Author: John Hawkins

From Drudge “A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of “blogs” and political power, DAILY KOS ‘CRASHING THE GATE,’ has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN’s BOOKSCAN. [NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at the retail level; the rest coming […]

What in the world is going on in Virginia? “Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) rejected an increase in gas taxes to pay for transportation improvements, prompting a leading Republican ally in the Senate to accuse the governor Tuesday of pandering to national anxiety about rising fuel prices. On Washington Post Radio’s “Ask the Governor” program, […]

In my book, when a thug wielding a “plank of wood” breaks into your house by knocking the door down and yells “I’m going to kill you,” there is no such thing as using “too much force” to stop him. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to agree in Australia. After the aforementioned intruder smashed his way […]

The results of RWN’s 2006 demographics survey (via Blogads) are now live. Here are a few details that caught my eye: — 88.4% of RWN’s readers are male. — Roughly 65% of RWN’s readers make $60,000 a year or more. — 93% of RWN’s readers have “some college” or better. — 60% of you have […]

Everything you need to know about the Amnesty bill meeting that Bush, McCain, and some of the other pro-illegal Republicans in the Senate attended is right here: “I’m not in the habit of patting the president on the back and sending him accolades, but I have to say that this meeting that we just had, […]

Domestic Bush, Senators Agree On Alien Citizenship, Shut Out Critics (We’ve Got To Fight This Amnesty Bill) Oil, Gas Prices Drop on Bush Supply Move (Good Move) Bush Threatens To Veto Bloated War-Funds Bill (He Should Make Good On His Threat) Confirmed: Tony Snow New Bush Press Secretary. Fox News Commentator To Take Over For […]

Inspired by 50 Facts at Right Thinking Girl. 1) Classic movies I’ve never seen include The Godfather, Raging Bull, Citizen Kane & Deliverance. 2) A rule I picked up from reading about Robert Ringer talking about real estate also applies to the blogosphere. It’s not just about making money, it’s about getting paid and when […]

It’s like clockwork. Every few months, some disgruntled hack with an ax to grind turns up and vomits up some chunk of information, as often as not, old information, that is supposed to discredit the Bush Administration. Then the liberals in the media latch onto it, blow it up way out of proportion, and try […]

“Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic. It’s just not going to work. You can hear people out there hollering it’s going to work. It’s not going to work. It just — and so therefore, what do we do with people who are here? And this is one of the really important questions Congress […]

Andrea Clarke’s story is starting to gain some traction. WorldnetDaily has now picked it up. Also see The Sad Case Of Andrea Clarke. *** Update #1 *** The Schindler family is now in the game. Excellent! The Terri Schindler Schiavo, Center for Health Care Ethics Inc., Throws Support Behind Family of Andrea Clark Washington, D.C. […]

Taxes cost you about $0.42 per gallon on average. So the next time you hear Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) worrying about the price of gas having an impact on “working families,” such as those who I imagine work for him, just remember that the Federal government could lower the price of gas $0.184 per gallon […]

Yup: THE crown prince rejects a bevy of beautiful princesses, rebuffing each suitor until falling in love with a prince. The two marry, sealing the union with a kiss, and live happily ever after. That fairy tale about gay marriage has sparked a civil rights debate in Massachusetts, the only US state where gays and […]

Yesterday, as I was perusing the Democratic Underground, I ran across a very troubling story. I’m reposting it here, so that you can read it just as I did last night (The phone numbers presently are x’d out, although you can read them in the original post)… Th1onein: KILLING MY SISTER – WE ARE PROTESTING […]

A House GOP leadership aide said that Hastert also responded to calls for hearings into the pay package for Lee Raymond, who retired as Exxon Mobil’s chief executive in January. According to a recent proxy filing by the company, Raymond received $48.5 million in salary, bonuses and incentive payments last year; exercised more than $20 […]

One of the biggest problems the left has in this country is that they no longer have a stranglehold on the flow of information. 25 years ago? AM radio was nearly dead, Fox didn’t exist, and there was no blogosphere. Today? The left still has an advantage in getting their message out via most of […]

