Author: John Hawkins

A Blogger Symposium On The 2004 Election: Thanks to Laurence Simon from Amish Tech Support, Talk Radio Host Cam Edwards who also runs a blog called Cam Edwards.com, David Hogberg of Cornfield Commentary & The American Spectator Online, Pejman Yousefzadeh from Pejmanesque, & Kamil Zogby from Zogby Blog for participating in this symposium. Here is […]

The Problem With Our Education System Is Not Money: I’ve been saying for a long time that our education system is not underfunded and our teachers are not underpaid. However, this concept has been hammered into our psyches for so long that the American people get suckered by the same appeals for more money every […]

Even More Things To Ponder: Here are a few things I wanted to mention that probably weren’t quite developed enough to deserve their own posts… — John Kerry, Dick Gephardt, and Joe Lieberman seem to now be the big three leaders in the hunt for the Democratic nomination and Kerry seems to have the most […]

Let Guatemala Take Care Of Its Own Citizens: Here’s another reason why health care is so expensive … “Martin Memorial Medical Center attorneys asked a judge Thursday to order a penniless Guatemalan man out of the fourth-floor hospital room where he has racked up more than $1 million in bills since a February 2000 head-on […]

Ashcroft Asks Congress for Wonder Twin Powers By Scott Ott: U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress today to increase the Justice Department’s effectiveness in fighting terrorism by granting his staff so-called “Wonder Twin Powers.” The special powers, previously only available to Super Friends Zan and Jayna, would allow teams of Justice Department lawyers to […]

RWN’s Favorite Muhammad Ali Quotes: When I was a kid, I absolutely LOVED Muhammad Ali. He was one of my heroes then…and he still is. I actually have an autographed pic of the champ in my room staring at me even as I write this intro for the his quotes. Now I know a lot […]

Fifteen Blogs That Have Been On A Roll: For no other reason than because I can, I thought I should link just SOME of the blogs that I have found to be particularly entertaining &/or informative as of late. By the way, if I didn’t mention your blog, don’t take it personal. These sorts of […]

Stop Learning So Fast Children!: If we had a real voucher system set-up, any parent with a gifted kid at Mt. Diablo high school could move their kids to a decent school that actually meets their needs. But instead, they’re being forced to put up with this… “In a 3-2 vote, the Mt. Diablo school […]

Hail Erich Rudolph: Not everyone loathes Eric Rudolph, the man accused of a terrorist bombing campaign. As a matter of fact, he has quite a few admirers. So in today edition of ACPOTI (Anyone can post on the internet), we’re featuring comments from some of Eric Rudolph’s biggest fans, the backwards white supremacists & Nazis […]

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The Ted Rall Alternate Reality Quote Of The Day: Either Ted Rall penned his latest column from some sort of alternate universe or he’s so detached from reality that he probably needs psychological counseling. I’m guessing option two is closer to the mark. Just look at the opening of his latest column and you’ll see […]

A New Way Of Spinning Tax Cuts: If political rhetoric were a road, the phrase, “tax cuts for the wealthy” would be a waist deep rut because Democratic pols and pundits use it so often. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about getting rid of the marriage penalty, giving people a tax credit for having […]

More Mainstream Media Coverage For RWN: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer discussed RWN’s A Blogger Symposium On The Media & The Blogosphere in an editorial. They quoted yours truly and ***gasp of shock*** even included a link to RWN, which is believe it or not fairly rare when it comes to the online version of newspapers. On […]

Gun Control Helps Criminals: If you want to know what’s wrong with gun control then you don’t have to look much further than this story… “As his back door was kicked in Monday afternoon, a South End homeowner – confined to his bed because of a disability – called 911 with one hand and grabbed […]

Paranoid Man Actually Being Watched By Government By Shawn M. Thorgersen : NEW YORK-Agents from a top secret government agency admitted yesterday, on condition of anonymity, to spying on Jack Holderstadt, a Burger King Assistant Manager in Ronkonkoma, Long Island. “I knew they were out to get me!” exclaimed Holderstadt at a press meeting. “My […]

