Author: John Hawkins

It’s All About The…White Male Ego: You know, I’ve seen a lot of whacked out theories from leftists that supposedly explain what the war in Iraq is “really about“… The theories range from the ever popular, “war for oil”, & “revenge for Saddam’s attempt to Assassinate Bush 41”, to “colonialism”, “protecting Israel”, to a “war […]

Sometimes Pain Teaches Lessons Gratitude Doesn’t: I generally like Matt Welch’s writing and agree with many things he says although he’s to the left of center ideologically. However, when he says we’re being too hard on France, I have to disagree with him. Here’s the meat of a recent editorial he wrote on the subject… […]

Mini-Movie Review — House Of A 1000 Corpses: I caught Rob Zombie’s directorial debut, “House of 1000 Corpses” this week-end and I was blown away. For the most part, the movie hasn’t gotten great reviews and it’s not reeling in the money at the box office. However in my humble opinion, this is one of […]

In Defense Of Rick Santorum: The vast majority of the criticism that Rick Santorum is currently receiving is unfair and in some cases is designed to deliberately distort what he actually said. Since his critics are continuing to pile on, I thought he deserved a stronger defense than the one I gave him earlier this […]

I Want To Tell The Millions Of People Listening That I’ve Been Silenced: The, “Help! They’re Squashing My Dissent Club” gets larger and more ludicrous by the day. In this case, it’s Paul Begala going off the deep end on the Don Imus show. Here’s how Newsmax described it… “”Everybody who supports Bush kind of […]

An Interview With Condi Rice By Frank J.: This is the biggest coup RWN has ever pulled! Step aside Steyn, Hanson, and Horowitz, Frank J. has gotten RWN an interview with none other than Condi Rice herself…ehr, so he says! Read and enjoy! (Cont)

The Quote Of The Day From Zimbabwe: As the people of Zimbabwe starve, demented strongman Robert Mugabe is living the good life. Here’s an example of that, “Among the businesses paralysed by the strike was Zimbabwe’s most profitable vehicle company. Its workshops were locked up, 10 new Mercedes Benz E240 saloons inside them awaiting delivery […]

Maybe The Iraqis Would Have Been Better Off If Saddam Were Still Around: The lengths that today’s Democratic party will go to in order to take shots at Bush just boggles the mind. Here’s what Howard Dean, a man who actually has an outside chance to win the Democratic nomination for President had to say […]

The US Is Obviously The Most Benevolent World Power In The History Of The Planet: Apparently, Mark Goldblatt created quite a bit of controversy last week when he, “mentioned that the blame-America mindset characteristic of the antiwar movement’s true believers was difficult to maintain, “in light of the manifest truth that America is the most […]

I Get Letters — A Few Hate Mail Samples: Just for entertainment value, here are a few samples of the hate mail that I receive. This is pretty much run of the mill stuff…. From a man of few words named Joel Lively… John Hawkins …is an idiot.” Here’s one from someone named Mike Bloxham […]

Robbins Backs Lott Reinstatement By Rip Rowan: Tim Robbins, best known for his strong anti-war stance, has come out strongly in favor of returning Trent Lott to his position as US Senate Majority Leader. Lott stepped down from that post after critics blasted his comments at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party. At that party, Lott […]

Dennis Miller Blackballed By Hollywood Liberals For Showing Their Ignorance: Dennis Miller has been blackballed from Hollywood, according to celebrity spokesperson Janeane Garofalo, because he is “articulate, intelligent, informed, well-read and does not take himself too seriously and thereby we have decided that he does not ‘fit in’ with the rest of us.” Garofalo went […]

Rick Santorum Isn’t Another Trent Lott: Rick Santorum, R-Pa has gotten the “outrage industry” all upset with his recent comments about Lawrence v. Texas, a case dealing with sodomy laws that is in front of the Supreme Court. Here’s the money paragraph that has been getting the most play… “And if the Supreme Court says […]