Most of you have heard about the messy split-up between Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. But, the news reports don’t do it justice. Unless you read the 17 page declaration from Richards, you just can’t get the full effect. Here’s a summary of just SOME of the charges on each page (Of course, we should […]

Hugh Hewitt wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer about how the newspaper business is dying and he gave RWN a nice mention. “And political news-gathering isn’t less vibrant today than 20 years ago. It is a golden age of information availability even as the old elites and gatekeepers drown their sorrows at the corner […]

I am sick to death of hearing about what a failure Iraq is when that determination cannot possibly be made until at least a decade from now. I am sick of the good news from Iraq being ignored by those whose job it is to report all the facts. I am sick to death of […]

…Remember what they used to call “climate change”? “Global warming.” And what did they call it before that? “Global cooling.” That was the big worry in the ’70s: the forthcoming ice age. Back then, Lowell Ponte had a huge best seller called The Cooling: Has the new ice age already begun? Can we survive? The […]

Domestic CIA Fires Analyst Mary McCarthy For Alleged Press Leak (Now It’s Time To Put Her In Jail) Michelle Malkin Has Been “Forced To Remove One Of My Children From School And Move My Family” After Liberals Posted Her Address And Phone Number Online 2nd DNA Results In Duke Lacross Case Out Until May 15, […]

RWN returns Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below and consider this an open thread. Oh, and could you click on one ad for me? Any one ad? I’d appreciate it. BitsBlog Election Projection Friends Of George Allen Humor: Guest Commentary From Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi — I Hate Email (Some Obscene Language) The Indepundit Iraqi […]

The other stripper in the Duke Lacrosse case, the one who accompanied the accuser to the party, has opened her big yap to the press and completely destroyed any and all credibility she might have had: At first, a stripper who performed at a Duke University lacrosse team party doubted the story of a colleague […]

A pic of Condi Rice And Dick Cheney during “Chinese President Hu Jintao in Hu’s first Oval Office visit.” Pic via ABC and AFP

This is kind of a shocker: “Public concerns, including cock fighting, state funding for private schools, prehistoric finds in the Robledo Mountains, gubernatorial vetoes, preserving farm land, and support for the spaceport, were discussed Thursday by Gov. Bill Richardson during a town hall meeting at the Mesilla Valley Inn Best Western. …Organ animal rights activist […]

Question: “The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a High School Sophomore who wore a shirt to school that read, “Be Ashamed, Our School Embraced What God Has Condemned. Homosexuality is Shameful” is NOT constitutionally protected free speech. This coming in the same week that they discovered a constitutional right to be a […]

Question: “Should Jonathan Pollard be released?” — D-Vega Answer: For any of you who don’t know, Jonathan Pollard is an American traitor who passed classified information about the United States to Israel. He’s serving life in jail for his crime, but getting him released is something that’s near and dear to the hearts of many […]

Question: “Patterico is publicizing this: “Is an L.A. Times columnist leaving comments on the Internet under assumed “sock puppet” identities — identities which he pretends is someone other than himself?” Have you ever seen this? And if someone did it, do you consider it a bannable offense?” -N. O’Brain Answer: The LA Times columnist in […]

Question: “Is it listed ANYWHERE how many enemy casualties our troops have caused? I hear the death toll of OUR troops all the time, I’d very much like to see the ratio between them and us.” — daytrip Answer: As Paul T. mentioned in the comments section, the Brookings Institution has some numbers, but they […]

Question: “With Venezuela rattling around, Iran looking to become an issue, and the 06 hurricane season right around the corner, do you envision 70s style gas lines?” — jasamc Answer: Prices may continue to go up, but we’re not going to have 70’s style gas lines unless we make the same mistake they made in […]

Domestic ‘Coyotes’ Openly Trolling for Clients In Plain View Of Mexican Law Enforcement The Majority Of Illegals Captured In The Big Raid ARE NOT Going To Be Deported. Feds Warn Companies Using Illegal Workers Fox Poll: Bush Approval At 33%. Approval Rate For Congress: 25% Why A Strong Economy Is No GOP Asset Alberto Gonzales […]