Author: John Hawkins

What Will Be In Osama Bin Laden’s Next Tape? 10 Possibilities.

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For years now, liberals have been saying things that Osama Bin Laden would agree with and now, he’s returning the favor by talking about one of the issues near and dear to their heart: Global Warming. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming […]

 

The Problem With The Tennessee Tea Party Convention

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Slowly but surely, conservatives have been disassociating themselves from the Tea Party Convention taking place next week at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center*. Freedomworks declined to get involved from the get-go. The American Liberty Alliance pulled out. Erick Erickson at Redstate had serious concerns about the event. Now, Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Jan 22 – Jan 28

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My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. […]

 

Obama’s Bureaucratic “Leadership” Style

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If you watch Obama closely, what you’ll find is that he’s the biggest fence straddler in all of politics. Every speech, every political position, is designed to give him political maneuvering room. During the campaign, this manifested itself in his endless speeches about “hope,” “unity,” and “change,” as if those weren’t elastic concepts that meant […]

 

The Right Side Of The Blogosphere’s Reaction To Obama’s SOTU Speech

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After reviewing the comments around the right side of the blogosphere, unsurprisingly I generally found the reaction to Obama’s speech to be negative. The big story of the night? Samuel Alito mouthing, “Not True.” Here are some of the noteworthy comments and reactions from the right side of the blogosphere to Obama’s State of the […]

 

If Obama Has Lost Christopher Buckley And Obamagirl…

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Remember when people who attacked Barack Obama were regularly accused of racism by liberals? Well, one of the most remarkable consequences of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts is that the floodgates of criticism have now opened on the Left. It seems that liberals have discovered that their messiah has feet of clay. Now, there have […]

 

“Abortion Bill Ben” Nelson: I Was Gonna Filibuster, I Swear!

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This transcript of an interview of a Lifesitenews interview with Ben Nelson may not be the biggest story of the day, but oh, it is good stuff! LSN: OK, so you were planning on coming back… NELSON: Absolutely. That is what I was just trying to tell the gentleman who was arguing about the 60th […]

 

Talking Liberalism: 3 Questions With Evan Sayet

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Last week, I got together for my second interview with conservative comedian Evan Sayet (first one here). What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation, most of which centered around liberalism. Now you used to be a writer for Bill Maher. : I’ve heard a few people say, “Gee he used to be much more […]

 

New Democratic Strategy: Turn The Tea Partiers Against Republicans

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After yelling “Bush, Cheney, Palin, Tea Parties” as loud as they could in Massachusetts and not getting anywhere, the Democrats have a new tactic: they’re going to try to kill the Tea Party support for Republicans. How, pray tell, you may be wondering are they going to do that? By lowering spending and the growth […]

 

It’s Not The Climate; It’s Who Reads The Climate Data

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Stalin once said, “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.” A similar principle can be applied to global warming. It doesn’t matter whether the planet is actually warming to people like Al Gore. What […]

 

5 Things Americans Need To Understand About How Government Really Works

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One of the biggest problems we have in this country is that so few Americans understand how our government works in the real world. Since that’s the case, most people simply aren’t capable of making an informed judgment about whether politicians can deliver on a promise. With that in mind, it seems like a good […]

 

3 Words Liberals Hate

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Over on Twitter, conservatives managed to get a trending topic going called, “#3wordslibshate.” Here are a few of them that caught my fancy: Manbearpig is dead! — johnhawkinsrwn One term president — LyssCordova Husband and wife — bbirr Guantanamo Still Open — DutchReaganite Animals taste delicious! — johnhawkinsrwn I Pledge Allegiance — lvgolfin President Sarah […]

 

Conservative Blogger Poll: The 2012 GOP Primaries

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Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 69 bloggers responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, The Absurd Report, Ace of Spades HQ, All That Is Necessary, And Rightly So, Axis of Right, Bad Example, Batesline, Black and Right, Bluey Blog, Bookworm […]

 

Pro-Gay Marriage Activists Are Some Of The Most Angry, Hate Filled, Fascistic, Abusive People In Politics

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In modern America, the alleged “victim” is always really the aggressor, and the alleged “aggressor” is always the true victim. — Ann Coulter Cindi McCain, who’s still pretty foxy for a woman her age, has done a spread for the NOH8 Campaign — which is a pretty ironic name for a pro-gay marriage group. After […]

 

Five Memes Destroyed by Scott Brown’s Victory

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On Tuesday night, Scott Brown shocked the world by defeating Martha Coakley and capturing the seat that Ted Kennedy held for more than 40 years. It was a momentous election, not just because it featured a Republican ending the Democrats’ filibuster proof majority by capturing a seat in deep blue Massachusetts, but because it shattered […]

 

Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Good-bye Air America!

