Author: John Hawkins

Talking About Rush Limbaugh’s Personal Life With Zev Chafets

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Zev Chafets is the author of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. Chafets wrote the book with Limbaugh’s cooperation and it gave him a fascinating window into Limbaugh’s world. So, as someone who has been a Rush fan since college, I was really looking forward to talking to Chafets. What follows is a slightly edited […]

 

Five Ways the Obama Administration Has Made the Gulf Oil Crisis Worse

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The oil spill in the Gulf AKA Obamatrina has been a disaster for everyone involved. Millions of ordinary people who did nothing wrong are taking a huge economic hit, it’s a genuine environmental disaster, BP may end up going bankrupt over the whole disaster, and Obama’s incompetence has been so galling that even Democratic apparatchik’s […]

 

Are We Finally Going To Be In Position To Win On Illegal Immigration After November?

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This is an incredibly telling admission that should embolden people who’re serious about fighting against illegal immigration, Rep. Luis Gutierrez let the cat out of the bag Thursday by acknowledging that the Democrats’ 77-seat majority in the House wouldn’t be enough to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. The next Congress will look even worse: […]

 

National Review Endorses….John McCain?

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If they were endorsing him for President I’d understand, but no Republican in the Senate has done more damage to the conservative cause in the last decade than McCain and yet, we’re still getting this from the editors at NR? That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments is an understatement. […]

 

Why I Denied David Frum’s Website A Spot In The Blogads Conservative Hive

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It’s no surprise that a guy like David Frum would be defending Dave Weigel, who resigned from the WAPO after his private comments mocking conservatives went public and proved exactly what conservatives have been saying all along: –: that he: is hostile to the right and had no business writing a blog called: : “Inside the conservative movement and Republican […]

 

Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Hey, Hey, Hey, Good-Bye Dave Weigel

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One of the more irritating things about mainstream media outlets is that they love to hire liberals, but then, for “balance,” they like to hire a matching “conservative,” too, but not just any conservative. No, they want to hire a supposed “conservative” who tells liberals whatever they want to hear about conservatives. Because the Left […]

 

In Defense of….Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski?

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Yes, Democrat Paul Kanjorski is irritating, liberal, and out of touch, but it seems like a huge stretch to interpret these remarks, as some conservatives have, as a slam at the poor, We’re giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this […]

 

The Mainstream Media’s “Standards” On Sex Scandal Featuring Al Gore

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One of the most fascinating things about our unbiased, call ’em as they see ’em, right down the middle pals in the mainstream media is how often their completely neutral reporting seems to lead them to cover stories in wildly different ways depending on the political party of the people involved. For example, how much […]

 

Sarah Palin Is More Of A Feminist Role Model Than Gloria Steinem Could Ever Be

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It must be tough to be a left-wing feminist these days. For so long, they got away with essentially defining feminism as “being a liberal woman.” Then along came Sarah Palin. Granted, she’s not the only conservative woman who deserves to be treated as a feminist icon. For example, I’ve long said that Michelle Malkin […]

 

The Rand Paul Interview

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Earlier this week, I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview : : Rand Paul,:  the:  Republican:  Party’s:  nominee:  for:  the Senate:  in:  Kentucky.: :  : What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! To begin with, a lot of people assume you and your father have almost identical views. Can you give me a […]

 

Promises, Promises: Obama’s Ever Evolving Pledge Not To Raise Taxes On People Making Less Than $250,000 A Year In Quotes

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Barack Obama is being smeared by baseless claims that he would dramatically raise marginal tax rates to levels not seen since the 1970s, or impose new taxes on everything from your child’s education fund to your water. These tired attacks are patently false and have been repeatedly debunked by independent fact check organizations. Below are […]

 

A Tuesday Full Of Awesome: Mike Lee, Tim Scott, And Nikki Haley All Win!

