Author: John Hawkins

Question: “How long will it take for the Palestinians to self-destruct once the Israelis leave Gaza?” — Bill_Berditzman Answer: By your question, I take it that you think they haven’t already achieved self-destruction. =) Personally, I think they’ve long since passed that point. They have a “death cult” culture, a non-functional government, a non-functional economy, […]

Question: “Is it appropriate for Senators to ask judicial nominees their views on specific legal issues and/or is it proper for nominees to answer such questions? I’ve gone round and round with XRLQ on this one, and would like to see your take, John.” — Spoons Answer: Traditionally, Senators haven’t asked about specific legal issues, […]

Question: “Given that the Right keeps gaining strength in the House, Senate and of course has the White House and now with a Supreme Court vacancy probably being filled by a strong conservative, do you feel we are heading to a one party system?” — libliever Answer: Although everything is tilting towards the GOP right […]

Today is Q&A Friday #19 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 […]

Oh, yeah the Feds really have a handle on airport security. You’re waiting in line forever, they’re actually checking grandpa’s shoes, and the screeners are feeling up women’s breasts to make sure they’re not carrying weapons. Meanwhile, they’re hiring a guy who calls himself “The Arabic Assassin” to handle the baggage: “When Bassam Khalaf raps, […]

Was Valerie Plame a covert agent when her name originally came out? I think this should settle the whole debate once and for all: “Wolf Blitzer: But the other argument that’s been made against you is that you’ve sought to capitalize on this extravaganza, having that photo shoot with your wife, who was a clandestine […]

As a general rule, I don’t like to tear into other bloggers — uh, scratch that — I don’t like to tear into other conservative bloggers. After all, there are already hordes of liberal bloggers out there and that’s their shtick. But when I read something as bigoted, offensive, and just plain ignorant as this […]

“No, the day after a strong jobs report (search), The New York Times was bemoaning it would most likely keep interest rates ratcheting upward. I’m not saying that isn’t true. But would it kill us in the media to turn it around? That interest rates are going higher, precisely because the economy’s going higher? Would […]

Janet Granholm, the Canadian Governeur of Michigan, thinks those who accuse her of being an advocate for high taxation are traitors: Last month the state legislature buried the Democratic Governor’s top legislative priority, a grandiose proposal to raise taxes on insurance companies, banks and thousands of small businesses that private studies said would have cost […]

Back in year 2000, California voters determined they wanted to ban same-sex marriages in the Golden State. And the margin on that referendum – Prop. 22 – predictably was razor thin (at least in liberal media parlance): 61.4-38.6. But modern-day Democrats never have been known to show too much regard for, well, you know, democracy. […]

This Rove/Plame/Wilson scandalette is following the familiar pattern of every such brouhaha we’ve had in the Bush administration from Halliburton to Abu Ghraib to Tom DeLay to Gitmo. These are the twelve stages that we have come to recognize and expect. 1. Something comes out in the press that looks terribly damaging. 2. The media […]

A couple of days ago, I posted a “let’s wait and see” type post about Karl Rove…and I would be content to do that. Unfortunately, prominent Democrats are understandably, but also irresponsibly, calling for Karl Rove to be fired and the press has already gone into a Valerie Plame related feeding frenzy. This puts the […]

Boy, these Supreme Court retirement rumors just won’t stop! The latest one comes via ProfessorBainbridge: “I got an email today from a reliable source opining that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire this summer if, but only if, CJ Rehnquist steps down. The theory is that Stevens will be willing to let Bush fill his […]

Lefty blogger Chris Bowers from MyDD has done a long & thoughtful post on the way the blogosphere breaks down ideologically based on Blogads traffic rankings. Here’s the crux of the data collection that Bowers has done: “For the survey, I looked at the two hundred and fifty most trafficked, politically focused blogs on the […]

If you’re not reading my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, you’re missing out on some of the best material the blogosphere has to offer. For example, here are just some of the headlines at CG today: — Greg Gutfeld just destroys some of the other bloggers at the Huffington Post for being soft on terrorism — […]

