Author: John Hawkins

Conservatives raised holy hell about the possibility that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was going to be allowed to go to Ground Zero. Ahmadinejad’s latest comments show that we were justified — and then some — to demand that he be kept away, Ahmadinejad a year ago had been unable to visit the site where about 3,000 innocent […]

“Perhaps the Democrats could find an orphaned child whose parents were brutally hacksawed to death to put forth their tax plan. If these Democrat human shields have a point worth making, how about allowing it to be made by someone we’re allowed to respond to?” — Ann Coulter Granted, the kid wasn’t an orphan and […]

The Examiner writes about Hillary’s using Sandy Berger for one of her foreign policy advisors. Will any of her opponents question her judgment in choosing a man who acknowledges (after he was caught and first lied to authorities) that he was taking top security documents and destroying them. Documents that dealt with exactly what the […]

Which Candidate Would You Prefer As The Nominee In 2008 Out Of These Choices? Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee John McCain Mitt Romney Fred Thompson    Free polls from Pollhost.com

I will be liveblogging the debate today at 4 PM. Feel free to head over to RWN and watch the debate while you refresh for new commentary. * This will be Fred Thompson’s first debate, so it is sure to generate a lot of chatter. (4:00) What a time for my webhost to barf! People […]

Here are my notes, not quotes, from a teleconference I was on earlier this morning with Bill Lacy, Fred Thompson’s campaign manager. Opening Statement Fred’s in a strong position. We’re in 2nd place and have seen a slight uptick in national polls. However, we still need to translate that national support into our numbers in […]

I want to play a little guessing game. The game is called: guess whose back — and you can have one guess per person in the comments section. Here are the only two clues I am going to give you: this is the back of a conservative woman and the tattoos, translated, say Justice, Honor, […]

“In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Reformed Chicks Blabbing: Rosie O’Donnell was fired from “The View” Michelle Malkin: Graeme Frost and the perils of Democrat poster child abuse over SCHIP Clayton Cramer’s blog: A troubling encounter with Ron Paul supporters Popholic: Posh Beckam’s Paris photoshoot. You can check […]

The Bush Administration’s continuing lack of seriousness about going after leakers of classified national security data is extremely frustrating, “Al Qaeda’s Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden’s September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy’s system. The intelligence blunder […]

“Winds of Change likens this supposed “love of country” to the “love” of a mother who abuses her child. I’ve previously called this the Ike Turner Model of Patriotism — “Baby, baby, come on now baby. You know I wouldn’t beat the sh*t out of you every day if I didn’t love you baby. Now […]

I just finished reading Clarence Thomas’ superb new book, “My Grandfather’s Son,” and I enjoyed it immensely. The book reminded me a bit of David Horowitz’s, “Radical Son,” although Thomas’ book isn’t nearly as long. Over the next couple of days, I’m going to post a review and quotes from the book, but today I […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “Least Favorite People On The Right.” Representatives from the following 45 blogs responded… Aaron’s CC, David All Group, The Anchoress, Baldilocks, Betsy’s Page, Bit’s Blog, Blonde Sagacity, Boi From Troy, Bookworm […]

Last year, I created and led Rightroots, a group of bloggers who raised money for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle. In roughly three months time, we raised more than $275,000 for conservative candidates. That’s not bad considering how lousy the election cycle was for Republicans, the limited technology we had to work with […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Newsbusters: ‘Journalists’ tell Howard Kurtz why good news from Iraq shouldn’t get reported Mark Steyn: Princess Diana’s murder and Islamoparanoia Cracked: Crazy eight: The top crazy girlfriends in movie history Popholic: Anna Kournikova bikini pictures You can check out all those links […]

Probably, yes. But, instead of pushing for democracy, which has required much more blood and treasure than we expected, we would have just changed “son-of-a-b*tches.” By that, I mean that there’s an old saying that goes, “He may be a son-of-a-b*tch, but he is our son-of-a-b*tch.” In Iraq, our son-of-a-b*tch would have probably been a […]

Late last Friday, after I’d answered all the Q&A Friday questions for the day, I received a good question that I thought merited a response. Rather than post an answer after 5 PM on Friday, when traffic drops like a paralyzed Egret, I decided to take on the question today, Hello Mr. Hawkins, I’ll certainly […]

Apparently, that is what some Muslim medical students in England want. They are refusing to even study diseases that might result from sexual or drinking behavior that they disapprove of. And some are even refusing to treat women. Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually […]

They’re not even hiding it anymore. Guess it got too hard with all of that free-speech on the Internet dogging them all the time. They’re essentially treating Iraq coverage as if it were sports coverage of a team’s season. Except they don’t report the wins, and only report the losses. So only report the enemy’s […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be open thread, and have a great week-end? The Sundries Shack Defending The Dream Speeches Walter Olson: Hofstra Law School’s New Guest Lecturer On Legal Ethics: Disbarred Felon Lynne Stewart Draw A House And Find Out About Your Personality — Supposedly Atlas […]

Mitt Romney is charismatic, an excellent fundraiser, and a man who can genuinely claim to be an outsider in a year when the American people are sick to death of politics as usual in Washington. Additionally, Mitt has an excellent political strategy for 2008, one that catapulted John Kerry to victory in 2004: win Iowa, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ace of Spades HQ: The Anti-American party: 19% of Democrats say world would be better off with US defeat in Iraq; another 20% aren’t sure Robert Tracinski: The historic significance of Atlas Shrugged Egotastic!: Alessandra Ambrosio bikini pictures from GQ UK Cracked: […]

Question: “As a regular reader of your blog for the past year or so, I enjoy and respect your opinions as they are typically quite accurate and realistic. I was curious, however, what your opinion was on the following issue. You highlight blog/diary entries from liberal “progressive” sites which seem to defy any type of […]

Question: “Name some of the most frightening or suspenseful books and movies you’ve ever seen or read.” — maledicta Answer: Off the top of my head, some of the movies that come to mind include, 10) Cube 9) Pitch Black 8) The Blair Witch Project 7) Final Destination 6) The Thing 5) Penny Dreadful 4) […]

Question: “Ron Paul’s presidential campaign raised more than $5 million this past quarter. That puts him ahead of all other “second-tier candidates” and is pretty comparable to the amount raised by John McCain, who’s also about $2 million in debt. What do you make of that?” — maledicta Answer: On the upside, that means his […]

Question: “Do you think a republican nomination of Giuliani would tear the republican party apart and not only hurt it in this election but further down the line to.” — adam123 Answer: After James Dobson and Company have already very loudly and publicly pledged to support a “third party ” in 2008 if Rudy is […]

Question: “Hillary seems to have a commanding lead for the Dem nomination from national polls, yet her lead seems to vanish when the polls go to state by state breakdowns. She also doesn’t perform as well as Edwards in most head-to-head polls versus Republicans, even though Edwards is still last among the Dem frontrunners in […]

Today will be Q&A Friday #75 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian perspective; heck, […]

At 4 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

Despite the insane paranoia in this thread, the childlike faith shown in the Democrats in Congress is almost touching. The attitude is something akin to, “Well, of course Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Company wouldn’t sell us out for the sake of politics, so that evil Dick Cheney must be threatening their families!” Of course, […]