Author: John Hawkins

No newspaper in America gets better pics from the anti-war rallies than Zombie, whose latest finds were from an anti-war rally in San Francisco on March 18th. Of course, that’s largely by design. When you have liberal reporters, sympathetically reporting on an event you can be almost sure that they support — like an anti-war […]

(*** Note: On the one hand, there are lots of spoilers in this review. On the other hand, the film was terrible. Thumbs way, way, down. So, it’s probably no big deal if you read the review because you’re not going to want to see the movie anyway. ***) One of the dilemmas conservative critics […]

For — I don’t know — at least, a good, solid three years now, conservatives have been yapping, complaining, and kvetching non-stop about two issues on the domestic front: out-of-control spending and our government’s refusal to take a tough stand against illegal immigration. Yet, here we are, in an election year and what are we […]

If you want to see what the American economy would look like if it were completely unionized, you don’t need to look any further than France. The economy in France has long been stagnant and the rampant unemployment there is a huge problem: “Unemployment is the top political issue in France, where the national average […]

“The worst month of U.S. military deaths in Vietnam was May 1968: 2,316 lives. The second worst month in Vietnam was February 1968: 2,293 lives. According to the website ICasualties.org, which tracks U.S. military deaths in Iraq, the total U.S. military deaths in Iraq since March 20, 2003 is 2,317 lives, one more than the […]

Byron York explains in terms that we laymen can understand why Bush was on firm legal ground with his warrantless surveillance program. Read his background and discussion of In re: Sealed Case from 2002 and you’ll see why Bush’s legal advisers believe that he is on quite firm basis for the NSA surveillance program. And […]

Foreign As Iraq War Heads Into 4th Year, Bush Pledges ‘Complete Victory’ (Free WAPO Reg Req) Cheney: Iraq Not In Civil War, Predicts Success Former Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi: “We Are Losing Each Day As An Average 50 To 60 People Throughout The Country, If Not More. If This Is Not Civil War, Then God […]

RWN returns Monday! Until then, consider this to be an open thread, enjoy the links below, and make sure to take a look at some of the fantastic guest bloggers who filled in today. Lorie Byrd from Byrd Droppings & Polipundit. Cassandra from Villainous Company. Michael Fumento from C-Log & Michael Fumento.com. Patrick Hynes from […]

Whether they acknowledge it or not, the GOP has a genuine moral values problem. I have written about this subject over at the American Spectator and at my blog Ankle Biting Pundits. Essentially, the GOP has completely and thoroughly alienated its base, perhaps because it believes their electoral strength in 2004 was based on something […]

How about helping me out by taking a look at just a few of RWN’s advertisers? Even if you clicked on just 3 or 4 of them, it would really be great… Book: 3000 Years (Interesting Concept) Consumers For Cable Choice (This Could Make TV Better) Crunchy Cons Menace in Europe National Summary Place A […]

The MSM, sitting on their fat butts in comfy offices in the U.S., would have us think Iraq is a tumbling house of cards. Oddly enough, journalists who go over there seem to have a different opinion. Among them is Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, whose March 17 column is “Fighting Smarter In Iraq.” He […]

Al Gore is at it again. This time, after promoting his forthcoming eco-freako home movie “An Inconvenient Truth” (why does every liberal think they are qualified to be a movie producer these days?) to a group of conservatives, Al claims he was bum rushed by free market types who had suddenly seen the light and […]

I was tipped to the ABC website report on the Iraq documents while listening to Rush Limbaugh just a few minutes ago. I have stated before that I can’t imagine what it would take now to convince the media and Democrats that they could have been premature (and frankly, dead wrong) about their declarations that […]

Rich Lowry has an interesting piece today over at National Review Online regarding what he calls “the non-McCain primary,” that is, the race to be the guy to take on McCain for the GOP nomination in 2007 & 2008. To Lowry’s thinking, the race boils down to two attractive presidential aspirants: Sen. George Allan from […]

It’s been a few years since I observed that scientists seem to find adult stem cells wherever they look. Well now Japanese researchers have harvested stem cells from human menstrual blood, according to a report just released at a medical conference. That’s not nearly as strange as it sounds, since it’s been known for some […]

