Author: John Hawkins

This Week In Quotes: Sept 11 – Sept 17.

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It’s easier for the left to play the race card than address the public’s legitimate concerns, but what the left and the media are doing is damaging and dangerous. It’s damaging because when everything is racist, then nothing is. Those who cry racism without evidence will cause people to tune out in cases in which […]

 

Nancy Pelosi: Even A Stopped San Fran Cuckoo Clock Is Right Twice A Day

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Nancy Pelosi, while remembering the political violence of the seventies, seemed to get a bit choked up as she encouraged people to avoid rhetoric that could encourage political violence. It would be very easy to laugh Pelosi off and come right back at her. In fact, Rep. Pete Sessions has already done so: “Speaker Pelosi […]

 

Barack Obama: Baffled By Foreign Affairs

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During the Bush years, all we heard from the Left was, “George Bush is a cowboy! He’s wasting all the goodwill the world had towards us! He’s making people not like us!” Now Barack Obama is President and, yes, America is marginally more liked than we were during the Bush years — but, what liberals […]

 

The Descent of Little Green Footballs

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Despite the fact that I never got the impression that Charles Johnson was a conservative, there was a time when Little Green Footballs was amongst the biggest and the best of the conservative blogs. After 9/11, Charles Johnson started covering the radical Islam beat. He didn’t do a lot of commentary, but he was an […]

 

Dems Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don’t On Health Care.

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Although Max Baucus, Chairman the Senate Finance Committee, did attempt to tinker just enough around the edges of health care reform to pick off the squishy GOP senators from Maine, there were no serious attempts made by Congress or the White House to bring Republicans onboard for a bipartisan health care bill. So now, after […]

 

The 30 Best Conservative Columnists For 2009 (Version 3.0)

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30) Chuck Norris 29) Jack Kelly 28) David Harsanyi 27) Wes Pruden 26) Mike Adams 25) Rachel Marsden 24) Dennis Prager 23) Frank Fleming 22) Burt Prelutsky 21) Melissa Clouthier 20) Larry Elder 19) David Limbaugh 18) Lorie Byrd 17) Jeff Jacoby 16) Tony Blankley 15) Newt Gingrich 14) Michael Barone 13) Rich Lowry 12) […]

 

Obama’s Speech Coverage On RWN Vs. Poll Numbers? Can I Call It Or What?

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After I liveblogged Obama’s speech 6 days ago, here’s what I wrote: Summary: My initial impression was that this speech is not going to be helpful to Obama. At best, I think it may give him a short, temporary burst. But, it was too generic, too much of the same old, same old. Much of […]

 

White Student Beaten On School Bus; Crowd Cheers! Still, Doesn’t Look Racist

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At the top of Drudge right now is a story called: “White Student Beaten On School Bus; Crowd Cheers. The implication there, of course, is that this was a racist event. The story, which is from St. Louis today, also points in that direction. Here’s an excerpt: The 17-year-old victim was white and the teen […]

 

An Interview On Environmental Extremism With The Directors Of Not Evil Just Wrong

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While I was at RightOnline, I caught a screening of Not Evil Just Wrong, which is billed as a response to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Now, to be honest, I don’t like political documentaries — which, I suppose is odd given that I’m a professional blogger. But, the problem is that since I cover […]

 

10 More “You Lie” Moments On Health Care

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The aftermath of Joe Wilson shouting out “You lie” at a shameless liar in the midst of a shameless lie about health care has turned out to be one of the most Orwellian moments in recent memory. After Wilson’s outburst, liberals, in and out of the mainstream media, rushed to tell us that it was […]

 

Jobs Americans Won’t Do Or Jobs Americans Won’t Do At That Price?

