Author: John Hawkins

This is absolutely priceless. They support the troops, but don’t know what they look like. Blackfive has had the best response to this so far: Seriously, though, how screwed up must you be to post about how much your party supports the troops, but not know who your troops are? ‘Embarassing’ hardly begins to describe […]

“Look: denouncing someone else’s speech is free speech. Refusing to support someone else’s free speech is, in effect, a hallmark of freedom. Cutting someone’s head off for what they say, isn’t free speech. What is so difficult to understand about that?” — Jonah Goldberg

Foreign North Korea Claims To Have Conducted Nuclear Test South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, Set To Be Formally Endorsed As UN Chief Kofi Annan’s Successor Monday Opec Chief Calls For Immediate Output Cut Outspoken Putin Critic Shot Dead In Moscow Several Hundred Iraqi Police Poisoned 20 Militiamen Killed In Clashes In Southern Iraq Domestic […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this to be an open thread, enjoy the links below, and have a great week-end! Rightroots Has Cracked $200,000! In Border Fence’s Path, Congressional Roadblocks Galley Slaves Game: Chaos Faction Harold Ford Called Self A Lawyer But Did Not Pass Bar Exam Juche Blog Musing Minds The People’s […]

— Maybe this guy should have gone in a different direction with his legal strategy: “A Chicago man apologized for spreading his feces around a courtroom during his trial on drug charges.” — This is sort of a good news, bad news story: The federal budget deficit estimate for the fiscal year just completed has […]

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem impossible to imagine something like this in America’s future: “Radical Muslims in France’s housing estates are waging an undeclared “intifada” against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union […]

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For a moment, let’s set morals aside and coldly consider whether it would be politically smart to get rid of Dennis Hastert right now. First of all, let’s be clear: this scandal is a negative for the GOP any way you slice it. The American people generally think that Congress is corrupt, partisan, and doing […]

From:Gerardo Montaño (gerardo@*****) Subject: THE STATE OF MY NATION NOT ONLY IS IT EXCITING TO READ POLITICAL BLOGS, BUT IT’S ALSO A GREAT PLACE TO ENGAGE CITIZENS ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AT THE MOST POWERFUL LEVELS AND AGENTS OF CHANGE…STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED (PAID IN) REPRESENTATIVES. By the way… what exactly defines a […]

We’re moving right up to the $200,000 mark with Rightroots and I encourage you to continue chipping in. But, if you’ve already given money to Rightroots and are looking for some other conservative candidates to support, here are some other non-incumbents that I think are worth helping, even though they’re not Rightroots endorsed. Mac Collins […]

Looks like we upset our lousy neighbors to the South by having the audacity to try to keep their citizens from illegally entering our country with a wall: “Mexico says it may go to the United Nations to challenge US plans to build hundreds of kilometres of fences on its southern border. The Foreign Secretary, […]

One of the downsides to the internet age is that sometimes things that are better left private, end up splashed all over the blogosphere and the Drudge Report. Just to give you one example, the mainstream media may guard the name of any women involved in a high profile rape case, but these days their […]

Fred Phelps and the rest of his God Hates F*gs lunatics have cancelled their plans to protest at the funeral of those Amish children killed by a deranged gunman: “A Kansas church group that planned to demonstrate at the funerals of five Amish girls killed in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse has dropped the […]

Check out Larry Elder’s latest column, “Virginia’s Senator Allen suffers from double standard on racism,” mentions some N-bomb quotes from Webb’s books. So, it looks like the post I did on the topic finally broke out of the blogosphere to a wider audience.

