Author: John Hawkins

Since I posted on the annoying conservatives/Republicans of 2006 today, I thought I should at least select a Conservative of the Year to balance things out. So, without further ado… The RWN Conservative Of The Year: Tom Coburn for his relentless campaign against wasteful spending in the Senate. Runners-Up: Jim DeMint for fighting the good […]

Wow. On the same day that Saddam was hung, some Italian nutjob slapped up a website called, “Saddam is NOT DEAD!” Here’s some of the “reasoning” on the blog, such as it is: “Journalists, Politicians, Everybody comment the death of Saddam Hussein. But WHO HAS SEEN ENTIRELY THE HANGING OF SADDAM HUSSEIN? WebSites like YouTUBE, […]

— From Byron York at The Corner: “American Research Group has just released a number of state polls for the Democratic and Republican 2008 races. In the GOP race, Giuliani leads McCain, 28-26 in Iowa and 31-25 in Nevada, and McCain leads Giuliani 35-28 in South Carolina and 29-25 in New Hampshire. Perhaps the more […]

What you’re about to see are the top 5 links from Conservative Grapevine yesterday, followed by the number of clicks so far on each link. I think you’ll find this to be rather telling: Gizmodo: Pictorial: Top 10 blogger babes of 2006. (980) Dr. Helen: Dr. Helen posts an AWESOME bikini shot! (869) Hugh Hewitt: […]

“One of the reasons I have such trouble believing in God is that if he were real and the justice that pious believers speak of were genuine, guys like George Bush should be vaporized instantaneously one day just by opening his mouth. I’m still waiting.” — Daily Kos diarist snafubar

“Doc kept saying to me, ‘Stay strong. Stay with me, Sgt. Ed.’ He said, ‘You’re not going to die on me.’” – Marine Sergeant Gregory Edwards Bruce H. sends the link to this story about a Hospital Corpsman who saved many lives before giving his own…The Rocky Mountain News has done it again – a […]

Foreign Iran Vows To ‘Humiliate’ U.S Advisor To President Ahmadinejad Claims Nazi Leader Was Jew Who Conspired With USSR And Britain To Establish Jewish State (These People Are Nuts) Canada’s Spy Agency Says It Is “quite Surprising” That Terrorists Have Not Detonated A Crude Radioactive Bomb, Given The Availability Of Materials And Ease With Which […]

Just take a look at the honorable mentions this year who didn’t make the final cut for the most annoying liberals of 2006: Honorable Mentions: Associated Press, The Democratic Underground, Dylan Avery, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert, John Conyers, Howard Dean, Al Franken, Glenn Greenwald, Ted Kennedy, Jane Hamsher, Sy Hersh, The Huffington Post, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Gizmodo: Pictorial: Top 10 blogger babes of 2006. Gateway Pundit: Official Iraqi Totals Make Lancet Study Off By, Oh… A Few 100,000! About: Political Humor: Year in review: best of the ‘best of’ lists. You can check out all those links and […]

At The Independent, they dropped an interesting factoid in a global warming scare piece: “Professor Jones said the long-term trend of global warming – already blamed for bringing drought to the Horn of Africa and melting the Arctic ice shelf – is set to be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, the phenomenon caused […]

On December 31st, the Washington Post wrote an editorial saying, “It’s past time to drop all charges in the Duke lacrosse case.” It’s nice to see the mainstream media catching up to where the blogosphere was 7 1/2 months ago on the case. For example, here at RWN, the Duke case was referred to as […]

“Looks like they found evidence of water on Mars, but unfortunately, they also found a sucker fish in water, so we’re not allowed to study it any more. Do you know why I’m no longer liberal? Because I wanted to stop my sentences one word short of the word “but.” You know, as a liberal, […]

This week-end, I did a radio show called, “Meet the New Press.” The show features a couple of bloggers from Granite Grok and Patrick Hynes from Ankle Biting Pundits bantering with their guest (That would be me!) We went about 30 minutes and discussed, Top 20 Stories of 2006 Effects of Illegal Immigration Stances on […]

In the past, to inspire people to suggest new music that I might be interested in and just for entertainment’s sake, I’ve posted the music I was currently listening to on RWN. Now, thanks to wonders of modern technology, I can tell you which songs I listened to the most over the last six months. […]

South Park shows you history’s greatest legal maneuver: The Chewbacca Defense!

