Author: John Hawkins

This Week In Quotes. Special Double Edition (Nov 19-Dec 2)

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What we said back last Thanksgiving and repeated again and got the living Devil beat out of us by good friends like John McCain and others, we said, ‘Look, beginning in the summer of 2011, we’re going to begin to transition. That commitment will be kept. We said then the slope and the pace of […]

 

The Right Wing News Bloggers’ Choice Conservative Of The Year For 2010

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Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to select the Conservative of the Year. Representatives from the following 66 blogs responded… 101 Dead Armadillos, Alexa Shrugged, All That Is Necessary, Babalu Blog, Basils Blog, Blonde Sagacity, Bluey Blog, Bookworm Room, Cara Ellison, Cassy Fiano, Conservative Compendium, Dispatches From Blogblivion, Dodgeblogium, […]

 

You Can Take Your Civility Pledge And Shove it

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Come to think of it, that headline’s not very civil, is it? My very, very sincere and civil apologies! Wonder if that would be good enough for Lanny Davis & Mark DeMoss? It’s only 32 words. Yet, only two sitting members of Congress or governors have signed the civility pledge. So what was it about […]

 

My Fave 20 140 Character Thoughts For November

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* Environmentalists: Wasting billions on global warming, killing millions by banning DDT, & starving children by fighting frankenfood * Liberal feminism: Devotion to abortion, copying the worst traits of men, & pretending to be outraged by the real world. * Liberals find a rationale for supporting just about anything that degrades morality, tradition, and American […]

 

It’s Good That Wikileaks Is Using Amazon’s Servers

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Because I used to work for an ISP wholesaler, I tend to have a little bit of a different viewpoint about terrorist groups and organizations that are hostile to America, like Wikileaks, being hosted on American servers: WikiLeaks, the website that published a quarter-million sensitive diplomatic cables on Sunday, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in […]

 

Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Only When The People That Have To Live With It Are Okay With It

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The Pentagon’s out with a report on gays in the military that’s actually significantly less positive than it’s being portrayed by people who favor ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Pentagon has concluded that allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the United States armed forces presents a low risk to the military’s […]

 

Liberalism: Mohammad Cartoons Vs. Jesus Being Eaten By Ants

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For all their kvetching about hypocrisy, most politicized liberals in this country have an incredibly hypocritical attitude towards Christianity. Of course, finding a liberal politico who hasn’t completely bastardized his Christian beliefs to make them compatible with liberalism or believes enough in Christianity to actually stand up for it when it’s being slandered by other […]

 

The Southern Poverty Law Center Is A Non-Credible, Anti-Conservative Hate Group

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The Southern Poverty Law Center used to be an organization that targeted hate groups. They let people know what these groups believed, catalogued their activities, and generally kept a watchful eye on them. Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center is an organization that targets conservatives and as a sideline, also dabbles in tracking hate groups. […]

 

5 Reasons The CIA Should Have Already Killed Julian Assange

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Wikileaks’ deliberate disclosure of these diplomatic cables is nothing less than an attack on the national security of the United States, as well as that of dozens of other countries. By disseminating these materials, Wikileaks is putting at risk the lives and the freedom of countless Americans and non-Americans around the world. — Joe Lieberman […]

 

Reactions To The Wikileaks Document Dump From Around The Right Side Of The Blogosphere

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It’s interesting to note, especially given that we have a Democratic President in the White House, the different reactions to the latest Wikileaks document dump. The left side of the blogosphere seems, with a few exceptions, to range from indifference to support for Wikileaks. Bloggers on the Right don’t seem to be taking it as […]

 

The Best Of The Rest: 20 More Quotes About Liberals

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Last Friday, I compiled The 25 Best Ann Coulter Quotes About Liberals. On Tuesday, My Townhall column was called The 25 Best Quotes About Liberals. While I was compiling those lists, I came across a number of pretty good quotes that didn’t quite make the cut. Still, they were collectively good enough to merit a […]

 

Most Competent White House In History Falls Victim To Taliban Equivalent Of Nigerian Email Scam

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Traditionally, the American people have cared very little about foreign policy. In part, that’s because they assume that the experts that are handling it know exactly what they’re doing. Tragically, this is all too often a completely erroneous assumption. If you want to see a story that illustrates that, well wow, you really couldn’t do […]

 

Are North Korea And South Korea Going To War? Probably Not.

