Author: John Hawkins

Why Ron Paul Can Never Be President In 12 Quotes

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Ron Paul is doing surprisingly well this year in some of the early primary state polls. There’s a simple reason for that: Most people in the conservative media have concluded he can’t win the nomination, they don’t want to get yelled at by his supporters, and so they’ve laid off of him while most of […]

 

15 Things That Even Liberals Should Be Willing To Admit

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Sometimes you have to wonder whether conservatives and liberals are just talking past each other. Do we really agree on more issues than we think? I decided to find out by putting together 15 statements, all of which are really nothing more than utterly unremarkable notations of the obvious. I am curious to see whether […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Dec 9 – Dec 15

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Another reason Gingrich isn’t fading is Mitt Romney. Let’s face it: Mitt Romney is the Republican version of Al Gore. Even people who are predisposed to liking him can’t seem to get there. — Jed Babbin The very problems that have roiled Europe’s economy are coming to a slow boil in the U.S. Just as […]

 

The 40 Best Conservative Columnists Of 2011 (Version 4.0)

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My favorite conservative columnists for the 4th quarter of 2011. These rankings do tend to change over time. Enjoy! 40) Jack Kelly 39) Star Parker 38) John Podhoretz 37) Rachel Alexander 36) Ross Douthat 35) Roger Simon 34) Mike Adams 33) Wes Pruden 32) Doug Giles 31) Bill O’Reilly 30) David Harsanyi 29) Larry Elder […]

 

The Top Five Things You Can Learn From Wal-Mart

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Not only do I like Wal-Mart, I know a lot about the company. My first job out of college was at a Wal-Mart portrait studio, I shop there every week, and I’ve read a lot about the company including the fact-filled book The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s […]

 

Liberalism In 120 Seconds: People Who OPPOSE Voter ID Are The Real Racists

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Isn’t it racist to argue that black Americans are too dumb and incompetent to handle getting ID like everyone else in America? Isn’t that the sort of argument that the KKK would make? That everybody in society is smart enough to handle getting photo ID EXCEPT black people?

 

Helping Obama Out: 7 Suggestions For His “Change Is” Campaign Slogan

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As we learned last week at The Huffington Post, Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan for 2012, “Change Is.” Since Obama is one of the worst Presidents in American history, if not the worst President in American history, that sounds more like a phrase his opponent would use. Given that Obama is completely and […]

 

So, If Newt Gingrich Is So Erratic And Undisciplined…

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It’s fair to take what I say about Newt Gingrich with a grain of salt since I’ve endorsed him, but that being said, let me just note that I find the “Newt’s really erratic/undisciplined” attack coming from establishment Republicans/Mitt’s surrogates to be an extraordinarily unconvincing line-of-attack. First off, keep in mind that Newt created the […]

 

A You Suck List: 10 People, Places, And Things That Suck

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Being positive, motivated, goal oriented, and focused is a lot of hard work. That’s why ever so often you have to stop, smell the roses, and kvetch about all the stupidity in the world like… 1) Avatar: It’s the highest grossing movie of all time and there’s absolutely nothing good to be said about it […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Dec 2 – Dec 8

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And while I am disappointed, there are more than a few silver linings to doing this work outside the context of a presidential campaign. The process by which we choose our nation’s leader is ridiculous. There is little focus on policy substance and even less on candidates’ governing skills. If you’re not warding off some […]

 

Dumping The Ashes Of Soldiers Who Died In The Line Of Duty In A Landfill

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It’s genuinely hard to understand how anybody in our own military could be fine with the remains of their brothers-in-arms being dumped in a landfill like so much garbage. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before […]

 

The Best Quotes From “Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty”

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All of these quotations are from Roy Baumeister’s outstanding book, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty . Enjoy! Perpetrators tend to favor minimalist, distancing styles of thought. — Preface Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. — P.1 To understand evil, we must set aside the comfortable belief […]

 

The Firefighters Were Right To Let That Home Burn To The Ground

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Liberals believe in turning the American people into infants because small, helpless children need Big Daddy Government to take care of them. So, the poorer, weaker, and more dependent Americans become, the better liberals like it. This is why they love to see once proud and self-reliant people reduced to taking food stamps, welfare, and […]

 

Polling Conservative Bloggers On The 2012 GOP Primaries

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Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 78 bloggers responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, Alarming News, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, Althouse, American Glob, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, Bad Example, Batesline, Betsy’s Page, BizzyBlog, Blackfive, Blonde Sagacity, Bookworm […]

 

Idiots At The Red Cross: Your Fatalities And Zerg Rushes May Be War Crimes

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Groups like the Red Cross don’t deserve your respect, your support, or your donations because they’re run by fascistic, far left-wing ideologues who are so out of touch with other human beings that they might as well come from another planet. Just read this and you’ll see exactly what I mean… Violent war-themed video games […]

 

The Problem With The Occupy Wall Street Generation

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Playing baseball games without keeping score. Parents not allowed to cheer for one side or the other at basketball games. Refusing to use red ink to grade tests because it’s too jarring. No dodgeball. Participation trophies. Telling kids, “You’re special,” without their doing anything to show they’re special. Newsflash: You may be special to God, […]

 

Making It In The Political Blogosphere: The World’s Top Political Bloggers Share The Secrets To Success

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A while back, I was interviewed for a book called Making it in the Political Blogosphere. The book was just released last month and it features interviews with “twenty of the world’s top political bloggers” including Jim Hoft, Arianna Huffington, Lew Rockwell, Matthew Yglesias, Nick Gillespie, and Kevin Drum. It’s an excellent book for anyone […]