Author: John Hawkins

Right Wing News emailed more than a 150 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be “History’s Most Interesting Dinner Companions”. Representatives from 39 blogs responded. All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received. The […]

Just for the heck of it, a few comments about blogs & bloggers around the net… — Where oh where has Rachel Lucas gone, where oh where can she be? Come on Rachel, you’re too talented to let your blog waste away. — Et tu The Lemon, et tu? — I have always loved Dawn […]

France today lodged a formal complaint at the United Nations over the new design of the U.S. Nickel. The reverse of the new nickel commemorates the bicentennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, when the U.S. bought 800,000 square miles of French territory for four cents an acre. “The government of the United States is taunting […]

As we all know, Gray Davis set California on fire in vengeance for people recalling him. It could happen again, and thus I set my crack research team to find out all they can about brush fires so people can be more prepared in the future. FUN FACTS ABOUT BRUSH FIRES * Brush fires are […]

Here are the two money paragraphs from New York Times cartoonist & popular left-wing columnist Ted Rall’s latest screed that I think illustrates the childlike approach to the issues that many people on the left take today… “It’s high time that victorious Democrats stop being suckered by reckless Republicans into cleaning up their messes. Walking […]

I currently have 27 interviews up on RWN and I thought it was about time that I put together a selection of quotes from them. So I sorted through every interview and picked out my faves from Coulter, Tancredo, Steyn, and the rest. Hope you find the quotes to be enlightening and entertaining! (Cont)

After the disastrous 2002 elections, I followed the debate on the left about what went wrong with great interest. What I noticed was that two schools of thought emerged. On the one hand, you had Democrats saying that the party was coming across as too shrill & too far out of the mainstream. They were […]

I knew the Germans were more than a little nutty, but this has got to be off the charts on the wackymeter… “Children will be allowed to vote in Germany if some leading members of the country’s parliament have their way. The proposal, seen as a counter-balance to an aging population resistant to welfare cuts, […]

The New York Times revealed today that Saddam Hussein desperately tried to avert the Coalition attack on Iraq in March but could not find the phone number to the White House, or No. 10 Downing Street. The Iraqi dictator reportedly wanted to offer sweeping concessions, and even “unconditional terms”, but his intelligence officers could not […]

There are some things that you really shouldn’t have to explain to people. You know, like don’t put your hand on a hot stove, don’t spit into the wind, and don’t buy into the notion that Jews “rule the world by proxy”. Of course, that’s a reference to the now infamous speech that ex-Malaysian Prime […]

The numbers you’re about to see are the changes in party identification since 9/11 in key swing states for the 2004 election. Although I have often said that I believed 9/11 moved America a couple of steps to the right, even my jaw dropped when I saw this… “Arkansas: current — GOP, 33 percent; Democrats […]

New York – Continuing with their successful “Re-Imagining History” series, CBS network today announced that it will broadcast “Betsy Ross: Crack Whore” during the upcoming Fall sweeps period. “Yeah, we know we’ll probably catch some flak from the nit-pickers,” said CBS VP Leslie Moonves. “But, like, is everyone so anal these days that we always […]

A misconception contained in a post about bloggers on Free Republic caught my eye and I thought it was worth commenting. Weimdog says… “Bloggers only imagine they have influence because they influence each other. If you asked the average politically aware conservative if he’s heard of Glenn Reynolds or Mickey Kaus, he’d give you a […]

Bernard Goldberg’s book about how the media slants the news, “Bias,” was a huge success. Well now Goldberg is back with a new book about the foibles of the media, “Arrogance“. “Arrogance” isn’t actually going to be released until today, but I was sent an early copy and I got together with Bernie on Thursday […]

As we all know, there are people on the left who blame Bush for EVERYTHING! They think he rigged the 2000 & 2002 elections, killed Paul Wellstone, was behind 9/11, invaded Iraq AND Afghanistan for oil, secretly takes orders from Ariel Sharon, etc, etc, etc. You name it and they think Bush is somehow tied […]

The Senate version of the Head Start reform bill would rename and ‘re-mission’ the Great Society program. Instead of trying to prepare poor children for school in hopes of enhancing achievement, ‘Slow Start’ will enroll children from middle-class and wealthy families and attempt to “confuse and de-motivate them” so that they won’t excel their peers […]

The nuclear genie is about to get all the way out of the bottle folks. We’ve just barely got him by the big toe and we’re holding on for dear life. The IAEA gives us a few details about how bad it could get… “Up to 40 countries are believed to be capable of manufacturing […]

I heard about how a bunch of liberals have this movie about Reagan’s presidency coming out where they make stuff up, so, I was thinking, why don’t I write the script for a fair and balanced movie about Bill Clinton’s presidency where I just do a little extrapolation about things I don’t know about for […]

You know, I like Donald Luskin’s work a lot and I’m certainly no fan of Atrios at Eschaton. But IMO, I think Donald Luskin was in the wrong to have his lawyer send a letter to Atrios which reads in part… “Dear “Atrios”: This firm represents Donald L. Luskin, a Contributing Editor to National Review […]