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Yesterday was a great day for conservatives. Nikki Haley, who’s a strong conservative, easily won a run-off race for : governor in South Carolina. If she wins the general election, she’ll be the first female Indian-American governor in the country. The latest poll I’ve seen has Haley up by roughly 20 points over Democratic candidate Vincent […]

 

The Real McChrystal Scandal: Are We Losing The War In Afghanistan?

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There has obviously been a tremendous amount of controversy surrounding the remarks Gen. Stanley McChrystal made to a Rolling Stone reporter about Barack Obama and other members of his administration. That’s understandable. Even the grunts know that they’re not supposed to publicly trash the Commander-in-Chief and McChrystal & his staff certainly knew it, too. So, […]

 

MacArthur vs. McChrystal

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When I heard that General Stanley McChrystal, the man running the show in Afghanistan, had mouthed off about Obama to Rolling Stone and could conceivably be fired, my first thought turned to the conflict between MacArthur and Truman that helped destroy Truman’s presidency. If you don’t remember, Truman ended up firing MacArthur after the general […]

 

The Left’s Idea For The Economy: Fixing Heartburn With Heart Transplant Surgery

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William Greider over at the Nation wrote a short, but wacky piece called Goodbye Keynes, Hello Hoover that’s just so off-the-mark it demanded a response, The first fundamental failure of Keynesian economics occurred forty years ago during the Vietnam War when the economy was overheating but the political system failed to take the corrective steps […]

 

Five Reasons Moderates Are Wrong About Bipartisanship

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Middle-of-the-roaders and people who don’t pay a lot of attention to politics have made such a fetish out of bipartisanship that the most partisan political hacks in D.C. will go on and on about “unity” and “working with the other side” even as they lustily plant toe kicks to the other side’s groins at every […]

 

Obama: “If We Secure The Border, Then You All Won’t Have Any Reason To Support ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”

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This is a blindingly hot story that should be front page news if only for the furious denials it will undoubtedly prompt from the White House: “(Obama said) the problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard […]

 

If Unemployment Benefits Are Worth It, They’re Worth Paying For

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Unemployment insurance is probably one of the more useful government programs you’re going to run across. It’s designed to be temporary in nature, it often provides a useful benefit to people who actually pay taxes, and it fills a genuine need. A lot of people don’t have large cash reserves. That means, if they lose […]

 

Why Newspapers Are Dying: The Ann Coulter Edition

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Townhall is the big league of conservative punditry. All of the A-List conservative columnists, with the exception of perhaps Mark Steyn, Karl Rove, : and : Peggy Noonan write for them. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkin, Charles Krauthammer, Mike Adams, George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson : — they’re all at Townhall, along with a lot […]

 

Don’t Take My Word For It, Take Alan Greenspan’s

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I might not always agree with Alan Greenspan, but it’s fair to say he’s forgotten more about the economy than most people will ever know. And what he’s saying right now about spending is exactly what conservatives are saying, exactly what the Tea Party is saying, and exactly what much of the country is saying: […]

 

An Interview With Bob Etheridge’s Opponent, Renee Ellmers

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Most people have now seen this video of Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge going nuts and attacking a college student for asking him a question. Etheridge’s opponent, in the Republican leaning district that he’s represented for more than a decade, is Renee Ellmers. Ellmers is a credible candidate and a solid conservative. Since this incident occurred, […]

 

Obama’s Creepy & Dictatorial $20 Billion Dollar Ultimatum To BP

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One of the sad realities of politics is that telling an easily demagogued truth can often get you in trouble, not because of what you said, but because of how it will be falsely portrayed. Joe Barton is getting a taste of that, right now: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) broke with a top […]

 

It’s A Patriot Thing, Chris Matthews; You Wouldn’t Understand

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In all honesty, I don’t spend a lot of time watching MSNBC and even when I do, I don’t:  pay:  much attention to Chris Matthews. He’s a lightweight, a shameless shill, and his ratings have been so low, for so long, that I assume he’s holding compromising pictures of some important executive to ensure that […]