Foreign New Year Bombs Shake Bangkok Hundreds Hurt In New Year Revelry In Philippines Anger Over Saddam Hanging Spills Into Streets Iraqis See US Push Against Sadr’s Mehdi Army Iraqi Authorities, Meanwhile, Reported Monday That 16,273 Iraqis — Including 14,298 Civilians, 1,348 Police And 627 Soldiers — Died Violent Deaths In 2006. (Free New York […]

An Interview With Victor Davis Hanson The Walter Williams Interview The David Horowitz Interview The Hugh Hewitt Interview An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo Bloggers Select The Greatest Figures Of The 20th Century Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact On Their Thinking Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select History’s Most Interesting Dinner Companions […]

On Friday, RWN had the following guest bloggers: Michael Fumento Patrick Hynes Betsy Newmark Cassandra Danny Carlton Thanks for helping out, everyone! Today, on New Year’s Day, it’ll be a retro-RWN day. Then, on Tuesday the 2nd, RWN will return to a normal schedule. Make sure to tune in to catch once a year article, […]

Today is Patton’s 4th birthday. Happy birthday boy!

It’s almost time for The 5th Annual “Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States: The 2006 Edition.” If you’d like to suggest liberals who should be included, please post them in the comments along with what they’ve done in 2006 that merits their receiving a slot. For inspiration, here are the last 4 years […]

From NewsMax.com… “I’m very pleased with the vigorous enforcement record the FEC compiled in 2006. The numbers speak for themselves,” FEC Chairman Michael Toner said in an interview. “It means strong confidence the FEC is properly prioritizing the most important cases and willing to pursue them to conclusion.” Oh really? Let’ look at those three […]

Oliver North On Dec. 6 Marine Maj. and Public Affairs Officer (PAO) Megan McClung, along with Operation Anaconda hero Army Cpt. Travis Patriquin and Spec. Vincent Pomante piled into a Humvee at Camp Ramadi, located outside of the city. They accompanied Lt. Col. Oliver North and his Fox crew plus at least one journalist from […]

This month, the Weekly Standard published my article “The Chicken Littles Were Wrong: The Bird Flu Threat Flew the Coop.” It was a follow-up to my cover piece from the year before, “Fuss and Feathers: Pandemic Panic over the Avian Flu.” After the blogger at Avian Flu Diary, whose expertise in the disease stems from […]

If you read nothing else today, or even this year, read this. It is just a short excerpt from an absolutely riveting essay by a man you may know more for bring you laughs than for sober analysis, yet it is probably the best thing I’ve read this year: Since what we know about America […]

Erin Brockovich hasn’t had much to laugh about this year This hasn’t been a good year for “America’s Sweetheart.” In one recent setback, in which she acted as plaintiff, she sued 31 hospitals she claimed were making unfair claims against Medicare. Her payoff would have been tremendous. But two separate judges tossed out all 31 […]

Little Green Footballs is holding its annual contest to vote for the Idiotarian of the Year. Who is the one person that you think made such a spectacular contribution to world stupidity that he or she rates the less-than-coveted award? The nominees are: Hugo Chavez John F. Kerry Keith Olbermann Mainstream Media Kofi Annan Cynthia […]

Donald Lambro touches today on what I think few people understand about the Congress. Our Founding Fathers deliberately created a system of checks and balances to make sure that momentary passions did not force through bad laws. They gave powers to the minority to block such actions. And, over the years, the Congress, particularly the […]

Four a.m. It’s cold and dark outside my small home in western Maryland. The slap of the newspaper hitting the driveway briefly jolts me awake as I blearily stare at the monitor. Behind my office chair a small but determined Weiner Beast wreaks havoc on carefully arranged stacks of Christmas wrap and bows with a […]

Incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she is a Catholic. She’s going to receive Communion in a very public display of her Catholicism on January 3rd during her swearing in week. It is inappropriate that she do so. And it is inappropriate under Canon 915 that it be given to […]

As we approach the New Year, many of us will be planning for the year ahead and coming up with New Year’s resolutions. Well, our country should do the same thing when it comes to foreign policy. In many respects, we treat our foreign policy the same way that we did back in the Cold […]