Author: John Hawkins

So, first we had the Jayson Blair scandal over at the New York Times. And then cBS had no choice but to fire a bunch of senior drones over the memo-gate scandal. While all that was going on, the ratings (circulation) for the liberal newspapers were crumbling, as they have been for over a generation. […]

There are a variety of reasons that I don’t read Andrew Sullivan anymore including the fact that he’s a pretend conservative who voted for John Kerry, is inconsistent, confused, intellectually dishonest, obsessed with gay marriage, & loathes religious people. But today, via via Glenn Reynolds (“SULLIVAN seems to think that I should be blogging more […]

There are a lot of ridiculous boondoggles that our Federal tax dollars have been wasted on in the past like pork projects in West Virginia named after Robert Byrd & “art” that consists of a crucifix dipped in urine. However, in terms of ridiculous things our tax dollars may be spent on, there’s going to […]

“At least Dan Rather’s forged documents didn’t get anybody killed, as the phony Newsweek story did. What is even more revealing — and appalling — about the mainstream media is that they are now circling the wagons around Newsweek, to protect it from criticism, just as they circled the wagons around Dan Rather last year, […]

“Still, the majority of the news professionals don’t believe bloggers deserve to be called journalists.” Why not? Because there’s no filter? They didn’t go to University of Missouri J School, didn’t go to Harvard, didn’t go to Columbia, they don’t have a degree? Why shouldn’t they be called journalists? They’re just sitting around telling people […]

Decorah, IA – The debris-strewn streets of this remote Midwestern hamlet remain under a tense 24-hour curfew tonight, following weekend demonstrations by rock- and figurine-throwing Lutheran farm wives that left over 200 people injured and leveled the Whippy Dip dairy freeze. The rioting appeared to be prompted, in part, by a report in Newsweek magazine […]

Jonathan V. Last wrote a fascinating article called, “The Case For Empire.” Last is the online editor for the The Weekly Standard and a blogger at Galley Slaves. [Note: I didn’t realize the article was written in 2002. I wondered why it was spoiler-free.] I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed Sci-Fi speculation, analysis, and present-day […]

The Huffington Post is the gift that keeps on giving to the rest of the blogosphere! Just take a look at this blog entry from “business futurist” Steven G. Brant, the man with the real scoop on the Newsweek “Qu’ran in the toilet” fiasco. Some people might chalk up Newsweek’s mistake to sloppy reporting or […]

“Muslims from Jalalabad to Indonesia are agitated because of a rumor the Qu’ran landed in a toilet. Fair enough. But the real problem is that the collective reaction of the West has been to prostrate ourselves apologizing for something that, even if true, did not result in anything worse than clogged plumbing. Has our perspective […]

This decision may lead to more short term dollars for the New York Times, but it’s a mistake that will cost them money and influence in the long-term: “NEW YORK The New York Times announced today that it will start charging for some online content, beginning in September. …Home-delivery subscribers will automatically receive TimesSelect membership. […]

Traffic wise, blogs certainly aren’t competitive yet with cable news, radio talk shows, or even bigger websites like the Drudge Report. Given that, why have blogs been able to break huge stories and how is it that they seem to be getting so much attention from the mainstream media? My theory has always been that […]

Pajamas Media, the brainchild of Marc Danziger, Charles Johnson, & Roger L. Simon, has got the blogosphere talking. There are lots of big name bloggers involved, blogger syndication is in the works, and then there’s the ad revenue. In order to find out a little bit more about the hottest project in the blogosphere before […]

While there has been an enormous amount of discussion about the nuclear option and judicial filibusters, one thing that hasn’t been discussed is the poor political strategy of the Democrats throughout this whole fight. This hasn’t come into clear focus because the nuclear option hasn’t been used as of yet. But, given that Frist is […]

Hat tip to WILLisms & DANEgerus for the graphic.

