Author: John Hawkins

In Importance of the Election 101 we discussed the varied nature of the Iraqi insurgency and how the upcoming election gives the Iraqi government a political opportunity to cleave off the native insurgents from foreign jihadis. Today, Belmont Club looks at the attempts to provide security for the upcoming election, the refusal of American and […]

If you want to understand how ill-equipped liberals are to fight the war on terror, you only need to read this post by Jesse Taylor from Pandragon. After reading my 40 Question Reality-Based Community Quiz, Taylor took umbrage at the following question, “24) In your opinion, is sleep deprivation a form of torture?” Of course, […]

A groundbreaking 3,000-word report commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan revealed today that the epidemic of global poverty could be eradicated “practically overnight” if wealthy nations would simply give large amounts of cash to the U.N.’s anti-poverty efforts. “This research shows that the root cause of poverty is the absence of money,” said Mr. […]

I’m a big Dick Morris fan and I was pleased to get an opportunity to do a short, email interview with him. I may not always agree with every thing that Morris says, but I always pay attention because he has one of the sharpest minds in politics. You can read the interview by clicking […]

I’m a big fan of Hugh Hewitt, but for the most part, I’m going to have to disagree with him on his latest column: Black Blog Ops: Blogs are popular and influential, but could they be used for political dirty tricks? Or worse?. Here’s the money excerpt from the piece, “Like a reverse Atlantis, a […]

Frustrated and unhappy at losing yet another election, and angry about losing power in general, Liberals are now trying to convince America that President Bush should not hold an inauguration celebration while the country is at war and South Asia is recovering from a tsunami. The funny thing about Liberals is, they always manage to […]

As anyone who pays attention to the left knows, they’re dangerously naive about national security matters. But this statement by MLK’s widow Coretta Scott King, who’s still taken seriously by a lot of people on the left, is a frightening combination of ignorance and childlike innocence… “It’s as if he were writing for this period. […]

Facing criticism for his move to negotiations to set “appropriate limits” on suicide bombings. Mr. Sharon even put an opening proposal on the table for a Suicide Attack Protocol which would limit Palestinian terror groups to a monthly quota of one bus explosion in a crowded marketplace and two border checkpoint bombings while negotiations continue […]

Carol Morello from the Washington Post contacted yours truly to comment on the innauguration so that I could be a voice of reason in the article she was writing on the subject….Ok, she didn’t say I was there to be a “voice of reason,” but that’s what I was. Just take a look at what […]

Many people on the left refer to themselves as members of the “reality based community” which is quite fascinating when you consider all of the bizarre beliefs and conspiracy theories that they buy into. So, as I was pondering this, I thought back to the 8 questions that Kevin Drum came up with a while […]

It has been quite a while since the anthrax mailings have stopped and the FBI was never able to find out who was responsible. However, like OJ, those crazy kids at the Democratic Underground have never given up their search for the real killers, and now they’ve cracked the case! So was it a rogue […]

I watched this discussion on C-Span between Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer on whether or not the Supreme Court should make references to International court decisions in their own decisions. It was fascinating. To my mind, Scalia was so much more persuasive. He pointed out that the justices are selective, only choosing those foreign decisions […]

As the mainstream media give more attention to blogs and more Americans hear about them for the first time, there are many myths about blogging being spread (many by the MSM itself). As a service to the public (an IMAO exists solely to the benefit of the public), I will now list those myths and […]

Hey all you tree hugging, electric car driving, solar panel hippies, it’s people like you who’re responsible for global warming….or so say climate change scientists like Dr Peter Cox … “Cutting down on fossil fuel pollution could accelerate global warming and help turn parts of Europe into desert by 2100, according to research to be […]

You can tell there’s a hot topic at Instapundit when Glenn Reynolds actually opens up a post for comments. In this case, there’s a little blowback over the whole Armstrong Williams debacle for Kos who got sanctimonious over the whole thing and in effect said that until it was revealed who else — if anybody […]