The Canadians Shall Feel The Wrath Of The Zionist/VRWC Alliance!: I have an Israeli friend that I chat with on ICQ. I thought you might find part of our conversation from last night entertaining — especially if you live in “New Israel” — ehr Canada. I did edit this a bit and he wanted to […]

Neocons = Conservative Jewish Hawks To The Kooks?: I probably wouldn’t even bother to comment on this article from “Arab News” entitled, “Protocols of the Elders of Neocons” if I hadn’t seen the sentiments in it slipping into mainstream leftist and Paleocon thought. But, since there are some people out there who buy into this […]

With All the Different Types of Governments to Choose From, How Can You Go Wrong? By Frank J: So now the question is what kind of government should we, the benevolent U.S., establish in Iraq. Before they had a dictator, which made them a dictocracy. Most people want to now establish a democracy, but that […]

Misc: A few things of note… — First off, I have a new email policy which largely consists of ignoring most of my email =D. Unfortunately, despite the fact that I delete spam and answer a certain percentage of my email as it comes in, in a typical week I end up trying to sort […]

The Iraqi Museum Was Looted — Big Deal: In my opinion, the whole hubbub about the Iraqi museum being looted is much ado about…well I won’t say nothing, but quite frankly it’s not all that important in the scheme of things. I know, I know, I’m a philistine because obviously these ancient antiquities were lost […]

The Arafat Obituary: As some of you may have heard, CNN accidentally posted pre-created obituaries for a number of prominent figures including “Reagan, Hope, Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney.” But RWN reader NC noticed one prominent figure who didn’t make the cut — Yasser Arafat. So in […]

They’re Coming To Take Me Away — Ha-Ha!: I was perusing the Democratic Underground today and I ran across an interesting, although not necessarily out of character thread for DU. It seems that there are more than a few members of the DU who fear that the Bush administration is going to declare martial law, […]

The Music I’m Listening To Right Now: Just for entertainment value on a lazy Easter Monday, here is the current playlist I’m listening to right now on my computer… Barenaked Ladies — One Week Big Brovaz — Nu Flow Counting Crows — The ghost in you The Cure — Lullaby Dido – Thank you The […]

U.S. Finds Iraq Contractor with No Political Ties By Scott Ott: The U.S. government has awarded a $7.9 Billion contract for the redevelopment of Iraq’s oil industry to the only company it could find that had no political connections. The White House, under pressure from Democrats to avoid awarding bids to major campaign donors, located […]

Ask A Random Person: Hollywood Censorship By Shamus Young: Many leading Hollywood players have taken bold and controversial stances against the war, and have had to deal with unpleasant public backlash as a result. Many stars, such as Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Eddie Vedder, Madonna, and Martin Sheen, have complained that this is unfair censorship. […]

Gene Simmons — A Celebrity Who Gets It?: Gene Simmons of Kiss, a man who freely admits he’s to left of center politically, wrote a surprisingly powerful editorial on his homepage defending the invasion of Iraq and America itself. It was so good that I thought I should I quote a big chunk of it […]

That’s Not Patriotism, It’s Crossing The Line: Knuckleheads like this guy shouldn’t be defended by Conservatives… “A Soldotna man who dumped buckets of cold water on war protesters and produced a video of it set to patriotic music pleaded not guilty to criminal harassment Thursday in Kenai. …Webster, who has a son serving in the […]

PETA Protests Animals Being Killed by Other Animals By Shamus Young: PETA has championed the cause of animals for years, fighting for their right to live without fear of being killed and eaten. While some success has been made in persuading people to stop the barbaric practice of eating other creatures, a new study released […]

Chatting About The Mainstream Media Coverage Of The War With Emily Jones And Michele Catalano: I got together with Emily Jones from Give War A Chance and Michele Catalano from A Small Victory & The Command Post to discuss how the mainstream media has covered the war. Read and enjoy! (Cont)

The Democrats Learned The Wrong Lesson In 2002: Something Nancy Pelosi said caught my eye and I thought it was worth commenting on… “What is important, she (Pelosi) said, is that “never again will Democrats go into a campaign where it’s not clear about who we are, what we stand for, how different we are […]