February 12, 2012
“Spoiler alert! What makes a great ending?”
Interesting: “The endings of novels are, in their own way, as crucial as the endings of years, but they are much less discussed.”
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February 12, 2012
A Mini-Interview With Henry Copeland From Blogads
John Hawkins:: How much of a drop off in advertising, if any, has there been from the election until today? Henry Copeland:: After dropping 40-50% for the first couple of months after the election, it looks like we’ll be at new highs in March and April. I won’t call it a tipping point, because you can only […]
February 12, 2012
To Make Women Safe, We Treat Them Like Children
The domestic-violence case against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi did not start with a call from wife Eliana Lopez or neighbors who heard a fight getting out of control at the family’s home on New Year’s Eve. It started with a Jan. 4 phone call to police from a friend and neighbor, Ivory Madison, whom […]
February 11, 2012
Obama To Pitch Lower Corporate Tax Rate Sometime In The Future
While Obama’s budget, which he plans to announce on Monday during what will be a campaign rally, significantly ramps up tax rates for small business owners, he’s looking to pander to corporations (Reuters) President Barack Obama will call for cutting the top 35 percent corporate tax rate as early as this month, according to two […]
February 11, 2012
Everyone Needs Free* Birth Control To Stop….Climate Change!
Come on, when this whole contraception fiasco with the Catholic Church (fiasco for Obama) started, you knew in your heart of hearts that some Lefty would tie it in to globull warming, right? Just like most holidays (I blew off any mention of “green” initiatives for the Super Bowl), it seems that the Warmists have […]
February 11, 2012
“The 16 Greatest Cities In Human History”
Ayutthaya, the “world’s largest city in 1700 AD,” was: new: to me.
February 11, 2012
Cowabunga
“The incredible spot off the British coast that could produce: the biggest surfable waves on Earth at 120ft-high“.
February 11, 2012
Twelve Questions With Michelle Malkin
I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview FOX News commentator Michelle Malkin via email. Michelle has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, The McLaughlin Group, The Lehrer Report, and 20/20. Furthermore, her syndicated column is carried by 100 papers nationwide and her new book,: Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and […]
February 11, 2012
The Byron York Interview
John Hawkins:: Would you think it’s fair to say that Air America Radio is failing as a business venture? Byron York:: So far it looks like they are. One of the problems with Air America is that it’s on in so few places around the country. It’s still only on about 50 stations so it’s hard to […]
February 10, 2012
Obama To Offer Non-compromise Compromise On Contraceptive Mandate
The question is, how much will Obama scold people who have different beliefs than him, and how much will he lecture (ABC News) With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage, ABC News has learned that later today […]
February 10, 2012
Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Goes Worldwide: Meets With Japanese Tea Party Leaders
Left to right: Yuya Watase of the Tokyo Tea Party and Jikido “Jay” Aeba of HRP wait while Herman Cain listens to translator Yuki Oikana. WASHINGTON, D.C. Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call from one of Herman Cain’s aides, asking if I could attend a meeting at 5 p.m. Well, sure, of course, but […]
February 10, 2012
Surprise: Super PAC Supporting Ron Paul Run By A 9/11 Truther
I’m sure we’ll get all sorts of talking points about how Paul isn’t actually a truther, he just doesn’t want to annoy potential donors (MSNBC) As libertarian Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul looks for a state he can win, some of his supporters have turned to a new theme: voting fraud. A Super PAC supporting […]
February 10, 2012
Roman Catholic TV Network Files Suit Against HHS Regarding Contraception Mandate
Interestingly enough, they are only fighting the rule, not ObamaCare itself (Reuters) A U.S. Roman Catholic television network said on Thursday it has filed suit in federal court to block President Barack Obama’s new rule on contraceptives, while a Catholic Church leader and top Republicans stepped up their criticism of Obama. The rule, implemented on […]
February 10, 2012
An Interview With Linda Chavez
John Hawkins:: You know, I realized unions had a lot of power and influence in the Democratic party, but while reading an excerpt of your book, I ran across a statement that I found to be amazing. Let me read it, then I’d like to get your comment on it. “As the FEC’s final report put […]
February 10, 2012
An Interview With Marc Danziger, One Of The Pajamas Media Partners
John Hawkins:: You,: Charles Johnson, and: Roger L. Simon: run Pajamas Media, correct? How did you decide to get this started and was what you’re doing now the original concept? Marc Danziger:: Yes – we’re the general partners; there are some other folks who have interests we’ve swapped for help in various ways, but it’s the three of us. Charles […]
February 10, 2012
“To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit”
If you aren’t creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren’t listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. When a bunch of wealthy white women and elite Washington bureaucrats defend the trampling of religious liberties in the […]
