Last night, a relatively non-political friend of mine asked me what was happening with the election. Here’s what I told her, edited slightly to clean it up. Anon: What’s up? I saw some of your recent posts, John :) …I was curious as to how you think the election is going. John Hawkins: It’s a […]

Violence in Iraq is down to 2003 levels, the Congress is in recess for a month, and frankly we’re entering what should be a very slow news period. So you can expect some “inside baseball” posts about the political campaigns as they enter their last 3 months (thank goodness) before the election. George Will hits […]

Why on earth would Nancy Pelosi go to such extremes as turning the lights off on her fellow Reps to prevent even voting on the possibility of allowing off-shore drilling? Does she want energy prices to keep climbing, and the economy to tank? In a word: yes. As NewsBusters reports, even George Stephanopoulos has gotten […]

A recent CNN headline screams: Exxon posts record $11.68 billion profit Wow, that works out to $1,485.55 per second! Those greedy bastards! Down with Big Oil! From now on let’s just drill our own in our backyards. But buried deep in the story we find paragraph 28: In addition to making hefty profits, Exxon also […]

My latest column at Townhall, Obama’s Top Ten Flaws That Will Cost Him in November, cracked the 7 most read and forwarded pieces this week. Being on a list like that with columnists like Ann Coulter, Thomas Sowell, and Charles Krauthammer is a real honor.

I wanted to give a special thanks to my co-bloggers at RWN who helped out last week, Dr. Melissa Clouthier Katie Favazza Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Gina Cobb Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William Teach from Pirate’s Cove Michael Illions from Polipundit MCQ from QandO Moonbattery

The New York Times is running a poor, poor, pitiful me story about an illegal immigrant who, happily, was deported by a hospital that was sued in return for doing a good deed, Eight years ago, (Luis Alberto) Jimenez, now 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Fla., suffered devastating injuries in […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Villainous Company: Photoshop: The special edition, Barack Obama Race Card Cracked: If websites came with warning labels… Stranahan: I’ve been banned at DailyKos because Of John Edwards Egotastic!: Audrina Patridge bikini pictures You can check out all those links and more by […]

Liberals tend to live in cloud-cuckoo land, where the average conservative is an evil, Nazi-loving David Duke who’s hellbent on sticking them in a camp so that we can turn the US into a theocracy. Meanwhile, back in the real world, there’s very, very little evidence to support these assertions. So, the way liberals get […]

The website of the day is Men’s News Daily.    

Via Hot Air, here’s what David Gergen had to say about John McCain’s latest outstanding ad, David Gergen: McCain’s “Moses” ad is code for calling Obama “uppity” In which the single dumbest, most paranoid racial charge of the campaign is recycled on national television by a former presidential advisor and current Harvard professor. I said […]

Previously on RWN, I put together a couple of articles that featured interviews with conservative women on dating (Part 1, Part 2). The articles were a big hit and I had several people ask me when I was going to do a follow-up with conservative men. Although I did want to do a follow-up, given […]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died. Two years ago this October, on the occasion of the even of elections, I wrote on Dean’s World the following about how and why I became a conservative. That story began with Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I recognized that I was a conservative during high school, when in support of a paper I was […]

It’s a slow news day, so why not throw a little humor out there? Here’s Kerry on today’s Meet The Press, interviewed by Tom Brokaw: MR. BROKAW: We’re going to get to all those issues, but I also want to raise what a surrogate for Senator Obama had to say to my friend Bob Schieffer […]

The pundits can rail against tactics, warn that particular methods of attack are risky, and even lecture candidates about the “low road”. But it is the voter who gets the final say about campaign tactics, strategy and messages. As much as they hate to admit it, Democrats should understand that the Swift Boat Veterans for […]

Afternoon break from politics and such. Personally, I find this pretty cool Palaeontologists digging in a brickyard in southern Poland have discovered the fossilised remains of a dinosaur that they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The predator dinosaur, given the working name “Dragon”, lived around 200 million years ago, team […]

With a history filled with cursing, (“F*ck you” to John Cornyn, “A$$hole to Pete Domenici, “F*cking jerk to Charles Grassley, screaming and throwing temper tantrums at fellow Republicans over the years, John McCain seems to save his admiration and glowing praise for Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore. On Nancy Pelosi, McCain was positively gushing with […]

On Saturday, August 2nd, more fools attempted to get their pro-active pre-surrender message out. Their “emergency call to to action,” if you will. They did it in many cities around the country, including Raleigh A group protesting against a possible war with Iran demonstrated in Raleigh Saturday. The North Carolina Coalition to Stop War on […]

Richard Reeves writes today that Barack Obama is a thinker, while John McCain is a “feeler.” Indeed, Reeves writes, Obama may be “too thoughtful.” Oh please. My first reaction to the premise itself is that Reeves has it backwards. Obama is, like most dyed-in-the-wool Democrats, 65% feelings and 5% common sense on matters of public […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Cassy Fiano Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William Teach from Pirate’s Cove Michael Illions from Polipundit MCQ from QandO Make sure […]

A few years back, Howard Rotberg was launching his new novel, The Second Catastrophe at a local bookstore. Some Muslim hecklers brought the event to a premature halt. Rotberg says a bookstore employee wearing a hijab did nothing to stop their outbursts. Then the bookstore chain issued a press release to the Toronto Star and […]

Well of course they have. And look who is shifting with them: “My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,” Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post. “If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms […]

“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.” — Harry Truman The most incompetent Speaker of the House in American history, Nancy Pelosi, packed up her 22% approval rating and went on vacation with the rest of the Democratic Party in tow. Meanwhile, the plucky Republicans stayed on […]

This may be the single, most snarky video in the history of presidential politics and I love it, McCain will undoubtedly receive a lot of criticism for this video, much of which will come from the Right. It’s not presidential, it has too much attitude, yada, yada, yada. Let me tell you why this video […]

This should clear up any lingering doubts about whether Obama actually shares the Marxist views of the deranged radicals he’s spent his whole life surrounded by: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday called for a $1,000 “emergency” rebate to consumers to offset soaring energy costs amid fresh signs of a struggling economy with the […]

The two primary pillars of freedom in America are the First and Second Amendments. The Orwellian “Fairness Doctrine” will take out the former; the amazing Keith Olbermann has already dispensed with the latter. He’s revealed that the right to bear arms “obviously” only applies to muskets: Despite years of fog created by the NRA and […]

On the day combat tours in Iraq were cut from 15 to 12 months we hear this: The leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq and several of his top lieutenants have recently left Iraq for Afghanistan, according to group leaders and Iraqi intelligence officials, a possible further sign of what Iraqi and […]

The website of the day is A Big Victory.    

One of the canards that the open borders and amnesty crowd has pushed the hardest is that the only way to get rid of the illegal immigrants in the US is to hunt all 12 million of them down individually and deport them. Since this is impossible, they argue that we might as well not […]