Say Anything EM Zanotti from The American Princess and The Corner Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Cassy Fiano, who also blogs at Wizbang Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of […]

Original post: At 3:30 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer 10 questions. The following 55 blogs responded: The Absurd Report, The American Princess, AtlanticBlog, Baldilocks, Barking Moonbat Early Warning System, BitsBlog, (John) BitsBlog, BizzyBlog, Blonde Sagacity, Bluey Blog, Bookworm Room, Lorie Byrd, Cold Fury, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, The Conservative Reader, Conservative […]

My latest column at Townhall is called How The Bradley Effect Blew Up The New Hampshire Polling. Here’s an excerpt from the column, What’s the Bradley Effect? The general idea is that whites lie to pollsters and falsely claim that they’re undecided or voting for a black candidate because they’re afraid that they’ll be thought […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Katrina victim sues U.S. for $3 quadrillion TimesOnline: “Neighbour from hell” is banned by court from living in his own home Thomas Sowell: Myths of 1968 Hollywood Tuna: Ashlee Simpson bikini pictures You can check out all those links and more by […]

Question: “Have we been contacted by aliens?” — inthemid Answer: Only if they’ve chosen to communicate with us by capturing and anally probing people in rural regions of the country.

Question: “How do you explain McCain’s come-from-behind victory in New Hampshire, after everyone had left him for dead back in the summer?” — maledicta Answer: I can’t speak for anyone else, but even though I was skeptical that McCain could pull it out after his campaign imploded over his illegal immigration stand, I never wrote […]

Question: Rate these four candidates in the order you would handpick them for the presidency, if the choice was limited to these four: 1) Clinton 2) Obama 3) Edwards 4) Paul” — oneisnotprime Answer: Ron Paul, O-Bambi, Edwards, Clinton. 1) Ron Paul, because I at least think he would select conservative Supreme Court justices. 2) […]

Question: “How does the level of traffic at your site compare to the 2000 or 2004 presidential election cycle? Accounting for normal site growth, does the traffic level lead you to say anything about the interest level of conservatives in general?” — fts Answer: I wasn’t around for the 2000 election, but the site picked […]