Rich Lowry makes the right argument on illegal immigration: the empirical one. This is, ultimately, the only tack likely to withstand charges of racism and garner bipartisan support for serious immigration reform: President George Bush, a strong supporter of the guest-worker program, has long said that “family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.” We […]

That crazy Jim Hoft. He is actually suggesting that news organizations, like the AP, should consider including some facts along with their Bush-bashing rather than just picking up and relying on previous bogus stories they find at the top of their Google searches. What is he smokin’? Like that is ever gonna happen. But seriously, […]

No matter your political affiliation, it is hard to think of a more divisive and distressing issue than abortion. It looms in the background of every political race, every judicial confirmation hearing; forcing candidates to walk a gauntlet between zealots on both sides of the issue. During the Roberts hearings abortion assumed such importance that […]

It is impossible to arrive in New York and feel pessimistic. It is the only city in the world that demands and inspires you live up to your potential – and scorns you when you fail. But no matter what, one always, one begins one’s relationship with New York on a positive note. I certainly […]

A lot of attention has been given lately to President Bush’s most recent poll numbers. Just for the record, here is my take on the current batch of approval numbers. I will also attempt, in this same post, to bring in the subject of comparisons being made of Russ Feingold’s effort to censure President Bush […]

Today, I will not be available for most of the day and RWN will have guest bloggers filling my shoes. Those guest bloggers will be: Lorie Byrd from Byrd Droppings & Polipundit. Cassandra from Villainous Company. Michael Fumento from C-Log & Michael Fumento.com. Patrick Hynes from Ankle Biting Pundits & The Channel Changer. Right Thinking […]

“Many months after the fall of Baghdad, a number of senior Iraqi officials in coalition custody continued to believe it possible that Iraq still possesed WMD capability hidden away somewhere. Saddam attempted to convince one audience that they were gone while simultaneously convincing another that Iraq still had them,” the report says. Senior Iraqi officials […]

Paul Craig Roberts, the lunatic paleocon who used to work for the Wall Street Journal and in the Reagan Administration, is speculating that Bush is going to stage a nuclear attack on America so that he’ll have a good excuse to nuke Iran. Here’s the latest from Roberts’ nutty new column: ‘Is another 9/11 in […]

The left-side of the blogosphere is ratcheting up the pressure on the Democrats in the Senate to support Russ Feingold’s censure motion and it’s having an affect: “Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the third U.S. senator to back a move to censure President Bush over the warrantless wiretapping program. She joins Sen. Tom Harkin […]

Over at Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson seems to be interpreting these comments by radical Islamic psychopath Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a less-than-subtle admission that he intends to build nuclear weapons and launch them at Israel. I think he’s right… “Our enemies on the one hand oppose our nation’s acquisition of nuclear energy and on the […]

This probably isn’t representative of the views of most people on the left, but the sentiment was just so outrageous that I just couldn’t bear to pass it up… Odin2005: It’s things like this that make me support population control. Theocons have no respect to the enviroment, Gawd told them to multiply like rabbits and […]

You don’t even have to go beyond this short, first paragraph of a piece at Reuters to see exactly what’s wrong with the way the media covers Iraq: “Three months after it was elected, Iraq’s parliament was finally sworn in on Thursday but the 20-minute session was an empty formality that did nothing to break […]

Domestic Feingold Accuses Democrats Of ‘Cowering’ Over Censure Issue Tarheel Terrorist Tried To Kill Americans Out Of “Love For Allah” Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush & Republicans Pew Poll: Bush Approval 33% Harris To Stay In Race For Senate Seat Lawyers for Libby Subpoena Reporter and New York Times (Free NYT Reg Req) Lots Of Abu […]

Here’s an absolutely priceless exchange from a sadly all too typical (See here, here, & here) Democratic Underground thread called “Americans are among the stupidest people in the world.” antifaschits: for myself, I am thinking about emigration. slackmaster: Do you think emigrating will make you smarter? antifaschits: it will keep me out of a Haliburton […]

There is no Republican up on Capitol Hill more disliked by his own GOP brethren than John McCain. That’s why, despite the size of his fan club in the mainstream media, McCain seems rather unlikely to capture the party’s nomination for President in 2008. Here’s a short, but sweet primer that may help explain why […]