Author: John Hawkins

Call The Civility Police: Liberal Threats And Violence Surge

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Wasn’t it just last month that we had hypersensitive liberals going on and on about civility after Gabrielle Giffords was shot? Well today, the same people who were hyperventilating over phrases like “job killing” are apparently peachy keen with actual threats and intimidation. Why? Because most liberals are actually fine with political violence and threats […]

 

Polling Conservative Bloggers On The GOP’s 2012 Presidential Field

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Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 63 bloggers responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, Argghhhh!, Bad Example, Betsy’s Page, Blackfive, Bookworm Room, Cara Ellison, Cassy Fiano, Conservative Compendium, Considerettes, Danny Carlton, […]

 

Barack Obama On His Budgetary Apocalypse: “We’re Not Going To Spend Any More Money Than We’re Taking In”

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Barack Obama habitually lies so much about what he’s doing that I’m surprised he doesn’t introduce himself as Rumplestilskin just to keep in practice. Well, Jake Tapper is calling Obama out on a particularly egregious lie about deficit spending, In an interview with ABC News’ Cincinnati affiliate WCPO-TV Wednesday. In an , President Obama said […]

 

Giving Big Bird The Ax?

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If PBS is so incredibly incompetent that they can’t even manage to keep a show as wildly successful and ever present as Sesame Street on the air without government help, then they deserve to go out of business Jim DeMint: The Muppets are in town. No, not for a show. They are in Washington to […]

 

Wisconsin: More Evidence Government Employees Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Unionize

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It has never made sense for government employees to be allowed to unionize. Government jobs AREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE cushy. Government workers shouldn’t make more than people in the private sector who are paying their salaries. Moreover, if you look at the budget problems state and local governments are having, you’ll find union benefits and […]

 

Jimmy Carter Proves That The Muslim Brotherhood Is Far More Lethal Than We Realized

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Although the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a terrorist group like Al-Qaeda per se, it is an anti-Semitic, anti-American, terrorist-supporting radical Islamist organization. There’s nothing good to be said about the radicals in the Muslim Brotherhood — and the fact that they’re undoubtedly going to end up playing some role in Egypt’s government should be a cause […]

 

Poll Results: Which Of The Following Candidates Would You Like To See As The Republican Party’s Presidential Nominee In 2012?

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Here are the results from the Internet poll of RWN’s readers that ran yesterday, 18) Mike Huckabee: 0.5% 18) Jon Huntsman: 0.5% 16) John Thune: 1.3% 16) Ron Paul: 1.3% 14) Jeb Bush: 1.6% 14) Rudy Giuliani: 1.6% 13) Rick Santorum: 1.8% 12) Haley Barbour: 2.4% 11) Newt Gingrich: 2.6% 10) Rick Perry: 2.9% 9) […]

 

ProgressNow Colorado: Cutting Spending? Oh Noes!

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Inexplicably, since I’m not a socialist and I don’t live in Colorado, the lefties over at ProgressNow Colorado have added me to their email list for some reason. Here’s their latest whiny missive, Dear John, Here’s a true or false question for you. Do you think Colorado is a great place to live? If you […]

 

CPAC Exclusive: An Interview With Olympia Snowe’s Primary Challenger, Andrew Ian Dodge

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There have been rumors that Andrew Ian Dodge will challenge Olympia Snowe in the 2012 Republican primary. Well, today at CPAC, he announced his candidacy and he’s doing his first post-announcement interview here at Right Wing News. Enjoy! First question: if a Republican in Maine says, “Andrew, why should I support you instead of Olympia […]

 

CPAC

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CPAC runs Thurs-Saturday of this week and I will be attending. Although I will be posting from CPAC, the posts may not be as regular as usual. Since there will be other RWN bloggers there, that will probably be true of them as well. That’s the nature of the beast. PS: I will, however, of […]

 

The New York Times Theory: Conservatives Want States To Go Bankrupt So….

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The New York Times has a novel theory. It seems that conservatives actually WANT states to go bankrupt so that we can implement our nefarious agenda! As states groan and stumble through the recession, some politicians are trying to exploit their financial crises for ideological purposes. Many Republicans want to use hard times to fundamentally […]