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After the Scott Brown win, the Supreme Court taking a bite out of McCain-Feingold, and Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that the Dems can’t get the Senate bill through “as is,” you might have thought it couldn’t get any better for conservatives this week. If so, oh how wrong you were: In the latest of a series […]

 

A Reality Check For Liberals: Obama’s Failing Because Of His Liberalism

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I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in. — Paul Krugman ..The problem was that immediately after the election, like one nano-second after, Obama and his centrist, defensive team […]

 

Why Brown’s Victory Probably Killed Health Care Reform

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Pelosi, Obama and a lot of other liberals are talking tough on health care, but the reality is that Scott Brown’s election is probably going to kill it deader than the Dodo. Granted, you can never say never in this business — after all, how many of us expected the Dems to lose “Ted Kennedy’s […]

 

The Republican Party Shouldn’t Get Cocky Because Of The Brown Win

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Here’s the sad reality for liberals: In 2006 and 2008, voters were primarily rejecting the Republican Party, not embracing a left-wing agenda. However, Democrats, as always, wildly over reached to the left once they got into power and turned off the American public. That brings us to last night’s election. Turning “Ted Kennedy’s seat” into […]

 

The Liberal Blog Reaction To Scott Brown’s Election In Quotes

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As you’d expect, the netroots have their saaaaaaadddddd faces on after the big loss last night. Also unsurprisingly — well, to me anyway — the general consensus seems to be that a big part of the problem has been that Barack Obama has been too bipartisan and not nearly liberal enough. Oh, if only Obama […]

 

Quasi-Live Blogging The Brown/Coakley Race: We Win, They Lose!

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9:11: Fox has now called it for Brown. In other words, the Coakley campaign just drove into the drink at Chappaquiddick. 9:12: Howard Dean just blamed George Bush if Coakley loses. He also says it’s CERTAINLY not Barack Obama’s fault. 9:13: I have to admit, I was still a little nervous about this election going […]

 

The Death Penalty: What If We Make A Mistake And Kill An Innocent Man?

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From an overhyped piece called, Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservative, The effort has been backed by Richard Viguerie, a fundraiser and activist considered the father of the modern conservative movement. Viguerie, in a July 2009 essay in Sojourners magazine, wrote that executions are supposed to take the life of the guilty – but noted there […]

 

US “Occupying” Haiti? Screw You, France.

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No matter who the President is, Americans of all political persuasions have taken pride in helping nations in distress after natural disasters — and Haiti certainly qualifies. The country was a wreck BEFORE the earthquake and now 10% of the housing in the country may be destroyed, there may be more than 100,000 dead, and […]

 

Seven Lowlights From Obama’s First Disastrous Year in Office

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Barack Obama’s first year in office was one long string of gaffes, foreign policy blunders, and domestic disasters strung together in a long, terrible line. Although it’s not possible to adequately catalogue every blunder in Obama’s first year in something shorter than a book, here are some of the many, many blaring lowlights that really […]

 

Tabloid Trash Beat: Lock Up Your Mothers And Your Daughters ‘Cause John Edwards Is On The Prowl

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Seldom do I give serious credence to the tabloids, but the National Enquirer’s coverage of the John Edwards story has to be considered an exception. After all, they’ve been ahead of EVERYONE ELSE, every step of the way, and they’ve been proven right time and time again. As a publication, the Enquirer may be only […]

 

An Interview With GOProud’s Christopher Barron on Liberty University, CPAC, And The Log Cabin Republicans.

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For those that don’t know, GOProud is a relatively new gay conservative group that broke off from the Log Cabin Republicans. Lately, they’ve been in the news because Liberty University withdrew their co-sponsorship at CPAC over GOProud’s co-sponsorship of the event. Late last week, I interviewed GOProud’s Chairman of the Board, Christopher Barron. What follows […]