Author: John Hawkins

What happens when a business can’t compete with its rivals? It can try to improve its performance, go out of business, or if it’s in a liberal state like Maryland, it can sic the government on its competitors to try to slow them down. It’s especially helpful when you’re picking on Wal-Mart, a company liberals […]

Patrick Hynes of Ankle Biting Pundits popped off a provocative column on the political divide between libertarians and conservatives. Here’s an excerpt to give you a feel for the piece: “Too often, though, the idea of a conservative-libertarian divorce reads like an ultimatum from libertarians, who occasionally express so much frustration at conservative apostasy they […]

My dog Patton has gone completely nuts over that football in his mouth. It’s the first thing he picks up when he gets up and the last thing he touches before he goes to bed. As a matter of fact, when he goes to sleep, he has been taking the football with him to bed…

The State of Kansas on Tuesday voted to re-affirm its existing ban on gay marriages. The margin was 71-29. And, along those lines, below is a breakdown of the voting margins, to ban gay marriages, in the 15 states which have done so, by direct referendums, since Howard Dean’s Vermont became the very first, and […]

From Hindrocket at Power Line: “Our disagreement with activist judges isn’t based only on the fact that they’re liberals and we’re conservatives. More importantly, it’s based on the fact that our Constitution didn’t establish the Supreme Court as a super-legislature, appointed for life, charged with nullifying popular opinion when it conflicts with more “sophisticated” sentiment. […]

Judging by his latest proposal to combat indecency, James Sensenbrenner III, R-Wis, must not have the word “overkill” in his vocabulary: “Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner III, R-Wis., told cable industry executives attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. conference here on Monday that criminal prosecution would be a more efficient way to enforce the indecency […]

Howard Dean comes across as quite the Holy Roller these days. Somebody must have told him that when you go to the South, you’re supposed to pepper all your speeches with “Jesus talk.” Just look at some quotes from this column on a Tennessee fund raiser Dean attended: “We don’t ever have to be ashamed […]

Here we’ll take a balanced look at social security with all sides weighing in on the matter. Social Security Question and Answer Session What is wrong with Social Security? Left Side – Nothing. Ok well, we’ll tweak it a little. Really the only thing that would improve it is putting it in the U.S. Constitution […]

Back in Feburary, I was mocking the left side of the blogosphere for pursuing the Jeff Gannon story like it was another Watergate. But who’s laughing now? Well…actually, it’s still me because according to The Des Moines Register, the left side of the blogosphere has devolved into full-on “moonbattery” over the story. This, you’ve got […]

Confederate Yankee, writing on the Border War, makes this interesting observation: In 2004, the equivilent of 160 12,500 military divisions simply walked northward across the U.S.-Mexican border to disappear into our country’s interior. Opposing them is an apathetic federal government, a complicit media, an overworked Border Patrol, and now, the militia the Constitution intended. Meanwhile, […]

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is being flayed in some quarters for saying: “I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. . . . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, […]

As I write this, it’s 2:09 AM and once again, I’ve been hit with writer’s block. — Terri Schiavo? I’ve hit her killing as hard and as often as anything I’ve ever discussed on this blog and I’m not sure that there’s much more to say at least for the moment. — The Pope? I’m […]

From “The Knowledge Gap & The Terri Schiavo Case” (March 28, 2005) “Sadly, the liberal media has campaigned as hard to put Terri in the ground as they did for John Kerry during the election. The polling data on this issue? It has come almost exclusively from pro-death push polls that don’t adequately explain to […]

Unlike most libertarians, I don’t have an opinion on gay marriage, and I’m not going to have an opinion no matter how much you bait me. However, I had an interesting discussion last night with another libertarian about it, which devolved into an argument about a certain kind of liberal/libertarian argument about gay marriage that […]

Liberal blogger Oliver Willis takes a look around the blogosphere & opines that: “In the blogosphere, you have almost a reverse dynamic to that found in the media. Overwhelmingly liberal bloggers identify themselves directly as Democrats. Yes, there are many who see the party as the lesser of two evils, and in their hearts would […]

I’m not a Catholic and I’ve often disagreed with political stands taken by the Vatican, but I wanted to take a moment to say a kind word about the Pope since he passed on this week-end. During the eighties he was a power player in the war against Communism. This was a man who could […]

Thomas Sowell’s Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One explains what happens when economic principles are actually applied in the real world. Enjoy the quotes! “In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces […]

Popular left-winger blogger Matthew Yglesias takes note of an anti-French book advertised at National Review and opines that: “I don’t even know what this obsession with France-bashing is supposed to be about at this point. During early 2003 it was a useful way to distract the public from the serious questions being raised about the […]

Of late, we’ve been seeing a lot of assaults on conservatives speaking at college campuses. This has been treated like a joke, because these conservatives have been hit with food. William Kristol, Pat Buchanan, Richard Perle, Ann Coulter are the most recent examples. This is extremely dangerous behavior for obvious reasons. The truth is, when […]

I’m a believer in states’ rights, but there seems to be a lot of disagreement these days about what states’ rights are in the first place. For example, I would argue that the Federal Government’s attempt to pass a Constitutional Amendment that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman is not an […]

This is the last post about Terri Schiavo that I intend to make until after her funeral mass next week. If you’d like to read what has been written previously about Terri Schiavo on RWN, here’s a list: — I Come To Bury Terri Schiavo, Not To Praise Her — Answering Some Frequently Asked Questions […]

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Because of the suspected use of performance enhancing substances by the overwhelming majority of people in the artistic community, a number of great works have now been called into question. As a result, the United States Department of Education has been forced to place an asterisk beside numerous pieces once considered to be part of […]

Lol, the left-wing election fraud racket never ends. Here’s the latest from a group of University Professors: “Officially, President Bush won November’s election by 2.5%, yet exit polls showed Kerry winning by 3% [1] . According to a report to be released today by a group of university statisticians, the odds of a discrepancy this […]

As most of you know, the Korean War began with a devastating sneak attack from a Nork military that was larger, much better armed, and more experienced than the South Korean forces. In essence, the Norks cut through the South Koreans like a hot knife through butter and had the US not gotten involved, the […]

Getting Social Security reform done was ambitious and worth trying, but from Day 1, it was going to be a tough sell. Americans — like most people — are usually only inspired to make significant changes in policy when there’s a crisis of some sort and even those of us who think something needs to […]

…at 9:03 this morning. My condolences go out to the Schindler family and all of her friends. May Terri rest in peace…

Many liberals just eat up kooky conspiracy theories about electronic vote rigging. Even the wife of the Democrats’ last Presidential candidate is out there publicly floating the idea that the elections may have been rigged. Meanwhile, it’s many of those very same people who bitterly complain that you can’t trust election results, who then turn […]