Author: John Hawkins

An Eye-For-An-Eye In Iran: Seems Fair Enough To Me

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The Constitution forbids us from engaging in “cruel and unusual punishment;” so we certainly aren’t allowed to follow Iran’s lead here. However, don’t look for any high-minded rants from me about how “uncivilized” Iran is supposedly being here. The procedure was planned for Tehran at midday on Saturday in the presence of Ameneh Bahrami, the […]

 

The Best Quotes From “Diary Of A Hedge Fund Manager”

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I just finished up Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager: From the Top, to the Bottom, and Back Again. It was an outstanding book, not only because it taught me a lot about how hedge funds work, but because it was well written and very motivational. Unfortunately, the hedge fund business pays a higher multiple […]

 

Rand Paul Was Right; You Don’t Have A “Right” To Anything Another Human Being Has To Produce.

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With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not […]

 

The City Of Dallas Steals $2000 From A 15-Year-Old Who Did The Right Thing

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Americans love stories about people who find large amounts of money and are honest enough to turn it in — stories about people like 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson. She found $2000 in an envelope and although it must have been tempting to keep that cash, she decided to do the right thing and turn it in […]

 

Does Paying Retirees A Million Dollars In Government Benefits Sound Sustainable To You?

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Here’s the blunt truth that most politicians don’t have the guts to tell you: Medicare and Social Security cannot survive in their current form. Either we make some significant changes to how the programs are run or one day, taxes will rise to an almost unimaginable level that will completely destroy the economy or the […]

 

An Interview With Warren Farrell, The Author Of “Why Men Are the Way They Are.”

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I really enjoyed Warren Farrell’s incredibly insightful book, Why Men Are the Way They Are. In fact, I liked it so much I put together a list of quotations from the book. I’ve also just finished one of his other books, The Myth of Male Power. I can’t say that I agreed with everything in […]

 

Christians Shouldn’t Approve Of Churches Being Made Into Mosques

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If you’re Christian, then you shouldn’t do anything to help false religions prosper. That’s why this is so bizarre, A Muslim group plans to turn a church into a mosque after Swedish pentecostalists decided to sell a superfluous property in Flen in eastern Sweden in a display of “Christian love”. …However, selling the church to […]

 

Obama: We’ve Already Done Everything We Need To Do To Enforce Immigration Laws

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“We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement.” — Barack Obama, May 10, 2011 In other words, in Barack Obama’s eyes, we’ve done everything we need to do to enforce our immigration laws. Except…we haven’t. Are […]

 

Palin’s Problem Isn’t What She’s Done; It’s Who She Is

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Over at Commentary, John Podhoretz has noted Sarah Palin’s dramatic loss of popularity and is speculating on why it has happened. Alas, as Levin suggested might happen and as Green says has happened, Palin came almost immediately to inhabit a different role in the American body politic–not the “maverick” she was chosen to be by […]

 

E.J. Dionne: The Taxpayers Losing Billions? It’s A Huge Success!

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This column from E.J. Dionne Jr. tells you so, so, so much about the way liberals think or, more aptly, don’t think at all about certain subjects… Rescuing Detroit: No news about government’s good news Don’t expect to see a lot of newspapers and Web sites with this headline: “Big Government Bailout Worked.” But it […]

 

Is Obama Deliberately Trying To Sabotage Our Own War In Afghanistan? It Sure Looks Like It.

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Barack Obama’s entire presidency has been characterized by bumbling and amateurishness. This is an inexperienced President who doesn’t know how to govern and either doesn’t have advisers capable of explaining how things work to him or he doesn’t listen to those advisers. This has been particularly noticeable in foreign affairs where his bowing and bungling […]

 

The Degenerate Masters Of Neutrality Vs. Americans Over Bin Laden’s Death

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Proving you’ll die if you kill Americans is a hell of a lot more important than proving we’re more moral than our enemies. Some people still don’t get that and probably never will. Some are questioning whether “justice” in fact was done, as President Obama portrayed the killing, and whether the American troops made any […]

 

Michael Moore: America’s Most Prominent Deather

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Michael Moore is widely revered on the Left, he’s the best known political documentarian in America, and he’s so well thought of amongst liberals that he even famously sat next to Jimmy Carter at the 2004 Democratic convention. Michael Moore is also a deather — someone who believes that the US government already had Bin […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 29 – May 5

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For every person who goes to market seeking to purchase snake-oil and magic beans, there is at least one person who will set up a stand and agree to sell him such products.– Ace There’s much that’s unrealistic about pledging eternal monogamy, but sexually open relationships don’t work for a whole lot of people. — […]

 

Killing Bin Laden Once Again Makes The Case For Assassination

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We still don’t have all the facts about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden and the ones we do have seem to still be changing. However, at this point, it sounds like our men went in with the intention of killing Osama Bin Laden and they didn’t have any qualms about putting a bullet […]

 

Waterboarding Vindicated By Bin Laden’s Death! Hooray!

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Let me just put it this way: waterboarding isn’t torture. I’m not the least bit sorry, embarrassed, or troubled that it was used at Guantanamo Bay. In fact, I wouldn’t have been troubled if it had been used on fifty times as many prisoners. They’re terrorists who use real torture on our men. Stop crying […]