Author: John Hawkins

California Vs. Arizona On Illegal Immigration (+ A Steve Poizner Endorsement)

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LA and San Francisco are boycotting the eeeeevvvvviiiiilllll people of Arizona, who are obviously worse than the Nazis for giving teeth to the immigration laws the:  federal government has on the book but won’t enforce…or something. Long story short, Arizona has pulled out the welcome mat for illegal aliens and liberals are upset and responding […]

 

Are You Stupid? Of Course, We Should Keep Drilling Offshore

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What’s the alternative? Living in the Stone Age? Every country in the world:  is : highly reliant on oil and while that will eventually change, when a better, cheaper alternative is available, that day could very easily be decades away. The American people understand this and that’s why these poll results are much more realistic than […]

 

Banning Ethnic Studies In The Classroom? It’s About Time.

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Nothing could: :  be a bigger waste of time than “ethnic studies” classes — well, other than maybe basketweaving and women’s studies classes. In fact, those classes can be very harmful because they promote grievance mongering, victimhood, radicalism, and racial separatism. So, kudos to Jan Brewer in Arizona for putting her foot down, Arizona GOP Gov. […]

 

Socialists Find Out When “Eventually” Is.

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“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. — Margaret Thatcher Eventually is here for Greece. Here’s Dick Morris on what’s happening and the potential fall-out for the United States: “Investors have gone from being nervous about small banks (the savings-and-loan crisis of the ’80s) to being nervous about […]

 

Avast Ye, Scurvy Dogs! There Be Racism And Piracy Afoot — Oh, And Fatal Head Wounds. Don’t Forget Those.

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Nothing against the U.S. Navy, which did a phenomenal job of freeing a captured US captain and greasing three pirates, but you have to give credit where credit is due: The Russians did an even better job of handling Somalia’s pirates: A pirate spokesman, who wished to remain anonymous, contacted Somalilandpress today said at least […]

 

Seven Places Where Politics Doesn’t Belong

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Politics in America is a vicious, ugly bloodsport filled with lies, unpleasantness, and crudity. That’s a big part of the reason why so many Americans desperately avoid discussing politics. Unfortunately, because manners are in short supply, particularly on the Left, it has become more and more difficult for people to escape raw politics in their […]

 

America’s Toughest Border Warrior: John McCain?

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This may be the single funniest campaign commercial I’ve ever seen, Yes, “Amnesty” John McCain has now become the toughest man in America on border security — which is hilarious. Because, he’s the same guy who once said, “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the godd@mned fence if […]

 

Obama’s SCOTUS Pick: A Military Hating Harriet Miers

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Obama’s SCOTUS nominee, Elana Kagan, is like Harriet Miers in some respects. She’s a very accomplished woman, but she’s under-accomplished for a Supreme Court Justice. Kagan has never sat on the bench and she’d never even argued a case before the Supreme Court before she became Obama’s Solicitor General. Worse yet, she has some ugly […]

 

How The First Amendment Has Been Turned On Its Head: Christians Blocked From Prayer?

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Many of the pilgrims who fled to America in the first place did so because of religious persecution. With that in mind, the Founding Fathers protected our religious liberties with the First Amendment. It reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom […]

 

Polling Conservative Bloggers On The Arizona Immigration Law, Illegals, & Legal Immigration

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Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer 10 questions about the Arizona immigration law, illegals, and legal immigration. Representatives from the following 50 blogs responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, The Absurd Report, Ace of Spades HQ, All That Is Necessary, The American Princess, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, Basil’s Blog, […]

 

The No Fly List And The 2nd Amendment: What Part Of Unconstitutional Do Liberals Not Understand?

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Liberals, who are always looking for any reason to grab people’s guns, have come up with a new idea. Here’s Gail Collins at the New York Times making the pitch: There seems to be a strong sentiment in Congress that the only constitutional right suspected terrorists have is the right to bear arms. “I think […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 30 – May 6

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Absent Israeli action, no one should base their future plans on anything except coping with a nuclear Iran. — John Bolton Even if containment and deterrence might be more successful against Iran than just suggested, nuclear proliferation doesn’t stop with Tehran. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others will surely seek, and very swiftly, their […]

 

The Best Quotes From Mark Steyn’s 2009 Columns (51 Quotes)

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Mark Steyn is one of the best columnists in the business and he’s also eminently quotable. So, with that in mind, I decided to put together : a list of his best quotes from his 2009 columns. Enjoy! After all, when President Sarkozy and other European critics bemoan Israel’s “disproportionate” response, what really are they saying? […]

 

Some Of The Best Life Advice You’ve Ever Gotten…From Cracked?

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You have probably never heard these words and will probably never hear them again, but this article at Cracked is one of the best pieces of life advice I’ve ever read on the web. Our society tends to focus on whirlwind successes. The Paris Hiltons, the person grasping:  his : 15 minutes of fame, the lottery […]

 

Democrats: An Immigration Fight? Bring It On! Ok, You Can Stop Bringing It Now…Please?

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As I noted a couple of weeks ago, the Democrats feint towards an amnesty bill was purely motivated by politics: As you may have heard, after more than a year of giving little more than lip service to illegal immigration, the Democrats have suddenly become extremely interested in pushing comprehensive immigration reform. This is quite […]

 

So, When Will The Phoenix Suns Practice What They Preach?

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In a momentous screw-you to the majority of their fans in Arizona, the Phoenix Suns will wear “Los Suns” on their jerseys tonight. Just in case you think this is a mere marketing stunt designed to appeal to Hispanics, the Suns have made it crystal clear that they hold 70% of the people of Arizona […]

 

The GOP’s Problem With Minorities Needs To Be Addressed Culturally

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The Republican Party has a huge problem that few people are addressing. Simply put, Republicans do very poorly with minorities. As a general rule, we get about 1/10 of the black vote, 1/3 of the Hispanic vote, and about 1/4 of the Jewish vote. If this seems like a huge problem today, wait until 2050 […]

 

California: “The Venezuela of North America”

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California should be the best place to live in America. It’s on the West coast, it has a fantastic climate, it has some of America’s best known cities like Los Angeles & San Francisco, a massive economy, celebrities galore…it goes on and on. There are so many great things you can say about California. Despite […]

 

Daily Kos Post Of The Day: The Tea Partiers Are Media Darlings Unlike The Anti-War Movement

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Today, as I perused the Daily Kos, I ran across an intriguingly titled diary entry: “Tea Party Lives, Peace/Anti-War Movement Dead.” The reason it:  is intriguing, of course,:  is because it:  is correct and you don’t see a lot of that on the Daily Kos. However, even a correct headline on the Daily Kos doesn’t […]

 

20 Examples Of How The World Would Look If Big Government Worked

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If you ran into people who insisted on trying to pound nails with a screwdriver no matter how many times they were shown a better way, wouldn’t you think there was something wrong with them? What if those people not only used a screwdriver, but demanded that everyone else use a screwdriver instead of a […]