Author: John Hawkins

What Is Freedom For The Iraqi People Worth?: I’m not going to try to snow you and pretend that the primary reason I favor an invasion of Iraq is because I want to see the Iraqi people liberated. To the contrary, the principal reason I want to see us remove Saddam is because I believe […]

War With Iraq? It’s All About The Stargate!: According to some nut named Michael E. Salla who claims to be a college professor (I really, really, hope he just made that up) — Iraq is all about the Stargate. I think the abstract pretty much sums it up… “Most, if not all, criticisms of the […]

In My World — One Last Chance By Frank J.: The moment of truth has arrived at the U.N., as an informal Security Council meeting will finally decided the U.N.’s position on Iraq. If the U.N. votes for the military action, it will give further support to the U.S. war with Iraq. If the U.N. […]

RWN’s Favorite Success Quotes: I graduated from college with a Psych major & a Communications minor. Back in those days, I went through a lot of books — many of them on pop psychology and communications. However, I eventually got to a point where I felt like I was reading the same book over and […]

Ghostbusters: Second Coming Of Gozer Imminent by Rip Rowan: According to a press release by Dr. Peter Venkman of Ghostbusters, Inc., a second coming of the ancient Sumerian god Gozer is "days or weeks, not months or years" away. Ghostbusters, a paranormal elimination company based in New York, was responsible for the 1984 protonic reversal […]

The 15 Most Commented Upon Posts Of 2003: I thought you might be interested in seeing the 15 posts that have drawn the most comments so far in 2003. Here they are with the number of comments made in ()… (43) Feeling A Little Hot, Cold, Or Just Right ? Then It’s Probably Global Warming […]

Email From A Reader: Here’s an email I received today from RWN reader Ben Murnane along with my response… John, …but the US helped liberate France 58 years ago and that’s supposed to equal a blank cheque of support? Y’know, 5 French villagers still die every year from unexploded munitions at Verdun, where one million […]

Random Jottings: — The latest thing that French apologists have come up with is, “You people are bashing the French, but they helped us in the American Revolution! Oh and do you want to give the Statue of Liberty back?” Let’s see, roughly 220 years ago the French helped us revolt against the Brits and […]

James Zogby’s Credibility Is Shot: Before the 2002 elections, I questioned whether we could trust James Zogby’s polls which showed the Democrats doing very well in the 2002 Senate elections while all the other major polls showed the opposite. Here’s what I said the day before the election… “While I haven’t written him off completely, […]

CIA Leaks Again: Shhh! Don’t Tell Bin Laden By Scott Ott: U.S. and Pakistani intelligence authorities are asking the public not to tell Usama bin Laden or any of his followers about all the information they’re leaking to global news organizations. For example, USA Today ran a story revealing that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s laptop computer […]

Impeachment Campaign Commercial #2: According to Roll Call, “John Conyers assembled more than two-dozen prominent liberal attorneys and legal scholars on Tuesday to mull over articles of impeachment drafted against President Bush by activists seeking to block military action against Saddam Hussein.” Like the draft proposal, this has no hope of succeeding and it could […]

Freedom Fries Aren’t Going To Cut It: France has spent the last few months vigorously thrusting their knives into our backs at every opportunity. Yet, they’re already laying the groundwork to try to get back into our good graces. Here’s French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte… “”We don’t see participation in Iraq’s reconstruction as a privilege,” said […]

Why Don’t You Want To Join The ICC — What Could Ever Happen?: Ever since the Bush administration shot down the International Criminal Court I’ve seen plenty of conversations that go about like this… Concerned Conservative: The International Criminal Court is a threat to our sovereignty. You know that we’d see lots of politically motivated […]

In My World: Robot Spiders Almost as Hostile to Questions as Rumsfeld By Frank J.: “War could be any day now.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld exclaimed, “I’ve told my troops to start killing a few Iraqis each day to warm up.” “Shouldn’t you be solemn and reserved about the horrible prospective of war?” asked […]

The Left, The Flag, & Patriotism: You know, the flag is nothing but a symbol of America. The majority of people who display it on their cars or fly it over their homes, do so simply as a show of respect and admiration for this great nation in which we live. That’s not propaganda or […]

Answering 50 Frequently Asked Questions About The War On Terrorism: 1) Is this a rush to war? Not at all. We’re working on the 19th UN Resolution since the Gulf War related to Iraqi disarmament. Furthermore, Bush has been talking about Iraq for more than a year. You could even go back to Bush’s speech […]

The Questions I Ask Myself About The War On Terrorism: When you face a tough decision, it’s always a good idea to know the pros and cons of what you’re about to do. Well, that has been done to death when it comes to the invasion of Iraq. At this point, just about every war […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Story: Many of you have probably heard left-wingers saying that we should free Mumia Abu-Jamal, but you may not know his story. Well, Ralph R. Reiland did a column yesterday that gave a pretty good synopsis of why this cause celebre of the left is in jail. I thought it was worth sharing […]

In My World: Bush and Chirac Personally Supervise Inspections By Frank J.: In an effort to prove whether Iraq is actually disarming, President Bush and President Chirac went to Iraq to personally watch Saddam as he destroyed his weapons of mass destruction. “You aren’t going to get anything past me, Saddam,” Bush warned, “I know […]

Democratic Congressman: I Blame The Jews!: Rep. James Moran, D-Va took a page from the loony white supremacist, conspiracy freaks in a March 3rd speech and blamed the Jews for the upcoming war with Iraq… “If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not […]

Tears Of The Sun Review: I caught “Tears Of The Sun” this week-end and I can’t say that I was terribly impressed. The movie was set in Nigeria which was supposed to be in the middle of a violent coup complete with savage ethnic cleansing and genocidal murder sprees (think Rawanda). A team of SEALs […]

The Music I’m Listening To Right Now: Just for entertainment value, here is the current playlist I’m listening to right now… – Dixie Chicks — Landslide – DMX — Ain’t no sunshine – Jars of Clay — Flood – Jennifer Lopez — Jenny from the block – Lost Prophets — Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja – […]

Dont Believe On American Democracy! Is A Farse!! Your People Will Be A American Slave, Like On Porto Rico And Mexico: I was a little surprised to get another ICQ message from Doug (name changed to protect the dopey) tonight. At the end of my last ICQ prank, I did give him my web page […]

Anti-Americanism Is Nothing New: I was talking to an Israeli friend of mine on ICQ today and he asked me what I thought about all the anti-Americanism in the world today. What I told him and what I’m going to tell you, is that there’s nothing new about anti-Americanism — it’s been around since our […]

Nervous Hussein Posts Resume On Major Internet Sites By G. Alan Groop: San Jose, California – Companies worldwide, searching for job candidates, may have been surprised to see the newly-posted resume of Saddam Hussein appear on several of the major internet job search sites. This action by Hussein may be an indicator that he has […]