Author: John Hawkins

“Allow me to sum up the homeland security strategy of America’s do-nothing brigade, led by the armchair generals at The New York Times and ACLU headquarters: First, bar law enforcement at all levels from taking race, ethnicity, national origin and religion into account when assessing radical Islamic terror threats. (But continue to allow the use […]

“I eagerly await the righteous indignation from the Plame Platoon about the spilling of secrets in wartime and its impassioned calls for an independent counsel to prosecute the leakers. And wait … And wait … I suspect it’ll be a long wait because the rule of thumb seems to be that although it’s treasonous for […]

Domestic Both Bill Clinton And Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Orders That Allowed Warrantless Searches The National Security Agency Accidentally Intercepted Some Domestic To Domestic Calls (Free NYT Reg Req) Sen. Pat Roberts Puzzled By Sen. John D. Rockefeller’s Concerns About The Bush Administration’s Warrantless Domestic Surveillance Program Since Rockefeller Privately Said He Supported The Program […]

“The ACLU invokes that famous phrase about a “wall of separation between church and state” — a phrase found nowhere in the Constitution but somehow considered to be part of Constitutional law. The Constitution forbad Congress from creating “an establishment of religion” but this was no mysterious concept known only to deep thinking legal scholars. […]

A little earlier today, I was fortunate enough to be invited by the Senate Republican Conference to be on a teleconference with Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) to talk about the “Patriot Act and DOD authorization bill.” Vitter didn’t end up making it, but John Cornyn (R-TX) replaced him. Cornyn started things […]

Over at the Democratic Underground, bobthedrummer has created a thread that polls the DUers on the following question: “Are we becoming fascist?” Here are the answers he received: That’s 4% of the “Reality Based Community” that actually understands that they’re living in a Democracy and 96% that thinks we live in a fascist state or […]

There are a lot of great gifts that you can receive this time of year, but the one thing no one wants shoved into their stocking is a lawsuit filed by an overzealous atheist or member of the ACLU! That’s why you should write out this disclaimer ,* helpfully provided by the Urban Family Council, […]

Several years of tracking a group of terror suspects in the Dallas area have paid off, as the FBI announced yesterday that they had arrested three members of the group after they enrolled in a local sewing class in a brazen attempt to obtain and learn how to use sewing scissors. There was a clear […]

Just days after the New York Times released classified information about eavesdropping by the NSA on Americans linked to international terrorists, President George Bush at a news conference today announced creation of a new website which allows people to voluntarily exclude their phone numbers and email addresses from NSA wiretap lists. The new National Do […]

Domestic Bush Vows Domestic Surveillance To Continue FBI Watched Activist Groups Suspected Of Being Tied To Terrorists Or That Had Links To Violent Or Disruptive Activities (Free Nyt Reg Req) Lawmakers Don’t Rule Out Patriot Act Deal Bush’s Approval Ratings Climb To 47% New York City Transit Workers Strike Clergy To Protest At White House. […]

That was then… “There sure are a lot of excited Democrats out there who think they’ve got George Bush and the GOP right where they want them. They think they’re going to get the Senate back, they think they’re going to get the House back, they think it’s going to be their year in 2006. […]

“I want senators from New York or Los Angeles or Las Vegas to go home and explain why these cities are safer without the renewal of the Patriot Act. It is inexcusable to say . . . ‘connect the dots’ and not give us a chance to do so. I happen to know there’s an […]

Honorable Mention: C_U_L8R: (Republicans are) Pure Concentrated Evil. false christians filled with hate and fear who desire to put the world in bondage and extract all the value and profit they can from their spoils of their pillage. May they all suffer unfortunate doom. Honorable Mention: Syrinx: The Conspiracy Is Real And It Must Be […]

I’m an excellent multitasker, and often times I do some of my best thinking when I’m doing four things at once. Such was the case the other day at work, the day of the Iraqi elections. Like everyone else I had been reading the news reports, and also the naysaying coming from the Democrats. I […]

