Author: John Hawkins

Some infants have been stopped from boarding planes because their names have been the same or similar to that of terrorists. The parents then had to produce passports to prove their babies were not terrorists. Some say this is ridiculous and babies should not be scrutinized as terrorists. I say that this is the CRAZIEST […]

Domestic California: Two Men Believed To Have Been Planning September 11, 2005 Attack Arrested U.S. Was Warned Of Bin Laden Threat In 1996, Documents Show Roberts Unlikely To Face Big Fight. Many Democrats See Battle as Futile (Free WAPO Reg Req) Officer Says Pentagon Barred Sharing Pre-9/11 Qaeda Data With F.B.I. (Free WAPO Reg Req.) […]

“Like the March of Dimes’ victory against polio in the U.S., civil-rights organizations can claim victory as well. At one time, black Americans did not enjoy the same constitutional guarantees as other Americans. Now we do. Because the civil-rights struggle is over and won doesn’t mean that all problems have vanished within the black community. […]

Want to read a telling story about the nature of the left today in America? Somehow, I just knew you would ;) The Pentagon, along with the Washington Post got together and were going to sponsor a “Freedom Walk” on the anniversary of 9/11. What’s a “Freedom Walk,” you ask? Here’s a description from the […]

I’ve been interviewed again, this time at the National Journal’s Blogometer. Make sure to check out the interview, which is near the bottom of the page, or you may REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE…well, assuming you do regret it and the earth is hit by a giant meteor right that very second…or […]

In an effort to be fair and balanced, Right Wing News has decided to present some quotations from Cindy Sheehan, her family, and her supporters. Enjoy! “…We should call her “Mother Sheehan”. We should never call her Cindy; I don’t know her. “Mother Sheehan” is her title, and expresses her ceremonial status as a bereaved […]

With the fourth anniversay of the hot war between al Qaeda and the West approaching, it is interesting to see how al Qaeda’s strategy and objectives have evolved since the United States committed to engaging in open warfare. The Word Unheard points us to an article in Spiegel Online by a Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein, […]

The Hotline’s Blogometer asks a rhetorical question: “If Both Sides Hate You, Are You Necessarily Doing Something Right?” The answer to the question is usually no, no, no! Sure, there may a good reason for everybody to hate certain people & things like Nazis, roaches, & Pauly Shore movies, but if you’re talking about politics, […]

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Foreign Iraq Constitution Deadline Extended One Week Gas Prices Around The World. Think You Pay A Lot For Gas? Bali Bomb-Maker Dies In Shoot-Out (Applause) Domestic Cindy Sheehan’s Husband Files For Divorce Forecasters See Drop In Budget Deficit Roberts Memo Shows School Prayer Sympathy Massachusetts May Require Mental Screenings For Returning Soldiers (That’s Some Welcome […]

“Syrinx: The Conspiracy Is Real And It Must Be Stopped. Now tell me again why “conspiracy theories” are out of bounds? If conspiracies don’t exist, why are there federal laws against them, and laws against them in every state? There most definitlely is a conspiracy in place, ongoing, that is transforming our country into a […]

“Cindy Sheehan’s makeshift protest camp near the president’s ranch in Crawford is a brilliant piece of political theater, and it’s beginning to make people say things they almost surely know they shouldn’t say about a grieving mother, but just can’t quite help themselves. One blogger over at redstate.org used a term relating to prostitution to […]

Over at the WAPO, this article about whether the Democrats are too nice for their own good, comes from such a skewed perspective, that it almost sounds like a Scrappleface parody. There are a few token Republicans quoted, but the whole piece is chock full of Democratic hatchet men bemoaning the fact that the Donks […]

By replacing an aggressive, anti-America, pro-terrorist regime with a democratic society in Iraq that’s capable of handling its own internal security. That’s victory. But, what about… The insurgency? We should try to beat them down as much as possible before we leave, but it isn’t necessary to wipe them out before we leave. Instead, the […]

“Republicans took over Congress in 1994 promising in the “Contract with America” to cut taxes, reduce federal spending and eliminate unneeded bureaucracy. They’ve used the same message to retain majorities in both chambers for all but a couple of the succeeding years. Despite the GOP majority and its promises, federal spending – including wasteful pork […]

