Author: John Hawkins

Looking At The War From An Iraqi Perspective: Since war with Iraq is almost inevitable at this point, I thought it might be interesting to visit the only Iraqi blog that I know of, “Where is Raed? Here are three posts from that blog that I thought were of particular interest… On the American psywar […]

U.N. Security Council Sets Conditions for Invasion By Scott Ott: (2003-02-05) — After U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s compelling Presentation of evidence that Iraq is violating U.N. sanctions, the Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force if the following qualifications are met: –Multiple independently-targetted warheads are launched from Iraq toward any […]

Quote Of The Day: This quote from Ralph Peters describes many of the celebrities who have come out against the war lately, Jimmy Carter, and a lot of the anti-war crowd to the T… “The “peace movement” is and has been a curious affair for at least a century. It has always found its recruits […]

In My World: U.S. Troops To Be Led By Haunted Robot: Secretary of State Colin Powell plans to present evidence to the U.N. today that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and is mocking the rest of the world. On one audio tape, Saddam reportedly says, “I have weapons of mass destruction! Stupid world; I […]

The World’s Collective Blindspot: There are a couple of polls I’ve seen lately that I find to be quite troubling. First up is a poll mentioned by David Frum… “Last week, the left-wing tabloid the Daily Mirror sponsored a poll of British opinion about Iraq. It offered readers three options: immediate war, war after further […]

America Corrupts The Children Of Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s Arab News has run an unintentionally hilarious editorial called, “Another American trick.” Apparently we American pig-dog, Yankee, capitalist, cowboy hegemons are corrupting the youth of Saudi Arabia. Arab News covers the chilling story… “In an attempt to counter the effects of a popular campaign calling for […]

A Short Guide To Blogosphere Jargon: I frequently have people ask me what particular terms they hear around the “blogosphere” actually mean. In order to answer these questions, I decided to create my own little reference guide that covers the most used terms. Some of these definitions were written from scratch and others were gathered […]

Richard Perle Pulls Out The ‘Clue Bazooka’: The “head of the Pentagon’s top advisory board,” Richard Perle, put down the “clue bat” and picked up a clue bazooka that he promptly launched at point blank range directly at the Axis of Weasels… “France is no longer the ally it once was,” Perle said. And he […]

Fisking The Saddam Hussein Interview: You’ve just got to read this fawning, softball, interview w/ Saddam done by some anti-war British politico. To begin with, the Brit pol in question, Tony Benn pumps out a little leftist spiel that somehow reminds me of when Scott Ritter said that he wasn’t going to talk about the […]

Another Whacked Out Celebrity Shoots Off His Mouth? Big Surprise There…: “David Clennon, star of the hit CBS television series “The Agency,” is the latest celebrity to make a jackass out of himself. Here’s what Clennon bloviated about to Sean Hannity, “I’m saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is […]

Quote Of The Day: Tony Blair had this to say yesterday, “When people say to me why are you risking everything in a sense, politically, on this issue I say to them in all honesty I do not want to be the Prime Minister when people point the finger back at history and say you […]

Country Music Suggestions Needed: For the first time ever, I’m starting to get into country music. It began with Toby Keith’s, “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue.” I really liked that song, which is why I went ahead and listened to a Johnny Cash cover of, “Hurt.” Again, that was just a phenomenal song. […]

Patients Fail to Notice Physician ‘Slowdown’ Protest By Scott Ott: (2003-02-03) — Although more than 1,300 New Jersey physicians staged a work slowdown Monday to protest the high cost of malpractice insurance, patients reported no difference in service. “Sure, I sat there naked under that flimsy gown for several hours, but what’s new?” said Alan […]

Superhero Wanted By Ozrael: Are you a bored millionaire playboy? An evolutionarily deviant offshoot from humanity? A time traveler from the future armed with a deadly plethora of high-tech weaponry? A Norse God fallen to Earth in mortal form destined to return gloriously to the halls of Valhalla? A genetically engineered super-soldier? Perhaps you are […]