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Twitter’s all abuzz with the news that North Korea has launched artillery shells at a South Korea island, North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets, military officials said. At least one South […]

 

The 25 Best Quotes About Liberals

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Now, for something completely different, here are the 25 best quotes about liberals. Enjoy! 25) Whenever I read liberals reporting about the goings-on of conservatives I always get the nature-documentary vibe. A liberal reporter puts on his or her Dian Fossey hat in order to attempt to write another installment of Conservatives in the Mist. […]

 

A Democratic Leader Never Accused Bush Of Lying Us Into War?

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Liberals don’t believe there is such a thing as “fact” or “truth.” Everything is a struggle for power between rival doctrines. — Ann Coulter Courtesy of Newsbusters, here’s an extraordinary exchange that occurred between Charles Krauthammer and Mark Shields, KRAUTHAMMER: Are you denying that Democratic leaders have accused Bush of lying us into war? MARK […]

 

Could Anything Be More Meaningless Than Warren Buffett Calling For Higher Taxes?

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So, have you heard the news? Warren Buffett thinks the government should raise taxes on the rich, Billionaire Warren Buffett said that rich people should pay more in taxes and that Bush-era tax cuts for top earners should be allowed to expire at the end of December. “If anything, taxes for the lower and middle […]

 

It’s Fine For Women In Politics To Use Their Looks To Get Ahead

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These days, every time a woman in politics gets recognized for her looks or dares to be even a little sexually provocative, the “how dare she” crew comes out of the woodwork. Ironically, given that the standard feminist line these days is that women should screw like promiscuous men and then whinge about “slut shaming” […]

 

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

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Over at Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson is showing everyone why he doesn’t do much these days besides apologize for radical Islam and repetitively squawk about conservatives. When he gets out of his tiny comfort zone, here’s Charles Johnson pumping out laughable nonsense like this: General Motors went on the public market today, with one […]

 

The 25 Best Ann Coulter Quotes About Liberals

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25) Liberals seem to have hit upon a reverse Christ story as their belief system. He suffered and died for our sins; liberals make the rest of us suffer for sins we didn’t commit. Their claims of how awful ‘we’ are never seems to encompass themselves in the ‘we.’ Saying America is a racist nation […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Nov 12-18

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It’s similarly pointless to treat all Americans as if they’re potential terrorists while trying to find and confiscate anything that could be used as a weapon. We can’t search all passengers for explosives because Muslims stick explosives up their anuses. (Talk about jobs Americans just won’t do.) You have to search for the terrorists. Fortunately, […]

 

The Left’s Patriotism Deficit

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Over at the Washington Post, Left-winger Matt Miller is bemoaning the high opinion of America that so many conservatives seem to have: Oooh, you’re so strong, baby, so handsome. You’re the greatest. I’m talking about you, America. You’re . . . why, you’re exceptional! Does anyone else think there’s something a little insecure about a […]

 

Palin: I Could Beat Obama. But, Could She?

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Asked (Barbara) Walters: “If you ran for president, could you beat Barack Obama?” “I believe so,” (Sarah) Palin said That’s the $24,000 question with Palin, isn’t it? If she were the nominee, could she beat Obama? Honestly, it’s impossible to answer that question — not just in regard to Palin, but in regard to whoever […]

 

Liberalism in 120 Seconds #1: To Hell with TSA

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For quite a while now, I’ve been planning to do a weekly video project. Well, the first one is now live. It’s called “Liberalism in 120 Seconds.” The videos will be snappy, mostly center around liberalism, and they’re supposed to run less than 2 minutes. Here’s the first one. Enjoy! PS: Thanks to Joe Dan […]