Author: John Hawkins

My absolute favorite part of the insomnia curing and mostly pointless Democratic response to W’s superb State of the Union Speech was when Harry Reid said, “A few weeks ago, I joined some friends of mine for a bite to eat at The Nugget – Searchlight’s only restaurant. We were sitting down in a booth, […]

The national corporate office of La Quinta Inns has asked a local Wichita-based hotel to prevent staff from the office of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller from using the facility as a staging area for women having abortions. The Wichita La Quinta Inn offered discounted rates for women traveling to the Midwestern city to obtain […]

Admittedly, this is a bit off-topic, but earlier tonight I caught the most bizarre Dr. Pepper commercial and I just had to talk about it on RWN. It starts out with these young boys, maybe 10, 11, 12, playing around…and then here comes a minivan. Out of it steps a middle-aged, yet still very hot […]

The Iraq elections had high participation. The people are dancing in the streets. Do you know what that means? It means I’m right about everything, you stupid pinko! Even more importantly, it means you’re wrong and totally suck! “Nothing can stop our ignorant, warmongering ways from spreading peace throughout the world.” I know; it’s still […]

#1: From Ann Althouse… “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m a political moderate. More than any ideology, I care about rational discourse. In the year that I’ve been blogging I’ve taken a lot of different positions, some left and some right. What I’ve noticed, over and over, is that the bloggers on the […]

While everyone else was paying attention to the historic elections in Iraq, the Weekly World News has once again scooped everyone else by finding a historic story somehow flew under the radar not just of the Mainstream media, but of the entire blogosphere. What it is you ask? France is actually changing its name… “In […]

Some of you may have noticed I didn’t post my own thoughts on (Sunday’s) elections. My reason is simple: it wasn’t my day. I watched through tearing eyes. Yes, this old trooper shed a few tears of joy at what had happened. Like the amazing fall of the Berlin wall, the peaceful “revolutions” that freed […]

Basra, Iraq – In another blow to a nation already reeling from months of U.S. occupation, a new World Heath Organization report suggested that Iraqis may face another humanitarian disaster caused by exposure to potentially harmful finger ink during Sunday’s nationwide elections. According to the report, the ink used to mark fingers of as many […]

In the past, to inspire people to suggest new music that I might be interested in and just for entertainment’s sake, I’ve posted the music I was currently listening to on RWN. But, thanks to wonders of modern technology, I can now tell you which songs I listened to the most over the last month. […]

Clap, clap, clap…here’s to Howard Dean, the man who looks likely to be the Dem’s next party chairman. Dean deserves that applause for finally articulating a slogan that all Democrats can get behind, one that many of them already live by. Yes, at the DNC’s Eastern Regional meeting Saturday, Dean uttered the magic words that […]

Now this guy has got the right idea…. We have freedom now, we have human rights, we have democracy. We will invite the insurgents to take part in our system. If they do, we will welcome them. If they don’t, we will kill them.” — 80-year-old Rashid Majid As long as there are enough people […]

To the Bush administration, Tony Blair, John Howard, Aleksander Kwasniewski and the other Coalition governments, American and Coalition troops, the Iraqi security forces, and Iraq’s civilians who have all strived and struggled for almost two years to help make Iraq a free country: I, and all freedom loving people, salute you for making yesterday’s elections […]

Okay, look, I’ll put this as simply as I can: 1) Condi didn’t lie to anybody, and neither did Dubya. Lying implies both knowledge and intent, and neither has been remotely established, nor will they be, because they do not exist. We know that Saddam at one time had WMD’s; there is simply no argument […]

I just got home. The polls in Iraq opened about 45 minutes ago, I’ll be live-blogging the election coverage on the cable news networks: Geraldo Rivera …on this most exciting, joyous, and indeed historic of occasions in the lives of these proud Iraqi people, who have lived for so long under the tyrannical rule of […]

