Author: John Hawkins

Here’s a short excerpt from Ann Coulter’s latest column from Human Events this week, which was the version that I read and linked before today: “McCain, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Warner — or, as the Times now calls him, the “courtly Virginian” — want terrorists treated like Americans accused of crimes, […]

Here’s an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal editorial that points out how utterly and completely the United Nations has failed in dealing with Iran: “Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put on quite a show at the United Nations this week, and it’s tempting to dismiss it all as mere bombast. Except that their assertiveness […]

Domestic Republicans Reach Deal On Detainee Bill (Free New York Times Reg Req) Fitzgerald Given Way Out Of Libby CIA Leak Case. Judge Says He Can Dismiss Case If Classified Secrets Will Be Revealed Bill Clinton Accuses Bush Of Wanting To: Institutionalize What Happened At Abu Ghraib” Bush Ready To OK Border Barrier Bush On […]

Earlier today, I got in on a teleconference with Majority Whip Roy Blunt, Congressman Dan Lungren and Congressman Ed Royce in order to talk about illegal immigration. Here are some of my notes from the discussion (These are not quotes): My question to Roy Blunt: Mr. Blunt, can we get a commitment from you that […]

“An attack on Bush is an attack on all Americans…’You do not come into my country, my congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear […]

When we started the whole 15 day challenge, I figured it wouldn’t be all that hard to pull in 100 contributions for each of our 21 candidates. However, we got off to a really slow start and something that normally is a big positive, a high dollar per contribution average, really worked against us. By […]

It has been a while since I last ranked the best opinion columnists in the business, so I figured it was time to do it again. Here are my current faves in order… 30) Heather Mac Donald 29) Mac Johnson 28) Bill O’Reilly 27) Wesley Pruden 26) Mary Katharine Ham 25) Michael Graham 24) Michael […]

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) Bernie Sanders* (I) vs. Richard Tarrant (R) […]

This is an appalling story on so many different levels: “Velasco Elementary School’s principal said he has been taken aback by a controversy that has arisen from his campus’ Mexican Independence Day celebration, and he apologizes for offending parents. During a short school assembly Friday, several parent volunteers read a pledge of allegiance to the […]

Kathryn Jean Lopez quotes Charles Rangel at the Corner. “His plans for raising taxes on American families and small businesses: “Democratic Representative Charles Rangel vowed to reach out to Republicans if his party wins control of the House in November, while acknowledging that they may find his plans for changing tax policy unpalatable. “Rangel’s accession […]

Foreign Shiite Militias Are Encouraging Children — Some As Young As 6 Or 7 — To Hurl Stones And Gasoline Bombs At U.S. Convoys, Hoping To Lure American Troops Into Ambushes Or Provoke Them Into Shooting Back At U.N., Chavez Calls Bush ‘The Devil’ Bush Would Send Troops Inside Pakistan To Catch Bin Laden Muslims […]

Oh, what a lame little puff piece the people at Newsweek have written about psychopathic holocaust denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here’s a little sample: “A day after slamming the Bush administration for its Middle East policies in an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this morning told a group of international […]

I’ve never had much luck with golf. I played a few times when I was a teenager, but I wasn’t THAT into it and I had a couple of rotten experiences with the game. In one of the first rounds of golf that I ever played, I had no idea what I was doing — […]

We have some enormous news: RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Announces Rightroots Challenge See below. The Chairman just sent this e-mail setting out the biggest Rightroots challenge yet. If Rightroots meets its September goal to support each of its 21 candidates by midnight tonight, Chairman Mehlman will send an e-mail to the RNC’s entire list of […]

With the elections coming up in November, it’s important for the American people to take a hard look at how both political parties intend to handle the war on terrorism. Republicans believe in winning the war in Iraq, aggressively pursuing terrorists far from our shores, and using our intelligence assets to prevent another attack. On […]

From the comments section of the latest Rightroots post “Nothing on Rightroots (but good luck on that). Just want to say, heavy props on advertising Sam Harris’s book on your site; these days, that kind of thing takes guts. And if there’s one thing morally/intellectually destroying this nation/the world, it’s organized religion. No question of […]

