Author: John Hawkins

This Week In Quotes: Sept 16 – Sept 22

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You know, if a ballplayer threw a game and they get caught, they go to jail. Well, what are we going to do to the Republicans who are throwing the country? “They’re throwing our country, and they all should be put in jail for what they’re doing, because they’re destroying our country, because they said […]

 

Debate Analysis: Winners And Losers Of The Fox/Google Debate

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The Fox/Google Debate covered a lot of old ground, spent too much time focused on Romney and Perry, and there weren’t a lot of great lines delivered. In other words, it wasn’t a particularly exciting debate. Winner — Mitt Romney He was consistently good, sharp, funny, and he won his exchanges with Perry. Although the […]

 

The Democratic Underground: The Real Bad Guy Isn’t Troy Davis, It’s Mark MacPhail’s Family

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Cop killer Troy Davis finally got his just reward last night for murdering a police officer in a crowded Burger King parking lot. Of course, as per usual with lefties, their sympathies are with the criminal, not the victim. So, they’ve made Davis into an innocent martyr and of course, if he’s the good guy, […]

 

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s “Taking On The System” In Quotes

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Obviously, I’m not a big Kos fan. I don’t agree with him on the issues and I don’t think he’s much of a writer, has a great understanding of politics, or is much of a political analyst. He’s also…well, kind of an amoral creep. That being said, I do admire his talent for organization and […]

 

5 Thoughts About What Intelligence Means In An Age Of Specialization

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There’s a lot of talk about anti-intellectualism and intelligence in politics and much of it, like these comments from Kathleen Parker, manages to miss the point. Are Republicans stupid? This seems to be the question du jour. Chris Matthews entertained this idea with guests recently, pointing to several Republican presidential candidates as evidence. How else […]

 

If Rick Perry Wants To Be The GOP Nominee, He’s Going To Have To….

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Rick Perry’s numbers skyrocketed when he entered the race, but predictably, after the media and the other candidates hammered him relentlessly, his numbers started to drop. The good news for Perry is that he’s still in first place. If the election were today, he’d win Iowa, he’d win South Carolina, and he’d go on to […]

 

Obama Vs. Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse”

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Joe Arpaio would probably be better served by steering clear of this silliness. Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND he has assigned a five-member “Cold Case Posse” to investigate the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The decision, he says, is simply a matter of doing his duty …But in the past few […]

 

How To Fix Our Illegal Immigration Problem In 5 Steps

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Illegal immigration has become a heads-we-win / tails-you-lose proposition in this country. If the supporters of amnesty and open borders could get that codified into law, they would. Since they can’t, they support comprehensive illegal immigration reform, with the idea being that the amnesty will occur, but they’ll stall and slow-walk the security measures into […]

 

A Report: Herman Cain and Rick Santorum In Myrtle Beach

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On Saturday morning at 8 AM, Herman Cain rolled into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was a little hard to get an exact crowd count since there were people eating breakfast in the restaurant, too, but I’d estimate there were about 100 people there. Not too shabby for Myrtle Beach at that time of day. […]

 

In Defense Of The Daily Caller On The Tyson/Palin Story

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Super-creepy stalker Joe McGinniss has written a book full over-the-top, unsourced smears about Sarah Palin and so naturally, the mainstream media is fascinated with it. One of the allegations in the book is that Sarah Palin once slept with Glenn Rice. Incidentally, this allegation doesn’t seem to have been backed up by Sarah Palin or […]

 

Five Ways The Internet Is Ruining Our Culture

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If you went back through the whole of human history, for the most part you’d find people living in poverty and ignorance under one sort of tyranny or another. Travel was difficult, disease was rampant, wealth was sparse, scientific advances were slow and uneven, and parents had little reason to think their children would have […]

 

I Question Any Tea Party Group That’s Against E-Verify

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E-Verify is THE only way we have to prevent illegal aliens from getting jobs in this country. If the program were expanded and the government actually put some resources into it, it would make it extremely difficult for illegal aliens to get any job worth having in this country. In other words, it’s the single […]

 

The Obama Administration Fights To Keep Incompetent Teachers In The Classroom In The Name Of Civil Rights

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Democrats incessantly tell everyone how much they care about education and then they turn right around and fight anything and everything that will actually improve education while inconveniencing their union allies. It almost defies belief, but in Arizona, the Obama administration is fighting to keep teachers with mediocre English skills in the classroom teaching students. […]

 

I Agree With the People Who Yelled “Yes,” We Should Let Him Die at the Debate

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There’s a lot of controversy over a question asked to Ron Paul at the Tea Party debate and the response yelled by a handful of audience members. Here it is…. BLITZER: …A healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, you know what? I’m not going to spend $200 […]

 

Using Twitter Can Get You Murdered In Mexico

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Securing the border? That’s for racists! After all, there’s no reason anybody would want to keep this kind of psychotic violence outside of our country. Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: Two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge. […]

 

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

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That’s the title of a long, punishingly dull article at the New York Times about wacky Headmaster Dominic Randolph. Randolph doesn’t seem to understand the most basic role of a headmaster, which is to educate children. If your kid has a higher IQ than normal, the last place you should want him would be in […]

 

The Top 10 Funniest #AttackWatch Tweets

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If all publicity is good publicity, then the tsunami of mockery that has engulfed Obama’s creepy AttackWatch website is awash in good publicity. The whole idea behind the website is to report anything mean you hear about Obama so his website can churn out propaganda in response to it. The page simultaneously gives off a […]

 

Is The State Bar of Arizona Targeting Conservatives For Blogging And Fighting Illegal Immigration?

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Politically motivated prosecutions are always an ugly business because politics is not supposed to stretch into the courtroom. Sadly, that appears to be news to the very liberal State Bar of Arizona. On Monday, the State Bar of Arizona began its prosecution of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and two of his deputies, including […]

 

Losing Anthony Weiner’s Seat: Revenge Of The Jews!

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The headline, I stole from Drudge. The results? They were sweet indeed for a special election. Democrats suffered a significant setback early Wednesday with the party losing a New York district it had held for almost a century — in an upset result seen as a rebuke of President Barack Obama’s policies ahead of the […]

 

A Brief Comment On What’s Wrong With How We Approach Poverty In America

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So, I caught a brief snippet of a report on poverty from CNN. A woman was interviewed who hadn’t had a job since 2004 and she was talking about the importance of the Social Safety Net. The woman said the government did get her job opportunities, but they were only minimum wage jobs and those […]

 

Europe Slips Towards The Abyss! Wheeeeeeeeee!

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The European Union is about to shake itself apart, Greece is on its knees, and there are Western European nations sure to follow. So what’s the Democrats’ reaction? Hey, let’s be more like those guys. Let’s spend more like they do, let’s copy their health care systems, let’s make our government bigger, like their government. […]

 

The Romney-Perry-Palin Dynamics Of The 2012 GOP Race

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The GOP is, for the moment, still a two person battle between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney and barring a Palin entry into the race, for someone else to move up, either Perry or Romney will probably have to collapse. Yet, almost EVERYONE seems to be piling on Perry and ignoring Romney. Why? Simple. All […]

 

How Sustainable Do You Think This Is?

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From CNSNews. There were only 1.75 full-time private-sector workers in the United States last year for each person receiving benefits from Social Security, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Social Security board of trustees. That means that for each husband and wife who worked full-time in the private sector last […]