Author: John Hawkins

Question: “Neo-con radio show most Michael Medved…(said that)…the FBI should keep a file on Michael Moore. Do you agree?” — bob1577 Answer: Michael Moore allowed Hizbollah, an anti-American, anti-semitic, terrorist group with American blood on their hands, to help market “Fahrenheit 9/11”. If you are willing to cooperate with terrorists to promote a film, who […]

Question: “How long did it take before Right Wing News built a decent blog audience? As a new blogger, can you give any advice for “sticking with it” even though it seems as though the masses remain elusive?” — PunditGuy Answer: This is either going to be a very encouraging answer (for bloggers wondering if […]

Today is Q&A Friday #8 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: “With media chatter seeming to keep increasing, will anyone seriously take up the banner for the “Arnold Amendment” to allow foreign-born citizens to hold the office of President or VP? Would it stand a chance of being ratified?” — Mike_M Answer It’s very, very, difficult to amend the Constitution. It requires a 2/3rd majority […]

Question: “Would you ever consider starting a “Piece of Crap List”, and if so, who would be on it?” — Schroman2002 Answer: A “Piece of Crap List” huh? Is this some sort of free floating list of people, places, & things I don’t like? I’ll give it a whirl.. The RWN Piece of Crap List […]

Question: “How would you respond to someone who attacks you and your writings in a cowardly way on his own blog without giving you any chance to respond?” — Joey_D Answer: Most blogs aren’t going to give you any chance to respond to what they said unless it’s in the comments section. Even then you […]

Question: “Do you think our Founding Fathers would be proud of what has become of America? Has it become something they would like, or something they would not?” — Hank_Hill Answer: You know, I’ve actually thought about this before and the answer is….I’m not sure. On one hand, this country is a long, long, way […]

In Washington State, the battle for governor still isn’t over. Republican Dino Rossi beat Democrat Christine Gregoire in the original count by 261 votes and the machine recount by 42 votes. Predictably, the Democrats want to keep going and do a manual recount, while Republicans want Gregoire to go ahead and concede the race. Jerome […]

“…Here’s a message for everybody who is wondering, worried, hoping, you name it, that Ohio is going to turn blue: Not. Going. To. Happen. The margin is just too big. Let me break down the numbers… let’s say that Kerry takes 60% of the provisional ballots and Bush only takes 40%. Does that mean Bush […]

My nerves can’t take this anymore; I need to get out of here. It so deceptively warm and comfortable in the womb… like they want me to fall asleep. But I can’t sleep… that’s when they come for me. I’m sure that a couple of time I felt some poking and prodding was them preparing […]

CNN today fell behind al-Jazeera TV, becoming only the second most trusted news source among Islamic terrorists ages 12-to-49. The slip was triggered by a Los Angeles Times story that the Atlanta-based Cable News Network had reported Pentagon “psy-ops” misinformation as fact before the liberation of Fallujah. “We don’t put too much stock in the […]

Stories like this seem to pop up every few weeks… “Miami-Dade County animal control officers and homicide investigators are investigating the death of a woman found dead inside her home, surrounded by dozens of animals. Police said the woman lived alone and neighbors told them she hadn’t been seen for days. Police found about 30 […]

Lefty Anne Applebaum echoes something that conservatives have been saying for a long time… “The larger point, though, is that the “it’s-all-an-American-plot” arguments circulating in cyberspace again demonstrate something that the writer Christopher Hitchens, himself a former Trotskyite, has been talking about for a long time: At least a part of the Western left — […]

Okay, Ukraine, we have a lot of crap to deal with. We have countries filled with wackos who love to blow themselves up, so we don’t have time to deal with someone who can’t count his chads. You think this is funny? We don’t. We’re p*ssed off, actually. And you know what happens when we’re […]

10) devinsgram: “…Everybody in middle American crying, putting out their flags and their show of emotion. Phooey on them, they are the ones responsible for what happened in NYC on 9-11. They are the ones who put this idiot in office.” — 9) leftofthedial: “I knew some *wonderful* people who were strong supporters of the […]