As a general rule, if the mainstream media is discussed on RWN, they’re being beaten like a bongo drum at…..ehr, somewhere they hit bongo drums a lot. But, for once, let me single out an article for praise. It’s a piece by James Healy at USA Today. Here’s the key excerpt: “A hefty 42% of […]

Here are the latest totals: Mike Whalen (IA-01): 75 Chris Wakim (WV-01): 76 Scott Tipton (CO-3): 77 Jeff Lamberti (IA-03): 80 Rick O’Donnell (CO-07): 80 Max Burns (GA-12): 83 Chuck Blasdel (OH-6): 84 John Gard (WI-08): 84 David McSweeney (IL-08): 86 Ray Meier (NY-24): 88 Peter Roskam (IL-06): 92 Ralph Norman (SC-05): 94 Andrea Lane […]

Foreign Thai Military Launches Coup, Backs King Chirac Calls For Threat Of Iran Sanctions To Be Lifted Gen. John Abizaid: Troop Levels In Iraq May Not Decrease This Year Chief Judge In Saddam Trial Replaced Domestic IRS Yanks Democratic Leadership Council Tax Status Colorado State Professor Disputes Global Warming Is Human-Caused Mexican Flag Controversy Elections […]

It’s the last day of the Rightroots 15 day challenge and unless we have a big burst, we’re not going to make our 100 donation per candidate total. Do you want to help us meet our goal? Well, here’s the best way to do it. Chip in small donations to the following candidates: 1) Michele […]

One of the things that the Democratic Party seems to perpetually be trying to do is reach out to religious Americans. Unfortunately, they usually don’t have much luck because they treat religious people like robots who’ll respond to the right piece of code. It’s like, “Well, if we show up in a few churches right […]

Mike Bouchard, who’s running against Debbie Stabenow in Michigan, has put together a video pitch to encourage people to give to him through Rightroots. We’re down to 36 hours to go on the 15 day challenge. If you haven’t chipped in yet — or even if you have — it would really help us out […]

Beth over at My Vast Wing Conspiracy, (a blog that I like, by the way) took great offense at part of the Blogger Boobygate! post yesterday, in which I said that there was nothing wrong with women using their looks to draw traffic. Here’s some of Beth’s furious diatribe: “You know, I don’t get emotional […]

Here’s the eeeeeevvvvviiiiiiilllllllll “torture” that John McCain, Andrew Sullivan, Ted Kennedy, & Company think is just too cruel to be used on terrorists who saw the heads off of Americans and support flying planes into our buildings: “The techniques sought by the CIA are: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; […]

“In late 2000, even as the result of the presidential election was still being contested in court, George W. Bush’s chief pollster Matt Dowd was writing a memo for Rove that would reach a surprising conclusion. Based on a detailed examination of poll data from the previous two decades, Dowd’s memo argued that the percentage […]

“There’s a great amount of odious liberal condescension at work here. No matter how many times Jihadists say “We are killing you because Allah commands it,” liberals keep saying back, “Oh, pish-posh. We know what’s really driving you — a need for more day-care and infrastructure development.” Don’t liberals believe in actually listening to the […]

Foreign The Pope Must Die, Says Muslim Commander Of U.N. Peacekeeping Forces In Lebanon Says His Troops Won’t Disarm Hezbollah Bush Rules Out Meeting With Ahmadinejad Election: Thousands Riot After Prime Minister Admits Socialists Lied To Win Election Associated Press Photographer Has “Strong” Insurgent Ties – Pentagon Domestic Capitol Cops: Armed Intruder Had Crack Cocaine […]

Folks, we have 52 hours to go on the Rightroots challenge and although we’ve raised more than $40,000, as you can see, we still have some work to do to get all of our candidates up to 100 contributions each. Mike Whalen (IA-01): 42 Chris Wakim (WV-01): 44 Scott Tipton (CO-3): 46 Jeff Lamberti (IA-03): […]