Author: John Hawkins

In a social media-driven world, everyone is a brand. When everyone becomes a brand, virtue signaling is destined to become an epidemic. When you’re a liberal, the best way to show how much more virtuous you are than other people is to become offended. The more trivial the issue you are offended by, the more […]

It’s never a good sign when you’re 12 weeks away from an election and the biggest defenders of a candidate are distancing themselves from him and trying to pin the blame for his inevitable defeat on other people. Yet, that’s where we now are with Donald Trump. Trump himself is claiming that he’s doing great, […]

I’m a big believer in the Buckley rule. In a primary you go for the most conservative candidate that can be elected. In the John McCain vs. Kelli Ward race, that’s clearly Kelli Ward. It goes without saying that John McCain has deeply disappointed conservatives during his time in the Senate. He’s one of the […]

Note: Given Hillary Clinton’s disgusting and corrupt track record, this could easily have been a much bigger list. In fact, I’m not even sure you could adequately cover how unfit Hillary is for the Presidency in a 200 page book, much less a column. With that in mind, I decided to keep this list at […]

1) We’d see frequent discussions on whether bumbling white dads or negative portrayals of southerners on TV and in movies were unfair to white people. 2) The government would be turning down talented black and Hispanic students to allow less qualified white students to get in via Affirmative Action. 3) Minorities would be LEAVING the […]

The whole Black Lives Matter Movement is pure crap designed to help liberals get their names out there and to increase black turnout in elections for the Democratic Party. It’s a movement funded by liberal white Americans like the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation and supported primarily by privileged black liberals that does nothing but produce […]

Donald Trump can win if the #nevertrump people….no, he can’t. Trump can win if the Republican Party decides to…..nope. Won’t happen. Well, what if Donald Trump were to….it doesn’t matter.   Barring a zombie apocalypse, alien invasion or Hillary being indicted for her crimes by the Obama-run DOJ (which is about as likely as the […]

Last week, I interviewed Kristin Tate about her new book, Government Gone Wild: How D.C. Politicians Are Taking You for a Ride — and What You Can Do About It. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. John:   You told an interesting story in the book about your friend Jack and his Section […]

When I was a kid, I lived in a small town and I didn’t know any Jewish people. Of course, because I didn’t know any Jewish people, my Jewdar was so bad that Mr. Goldberg could have invited me over to enjoy some matzo ball soup and I would have still had no idea he […]

Conservatives care about logic. Liberals care about emotion. Conservatives care about whether a program works or not. Liberals care about how supporting a program makes them feel. Conservatives take the positions they do because they believe they’re best for society. Liberals take the positions they do because they make them feel and look compassionate or […]

“Five, 10 years from now (the GOP will be a) different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party. A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry. What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security is a big mistake for the Republican Party. And […]

Only a living, breathing Hindenburg disaster like Hillary Clinton could make a 74-year-old socialist like Bernie Sanders seem like a fresh and charismatic “new face.” All over America, people are looking at the ancient wife of Bill Clinton and wondering how out of 320 million people, the Democrats could have possibly picked her as their […]

One of the most harmful and also false ideas that liberals have introduced to American culture is the idea that gender is nothing more than a “social construct.” Put another way, there’s no real difference between men and women; we just think there are differences because we accept illogical cultural norms that have been passed […]

Have you ever seen an incredible talent who is destroying himself? An Elvis Presley, a Jimi Hendrix, a John Belushi?  A Marilyn Monroe, a Prince, an Amy Winehouse? What do you think when you look at someone who’s rich, famous, gifted and has the world at his fingertips after he just throws it all away? […]

My latest Townhall column is called, If Conservatives Want To Change America, We Need To Embrace Boycotts Here’s an excerpt from the column. Liberals have already co-opted Hollywood and our education system; so it’s no secret that the deck is stacked against conservatives in America. However, liberals have also started to pull corporate America to […]

When my friends who love Donald Trump tell me they support him, I understand the reasons they find him attractive as a candidate. He’s a charismatic, politically incorrect outsider who fights and is promising to build a wall while he gets tough on immigration. I get that. What I don’t get is how so many […]

“Bullying isn’t cool. Bullying is lame. Bullying is ugly and has a stupid name. For a healthy world, bullying’s unfit.   And I think I know what we should do to i-it. Do do do do do to i-it. Let’s all get together and make bullying kill itself. Bullying’s an ugly thing Let’s shove its […]

There’s just something about the swamp gas of D.C. that seems to turn diehard conservatives wimpy, out-of-touch and punishingly dull the moment they get into the GOP leadership. Maybe it’s something the lobbyists are sticking in the hors d’oeuvres at all the fancy cocktail parties they attend. Whatever’s causing it, movement conservatives are entirely justified […]

One of the weirdest accusations that liberals have made in the last few years is that there’s a conservative “war on women.” So apparently, women like Condi Rice, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Dana Loesch, S.E. Cupp and Nikki Haley are making war on themselves. Who knew? If anybody is “waging a war on women,” it’s […]

“But I will tell you what: the first man that walks in my daughter’s bathroom, he ain’t going to have to worry about surgery.” — Lt. Gen. (ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin I’m sure there are a great many people who are probably shocked to see that quote from William Boykin, but why should they be? […]