Author: John Hawkins

My 30 Favorite Tweets From July

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From Johnhawkinsrwn * The government thinks it’s in charge. Break its rules, fight the power, defy, and rebel. That’s conservatism. * If Obama had migraines, the press would be calling them “head parties” and would say they’re caused by “caring.” * I wonder how many poor people ever consider that Dems want them to stay […]

 

Thought Of The Day: How You Evaluate The Debt Ceiling Deal Depends On The Question You’re Asking

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If you’re asking the question, “Could the GOP have gotten a significantly better debt ceiling deal?” — you’re probably generally pleased with the deal because the honest answer is “No, even if they’d held out, they wouldn’t have gotten a much better deal.” On the other hand, if you’re asking the question, “Does this debt […]

 

Paul Krugman Wants To Hold America Hostage?

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The Democratic Party and their pals in the mainstream media have been having a conniption fit over the Republican Party’s failure to completely capitulate during the debt ceiling battle. In fact, liberal columnists like Paul Krugman have been comparing it to holding American hostage. Here’s Krugman in May of this year. America Held Hostage Six […]

 

7 Examples Of Liberal Unfairness

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If one child complains that he didn’t get as much food as his brother because his frankfurter was cut into four pieces, while his brother’s hot dog was cut into five pieces, we laugh. What we often don’t realize is that the definitions of “fairness” that adults use are often every bit as arbitrary as […]

 

Thought Of The Day: The Idea That Government Spending Drives Economic Growth Should Be Dead

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If government spending were enough to make the economy hum, we should already have the fastest growing economy on earth. The fact that the economy’s limping along while we’re spending so much borrowed money that it’s pulling us towards bankruptcy should be enough to kill the whole Keynesian stimulus idea dead as a doornail.

 

Are Liberals Trying To Kill Tea Partiers….With Their Language?

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Remember when the Left was accusing Sarah Palin of causing the Gabrielle Giffords shooting by putting her district in the crosshairs? Liberals became so sensitive about that kind language that CNN actually apologized because a guest used “crosshairs” on the air. Of course, the demands for delicate phrasing only expanded from there. It got so […]

 

Interviewing Jedediah Bila About Her Book “Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative.”

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I was pleased to get an opportunity to talk to Jedediah Bila about her new book, “Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative.” What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Your book is sort of a diary telling people what it was like to be a Palin-supporting conservative in New York in the […]

 

The Devil’s In The Debt Ceiling Details

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Since Cut, Cap, & Balance can’t move through the Senate, we’ve been having a big fight to decide which plan that won’t fix our problems is going to become law. Here’s the compromise that has supposedly been decided upon, A White House official cautioned that no deal had been reached and that details floating out […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: What Are Your Thoughts About The FBI’s Crackdown On 14 Members Of Anonymous

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Question: What are your thoughts about the FBI’s crackdown on 14 members of Anonymous? How is a socially motivated distributed denial of service attack ethically different from jamming a Congressman’s phone lines over a political issue? Does the Anonymous crackdown signify the beginning of the end of the Wild West era on these here internets? […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: Why No Stories On The News Corp./NOTW Hacking Scandal

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Question: Why no stories on RWN about the News Corp./NOTW hacking scandal? — Vega – Sugar & Spice Answer: We live in a world where newspapers publish classified documents that compromise America’s security without consequence. Compared to that, phone hacking is small potatoes. Certainly, that doesn’t excuse it. I hope anyone involved is prosecuted to […]