Author: John Hawkins

I’m a big fan of Thomas Sowell and not just because I’ve interviewed him. Sowell is as good as anyone you’ll ever read at taking complex economic concepts and explaining them in a way that laymen can understand. Combine that with a heaping helping of common sense and respect for the Constitution and liberty and […]

Future President? Current Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty This guy knows what he is talking about. That is the impression I got after speaking with Tim Pawlenty for a few moments and having the opportunity to watch the taping of the hour long public access show, “Your Legislators.” “Your Legislators” is a weekly show that reaches […]

When I read this story today on the Drudge Report, I thought it was absolutely outrageous… “Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush’s chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational […]

So far, George Bush has not effectively gotten his message out on the economy. One of the Bush team’s first ads referred to the economy “turning the corner,” but that doesn’t even begin to explain what Bush had to deal with and how well he has handled it. Remember that right as Bush came into […]

Washington, DC – Congressional Democrats today denounced the Bush Administration for having done nothing to avert the extinction of the dinosaurs. Senator Barbara Boxer of California, ranking member on the Senate Dinosaur Extinction Oversight Panel, says that the Bush Administration came into office with no clear plan for dealing with nuclear-winter-causing giant meteors. “The lack […]

Ok, I’ve had just about enough of listening to Kerry talk about “Benedict Arnold CEOs“… If you want a clearer version to email to your friends or post on your web page, you can get it here. ***Update #1***: After being clued in by an RWN reader, I’ve done a bit of research and found […]

So far, I’ve found the 9/11 hearings to be a partisan joke, but there has been at least one really interesting development that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserved… “A report compiled by the commission’s staff found that senior officials in the Clinton White House said they had made it clear the CIA had a […]

If you’re familiar with the build-up to WW2, then you know that the rest of Europe knew that Germany was preparing for war long before the Nazis started swallowing up their surrounding countries. Had Europe decided to step in 1934 or even 1936 when the Germans started to remilitarize the Rhineland, the world could have […]

Rio Bravo – Newly elected Marshall Cletus Vaughn promised a “new era of understanding and peaceful coexistence” with the local desperado community after sweeping to a decisive victory in countywide elections yesterday. “I am the law now, and as long as I am wearing this badge neither the Clanton Boys nor the Whiskey Creek Rape […]

John Kerry truly has no shame. Just last night he claimed that George Bush lied about WMD in Iraq…. “If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he’s even more out of touch than we thought. Unfortunately for the president, this is not a joke.” Continued the […]

I gotta tell ya, Republicans are waaaaaay too gloomy about how the 2004 Presidential election is going. I have people at work saying “Boy, Bush is in trouble isn’t he?” My father even told me it didn’t look good for Bush the last time I saw him on vacation. Then today, I see a teaser […]

Paris – Members of the French organization ACD (“Action Contre Democracie”) are planning massive protests against the United States on June 6, 2004, the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. “Eet ees clear that FDR and Churchill lied about ze so-called ‘Hitler Threat,’” said Jean-Pierre Le Con, chairman of ACD. “All zees talk about German […]

It seems to me that everyone is asking the wrong question about Israel turning Sheik Ahmed Yassin into a bloody, metallic puddle of slurry. What I keep hearing is… “Why did Sharon have Yassin killed?” Given that… 1) Hamas openly tells the world that they intend kill of the Israelis 2) Hamas is going to […]

Heather Mac Donald is not a household name in conservative circles, but she should be. I’m a huge fan of her detailed, insightful, and statistic laden work that directly challenges liberals myths about everything from illegal immigration, to welfare, to crime. That’s why I got together with Ms. Mac Donald for an interview via email. […]

I absolutely loathe taking a day away from RWN for any reason except for my frequent vacations, but unfortunately, I’m not going to be doing any posts today. I have gotten incredibly far behind in doing a number of little maintenance related things for the page. In fact, if RWN was a house, the grass […]

I thought it might be instructive to compare how we in America treat people who protect their homes compared to how the Brits protect burglars who rob people’s homes. Here’s story #1 from “happy burglar land,” also known as Britain… “A man who stabbed to death an armed intruder at his home was jailed for […]

Whenever you talk about illegal immigration there are always people on the right who talk about the fantastic benefits of all that cheap labor & people on the left who want to pretend that no one could possibly have any objection to illegals other than out and out racism. But when illegals break the law […]

Governments around the world have condemned the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Yassin, a “frail quadriplegic who could barely see”, was an activist credited as being the “spritual leader” of Hamas. Hamas is an humanitarian organization which “has established charitable funds to establish schools, clinics and hospitals that provide free services to families in distress.” […]

As most of you probably already heard, Israel turned wheelchair bound Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin into a pile of twisted wreckage & red pulp with a missile last night and I could not approve more strongly of what they did…well scratch that, had they put a few missiles into Arafat’s compound so that Yassin […]

A new book by Richard Clarke, the former counter-terrorism coordinator for the Bush administration, charges that the president was so obsessed with Saddam Hussein that he delayed invading Iraq for 19 months after the 9/11 terror attacks “just so he could let his hatred of Saddam simmer in his mind.” Mr. Clarke told CBS reporter […]

I have to give a big RWN salute to the college Republicans at Roger Williams University for helping to expose Affirmative Action for what it is — a vile, discriminatory, practice that is every bit as immoral as Jim Crow laws were even if it does nowhere near the same amount of damage. Here’s what […]

What do you mean you’re against gay marriage?!?!? What are you? Some kind of Bible thumping, hate mongering, bigoted, monster who wants to deny gay people the right to marry? What about their civil rights, huh? Why do you want to deny gay people the same rights that you heterosexuals take for granted? What about […]

I know you’re not going to get this unless you’re a Simpsons junkie, but here’s the first thing I thought of when I saw John Kerry trying to look “oh so hip” with his snowboard…. Then after a Secret Service agent accidentally got in Kerry’s way when there were reporters with cameras around, Kerry fell […]

Secretary of State Colin Powell announced this morning that Massachusetts has replaced Iraq in the Axis of Evil. He stated that while there are no immediate plans for the United States to invade Massachusetts, America is closely monitoring the Massachusetts situation and may ask the UN Security Council to impose tougher sanctions on the rogue […]

Earlier this week, I pointed out a DU thread dedicated to discussing dirty tricks for the 2004 election. Well today, I found a similar thread that was aimed at someone who had the audacity to have a license plate that identified him as a member of the GOP. And there were plenty of Duer’s apparently […]

Although the Iranians, French, and North Koreans are reputed to be big fans of Kerry campaign, to the best of my knowledge, there have been two “foreign leaders” who have actually endorsed him at this point. The first was of course Spain’s new prime minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero who only got into office after […]

As per usual, the same mainstream press that spent weeks obsessing over the flimsy & bogus charges that George Bush was “AWOL” from the National Guard has for the most given John Kerry a free ride on his Vietnam protestor days. But there’s a story percolating on the right side of the net about Kerry’s […]

It’s bad enough that the left is trying to use activist judges to subvert the Democratic process and make gay marriage the law of the land despite the fact that there’s currently not a state in the union where it can win at the ballot box. But, do they have to stoop to trying to […]