John Hawkins wanted to find the answer to Kojack’s favorite question, so he created The Ultimate Like/Dislike Poll For Famous People On The Right.

He had us rate 35 people on the right as, “strongly liked, liked, disliked, or strongly disliked.” Included on the list:

Allah (Hot Air), Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, John Boehner, David Brooks, Scott Brown, Pat Buchanan, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ann Coulter, John Cornyn, Jim DeMint, Erick Erickson, Joseph Farah, David Frum, Newt Gingrich, Lindsey Graham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, John McCain, Meghan McCain, Mitch McConnell, Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin, Kathleen Parker, Ron Paul, Colin Powell, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Thomas Sowell, Michael Steele, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Did he miss anyone? Do you agree with the results? Comments are open!

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Yes, I’m old enough to remember Laugh-In when it originally aired. One of the staples of that cast, Henry Gibson, has died.

Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died. He was 73.

Gibson’s son, James, said Gibson died Monday at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer.

After serving in the Air Force and studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Gibson — born James Bateman in Germantown, Pa., in 1935 — created his Henry Gibson comic persona, a pun on playwright Henrik Ibsen’s name, while working as a theater actor in New York. For three seasons on “Laugh-In,” he delivered satirical poems while gripping a giant flower.

His bit is at the beginning of this clip.

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No agreement with her politics, but I loved the music. Mary Travers has died at 72.

Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

The band’s publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years.

Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s.

I’m not going to delve into her politics here, let’s just listen to what is arguably one of the trios most well known songs.

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Joe Wilson is the Representative from South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional district. He has been in that seat since the death of Floyd Spence. Working to elect Floyd Spence was my first active involvement in politics. Later, as a County Party Chairman and State Committeeman, I met and got to know Joe, if only a little.

My impression is that Joe Wilson is a passionate conservative politician, and typically very measured and aware of what he says. On occasion, the passionate side overcomes the measured. I believe that is what happened last night.

“I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the president’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health-care bill,” Wilson said in a statement. “While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable.”

Wilson shouted “you lie” at a point in the speech when Obama said his plan to extend insurance coverage “would not apply to those who are here illegally.”

Last night on Twitter, this was getting more attention than the President’s speech. My question, in the poll over on the right, is, “What do you think about Rep. Joe Wilson’s Outburst?”

Vote, and leave any additional thoughts here in the comments.

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John Hawkins reached out to Right of Center bloggers for their choices of the most respected people on the right.

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-10 unranked selections and were allowed to choose anybody on the Right or generally perceived to be on the right that they liked: Republican, Conservative, Libertarian, politician, preacher, blogger, columnist, radio host, you name it!

I didn’t take the time to respond as I was working through the computer issues here at home. I don’t see anyone on the list that I couldn’t have put there, and the order wouldn’t have changed much with my contribution. Fred Thompson and Bobby Jindal would have moved up a spot from their seven person tie for 16th, and Ed Morrissey would have jumped up one position as well.

The top five would have remained the same, but each would have one more tally.

Take a look at the list and let me know who you would have had on your list.

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I can’t find much of anything online, but TBO sent a breaking news alert that Walter Cronkite has died at 92. Rest in Peace.

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Former GOP Presidential candidate Jack Kemp has died at 73.

His spokeswoman Bona Park and longtime friend and former campaign adviser Edwin J. Feulner confirmed that Kemp died after a lengthy illness.

Kemp had announced in January 2009 that he had been diagnosed with cancer. He said he was undergoing tests but gave no other detail.

I got to shake Jack Kemp’s hand when he visited and spoke in Orangeburg, SC many years ago. I was truly impressed by vision and passion for America.

My prayers are with his family, friends, and many admirers.

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James Joyner (OTB) writes this morning:

After 12 hours of trying naturally, another 14 of trying with the aid of an inducing drug, and two hours of hard labor, Katharine Webb Joyner was ultimately delivered by Caesarian section at 6:40 this morning. She was 7 pounds, 6.44 ounces and 18.5 inches at birth.

Mother and baby are fine.

Congratulations and all the best to your entire (enlarged) family, James!

Go by and offer the Joyners your best wishes.

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Of course the real congratulations go to Mrs. Wyatt and the newest Earp, Julia Elizabeth.

UPDATE: The first pics are here.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Nobel prize-winning Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who shone a light on the brutal Soviet Gulag camps, has died at the age of 89, bringing tributes from around the world on Monday.

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Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 after depicting in harrowing detail the Soviet labour camps, where he spent eight years from 1945.

He toiled obsessively to unearth the darkest secrets of Stalinist rule and his work ultimately dealt a crippling blow to the Soviet Union’s authority.

Update: It was the Gulag Archipelago that was the deep read. I read that on my own after being exposed to Solzhenitsyn in high school through One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

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