Author: John Hawkins

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. — P. J. O’Rourke Paul Krugman’s latest missive from the heart of outoftouchastan is a reprise of the same complaints that have appeared everywhere on the left since Scott Brown was elected: What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than […]

Over at The Corner, Yuval Levin has put together an outstanding, succinct explanation of the how both conservatives and liberals view the health care debate: The difference between most conservatives and most liberals on health care is not a difference of degree but a difference of direction–a difference on the question of which we way […]

It’s a never ending cycle in this country: You point out that the public schools are doing a lousy job, they claim to be underfunded, they’re given a lot more money, a few years later people point out that the public schools are still doing a lousy job, and the whole cycle repeats. Yet, if […]

Joseph Farah from WorldNetDaily and Andrew Breitbart got into an argument at the Nashville Tea Party Convention about the birther issue. Not a shock there. But, something Joseph Farah said needs to be rebutted: I told Farah that his speech was getting negative attention already, and that Breitbart, who’d taken the stage after him, had […]