Author: John Hawkins

John Murtha has called for a draft, Now, my question is: where are the Republicans? Why don’t we have President Bush, the House leadership, and the Senate leadership all holding a huge press conference together and pledging to fight the Democratic draft plan? Murtha isn’t some kook from Move-On, he’s one of the most prominent […]

Question: “Do you cook? If so, what is your signature dish?” — huckupchuck Answer: I do cook (ehr…some) and have a favorite dish that I make, but I think calling it a “signature” dish gives it too much credit given my limited cooking skills. Still…my spicy pasta sauce, as I currently prepare it (This is […]

Question: “Scott Burgess from The Daily Ablution recently interviewed Michael Crichton, and asked him what he considered to be the most serious threat facing our civilization. I thought Crichton’s answer was incredibly good: “Loss of classical liberal values in those western societies that embraced them.” My question for you: What do you consider to be […]

Question: “How come it seems like a lot of Conservatives are backing the more liberal leaning Republicans for President? Rudy is not as conservative as we know we want.Being conservative for a New Yorker is not impressive. But why does it seem like him and McCain are the frontrunners? Have people forgot that McCain is […]

Question: “What should be the official conservative stance on pornography?” — D-Vega Answer: From a legal standpoint…I couldn’t care less if people want to look at pornography in the privacy of their own homes as long as it’s not something that’s illegal to make in the first place (like child pornography). However, I don’t believe […]

Question: “If you were given a blank check to write and direct your own movie, what would it be about, and who would you cast?” — maledicta Answer: If I had a blank check, I would pay Frank Miller to write about Cortes vs. the Aztecs with Antonio Banderas in the lead as Cortes. Now […]

Question: “What do you think of Dr. James Dobson’s statement that Fred Thompson’s failure to declare his Christianity could lose him support among evangelical Christians? Personally, I’d rather have someone who’s led an upstanding life all along, even privately, than someone like Gingrich or McCain who fortuitously “discovers” Jesus just in the nick of time […]

I’ll be the first to admit that like most conservatives, I’m deeply skeptical of the idea that mankind is causing global warming. Is that because I take payoffs from the energy industry, don’t like Al Gore, don’t like science, or any of the other silly excuses global warming alarmists come up with to explain why […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Lorie Byrd: Rosie O’Donnell is bad news. James Pinkerton: Not too late to keep America American. Fred Thompson: Thompson says UK navy in mothballs, too weak to retaliate in Iran. Insight Mag: GORE mulling THIRD PARTY 08 Presidential Run (Hawkins note: Interesting, […]

Today will be Q&A Friday #62 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, […]

Every rotten stereotype that you’ve heard about the blogosphere is absolutely true — if you apply it to liberal bloggers. As a group they’re vulgar, vile, habitually dishonest, and sleazy. Just to give you one example of many, read this libelous attack on Mitch McConnell that’s at the liberal blog Down With Tyranny, “With Kentuckians […]

Iran has committed an act of war against the British by capturing 15 of their soldiers in Iraqi waters. Moreover, Iran has broken the Geneva Convention by treating the soldiers as spies, which they can’t do under the Conventions because the men wore uniforms. Additionally, the situation is tense. Britain and the US are engaged […]

What the Democrats have done with the war funding bill is absolutely unconscionable. 1) To begin with, the bill is unconstitutional because Congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority to micromanage the war. 2) Even if Congress did have the right to set a timeline, it’s a terrible idea. Why in the world would you want […]

Diane Feinstein: Was she, “leaving grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family” raked in the money? Some people seem to think so. From Metroactive, “SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, […]

The sentence in this case wasn’t anywhere near harsh enough, but at least it’s a step in the right direction, “Two executives at a company that once helped build a fence to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border were sentenced Wednesday to six months of home confinement for hiring undocumented workers. Mel Kay, […]

At Right Wing News, the following candidates had a positive net acceptability score in the “GOP Straw Polls” March 2008 Poll, Fred Thompson +65.4% Duncan Hunter +48.1% Newt Gingrich +42.4% Tom Tancredo +22.6% Mitt Romney +20.8% Rudy Giuliani +18.7% The following candidates had a positive net acceptability score in the overall results: Fred Thompson +58.5% […]

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If you want to see how small, petty, and vindictive the Democrats in Congress are, this incident will do as well as any, “President Bush on Wednesday withdrew the ambassadorial nomination of businessman Sam Fox after Democrats denounced Fox for giving money to a controversial conservative group that undermined Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. […]

National Review is calling for Gonzales to be fired, “The story of the eight fired U.S. attorneys has been relentlessly overhyped. We do not know that any of them was fired because the administration put its political interests ahead of his or her prosecutorial judgment. Sen. Dick Durbin’s recent insinuation that the attorneys who were […]

You ever heard of Kathy Sierra? I hadn’t until recently (She’s not a political blogger), but apparently she has quit blogging and totally freaked out because of some death threats and violent forum posts. Here are some details from her last post, As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering […]

I was on my “working vacation” when the Iranians captured those Brits in Iraqi waters, so I haven’t been able to chime in on it yet. Let me just say that the Brits are our allies, they’re in Iraq supporting us, and the Iranians have committed nothing less than an act of war against them. […]

Thanks to the following blogger for guest blogging yesterday. It was much appreciated, Danny Carlton from Jack Lewis Michael Illions from Polipundit. Kim Priestap from Wizbang!

Isn’t this “joke” that prominent liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias told on his blog yesterday remarkably similar to the sort of jokes that liberal bloggers rip Ann Coulter over mercilessly? “Why not let Senators pack heat as they roam the corridors? Then, next time Dick Cheney tells Pat Leahy to go f*ck himself, Leahy can pull […]

I’ll grant you that the GOP is going to have an uphill fight in 2008 if George Bush still has an approval rating that’s mired in the thirties, but it’s hard to imagine that anyone on the left can feel confident about their chances with numbers like these out there, “Half of voting-age Americans say […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Newsbusters: Rosie O’Donnell implies captured Brits are a contrived ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ for war with Iran. Blogging Heads TV: Video: Garance Franke-Ruta (A very hot liberal chick) is talking with Ann Althouse and Althouse goes insane when Ruta mentions the “Jessica Valenti […]

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With the sad news regarding the health of Tony Snow and the disgusting, hate-filled comments by those on the left, I wonder where the outrage is from bloggers on the RIGHT, who were quick to answer calls from the left to condemn Ann Coulter after her comment at CPAC, (which still to me was not […]

I certainly hope not, because that 50% has said NO to Hillary Clinton for president: Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday. More than one in five Democrats that […]

For the latest Conservatives with Attitude! podcast show, I had the pleasure of interviewing author and ABC News Correspondent, Jan Crawford Greenburg last Thursday. Jan is the author of Supreme Conflict, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices themselves […]

This is just pathetic already, and a disgrace to those serving who are dependent on this aid to continue the fight and a slap in the face to those that died in the war protecting this country: WASHINGTON (Map, News) – Like their counterparts in the House, the Senate has larded its version of an […]