Author: John Hawkins

Harsh, but fair?

To be honest, I seldom watch the cable news shows anymore because they’re too slow compared to the blogosphere. Usually, these shows mainly consist of the hot story of the day repeated ad nauseum, material the blogosphere covered days earlier, guests spinning and being asked questions primarily designed not to allow them to inform, but […]

Courtesy of Newsbusters.

Drudge has been running a big splashy story that says, “DEMS HOLD FIRE ON HUCKABEE; SEE ‘EASY KILL’ IN GENERAL ELECTION.” The story goes on to read, Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, […]

Here are my favorite quotes from Neal Boortz’s book, The Terrible Truth About Liberals, which I recently got around to reading. In a nutshell — here are your differences: Liberals operate from a foundation of emotion and feelings. Conservatives operate from a foundation of logic and thoughts. Liberals view people in terms of their membership […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: NumbersUSA: NumbersUSA’s Roy Beck grades the Republican 2008 candidates on illegal immigration Cracked: The 9 most unnecessary greatest hits albums of all time Albert Hunt: Tension in Hillaryland grows as plan goes awry Maxim: The top 10 hometown hotties of 2007 You […]

The story of the last couple of weeks has been, without a doubt, Mike Huckabee’s dizzyingly fast rise in the race. A few short weeks ago, Huckabee was in 2nd place in Iowa, not in the running in any of the other states, and in 5th place in national polls. Since then, he has pulled […]

If Al Gore deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for boring people with his speeches and putting out shockingly dishonest propaganda about global warming, then Barry Walters certainly deserves to win the award, too. A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up […]

For whatever reason, more than a few Liberals who aren’t very religious have a bizarre, paranoid view of Christians that is so out of touch with reality that they make the Truthers look sane. Just to name one example, take a look at Sam Donaldson, who said this on December 9th, “Talk about a Christian […]

“Sen. John McCain and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani stood alone among the Republican presidential candidates in last night’s Spanish-language debate in calling for some illegal aliens to be granted a path to citizenship. “None of us have been perfect — all of us have been struggling with this for a long time,” Mr. Giuliani […]

“Greens, of course, are energy nihilists, and there is nary an environmental group somewhere that isn’t protesting every type of energy source. For example, the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal, but Senate greens (led by Nancy Pelosi) have banned consideration of coal-to-oil technology (pushed by Barack Obama) to replace oil imports from the […]

The Huffington Post is the world’s largest liberal blog and is generally considered to be even more mainstream than the Daily Kos. Although it may be true that they’re generally not quite as venomous or conspiratorial, the bubbleheaded celebrity crowd has helped produce some particularly vacuous posts this year, some of which you’ll find below. […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: Let’s have a free market for housing and religion Cracked: 10 ways online gaming will change the future Tom Bevan: Worst mistakes of election 2008 The Grumpiest: Cameron Diaz in a bikini You can check out all those links and […]

Mike Huckabee has caught a lot of heat for some comments he made back in 1992 about AIDS. Truthfully, I thought the reaction to what Huckabee said has been more than a little overwrought, The Associated Press reported Saturday that as a candidate for the Senate in 1992, Huckabee said in response to a 229-question […]

Yesterday, the GOP candidates — with the exception of Tom Tancredo — participated in a Spanish language debate on Univision. Now, some people may pan them for participating in a Spanish language debate, but I’m not one of them. To the contrary, I believe that we need to take every opportunity to show Hispanics that […]

On Thursday of last week, Mitt finally gave a much anticipated speech on religious freedom and the Mormon religion. Although the reviews of the speech were not universally positive, they were very good and they were everywhere in the blogosphere, on talk radio, and even at the top of the Drudge Report. Even though only […]

Numerous people have noted that religion has played a surprisingly large role in 2008 primaries. Is that because Mike Huckabee is a former pastor? Huckabee certainly has brought up Christian issues on more than a few occasions, but he’s not really the man primarily responsible for putting religious issues front and center in the campaign. […]

This story from the Washington Post clearly proves how today’s objections to waterboarding, particularly from Congressional Democrats, is purely political grandstanding. When briefed on the interrogation techniques used against captured terrorists, the reaction from those in the room “was not just approval, but encouragement.” Even current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was there and “did not […]

My latest Townhall column, 14 Questions I’d Ask Hillary After I Hooked Her Up to a Lie Detector, did really well at Townhall this week. Just behind Coulter and just ahead of Stossel and Boortz. Not bad!

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 Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William Teach from […]

On Tuesday of this week, I got together with Fred Thompson’s campaign manager, Bill Lacy, for a phone interview. What follows is the transcript of our conversation, which has been edited for grammar, clarity, and brevity. Fred has been accused, fairly or unfairly, of being lazy. With that in mind, how does the level of […]

Few politicians in America have as much scandal, sleaze, and controversy surrounding them as Hillary Clinton and perhaps none of them, with the exception of her husband, has been given a bigger free pass. As Peggy Noonan once said, “People have pointed out (Hillary’s) ethical lapses for so long that they seem boring, or impossible […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: John Podhoretz: Mitt’s Mormon speech may very well backfire on him Michael Medved: ‘Eve of destruction’ politics feeds alienation Cracked: The 8 most cringe-worthy comic book movie moments I’m Not Obsessed: Lindsay Lohan pic-o-rama You can check out all those links and […]

Mitt’s speech yesterday got very good reviews on talk radio and around the right side of the blogosphere. Personally, I liked the speech and expect Mitt to get a bump from it, although I don’t think it will help him much long term. That being said, John Podhoretz wrote a fascinating post arguing that Mitt […]

After the latest mini-scandal, isn’t it time to kill the congressional page program once and for all? “So much for reform of the House page program in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal. House teenage pages are so wild and unsupervised that two GOP members of Congress have resigned from the House Page Board, […]

These comments have been drawing fire from across the blogosphere, “Former Bush communications adviser Dan Bartlett started blogger tongues wagging with an interview he gave to Texas Monthly. A few of the questions were about the White House’s outreach to conservative blogs, and Bartlett answered candidly about the White House’s view of them. He called […]

“Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year. The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach the resort island 950 kilometers (600 miles) from Jakarta, according to […]

I’ve been lukewarm to Mike Huckabee as a candidate and have even ranked him as the single worst GOP candidate on illegal immigration, but I have to admit that I like his new immigration plan. Here are all 9 points with my comments after each point where it’s appropriate, 1. Build the Fence. Ensure that […]

I just watched all of Mitt’s speech on his religion and here are my initial impressions, * Mitt got a nice lead in from George Bush Sr., gave a generally pleasant speech, and had an enthusiastic crowd. That’s a plus since it will be a heavily watched speech. * However, the concerns that I have […]

There has been a lot of complaint in conservative circles that the Iranian NIE may very well be wrong. John Bolton, whom I have an enormous amount of respect for, makes that case in The Washington Post today, All this shows that we not only have a problem interpreting what the mullahs in Tehran are […]