Author: John Hawkins

The Top 10 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Bill Maher

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In honor of HBO renewing Bill Maher’s ignorant, pseudo-intellectual hate fest, “Real Time with Bill Maher” for a 10th season, here are the top 10 most obnoxious Bill Maher quotes. 10) “I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where […]

 

I Agree With Matt Damon. We Should Raise Taxes…On Him.

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Matt Damon SAYS that he wants higher taxes on people like him. He told reporters, “I’m so disgusted… The wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time else, certainly in my lifetime, and probably in the last century. I don’t know what we were paying in the roaring ’20s; it’s criminal that so […]

 

Vroom! Vroom! Electric Car Sales Suck Even More Than You Thought! Vroom! Vroom!

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So, how’s the liberal effort to force overpriced, underperforming electric cars on the public going? Ehr, not so well… A LONG WAY TO GO: Nissan Leaf sales hit 931, Chevy Volt at 125 in July. So, how does that square with this? “We can break our dependence on oil…and become the first country to have […]

 

A Brief Analysis Of Why The Economy Is So Crummy

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If you talk to 10 different economists, you’ll probably hear 10 slightly different theories as to why the economy is and has been so mediocre throughout the Obama presidency. For whatever it’s worth, here’s my explanation. #1) The economy was riding a housing bubble that was being driven by shaky loans encouraged by the government. […]

 

How We Incentivize Americans Not To Have Children

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People tend to respond to incentives, even if those incentives run counter to their biological drives. According to a new study by the New York-based think tank the Center for Work-Life Policy, 43 percent of college-educated women between the ages of 33 and 46 are childless. And nowhere does that statistic resonate more than here. […]

 

Sarah Palin: 1. “Tea Partiers Are Terrorists” Libs: 0

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Calling Tea Partiers “Tea baggers” is soooooo 2010. The hot new insult is calling us “terrorists.” Everyone from Chris Matthews to the The Politico to members of Congress like Mike Doyle have used the insult. Of course, my thought was that if liberals think we’re terrorists, then maybe they should ask what they’ve done to […]

 

Sweden, Where Even The Clergy Aren’t Christian

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If this story is to be believed, Christianity is so close to dead in Sweden that it should be on life support. Nearly three-quarters of Sweden’s population of 9.4 million continue to belong to what was long the official state church of this Nordic nation, according to a recent survey. Yet only 15 percent of […]

 

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 […]

 

Newt Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Faked? Not So Fast.

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These days, all it takes to create a scandalous story is someone spouting off anonymously to a major news source and next thing you know, it’s news, whether it’s true or not. In Newt Gingrich’s case, he’s been accused of buying most of his 1.3 million Twitter followers. gawker.com is suggesting that many of Gingrich’s […]

 

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.

 

A Succinct Explanation Of America’s Social Security/Medicare Crisis

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The ultimate issue is that over the years, the cost of Social Security and Medicare has escalated dramatically and the government, being the government, has failed to demand that people pay as much into the programs as they’re going to take out. That worked out okay for awhile because of the population bubble created by […]

 

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 […]

 

A Real World Example: How Liberals Drive American Jobs Overseas

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Over at Hot Air, they have an absolutely fantastic story about how liberals end up driving American jobs overseas. This is a story the Left could learn a lot from if it paid attention. Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 1/2 years […]

 

Are The Smurfs Little Blue Godless Commies?

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“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — Papa Smurf Sure, Marx said it first, but it applies to the Smurfs much better than you might think. In a textbook communist society, all citizens are equal. They labor for the common good. Money is unnecessary. Individual liberty takes a back […]

 

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: What Will The Outcome Of The Operation Fast and Furious Scandal Be?

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Question: What do you expect the outcome of the Congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious to be? Will any prominent heads roll, or will some middle management types be forced to fall on their swords and the scandal be swept under the rug? — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: You’d go to jail for the rest of […]

 

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 […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: What 5 Books Should Be Required Reading For All High School Seniors?

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Question: If you were tasked with creating a list of 5 books that would be required reading for all HS seniors in your school district, which books would you include and why? — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: This is a fun question. Difficult, too, but still fun. I’m going to assume that I have carte blanche here […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: If Tim Pawlenty Were A Hot Latino Female, Would He Be The Front Runner?

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Question: If Tim Pawlenty had the same record, personality, and policy platform, but was a hot latino female, would he be the frontrunner in The Republican Primary? — President Friedman Answer: Of course! Let me add, if Sarah Palin were a man, she wouldn’t be 1/10 as popular. If Barack Obama were white, he would […]

 

Businessmen Who Are Actually Going John Galt: Their Stories

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The reason Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has struck such a chord since Obama got into office is because people can see so much of the book in Obama’s approach to governance. The open encouragement of envy, the demonization of success, the attacks on business….they all fit in with the book. Well now, we’re starting to […]