Author: John Hawkins

The Democrats have large majorities in the House and Senate along with a Democratic President. There are two different ways they could go. The first is to play it safe, stay in the center, and hope to add to their numbers in 2010. That’s certainly what the Republicans would do if they were in the […]

“The $1.75 trillion deficit projected for this year would represent 12.3 percent of the gross domestic product, double the previous post-war record of 6 percent in 1983, when Ronald Reagan was president, and the highest level since the deficit totaled 21.5 percent of GDP in 1945, at the end of World War II.” — MyWay […]

At 4:07 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

Yesterday, I talked with Bernard Goldberg about his new book, “A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.” What follows is an edited transcript of our discussion. …To begin with, I’ve interviewed you a couple of times before and you have always been […]

Politicians, being what they are, promise all things to all people. On health care, for example, they tell you that everything you like about the current health care system will stay in place, but that things will be much cheaper once they take over. So, they’ll add a massive bureaucracy and thousands of new regulations, […]

It’s shocking how fast we’re moving backwards on the foreign policy front with Barack Obama in charge. It’s also freakish how little attention is being paid to it because people are so distracted by the Democratic attempt to model our economy on the Soviet Union, circa 1950. First off, let’s set the stage. George Bush […]

This image was swiped from American Digest.

First off, I didn’t live blog on RWN, nor did I intend to do so on Twitter, but the comments just poured out of me as I listened to that President jerkface blather on. Here were my comments in order, My economic agenda will provide a rainbow in every pot and a kitten riding a […]

Our illustrious Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has some good news for everybody, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on Monday that the banking industry is “very close” to being stabilized and the nation’s economy is starting to rebound. “We tend to talk about the negative. … Things are beginning to turn and I […]

The stimulus bill was the single most expensive bill in world history. It’s 1.2 trillion dollars — and it’s just a warm up act for Obama, who’s planning to waste hundreds of billions more on banks, people who didn’t pay their mortgages, the Big 3, and next up: socializing our health care system, which will […]

The idea that the government can and should “fix” an economic crisis comes from a number of bad assumptions. #1) That the government is the primary factor in economic growth: The government does almost nothing to grow the economy. In fact, as a general rule, the only way the government can positively impact the economy […]

This chart, showing the utter devastation Obama has wrought on the stock market, is from Investor’s Business Daily.

15) The stimulus bill is the single largest spending bill in the history of humankind and yet, Obama is running around telling everyone how he’s going to cut the deficit in a few years. Obama claiming to be a deficit hawk — that’s like getting a lecture on honesty from Bill Clinton. 14) ACORN, which […]

“…I went into the local Food 4-Less again the other day, a cut-rate, bulk-buy chain food store. The parking lot was full of late model trucks and cars–not the sort I prefer, but those V-8 monsters, loaded up with high-priced rims, wide tires, custom paint, tinted windows, oversized trailer hitches, the whole American shebang so […]

The Obama team was not only silent on the new “Israel is racist” language, it also said nothing when faced with Holocaust denial. Negotiators from the European Union suggested on Wednesday a new provision to “condemn without reservation any denial of the Holocaust and urges all states to reject denial of the Holocaust as an […]

What Barack Obama’s decision to close Gitmo means in real terms: allowing a terrorist who may one day be responsible for setting off a dirty bomb in an American city to walk free, Binyam Mohamed was also planning to blow up an apartment block in the United States when he was arrested, investigators claimed. …U.S. […]

One of the things the Left repeated over and over during Bush’s time in office was that he was a belligerent cowboy who “squandered” all the goodwill that America had after 9/11. Of course, that was always a lot of hooey. It’s one thing to say something like, “We’re all Americans now,” and it’s another […]

Isn’t there something creepy and demeaning about having our Secretary of State publicly prostrating herself before the Chinese? Later, Clinton met Chinese women’s rights advocates at the US embassy but continued to steer clear of speaking on contentious human rights issues. Instead, while taping an interview on a Chinese talk show, she focused on the […]

Over at Hot Air, they’re discussing the worst movies of all-time and I have to respectfully disagree with some of their choices. Granted, I have odd taste, but I LIKED Showgirls, Waterworld, Battlefield Earth, Volcano, and Date Movie — all of which made their list. Granted, I’m not saying that any of these are my […]

Accused of Being Little More Than a Low-Level Taliban Fighter, Abdallah al-Ajmi Was Held by the U.S. for Nearly Four Years. After His Release, He Blew Up an Iraqi Army Outpost. Did Guantanamo Propel Him to Do It?” — Rajiv Chandrasekaran at the Washington Post

“Society should reward people for carrying the water, not for drinking the water.” — Paraphrasing Rick Santelli

“Now that those of us who have been making steady, on-time payments on our mortgages for years will be paying off others’ mortgages through our taxes, can we claim a tax-deduction for our neighbors’ mortgage interest too?” — Edward G. Stafford

I literally laughed out loud when I read this, “Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation’s mayors Friday that he will “call them out” if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan. “We have asked for the unprecedented trust of the American people to deal boldly with the […]

The Obama Administration’s hunger for your money and desire to control your life is absolutely insatiable. The newest thing up for discussion by Team Lenin? Taxing you by the mile. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn […]

I would like to say tonight that if the American people will let the Republicans back in charge, the 60% of this bill that won’t be spent until after the next election, we’ll cut it off and let it go to the Americans.” — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Hawkins’ Note: We have a “stimulus” bill […]

There was a time, say 4-5 months ago, when this would have been a pretty big story. Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran […]

The stimulus bill that Obama just rammed through Congress is the single most expensive bill in American history. It came out to $1.2 trillion when you include the interest on the money. That’s despite the fact that the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the recession would end in the “second half of 2009” even if […]

If you have a brain in your head, the older you get, the more you learn about life. One of the things I’ve personally learned is that you do not ever loan money to your friends. If you have a friend that’s really in need and you want to help, you decide if you can […]

“People have been calling for national dialogues and conversations for decades. It usually works something like this: Liberals say we need a frank discussion about race (or class or gender) in this country, and then they proceed to bludgeon any conservative stupid enough to take them up on their offer.” — Jonah Goldberg The latest […]

On a day when bank nationalization, the stimulus, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, and the Roland Burris scandal were all in the news, it was a bit of a surprise to head over to the Drudge Report and see the “killer chimp” story as the headliner. However, this is one of those […]