The Wartime Glossary By Rand Simberg: For those who, like me, seem to be watching coverage of the Iraq situation as reported by people from a bizarro dimension, in which they speak a language very similar to English, but with subtle and confusing differences, I think that I’ve finally broken the code, and have thus […]

Did Al Qaeda Hire Eric Margolis To Write Press Releases?: You have got to read this editorial by Eric Margolis in the Toronto Sun. This exact same editorial could appear, unedited on an Al-Qaeda website. In fact, the only thing missing is a call to Jihad against America. You think I’m exaggerating? Let me give […]

Fisking Bill Bradley On The War: Former Presidential candidate Bill Bradley has penned an editorial saying that George Bush hasn’t made the case for invading Iraq. I took a look at what Mr. Bradley had to say and wrote out a point by point response… The State of the Union address was President Bush’s opportunity […]

Ronald Reagan’s Speech on the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion (1986): Back in 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded during take-off. Ronald Reagan gave the following speech in response to that tragic accident. The names are different, but otherwise his words are just as applicable today. You can see a little of this Reagan speech in […]

Allah Has Made Sure That His Footsteps Never Touched The Ground Ever Again: It’s been a while since I looked in on the radical Islamists at the Clear Guidance forums. But, when I checked in today, I found that they were mocking the destruction of the Columbia. You can see the thread I got these […]

Columbia Is Gone: I normally don’t post on the week-end, but this is exceptional situation. As I’m sure all of you know, the Columbia “disintegrated in flames 200,000 feet above north central Texas today, killing all seven astronauts aboard.” The President spoke about the Columbia this afternoon and you can read the text of his […]

Welcome To The VRWC Dawn: You know, if I were a Democrat, I’d find this post on Dawn Olsen’s page disturbing. Why? Because, Dawn is talking about her recent “almost complete” conversion to Conservatism and juding by the comments, she’s not alone. Here are a few excerpts from Dawn’s post and from some of the […]

Dissent In America? No Way!: Thanks to Tim Blair, Aussie blogger extraordinaire and former RWN interviewee for pointing out this delightful editorial by Aussie Mike Carlton. This may SHOCK you my friends, but it seems there are people in the United States who…I can hardly bring myself to say it…disagree with George Bush! I know, […]

Whatever It Takes — Never Again: I wish all the anti-war protestors who are doing everything in their power to try to stop us from destroying the global terrorist network, had to read what you’re about to read. It might make some of them a little less concerned about the rights of terrorists & tyrants […]

France Bashing 101: In honor of our French cousins, allies, friends…ehr…acquaintances…here is some of the best humor from around the net that makes fun of the French… — France Surrenders to Texas High School — French PM: ‘It’s Great to Be Collaborating with Germany Again!’ — French Army to Market ‘Ultimate Surrender’ Video Game — […]

They May Not Be The Majority — But They’re Sure Not On The Fringes Either: In the Democratic Underground Post I did today, Brian had this to say, “The people of DemocraticOnline are the fringes of society. Their opinions do not reflect any meaningful percentage of the US population. So, I have no clue why […]

Mandela Opens His Mouth And Inserts His Foot — Again: Idiotarian Nelson Mandela has delivered another one of his hysterical & incoherent rants… “if there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.” Notice, he’s not talking about the Bush administration there…it’s America itself that’s […]

Ideology Vs. Politics On Medicare: I didn’t really mention this when I did the State of the Union review, but I am dead set against the new Medicare “reform” that Bush is promoting. At a time when we’re already running a large deficit and when the war on terrorism is forcing us to spend more […]

The Democratic Underground Thread Of The Day: Ah, there’s no better way to start the day than to read about what the whackos at the Democratic Underground are talking about. It’s almost like some sort of bizarre version of the “Real World” featuring insane people who aren’t alllowed to take their meds. Today, on the […]

The French Oppressors: Tsk, tsk, tsk…what sort of unilateralist colonialism is France getting involved in down on the Ivory Coast? Just look at this picture…. It’s obvious that these poor people are being victimized by French imperialism! They’re so traumatized that they’re even asking for help from the cowboy Yankee hegemons here in the US…. […]