Author: John Hawkins

I’m not sure that there could possibly be a dumber argument for coddling terrorists than the one made by Lindsey Graham, who, as per usual, is playing Robin to John McCain’s Batman, this time on the interrogation of terrorists. Here’s Graham: “Weakening the Geneva Convention protections is an unnecessary step and will put our military […]

Including today, we’ve got 3 days left on the Rightroots 15 day challenge. So far, during the challenge, we’ve raised almost $40,000 for our candidates, but we’re still short of our 100 donations per candidate goal. Can we hit it? Absolutely. We just need about 790 more donations to make it, which isn’t as much […]

It all started when a group of liberal bloggers got to meet with Bill Clinton. Ann Althouse, like many people, couldn’t help but notice that the girl directly in front of Bubba was attractive, pushing her perky ta-tas out, and — as a side note — it looks like Bill is trying to decide whether […]

“I saw this while driving down 3rd Ave. here in Huntington, W.Va. For some reason I thought even the liberals in this city were intelligent enough not to spew this kind of filth. Not only is it not below them, they’re spray-painting it. If ever you were thinking “Maybe leftists don’t hate America after all” […]

Do illegal immigrants depress wages for American workers? You better believe it. Just in case you need convincing, here’s a little proof. “Since the mid-1990s, Stillmore has grown dependent on the paychecks of Mexican workers who originally came for seasonal farm labor, picking the area’s famous Vidalia onions. Many then took year-round jobs at the […]

This is mildly disconcerting: “According to a new report put out by the German Statistics Office, Germans have the most pessimistic view of the future among all Europeans. The latest census shows that Germans — especially young people and eastern Germans — believe living conditions are much worst than they actually are. …And more and […]

Damascus? Karachi? Nope. London. H/T LGF. This content was used with the permission of JunkYardBlog.

Foreign Pope Says Remarks Intended As Invitation to Dialogue Arab Op-Ed: Pope’s Remarks May Lead To War Italian Nun Slain In Somalia, Pope Link Speculation Just Outside Westminster Cathedral Today Muslims Were Behaving Badly Israel: Few Months To Avoid Nuclear Iran Australia’s Muslim Leaders Have Been “Read The Riot Act” Over The Need To Denounce […]

Week-End Links + Rightroots Blogburst Today, with your help, we raked in more than $20,000 for the Rightroots candidates. That’s a heck of a good day — although we still need more help to reach our donation goals. If you haven’t donated yet (or even if you have) and would like to help out, chipping […]

Question: “How do you see the next two years in politics breaking down if the Democrats do manage to take back one or both Houses of Congress in November? With Bush’s poll numbers as low as they are right now, qualifying him as a near lame-duck already, would anything really be that different? Is anything […]

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Question: “Do you think that John McCain’ sensitivty to “torture” by our government is driven by the fact that he was REALLY tortured by the Viet Cong? No Red Hot Chili Peppers from the VC…unless they were being stuffed into some unmentionable place. I respect McCain’s service and the suffering he went through, but it […]

Question: Do you think pro wrestling will be able to make its typical cyclical comeback into the mainstream as it did in the mid 80’s and 90’s? What kind of changes in the industry, talent, or content distribution do you think it would take?” — Mike_M Answer: Wrestling’s popularity is cyclical, but I think two […]

Question: “Does America have the stomach for the war on terror or has the left so emasculated our culture that we no longer have the guts to stand up and fight a real war?” — WSOwen02 Answer: It’s human nature to become complacent and to believe that just because things are going OK right now, […]

Question: “Has there been technical problems with RWN lately?” — D-Vega on 2006-09-14 “I’ve had lots of problems getting to the site, and more problems posting. I was wondering if it was on my end or John’s.” — mojoe Answer: My hosting company, Dreamhost, used to give good service. However, for the last couple of […]

In the spirit of Q&A Friday, I have a question for the audience since you guys are spread out all over the country and have probably seen just about every political ad out there. Of course, there are plenty of candidates running ads accusing their opponents of being soft on illegal immigration. But, anywhere in […]

Domestic Americans for Prosperity Hails House Passage of Earmark Reform, Calls on Senate to Approve Similar Reforms The House Votes To Build 700 Miles Of Double-Layered Fencing On A 283-138 Vote. 131 Democrats, A Majority, Voted Against The Fence Senate Panel Defies Bush on Terror (Warner, McCain, Snowe, & Graham Vote With Dems To Undercut […]

Today is Q&A Friday #49 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, it […]

Believe it or not, Dr. Seuss used to be a political cartoonist and he did some absolutely phenomenal cartoons that took aim at American isolationists in the run up to WW2, most of whom were in the GOP (although a majority of Americans opposed getting involved in the war until Pearl Harbor). The funny thing […]

Over at the Democratic Underground, they’ve got a thread going called, “What still makes you proud to be an American?.” Could it be that they’re going to point out, correctly, that this is the greatest nation in the world? That we have the biggest economy? The most powerful military? That we’ve done more good than […]

Today, John McCain endorsed Rightroots. I know that I have a lot of differences with McCain, but the endorsement for the group is much appreciated and it would be fantastic if more politicians wanted to follow his lead. Also, there’s going to be a Rightroots blogburst tomorrow. All across the blogosphere (hopefully) there are going […]

Rich Lowry, among others, got a meeting with Bush and this quote from W. that he produced really tees me off: “The President talked about how he has been able to help with the 2006 races, noting money raised and the party’s turnout efforts. “I can help and if I can’t, Laura can.” He explained, […]

A couple of days ago, I put up a 2008 straw poll, which was sponsored by GOP Bloggers. You can see the overall results here. First of all, here’s some of the raw data for all the participants: The Top 4 Most Acceptable Candidates Newt Gingrich: +43.9% Mitt Romney: +40.9% Rudy Giuliani: +35.4% George Allen: […]

” The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel. A McKinsey company study concluded that Wal-Mart accounted for 13 percent of the nation’s productivity […]

“I distrust the government but as a realistic conservative I think government is staffed with mostly well-intentioned but incompetent people — not because they’re dumb, but because bureaucracies are dumb. These conspiracy theorists reverse this entirely. They think government is evil-intentioned but supremely, even divinely, competent.” — Jonah Goldberg

Domestic Military Chaplain Convicted Of Saying Prayers ‘In Jesus’ Name Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide After Brutal CNN Attack Interview Congress’s Republican Leadership Yesterday Threw Its Weight Behind Warrantless Wiretapping And Extrajudicial Military Tribunals (Free Wapo Reg Req) Air America Denies Bankruptcy Report Oil: Prices Plunge Below US $64 George Clooney Will Address The […]

While I was defending Tom Tancredo from the outrageous smear leveled at him by the Southern Poverty Law Center, I trashed a Southern-successionist group called the League of the South. Apparently that ruffled a few feathers over at the LOS, because some of them have been posting in the comments section and writing me emails. […]

— Rhode Island: This Senate race was destined to be a lose-lose affair no matter how it turned out since we had Steve Laffey, a guy who couldn’t win in the general election, going up against ultra-RINO, Lincoln Chafee. Intriguingly, Lincoln Chafee only won 54% vs. 46%, which means that 46 out of every 100 […]