Author: John Hawkins

So, Who Was Right On Illegal Immigration?

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Long before the GOP alienated:  its : base, killed:  its : fundraising, tore the party apart, and sealed:  its : doom in the 2008 elections by backing yet another amnesty bill in 2007, conservatives like me were begging them, pleading with them, to take a security first position. Why? It made sense. It was popular with the general […]

 

The Best Quotes From Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals.”

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Ironically, one of the hottest new books for conservatives is far left-winger Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which was written way back in 1971. After reading the book, my personal opinion is that Alinsky was a brilliant yet cynical, habitually dishonest, utterly amoral human being with a deep understanding of large swathes of human nature. […]

 

New York Is Moving In The Right Direction On Organ Transplants

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Today in this country, there are more than 200,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. Many of these people will wait for years, bed ridden, ill, and a significant percentage of them will die without ever receiving the organ they needed to lead a normal life. There is no practical reason that this problem still […]

 

RWN’s New Comment System Is In Place

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I expected to have RWN’s comment section changed over to Disqus last week-end, but best laid plans of mice and men and all that. In any case, the changeover is now complete. Disqus is: :  completely different from:  the:  in-house/word press hybrid that RWN was using up until yesterday. That means your old RWN login will […]

 

Crist’s Defection And A More Moderate GOP?

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So, moderate Republican Charlie Crist just went independent in a spite bid to try to steal the seat from the GOP? Sort of like moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava, who supported a Democrat when she couldn’t win? But wait, could Crist be more fairly compared to moderate Republican Arlen Specter, who switched parties to try to […]

 

An Interview With Eric Singer, Head Of The Congressional Effect Fund

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Earlier this week, I got together with Eric Singer, head of the Congressional Effect Fund You run a fund that trades stocks only when Congress isn’t in session. Can you talk about why that is? Yes, I call it the Congressional Effect Fund. The reason for that is that stocks do much better when Congress […]

 

Why Do We Want Uninformed, Unmotivated People To Vote?

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In Ridgway Colorado they’re proposing mandatory voting: Residents of this Old West- meets-New Age town can be fined if their fences are too high, they have too many chickens, their dogs aren’t on leashes or their weeds are out of control. Tom Hennessy would like to add not voting to that list. Hennessy, a popular […]

 

12 Of The Worst Signs From The Pro-Illegal Immigration Protests

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We’ve had a lot of attention focused on the signs of Tea Partiers lately, so, with illegal immigration back in the news, I thought it might be a good time to show you some of:  the:  signs that have been waved around at pro-illegal immigration protests in this country. When you hear the utterly silly […]

 

Want To Keep The GOP On The Straight And Narrow After November?

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Increasing Republican numbers in Congress is a prerequisite to getting the country back on the right track, but in of itself, it’s not sufficient to get the job done. Simply put, the GOP needs to be taught a lesson that the Democrats have long since learned: You’ve got to respect and fear your base. In […]

 

The Problem With Extending Unemployment Insurance Ad Nauseum

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Jim Bunning and Tom Coburn have, unsuccessfully, tried to force the Democrats in Congress to pay for extensions of unemployment benefits. This has ultimately failed each time. That’s not because it’s a bad idea;:  it’s because it’s an easily demagogued position. “You don’t want to extend unemployment benefits? That means you have no compassion for […]

 

Five Arguments Republicans Should Use Against Obama’s Immigration Bill

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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 curious in that the bill almost assuredly cannot pass. A year ago, when I interviewed Roy Beck, head of Numbers […]

 

If Barney Frank Says There’s No Bailout…

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Good news, everybody! Barney Frank says that there’s no bailout in the Democrats’ financial reform bailout bill: On MSNBC a few minutes ago, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) criticized Republican claims that the Democrats’ financial reform bill is a “bailout bill,” calling that assertion “triply phony.” “There is the issue that the Republicans tried to say, […]

 

Good News: New Comment System. Bad News: Off Today

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Just a little heads up and two things. #1) I’m not going to be posting on RWN today, although some of RWN’s week-end bloggers should be taking up the slack. #2) If all goes as expected, RWN’s comment system will be replaced with Disqus this week-end. That should make the comment section easier to use, […]

 

The Circular Reasoning Behind Manmade Global Warming

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Over at National Review, global warming true believer Jim Manzi lands on Mark Levin with both feet because the Great One treats the theory of manmade global warming with the scorn it deserves. Here’s Manzi: Levin argues that human-caused global warming is nothing to worry about, and merely an excuse for the Enviro-Statists (capitalization in […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 16 – April 21

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The problem isn’t that things are collapsing. It’s that not enough things are collapsing. General Motors, AIG, and the government of California have committed enough errors to merit immediate extinction, but there they still are. Yet the political establishment continues to argue that the market needs to be prevented from delivering rough justice to sinners. […]