Author: John Hawkins

One of themes Democrats love to hammer home is multilateralism. We’ve got to get more nations on board! We’ve got to reach out! It’s all about allies, allies, allies! Yet, many of those very same Democrats often strike a dismissive and insulting pose towards the nations that do ally with us. Remember this quote from […]

Chris Wakim has a very impressive background. He’s a Christian conservative who is the grandson of immigrants from Lebanon. He was educated at West Point and Harvard and then went into the military, where he worked his way up to “Captain in command of a mechanized infantry company in the Fourth Infantry Division.” Chris also […]

Seldom do I have a kind word for Democrats on matters of National Security (because seldom do they deserve it). Moreover, as a general rule, it is not in my opinion helpful for a single member of the House to take it upon himself to interfere with America’s foreign policy. That being said, in my […]

The anti-Christian zealotry in the United States hasn’t gone this far yet, but give the ACLU and their liberal buddies enough time and I’m sure they’ll get around to it: “Footballer gets criminal record for making sign of the cross The Catholic Church has condemned the cautioning of a Polish footballer for gestures which allegedly […]

“…(O)n the eve of the 2004 election, an election dominated by “moral values” voters (despite what some have written), fully 42% of Americans saw the Democrat Party as “friendly toward religion.” Of course, the Dems got walloped in 2004, largely because they were so remarkably out-of-step with the values of those “values voters”. The Dems […]

If you’re a young, black American, would you be safer serving in Iraq or walking the mean streets of the city of Brotherly Love? The answer may surprise you: “Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops in Iraq. […]

This woman’s got the right idea: Caption: Marge Trowbridge, a lone supporter of President George W. Bush, carries a sign claiming she is surrounded by idiots as she walks in front of an anti-war protest on Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, Maine, Saturday afternoon Aug. 26, 2006. President Bush is visiting his parents for the weekend […]

Just hours after Iran opened a new plant capable of making plutonium “for peaceful purposes”, U.S. President George Bush assured his Iranian counterpart that any B-2 Bombers that appear over Tehran in the near future would also serve peaceful purposes. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cut the ribbon on the new heavy-water nuclear plant Saturday as part […]

Foreign Ten British Holidaymakers Among 21 Hurt In Turkish Resort Explosions Defying U.N., Iran Opens Nuclear Reactor Fox News Crew Freed After Gaza Ordeal — Forced To Convert To Islam At Gunpoint UN Will Not Stop Syria Sending Weapons To Lebanon (Israel Should Start Bombing Again) Hezbollah Leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah Said In A TV […]

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Over at the HuffPo, Russell Shaw says what a lot of hard core liberals have been thinking for a long time: that another terrorist attack on America would be OK with him if he thought the Democrats would benefit politically. After giving all the obligatory disclaimers, including, “I hope and pray we don’t get hit […]

This is just disgraceful: “Members of Utah’s Jewish community are alarmed by a proposed demonstration that will call for “Death to Israel.” A man – whose name wasn’t available Thursday – has applied for a free-speech permit from Salt Lake City to demonstrate on sidewalks near City Hall on Wednesday. The city is reviewing the […]

Like most people, I normally pay little heed to Bill Clinton 1.0 AKA Gary Hart. But, Hart wrote a piece on the Huffington Post that was so vacuous that it deserved a response. Hart discussed the, “demise of the ancient Roman Republic and its transition to the Roman Empire,” and specifically the Roman Emperor, Augustus, […]

— If the mainstream media were objective, instead of biased to the left, wouldn’t this be front page news? A security operation was helping to curb an increase in violence in Baghdad in recent months after a surge of bombings and shootings, America’s two top generals in the Middle East said. …Army Gen. George Casey, […]

From World Magazine: “Police and prosecutors in Hialeah, Fla., are investigating an abortion clinic incident that has all the markings of murder. On the morning of July 20, an 18-year-old girl walked into the A Gyn Diagnostics Center to abort her baby at 23 weeks. She had received medication to dilate her cervix the night […]

