Author: John Hawkins

“The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his “basic rights.” “Considering how […]

The August 6th Memo “On August 6, 2001, the president’s intelligence briefing included a response to questions that he had earlier raised about any Al Qaeda intentions to strike our homeland. The briefing team reviewed past intelligence reporting, mostly dating from the 1990s, regarding possible Al Qaeda plans to attack inside the United States. It […]

“(T)he Islamofascists loathe the rest of the west almost as much as they hate the US, but the difference is that, for the most part, those countries are content to be, as the Canadian columnist David Warren put it, ‘mere spectators in our fates’.” “Instead of an empire, the US belongs to Nato, a defence […]

“As a graduate student at Columbia University’s Russian Institute, my field of study was totalitarianism. I learned that a major characteristic of Soviet and other totalitarian regimes was their frequent rewriting of history. As a famous Soviet dissident joke put it: In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it’s the past which is always […]

After a bit of prodding via email from RWN reader Rachael Anderson, I’ve decided to do a 2nd edition of RWN’s fave South Park quotes (version 1 is: here). Do keep in mind that South Park is an obscene & deliberately offensive show. If that sort of thing bugs you, you may want to skip these […]

“(I)’ve gotten a lot of traction out of my seemingly banal observation that it is highly improbable that the United States will ever become a Nazi-like or otherwise totalitarian nation. For some reason, this is the sort of obvious statement which strikes lots of folks as shocking or controversial, even though it’s only slightly less […]

“(B)ecause Republicans and Democrats conspire to gerrymander one another’s districts so incumbents are rarely challenged at the polls, the turnover rate on Capitol Hill is lower than in the old Soviet Politboro. This means reckless politicians rarely have to pay the price for their misdeeds.” — P. 6 “Party leaders, like the mob, give no […]

*** Note that Thomas Sowell uses the term ‘anointed’ to refer to liberals, ‘benighted’ or ‘tragic’ for conservatives, and the term ‘vision’ represents their philosophy. So the ‘vision of the anointed’ is the way liberals view the world. *** “This (liberal) vision so permeates the media and academia, and has made such major inroads into […]

ality will earn us the parlor disdain of the French and Germans. The terrorists are assured that the Western press is obsessed with Abu Ghraib, but not at all with Saddam’s necropolis or their own slaughter of innocents. They suspect that those who endured Omaha and Utah or scaled Suribachi are long sleeping in their […]

“According to Professor R.J. Rummel’s research in ‘Death by Government,’ from 1917 until its collapse, the Soviet Union murdered or caused the death of 61 million people, mostly its own citizens. Since 1949, communist China’s Mao Zedong regime was responsible for the death of 35 million of its own citizens.” “How many times have we […]