Author: John Hawkins

Cutting Away The Chafe — Why Are We Really Hitting Iraq?: Let me cut through all the propaganda, hype and spin to get down to the root of why we need to invade Iraq. After 9/11, it was clear that we could no longer continue to stick our heads in the sand and ignore the […]

Your Whacko Of The Day: Ladies and gentlemen, your whacko conspiracy theory of the day follows from a page called Who & Why and it’s a doozy… “…On November 20, 2001, I notified the FBI, and the US Postal Inspector General in Las Vegas and Washington DC., that George Herbert Walker Bush, Former President of […]

Diplomatic Crisis Escalates Between France and U.S. as Rumsfeld Brands Chirac a “Trick-*ss B*tch” By Ryan Clancy: As the Iraq crisis continues to widen the rift between the U.S. and the French, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has taken the diplomatic barbs to a new level by characterizing French President Jacques Chirac as a “trick-*ss […]

Dove Hunting In Iraq By Ron Marr: It strikes me that Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton have something very much in common. That said, before the smoke pours from liberal ears, let me state that I’m not comparing the infinite inhumanity of the former with the sleazy egocentrism of the latter. Miles of distance exist […]

Refuting The Top Ten Most Annoying Anti-War Cliches: 10) Why Is The U.S. Going To War With Iraq And Not North Korea? Let me answer that question with some questions. Why did we go to war with Hitler during WW2 and not Stalin immediately after? Why is Milosevic at The Hague today while Castro is […]

Joke Of The Day: Currently, I’m reading Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, but next I’m going to be reading David Horowitz’s How To Beat The Democrats And Other Subversive Ideas. Today, I actually read the preface & first chapter of Horowitz’s book and it was […]

Our Sliding Education Standards In Tennessee: I was reading Ravenwood’s page and I came across a link to this ridiculous item in the Tennessean… “No more zeroes. Assigning a grade no lower than 50 for Metro’s youngest students is the most startling proposal in a new set of grading guidelines up for final discussion next […]

A Little Help Here: Four things… 1) I’m planning to put together a list of annoying celebrity quotes since 9/11. That includes American & maybe even foreign celebrities. If you have any that you think should be included, feel to put them in the comments section. 2) You see the slogan on the RWN banner, […]

Richard Perle On What We Should Have Learned From 9/11: On Sunday, Richard Perle debated Representative Dennis Kucinich, (D-Ohio) on Russert’s show. While Perle was thoroughly demolishing Kucinich, he made a point that those of us on the pro-war side should be repeating more often. Here’s the key exchange… Rep. Kucinich: Tim, I have to […]

The Greys Are Mutants From Atlantis Who Bred With Lizards And Survived Earths Cataclysms: While perusing various conspiracy sites to get material for ACPOTI (Anyone can post on the internet), I’ve run across various references to a guy named David Icke. After doing a little checking around, I found that his web page is quite […]

Louis Farrakhan’s Last Hurrah?: Louis Farrakhahn is back and sounding as unbalanced as ever in what he calls his, “final appearance”. That could be because of health reasons (a bladder infection that led to an inflammation of his lower abdomen was mentioned) or perhaps the following statement from Farrakhan explains why he thinks he won’t […]

History Of The World 1 — George Clooney 0: Celebrity George Clooney has taken time out from his busy schedule to explain to all us “little people” why all war is pointless. Let’s see what he has to say… “You can’t beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people […]

Ordinary Americans Getting The Message Out In Iraq: You want the embodiment of that, “be a pack not a herd” phrase that Glenn Reynolds likes to talk about? Then simply go to the, “Iraq Daily News.” It’s an Iraqi run website — one that generates a lot of traffic judging by the fact that it’s […]

An Interview With Mona Charen: I was very pleased to get a chance to do a phone interview with Mona Charen. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Mona’s work, she has been a speech writer for Nancy Reagan & Jack Kemp, she’s a CNN commentator, her syndicated column appears in more than 200 […]

The VRWC Commemorative Knives Are In: I received a letter today from VRWC membership chairman George Bush Sr and I decided to post it to RWN. I’m not really supposed to do that, but I’m sure that I can trust all of you not to spread it around — mainly because the VRWC is monitoring […]