As someone who has said that the GOP needs to make more of a pitch to black Americans, I can tell you that these statistics from the latest Larry Elder column are music to my ears and should scare the hell out of the Democrats… “Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America’s […]

Normally, I don’t bother to talk about anarchists because well….they’re pretty much irrelevant losers. However, today I stumbled across a passage written on the Anarchist Resistance to the 2005 Presidential Inauguration that was too good to pass up… “Four years ago anarchists marched on the Inauguration, hundreds strong. The police set up check points forcing […]

Michael Chertoff, President George Bush’s nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, said today that if he’s confirmed by the Senate his “job number one” will be to protect the civil rights of illegal aliens suspected of terrorist activities. “We’ve been over-eager in the past to detain men whose crimes consisted of little more than breaking […]

The Los Angeles Times’ Robert Scheer thinks the global threat posed by al Qaeda is just a figment of our overactive imaginations. To back up his assertions, he relies on a documentary aired on the BBC: “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear,” a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently […]

The invaluable Walter Williams has a few facts about our health care here in the United States that you may not be aware of…. “The recently published “Miracle Cure,” by Sally Pipes, president of the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, exposes health-care myths while explaining why the sometimes-touted Canadian style health care isn’t the answer. […]

Many people have taken notice of the fact that Democrats running for national office — like John Kerry — often end up defining themselves as “unrepublicans.” In other words, they spend most of their time talking about why they oppose Republican policies, instead of trying to get elected based on what they believe in. There’s […]

Promises Fresh Approach to Defeat as DNC Head Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean today announced his candidacy for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, proclaiming, “It is time for the Democrats to pass the torch to a new generation of losers.” Mr. Dean made his announcement in Burlington, Vermont to a crowd of supporters […]

Liberals often accuse conservatives of “seeing things in black and white” and being unable to comprehend that everything is actually a wondrous shade of grey. That’s a fair point. Conservatives are often willing to take a stand and say “That’s right and that’s wrong” even as liberals are just starting a long diatribe about nuances […]

What do rank-and-file Democrats fear? What do they think is a threat to them? An article in the Seattle Weekly, written by a Democrat who participated in the hand recounts that ended up “finding” votes for the Democrat gubnernatorial candidate, gives us a few clues. Contrary to my usual stance, I do not recommend that […]

One of the things I think the Democrats have gotten away with for too long is their association with that demented, anti-semitic, nutball Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Despite the fact the NOI is a wacko, racialist cult that believes (I kid you not) that white people were genetically engineered by an evil […]

Here’s my view of using “torture” in a nutshelll… 1) A state of war needs to exist as a precursor. 2) The Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment, so even if we’re talking about someone like John Walker Lindh who has switched sides, “torture” isn’t an option for American citizens. 3) You have to consider […]

Although to be frank, I thought it was entirely possible that Dino Rossi had been cheated out of his governorship in Washington State by a Democratic county that kept “finding” votes, and finally put the Democrat, Christine Gregoire, ahead on the third manual recount, I was not initially in favor of his fighting it in […]

While CBS News anchor Dan Rather will be permitted to retire on schedule in March, today’s release of a 224-page report on the so-called “memogate” scandal sparked Congressional Democrats to call on President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. CBS responded to the results of its internal investigation by firing four producers, but taking […]

Sometimes when you’re talking about liberals, it can be hard to figure out where the spin stops and where the things they really believe begin. For instance, how many times have you heard liberals say, in some form or fashion, that Democrats keep losing elections because Republicans are vicious, steely-eyed, political gunslingers while the Dems […]

Given that “torture” is in the news, it might be interesting to see what you thought about an intriguing, “torture related” ethical dilemma…and we’re not talking silly stuff like putting an Israeli flag over someone’s head or sleep deprivation, we’re talking real torture. The situation is based on something that happened in last night’s episode […]