A serious duty has fallen on President Bush: he must find a new Supreme Court Justice to replace judgette Sandra Day O’Connor. There is hardly anything more important in politics than who are running the Supreme Court, because they can make up laws and take away rights as long as they can get a couple […]

Know what’s ironic? On the one hand we have local governments across the country rubbing their hands together with glee at the prospect of confiscating the homes of American citizens. Meanwhile, as American citizens are set to lose their homes, we have the government agencies giving home loans to illegal immigrants: “Javier and Araceli Garcia, […]

Generally, I’m a staunch supporter of the police, but this quota system that’s being implemented in Montana is a disaster waiting to happen: “For motorists wondering whether police are working on a quota system, an answer can be found in Montana. A new policy requires state troopers to stop at least one vehicle an hour, […]

At least for the moment, the shakedown artists at the NAACP appear to have given up on fleecing the taxpayers for reparations via the government. So instead, they’re going to target businesses with their reparations swindle. The first step consists of NAACP allies in government forcing businesses to provide the ammo needed for this scheme: […]

“The Census Bureau’s latest projection of population shifts, the first in eight years, shows a dramatic movement from the North to Southern and Western states over the next 30 years. The study points to a political movement as well. Heavily Democratic states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Michigan will go on losing […]

Thanks in large part to a Fark link to my Debunking 8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq article, Right Wing News had its best day ever yesterday. At the end of the day, RWN finished with 59,071 daily unique visitors and 74,296 pageviews. Mucho thanks to Fark, Hugh Hewitt, Polipundit, Power Line, Betsy’s […]

Blogging isn’t all fun and games and writing articles that bring in 30,000+ readers just from Fark alone. It also means that you get cranky, incoherent, and yet still wildly entertaining hate mail from liberals. Now, some bloggers don’t share their hate mail, they don’t put it out there. But, being the compassionate conservative that […]

Myths debunked in this column include: 1) George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 2) A study released in March of 2003 by a British medical journal, the Lancet, showed that 100,000 civilians had been killed as a result of the US invasion. 3) The Bush Administration claimed Iraq was responsible for […]

I’ll grant you that Joe Wilson is a lying partisan, publicity hog. I’ll also grant you that Valerie Plame’s “secret identity” wasn’t exactly secret (see here & here) before she was “outed” by Novak’s column. Furthermore, despite all the “super secret squirrel” stuff we’ve heard about Valerie Plame, she isn’t exactly camera shy. Also, for […]

“President Bush needs to keep two facts in mind as he looks to replace retiring Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor (and, should he step down, Chief Justice William Rehnquist). The first is that he can win confirmation of almost any conceivable nominee for the High Court, screams of protest by Democrats and hostile media […]

“The post-9/11 world is not primarily a war between civilisations — the West vs Islam — but a war within one civilisation: ours. It’s a long existential struggle between those who believe that Western values — or, to be more precise, the values of the English-speaking world — are one of the great blessings of […]

At The Corner, they’re discussing illegal immigration and John Derbyshire noted that he received emails from “numerous readers” saying: “It’s nice to talk about deporting illegal immigrants, but how on earth would we do it? There are millions of them. Get real.” “How on earth would we do it?” It’s actually much easier than most […]

*** It goes without saying that all the nominees being mentioned are qualified to be on the Supreme Court and would be originalists and strict constructionists unless I specifically say otherwise. Also, since in the end it’s one man’s call, there’s always the possibility that the President will select a candidate who is not even […]

Charmaine Yoest in London via Powerline says the many of the Londoners she has interviewed just hours after the terrorist attack on their subway system think the bombings are Tony Blair’s fault: “I interviewed three very ordinary, normal teenaged English Muslims… All three seem to be parroting Muslim talking points: ‘The bombings were a conspiracy […]

Yesterday, all across the left side of the blogosphere, willfully ignorant liberal bloggers were seizing upon the attacks in London as evidence that the “flypaper theory” is bogus — which just goes to show what a poor grasp of foreign policy issues they have. Nobody has ever claimed that fighting Al-Qaeda in Iraq makes the […]