Author: John Hawkins

It speaks volumes about the forgiving nature of our French and German friends that they don’t run the Shrub out of Europe on a rail, especially in regards to recent events. Last week, Bush asked for $100 million to help improve the Polish Army. Yup, the KILBASA KORPS! Congress must have thought it was some […]

One more thing about Ted Rall’s challenge. This part of Rall’s latest post is actually ironic given things that Ted has written in the past… “Suffice it to say, this stuff pisses me off and should not be tolerated by anyone who purports to be a law-abiding American. And again: mainstream blogs like Kos should […]

Ted Rall has thrown down a challenge to the entire right-side of the blogosphere… “Several Bushist blogger types have written to assert that there are as many violent and threatening remarks and insults coming from liberals online as there are from conservatives against liberals. I’ve spent many sadly-lost hours online, and I say: no way. […]

10. You never could throw your full support behind John Kerry once you found out his first name is found in the Bible, of all places. 9. One of the few reasons you couldn’t bring yourself to assasinate the president is you’d have to actually buy a gun. 8. Your opinions and values carry more […]

Howard Dean is going to have a hard time helping the Dems make headway in the red states when he’s apparently looked at as such a radical and polarizing figure that Democrats like Kathleen Sebelius don’t even want to be seen with him… “Before his selection as DNC chairman this month, Dean said he would […]

As we’ve learned from watching the left side of the blogosphere’s bizarre and obsessive coverage of the Jeff Gannon AKA James Guckert non-story, it’s vitally important that we have “real,” “non-biased” reporters asking questions at White House press conferences…you know, like Dan Rather or Michael Moore. In fact, the left is such a stickler over […]

From the WAPO… “Rice’s coat and boots speak of sex and power — such a volatile combination, and one that in political circles rarely leads to anything but scandal. When looking at the image of Rice in Wiesbaden, the mind searches for ways to put it all into context. It turns to fiction, to caricature. […]

Liberals across America are today rejoicing, insurgents in Iraq are trembling in fear, and cowering monkeys in zoos all across America are waving their slices of cheddar in the air with abandon now that it’s official that the French are on board in Iraq! Yes, the frogs have hopped to the rescue once again, pouring […]

SLOVAKIA goes to a flat tax and private retirement accounts. The efforts of George Bush and the Republican government look rather pathetic when set next to the freedom agenda of the Slovaks: On Jan 1, 2004, Slovakia adopted a 19% flat income and corporate tax rate. The dividend tax and a plethora of tax exemptions […]

In his latest column, obnoxious lefty Ted Rall chucks a huge stone from the window of his glass house… “Bloggers want you to know that there’s a new sheriff in town. Edward Morrissey, writer of the right-wing blog Captain’s Quarters, boasts to the New York Times: “The media can’t just cover up the truth and […]

In an effort to strengthen Congressional Republicans’ resolve to reduce non-defense spending by one percent, President George Bush today offered to increase federal funding for research aimed at “stiffening the spines of elected officials.” “Scientists tell me there may be a genetic defect which allows members of my party to campaign against government waste but […]

I don’t want to say that I told you so but…wait, yes I do want to say, “I told ya so you liberals, told ya so!” From an article I wrote back on April 14, 2004 called “Why We Invaded Iraq“… “If a beachhead of democracy can be established in Iraq, there’s an excellent chance […]

Libertarian Ryan Sager wrote a column about his experience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that has drawn attention from Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, INDC Journal, Q&O, & Instapundit among others in the blogosphere. Why has the column generated so much heat? Mainly because Sager tapped into two wells of discontentment that Libertarians love to […]

Anybody Remember the “graveyard of empires” and the “brutal Afghan winter”? After the Taliban’s three-year struggle against a superior US force, there is growing optimism among the Americans and Afghan government that the end is close. More than 1,000 people have died in violence in the past 18 months, but attacks have tailed off since […]

Any old nutjob can opine that Jews control the media, Karl Rove set up Dan Rather with fake memos, or that George Bush had Paul Wellstone killed. However, it requires a particularly aberrant sort of creativity to come up with a conspiracy theory as implausible as the one Carol Rawle digitally scribbled on the pages […]

Now this would make a great T-shirt…. What do you say Rovester? 45% for me, 45% for you, and 10% to RWN reader HeartlessLibertarian for coming up with the idea?

What happens to a once great military alliance when the nations you’re partnered with cease to maintain serious militaries? Unfortunately, that is not a theoretical question for the United States. Mark Steyn elaborates… “In the column I wrote on September 11, 2001, I mentioned en passant that among the day’s consequences would be the end […]

The whole “feminism in the blogosphere” meme is cropping up again as it does every few months. After gaining experience by wading hip deep into the gory fray over why there aren’t more successful women bloggers not once, not twice, but three times, I can now give a short, succinct explanation of why there aren’t […]

Unfortunately, my web designer Nicole is in nuclear power school and is therefore indefinitely indisposed. That’s a problem because I need some help from someone with web design skills. I don’t THINK they’ll need to know MySQL, but familiarity with HTML, PHP, graphics, web page design, and blogging tools (Blogger or Movable Type preferably) would […]

You know what really chafes conservatives about the mainstream media? It’s not just that the MSM is overwhelmingly staffed with liberals who let their hostility to conservatism leak into their reporting, it’s that they won’t ADMIT THAT THEY’RE LIBERALS. The same liberal journalists who hate FoxNews with a passion because it leans to the right, […]

As the liberal left has become more radical, the line between “the fringes” & “the mainstream” has gotten progressively more blurry for the Democrats. As a consequence of that, bizarre conspiracy theories that it was once hard to believe any serious person could give credence to, are now being casually tossed around by power players […]

We all know now that our Fearless Leader, Jeff Gannon, may have done some shady things in the past. (Amish kept insisting that Gannon’s innocent explanations were shaky, which I argued with him about… for one of the few times, I suspended my rule that “all rumors are probably true” and wound up looking foolish […]

For a guy who wants to run for President in 2008 on the GOP ticket, Johnny McRino seems to really have a knack for infuriating Republicans…. “Maverick Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday that his New York colleague, Sen. Hillary Clinton, would do well if she becomes president of the United States. “I am sure […]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has, at least temporarily, saved the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the Florida woman whose former husband, Michael, had planned to Disconnect her feeding tube on Tuesday. The 11th-hour reprieve came in response to a plea from the Schindler family to have Terri classified as a silver rice rat […]

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One of the things conservatives have been saying almost since 9/11 is that the war on terrorism isn’t just about eradicating Al-Qaeda, it’s about destroying every terrorist group with global reach and any rogue regime that continues to support them. That’s why the Taliban were targeted, and it was, as I noted before the war, […]

Deroy Murdock drops a little Republican history sandwich right upside the head of the Democrats like an anvil….Ok, there a lot of mixed metaphors there, but you get the general idea. So what’s Murdock’s latest column about? The Democrats, the same Party that still to this day refers to Robert Byrd, a former member of […]

Hat tip to DANEgerus weblog for finding this one and Freaking News for the graphic.

The WAPO’s Metro columnist, Donna Britt, quoted RWN in a piece attacking Drudge for some splashy Chris Rock related news that he posted last week…. “Not content with trying to provoke gays, Drudge also attempted to incite abortion foes to lobby against Rock with the headline “Shock Oscar host Chris Rock recently declared that abortion […]