Author: John Hawkins

You Don’t Win By Losing In Politics; You Win By Winning

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There’s a weird strain of thinking on the Right that goes, “The best thing that could ever happen to us would be to lose the next election. It would get people all fired up and then we could REALLY get something done!” Noemie Emery’s latest column is a great example of this type of thinking: […]

 

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, […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Feb 4 – Feb 17 (Special Double Edition)

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Clown Nose On, Clown Nose Off: That’s how Treacher described Jon Stewart’s very selective stance as to whether he was “just a comedian” and it therefore didn’t matter if he was saying nonsense or whether he was a sage outsider commentator on political affairs. The global warmistas have a similar tactic. When asked to explain […]

 

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 […]

 

Baghdad Wants A Billion Dollars For Damage To The City And We Should Pay Them…

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Iraq’s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. — Reuters Many of you are probably choking on this very reasonable demand from the politicians in Baghdad. But, […]

 

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 […]

 

Millions To Pay Off The Deficit, But Not One Cent For Obamacare

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On March 23, 2010, I wrote the following in a post that ended up being picked up all over the place: The Hawkins Strategy: Repealing Obamacare By Cutting Off The Funds …So, how do we kill Obamacare? I have an idea. “The IRS might have to hire as many as 16,000 new employees to enforce […]

 

Yes, That’s Just What The World Needs: More Human Ken Dolls

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In Latin America, they’re starting to get a taste of the over-feminization that has helped turn so many American men into sad, little wussies. It’s not a pretty sight, Ad campaigns region-wide challenge machimso. In Mexico, a new soap opera suggests women dislike macho men. In Chile, a current ad campaign attempts to appropriate the […]

 

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 […]

 

Debbie Schlussel On The Rape Of Lara Logan: “It Kinda Warms My Heart.”

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I am rather famously not a fan of Debbie Schlussel, so you may want to take this with a grain of salt, but she seems to be thrilled about the sexual assault on Lara Logan that occurred in Egypt. You’re probably thinking, ‘No way, Hawkins! You’re just saying this because you don’t like her!” Okay, […]

 

Everything You Need To Know About Avoiding Poverty In 250 Words

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Walter is a brilliant man with a knack for breaking complex economic issues down into easily understandable, bite sized sentences. This is no small feat because economics, despite what some people may tell you, is generally not intuitive or easy to grasp without a great deal of study. In his column today, Walter Williams dropped […]

 

5 Reasons It’s Good For Libertarians, Gays, And Donald Trump’s Hair To Be At CPAC

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The GOP just won its biggest victory in half a century, we’ve had the highest attendance ever at CPAC and yet the faces are so long, you’d think we were in a roomful of John Kerry imitators. How can so many people be so upset about CPAC when things are finally going in the right […]

 

The 2011 CPAC Experience: 68 Pictures (Part 1 Of 2)

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The Prelude To CPAC First of all, if you’ve never attended CPAC, let me give you a sense of it: Imagine a fairly young crowd of 11,000 people, mixed in with policy wonks, political celebrities, and campaign operatives, all roaming the halls of a huge hotel. Every 15-to-20 feet, someone is shoving a flyer into […]

 

The 2011 CPAC Experience: 68 Pictures (Part 2 of 2)

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Fri: Day 2 Of CPAC Ah, day 2…when the early stages of exhaustion begin to set in. So, what do you do when you’re stressed? Why you squeeze an Obama, Pelosi, or Biden stress ball, of course. I’m declaring those to be the coolest pieces of swag from the conference, even though, for reasons I […]

 

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 […]

 

15 Quotes From Conservatives On The Global Warming Hoax

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Liberal luddites who hate capitalism and industry have spent billions to spread global warming propaganda, despite the fact that it looks more like a fraud, a scam, and a hustle every year. Not only do those on the Left use their control of the mainstream media and the school system to push this nonsense, they’ve […]

 

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 […]

 

The Tea Party Should Primary Scott Brown? That’s Ridiculous.

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We’re already starting to hear grumbling about Scott Brown. He’s not conservative enough. He supported the START treaty. He voted to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He voted for Wall Street Reform. Man, he’s no Jim DeMint! The Tea Party got rooked when they supported that RINO! We’ve got to primary that guy in 2012! […]

 

The Best Quotes From “Why Men Are The Way They Are”

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Warren Farrell became interested in the women’s movement and as he learned more about it, he became more and more sympathetic to it. As Farrell heard complaints from women about men, he became interested. Why were men behaving like this? What was the reasoning behind it? Over time, as he did more research, he came […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: A Short Evaluation Of Each Of The GOP’s Potential 2012 Contenders

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Of the existing GOP field – if you discount the polls and take a good, long, honest look at the field – which candidate seems to be the most viable for 2012? My own opinion (though not necessarily who I’d really like to see): Mitch Daniels or Tim Pawlenty. — Scott You’ve been pretty quiet […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Have You Considered Running For Office

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“Have you considered running for office?” — David Stone The short answer: No. The longer answer: As a general rule, bloggers, columnists, and talk radio hosts shouldn’t run for office. We’ve all said too many things that can be used against us in political campaigns. Setting that aside, even if I were guaranteed to win, […]