Author: John Hawkins

Is America Better Off Being Feared Or Loved? (April 1, 2002) The Two Year Old’s Tantrum Over The Election That Never Ends (July 1, 2002) Confessions Of An Isolationist Wannabe (August 21, 2002) A Message From The Citizens Of The ‘Great Satan’ To The Rest Of The World (August 28, 2002) Reagan 101 (Feb 6, […]

The Top 125 Political Websites On The Net Version 5.0 The 3rd Annual Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States: The 2004 Edition The Third Annual Warblogger Awards For 2004 My Favorite 40 Bloggers: Second Quarter 2005 The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004 My Top 50 Songs Of All-Time The 2nd Annual 10 […]

Star Trek & “Death By Prosperity” Star Trek’s Prime Directive And Conservatism The 10 Greatest Star Trek Characters Of All-Time Star Trek Was Bad TV? BAH!

The Top 6 Candidates For The GOP Nomination In 2008 Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee A Quick Look At The Candidates For Election 2008 Hillary In 2008 — How Tough Will She Be? 2008 Analysis: It’s Wide Open On The Republican Side

An Interview With Ann Coulter (June 26, 2003) RWN’s Ann Coulter Interview #2 (October 22, 2004) An Interview With Milton Friedman (September 16, 2003) The David Frum Interview (January 27th, 2004) RWN’s 2nd Victor Davis Hanson Interview (January 9, 2005) The G. Gordon Liddy Interview (December 22nd, 2003) An Interview With David Limbaugh About His […]

Pro-War Conservatives Predicted Iraq Would Help Spread Democracy In The Middle East The Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell’s ‘The Vision Of The Anointed’ RWN’s Favorite Donald Rumsfeld Quotes Great Patriotic Quotes If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People Version 3.0 RWN’s Favorite George S. Patton Quotes Quotes Of Note From Every […]

If The Media Treated Basketball Games Like They Treat The War On Terror The Canadian Menace Canadian Man Mildly Offended That America Isn’t Threatening To Invade Canada Why I Am A Democrat If Planned Parenthood Wrote The Next Harry Potter Book… The RWN Real-Estate Sale The RWN Idiot Test Americans Don’t Like Soccer Because It’s […]

This morning, I did an interview via phone with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The full interview will be going live on Tuesday of next week, but since everybody is talking about the judicial filibuster deal that was cut last night, I thought I should go ahead and release […]

As a society, we have a tendency to define deviancy downward. The things that are shocking to one generation end up being accepted in a matter-of-fact manner by their grandchildren. When that happens, it leads to the sort of bizarre situation we’re seeing in Eugene Oregon: The Human Rights Commission’s quest to include gender identity […]

Here’s the short version of the deal that was cut on judicial filibusters — at least what’s being admitted publicly at the moment: 1) Judges William Myers and Henry Saad get tossed over the side. 2) 7 Republicans, John McCain (AR), John Warner (VA), Mike DeWine (OH), Susan Collins (ME), Olympia Snowe (ME), Lindsey Graham […]

When Robert Mugabe took the lands of white farmers five years ago to redistribute to sqatters and peasants (and many well-connected blacks as well), it caused an agricultural collapse that has repeatedly brought the country to the brink of famine. Now the ripples are spreading. Agricultural exports were the main source of foriegn exchange; now […]

“I’m sorry, sir,” The restaurant manager apologized, “but I’m going to have to ask you to leave.” I folded my arms. “I see. Is it because I’m wearing nothing but my undershorts?” “You’re getting warm,” he replied. I didn’t want to do anything for my “birthday”. Personally, I find the act of celebrating the exact […]

Thomas Paine was an enormously important figure in American history chiefly because of a pamphlet that he wrote called “Common Sense” which was released in early 1776 and is widely credited with whetting America’s appetite for revolution. Here are some of the best quotes from “Common Sense”… “Society in every state is a blessing, but […]

During his chat with Tim Russert, Howard Dean inadvertently revealed the truth about liberals: that they’re closet socialists. Here’s Dean and Russert going back and forth about self-admitted socialist Bernie Sanders: MR. RUSSERT: In your home state of Vermont, there’s a vacancy for the United States Senate about to occur. Bernie Sanders, the congressman from […]

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words… Hat tip to The Corner for the pic.