February 10, 2012
The GOP race gets messy
OK, I give up. About a week ago, I wrote a column making a case for Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. My argument was aimed at fellow conservatives who just can’t get their minds — or at least their hearts — around a Romney candidacy. The details aren’t important right now (and they’re easy […]
February 10, 2012
Obama Invites Backlash on Conscience Rule Betrayal
As God’s instrument, Moses parted the Red Sea. Well, it appears President Obama has a different idea. With a wave of his hand, he’s going to reunite our bitterly divided political waters on the hottest of hot-button issues. Don’t get me wrong; Obama’s conscious effort to divide Americans on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion […]
February 10, 2012
Another Fleeting Failure For NBC
Super Bowl XLVI was a good football game, marred once again by the bohemian elite at NBC. NBC could have prevented, but failed to stop, the broadcast of a female rapper “flipping the bird” at 114 million viewers during Madonna’s halftime show. It was another “fleeting expletive” of the hand-gesture variety, and somehow, despite elaborate […]
February 10, 2012
The Santorum Surprise
Rick Santorum — a man who lost his last election in his home state by 18 points — is suddenly threatening the front-runner status of Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination. He, not Newt Gingrich, is emerging, at least for the moment, as the conservative alternative to Romney, having won decisively in three state […]
February 10, 2012
Risk factors for breast cancer: alcohol consumption, induced abortion, and contraception
Here’s: the latest study: from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),: showing that excessive consumption of alcohol is a rish factor for breast cancer. Excerpt: Consumption of 3 to 6 alcoholic drinks per week is associated with a small increase in the risk of breast cancer, and consumption in both earlier and later adult life is […]
February 09, 2012
Dependence On Government Spikes 23% Under Obama
And that’s just the way Government wants it (IBD) The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank’s annual Index of Dependence on […]
February 09, 2012
Obama Reinforces Stance On Unconstitutional Contraceptive Mandate
It boggles the mind why Obama would want to pick this fight with Catholics, which also means Conservatives, Tea Party members, Republicans, and the 60+% of Americans who oppose ObamaCare get riled up again, in an election year. Democrats, including Obama, avoided mentioning ObamaCare during the 2010 mid-term elections in the same manner people avoid […]
February 09, 2012
Professional Warmists Shocked No Ice Melt In Himalayas, Still Say We’re Doomed
We’ve already had confirmation on massive errors in the UN IPCC’s “science”, and know that the errors were used intentionally to scaremonger. We know that the data came from an unfounded report which had no scientific data, written by a grad student who did no field research, like so much of the 2007 IPCC assessment. […]
February 09, 2012
The Tim Blair Interview
John Hawkins:: What convinced you to start your political website? Tim Blair:: Ken Layne: and: Matt Welch: were having too much fun running theirs. It seemed wrong somehow. And then all these Norwegians and bellicose women and law professors began appearing online ‘ I was the last person on earth without a website. Anyway, Layne helped set the site up […]
February 09, 2012
An Interview With Victor Davis Hanson
I’m a huge fan of Victor Davis Hanson’s work. Not only do I consistently link his columns, I’ve recently read his brilliant book “Carnage and Culture.” That’s why I was thrilled that he agreed to do an interview via email with RWN. Read and enjoy… John Hawkins:: Hypothetically, let’s say that we go to Iraq and […]
February 09, 2012
The G. Gordon Liddy Interview
John Hawkins:: In your opinion, what would it take to solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict within let’s say a decade or so, if it’s solvable? G. Gordon Liddy:: I don’t think that it’s solvable peacefully because the other side has absolutely no intention of allowing an Israeli state in that part of the world. They are dead set […]
February 09, 2012
An Interview With Senator Sam Brownback
John Hawkins:: From what I’m seeing out there in the blogosphere, there’s an enormous amount of anger at this deal that was cut with the Democrats on judges. Right now, a lot of conservatives seem to see this as a deal that keeps Republicans from using the constitutional option while allowing Democrats to filibuster at will […]
February 09, 2012
Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama once called for a “reset” policy with Iran. Supposedly, the unpopularity of the Texan provocateur George W. Bush and his administration’s inability to finesse “soft power” had needlessly alienated the Iranian theocracy. After all, the widely quoted but highly politicized 2007 National Intelligence Estimate claimed that Iran […]
February 09, 2012
The Anti-Romney Vote
A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for President of the United States. Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado happened. Rick Santorum beat him in all three states on the same day — and beat him by huge margins in two of those states, as well […]