Author: John Hawkins

5 Reasons Black Americans Should Give Up On The Democratic Party

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I grew up in the deep South and once, when I was going to high school, I went to a friend’s party. A couple dozen of us were hanging around downstairs, enjoying ourselves, when we found out that the father of the girl who was throwing the party wouldn’t let a kid into his house […]

 

Tea Party Debate Analysis: Who Won? Who Lost?

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Although it’s a bit strange to have CNN running a “Tea Party debate,” it did…and all in all, CNN did well, although there were some flaws. Could someone ask about Operation Fast and Furious? How about spending a little more time on illegal immigration since it’s an area where there are some real differences? Did […]

 

Welcome The Looking Spoon To The RWN Family

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Today, I’d like to announced that there’s a new blog coming into the Right Wing News family. I’ve partnered up with Jared McAndersen, who’s an extremely talented graphic artist, to relaunch The Looking Spoon as an all graphics blog. If you’re looking for a place to get some of the funniest conservative pics, graphics, and […]

 

Why The Parties In DC Can’t Cooperate

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Yesterday, while I was out walking the dog, I had a neighbor ask me why the Republicans and Democrats in DC can’t cooperate. I explained it like so…. Getting the GOP and Democrats to work together would be like getting Adam Smith and Vladimir Lenin to put together a joint economic plan. In other words, […]

 

The Top 10 Best Quotes From Mark Steyn’s “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”

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Mark Steyn’s After America: Get Ready for Armageddon is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. In fact, it was so good that there was no way I could do it justice in a single article. Last week, I posted The Top 10 Most Disturbing Statistics From Mark Steyn’s “After America: […]

 

The Courtney Messerschmidt Controversy

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This week-end, there was a bit of a rumpus involving one of RWN’s writers — Courtney Messerschmidt. A while back, I invited Courtney Messerschmidt from GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD to write at RWN. She wrote conservative, foreign policy pieces, but I enjoyed her work mainly because it was so stylistically unique. She’d do a post on […]

 

Put ‘Country Before Party’ and Admit Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme

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There are few issues where we need to put “country before party” more than Social Security, which is why Rick Perry’s comments about the program were a breath of fresh air. Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s assertion this week that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” touched off a heated debate within the GOP whether voters […]

 

Raising Red Passes 250,000 On Facebook

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After Slatecard failed to take off during the last cycle, I got together with Charlie Smith and suggested that we create our own online fund raising vehicle from scratch so that conservatives could have a place online to contribute to Republican candidates for office. That was the day when Raising Red was born. Since then, […]

 

Herman Cain Sends Out The Best Press Release I’ve Seen In Years

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Most candidate press releases are filler that aren’t worth sending out or receiving. Every once in a while, the release says something memorable or includes some useful facts or figures that at least make it worth reading. But then, every once in a blue moon, a candidate sends out a press release that can best […]

 

Analysis Of Obama’s Speech: This Was His Jump The Shark Moment

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Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed. — Maureen Dowd This speech was classic Obama….which is exactly the […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Sept 2 – Sept 8

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And given that the (Social Security) worker-to-retiree ratio is expected to fall from 3-1 today to 2-1 in 2030 (down from 16-1 in 1950) these taxes will only go up unless the government decides to kick retirees in their dentures and slash benefits. — Shikha Dalmia (Obama) believes people are stupid, or at least not […]

 

Like RWN Has Been Telling You, Social Security Is A Ponzi Scheme

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As Michael Kinsley once famously said, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” Last night at the debate, Rick Perry told the truth about Social Security and although it’s not a gaffe in the conventional sense, you can expect to see both Republicans and Democrats who know he’s 100% right trying to spin […]

 

Shut The Hell Up About Knee Wrinkles Already!

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If you’re a woman, life is always a performance for a room full of excessively critical, impossibly picky critics. How do your clothes look? How about your make-up and shoes? Is your face botoxed smooth? Is your butt too big? Do you have any stretch marks? How about cellulite ? No matter what you do, […]

 

The Top 10 Most Disturbing Statistics From Mark Steyn’s “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”

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Mark Steyn’s After America: Get Ready for Armageddon is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. In fact, it was so good that there was no way I could do it justice in a single article. So, instead I’m going to do two articles. The first is the top 10 most […]

 

Reagan Debate Analysis: Who Won? Who Lost?

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It’s intriguing that MSNBC actually asked less hostile, unfair and divisive questions than Fox did in the last debate — which is kind of funny if you think about it(although the one where they asked Perry how he could “sleep at night” was over-the-top, it was unintentionally hilarious). Additionally, its clear that the dynamic has […]

 

Interviewing Lee Doren About His New Book “Please Enroll Responsibly: Avoiding Indoctrination at College.”

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RWN blogger Lee Doren has a new ebook out. It’s called Please Enroll Responsibly: Avoiding Indoctrination at College. Enjoy my interview with Lee! I learned from your book that you used to be a liberal and I am always fascinated with stories about how liberals became conservatives. Tell us about your story. It may surprise […]

 

Firing A Chain Gun At A Giant Worm With Joe Biden’s Face Actually Sounds Like Fun

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So, some liberal has put together a java game that allows you to mow down “Tea-Party zombies”. Good news: Angry liberals can now vicariously hunt down and kill the world’s most dangerous prey. No, not human beings; Tea Party Zombies. …These zombified targets include “generic pissed off old white guys,” Glenn Beck, a blood-drenched Sarah […]

 

7 Business Screw-Ups From America’s Super CEO-And-Chief Barack Obama

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I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We’ll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will […]

 

Rick Perry Did A Townhall In Conway, SC….And I Missed All Of It

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Congressman Tim Scott invited Rick Perry to a Townhall in Conway, SC. The event was held at Horry Georgetown Technical College, which I was unfamiliar with. Unfortunately, I had some GPS issues and instead of getting there 20 minutes early as I’d planned, I arrived at 10:00 AM on the dot. That was right when […]

 

Quit Your Terrible Job Now! 7 Tips for Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

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“Find something you love to do so much that you’d do it for free and find a way to make it into a career.” — Anonymous I don’t know who came up with that quote, but it changed my life. You see, I’ve always been an ambitious person, but the only thing I knew for […]

 

Some Things Shouldn’t Be Shared With Your Facebook Pals: Like When You Commit A Murder

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Some things just aren’t meant to be shared with your Facebook friends. Authorities have identified a 24-year-old woman found dead in a southeast Las Vegas apartment after her accused assailant called and told authorities where to find her. The Clark County coroner said Friday that Tiffany Batteate (bah-TEET’) was beaten and stabbed to death. Police […]