Author: John Hawkins

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Pretend to be all that you can be Michael Medved: The Founders intended a Christian, not secular, society Cracked: The 8 least-threatening comic book villains The Bastardly: Retro link: Playboy’s girls next door model slutty Halloween costumes! Yay! You can […]

Although there are a number of things I don’t agree with in his latest column, Tony Blankley is certainly spot on when he says that, “The GOP Needs a Survival Instinct.” Ever since George Bush was reelected in 2004, he has come across as being completely uninterested in pleasing his base or the American people […]

The secessionist cranks are at it again, In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk. Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like […]

Hillary Clinton is promising to give illegals amnesty and billions of American tax dollars, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as president she would push an immigration bill with a path to legalization that unites families. “We’ve got to deal with immigration to be sure that we’re going to get back to doing what is […]

This is an obnoxious lawsuit, Target Corp., the second-largest U.S. discount store chain, lost a bid Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company’s website wasn’t accessible to the blind. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco rejected Target’s request to dismiss the case. She also certified the case as a class action, […]

It’s the perfect combination of sin taxes, nanny-statism and taxpayer-funded welfare — all in the name of the children. …The story now is Bush’s October 3 veto of a massive expansion of the government-run State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The media couldn’t resist scripting the veto as a vote against children. What’s at stake, […]

Last night I was in on a teleconference with Republican National Senatorial Committee Chairman, John Ensign. Here are my notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Ensign’s opening statement This is definitely going to be a tough election cycle, but it’s better than it looks on the surface. Here are the Democrats’ top 4 challengers to […]

This quote from Huffington Post columnist Stan Goff is so ironic that it’s almost funny (emphasis mine), Right-wing buffoon Rush Limbaugh takes a swipe at Iraq veterans who oppose the war… who can defend themselves quite nicely, if they even feel inclined to respond to this kind of schoolyard boy-baiting. Democrat flaks jump on this […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Investor’s Business Daily: Rush Limbaugh vs. the real phonies IMAO: Fred Thompson’s principles including: “Children are stupid. Someone needs to do something about that or I will destroy them.” Celeb Slam: Brooke Burns wore a bikini Walter Williams: Betrayal of the civil […]

I think the obnoxiousness of these comments from the Democratic Underground speak for themselves. Bravo: Resolved: Punching William Kristol in the f*cking face should not only be legal… it should be mandatory! Here’s the latest from William the Bloody: “Any time I hear something described as a heartless assault on children, it’s a pretty good […]

Over at the Corner, Larry Kudlow had this to say about illegal immigration, Meanwhile, Rich Nadler’s WSJ op-ed explains why a deportation, criminalization, and “enforcement first” policy is a huge electoral loser for the GOP. I mentioned this last week. Why can’t the message on immigration be a balanced one? Border security plus earned-legalization — […]

“It’s troubling that some Democrats have taken a comment by Rush Limbaugh about “phony soldiers” totally out of context in order to find some moral equivalence to get them off the hook for refusing to condemn the MoveOn.org ‘Petraeus’ ad. The only thing phony about this is the contrived controversy.” — Jon Kyl “Tailgunner Joe” […]

Continued bad news for the left is good news for America, For five years, Yale Law School has fought to restrict military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon’s policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. But with the federal government threatening to withhold $350 million in grants if […]

Here are the results from the poll of RWN’s readers yesterday, Jonah Goldberg: 1% Glenn Reynolds: 1% Rudy Giuliani: 1% Duncan Hunter: 2% Neal Boortz: 2% Tom Coburn: 2% Dick Cheney: 3% Antonin Scalia: 3% Laura Ingraham: 3% Glenn Beck: 3% George W. Bush: 3% Victor David Hanson: 4% Other: 5% Newt Gingrich: 5% Fred […]

ProudBushBasher, a diarist — not commenter — the most influential and “mainstream” liberal blog in America, the Daily Kos… “Does anyone really think that Bush is going to give up the power of the Presidency when his term is over? Do you THINK that Cheney is ever going to leave that office to someone else? […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Hollywood Tuna: Jennifer Aniston bikini pictures Cracked: The 10 most insane “sports” in the world Marco Martinez: Marine hero: The 5 things I saw that make me support the war Michelle Malkin: Fake war hero Tom Harkin smears Rush Limbaugh You can […]

Only a man inane enough to write a book called The Audacity of Hope while living in the greatest country in the world, could actually campaign on something as quixotic as ridding the world of nuclear weapons, Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, […]

The 3rd quarter fund raising numbers are starting to trickle in. Supposedly, Mitt Romney raised about $10 million while McCain only raised around $5 million. Rudy’s people haven’t released any numbers yet, but said that they thought he’d, “do as well as the other Republicans — maybe we will do better than some.” That’s not […]

A friend of mine was asking me for advice on how to deal with difficult people. Between dealing with office politics and the fall-out from real politics, I’ve come up with a pretty good system for doing just that over the years and I thought it might be a good idea to make a post […]

“Vladimir Putin has been slowly but surely been using the power of the state to crush his political opponents and pushing Russia back towards a more authoritarian form of government. How far does he intend to go with this? I’m not sure…” — Right Wing News, Feb 12, 2004 “Is A Dictatorship In The Works?” […]

If the mainstream media were interested in reporting what’s actually happening in Iraq, as opposed to pushing an agenda, this story would be front page news in every major paper in America today, The number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than […]

Who’s your favorite person on the right? Glenn Beck Neal Boortz George W. Bush Dick Cheney Tom Coburn Ann Coulter Newt Gingrich Rudy Giuliani Jonah Goldberg Victor David Hanson Duncan Hunter Laura Ingraham Rush Limbaugh Michelle Malkin Other Glenn Reynolds Antonin Scalia Thomas Sowell Mark Steyn Fred Thompson    Free polls from Pollhost.com

If you want to know why Clarence Thomas is such a driven, successful, brilliant man, I don’t think you need to look much further than this description of how his grandfather raised him to see how he got that way, RUSH: What kind of people were your grandparents? JUSTICE THOMAS: They were, I think, the […]

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 “Favorite People On The Right.” Representatives from the following 50 blogs responded… Likelihood of Success Townhall (Amanda), Bluey Blog, Conservative Grapevine, Aaron’s CC, The Absurd Report, David All Group, The Anchoress, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: An excerpt from Ann Coulter’s new book The Propeller: Little Red Riding Hood – politically correct version Mark Steyn: Democracies talk, tyrannies act Egotastic!: Heidi Montag hangs out by the pool in a bikini. You can check out all those […]

12) Jeff Sessions: I love his conservatism and willingness to fight the good fight on issues like illegal immigration. 11) Duncan Hunter (I worked as a consultant for him): He’s very conservative, tough on illegal immigration, and a real leader in Congress. Most of the Republicans in Congress, including the leadership, could take lessons in […]

Newt Gingrich announced last week-end that he has decided not to run for President, but his reasoning seemed to puzzle a lot of people, Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler said Saturday that Gingrich opted out of the race, a crowded one with nine candidates, after determining he could not legally explore a bid and stay as […]

I can’t say that I am happy to hear about this, but it was a forgone conclusion that Rudy would tear the Republican base apart at the seams if he were to be the nominee, Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for […]

My column at Townhall last week made it into the top 10 most read again. That’s the 3rd time in the last 4 weeks that I’ve managed to pull off that particular trick.

“Hillary wants to be the first woman president, which would also make her the first woman in a Clinton administration to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office instead of under it.” — Ann Coulter