Author: John Hawkins

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Back in March, I put together an article called What Blogs Are Republicans In Congress Reading? Well today, I’ve finally got the follow-up post ready and this time around, I decided to expand the list and ask for responses from big name conservatives as well as Congressmen. With the members of Congress, I requested a […]

If you want to see how these pro-illegal immigrant politicians in Washington are hurting ordinary Americans, take a look at this story about an Arizona rancher named Ron White: Ron White sees two kinds of illegal immigrants on his ranch south of town. There are the dozens each day who simply pass through. They are […]

The Boston Globe did a man on the street piece about the NSA data mining that they undoubtedly hoped would be full of comments like this one: But Daniel Senie, a Verizon customer in Bolton, was outraged that companies would cooperate with the government. ”The corporations involved have long since made it clear customers are […]

Since it’s sort of a lazy Friday, I thought I’d post my favorite Hindu story (Can you tell I took a course on Eastern religions when I was in college?). Via Khandro.net, here’s the much retold story of Yudhishthira’s entry into heaven. Do keep in mind that a lot of the details of this story […]

Domestic Questions And Answers About The NSA Phone Record Collection Program President Bush Makes Remarks on NSA Data Mining Program Senator John Kyl On The Data Mining Program: “This Is Nuts. We’re In A War And We Got To Collect Intelligence On The Enemy, And You Can’t Tell The Enemy In Advance How You’re Going […]

What is the common thread in these stories? — (A) Duke woman drinks all afternoon, then attends frat party where she inhales marijuana smoke from a vaporizer. She then files rape charges after waking the next morning with the feeling “something had happened”. Police had no trouble tracking down the “perpetrator”. The accused rapist helpfully […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “favorite columnists.” Representatives from the following 44 blogs responded… Aaron’s CC, Ankle Biting Pundits, AtlanticBlog, Atlas Shrugs, Backcountry Conservative, Being American in T.O., Betsy’s Page, La Shawn Barber, Blackfive, Blue Crab […]

USA Today has revealed that the NSA has a massive collection of phone records. Here are the key details (Emphasis mine) “The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told […]

What an arrogant “priss” VANITY FAIR contributing editor James Wolcott is — just take a look at the opening to a post on his blog“ To infiltrate myself among the people and impersonate a commoner (the better to understand the culture we’re in), I made one of my secret incursions into Macdonald’s for breakfast this […]

Over at Forbes, Paul Johnson is talking down the whole party system: “What we in the West should be considering is to what extent we can get along without highly organized and all-powerful political parties or, at the least, how we can reduce their influence. Why shouldn’t we encourage more independent individuals to run for […]

Domestic GOP Reaches Deal on Tax Cuts (Free WAPO Reg Req) April Tax Revenue 2nd-Highest in History (Thank You Tax Cuts) Senate Plan Devised To Deal With Illegal Immigrant Hiring Claim: U.S. Border Patrol Officials Provided Office Space Inside Their Headquarters To Mexican Consulate Officials, Allowed The Consulate To Dictate The Agents’ Activities, And Gave […]

Ms. Deborah J. Spero, Acting Commissioner U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20229 Dear Ms. Spero, According to recent reports, the United States Border Patrol has provided the Mexican government with surveillance information about the location of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. If true, these allegations […]

As we learned from prominent liberal blogger Atrios, the left wants to make it easier to get an abortion, raise taxes, promote gay marriage — and he believes we should be a little nicer to captured terrorists, darn it! As we also know, the left is just dying to cut and run in Iraq, they […]

Israel has a bold new plan and I think it’s a great idea: Israel will give the Palestinians until the end of the year to prove they are willing to negotiate a final peace deal, and will unilaterally set its final borders by 2008 if they don’t, Israel’s justice minister said Wednesday. The statement by […]

This is despicable: Parents of students at an Albany Park charter school are demanding the dismissal of a teacher who they say made slurs against Mexicans during a seventh-grade art class. Students in the class said the teacher, angry because she believed students had gotten paint on her jacket, said that “all Mexicans are criminals” […]

Editor and Publisher did a survey of 527 randomly chosen newspaper journalists at 218 daily papers across the country. The results? They weren’t so pretty and this particular statistic really stood out: “More than half of the surveyed journalists reported working with “a peer involved in fabrication, plagiarism or other deliberate misconduct,” the survey stated.” […]

“A look inside the latest numbers suggests several reasons, but it appears the president’s stand on immigration is the biggest drag on his support among Republicans—even more damaging than the disapproval caused by rising gas prices. Of several issues specifically covered by the Gallup poll—the economy, foreign affairs, the situation in Iraq, terrorism, immigration, and […]

Domestic U.S. Customs and Border Protection Denies They Have Reported The Location Of The Minutemen To The Mexican Government (Their Spokesman Confirmed It In The Original Article) Tancredo Rips Government’s Spying On Minutemen CBS News/New York Times Poll: Bush Approval 31%. Congress Approval At 21% John Conyers: U.S. Owes Slavery Reparations Foreign Disorganization Worries Al-Qaida […]

This is absolutely unbelievable! The Border Patrol is actually teaming up with the Mexican government to try to prevent the Minutemen from stopping illegals: While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen — and telling the Mexican government where […]

The Tennessean has broken a shocking new story! “Vaccine industry officials helped shape legislation behind the scenes that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist secretly amended into a bill to shield them from lawsuits, according to e-mails obtained by a public advocacy group. E-mails and documents written by a trade group for the vaccine-makers show the […]

We conservatives often flog the left for not having the guts to tell people what they really want to do. So, when a prominent liberal blogger, like Atrios, gives you an idea of what liberals would like to do when they get into power, it’s worth examining. Here’s the agenda that Atrios says the “liberal […]

John Podhoretz is looking at the strength of the economy and noting that things are taking a turn for the better in Iraq. So, why is Bush losing conservative support? “(T)he president is losing support from conservatives and Republicans. There are all sorts of theories about why this is true, like how they don’t like […]

“(A) wall on our border, by itself, will fail… One reason is simple and incontrovertible: around 40% of the illegal aliens in America — 4.5 million immigration criminals — never had to sneak across any border. We let them in. They came legally on “temporary” visas, claiming to be tourists or students or businessmen who […]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s private letter to U.S. President George Bush proposing ‘new solutions‘ was also inadvertently emailed to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s ‘buddy list’, and so reached several major American news organizations yesterday. It’s the first time since the 1979 revolution, that an Iranian leader has initiated direct contact with the President of the United States. […]

“(T)he president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.” — Israel’s Vice Premier Shimon Peres

From Nancy Pelosi: Democrats will launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration if they take control of Congress in November but are not out to impeach President George W. Bush, a top Democrat said on Sunday. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would hold hearings on the use of intelligence […]

In an effort to “appear” tough on illegal immigration, ICE has been talking big and doing some catch and release raids that feature big sweep ups of illegals, most of whom are quietly released instead of being deported. Well, even though ICE is a big joke, these splashy raids have, happily, managed to frighten illegal […]

“In the latest Vatican broadside against “The Da Vinci Code“, a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded. Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigerian who was considered a candidate for pope last year, made his strong comments in a documentary […]