Author: John Hawkins

Joe Biden Exemplifies The Liberal Attitude Towards Science

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Liberals don’t actually care about science. Let me repeat that: Liberals don’t actually care about science. What they care about is using science as a political bludgeon, Vice President Joe Biden praised the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, despite the agency’s record spending of tax dollars to study such topics as teaching Chinese meditation techniques […]

 

So When Does Team RINO Start Engaging The Same Self-Criticism That They Expect From Everyone Else?

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There’s a whole group of sad sack moderates in the Republican Party who’ve made a name for themselves by trashing conservatives. You know the people I’m talking about: David Frum, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, Meghan McCain, etc., etc., etc. Now, we can argue about whether their intentions are good (sometimes), whether their complaints have any […]

 

Predicting How The Soviet Union Would Fall Fifty Years In Advance

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Eric Hoffer is one of my favorite philosophers and students of human nature. Not only was he ahead of his time, he was ahead of our time when it came to understanding certain facets of human nature. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything he wrote, but this guy was one sharp cookie. How sharp? […]

 

6 Reasons Conservatives Should Embrace Identity Politics

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One of the great ironies of American politics is that the least bigoted group of people in the country, conservatives, are continually accused of being hatemongers by the most prejudiced and race-obsessed people in our nation. No matter how often conservatives advocate race-neutral policies, condemn racism, or prove we’re not racists, we’re still smeared for […]

 

The 10 Beliefs Every Moderate Muslim In America Should Hold

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The words “moderate Muslim” get tossed around quite a bit these days, but you seldom hear people define exactly what they mean by the term. So, I decided to take a crack at it with some clearly definable standards. In my book, a moderate Muslim is a Muslim who… 1) Opposes terrorist attacks on Americans […]

 

The Daily Caller Blew It: The Truth About Conservative Bloggers And Consulting

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Over at the Daily Caller, they’re running a story called, “True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash.” While there’s some validity to the story, parts of it are WILDLY overstated and it gives a very inaccurate impression of what’s going on: Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new […]

 

Why Right Wing News Is Sponsoring Homocon

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Last week, after the announcement that RWN is sponsoring Homocon, people started asking me why RWN chose to promote that event. After all, I’m against gays in the military, I’m a strong supporter of Prop 8, and I’m very much in favor of a Federal Marriage Amendment. So, why back a gay group that doesn’t […]

 

Howard Dean & The Left’s Ground Zero Mosque Hate Fixation

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Since Barack Obama was elected, the Left’s default reaction to any disagreement has been to scream “bigot,” “hatemonger,” and “racist” as loud as they can. In that sense, their reaction to the national outrage that has occurred over a celebratory mosque being built at Ground Zero has been entirely normal. They scream “bigot” first and […]

 

RWN’s Dick Armey Interview #2: “Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto”

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Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe from FreedomWorks are out with a new book about the Tea Party movement: Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Armey, who’s a former Republican House Majority Leader, is out there making the rounds to promote the book. When I had an opportunity to interview him again (first interview here), […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Aug 13 – Aug 19

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In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country’s loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act […]

 

Homocon: WorldNetDaily Vs. Ann Coulter

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As you may have heard, Joseph Farah at WorldNetDaily has been bragging that he dumped Ann Coulter from a WorldNetDaily convention. This was supposedly over Ann Coulter speaking at Homocon — and of course, Right Wing News is also sponsoring the event. Initially, I wasn’t going to comment on it at all because I knew […]

 

Conservative Bloggers Select The 25 Greatest Figures In American History

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Out of all the titans in American history — Presidents and generals, inventors and entrepreneurs, reformers and revolutionaries — have you ever wondered who the best of the best were? Well, we here at RWN wondered about that, too, and that’s why we decided to email more than a hundred bloggers to get their opinions. […]

 

Why, No, Charles Johnson Didn’t Toss Everything He Believed In Under A Bus…Oh Wait, I Meant He Did!

