Author: John Hawkins

I’ll Fully Support Mitch McConnell’s Great, New Debt Limit Compromise If He Resigns As Minority Leader As A Sweetener

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Never underestimate the Republican Party’s capacity for stupidity, particularly amongst its leadership. No matter how strong their hand is, instinctually they lean towards doing exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time and they have legions of political insiders, consultants, and aides who assure them that they’re geniuses for spouting idiocy like this. Desperate to […]

 

Chart: The Few, The Proud, The Employed Americans (It’s Actually Worse Than You Think)

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From The Atlantic. Even though the unemployment rate is technically 9.2%, the employment-population ratio fell to 58.2%, matching its recession low. But it might help to put this number into perspective: just how bad is it? …Prior to this recession, the unemployment-population ratio hasn’t been this low since 1983. At that time, it actually dropped […]

 

5 Signs Of American Decadence

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“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.” — Cal Thomas You’ve undoubtedly heard the old wives’ tale about frogs […]

 

I Love Palin And Bachmann, But They’re Completely Wrong About The Debt Ceiling

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Back in the private dining room in Pella, Palin shared some of those policy positions. On the debt ceiling, she takes the hardline view. “It is not the apocalypse,” she said, and questioned the need for the urgent negotiating sessions Republicans and Democrats were conducting in search of a debt-limit agreement (ongoing at press time). […]

 

My 25 Fave 140 Character Thoughts For June

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* Diet soda “makes you fat” for the same reason anti-depressants “cause” suicide. Hint: Correlation isn’t causation. * You don’t find yourself so much as you create yourself. * If there are enough people who’ll buy anything, then you can be sure that eventually someone will come along and sell it * The merit of […]

 

This Week In Quotes: July 1 – July 8

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I want you to know, as president of the United States, I look forward to creating real jobs for both the Treasury secretary and the president of the United States. — Michele Bachmann And don’t any of you, by the way, any of you guys vote Republican. I’m not supposed to say, this isn’t political. […]

 

Off This Week

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I’m on vacation this week. Thanks to all the other bloggers at RWN for filling in and I’ll be back next week, same conservachannel, same conservaplace!

 

This Week In Quotes: June 24 – June 30

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People are generally skeptical of government, and increasingly believe government and law are a crooked game which a Good Citizen ought to respect only to the extent necessary to avoid jailtime. — Ace It’s mob mentality. People are braver when it’s in a bag or a bottle, and when they’re in the majority. All I […]

 

Today Is Q&A Friday #107 At RWN.

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So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be on just about anything: politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, movies, music, literature, or TV. It can also be from any ideological perspective, […]

 

Michele Bachmann Dances On Stage, Signs Men’s Chests, And Owns The Crowd In Myrtle Beach (11 pics, 2 videos)

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Broadway at the Beach was a great place for Michele Bachmann to hold a campaign rally. There’s lots of parking, lots of shops, and a gorgeous view. Still, since it is early in the campaign season and Myrtle Beach has a much smaller populace than most think (roughly 27,000), I didn’t expect more than say, […]

 

Can We All Just Admit That Conservatives Have Been Right About The Economy And Obama Has Been Wrong?

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One thing that should alarm liberals, well in some bizarro world where liberals care whether their policies work or not, is that conservative predictions about Barack Obama’s economic policies have been spot on. We said the stimulus wouldn’t get the economy cranked up again — and it hasn’t. We said it was a huge mistake […]

 

The Unions’ Real Enemy: Themselves

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It’s no secret that union membership has been slowly, but surely declining for decades in America. There’s a simple reason for that and it’s not unfair business practices, mean old corporations, or big, bad Republicans. No, the problem with union workforces is that non-union workforces are simply more competitive. In a study of the decline […]

 

How The Left-Wing Media Creates Memes About GOP Candidates: A Bachmann Based “John Wayne” Case Study

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So, Michelle Bachmann is in Waterloo, Iowa and she says this: Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo’s own John Wayne. The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes: Waterloo’s John Wayne was […]