Author: John Hawkins

Thanks To RWN’s Readers: Since the year is almost over, I thought today would be a good time to say “thanks” to all of RWN’s readers for helping the page grow. Back in April of 2002, when I switched over to a blogging format, RWN only received 30,000 hits and averaged about 300 daily uniques […]

This Is Too Funny: While there is nothing particularly Conservative about making fun of people standing around waiting to get tickets to Star Wars, this video a friend of mine pointed out on Albino Blacksheep is one of funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Take it from a man who has made of […]

Don’t Hold Your Breath While You Wait To Get Drafted: Charles Rangel’s call for a draft has gotten a lot of attention on the net, more than it probably deserves given the silly reasoning behind it. Here’s Rangel’s explanation of why he thinks we should have a draft… “Rangel said the prospect of a draft […]

The Eternal Nazi: Watching Roman Polanski’s The Pianist in Germany By William Grim: There’s an old joke that says inside every German there’s a Nazi yearning to get out. While a gross overstatement, there is, I’m unhappy to report, more than a little truth to that old chestnut. But more about that later. Last week, […]

Fan Mail From The Left: For your amusement, here are a couple of angry emails I received from furious lefties after my “The Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States For 2002” article spread near and far across the web. I can just imagine the veins popping out on their foreheads as they pounded […]

Sen. Frist Unveils GOP Racial Segregation Plan: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-TN, said today that the Republican Party really believes in racial segregation, and has a plan to implement it. “First we’re going to treat African Americans differently in college admissions,” said Sen. Frist. “Then we’re going to award government contracts to black-owned companies […]

2002’s Most Dubious News Stories of the Year By Alan Caruba: In a year when Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein made the bogeyman look like the Tooth Fairy, the ‘environmaniacs’ kept telling anyone who would listen the Earth was doomed and everything you ate, drank or breathed would kill you. Here’s my 12th annual […]

Back On Monday The 30th: Like most of the blogosphere, I’m taking the rest of the week off to go on vacation. I’m leaving town tomorrow morning and I won’t be back until Saturday. In the interim, I’ve linked 25 blogs you can check out in the daily news section. Of course, you can also […]

Democratic Underground Post Of The Day: A denizen of the Democratic Underground seems delighted by the idea of “repuke loving GI’s” dying in Iraq so that Democrats can gain a political advantage back in the states… Starpass: …GI Joe loves Bush and GI’s from Florida even bragged about voiting for him more than once. Well, […]

Christmas Round The World: Every year about this time we hear stories about politically correct grinches who gleefully try to do everything possible to ruin Christmas for as many people possible. They file lawsuits when towns put up Christmas decorations, high schools aren’t allowed to mention Christmas, they even protest high schools singing songs they […]

I Bet This Won’t Take Long: As many of you may have heard, Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s mother died in a bizarre and terrible manner. Here are some of the details from the Drudge Report… “Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, died… in her apartment months ago, authorities now believe. Lt. Gary Gilmond of the Beverly Hills Police Department […]

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) On The Virtues Of Osama Bin Laden: Charles Johnson sums up Washington Senator Patty Murray’s ignorant comments from last Wednesday as follows, “Senator Patty Murray tells high school students the US needs to learn to be a “better neighbor” to the world-like Osama bin Laden.” Here’s what Charles Johnson was talking […]

A Few Thoughts About Trent Lott’s Resignation: After taking a savage two-week long thrashing, Trent Lott has finally decided to step down as Senate majority leader. Here are a couple of things I wrote about Lott early on… — RWN on December 9, “Now I’m sure Lott only made that comment because he was trying […]

Fark Posters On The Military: Fark is one of the best pages on the net, but their comments sections attracts more left-wing idiots than a Noam Chomsky rally. Here are a few of the comments from some Farkers in a thread called, “Send your thanks to the US Military.” MC_500foot_Nietzsche: Anyone who risks their own […]

Aussie Opinion Not That Big Of A Deal For Bloggers: I think the blogosphere has been getting a little overwrought about a case in Australia called the, “Dow Jones and Company v. Gutnick.” I’ll let Glenn Reynolds give you a summary of what the case is about… “(T)he High Court of Australia, yesterday ruled that […]

Applause For The INS?: The INS has finally started cracking down on immigration violations in California… “Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars. Shocked and […]

The Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States For 2002: If being annoying was a crime, there are a lot of liberals who would be sitting on Death Row in Texas waiting for them to crank up “Old Sparky.” But until now, these “serial annoyers” have never gotten their proper due. Well, RWN thinks […]

According To Bill Clinton, The South Is Voting GOP Because Of Racism: Well, well, well…Bill Clinton has finally weighed in on the whole Trent Lott controversy and he’s not hesitating to play the race card… “How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?” Clinton told CNN outside a business luncheon he […]

Murder, Mayhem, & The Animal Rights Movement: The lead singer of the Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde, says that big corporations, “are destroying the planet.” Her solution? Murder in the name of the animal rights movement… “The last resort is for someone to go in and actually take these guys out. Maybe it will have to be […]

Please Abandon Your Politics, Kill Your Leaders And Your Idols, And Live For Your Fellow Man: Fight the power & scream ‘anarchy’ because today’s version of ACPOTI (anyone can post on the internet) features the website “Raise The Fist.” RTF is an anarchist web page run by a guy who may be getting ready to […]

Baby Jesus Has Been Kidnapped?: Now Al-Queda has gone and done it… “(T)he baby Jesus statue was gone — kidnapped from the front lawn of Tom and Candy Konczos who last night remained mystified as to why someone would swipe the religious ornament from their Daniels Street front lawn, and then demand cash to get […]

Right After Iraq It’s South Africa: This is hilarious! South Africa says they can’t afford to fight against AIDS because they need to fend off a possible invasion. But who’s about to invade South Africa? Why — the United States of course… “Is the United States about to attack its ally South Africa? That’s a […]

Press Grasping At Straws — For The Final Time, We’re Going To Iraq: Every few weeks some member of the press reads ways to much into the Bush administration’s decidedly non-bellicose rhetoric about Iraq and tries to imply we’re probably not going in. This time it’s the Washington Post which headlines the story, “Powell: U.S. […]

The Democrats Do Stand For Something – Not Getting Voted Out Of Office: Inexplicably, Al Gore has decided not to run again in 2004. That is probably going to force the Democrats to pin their hopes for 2004 on either John “The Boy Trial Lawyer” Edwards, Howard “Tax and Spend” Dean, John “The Hair” Kerry, […]

Quote Of The Day: White House spokesman Ari Fleischer comments on Gore dropping out of the race… “(That is) an internal matter for the Democratic Party, and somebody will emerge from the Democratic field who will ultimately seek to raise taxes on the American people, but that’s a decision that the Democrats will make as […]

Reader Input #2: The Most Annoying American Lefties For 2002: On Wednesday I’m going to be doing a feature called “The American Left’s Most Annoying People For 2002.” If you have any nominations, please post them in the comments section along with a short explanation of why you think they deserve to be included. ***Update***: […]