For those of you who are unaware, Ronald Reagan has passed away at his home in California. To be honest, I don’t really have the words to talk about this. When I heard the news, I could hardly stand up, I had trouble breathing. It felt like one of my parents died. I’m still so […]

Well, that’s all the posts I’ve got time for tonight. If I didn’t get to your question, sorry, but there are only so many hours in a day =D There were less questions than last time, but I thought there were a lot of really intelligent questions. I look forward to doing this again in […]

Question: “Been trying to learn a bit about communism, and specifically why communism leads to genocide and mass murder. The political/social theory strikes me as very naive, but I really don’t see why it should necessarily lead to such atrocities. Can you shed some light on this?” — Freeven Answer: Well, just think about the […]

Question: “Should the US be trading with China?” — Billary2004 Answer: There are two schools of thought about this. School of thought #1) Treat China like Cuba. Don’t trade with them, deny them funds, try to keep them weak as possible, and hope for their government to be overthrown. School of thought #2) Trade with […]

Question: “You have a very low opinion of the UN, on the grounds that it’s corrupt and overly influenced by morally questionable governments, and have suggested it should be ignored and discredited wherever possible. How about reforming it instead, or failing that aiming to completely replace it with something that does what the UN is […]

Question: “How do you choose what stories to blog on and what to leave out, you miss some pretty big important stories and hit on some pretty odd ones. Is it simply personal whim or are you trying to fit a niche that isn’t in the blogs you read or what?” — Christopher_Taylor Answer: Well, […]

Question: “If President Bush could answer for the entire government, and you had his complete attention, what 5 questions would you ask? One that I would like to see is “Why do we continue to support the UN?” — DeeKayT Answer: I’m going to cheat a little bit and just treat this like it’s which […]

Question: “Didn’t you used to host another blog? I believe it was called “Brass Knuckles”. What ever happened to that?” — mike_the_engineer Answer: Yep, I ran Brass Knuckles Webzine for roughly 3 years? It focused on humor, but I also did some interviews, daily links, and special features, some of which are in the archives […]

Question: “Here in Maryland we just had a raging debate between our Republican Governor and Democratic State Senate on whether or not to allow slots at a select few sites, pretty much all of which were horse-racing sites where betting already takes place legally. Our Governor, elected pretty much because of his stance on this […]

Question: “How do you feel about the fact that Rummy has prohibited photography in Iraqi prisons following the torture scandals? The media may very well be blowing this out of proportion yet this course of action reminds me of the three monkeys and thus ‘see no evil’.” — Ryan via email Answer: Although that story […]

I was really happy with the way the first Q&A Friday turned out. There were a lot of good questions, I had time to pump out a lot more material than normal, and everyone seemed to be pleased with how things went. So today, I’m doing it again. If there’s a subject you’ve been wanting […]

Warning Will Robinson, warning!!! What you are about to read is, I repeat, is, a REAL news story, not satire…. “Protesters delivered a message yesterday to the national spelling bee: Enuf is enuf! Members of the American Literacy Society picketed the 77th annual spelling bee, which is sponsored every year by Cincinnati-based Scripps Howard. The […]

Back in August of last year, I put together a list of my favorite columnists. Since it has been a while, I thought now would be a good time to list my current faves again. Of course, you should keep in mind that these sorts of lists change — sometimes quite a bit — over […]

If you enjoyed this fake campaign ad from Broken Newz, you can see more of their work here.

For a while now, I’ve been meaning to punch something up on some of the people on the right who…well, let me be charitable and say “get on my nerves”. Other than one exception, which will be noted, I don’t detest these people, but let’s just say that I wouldn’t put anybody here on my […]

We can’t well judge where we stand on victory in Iraq – and how much more needs to be done – without stepping back and reviewing what our objectives there were in the first place. I’m not looking so much to answer all these questions in this one entry as to frame the issues: 1. […]

So while I’m vacationing this week-end, I decide to take in a movie. Unfortunately for me, I chose to go see “Shrek 2,” a festering, execrable, dung heap of a children’s movie that will undoubtedly turn every child who watches into a perverted cross between Marv Albert and Michael Jackson. Some of you probably think […]

After I’d already arrived at the beach last Friday, I received the following email from RWN reader, Jeremy J. Luzier. Here’s what Jeremy had to say… “Dear Mr. Hawkins, I visit your site every weekday, and I would like for you to include on your site next week a critique of the Constitution Party. http://www.constitutionparty.com/ […]

One of the things many bloggers have long believed is that weblogs are able to influence public opinion, despite not receiving massive amounts of traffic, because large numbers of influential people read blogs. In other words, blogger influence comes mostly from “the who”, not the “how many”. So, in order to test that hypothesis, I […]

Once again, it’s vacation time at RWN. I’ll be out of town, kicking back and relaxing, for the next few days. Of course, that means there will be no updates until Wed of next week. But when I get back, I’m going to release an article that will turn the blogging world on its ear…well, […]

Everyone has heard about Al Gore’s insane tirade yesterday, but is he really now so insane that’s he’s a menace to society? To find out, I had my crack research team find out whatever they could about the one know as Al Gore. FUN FACTS ABOUT AL GORE * Al Gore’s father was also a […]

Lately, it seems that not a day can pass without Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry and their ideological soul mates in the mainstream media making acerbic comments about how the Bush administration has handled the war on terrorism. For those of us who disagree with them, it is easy enough to “attack […]

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a puff piece on that murderous commie swine, Che Guevara. Just get a load of the opening to article… “Che Guevara is widely remembered today as a revolutionary figure; to some a heroic, Christ-like martyr, to others the embodiment of a failed ideology. To still others, he is just […]

Meet Courtney Glowczewski, a 13 year old kid with a small right arm and leg because of cerebral palsy. You can easily imagine how tough that would be for anyone to deal with, especially a 13 year old kid. But Courtney doesn’t sound like the type of person who’s using her disability as an excuse. […]

Thank you, President [insert name here], honored graduates, esteemed faculty, indebted parents and fidgety, watch-monitoring guests. It is indeed a great honor and privilege to speak to you today, as [name of college] is widely known as “the Athens of [local area]” and “the Cradle of [typical profession of employed alumni]s.” I am also honored […]

One of RWN’s readers from Florida, Jas, sent me a $60 Amazon gift certificate because she said she enjoyed reading the page for the last couple of years. Well Jas, I thought you might like to know what I spent the money on. I grabbed a copy of “WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain” for […]

An infuriated Al Gore gave an anti-Bush speech yesterday and I think this picture will tell you just about everything you need to know about it…

Gas prices are at a record high right now (if you don’t factor in inflation or count other countries), so I thought as a public service I’d list some ways to save gas while getting where you need to go. Walk PROS: No costly equipment needed. Powered by renewable fuel source. CONS: No civilized man […]

Just for entertainment’s sake, here is what I’m listening to right now…. Dr. Dre & Ice Cube — Natural Born Killers Fozzy — Stay Hungry House Of Pain — Boom Shalock Lock Boom Insane Clown Posse — Let’s Go All The Way Insane Clown Posse — Boogie Woogie Wu Gravity Kills — Goodbye Kid Rock […]