Author: John Hawkins

As many of you are no doubt aware, Laura Ingraham had surgery for breast cancer yesterday. Luckily, it sounds like everything went well and of course, I wish her a speedy recovery. Someone called “nonews” also wished for Laura Ingraham to return to health….on the Democratic Underground Message Board. Doesn’t seem like a wise idea, […]

“The only plausible reason for keeping American troops in Iraq is to protect the democratic transformation that President Bush seized upon as a rationale for the invasion after his claims about weapons of mass destruction turned out to be fictitious. If that transformation is now allowed to run off the rails, the new rationale could […]

I was pleased to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with Byron York, a columnist at National Review & author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. We discussed a number of topics including Air America, Michael Moore, soft money, and a George Bush run theocracy =D You can read the interview by clicking […]

Liberal E. J. Dionne Jr. has noticed the drop in Bush’s approval ratings and is optimistically predicting a “Revolt of the Middle“against the Republican Party… “But something important has happened since President Bush’s inauguration. America’s moderates may not be screaming, but they’re in revolt. Many who reluctantly supported the president and the Republicans in 2004 […]

Friday, in the midst of a heated lefty-dominated conversation regarding — what else — the “non-mythical” status of global warming and how Bush & Co. are destroying the earth, the part of me that just can’t shut up happened to win the mental tug-of-war and blurted, “I suppose now would be a bad time to […]

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: I LOVE TAXES! April 15th is like Christmas for Progressives, and I look forward to it every year. I admit that I sometimes become mildly miffed that my paychecks keep getting smaller and smaller, but I’m fully cognizant that it’s because the wealthiest Americans […]

Business Week wrote an article predicting a corporate takeover of blogs. Here are a couple of quotes from the piece: “A prediction: Mainstream media companies will master blogs as an advertising tool and take over vast commercial stretches of the blogosphere…. Take a look at blog advertising today, and it’s hard to see a glittering […]

A college professor teaching a wacky course? How could it happen here — here in “Police State USA:” “The classroom where North Carolina Wesleyan College’s only political science professor is teaching a course titled “9/11; The Road to Tyranny” has become the latest battlefront in the ongoing campus culture war. On Tuesday, the six students […]

Look for the next update around 6 PM EST today — roughly. I’m going to be tied up until then. *** Update #1 ***: First of all, all of you readers in my comments section are pervs. Like I’d let some chick tie me up…yeah, right. I mean look, I think Ann Coulter is hot, […]

Senate Democrats have made a sudden shift in tactics over judicial filibusters. It is no coincidence that just as it is reported that Republicans have the votes to ban judicial filibusters that the Democrats suddenly want to compromise. As we reported earlier, David Broder suggest a “compromise” in his column in the Washington Post: all […]

There has been lots of charges of John Bolton having an anger problem. This is quite common, and I came up with a list to tell whether your nominee for the U.N. ambasador has an anger problem. Luckily enough, the items are ten in number. TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR NOMINEE FOR THE U.N. AMBASSADOR MAY […]

This must be very reassuring to all of the former satellite states of the USSR that spent the entire war pinned to the ground under the iron boot of the “Evil Empire:” “Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” […]

Lee over at Right Thinking From The Left Coast read the post on pulling the trigger on the nuclear option that was up Friday at RWN and generally agreed, save for one crucial caveat: “I’m torn on “going nuclear.” I totally agree with John that, morally and intellectually, it’s the right thing to do. The […]

Democrats would probably be more supportive of Mr. Bolton’s nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations if, in the above cartoon, Mr. Bolton: A) Was chasing Tom DeLay. B) Was chasing Pope Benedict XVI. C) Was clutching a fistful of oil-for-food vouchers. D) Was trying to catch the woman so he could […]

Perhaps you’re wondering what the Appalachian Fruit Laboratory in Kearneysville WV wants to do with $3,638,000 of your hard-earned tax dollars. Maybe you want to know why animal waste management in Bowling Green KY costs the federal government $2,300,000. (What are those animals eating — too much of that Appalachian Fruit?) Possibly you just want […]

The circulation of daily U.S. newspapers is 55.2 million, down from 62.3 million in 1990. The percentages of adults who say they read a paper “yesterday” are ominous: • 65 and older — 60 percent • 50-64 — 52 percent • 30-49 — 39 percent • 18-29 — 23 percent. Americans ages 8 to 18 […]

On Friday, I posted on the Michele Catalano interview done by the Citizen Journalist Report radio show. Here’s a short description of what happened from my previous post: …Jeff & Bill really bent over backwards to pick a fight with her. Just about every question was goofball sarcasm. … (Then) Michele went INSANE. I’m talking […]

Judging from the MSM (I hate that acronym) coverage and commentary from some bloggers, seems he’s hovering between orange and red. Satire used with permission of John From Wuzzadem. You can read more of his work by clicking here.

Let’s be honest here: most of you don’t normally click on my advertisers. You know it, I know it, we all know it. That’s just life on the internet and allowances are made for it So here’s what I’m hoping: if you read RWN regularly and you seldom, if ever click on the ads, how […]

The NFL draft is coming up this weekend. In connection therewith, you often hear people saying, of a prospect, “his stock is rising,” or “his stock’s really fallen.” And ever since the equities markets started their nice, healthy (and overdue) correction, there’s been chattering about the stock market in political circles. On the part of […]

As per usual, the incredibly oversensitive, terrorist supporting ninnies at CAIR, have gone way, way, overboard in the name of political correctness: “In the April 5, 2005 issue of the Monthly Indicators, (Jeff Rubin, Chief Economist and Chief Strategist of CIBC World Markets’ Economic and Strategy division) wrote: “The first two oil shocks were transitory, […]

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill banning homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals from being foster parents. “If the bill gains approval from the Texas Senate, the state will be allowed to investigate the backgrounds of current foster parents and remove children living in non-heterosexual households. All future foster parents will be required to disclose […]

President George Bush, faced with a teacher’s union lawsuit over his ‘No Child Left Behind’ public education accountability mandates, announced a sweeping new reform proposal for the U.S. Department of Education. Dubbed ‘No Bureaucrat Left Behind’ the new plan would address teachers’ union complaints about unfunded federal mandates by removing the mandates, the funding and […]

Take a look at this pic and caption lifted directly from Reuters: “Military honor guard enter the Buenos Aires’ Cathedral past graffiti left by unknown assailants that reads: ‘Universal Nazi Church’ and ‘Benedict addict XVI’ on April 20, 2005. The choice of conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new Pope divides Latin America, a […]

“If the Social Security financial wave that will hit us is a scary 25-foot wave of water, the Medicare wave will be something the wrathful Old Testament God would send if he was in an apocalyptic mood. Think in terms of Noah — or worse. According to the Medicare trustees’ report last month, Medicare costs […]