How long will it be before our tax dollars here in the states end up being spent on “art” of this sort? “The Melbourne-based Snuff Puppets company – which receives up to $50,000 in public funding – will put on a charity performance of The Twin Towers Show on Friday. Snuff Puppet artistic director Andy […]

“But now, the same Democrats who are incensed that Bush’s National Security Agency was listening in on al-Qaida phone calls are incensed that Republicans were not reading a gay congressman’s instant messages. Let’s run this past the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: The suspect sent an inappropriately friendly e-mail to a teenager — oh also, […]

Domestic US Border Fence Signed Into Law Dow Hits 2nd Straight Record-High Close Pennsylvania Man Charged Al Qaeda Plot Attempt Court Says Eavesdropping Program Can Continue Libs Rush The Stage To Prevent The Minutemen From Speaking Brent Scowcroft: Bob Woodward Made Up Quotes Attributed To Me Foley Scandal Ex-Aide To Foley Says He Alerted Hastert’s […]

— Right now, Robert Novak is projecting that the Democrats will pick up 12 seats in House, 3 seats in the Senate, and 3 Governorships. If that were the case, the GOP would keep control of Congress. — Speaking of which my current projections have the GOP losing 5 seats in the Senate, 9-14 in […]

One of the many differences between the Republican and Democratic parties is the way that they deal with scandals. The Democrats’ first instinct is always to circle the wagons and lash out furiously at anyone who attacks “their guy.” On the other hand, Republicans have a much different approach. Although, in all fairness, we do […]

The Smirking Chimp is an extremely popular liberal weblog. Just to give you an idea of how popular it is, it pulls roughly 4 times as much traffic as Right Wing News does. So, it’s very fair to call it a mainstream liberal weblog. So, what sort of “mainstream” ideas does this “mainstream” liberal blog […]

It’s time to reevaluate the Senate races again, although it’s still early and these rankings will change between now and the election. The higher the rating is, the greater the chance is that the seat might change parties. Dark Horse Races: (These are real long shot races) 15) Jon Kyl* (R) vs. Jim Pederson (D) […]

Last night, I got together with Lorie Byrd , Betsy Newmark , and Ed Morrisey for a GOP USA Northeast Conservatives With Attitude Podcast roundtable on the Mark Foley scandal. The podcast runs about 35-40 minutes and it wasn’t bad for a blogger podcast, especially since I managed to drop the term, “naked piggy pile,” […]

According to the Times Online…. “THE followers of Moqtada al-Sadr believe that the US invaded Iraq to prevent the return to Earth of their sect’s messiah-like figure, the Mahdi, or 12th imam. Hojatoleslam al-Sadr claims that his militia is preparing for the day when the Mahdi, the last direct descendent of the revered Shia figure […]

“IT’S important we remember not just the big ideological struggles but also the individuals who took up the cause of cultural freedom and the defence of liberal democracy against its enemies. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet communism, it became all too easy to pretend that the outcome of […]

Domestic New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote Bush In Favor Of Foley Investigation Attorney: Clergyman Molested Foley As Teen Gingrich Says Hastert Shouldn’t Resign Over Handling Of Page Scandal Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress Miami Herald Publisher Resigns; Journalists Paid For Promoting Cuban Democracy Elections Public Opinion Strategies: […]

“The (Washington) Times just lost its human resources manager because he tried to seduce a 13-year-old girl online. Using the logic of the Times, there is only one thing to do: Wesley Pruden, editor in chief, must resign.” — Don Surber Update #1: Here’s part of the description of the Daily Kos’s dkosopedia on Gerry […]

John Ashcroft has a new book out called, Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice. As part of his promotional efforts, he did a teleconference with some bloggers, myself included. Here are the notes that I took on Ashcroft’s comments (These are not quotes). Enjoy! — The idea that wartime detainees must be charged as […]

The Republican National Committee has sent out the email for Rightroots that they promised us when we met our goals in the 15 days challenge. It went out this afternoon and we were at roughly $130,800 when they sent it out. At the moment, we’re at $144,826 and rising. It’ll be interesting to see where […]

Maybe the Washington Times thinks the Democratic Party is going to take over in November and they want to get on their good side or maybe they just want to hold their heads high for once when they go to DC cocktail parties with their liberal pals. But, whatever the motivation behind it may be, […]