Author: John Hawkins

Best Liberal Idea Yet: Let’s Rehabilitate The Jihadis!

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On a regular basis, liberals offer up appallingly dumb solutions to problems that they created in the first place. For example, there’s no real reason that we need to close the jail for Jihadis we have at Guantanamo Bay. It’s a muddleheaded, completely arbitrary choices that creates more issues than it solves. One of those […]

 

Five More Amateur Mistakes By the Obama Administration

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“My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.” — Sarah Palin Since he has been elected, Barack Obama has been like a four year old wearing water wings and desperately trying to reach the edge of the pool. In other words, he has been completely out of […]

 

In Defense Of Mike Huckabee: The Maurice Clemmons Clemency

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Mike Huckabee apparently should have erred more on the side of caution in dispensing pardons when he was governor of Arkansas. He pardoned rapist Wayne DuMond, who then later raped another woman. Now, it looks like he’s done it again — well, sort of. Maurice Clemmons, the lunatic who murdered four policemen, was given clemency […]

 

The Best Quotes From Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer.”

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Back in 1951, Eric Hoffer wrote a brilliant book called The True Believer. From the intro, here’s what it’s designed to explain: “This book deals with some of the peculiarities common to all mass movements, be they religious movements, social revolutions, or national movements. It does not maintain that all movements are identical, but that […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Nov 20 – Nov 26

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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems– of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Michael Barone What a good country or a good […]

 

What Would Barack Obama’s Approval Rating Look Like Today If He Had Done This?

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Imagine this scenario. Barack Obama is elected President and he actually decides to pursue a center-left agenda and work with Republicans. * He crafts a stimulus package, smaller than the one he has now, but with more tax cuts and all the spending front loaded to 2009. It passes with a significant number of Republican […]

 

Hey, Matthew Yglesias, Why Don’t You Quit And Let A Minority Have Your Job?

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Rather bizarrely, after noting that Obama is much more popular with minorities than white people, Matthew Yglesias wrote the following: About 50 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, but he’s overwhelmingly liked among non-white Americans and quite widely disliked by white Americans. Our punditry, however, is done almost exclusively by white people and […]

 

Obama’s Servile Bowing Has Gone Too Far

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I’m not exactly sure how it is that a man as arrogant as Barack Obama here in the United States, can go overseas and turn into Waylon Smithers with all this bowing. Perhaps he doesn’t realize how repulsive it is to other Americans because he spent so much time overseas and doesn’t fully understand American […]

 

President Lou Dobbs? Ha, Ha, Ha…NO!

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Sure, Al Franken won…in a center-left state like Minnesota. With a political wind blowing against Norm Coleman that was about as strong as it could get — and even then, if there had been an honest count of the votes, there’s zero chance Franken would have won. Since Lou Dobbs can’t rig a nationwide election […]

 

Would Obama Be President If He Made These Five Campaign Promises?

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Calling a politician dishonest is like calling a burglar dishonest. The difference is that burglars take less of your money, don’t get invited on the Sunday morning shows, and are more dangerous — unless you happen to be a woman near a male member of the Kennedy family. Even amongst politicians, Barack Obama is such […]

 

The Tea Parties Are Racist? How Silly.

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Bill Berkowitz, a liberal who once did a pretty good interview with me, did a piece that made reference to Tea Party racism that I wanted to address. Here’s Berkowitz: The documentary appears to have a lot of explaining to do: Given the overtly racist sentiments expressed on many of the signs carried by Tea […]

 

How Many Lies Can Harry Reid Tell In A Single Sentence About Health Care?

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One of the reasons people have grown to despise politics so much in general and the Democrats who are in power in particular, is because of how shamelessly they lie about everything. Here’s one sentence from an article in the Politico: “The key elements of this health care reform bill, I repeat: reduces short-and-long term […]

 

Denying Patrick Kennedy Communion? Good For The Catholic Church.

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Did you hear? A bishop denied Patrick Kennedy communion because of his abortion stance. My thought? It’s about time: A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker’s […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Imagining A Fight Scene Between Blade And Edward Cullen

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Question: “Please describe, in detail, with dialouge, your version of a vampire fight between Blade and Edward Cullen.” — President_Friedman Edward Cullen: Hi! I like baseball and I sparkle! Can we be pals? Blade: Some motherf*cker’s always tryin’ to iceskate uphill. Edward Cullen: Did I mention I’m over 100 years old and I like to […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Why Shouldn’t We Want To Copy Our European Pals?

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Question: “I am 45 and I work with and am somewhat influential with smart, younger people (25-30), most of who voted for Obama. To them “socialist”, “big government” and “european model” are not a scary thing. What would you say to someone who is not a dyed in the wool anti-capitalist, but who has been […]

 

Q&A Friday 104: What Will Obama Do If Libs Take A Beating In 2010?

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Question: “If the republicans take the House next year, do you think that Obama will moderate and work with republicans, like Clinton, and have a shot at reelection at 2012; or he is just too liberal for that and will continue with his policies, risking defeat at 2012?” — gustn Question: “Having proven yourself over […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Why Is ObamaCare So Bad If Social Security And Medicare Are So Great?

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Question: “How would you answer Kristof’s “Wrong Side of History” piece in the 11/18 NYT? If Medicare, Social Security and similar past advances of the welfare state didn’t do us in, why should anyone believe this one (healthcare takeover) will be the one that kills our economy? Are we suffering from a “boy who cried […]

 

Frightening Democratic Incompetence: No Need To Interrogate Bin Laden?

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I’d be perfectly happy if Osama Bin Laden caught a bullet to the brain, got hit with the business end of a missile, or if a few of our GI’s were just to up and decide to impale the son-of-a-b*tch on a sharp stick for the fun of it. However, if we do capture Osama […]

 

A Mini-Interview With Dick Armey

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While I was at the Freedomworks event in Raleigh last week-end, I got an opportunity to interview former House Majority Leader and Freedomworks Chairman, Dick Armey. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my interview with him. Should the official Republican Party stay out of primaries? You know, my general attitude is that everybody […]

 

Obama: Questions About The Race Factor

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Simple question: look at the difference between Obama’s approval rating with white Americans and black Americans and tell me whether you think that’s healthy for our country? The President has a yawning gender and racial gap, with women approving his job performance 52 – 37 percent, compared to men’s 47 – 44 percent disapproval. He […]

 

“Too Big To Fail” Should Mean “Too Big To Stay Together”

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While I haven’t seen much analysis of the legislation Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) is offering up and am suspicious of it, because he’s a liberal Democrat, I do agree in principle with the idea of what he’s trying to do here: Rep. Paul Kanjorski has proposed dramatically expanding the power of federal regulators to dismantle large […]

 

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses: Why Independents Are Abandoning The Democratic Party

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One of the great lousy things about politics is that everything, no matter how obvious it may appear, can be twisted, spun, and finagled to serve one side or the other. If you want to see this in action, take a look at an article in the Politico called “Dems alarmed as independents bolt.” You […]

 

Five Terrible Cruelties of Liberalism

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“You will find that I am kind. Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand…I require only that you kneel.” — King Xerxes, 300 Liberalism is an extraordinarily deceptive, ruinous and cruel ideology. That’s because liberalism comes, arms wide open, whispering sweet words of compassion and pity, even as it forcefully slams down a […]