The owner says he didn’t realize that some people would be so offended by his calling his restaurant “Hitler’s Cross” and so he’ll give it a new name. Puneet Sablok said he would remove Hitler’s name and the Nazi swastika from billboards and the eatery’s menu after it had angered so many people. He had […]

Foreign General: Iran Training Shiite Insurgents (Free Wapo Reg Req) Israeli Poll: 63 Percent Of Israelis Feel That Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Failed In Managing The War In Lebanon And Should Resign. Only 29 Percent Believe The Prime Minister Is Fit To Continue Leading The Country U.S. Generals Say Baghdad Violence Slows Denmark: Four Charged […]

— John McCain has hired a new staffer for his future failed run at the presidency: Nicco Mele, a former webmaster for the Howard Dean campaign. What’s the matter? Couldn’t he even find a prominent Republican web guru, like Patrick Ruffini, that would work with him? — Speaking of 2008, some people have asked me […]

Over at the Daily Kos, Daily Kos diarist gshenaut, thinks we should have a nice, long, conversation with the terrorists, perhaps in a nice cafe, with soft music, tea, and burka clad waitresses: “Let’s take an extreme example: should the US enter into official negotiations with representatives of al-Qaeda? I believe that most Americans would […]

Vlogging really seems to be getting more popular on the right side of the blogosphere, so I thought it would be a good time to do a short post about it. Although she’s not a conservative, you have to give credit to Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom for proving that vlogging can draw a big audience: […]

Supposedly, after being stung by the macacca incident, George Allen is looking to hire a, “conservative blog maven who can blunt future attacks and help rally conservatives in the state and elsewhere behind Allen’s campaign.” Hey, wait a second: I’m a, “conservative blog maven,” so maybe I can help. Here’s the advice I would give […]

Well, what else would a nice Saudi boy believe about a plot to bomb German trains? I mean the Catholics had their Crusades in the Middle Ages and the Protestants need their own now. Other Muslims in Germany have other ideas. This just in: The Lebanese men suspected of having deposited bombs on German trains […]

Foreign U.S. Homeland Security Forbidden By Law From Tactics Brits Used To Foil Attack Iraqi Authorities Say The Number Of Violent Attacks Has Gone Down By 30 Percent. The U.S., Using Different Calculations, Says Such Attacks Have Decreased By 22 Percent The Number Of U.S. Troops In Iraq Has Climbed Back To 138,000 U.S. Spy […]

Day after day, since we went into Iraq, the mainstream media has inundated the public with the same sort of slanted, biased coverage of the war that you’d have expected to get from Pravda at the height of the Cold War. They’ve been excessively negative and hysterical. They’ve demonized the troops, been soft on the […]

David McSweeney is taking on Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean in the Illinois 8th District. This is a district that Bush won 56% to 44% in 2004 and it’s a great pick-up opportunity for the GOP. Earlier today, I got together with David McSweeney to do a short interview. What you are about to read is […]

Well, the good news is that Steve Centanni and his cameraman Olaf Wiig are alive. The bad news is that they were apparently kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorists who were stuck in all the “special” classes at terrorism school. First, it takes more than a week before the “Holy Jihad Brigades” made any contact to […]

Former chief spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department, Mark Corallo, is complaining about the ramifications reporters are facing for misbehavior: “All that is at risk in the Justice Department these days. In the past few months, the department allowed the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles to subpoena two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who broke the […]

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Arthur Brooks is pointing out the left’s “baby problem”: Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They’re not having enough of them, they haven’t for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if […]

Jonah Goldberg over at the The Corner points out that Washington State is being overrun with murderous raccoons. “Raccoons have killed about 10 cats in a three-block area near the Garfield Nature Trail at Harrison Avenue West and Foote Street Southwest. Problem wildlife coordinator Sean Carrell of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife called […]