Author: John Hawkins

This Week In Quotes: April 15 – April 21

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All told: If you’re in a liberal-leaning group and are comfortable enough economically to only care about more abstract things like social issues (abortion forever), racial solidarity (gotta give our brother a second chance), racial condescension (wouldn’t be fair to boot out a black guy just because he’s unqualified and a failure), and also don’t […]

 

Obama’s Bureaucrats Declare Escaping From Unions To Be Illegal

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Let’s face it; Nobody WANTS to hire union employees. If you don’t have to do it, you’re not going to do it. That brings us to Boeing and Obama’s National Labor Relations Board. Federal labor regulators are accusing the Boeing Co. of putting one of its assembly lines for the new 787 in South Carolina […]

 

The Best Quotes From ‘100 Simple Secrets Of Happy People’

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All of these quotations are from 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, The: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It. Enjoy! “Psychology professors who figure out a better way to think about life spend their careers sharing it with other professors.” — XV “For some people there are no victories, just alternate […]

 

So What Happens If Christians Start To Behave More Like Muslims?

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We all know the pattern by now: Muslims get upset about something that offends their religious sensibilities, some of them get violent, a few moderate Muslims may or may not give a token, “Oh, that’s awful, but I hope no one discriminates against Muslims because of this,” they get their way, and anyone who complains […]

 

Republicans Need To Learn How To Play The Game On Social Security & Medicare

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Here’s the conundrum America finds itself in. Getting spending in D.C. under control without reforming Medicare and Social Security is impossible. Yet, tampering with Medicare and Social Security is unpopular. The problem is, if we don’t get spending in D.C. under control, we’re going to go bankrupt and payments to existing Medicare and Social Security […]

 

Why It’s A Wonder Anyone Gets Married Anymore

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Kay Hymowitz, who has been writing a lot of dazzling columns about gender these days, speculates about whether women’s newfound dominance in college graduation rates will lead to less marriages. In a few weeks, the first of the 2011 college grads will toss their mortarboards in the air and bid adieu to campus life. A […]

 

Obama: Don’t Blame Me For Rising Gas Prices After I Did All Those Things To Drive Them Up

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“I didn’t do it, no one saw me do it, there’s no way you can prove anything!” — Barack Obama Oh wait, did that say Barack Obama? It should have said Bart Simpson. Sorry, it can be a little hard to tell them apart, what with Barack Obama constantly denying responsibility for everything he does. […]

 

Little Green Idiocy Part 2: Taxpayers Taking A Bath On GM Is Great News!

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Back in November of 2010, I mocked towering uber-genius Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs for this silliness. General Motors went on the public market today, with one of the largest IPOs in US history, and from all accounts it was a monster success. GM is well on track to a full recovery; they’ve returned […]

 

Will California’s Cap & Trade System Be The First One To Ever Work? Ehr, No, Stupid! Of Course, Not!

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California, which has spent decades systematically crippling itself, is working on getting the details of its latest baseball bat to its own knee just right before it swings for the fences. Nine months before California is set to finalize a trading system aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, participants have the jitters. Litigation threatens to […]

 

The Single Most Terrifying Thing You Will Read Today About The Future Of Our Country

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As you may know, Standard & Poor’s moved America’s debt outlook from stable to negative. That means we could lose our Triple A rating on our sovereign debt within 2 years. This is not a problem that can be fixed with a bailout, a speech, or a blue ribbon panel. It will require actual painful […]

 

7 Ways Politicians Mislead The American Public

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Government has become too damn big, too damn intrusive, and too damn lucrative for the good of the country. That’s why so much of the political class in this country is comprised of con men, sociopaths, and fortune hunters. Quite frankly, most of these people would rather that you didn’t understand their motives, what they […]

 

Britain: Wear The Headscarf Or Die, Infidel Women

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Years ago, Mark Steyn told me that in certain parts of Britain, non-Muslim women wore the veil because it kept them from getting harassed in the streets by Muslims. Apparently, some of the Islamic radicals in Britannia have decided to formalize the arrangement. Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and […]

 

The Super Rich: Should We Hate Them Or Be Thanking Them?

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Over at Yahoo, they’ve done a piece on the super rich that has a rather arbitrary negative slant to it. Sadly, that has become far too common of late. It’s called, Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically. The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each year. […]

 

An Interview With Andrew Breitbart

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I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbartabout his new book “Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! .” What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. I always find it fascinating when people who used to be liberal say they turned to the right. That […]

 

Have You Seen These Controversial Billboards? If Not, Now Is Your Chance!

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Creative political billboards are always a lot of fun, but these are instant classics because they do something Republicans foolishly almost never do; they actually target black Americans. At some point, if the GOP wants black Americans to vote for us, we’ve got to go beyond talking about outreach to actually doing the outreach. Somehow, […]

 

Hate To Say This, But Pitchfork Pat’s Proclamation Of Peril Looks Genuinely Perilous

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Although I’m not the biggest Pat Buchanan fan, when you’re right, you’re right. Pat’s right about the potential danger we face… But if Democrats are not going to do even minor surgery on Medicare and Medicaid and Republicans are not going to raise taxes, there is no hope of big budget deal to cut a […]

 

Rand Paul Absolutely Lays It Down On The Budget Compromise!

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Normally, I don’t post whole speeches, but Rand Paul’s speech on the budget compromise was so exceptional, so extraordinary, so on point, that it deserves to get much wider play (Emphasis mine). You know, it’s amazing to me to be lectured to and hear about how awful the Tea Party is and what the Tea […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 8 – April 14

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I’ll tell you another thing I never could have predicted: That the guy who bought himself a year’s worth of no-comment by deferring important questions to a commission, and then promptly ignored that commission’s recommendations, would then make a major announcement that he fully intends to appoint a new commission. — Ace Status quo and […]

 

Change: America Reaches A Historic New Employment Low

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The more illegal aliens we have in this country, the less jobs we have for Americans. The more we punish people for success, the less jobs those successful people create. The more regulations we put in place, the more it strangles whole industries and they create less jobs as a result. The more tax dollars […]

 

Saying Paying Taxes Is Patriotic Is Evidence That You’re Unpatriotic

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Because most Americans have a high opinion of patriotism and most liberals aren’t patriotic, liberals keep trying to come up with new definitions of patriotism that have nothing to do with loving your country. Case in point… One group of millionaires, however, is saying that they are more than willing to pay more for the […]

 

The Budget Compromise: Why I Now Think Republicans Should Vote It Down

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I was generally supportive of the GOP’s compromise with the Democrats on the Budget and considered it to be a small win. Granted 38 billion in cuts isn’t a lot when we have a deficit that’s north of 1.5 trillion dollars. Moreover, it’s not the 100 billion they initially promised or even the 61 billion […]