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Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs made a name for himself by writing the premiere anti-radical Islam blog on the planet. Every step of the way, he was accused of being a hateful, anti-Islamic bigot by the Left for daring to criticize radical Islam. Then Charles Johnson decided to take his blog in a liberal […]

 

Barack Obama’s Poor Approval Rating: A Puzzle Liberals Can’t Crack

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Seeing some of the assumptions that are baked into the political calculations on the Left is a bit on the odd side. For example, here’s Matt Bai talking with liberals about why Barack Obama is so unpopular right now, Democrats in Washington are divided and somewhat puzzled over President Obama’s fading popularity. They reject, of […]

 

10 Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement (Featuring John Hawkins)

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May I take a moment to brag? It’s my blog; so of course I may! While I never seem to win any awards at these conservative events, the lefties at Alternet have apparently caught a particularly strong whiff of evil in my vicinity, because they’ve put me on their list of 10 Young Right-Wingers Being […]

 

Barack Obama’s Ground Zero Mosqapocalypse

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“I’m hoping Obama’s endorsement will do for the Ground Zero mosque what it did for Corzine, Deeds, Coakley, & Specter.” — John Hawkins on Twitter In what may have been the biggest unforced error of his presidency so far, Barack Obama foolishly endorsed the mosque at Ground Zero at a Ramadan dinner, In his speech […]

 

Matt Lieglesias Has Advocated Lying Before

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Liberals spend much of their time trying to hide what they believe from the public while conservatives are perpetually frustrated by the fact that the American people don’t seem to understand what we really believe. Both problems spring from a single source: liberals lie incessantly. That’s not to say that there aren’t conservative liars or […]

 

Last Chance To Win A $100 Raffle Ticket That Gives You A Shot To Go To New York & Meet Bill O’Reilly

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The Society Of St. Vincent De Paul is holding a raffle — and it’s not just any raffle. The tickets for this raffle are $100 a pop; they’re worth every penny. I’ve given away 8 of them so far and I’m about to give away the last two tickets. Here’s what you can win, GRAND […]

 

The Seven Greatest Presidents in American History

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After talking about The 7 Worst Presidents Of The Last Hundred Years at Townhall last week, it seems natural to move on to the 7 greatest Presidents in American history. Since below average and mediocre Presidents are quite common while truly extraordinary Presidents are very rare, it seems appropriate to focus on the greatest Presidents […]

 

When The Race Card Doesn’t Work, The Next Card For A Democrat To Play Is…

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After people laughed off Maxine Waters’ attempt to escape her ethics woes by playing the race card, she moved on to the next most frequently used card in the Democratic deck, So, who does Maxine Waters blame next for her corrupt attempt to funnel taxpayer money into her own pocket? Let’s see, she’s played the […]

 

Big Announcement: Right Wing News Is Sponsoring Homocon

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The Log Cabin Republicans have long been an annoyance. They’re a gay “Republican” group that withheld their endorsement of George Bush in 2004* and they essentially sound identical to every liberal gay group that you run across. In other words, there’s nothing meaningfully Republican about the Log Cabin Republicans or any point to their continued […]

 

Conservative Bloggers Select The 25 Worst Figures In American History

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Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history — have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst was? Well, we here at RWN wondered about that, too, and that’s why we decided to email more than a […]

 

Obamacare Passed Because “Pro-Life” Democrats Voted To Fund Abortion With Your Tax Dollars

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Of course Democrats will deny the title of this piece is true, but if you don’t believe me, believe Chris Carney, As I said publicly, I can’t vote for a bill that will publicly fund abortion. — Chris Carney (D-Pa.) At the end, the whole bill came down to the abortion issue. Bart Stupak was […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Aug 6 – Aug 11

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The vaunted Obama economic stimulus, at $862 billion, has failed. The “progressives” want to double down, and were they to have their way, would have pushed for a bigger stimulus still. But the American people are in open rebellion against an economic strategy of public debt, higher taxes and unending deficits. We’re not all Keynesians, […]

 

You Remember The Notorious Willie Horton Ad?

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You remember the notorious Willie Horton Ad? Of course, Democrats hated it, called it racist, etc., etc., but the real problem they had with it was that it was EXTREMELY effective. But, why was it effective? Well, the whole concept behind what Dukakis was doing was galling to people. Here we had a murderer in […]

 

Keep Playing That Race Card, Joe Conason

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As Barack Obama’s popularity has continued to dip and the transparently self-serving cries of racism have reached a crescendo, complaints about bigotry in America have become ever more laughable. My personal fave of late is Jesse Jackson’s breathless claim that Cav’s owner Dan Gilbert was treating Lebron James like a “runaway slave.” However, lily white […]