News reports of terrorist bombings in Iraq were marred Sunday by shocking graphic images of Iraqi “insurgents” voting by the millions in their first free democratic election. Despite reporters’ hopes that a well-orchestrated barrage of mortar attacks and suicide bombings would put down the so-called ‘freedom insurgency’, hastily-formed battalions of rebels swarmed polling places to […]

Hey, are you a good and decent person? ARE YOU???? Well then, if someone were to do something for you, like spend hours and hours working to make sure you are informed and entertained each day when you looked at his blog, wouldn’t you want to do something for him? Some little something? Just a […]

I got together with blogger & radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, author of “Blog”, La Shawn Barber from La Shawn Barber’s Corner, and blogger & political consultant Karol Sheinin from Alarming News to discuss blogger ethics and the future of blogging. You can read our edited conversation by clicking here.

Well, it has been fun but it’s getting kind of late and it’s time to crash. Have a great week-end and I’ll see you on Monday!

Gather round folks and watch Mickey Kaus make a fool out of Andrew Sullivan…. “On the Chris Matthews Show that aired last Saturday, Andrew Sullivan was giddily upbeat about the result of the war in Iraq and, in particular, the coming elections: Mr. SULLIVAN: We are going to have these elections, Chris, and I–the other […]

Question: “What do you personally think of Rick Santorum as a Presidential Candidate and do you think he would have a chance at election?” — Patton75 Answer: Personally, I like Rick Santorum and agree on a lot of issues. I even defended him when I thought some people were unfairly attacking him over his comments […]

Question: “I know there’s a fine line between partisanship and hatred, and that when Ronald Reagan died, all the Dems said nice things about him (even if they didn’t mean them). But do you think that Robert Byrd, who is a blatantly racist former member of the KKK, would deserve any respect or kind words […]

Question: “As a conservative, Christian, female college student in the teacher ed program, I’m in need of advice on how to argue the stereotype of Republicans as racist. What ammo can you give me so that I don’t go insane trying to slog through my liberal indoctrination?” — BoilerFox04 Answer: Well, there are of course […]

Question: “Do you think the United States will have bases of some sort in Iraq and or Afghanistan like they do in Germany and Japan among other places in the world?” — Sonic Answer: Yes, I do. Afghanistan is a strategic location, the people generally like us there, and we need to have a home […]

Question: “Would you consider supporting a pro-choice candidate in 2008, if that’s who the GOP ends up nominating?” — Schroman2002 Answer: While I will not back a pro-choice candidate in the primaries, I’m not going to take my ball and go home if a candidate who is not pro-life wins the nomination. I’m a practical […]

Today Is Q&A Friday #10 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian perspective; heck, it […]

Question: “I know I shouldn’t ask this but here it goes? Where I live, near and on campus, and such, there’s a 9/11 Truth Movement. Great people too, I’ve met with them. I’m not going to say what I think happened or try to change someone’s mind. But I’m going to ask something that I […]

Question: “im a college student, and i just received a paper on domestic policy (in regards to homelessness and poverty) back. in the paper, i wrote that i believed that govt. involvement in the lives of it’s citizens should be kept to a minimum, and that the “welfare state” in America is detrimental. the professor […]

Michael Jackson’s pops, Joe Jackson, is playing the race card and claiming that his son is being persecuted because he’s black… “THE father of US pop star Michael Jackson told a TV interviewer child molestation charges against his son are motivated by racism. The stern patriarch of the Jackson clan – the driving force behind […]

Is there a left wing attitude against success for the Iraqi elections? Certainly they won’t be celebrating the outcome, regardless of what it may be. Their emotional investment in failure in Iraq is too deep for them to overcome. The problem isn’t that they’re opposed to peace for Iraq, it’s just an aversion to George […]

Bloggers aren’t accountable and trustworthy like the mainstream media! You mean bloggers can’t compete with the same mainstream media that gave us Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, Jack Kelley, & the memogate scandal? Pshaw! There are unreliable bloggers and unreliable members of the media. At least where the bloggers are concerned, you usually have readers pointing […]