Author: John Hawkins

This article from CNS News hammers home a point I’ve been making for a long time — the problem with our education system is not money… “According to recent testimony by Heritage Foundation scholar Krista Kafer, despite “considerable” increases in federal education spending, nearly six in 10 high school seniors “lack even a basic knowledge […]

Everywhere you look on the net there are people who are all jazzed up about Arnold Schwarzenegger getting in the governors race in California. Bush says he’d be a great governor, Katie Couric is pulling out the long knives and the editorials are everywhere. Despite all this excitement, enthusiasm, and energy, I have to admit […]

I have grown to appreciate James Lileks writing over time and he has become one my favorite Conservative writers. So I decided to compile a list of my favorite Lileks quotes from his Newhouse columns. Read and enjoy! (Cont)

Back in December of 2002, I did my first evaluation of the Democratic field. Since then, things have really started to shake out. A lot of candidates (some of them were admittedly longshots to get in) have apparently decided not to run this time around. Their ranks include Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Gray Davis, Dianne […]

So I’m reading this article by a Republican consultant named David Hill who says that he, “doubt(s) that blogging or any specific bloggers will match Limbaugh’s record-setting pace for gathering influence in the political process”. That quote reminds me of when Bill Gates said, “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” It just seems to […]

Scott Ott from Scrappleface was giving me the blow by blow of Al Gore’s speech from this afternoon on instant messenger and I was responding with snarky commentary. I thought it was entertaing enough to post (after a bit of editing) and it has to be better than actually listening to Gore’s soul-deadening droning about […]

Ben Murnane wrote an article based on an email interview he did with me for a print zine in Ireland called “Totally Fushed”. Unfortunately, the internet edition of the mag is defunct, so I don’t have a way to link to Murnane’s article. However, I do have a copy of the original interview and I […]

— I think Kobe Bryant is in a lot of trouble. We’ve already heard that his accuser told a bellhop what happened and was “disheveled and had red marks on her neck and face immediately following her encounter with Bryant”. Today, it emerged that Bryant’s accuser had vaginal tearing. Folks, that combo is about as […]

Today, on the 58th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Nicholas Kristof wrote a convincing column about why dropping the bomb on Japan was necessary. Here are a few key excerpts… “…The Japanese scholarship, by historians like Sadao Asada of Doshisha University in Kyoto, notes that Japanese wartime leaders who favored surrender saw their salvation […]

Many people have noted (Dean Esmay for one) that the Democrats are positioning themselves to take advantage of another stateside terrorist attack. However, I am of the opinion that another attack on American soil would probably help Bush politically, not hurt him. Now that may seem counterintuitive, but let me explain my reasoning. To begin […]

So far, the Democratic candidates have been playing coy and not one of them has called or sent me an email begging for my endorsement. However, the time to bribe me has passed and I am officially ready to throw all of RWN’s might behind a Democratic candidate. But of course RWN’s loyal readers deserve […]

Gov. Howard Dean cemented his Democrat presidential frontrunner status today when he healed a man of leprosy then walked across the surface of a small lake to his next campaign appearance. The Vermont Governor also shocked the pundits with his simultaneous appearance on the covers of Time, and Newsweek. Print journalists are writing about all […]

We have tobacco, fast food, & reparations lawsuits going on, but here’s one dumb lawsuit that I think Austria has beaten us to — Gamblers suing the casino to get some of their money back… “An Austrian court has ordered a casino to pay damages to a man who lost 2.5 million euro at their […]

Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said today that America is not ready for his party to nominate its first openly-liberal candidate in the post-Reagan era. “Officially we have a ‘don’t ask-don’t tell’ policy regarding liberalism,” said Mr. McAuliffe. “No openly-liberal candidate will receive the nomination.” The DNC manual suggests that secretly-liberal candidates refrain from […]

As expected — well, at least by anyone not from cloud cuckoo land — it looks like the Palestinian terrorist groups were only interested in using the “ceasefire” as a convenient opportunity to take a breather. Haaretz has the details… “Military intelligence warned Monday that Hezbollah and seven cells in the Ramallah-Nablus area are planning […]

Some people are annoyed by crying babies in a movie theater, people driving under the speed limit in the passing lane, any movie with Pauly Shore in it — you know, normal stuff. While all those things irritate me too, I get more perturbed with some of the things the mainstream media does on a […]

Yesterday, the Washington Post seemed to have broken a big story. Here’s what they said… “Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, have signaled to the White House that they intend to step down even if President Bush is reelected, setting the stage for a substantial reshaping of the administration’s […]

Ya know, I love animals — and not just with a side of mashed potatoes. Take my dog, Patton. He’s just the greatest dog and I don’t think twice about spending money left and right on him, taking him on long walks, playing with him when I don’t feel like it sometimes, etc. Heck, I […]

Vermont Gov. Howard Dean announced today that he hates President George Bush more than any of his Democrat presidential rivals do, especially Sen. John Kerry. “I acknowledge that Senator Kerry has a certain disdain for George Bush,” said Gov. Dean. “But my hatred for the president is pure, and deep and wide. My rage about […]

Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murders, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history — have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst were? Well, we here at RWN wondered about that too and that’s why we decided to email more than a […]

Just as a little change of pace, here are my 40 favorite hard rock/rap songs. When I head to the beach, I love to put these songs in my CD player, crank it up, and chew up the highway…. AC/DC — Back in Black AC/DC — Big Gun AC/DC — Highway to Hell AC/DC — […]

One thing I didn’t touch on in the editorial I wrote this morning about how The Gop Needs To Reach Out To Conservative Black Voters, was the fact that the Democratic Party is guilty of the very same racism that it accuses the GOP of engaging in. Of course, many people have pointed out that […]

10. Put two biological weapons in an arena and have them fight it out. Kill! Kill! 9. Finally get rid of those gophers. 8. Sell them to another country for a big profit. Attack country and steal it’s oil for proliferating nuclear weapons. 7. Hold world hostage for one meeeelion dollars. Spend the money on […]

As a party, the GOP does a lousy job of reaching out to black voters. Maybe we run a few commercials here & there or the President gives a speech at the National Urban League and we go, “See? We made the effort. 90% of the black vote is going to go to the Democrats […]

— I was pleased when Bush said, “I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman, and I think we ought to codify that one way or the other.” It looks like W. is going to pursue a Constitutional Amendment forbidding gay marriage and I think that’s good policy. Furthermore, this will give […]

TIKRIT, Iraq – With his sons dead and his bodyguard captured, former Iraqi President at large Saddam Hussein is showing less of a brave face about the Iraqi resistance, sources close to him say. Sources close to Saddam also wonder how many Dinars 25 million dollars go into, if it’s really as much as they […]

Day By Day captured the essence of my Democrats Who Want To Win Vs. Democrats Who Want To Vent post from yesterday with this cartoon… Now if only they could replace some of the worthless comics on the funny pages with Day by Day. I mean come on, is anyone really reading the comics to […]

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There are a lot of great movies that have been made over the years — but which ones really stand out of the crowd as the best of all-time? Well, we here at RWN decided to find out. So we emailed more than a hundred bloggers to get their opinions. All bloggers were allowed to […]