Foreign Chemical Weapons Factory Found Iraq. It’s Believed To Have Been Created After The Invasion Iran Boasts They ‘Kept EU Talking’ While It Finished Nuclear Plant Inside Iran’s Secret War for Iraq Bush Raises Option Of Using Force Against Iran Iraqi Leaders Race To Finish Draft Constitution Israel Begins Historic Gaza Withdrawal (Free WAPO Reg […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the reading material and consider this an open thread… Conservative Grapevine Conservative Outpost It Comes In Pints? Moonbat Central A North American Patriot Power Line Blog News PunditGuy Roger Ebert’s Brutally Funny Review Of “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” Richard Miniter Sisu Tinkerty Tonk Varifrank

Somehow, I can’t get too excited about the big Able Danger scandal: “A. A SOCOM unit, run by Gen. Shelton himself, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, identifies Atta and the Brooklyn cell as a threat as early as 1999. (It doesn’t hurt that the unit has a cool sounding name, too.) B. A year […]

The nationwide campaign to drum American Indians out of the public square chalked up another win this week as Norad announced it would stop using Indian names to describe its air defense exercises. This follows last week’s decision by the NCAA to ban Indian mascots from its college sports tournaments. “Naming things after Indians gives […]

“Once, after I had given a talk on the Constitution at a law school, a student approached and asked whether I thought the Constitution prevented a state from abolishing marriage. I said no, the Constitution assumed that the American people were not about to engage in despotic insanities and did not bother to protect against […]

Cindy Sheehan has gotten an enormous amount of fawning press coverage of late and she’s in heavy demand on the left. They want her to do speeches, appearances; you have to figure that the donations are just pouring into the anti-war group she co-founded, “Gold Star Families For Peace,” and can a book deal be […]

Just for the heck of it (It’s kind of a slow news day), I thought it might be worth taking a moment to address an argument that seems resurgent of late, that the Civil War wasn’t really about slavery. Instead the claim is that it was really a states’ rights issue. The reasoning here goes […]

Domestic Oklahoma Man Held Before Boarding Plane With Bomb ‘Able Danger’ Intel Could Rewrite 9/11 History The Family Of Fallen Soldier Casey Sheehan Pleads With Cindy Sheehan To Stop Her Political Grandstanding Bush Says He Sympathizes With Protester President Adds That Pulling Out Of Iraq Now Would Hurt U.S. Security (Free WAPO Reg Req) NARAL […]

Let’s hear it for the latest socialized medicine success! “QUEENSLAND’S Government has been accused of forcing more than 100,000 people to languish on “secret” waiting lists for surgery at hospitals statewide. Documents tendered to the Morris inquiry today revealed 108,571 patients in July last year were yet to receive an outpatients appointment, to determine if […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 215 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “Favorite People On The Right.” Representatives from 52 blogs responded. All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-12 unranked selections and were allowed to choose anybody on the right or […]

12) Dick Cheney: Cheney is pugnacious, experienced, and hawkish. W. could not have had a better VP to complement him. 11) Tom Tancredo: I admire his leadership on the illegal alien issue. 10) Walter Williams: He’s such a brilliant, crisp, clean thinker who can make complex subjects easily understandable. 9) Ann Coulter: As witty as […]

Kevin Drum over at Political Animal wrote a short post speculating on 10 reasons why people won’t vote for Democrats. That was a good idea — such a good idea that I decided to give it a try. Do keep in mind that I don’t necessarily agree with these reasons and that some of them […]

Christopher Hitchens has yet another brilliantly contrarian pice in Salon on the Iraq war. He asks the most critical question of the current time: does the antiwar side want us to lose in Iraq? How can so many people watch this as if they were spectators, handicapping and rating the successes and failures from some […]

Thanks goes out to the The National Journal’s Hotline for doing a nice piece on the Conservative Blog Advertising Network I’ve put together for Blogads. By the way, as the column notes, I do now have the ability to hand out invitations to Blogads (which is an invitation only advertising network). So, if you want […]

Foreign Four US Troops Killed; Iraqis Spar On Constitution Terrorists Kidnap Senior Iraqi Official Baghdad Mayor Is Ousted by a Shiite Group and Replaced (Free NYT Reg Req) Britain And US Warn Iran Over Links With Iraq Rebels Domestic For The Year: They Army Is 11% Behind Its Recruiting Goal, The Reserve Is 18% Behind, […]