Author: John Hawkins

Question: “Have you ever thought of doing a “partner site with another Blogger, Such as RTG, or possibly a “Hannity and Combes” type site with you and a Liberal Blogger posting side by side article on the same subjects?” — Don_cos “I second Don_cos suggestion. That would be an interesting read.” — JonW Answer: To […]

Foreign 452 Post-al-Zarqawi Raids Kill 104 Insurgents Text Of Al-Zarqawi Safe-House Document Iran Would ‘Use Nuclear Defense’ If Threatened (Free Jerusalem Post Reg Req) Poll: Muslim World Supports Iran Nukes Pentagon Says Military Deaths In Iraq Hit 2,500 Terrorists Supporting Cleric Calls For Bush To Convert To Islam And Says He Feels Sorry For The […]

Today is Q&A Friday #42 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 […]

Liberals get huffy when conservatives suggest that a lot of libs just don’t support the troops. However, the honest truth is that a lot of liberals, well, just don’t support the troops. In fact, they have such loathing for our men and women in uniform that even though it hurts them politically, they still can’t […]

Earlier this afternoon, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be on a teleconference with famed Soviet dissident, Natan Sharansky. Sharansky’s primary points were that the world needs to support the dissidents in Iran and that he was concerned about the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount, which he compared, quite correctly […]

“If the same person who told President Bush to nominate Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court were advising him on foreign policy and we invaded the Cayman Islands instead of Iraq, I, too, would be criticizing the war. But I wouldn’t pretend that by calling for an immediate troop withdrawal, I wasn’t encouraging the Cayman […]

The libs in the mainstream media have been trying to convince the public that all is lost in Iraq, that it has nothing to do with the war on terrorism, and that our troops will never be pulled out of there if Bush has his way. It doesn’t sound as if Iraq’s National Security Adviser, […]

One of the very serious, yet seldom discussed, problems with the Senate’s illegal immigration bill is the presumption that the US Government is capable of processing 12-20 million illegal aliens, deciding whether they should be in the country legally, giving them background checks, deciding how much they owe in taxes, and determining how much Social […]

“(Keith) Olbermann has a Teflon ego. No matter how stupid he looks or how obviously wrong he is or how completely devoid of wit his copy is, he is perpetually pleased as punch with himself and convinced that the rest of the world is as moist over his brilliance as he is. It’s almost like […]

“There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth’s temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years. On the basis […]

Foreign Violence Dips As Baghdad crackdown begins Afghanistan: 11,000 Troops Prepared For Their Biggest Offensive Since The Fall Of The Taliban Five Years Ago Bush Says Would Like To Close Guantanamo (Boo!) 40 Percent Of The Moroccan Youth In The Netherlands Reject Western Values And Democracy. Six To Seven Percent Are Prepared To Use Force […]

Have you heard about the song Hadji Girl? It’s a hilarious song sung by Joshua Belile, a marine stationed in Iraq. Unfortunately for Belile, the video of his performing the song got out there and now it has gone viral. Why unfortunately? Because the press, being the press, is trying to play it up as […]

“At the time I started my business, the Left had taught me that business and capitalism were based on exploitation: exploitation of consumers, workers, society, and the environment. I believed that “profit” was a necessary evil at best, and certainly not a desirable goal for society as a whole. However, becoming an entrepreneur completely changed […]

John Hawkins: Do you think teachers are underpaid? Ann Coulter: The good ones are, that’s why they deserve merit pay. The bad ones are overpaid. Too bad their unions don’t let us distinguish between the two. John Hawkins: Is global warming occurring and caused by mankind? Ann Coulter: The temperature of the planet has increased […]

We’ve heard a lot about why Hillary Clinton will be a strong candidate in 2008. In fact, there are whole books on the subject. However, Hillary Clinton is actually a much weaker candidate than many people seem to believe. Here’s a short, but sweet primer that may help explain why that is the case: 1. […]

* Do not nag him. He doesn’t need to hear your whiney little voice complaining about something he doesn’t want to change. Just sssshhh! * Have a life. The second you start to miss yoga classes because of him, he’s got you, and you absolutely must not let him think he has you until he […]

You have to suspect that these two stories are related. Here’s story #1: “The Palestinian territories were in a state of near civil war, and just one act of violence, such as a high-profile assassination, could trigger mayhem, an international think-tank said yesterday. ….The think-tank, the International Crisis Group, said President Mahmoud Abbas’ determination to […]

Domestic Rove Won’t Face Indictment In C.I.A. Leak Case (Free New York Times Reg Req) Hastert Deals Blow to Immigration Bill (Applause) Bush May Meet Vow To Halve The Deficit Three Years Early Poll Sees A Boost For Bush, Iraq War Duke Professor Calls For Special Prosecutor In Rape Case Activists Jeer Clinton Over Iraq […]

Oh, it’s a sad day for liberals everywhere because there is not going to be a Fitzmas in June, July, August or any other month for Karl Rove: ” Top White House aide Karl Rove has been told by prosecutors he won’t be charged with any crimes in the investigation into the leak of a […]

Over at the Democratic Underground, they’re still talking about the death of Zarqawi, in particular, the baseless accusation that US troops beat him to death after he died. Not every person in the thread agreed with the sentiments you’re about to read, but nevertheless, these comments provide a window into the liberal mindset that you […]

There’s a lot of talk about the lavish party Mark Warner put on for bloggers who attended the Yearly Kos convention. How lavish was it? I’ve seen numbers between $50,000-$100,000 tossed around and that’s no surprise given how ritzy Warner’s shindig turned out to be: “If the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries were held tomorrow, former […]

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Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after U.S. troops got to him. There are lots of rumors about what his last words are, so here are the top ten possible last words of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi… 10. “So how big was that bomb you dropped on me? I was thinking at least 500 pounds; am I […]

Foreign U.S. General Says Report of Zarqawi Beating Is ‘Baloney (Free New York Times Reg Req) Zarqawi Knocked Up His Wife When She Was 13-14? Palestinian Gunmen Hand Over Abducted American Citizen To IDF Fatah Gunmen Go On Anti-Hamas Rampage Dubai Mum On Ports Transfer. No Reported Progress On Promise To Sell U.S. Operation Iraqi, […]

The left is still furious with Ann Coulter because of her comments about the Jersey Girls — which just proves her point. Granted, she went too far when she said: “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.” But, if she’d have said they were exploiting their husbands’ deaths for personal and political […]

So, last night, via TiVo, I’m watching TNA wrestling, which is the alternative to the WWE. These guys don’t have a lot of really big, big, names, nor do they feature women showing a lot of skin, which is odd given their name, but they put on a much better show from top to bottom […]

After the 2004 election, Hillary looked like a shoe-in for the Democratic nomination. However, she has been on a long downhill slide since then. Although she looks like she’s going to be reelected in 2006 without breaking a sweat and is raising staggering amounts of money, the liberal bloggers aren’t fans and her pals in […]

From a silly Johnathan Chait column in the LA Times entitled, “Your silence is deafening, conservatives.” “A FEW WEEKS ago, I wrote a column about a paper that decimated the conservative worldview. The study, by William Niskanen of the Cato Institute, found that the conservative “starve the beast” strategy does not work. Indeed, since 1981, […]

Perhaps you’ve heard about the latest batch of Palestinian civilians who may or may not have not been accidentally killed by Israeli soldiers: “Both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz indicated Sunday that Friday’s blast on a Gaza Strip beach that killed seven civilians may have been caused by the Palestinians, and […]

“Everyone knows that the attendance at Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we’re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers’ place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas’s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians’ courting of this nascent movement to […]