Author: John Hawkins

Three Reasons The Conservative Movement Should Be Grateful To Rush Limbaugh

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Conservatives owe a lot to great men like Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley who helped keep the fires of conservatism burning when the movement was barely holding together. Without their efforts conservatism would likely not have gotten this far, this fast. That being said, in the last 30 years, conservatism has become considerably stronger, […]

 

For October: The 20 Most Clicked Linkiest Links + 10 Most Watched Viral Footage Movies

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From Linkiest: 20) Dump: Guy resigns, Writes hilarious farewell email 19) Acid Cow: 30 pics of “the hottest girl from Vietnam?” 18) theChive: 23 awesome random photos 17) IMGUR: Why unappreciative kids shouldn’t let their parents follow them on Facebook (pic) 16) Celebslam: Kate Beckinsale bikini pics 15) Holy Taco: 7 reasons why you shouldn’t […]

 

The GOP ‘Stalinists’ and Dede Scozzafava

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It’s hard to feel sorry for the Democrats. They have an absolute lock on the White House, the House, and the Senate. That means that they can pass any legislation they want and the Republicans can’t do a thing to stop them. Moreover, they’ve convinced themselves that they’re the future and the GOP is the […]

 

Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Least Favorite People On The Left (2009 Edition)

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Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of people they considered to be the least liked and respected people who were generally thought to be on the Left. Representatives from the following 48 blogs responded: All That Is Necessary, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, AtlanticBlog, Bad […]

 

This Week In Quotes: October 23 – October 29

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“I mean, why watch the nightly news when you are the nightly news.” — George W. Bush Now, while Obama’s original birth certificate has never been made public, Hawaii has issued a certificate of live birth that declares Barack Obama to be a forty-eight-year-old man. Usually I’d consider something like that official enough, but evidence […]

 

Good For eBay: Roeder FundRaisers Don’t Belong

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Not shocking: eBay isn’t allowing supporters of crackpot assassin, Scott Roeder, to sell items to raise money for his defense. Somewhat shocking: Scott Roeder has supporters: Online retailer EBay said Tuesday that it would block an auction planned to raise money for the man charged with killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller. Supporters had said […]

 

Calling All Bloggers: Who’s Funding The Huffington Post?

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From The Business and Media Institute: Every time the White House has a new enemy, left-wing Web-based media outlets take up the cause to defend the Obama administration. Earlier this year when CNBC personalities criticized the Obama administration, the Huffington Post and other components of the left-wing noise machine watched every word said on the […]

 

Hitler, Yes, I Meant To Say Hitler, Would Be Proud Of Neocutis Skin Creme

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People were made into soap and their skin was used for lampshades during Hitler’s reign, but even the Nazis didn’t use dead babies to help produce cosmetics. Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of […]

 

An Interview With Matt Latimer About His Book “Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor”

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Last week, I had an opportunity to interview former Bush speech writer Matt Latimer about his new book Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor. This actually seems like a bombshell of a book and I’m surprised it’s not getting a lot more attention. Personally, I enjoyed Matt’s insight into what was going on and […]

 

The Global Warming Alarmists Get Progressively Sillier

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Have you ever known someone who was already a little odd, but over time,: he kept getting stranger and stranger until you realized that: he was: certifiably nuts? If so, then you’ve probably gotten a strange sense of deja vu listening to the global warming wackos. Over time they’ve been getting wackier and wackier. Now aside from their […]

 

America Is Well Equipped To Deal With The Slow Zombie Menace

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Surprisingly, or perhaps not so surprisingly given the nerdiness of the average political wonk, there has been a significant amount of discussion about zombies on political blogs. There have even been mathematical studies designed to figure out how we’d fare in a slow zombie uprising (Link courtesy of Daniel Drezner, who has his own long […]

 

5 Messages for ‘Elite’ Republicans

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Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same “elite” Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years. Everybody knows exactly whom we’re talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot […]

 

Too Big To Fail? Too Big For A Government Takeover.

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The Marxist appetite that has helped drive the Left to attempt to permanently embed itself in the nation’s banking and auto industries has yet to be whetted: A senior administration official said on Sunday that after extensive consultations with Treasury Department officials, Representative Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, would introduce […]

 

An Interview With Robert Spencer About “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran”

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Late last week, I interviewed Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch about his new book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our interview. Can you talk about what was referred to as the Koran’s “strange teachings on Christians and Christianity?” Well, I suppose that would probably be […]

 

Welcome To Political Hell, Democrats: Republicans Trusted More On Every Top Issue

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Holy switcherolli, Batman. Barack Obama has flipped the political world upside down for the Democrats. Let me take you back to a RWN post from June 9 of this year, That brings me to the Rasmussen polling data that my co-blogger Melissa Clouthier discussed yesterday on Right Wing News. Here are the key numbers from […]

 

Obama’s 4 Steps To Dissent Free TV

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The way that Obama is dealing with Fox News is transparently cynical. Fox News has the biggest cable news ratings. CNN and MSNBC are a joke beside of them. Moreover, while the other stations give sycophantic coverage to the Obama Administration and spend an inordinate amount of time beating up on hapless Republicans who have […]

 

This Week In Quotes: October 16 – October 22

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At least Fox News primetime hosts, and many of their guests, know something about politics. MSNBC’s primetime lineup presents an array of people who sound like earnest college kids who just walked up to a Common Cause table, and the sum-total of what they know about politics is what they read in the brochures. — […]

 

MSNBC: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, It’s Hard To Tell Those Black Guys Apart

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Contessa Brewer over at MSNBC committed what could have been a : job ending mistake — had she been a Republican. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy :  Here’s what was said: “Joining me now to talk about this and the nation’s real problem of joblessness, the Reverend Al Sharpton,” […]

 

Congress To Fix The College Football National Championships? Wow, Is There Nothing They Can’t Do?

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Just when you think Congress can’t find a way to further involve themselves in every teeny-tiny bit of minutiae in America, they find a new way to surprise you: A senator whose undefeated home state school was bypassed for the college football national championship last season urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to ask the […]

 

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Slashing Executive Salaries

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Even for Congress, this is extraordinarily dumb: Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in the government’s financial rescue, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an official involved in […]

 

The Tabloid Trash Beat: Rielle Hunter Vs. Elizabeth Edwards

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Normally, the National Enquirer is not the most reliable publication in the world. However, they have been all over the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story to such an extent that they obviously have an inside source. So, when I saw a story like this on the front of the Enquirer, it was a gimmie that I […]

 

A Teleconference With Senator John Thune About Health Care

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A few minutes ago, I just finished up a teleconference on health care with Senator John Thune. What follows are my notes, not quotes from the teleconference. Opening Statement We have a 250 billion dollar addition to the debt by paying more to doctors. The Democrats are saying that this won’t add to the deficit, […]

 

A View Of Barack Obama: The Right vs. The Left

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When I look at Barack Obama, I see a stunningly naive, cowardly, dishonest, vindictive, arrogant, hyper-partisan empty suit, who has gotten as far as he has mainly because he’s black, gives a good speech, and was extraordinarily lucky in his timing. This is a man who rose to the absolute pinnacle of power in American […]

 

Races Like NY-23 Are Why People Don’t Trust The Republican Party

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On a regular basis, we hear Republicans in DC pouting about the base. “Why are they so hard on us? Why don’t they trust us? Why are they so unreasonable?” They don’t take into account the fact that the Republican Party betrayed many of its biggest supporters again and again during the Bush years. They […]