Author: John Hawkins

With Halloween coming up, a lot of people will be looking for scary movies to watch this week-end. So, with that in mind, here are 20 horror movies, that get the Right Wing News seal of approval….well, you know, such as it is — we are talking about horror movies here. Alien Aliens The Amityville […]

I’m not sure when the New York Times starting doing articles on the blogger reactions to stories, but they linked the post immediately below this one about the Scooter Libby Indictment. Right Wing News made the WAPO and the New York Times on the same day, for two different posts: who’d a “thunk” it?

I caught the whole Fitzgerald press conference and here’s all I have to say about it for the moment. #1) Last week, I said that: “If there are any charges, my guess is that they’d be a result of someone forgetting that old maxim: “The cover-up is worse than the crime.” In other words, there […]

In Australia, the police are actually being urged to treat wife beaters differently based on their religion: “POLICE are being advised to treat Muslim domestic violence cases differently out of respect for Islamic traditions and habits. Officers are also being urged to work with Muslim leaders, who will try to keep the families together. Women’s […]

I wasn’t planning to do any other posts on the Harriet Miers nomination because — and I admit it — I have beaten this dead horse so hard that there’s nothing left but a pulpy, red, spot on the ground mixed with a few cracked horse teeth. But, I did want to take a moment […]

RWN got a brief mention in a WAPO column on the Harriet Miers withdrawl called: “Power of the Punditocracy“. Right Wing News has a picture of a dancing Snoopy at the top of the page: “First of all, thank God! I cannot even begin to tell you how happy this makes me. In fact, I […]

You’ll be shocked, shocked to read this, but it seems the great man of populist integrity is, at his heart, as much of a flithy capitalist whore as anyone. “…Michael Moore likes to portray himself as a working-class man of the people, but a new book exposes him as a “corporate criminal, environmental menace and […]

“Though I grow weary of pointing it out, let’s do it again. Let’s examine some numbers readily available from the Census Bureau’s 2004 Current Population Survey and ask some questions. There’s one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only 13.7 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor. There’s […]

Domestic Lawyers in the C.I.A. Leak Case Said Thursday That They Expected I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief Of Staff, To Be Indicted On Friday, Charged With Making False Statements To The Grand Jury (Free NYT Reg Req) Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Today Called For Senate Hearings To Examine The Reasons […]

(This will be at the top of the page all day, so scroll down for updates). Update #1: First of all, thank God! I cannot even begin to tell you how happy this makes me. In fact, I actually whooped so hard when I heard she withdrew that I scared the dog. He was looking […]

Oh boy, is this ever rich” “NAME THE LIBERAL HYPOCRITE” QUIZ From Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles In Liberal Hypocrisy, by Peter Schweizer Who says that conservatives are racist because they don’t support affirmative action but has an abysmal record of hiring blacks? a. Barbra Streisand b. Michael Moore c. Al […]

Yesterday, thanks to the fine folks at World Ahead Publishing, I was able to participate in a teleconference with Juanita Broadrick and Kathleen Willey, fresh off of their visit to the Clinton Library. It was interesting to hear what both of them had to say and it was pretty clear that they both intend to […]

Here are the 15 picks that I made for the Right-Of-Center Bloggers Decide Who Should Rule The World article that I posted Tuesday. Alan Greenspan Antonin Scalia Ariel Sharon Bill Gates Dick Cheney Hamid Karzai John Howard Margaret Thatcher Milton Friedman Newt Gingrich Condi Rice Thomas Sowell Tommy Franks Walter Williams Paul Wolfowitz

Every so often in our nation’s history we adopt a policy of strict isolationism due to our fear and ignorance. It is once again time for such fear and ignorance. “If it ain’t happening in American borders, we don’t care anymore.” It’s time to admit the obvious: the rest of the world hates us. So, […]

Harriet Miers USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll: By 43%-42%, Those Surveyed Say The Senate Shouldn’t Confirm Miers. That’s The First Time A Plurality Has Opposed The Confirmation Of Any High Court Nominee Over The Past Two Decades. Harriet Miers Turns In Her Updated Questionnaire To The Senate Late Concerned Women For America, The Nation’s Largest Public Policy […]