Human Shields Aren’t Going To Stop Anything: As most of you know, quite a few Western human shields war tourists have gone to Iraq in an effort to stop the war. According to this article in the New York Times, there are 132 of them running around. You know, there is a little something about […]

Fisking Chuck Hagel: Chuck Hagel, who I put right up there with John McCain, Trent Lott, & Howard Coble in the “annoying elected Republican” category, weighed in on the war at Kansas State University. Hagel starts things out by waffling on his war stand, which incidentally is a big pet peeve of mine… I’m not […]

Feeling A Little Hot, Cold, Or Just Right ? Then It’s Probably Global Warming: This week the East Coast was hammered with massive snow and ice storms. DC was practically shut down, part of Maryland got four feet of snow and even down here in Charlotte NC, we were hit with a pretty nasty little […]

Ridge Offers New ‘Pre-Emptive’ Steps to Combat Terrorism by Scott Ott:(2003-02-20) — At his second news conference in as many days, Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge today announced another three-step plan for defeating terrorism. The new guidelines follow yesterday’s clever slogan “Make a kit. Make a Plan. Be Informed.” The department’s new website at Ready.gov […]

Reagan On Freedom, War, And Appeasement: Back in 1964, before Ronald Reagan had held political office, he gave a nationaly televised speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Although Goldwater didn’t win, “the speech” launched Reagan’s politcal career. “The Speech” is full of good stuff on the role of government and the economy, but it’s most […]

What’s So Great About America?: There are plenty of people out there who believe that America is the root of all evil and they can reel off a list of our faults as long as your arm. Indeed, plenty of things have happened in this country that we shouldn’t be proud of. Off the top […]

RWN’s Short & Sweet Guide To Creating Your Own Blog: Over the last few months I’ve gotten more than a few emails asking me for advice about how to create a blog. Well, if you want to be the next Glenn Reynolds, Charles Johnson, or Michele Catalano, today is your lucky day. I’ve been a […]

Wife Beating — Saudi Style: The Saudi government controlled Arab News has punched up an article condemning wife beating (you can’t prove a pun was intended). At first glance, you’d think that was a good thing. Especially in a backwards hellhole like Saudi Arabia where women are regularly treated like chattel. However, Arab News actually […]

In My World: Somewhere There Is A Very Angry Universe With Two Belgiums: “Impudent nations!” French President Jacques Chirac exclaimed at a press conference in his stronghold. He was greatly angered by the east European candidates for EU membership who issued pro-American statements and wished nothing more than to chide them publicly. “What you have […]

France Drools — New Europe Rules: Tony Blankley is furious with France because they recently threatened to block several nations in “New Europe” from enterting the EU over their support for the US… “Adding hypocrisy to thuggery, the French president lectured Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary that they should have “a minimum of understanding […]

To Bad It Wasn’t A Chemical Gas, Then Maybe They Would Of Wiped Out More Of The Pieces Of Sh*T: Most of you have probably heard about what happened in a Chicago nightclub early on Monday morning. Some pepper spray was released into the air and as 1500 people tried to get out the club, […]

Look Out, Jimmy Carter Is On Their Side! Snicker, Snicker: The Daily Mirror, an anti-war British paper, seems to be quite pleased with the fact that Jimmy Carter signed up for the “Daily Mirror’s Not in My Name campaign”… “It remains to be seen just how effective his influence can be on the warmongers. But […]

The Top Ten Ways North Korea Could Look Even Crazier By Frank J.:While we wait (and wait and wait) for inevitable war with Iraq, North Korea is still trying to crazy their way to our attention. Now they are claiming they can beat us in a nuclear war. “In the North Korea-U.S. nuclear standoff, which […]

The Non-Existent Anti-Immigrant Agenda: I felt a need to respond to Cathy Young latest snide editorial in Reason in which she makes the claim that Conservatives have an “anti-immigrant agenda”. To begin with, there is no, “anti-immigrant agenda.” Conservatives simply think there should be some standards applied to immigration whereas far too many liberals and […]