Author: John Hawkins

Here’s Barack Obama in December of last year on fellow Democrat Bernie Madoff, “In the last few days, the alleged scandal at Madoff Investment Securities has reminded us yet again of how badly reform is needed when it comes to the rules and regulations that govern our markets. A massive fraud that was made possible, […]

Let me not just say “no,” but, “hell, no” to this, Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners. ….European justice ministers met with Mr. Holder earlier this […]

The United States has a big problem. Barack Obama is already running up unprecedented deficits, is planning to spend more, and he has to borrow the money to be able to do that. In the past, America has never had a problem getting people to lend us money, but the situation is changing. With economies […]

I was out last night and forgot to set the DVR to record Barack Obama’s speech, but I have read the transcript. It was a fairly dull speech, bereft of Obama’s normal soaring rhetoric, but as slippery and Orwellian as we’ve come to expect from him. Obama is a master of that Clintonian tactic of […]

Complex magazine has a photoshoot with Kim Kardashian coming up and Animal New York has a before and after airbrushing shot from the spread, Now, it’s tempting to look at this, say “so what,” and just move on — but, the practice of airbrushing women in magazines actually has real ramifications. Take this pic of […]

Over at the WashingtonMonthly, there’s a piece by Charles Homans that discusses what happened to Culture11, the Bill Bennett/David Kuo backed blog that lived a short life and died earlier this year. The piece is extremely detailed and well researched, but it’s also so poorly written that it’s hard to get a handle on exactly […]

So far, all we’ve seen from the Obama administration are stunning incompetence, the highest deficits since World War 2, and a lust for power that is more reminiscent of a South American dictator than an American President. Now, after their bungling in the banking industry has turned out to be a complete disaster, Obama is […]

Over at the Moderate Voice, a liberal website where they masquerade as moderates, one of their writers took exception to Cassy Fiano’s comments about green loons in Britain wanting to reduce the population of Britain by 30 million people to protect the environment, The “unfortunate” aspect of this is that as soon as you mention […]

Evan Sayet has done not one, but two great speeches for the Heritage Foundation on liberals. The first, How Modern Liberals Think, got wide play, The second, which was done earlier this month, was called, “Hating What’s Right: How the Modern Liberal Winds Up on the Wrong Side of Every Issue,” — and it was […]

“I didn’t do it, no one saw me do it, there’s no way you can prove anything!” — Bart Simpson Ah, if only Bart Simpson had a staff and was as shameless as the man in the White House. Oh, the things he could have gotten away with! Just ask Barack Obama, who has blamed […]

There are a lot of people calling for Tim Geithner’s head — and with good reason. Setting aside the fact that having a tax cheat as head of the Treasury Department is a hypocrisy on a previously unimaginable scale, Geithner comes across as confused, indecisive, and sucks confidence from the markets like a black hole. […]

You know when you’ll really be able to tell that the Left has gone completely over-the-top with their Obama worship? When they start seeing his face in things like potatoes, trees, corn chips, cat fur, their baby’s ultrasound, and cake….oh wait, I think we’re already there. From eBay, IMAGE OF BARACK OBAMA Mysteriously SHOWS UP […]

Many of us, that at times during out lives, have believed we could do a better job than the President of the United States, just as we thought we’d do a better job than the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers or the network executive who greenlighted Real Chance of Love. The problem tends to be […]

On Thursday, I was joking about this… “Key question for @BOTeleprompter — have the words “Yes we can” flashed across you when Obama is using you in bed with Michelle? 12:56 PM Mar 19th from web” — John Hawkins on Twitter Now someone has photoshopped it. Photoshop courtesy of Ace of Spades HQ

The fact that Barack Obama has trouble speaking without a teleprompter has become a running joke. But, many people are no doubt wondering why it matters? So what if he can’t talk without a teleprompter? What does it prove? Well, here’s why it matters. Most people make a fallacious assumption: that eloquent, witty speakers are […]

I don’t think taxpayer money should be used for anything at AIG, including bonuses — but if I were an AIG exec, my attitude would be, “You owe me the money and I’m not giving one cent of it back or apologizing to anybody for taking it.”

Remember how the Left used to call Karl Rove “Bush’s brain?” Well, Obama’s brain is his teleprompter and he regularly flubs up without it telling him exactly what to say. Now, I would be the first to say that George Bush was one of the worst White House communicators in decades — but in all […]

Although it’s always amusing to see the mainstream media getting disrespected, this is so hamhanded, foolish, and tone deaf that it makes Obama look even worse than the press, “This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.” The president is […]

Evan Sayet has given not one, but two of the best talks I have ever heard about liberalism (You can see them here and here). So, I was very pleased to get an opportunity to get together with him for an interview to talk about liberals. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our […]

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy.” — Daniel Webster Obama and Company have piled one mistake on top of another with AIG. First off, they should have never pumped 173 billion dollars into AIG in the first place. At best, we should have used loans and insurance to help keep […]

Poor Teleprompter Jesus. His disciples just keep failing him again and again, don’t they? The Judas of the week are unnamed people at the Federal Reserve, who are being blamed because they scandalously failed to inform The One of the AIG bonuses, Federal Reserve officials knew for months about bonuses at American International Group but […]

“No. Does Boehner need any justification? It says it right there on his partisan hack license that he can say anything that he wants.” — Barney Frank on John Boehner Coming from a sanctimonious, dishonest pimp like Frank who helped decimate our economy, I think that can be considered a compliment.

After spending a couple of months putting together daily videos for Right Wing Video, I’ve gotten an opportunity to see a lot of videos. With that in mind, I thought it might be worthwhile to let people know who the top conservative vloggers out there are, since some of them don’t necessarily get a lot […]

Even as Barack Obama plans one of the largest tax increases in history through his cap and trade scheme, one that will break a campaign promise and disproportionately affect the poor & the middle-class, he has seen to it that the states are being incentivized to dramatically ramp up the number of people receiving welfare. […]

When Obama was desperately trying to sell his disastrously expensive, $1.2 trillion and counting “Stimulus” bill to the American public, he insisted that it would create jobs. As evidence of this, he said, “Caterpillar’s chief executive…told him the company will rehire some laid-off workers if the stimulus bill passes.” So, how did that work out? […]

(Note: If you’re not a Twitter fan, you’re not going to like this post, so you can just save your time and move on.) Back on Feb 17th, Brooks Bayne wrote a post called, The Newest Way To Game Twitter – Fake Followers. In it, he wrote, Last night, fellow Los Angelean, Jason Calacanis (@jasoncalacanis) […]

Of late, there seems to be an abundance of “Republican” pundits willing to attack other Republicans on demand, trained-seal style, for a wildly applauding liberal media. However, it’s worth noting that none of these pundits could fairly be described as moderately popular or influential in the Republican Party at the present moment — but of […]

I just got off a teleconference with the following Congressmen: Chief Deputy Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and Congressman Mark Kirk. What follows are my notes, not quotes from the teleconference. The Opening Statement Jim Jordan: This budget is unbelievable. It is going to run the 10 largest deficits in history. To do any […]

“…American minorities of color — especially blacks — are often born into grievance-focused identities. The idea of grievance will seem to define them in some eternal way, and it will link them atavistically to a community of loved ones. To separate from grievance — to say simply that one is no longer racially aggrieved — […]