1) But Harriet Miers is pro-life! That means she’ll vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. The nominee’s personal views should have no bearing on how she rules in the court room. But, even if they did, there are many cases the court will decide other than Roe v. Wade and ideologically, Harriet Miers appears to […]

This is just beautiful. On “Hannity and Colmes,” Sean Hannity was debating Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and made reference to some quotes, probably these quotes: “If you don’t believe … Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn’t vote for me.” — John Kerry, USA Today on 2/13/03 “I will be voting […]

Oh, great. I’m sure this will really help out the cause for those of us who oppose gay marriage: “The Ku Klux Klan plans to rally in Austin to support the gay marriage amendment set for the Nov. 8 ballot. The rally planned on the steps of city hall the Saturday before the election will […]

Perhaps because they were so intent on sticking it to their hated nemesis, Chimpy Mcbushhitler, CNN buried the lede in an article on some very depressing poll numbers for Republicans. Here’s how they began the piece: “A majority would vote for a Democrat over President Bush if an election were held this year, according to […]

As part of a third White House strategy to prop up the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, President George Bush announced today that Miss Miers is not “intellectually burdened” with detailed knowledge of the opinions of legal scholars regarding the Constitution. “Justice Harriet Miers will read the Constitution like I would,” said the president. […]

Harriet Miers Senators in G.O.P. Voice New Doubt on Court Choice (Free NYT Reg Req) Conservative Group to Broadcast TV Ad Opposing Miers Bush Refusal To Provide Miers Data Raises Confirmation Hurdle Speeches By Miers Scrutinized For Insights Judiciary Questions Dobson, Bauer on Miers Conservatives Escalate Opposition To Miers (Free WAPO Reg Req) LexisNexis Search […]

Spike Lee has apparently decided to hitch a ride on the same crazy train Louis Farrakhan has been riding over the levees in New Orleans: “Declaring “it’s not far-fetched,” movie director Spike Lee affirmed on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, that he believes Louis Farakhan’s allegation that a levee was destroyed […]

The BBC polled more than 15,000 people worldwide on whom they would want to lead a fantasy world government. The results were, particularly for conservatives, quite disturbing with people like Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Kofi Annan, and George Soros making it into the top 11. So, in order to get a different perspective, Right Wing […]

Of course, it goes without saying that there’s no way to definitively know whether the nomination of Harriet Miers is going to be withdrawn. However, there are now some signs that the Harriet Miers debacle may be drawing to a close. First off, there was a story in the Washington Times this week-end that suggested […]

“But the better solution to the huge increase in federal spending would be a constitutional amendment to hold the growth of federal spending to specific percentages of revenue unless there is a supermajority override by both houses of Congress. It is not a new idea–Delaware, for example, passed a constitutional amendment in 1980, when I […]

I just got a fundraising e-mail from the Democrats trying to use Tom DeLay’s mug shot against him. So, they have this whole letter bad-mouthing him, and there he is, smiling and looking like the nicest guy in the world. Picture from fundraising e-mail. I never had much of an opinion of Tom Delay before, […]

Harriet Miers Claim: The White House Is Trying To Develop An Exit Strategy On The Miers Nomination & Has Begun Vetting Other Nominees Senators Say Harriet Miers Lacks The Votes Needed To Be Confirmed Arlen Specter: James Dobson May Be Required To Testify Before The Judiciary Committee Two New Conservative Groups Form To Fight The […]

Just when you think the situation in Britain can’t get any more ridiculous, you read something like this: British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, […]

Late last month, the fine folks at Holtzbrinck Publishers offered, via email, to send me a complimentary copy of Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World, the newest book by the high priest of America haters, Noam Chomsky. Now you may be wondering: “Why in the world would they send this book to a right-winger?” […]

The political bombs are now dropping down on the Miers nomination so quickly that a single “quote of the day” just isn’t enough to cover it. First of all, remember how Harriet Miers botched a question about the equal protection clause in the questionnaire she sent to the Senate? Well, here’s some more scathing commentary […]