Turning Young Minds Full Of Mush Into Cyber Criminals: It’s ridiculous that any college would have a course like this… “A university course in Canada teaching students how to create computer viruses has been met with derision by angry industry watchers, who believe it will create a pool of future virus writers. The ‘Computer Viruses […]

Friends & Enemies In The Post-Iraq World: There are quite a few interesting stats in the latest Pew Poll that I thought were worth commenting on. In fact, there’s so much stuff in here worth talking about that I’m going to have to keep my comments short or this post will end up being ridiculously […]

Threat Level Upped to Red When Broker Says “Enron” by Scott Ott: The Homeland Security Department briefly increased the national security threat level to “Red” this afternoon when a Wall Street Broker apparently used the word Enron in a sentence. Fighter jets were scrambled over New York City, and some school children donned gas masks […]

Miscellaneous: A few things of note… — Many blogs entered our “Link RWN & Win Contest“, but only a few sent us enough traffic to qualify. Here are the blogs that qualified… IMAO, Right We Are!, The Catholic Samurai, Gut Rumbles, 4Ranters, Sgt. Hook, & Curmudgeonly & Skeptical. And the two big winners are…..Right We […]

According To The Guardian, America Is Practically A Dissent Free Zone: This editorial by the Guardian’s Gary Younge about the lack of dissent is America is so far off the mark you’d think it was written by a space alien observing human beings for the first time. Just look at how far he goes out […]

This Is Pathetic — Even For The French: France put America’s security at risk by undercutting the war in Iraq & they’ve worked hard to rally Europe and the rest of the world against us. Make no mistake about it, France has acted like an enemy nation that views it’s own success as being tied […]

Hypocrisy Overload: I wanted to post this snippet from today’s Raspberry column because I thought it was so incredibly hypocritical and because I’ve heard similar sentiments voiced over & over again by other lefties… “(The Democrats) lost an election that should have been theirs on a gimme, requiring, for instance, only that their standard-bearer carry […]

A Blogger Symposium On The Media & The Blogosphere: Thanks to Juan Gato from The Shallow End, Susanna Cornett from Cut On The Bias, N.Z. Bear from The Truth Laid Bear, & Eugene Volokh from The Volokh Conspiracy for participating in our latest symposium. Read & enjoy! (Cont)

Humpty Dumpty & The Old World Order: There’s no question that the relationship between America and Europe has changed drastically in the post 9/11 world. Victor Davis Hanson explains what the difference is… “Our troubles with Europe are said to arise from differing views of the world order and an imbalance in military power. Yet […]

An Economist Andrew Sullivan Isn’t: Sully shows all the critical thinking skills of Maureen Dowd after a three martini lunch as he reviews a poorly written article in the Financial Times about America’s future deficits. Here’s a quote from the article and Sully’s comment… “The study’s analysis of future deficits dwarfs previous estimates of the […]

Europeans Shocked By The Obvious: Apparently the Euroweenies are shocked, shocked I tell you, at the mundane comments that Paul Wolfowitz recently made to Vanity Fair. Conservatives have been saying about the same things that Wolfowitz just did for months. Let me show you what I mean by posting Wolfowitz’s “controversial” statements said along with […]

Frank Tips for Meeting With Jacques Chirac By Frank J: President Bush will be meeting with Jacques Chirac today for the first time since the war, so I have some tips for him about the meeting: * Start by working the body. You’ll want to start slow, which means a series of punches to his […]

The Questions Conspiracy Theorists Need To Ask Themselves: Because I regularly read through offbeat websites in order to compile new editions of “Anyone can post on the internet“, I get a lot of opportunities to peruse the latest crackpot conspiracy theories. During any given week I may read about Planet X, the Illuminati / Free […]