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One of the arguments incessantly made by supporters of illegal immigration is that illegals are doing jobs “Americans won’t do.” However, this a bogus comparison. Illegals often don’t have car insurance or health insurance. Many of them don’t pay taxes. Of those that do, you have to assume they cheat as much possible. Why not […]

 

How To Deal With “Conspiracy Theorists” On The Right

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“Jane’s Law: The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.” — Megan McCardle That is spot-on — although some people may take exception to that since we Republicans are out of power and are therefore, the ones who are supposed to be […]

 

Pat Toomey: How A Smart Conservative Appeals To Moderates

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There is a difference between ideology and politics. It’s easy for talk radio hosts, bloggers, and columnists (including me) to talk about what needs to be done. Our audiences tend to be made up of like minded people and we don’t have to worry about moderates who barely know who the Vice-President is or which […]

 

An Interview With Congressman Joe Wilson

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On Wednesday night Congressman Joe Wilson made big news when he shouted out, “You lie,” while Barack Obama was falsely claiming that illegal aliens aren’t going to be covered by the health care bills winding their way through Congress. Last night I got an opportunity to interview him. What follows is the slightly edited transcript […]

 

7 Quick Thoughts About Last Night’s Obama Health Care Speech

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1) Wilson’s “You lie” outburst is a political plus, not a minus because the discussion over it, even from people criticizing or disagreeing with him, will focus an inordinate amount of attention on the fact that Obama is lying and that illegal aliens will be able to get coverage under the bill. 2) Obama’s insurance […]

 

Go Joe Wilson, Go Joe Wilson, Go Joe Wilson Go!

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Last night, during his health care speech, after Barack Obama lied about Republicans, he moved on to lying about the coverage of illegal aliens: Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not […]

 

The Merger Of The Fringe & Mainstream On The Left

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It’s no secret that Democrats are much more forgiving of the foibles of their own side than Republicans have ever been. Look to liberal heroes like Ted Kennedy (left a woman to drown to death), Robert Byrd (member of the KKK), and Barney Frank (had a prostitution ring running out of his house) for evidence […]

 

RWN’s Michelle Malkin Interview #4: Culture Of Corruption

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Late last week I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview Michelle Malkin about her newest best seller, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation: Alright, right off the bat, one of the most under-reported stories of 2008 […]

 

The Dumbest Ideas In DC #458: Passing Unpopular Legislation Helps You Win!

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One of the oddest ideas floating around the fever swamps of Washington, D.C. is that parties benefit from passing wildly unpopular legislation because at least they’ve “done something.” Republicans during the Bush years were guilty of this sort of thinking at times — immigration and John McCain’s reaction to the financial crisis immediately come to […]

 

I Get Emails: “AN ODIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS GERMANOPHOBE”

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This piece of hate mail came in last night about 1:00 AM and it so funny that I just had to share, From: PCRHEIN@********* Subject: Re: 10 Lessons We Can Learn From The Rise Of The Nazis YOU ARE AN IGNORANT,STUPID,HYPOCRITICAL LIAR, AN ODIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS GERMANOPHOBE AND A F@GGOTY ANGLOPHILE B@STARD;DROP DEAD! So, what […]

 

10 Lessons We Can Learn From The Rise Of The Nazis

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Hitler did not rise out of a vacuum: Many people assume that another Hitler can rise up in any nation, but that’s not necessarily so. Hitler’s rise in Germany was not a forgone conclusion in Germany, but there were a number of conditions that made that country especially susceptible to it. The Germans were a […]

 

The Most Interesting Thing About The Van Jones’ Debacle…

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…is not that Obama would hire a man like Jones, who is an ultra Left-Wing wack job. It’s also not that Obama steered clear of the whole brouhaha while Jones resigned at midnight on a Saturday over Labor Day week-end. Nor is it the fact that from what I have seen on the Left, very […]

 

Right Wing News Has Changed Over To Word Press

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If you’re wondering why the page looks so blank at the moment, it’s because of a rather momentous technical change that has been made. The back-end of Right Wing News, up until last night, was powered by Movable Type. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work all that well with large blogs. However, because of the amount of […]