“The media does in fact have an impressive fact-checking system. If a quote or purported fact portrays Republicans, the military, or America generally in a positive light, they check it to death to make sure they’re not spreading propaganda. But… if the quote or purported fact portrays those things in a negative light, it pretty […]

Given that Europe’s streak of economic underperformance can now be measured in decades, perhaps a better question to ask is: Why does anyone think that a system of generous welfare benefits, high taxes and harsh restrictions on hiring and firing would ever produce anything like a dynamic, growing economy? Why does anyone assume that there […]

An overnight poll of Maverick voters shows widespread support for Maverick Sen. George Voinovich’s opposition to President Bush’s nominee for U.N. Ambassador. Maverick voters, those who support Republican candidates in hopes that they’ll scuttle Republican initiatives, universally praised Mr. Voinovich for bucking the White House on John Bolton’s nomination. “This is why we sent Voinovich […]

— Harry Reid’s smear of Judge Henry Saad’s reputation was despicable: “Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway. All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there.” Not only will the […]

“One of the great traditions, customs and unwritten rules of the Senate is that you do not filibuster judicial nominees. You certainly do not filibuster judicial nominees who would otherwise win an up-or-down vote. And you surely do not filibuster judicial nominees in a systematic campaign to deny a president and a majority of the […]

Do you love Michael Moore? Noam Chomsky? Ted Kennedy? Harry Reid? Hillary Clinton? Good, because none of my advertisers love ’em either. That’s why you should check out at least 3 of my advertisers below. OK, you’ll do it? All of you doing it already? All of you are already? Great…great…how great it is that […]

“Memo to Karl Rove: illegal aliens aren’t supposed to vote, and they’re not going to vote for you anyway. On the other hand, there are millions of Americans (in both parties, and in no party at all) who are fed up with this country’s refusal to enforce its immigration laws, and they do vote.” — […]

One of the tinfoil hat theories on the left that has gotten a lot of play is that the 2004 election was rigged. That theory started getting wide play shortly after Kerry lost the election, but factual support for it has always been incredibly thin. There are, of course, screw-ups that happen in every election […]

Did you know about American Concentration Camps? The American Patriot Friends Network does excellent work detailing America’s concentration camps. The front page has a picture of Ashcroft on it so you know this has to be all certified and true. It’s followed by an email from someone who is careful to not leave her email […]

According to a new poll by the Democrat National Committee (DNC), the trial of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s former campaign finance director, David Rosen, is “insignificant and uninteresting to 97 percent of all Americans.” The DNC-New York Times survey consisted of one question with two possible answers. The poll showed that among the two percent of […]

“(S)uccessful conservatives don’t move towards the ‘political centre’. They move the political centre towards them. That’s what Thatcher and Reagan both did. Whereas if you move towards the political centre, all you do is move the centre.” — Mark Steyn If you want to win as a political party long-term, you don’t center your strategy […]

After writing a column suggesting that the Allies made a mistake by fighting World War 2, Pat Buchanan has been called a “Nazi Apologist” and in effect, an “anti-Semite” among other things. Now, I’m not a fan of Buchanan. I don’t like him, have bashed him more than once, and would go so far as […]

Perhaps Cal Thomas woke up on the wrong side of the bed or maybe he’s just cranky because he wasn’t one of the favorite columnists of right-of-center bloggers, but for whatever reason, he decided to tear into the blogosphere in his latest column. The tail-end of Cal’s screed — and my comments — follow: The […]

At the The Huffington Post, former Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry serves up a variation on an old liberal canard: “Here’s an interesting fact: four million children die each year around the world within one week of being born. Three million (yes, 3,000,000) babies could be saved within the first 24 hours of being born […]

As someone who had a job doing day care during my early college years, I can tell you definitively that this is probably a bad idea — but — well, take a gander at the story first… A judge has cleared the way for a blind couple to open a day care center in Colorado, […]

The residents of Arizona, who have seen their state deluged with “undocumented workers”, have gotten fed up and recently started cracking down hard on illegal aliens. Well, this prompted a group called “Centro de Ayuda” to call for a boycott to protest the fact that Arizonans aren’t being hospitable enough to the illegal immigrants who […]