Author: John Hawkins

If Donald J. Trump does not win the nomination outright or on the first ballot at the Republican Convention, it’s highly unlikely that he’ll be the nominee. That wasn’t always so. At one point, the expectation that Trump would run third party or would undercut the nominee and take his supporters with him to guarantee […]

Michelle Fields is a journalist who worked for Breitbart, which may be the single most pro-Trump publication on the Right. She was attempting to ask Donald Trump a question when his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski jerked her away from Trump. This was incompetence. The Secret Service agents handle Trump’s security and you can be sure […]

My latest Townhall column is called, No, I Will Not Vote For Donald J. Trump in a General Election. Here’s an excerpt from the column. I hammered John McCain and Mitt Romney so brutally during the GOP primaries that I was blackballed from the 2008 and 2012 Republican conventions in retaliation, but when the time […]

My latest Townhall column is called, How Can You Feel Good About Yourself If You Vote For Hillary? Here’s an excerpt from the column. As the Republican Party has gone to war with itself over Donald Trump’s morality and fitness for the presidency to such an extent that it has produced a #nevertrump movement, it’s hard […]

  1) “They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor b@stards.” — Creighton W. Abrams during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII 2) “Let justice be done though the heavens should fall”. — U.S President John Adams 3) “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” — Todd Beamer’s last words before he led Americans on United […]

My latest Townhall column is called, What I Will Probably Never Understand About The Undying Affection For Donald Trump. Here’s an excerpt from the column, It’s easy for me to understand why people were so favorably disposed toward Trump at first because initially, I liked him, too. I’d read and liked Trump’s books, I found […]

My latest Townhall column is called The Republican Establishment is Worse Than Trump. Here’s an excerpt from the column. There are a lot of things I could say about Donald J. Trump, but he isn’t responsible for 95% of the problems the Republican Party has today. Do you want to know who is responsible for most […]

My latest Townhall column is called, 40 Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump. Here’s an excerpt from the column. 1) Trump has favorability ratings that make him unelectable: The American public is very familiar with Donald Trump and people hate his guts. Trump’s current favorable/unfavorable rating is 34/58. Just as a point of comparison, […]

My latest Townhall column is called, The Conservative Case Against Marco Rubio. Here’s an excerpt from the column. Marco Rubio may not be a squish on most issues, but it doesn’t change the fact that his Gang-of-8 Amnesty Bill is unforgivable. Nobody would be campaigning harder against Marco Rubio today than Marco Rubio back in 2010 […]

My latest Townhall column is called, Show This Column to Anyone Who Claims Bush Lied about WMDs in Iraq. Here’s an excerpt from the column. Here’s an excerpt from the column. Throughout the Bush years, liberals repeated “Bush lied, people died” like a mantra. That slander wasn’t true then and it’s not anymore true now […]

“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.” — Milton Friedman “If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers […]