Author: John Hawkins

Last night, I was thinking about doing a post today predicting that Obama’s approval rating would drop into the 50s by next month. However, after taking a look at the RealClearPolitics poll numbers, I noticed that depending on the poll you look at, it has already happened. Two things. #1) The reason Rasmussen and Democracy […]

Normally, I save the videos for Right Wing Video, which incidentally, just cracked 3000 daily uniques for the first time yesterday (Are you hitting RWV every day? If not, you should be). However, this video and the snarky comments that went with it on YouTube were so good I just had to talk about it […]

I was delighted to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with one of my favorite columnists and economists, Walter Williams, about his new book, Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. A lot of Americans have been confused about the mortgage crisis. Conservatives tend […]

Immediately after rolling out a $1.2 trillion dollar “stimulus” plan, Obama is already planning to spend another 275 billion dollars and the Big 3 want billions more of your money and oh, and by the way, they may need ANOTHER stimulus if the trillion dollars of your money that Obama just flushed down the toilet […]

If you haven’t been following what has been going on in Cali, let me give you a quick rundown: They have an enormous budget shortfall (Ah-nold campaigned as a fiscal conservative and social moderate, but he’s actually just a tax-and-spend liberal with a (R) beside of his name) and Democrats have a large majority in […]

In one of the more bizarre legal twists that has been seen in a long while, trespassing illegal aliens have been awarded $78,000 because a rancher detained them, on his property, until the U.S. Border Patrol arrived, A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group […]

Our power mad President has now set his sights on taking over the US banking system and John McCain’s sidekick Lindsey Graham seems to be toying with the idea of helping Obama jam a knife into the back of American capitalism, Long regarded in the US as a folly of Europeans, nationalisation is gaining rapid […]

“Genuine bipartisanship,” he wrote, “assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — […]

Since our foolish, weak President who believes he can solve all problems simply via his sheer wonderfulness took office, there have been some extremely alarming developments that may have an enormous impact on the war in Afghanistan. A couple of weeks ago, I noted that, “The “Stans” Side(d) With Russia Over Obama. The timing of […]

Despite what some people seem to think, because it’s so complex, economic issues tend to be very non-intuitive and difficult to predict. You could easily put together four Nobel prize winning economists and not only find that none of them agreed with each other on certain real world issues of extreme significance, but that none […]

If we want to fix what ails the Republican Party, it’s worth taking a few moments to diagnose what went wrong for the Party while acknowledging what the Democrats did right. In other words, once we’ve diagnosed the disease and figured out how another patient overcame similar problems, we can start to get the GOP’s […]

My latest Townhall column is up and it’s called Six Reasons Deficits Will Doom The Dems In 2010. Here’s an excerpt from the column, Throughout his first term, Obama will be constantly pushing truly massive new spending projects. More banking bailouts, the auto bailout, bailouts for other industries, socialized medicine, pork ridden budgets, global warming […]

…this is what they’ve been reduced to publicly crying about. The head of the Colorado Springs NAACP is crying foul after a picture of President Obama was removed from a sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary. …The Defense Commissary Agency, which oversees the store, says employees took it down after customers complained that […]

Have you seen the Barack Obama coins, which are being hawked by none other than Montel Williams, and are from the very official sounding U.S. Coin Network? Those coins? Well, if you bought that coin set for $19.95, congratulations because you just bought $2 worth of US coins with Barack Obama stickers on the front. […]

Former white supremacist radio host, Hal Turner, is back with another violent missive. As you may or may not remember, Turner, who is most definitely “cuckoo for coco puffs,” has been mocked on RWN before for talking up the patriotic assassination” of members of Congress back in 2006, is now planning the aftermath of his […]

Glenn Thrush wrote a piece called, “The 7 stimulus lessons for the Dems,” that does a good job of summing up the rather bizarre view the Left seems to have of “bipartisanship.” Over and over, Nancy Pelosi and her allies privately delivered the same message to Barack Obama: Mr. President, you can have bipartisanship or […]

Seldom does Lindsey Graham deserve plaudits, but this was a truly great quote about the stimulus package, “The average taxpayer’s gets to get $8 of tax relief, but their children get $1-trillion of debt.” — Lindsey Graham

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Are you in love with a staffer on Capitol Hill, someone who works at a think tank, or a dorky blogger who keeps boring you to death talking about the stimulus? Well, then today’s your lucky day because you can give them the false impression that you understand what they are talking about most of […]

Given the state of the economy, particularly in California, you’d think that liberals would be thrilled to have another business set up shop in San Francisco. You’d be wrong about that — and oh, how wrong you’d be, It is too easy to make fun of the people who packed Room 400 in San Francisco’s […]

Have you seen the Octo-Mom’s baby bump? Holy Moly! Of course, the key question here is: When does Andrew Sullivan accuse her of faking her pregnancy to cover up for someone? Update #1: From the comments section, “Seriously you need to give us some warning about pictures like this, it was a good thing that […]

Throughout the Bush years, we heard liberals incessantly speculating that Bush would institute fascism in the country or that he had become far too powerful. Now, we’ve got Barack Obama in the White House, and Terry Moran from Nightline is basically urging Obama to engage in one of the most dramatic and nefarious power grabs […]

…Does anybody think this is particularly healthy for our country and helps lead to better, more efficient, more honest government for the American people? John Dingell sets an all-time all-American new record for sitting in the House of Representatives. The 82-year-old Michigan Democrat has been sitting in the same place now for 19,421 days. Dingell’s […]

Setting aside the fact that no nation that has a national debt should be funding art in the first place, stories like this one have a lot to do with why so many conservatives oppose using government money for art projects, Dogs do the darndest things.They poop, they hump and they sniff in all the […]

Some conservatives have been visibly annoyed by Julio Osegueda, the obsequious college student who looked like he was ready to drop to his knees and worship Obama at a town hall meeting, Now this kid is being given the star treatment, The Edison State College communications major said he has received interview requests from MSNBC’s […]

Yesterday, I was given a “Malkin award” by Andrew Sullivan, which in liberal lingo, I suppose, is intended to convey some sort of insult or another. Here’s the statement that won me such acclaim from Andrew Sullivan, “This stimulus bill is huge, so disastrous, and so harmful to our country that even though Obama has […]

“Astonishing news on the generic ballot question. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that Democrats are currently ahead of Republicans by only 40 percent to 39 percent. Given that this generic ballot question over the years has tended to understate Republicans’ performances in actual elections, one gathers that if the 2010 election for House seats were held […]

“You can’t raise a whole population of people who don’t know how to think, but are taught to resent anything they don’t understand, and expect that you’re going to survive in the long run.” — Thomas Sowell, in an interview I just did with him.

“Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as […]