Author: John Hawkins

This Week In Quotes: Feb 23 – Mar 1

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“Let’s support children who do exist.” Oh, that reminds me. The great atheist Richard Dawkins acknowledges that God might exist. In that spirit, shouldn’t pro-choice people acknowledge that children in the womb might exist? But the big question, in both cases, is: What are you going to do about it? — Ann Althouse “I used […]

 

The Best Quotes From Larry Elder’s The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America

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From Larry Elder’s: The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America… “Many American blacks falsely and unfairly accuse whites for black America’s “plight.” Bad schools? White racism. Crime? White racism. Under performance on standardized tests? racist or “culturally biased” tests. Can’t get a loan for a home or a new business? Racist lending officers, who would […]

 

One Of The Most Disrespectful, Over The Top Democratic Jerks In Congress Wants People To Be More Respectful To Obama

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If someone approaches me in a civil manner, I’m willing to be civil with him. That being said, talk about making politics more civil makes me roll my eyes because “civility” tends to mean creeps like Jim Moran making arguments like this. Northern Virginia Rep. Jim Moran (D) thinks Metro has gone too far with […]

 

Romney’s Performance In Michigan Undercuts The Primary Justification For His Candidacy

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Don’t get me wrong; it’s always better to win than to lose — and Romney did win Michigan. Romney: 41% Santorum: 38% Gingrich: 12% Paul: 7% That being said, this reminds me of an old joke from Jeff Foxworthy that I’ll probably mangle. Foxworthy was talking to one of his relatives and she was bragging […]

 

A Fitting Tribute To Olympia Snowe

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As many of you may have heard, left-of-center moderate Olympia Snowe has finally decided to retire after spending hundreds 33 long years in Congress. Because Snowe is retiring, her seat has gone from being a likely Republican hold in 2012, to a likely Democratic pick-up — although that certainly could change in a hurry depending […]

 

What’s Worse? Endorsing Arlen Specter or BEING Arlen Specter?

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Philip Klein quite properly takes Rick Santorum to task for endorsing Arlen Specter. In his column, Tim Carney does a good job explaining why Rick Santorum’s defense of endorsing Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in the 2004 Pennsylvania Senate race doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. But even if we were to give Santorum the benefit […]

 

An Interview With Ann Coulter

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John Hawkins:: Do you think the left has largely gotten a pass for being so completely, utterly, and entirely wrong about the effects of Reagan’s decision to abandon detente and challenge the Soviet Union? Ann Coulter:: The fact that there still is a Democratic Party proves that. John Hawkins:: If Jimmy Carter had somehow defeated Ronald Reagan in […]

 

Five Things Children Know That Liberals Have Forgotten

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“Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic. It’s nothing more than ‘childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.’ Very seldom does any issue that doesn’t involve pandering to their supporters boil down at its core level to more than feeling ‘nice’ or ‘mean’ to liberals. This makes liberals […]

 

Liberal Thinking: It’s The Fault Of The People Helping Greece That They’re Broke

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Steven Lendman over at Energy Bulletin wrote an extraordinary column about Greece’s debt woes. It’s extraordinary because of the childlike way it completely disconnects Greece’s problems from anything done by well, Greece… Predatory bankers make serial killers look good by comparison. Their business model creates crises to facilitate grand theft, financial terrorism, and debt entrapment. […]

 

Every State Should Be Working On A Doomsday Bill

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This country is on track to go bankrupt and default on its debt within the next 10-15 years unless something changes drastically. It doesn’t have to happen, but the Democratic Party seems to be adamantly opposed to doing anything to stop it because it would mean spending less money. So, it’s probably a good time […]

 

Why Men Are Becoming Wimpy, Video Game Playing Slackers Who Don’t Want To Get Married

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Ross Douthat and Matt Yglesias are going back and forth on why so many men have turned into emasculated, worthless sacks of X-box playing crap. But the world Yglesias is describing is a world where the short-term rational self-interest of both sexes – the understandable female desire to have children without taking on the burden […]

 

An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)

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John Hawkins:: Do you think offering amnesty to illegal aliens currently in the United States would cause an explosion in the number of illegals coming to our country? Tom Tancredo:: Only if you believe that rewarding illegal behavior will increase illegal behavior, and of course it will. It has happened before, it’s completely predictable. If you tell […]

 

An Interview With Milton Friedman

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Yesterday, I did a twenty minute interview by phone with Milton Friedman. Of course, Mr. Friedman has an INCREDIBLE: resume. He won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, won the “Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and received the National Medal of Science the same year”. He was also an “economic adviser to Senator […]

 

An Interview With David Limbaugh About His New Book, ‘Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity’

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John Hawkins:: The First Amendment starts out with, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”. Do you think that we as a society pay too little attention to the “prohibiting the free exercise thereof” portion of that Amendment? David Limbaugh:: Absolutely. There are indeed two religion clauses in […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Feb 17 – Feb 23

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There is no anti-woman move whatsoever. The Republican Party is extremely pro-woman. — Michele Bachmann In fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent $910 billion on 70 means-tested programs, which comes to an average of $9,000 per year on every lower-income person in the United States. — Pat Buchanan Half of all children born to […]

 

The Problem With Electric Cars Part #786: Bricking

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The American people haven’t been dragging their feet on electric cars because they’re hidebound or technophobes; they’re not that interested because the technology just isn’t there yet. Electric cars are dramatically overpriced, they underperform, and they’re generally inferior to cars powered by internal combustion engines. Incidentally, no matter how much of our tax money we […]

 

An Interview With Andrew Sullivan

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John Hawkins:: I know it’s early, but how do you see the 2004 election shaping up and which candidate are you leaning towards right now? Andrew Sullivan:: It’s probably Dean vs. Bush, and I’m leaning towards Bush if Dean doesn’t get serious about national security. But if Bush endorses a constitutional amendment against equal marriage rights, I […]

 

Analysis Of The Arizona Debate

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Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t a great debate. John King was back as the moderator and he followed the standard pattern of getting the candidates to fight followed by a lot of questions that were designed to keep the heat off of Barack Obama. This debate was especially tedious because they went back to contraception and spent […]

 

Why Are The People In Charge Of Teaching Our Children So Stupid?

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Send your kid to college and he may be taught by real live, terrorists, Communists, and other worthless degenerates. And that’s after he’s already gone to high school, where no one in charge seems to have any common sense whatsoever… A girl who borrowed a friend’s asthma inhaler at school has now been expelled. The […]

 

Satan Vs. Santorum

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I’ve never been the biggest Rick Santorum fan. He’s a little too comfortable with big government and although he can come across like a philosopher/religious historian when he’s on top of his game, he’s not exactly teeming with charisma and he often comes across as preachy. Politicians can talk about social issues and honestly, voters […]