The most illuminating vignette in Newsweek magazine’s most excellent post-election issue was a line from none other than John Kerry. Arrogant to the core, the elitist ketchup-digger revealed his true feelings toward George Bush – and by extension all us clodhopping carp-chompers in the Red States – with one infamous slip of the tongue. “I […]

Bill O’Reilly wrote a rather — get it, get it, I said “rather,” and this is about Dan “Rather” and Memogate, har, har, har…extraordinary column about Rathergate that merits a response — the sort of response that you’d expect from a Catholic nun with a ruler in her hand after one of her students makes […]

Just a day after The New York Times leaked excerpts from a confidential Red Cross report claiming that detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have undergone psychological and physical coercion “tantamount to torture,” the Times has printed a second story alleging that Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Iraq conduct interrogations “tantamount to beheading.” Al Qaeda terror cells, […]

One of the hot topics of late is whether there has been a political realignment that has made Republicans the dominant political party in the United States for the foreseeable future. The answer? For the Congress, “yes”. But for the Presidency, “No”. Here’s what I mean by that…. Gerrymandering is the name of the game […]

There was a post by Val Prieto over at Babalu Blog that caught my eye and I wanted to respond to it in a little more depth…. “Message for Michele Malkin The election is over. Our guy won. What does it matter that Hispanics voted 44% or 40% or 35% for Bush? Is it just […]

What do you get when you cross “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” “The Da Vinci Code,” and a really bland script? Why you get this week’s #1 movie, “National Treasure”! The movie stars Nicolas Cage, who plays a low-rent Indiana Jones in search of a football field full of treasure hidden by some of our Founding […]

After a week of tough negotiating by France, Germany and Britain, the Islamic Republic of Iran has conceded to reduce the size of nuclear warheads it will use in the eventual bombing of Paris, Berlin and London. “Iran blinked,” said French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, who is a man. “We have achieved everything we wanted […]

I was thrilled to get an opportunity to interview Jed Babbin, who was a deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush Administration. Mr. Babbin is also a columnist with The American Spectator & National Review. We focused on Jed Babbin’s new book, Inside the Asylum: Why the United Nations and Old Europe Are Worse […]

It’s the holiday season and I’m going to be taking advantage of it for the rest of the week. First thing tomorrow morning, I’m heading out on vacation and won’t be returning until Sunday. That means the next update of RWN will be Monday the 29th. While I’m gone, how about checking out my current […]

Since I’m going out of town, I figured I’d give you some retro RWN to chew on. I decided to focus on posts that explain conservative thinking on a number of issues. Enjoy…. 3 Illegal Immigration Myths 9 Ways To Make America A Better Place To Live A Conversation About Abortion Answering 20 Frequently Asked […]

It’s almost time to do the third annual “Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States For 2004”. While I’ll be making all the final selections in that article, I am open to suggestions. So if you have anyone you think should be included, post their names in the comment section along with why you […]

There’s no conservative pundit more quotable than Ann Coulter which is why I compiled my favorite 25 quotes from Ms. Coulter, in order. Enjoy! 25) “The New York Times review blamed (Kitty) Kelley’s gossip mongering on “a cultural climate in which gossip and innuendo thrive on the Internet.” Kelley has been writing these books for […]

Mark Dubbin, the author of “Shadow Patriot” bought another main page ad on RWN to get the word out about his book. Here’s the description of it from Barnes & Noble… “The events of 9/11 affected many things in New York and the Mafia was no exception. Business suffered for Don Remondini after the attack, […]

“This is the meaning of Mr. Bush’s “bring ’em on” taunt from the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday, when he was quizzed about the “growing threat to U.S. forces” on the ground in Iraq. It should have been obvious that no U.S. President actually relishes having his soldiers take casualties. What the media, and U.S. Democrats […]

There are different reasons for having “rules of war”. Some of them include: 1) The Golden Rule: What you do to the enemy, they will do to you. For example, if you torture prisoners, you can expect the enemy to do the same to your men. 2) Protection of your civilians: By wearing uniforms for […]