Author: John Hawkins

As far as I’m concerned, Kay Bailey Hutchison was out of line here, especially when she referred to perjury as a “technicality:” SEN. HUTCHISON: Tim, you know, I think we have to remember something here. An indictment of any kind is not a guilty verdict, and I do think we have in this country the […]

Today, Michelle Malkin’s new book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild (Hardcover), goes on sale. I can tell you for a fact that it’s a great read because Michelle asked me to take a look at a draft of the book a few months back and make some suggestions. When I received an autographed copy of […]

I first saw this story when it happened five or six years ago. It was so unbelievable that I’d clipped the story for discussion when I cover freedom of religion in my classes. A five-year old boy had drawn a picture of Jesus for an assignment in Kindergarten to draw a poster about how to […]

Harriet Miers Miers Backed Race, Sex Quotas. She Made Diversity A Texas Bar Goal. (Gag — Free WAPO Reg Req) Insiders See Hint Of Miers Pullout Claim: Some Republican Senators In The Judiciary Committee Are Planning To Vote Against Miers Miers Failed To Mention Ethical Concerns In Sweetheart Land Deal Miers’ Answer Raises Questions. Legal […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this to be an open thread. Have a great week-end! Althouse The Baseball Crank The Channel Changer Danielle Crittenden: The Right’s Woman Problem. It’s Not A Free Grope, But It’s Similar Daily Pundit Harriet Miers’s Blog!!! Rich Lowry: The Miers Nomination Might Be The Most Catastrophic Political Miscalculation […]

Question: “Given how big a deal President Bush makes out of “staying the course” and “not looking at polls”, do you honestly believe there is any realistic chance that the Miers nomination might be withdrawn, and if it is not withdrawn, do you want her to be rejected by the Senate, knowing that this may […]

Question: “Why is the Valerie Plame affair hanging in so long? The root of the investigation is that she was covert at the time that Robert Novak published his article. Her own supervisor has stated that she was not, so what is the issue, besides trying to smear President Bush?” — geoweeg “Here is my […]

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Question: Which of the following is the real reason President Bush refuses to go before the nation and commit us to a man-on-the-moon-style energy independence program, in which America vows to do what it takes to wean ourselves from fossil fuels in the next 10 years: 1. The thought hasn’t occurred to him. 2. He’s […]

Question: “I would like to know more about the UN wanting to take over the internet. To me, this is very disturbing. Can they actually do it? If so, how is this possible since it was invented by Al Gore?(I had to throw that in). Is there any way that we (bloggers, readers, the average […]

Question: “John – Have you got any good ideas what happened to the 9 Billion dollars that went missing in Iraq while Paul Bremer was in charge of the “Iraq Provisional Coalition”? — Rduke Answer: This is an old story, but, yes, I can tell you what happened. The money was spent on, “salaries, operating […]

Question: “Would you ever be interested in holding political office?” — oneisnotprime Answer: Like most people, I think I’d enjoy being a Governor, Congressman, Senator, or President. However, a guy like me, who’s not rich or famous, could never get that high in politics without doing years and years worth of Republican Party grunt work […]

Question: “Are there any shows on TV right now worth watching?” — maledicta Answer: Here are the TV shows I currently have TiVo set to record: Drawn Together Family Guy Firefly House Reno 911! Sealab 2021 The Simpsons South Park Surface That’s all the TV I watch these days, unless there is someone I particularly […]

Harriet Miers Byron York: The Miers Support Team: Gloomy And Demoralized. Now They’re Discussing Stopping Her Visits To The Senate Miers To End Her Counter-Productive Visits With Senators Miers Gives Wrong Dates In Questionnaire; Firm Was Sued During Period Omitted After the Home Run On Roberts, a White House Balk On Miers? (Free WAPO Reg […]

Today is Q&A Friday #25 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 […]

Lefty Mark Morford, whose columns always seem to read like he took one acid trip too many in high school, is more horrified, shocked, and outraged than a PETA member in a butcher shop. You’re probably thinking: “Nothing unusual about that, Hawkins. You know how these liberals are. They’re always shocked and outraged about something […]

Pity — and I mean that — the poor people at the Republican National Committee that have been tasked with trying to find positive articles to send out about the increasingly ludicrous Miers nomination. Today, they’ve sent out two Miers-related releases and both of them were noteworthy primarily because they were so lukewarm in their […]

Laughably, George Bush has called Harriet Miers, the “best person I could find“ for the job of Supreme Court justice. Of course, that suggests that he didn’t look very far. If you don’t believe that, let’s compare Harriet Miers not to the average person, not to the average lawyer, but to another lawyer, with no […]

On the season premiere of South Park last night, they poked a bit of fun at the slow response to Katrina, but they spent most of the show lampooning the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the media, and the hysteria over global warming. Early on, there was a particularly funny bit of media mockery that […]

“(G)uns are used more than twice as often defensively as criminally. When armed men broke into Susan Gonzalez’ house and shot her, she grabbed her husband’s gun and started firing. “I figured if I could shoot one of them, even if we both died, someone would know who had been in my home.” She killed […]

Hat tip to Steve Sack from the Minneapolis Star Tribune for the cartoon.

Harriet Miers The Supreme Court Nomination Of Harriet E. Miers Suffered Another Setback On Wednesday When The Republican And Democratic Leaders Of The Senate Judiciary Committee Asked Her To Resubmit Parts Of Her Judicial Questionnaire, Saying Various Members Had Found Her Responses, “Inadequate,” “Insufficient,” And “Insulting.” (Free NYT Reg Req) Miers Doesn’t Report Prior Business […]

This Spanish Judge sounds more like he’s trying to win plaudits on the cocktail circuit than get to the bottom of a “crime”: “A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a […]

The reaction on the right to the Harriet Miers nomination has ranged from tepid support, to bitter disappointment, to outrage and calls for Miers to withdraw. Here’s a sample of just some of the negative commentary on Miers from the right. Read all of the quotes here

For whatever reason, the number of people becoming infuriated at purely fictional racial slights seems to be on the rise. We have people raving that Bush hated black people because he couldn’t magically fix everything in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Then we saw William Bennett being accused of promoting “genocide” after saying that aborting […]

As someone who has been a frequent critic of George Bush’s illegal immigration and border security policies, I thought it was worth giving him credit for at least starting to talk tough on illegal immigration: “President Bush said yesterday that his goal is eventually to expel “every single” illegal alien from the United States as […]

Harriet Miers has filled out a Senate Questionnaire that gives more evidence that she was personally against abortion. In that same questionnaire, she also said that she opposes judicial activism. Should that change anyone’s mind? No, not one iota. Wondering why? Well, let me tell you a little story about a name that strikes terror […]

Harriet Miers Republican Senator Ensign: Miers Vote Too Big “Just To Trust” Bush Rep Senator David Vitter: “Like Many Others, I Have A Lot Of Questions And Some Concerns, Quite Frankly, With The Harriet Miers Nomination.” Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) And Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) Are Calling For The White House To Turn Over Internal Documents […]

— Is it inevitable that Harriet Miers will be confirmed if she makes it to the Senate? Not at all. In fact, with the furor over the Miers nomination still going strong and three weeks (or more) left until her confirmation hearings, Time says, “congressional Republicans are now sweating the Miers vote count and tell […]

One of the oddest stories that has come from the mainstream press in a while is this article which features a description of the contents of Karl Rove’s garage. Rove’s wife, Darby, raised the white garage door one morning last week to show journalists outside the million-dollar brick home that the deputy chief of staff, […]