Author: John Hawkins

A Seven Item Tea Party Agenda for a GOP House

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One of the lines we’ve heard again and again from the Left and even from mediocre Republicans like Bob Bennett and Lindsey Graham is that the Tea Party has no agenda. The idea is supposed to be that the Tea Party is just a bunch of slack-jawed, backwoods hillbillies who are rallying against progress and […]

 

Know What’s Awesome? Being Unemployed!

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Seriously, that’s the theme of this blog post at Fox News, A growing group of jobless across the nation are joining a self-proclaimed movement: ‘funemployment.’ It’s a group of jovial unemployed who say they’re finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do – whether it is blogging or starting a nonprofit. Christy Annis knows this […]

 

Forget It, Envirowackos, We’re Not Giving Up Air Conditioning.

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One thing that cannot be emphasized enough when talking about the environmental extremists on the Left is that despite the fact that they’re always prattling on about “science,” they’re luddites at heart. Pretty much any and all technological progress that makes your life easier? They oppose it. Cars run on internal combustion engines? They don’t […]

 

7 Things The GOP Can Do For The Right Side Of The Blogosphere

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On a semi-regular basis, I get asked by Republican “new media” staffers how the GOP can better work with the Rightroots. As a general rule, I find that these new media staffers are well meaning, get the blogosphere, and have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done. Unfortunately, these very same new […]

 

Our Cowboy President Is Making The World Hate Us

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Remember when liberals were saying that they looked forward to having a President in office who would help rebuild America’s reputation around the world? It wasn’t all that long ago, was it? And of course, they immediately declared that Obama had done exactly that by bowing to everyone in site, trashing America overseas, pandering to […]

 

Why You Shouldn’t Do Drugs: Quotes From The Life Of Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx

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Motley Crue: The Dirt – Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band is an extraordinary book. The way the members of the band grew up is horrifying. The way they partied in the early years of their existence would make Roman emperors green with envy. In fact, the copious amount of sex, drugs, and […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Special Double Edition: July 2 – July 15

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When evaluating claims of constitutionality, there are always three ways to examine the matter: (1) What does the Constitution say and mean? (2) What has the Supreme Court said and meant? and (3) Are there now five justices to sustain the claim? For example, while I do not believe the original meaning of the Commerce […]

 

A Short, Obligatory Post On The Bristol Palin/Levi Johnston Engagement

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So, Levi Johnston splits with Bristol Palin, makes a name for himself by lying about her family to the press, doesn’t pay child support, and now they’re engaged? How did this happen? Did Levi find a lamp, rub it, have a genie pop out, and then ask for Bristol to fall in love with him […]

 

Right Wing News: Now With New & Improved Web Hosting!

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Slowly, but surely over the last few months, I’ve noticed RWN has seemed to have gotten a little slower despite making some coding and server end changes to help speed things up. There were also more and more frequent technical problems, including a number of mini-service interruptions, where all the pages would go down for […]

 

Interviewing Victor Davis Hanson On History And War

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Victor Davis Hanson is an extraordinary writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical warfare. His columns are magnificent and his books are even better. So, I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview him about his newest book, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern . What follows is a […]

 

The Obama White House Plays Their Ultimate Weapon Against Al-Qaeda: The Race Card

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One of the more bizarre tics of liberal thinking on foreign policy is that they believe everyone in the world is basically just like us. They believe they have roughly the same hopes, dreams, concerns and way of looking at the world. So, since they believe they think the way we do, they seem to […]

 

Do The 13 Keys To The Presidency Mean Obama Is Destined To Be Reelected?

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Yesterday, this story made a bit of a splash with political news nerds like — well — like you and me! President Obama is “guaranteed” to win re-election in 2012, according to Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University in Washington, D.C. Lichtman’s formula predicts the outcome of the popular vote without considering candidate opinion […]

 

The Republican Establishment’s Favorite RINOS: Is Anybody Sorry They’re Gone?

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More and more often, we’re seeing grassroots conservatives line up against establishment Republicans in primary races. What’s notable, however, is what has happened after the establishment’s candidates have lost the battle. Time and time again, those candidates have proven that everything that the conservatives said about them was right on the money. Let’s consider a […]

 

The 5 Biggest Threats To America’s Future Success

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Douglas MacArthur once said that, “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” As it is with old soldiers, so it goes with nations. When you watch “end of the world” movies on TV, America may be overrun by zombies, hit by asteroids, destroyed by aliens, annihilated by a climate gone mad — and so […]

 

Are You Having Any Technical Problems With Right Wing News?

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I’ve been having some weird tech problems with RWN all week-end. At one point, the page was loading extremely slowly — but my hosting company said everything was working normally. Then, things seemed to clear up for most people, but the page still loads EXTREMELY slowly for me. I thought that perhaps that was some […]

 

My 30 Fave Personal Tweets For June

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* My corollary to Godwin’s Law: “At some point or another, every single person on the internet will be called a Nazi.” * People too often tend to ascribe evil motives to acts better explained by carelessness, stupidity, and thoughtlessness. * Americans say they want bipartisanship in DC. But, what they reward is brutal partisanship […]

 

A Short, Obligatory Post On An Elena Kagan Filibuster

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Elena Kagan is a pretty typical liberal judge — by that, I mean that she cares nothing about the Constitution and she’ll vote whichever way she believes will most help the Left. In other words, she’ll be little different from Stevens, Sotomayor, and Breyer, as opposed to Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito who stick to […]

 

The Republicans Should Call Obama’s Bluff On Illegal Immigration

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Today, Barack Obama gave a speech on immigration that was solelymotivated by politics . Keep in mind that even the Democrats admit that they don’t have the votes in the House or the Senate to pass a comprehensive immigration bill. So, what is Obama saying? Seeking to inject urgency into the push for an overhaul […]

 

Interviewing Andrew McCarthy About Radical Islam

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National Review’s Andrew McCarthy is more familiar with radical Islam than your average person. He had to be. He was the lead attorney on the team that prosecuted Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” way back in 1995. McCarthy and I got together to talk about his new book, “The Grand Jihad: How Islam and […]

 

Is Epistemic Closure A Problem? Not So Much….

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The term “epistemic closure” has been tossed around in conservative circles more than a few times over the last year. If you’re wondering what “epistemic closure” means, it’s basically just a fancy term for being close-minded. The people using this term almost inevitably turn out to be liberals or moderates who are catching flack from […]

 

7 Things Every Blogger Should Know How To Do (Besides Write)

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#1) Network: Blogging IS NOT just a good old boys club, but that doesn’t mean networking doesn’t help. If someone is deciding whether to link your article or a similar article, liking you may mean you get the nod. Is someone more likely to link you because they met you at CPAC? Absolutely. If someone […]

 

Right Wing News vs. David Frum, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters, & Excitable Andy!

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On Monday, I smacked David Frum around on RWN, partially for being David Frum, but mostly for complaining about being denied a spot in the Blogads Conservative Hive. David Frum did fire back, but honestly, just between you, me, and all the other people who will read this today, I initially wasn’t planning to respond […]

 

The Obama Tax Hike Exemption Card (Pic)

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Now this:  card from Americans for Tax Reform is fun : work, You may have noticed that President Obama has broken his central campaign promise — a “firm pledge” that Americans making less than $250,000 would not see “any form of tax increase.” He first broke this pledge sixteen days into his presidency when he signed […]