“The Iraq election’s over, the media did their best to ignore it, and, judging from the rippling torsos I saw every time I switched on the TV, the press seem to reckon that that gay cowboy movie was the big geopolitical event of the last week, if not of all time. Yes, yes, I know: […]

Domestic Congressional Leaders Agree To $42 Billion In Budget Cuts (Free NYT Reg Req) Rice Defends NSA Eavesdropping (Free NYT Reg Req) Gonzales: War Powers Authorized Eavesdropping Sen. Reid Calls Us Congress ‘Most Corrupt In History’ But Denies Personal Wrongdoing Colin Powell: White House ‘Never Told’ Of WMD Doubts Trent Lott Unsure Whether He Will […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below and consider this to be an open thread. Ace Of Spades HQ The Anchoress Ankle Biting Pundits Betsy’s Page Tim Blair Byrd Droppings GOPINION Hugh Hewitt IMAO Instapundit JunkYardBlog Men’s News Daily Michelle Malkin Powerline Small Dead Animals Relapsed Catholic Mark Steyn PS: I still […]

Question: “What are your “what-if” scenarios for US involvement in any or all of the following situations? 1. Israeli strike on Iranian nuke facilities. 2. Iran nuking Israel. 3. Chinese invasion of Taiwan. 4. Total economic collapse in North Korea.” — Mike_M Answers: Out of order.. 2) The Iranians will — if we’re lucky — […]

Question: “Would you rather be trapped on a desert island with A)the collected written works of mankind but no net access, or B)no books but you have net access which lets read only your top 5 blogs, no posting or calling for help.” — oneisnotprime Answer: If you’re on a boring desert island, of course […]

Question: “Would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a teenager if possible? As a baby?” — oneisnotprime Answer: Even if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, it probably wouldn’t have prevented WW2 and it’s entirely possible that it could have made things worse. After all, Hitler did not rise […]

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Question: “How would you counter someone’s argument that the Bible is liberal and Jesus was a liberal? This counteracts the “religious right” theory. (A simple google search of jesus+liberal should yield enough hits that I don’t need to list their arguments here)” — Agent_Westy Answer: Oh yeah, Jesus would approve of abortion, gay marriage, and […]

Question: “Do you ever get sick of politics?” — Oneisnotprime Answer: Only once. During my college years, I started doing some work for the Mecklenberg County Republican Party. I stuffed envelopes, did some minor league work on some campaigns, and even manned the headquarters solo, answered phones, etc. I was new to politics back then, […]

Question: “Do you play video games much, and if so, what are your favorite games and/or systems?” — Clint Answer: At one time, I really loved gaming. Way back in the day in the arcade, I loved Heavy Barrel, NARC, and Samurai Showdown. I can also remember playing Nintendo games like All-Star Baseball and Tecmo […]

Questions: “Do you read every post on every string in RWN?” — Harry “Hawkins, have you ever thought of putting up an RSS feed of your stories? It would be a nice feature IMO.” — bjlillo “Do you plan on expanding RWN is any fashion? Thread formats? Bandwidth? Design? Navigation?” — D-Vega “1- Why did […]

Foreign Millions of Iraqis Vote in Relative Peace. Turnout Appears To Be Over 70% Iraq Mistakenly Freed Terror Leader Six Iraqis In Jordan Charged With Vote Rigging Domestic Bush Accepts McCain’s Ban on Torture (How Many Americans Will Die Because Of This?) Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits On Spying In U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say […]

Today is Q&A Friday #29 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 […]

How many thousands of Americans will end up dying because of this? “President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain’s call for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror. Bush said the agreement will “make it clear to the world that this government […]

Radley Balko over at his fine blog, The Agitator, responded to that last post on Cory Maye and you can read what he had to say here. After reading Radley’s post and few other comments about the Maye case around the blogosphere, let me add a few quick notes to what I said about the […]

Radley Balko over at his excellent blog, The Agitator, has managed to draw a lot of attention to the case of Cory Maye, a cop killer, scheduled to be executed for his crime. Unfortunately, Radley initially got a lot of important facts wrong about the case and although to his credit, he has corrected those […]