“No one can devise a formula for getting rich. But I can devise a formula for getting poor. Don’t work. Convince yourself that your life reflects the decisions of others and not yours. Be the perennial victim. This is the toll that the welfare state has taken…It introduced a culture of poverty. Most Americans, regardless […]

You’re going to be shocked shocked to read this, but when you buy a prisoner a bus ticket and tell him to transfer himself to another prison, sometimes he’ll decide to run. When federal prison officials decided to transfer drug dealer Dwayne Fitzen from one prison to another, they bought him a one-way bus ticket […]

Since Friday’s announcement by a Sunni Muslim cleric that Baghdad’s Sunni Mosques would close for three days to protest killings blamed on Iraqi security forces, consumers said they’re struggling to find alternate sources for weaponry. “My children and I stood on line at a back-alley dealer for seven hours just to buy mortar rounds,” said […]

“Team America: World Police” is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen and it was put together by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park”. After watching the movie on DVD last night, I decided to put together the best quotes from the movie. Do keep in mind that this wasn’t […]

When there’s an election coming up, you hear a lot of talk about how liberals “support the troops” and in some cases, it’s true. There are certainly liberals out there who respect the bravery, sacrifice, and risks our troops take to keep this country protected from its enemies. However, the ugly truth is that there […]

Because of the battle over judicial filibusters, there has been a lot of talk about Abe Fortas, who is commonly considered to have been the only judge ever filibustered prior to 2003. But when you actually examine the Fortas debate in the Senate back in 1968, what you find is that it bears very little […]

Tom Delay’s prosecutor gives a public speech in which he calls his quarry a bully. The speech raised money for local Democrats. Details: Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who denies partisan motives for his investigation of a political group founded by Republican leader Tom DeLay, was the featured speaker last week at a Democratic […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Bush is hopeful the recent Darth Vader comparisons he’s experienced during the past month will soon overtake previous comparisons to Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and other ruthless dictators known for murder, genocide, torture and oppression. “The President is hopeful that his image will continue to soften during and after the premiere […]

“Mace Rumsfeld, how can you justify the attack on Geonosis when there was no attack by them against us first?” asked a reporter. A low rumbling was heard, and all the press grasped at their throats and fell dead to the ground. “These press conferences take too long,” Mace Rumsfeld grumbled. * * * * […]

Variations of this lame “we think Bush is a liar so the media should get a pass when it screws up” defense of Newsweek have been showing up all over place. Here’s the general thrust of this “argument” from Bill Press at the Huffington Post: “Newsweek relied on faulty intelligence to write a magazine article. […]

Howard Dean in 2004, on Osama bin Laden: I’ve resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials. Howard […]

Say what you want about Donald Trump, the man made a name for himself (and a fortune) building snazzy skyscrapers and he has the right idea about rebuilding the Twin Towers: “New York property tycoon Donald Trump unveiled his design for “bigger, stronger and better” twin towers to replace the World Trade Center originals destroyed […]

From a conversation I had yesterday morning with another blogger on instant messenger, the chat was edited just a bit for clarity’s sake and to clean up the grammar: Blogger X: Remind me again why we want to change the Senate rules in a way that would prevent Republicans from blocking liberal nominees in a […]

“Almost twenty years ago President Bush declared the War on Drugs. I was present at a high level strategy meeting between representatives of Federal Law Enforcement, DOD, and the State Department regarding the urgency of sealing the Mexican border to stop drug smuggling. When DOD stated that they were capable of detecting and interdicting any […]

As many as 25 people died and dozens more were injured during riots in Afghanistan today which erupted over what one Muslim cleric called “the U.S. media’s desecration-by-mispelling” of the name of Islam’s most holy book. Indeed, American editors have failed to reach consensus on how to render the holy book’s name. Some spell it […]