Author: John Hawkins

The biggest fallacy in politics is that we need “another Reagan” or more “Tea Partiers” in Congress if we want to save the country. Granted, either would certainly help, but America’s structural problems are much bigger than any personnel issues we have in D.C. Even if you’re an extremely talented craftsman, you’re going to have […]

“As Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned … and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory.” — Ann Coulter Liberalism is an ideology that believes in control, not freedom. That’s why liberals love the federal government so much while they detest states’ rights. It allows them to bend hundreds of millions […]

Future historians will likely be flummoxed by the moment we’re living in. In what amounts to less than a blink of an eye in the history of Western civilization, homosexuality has gone from a diagnosed mental disorder to something to be celebrated – or else. Indeed, the rush to mandatory celebration is so intense, refusal […]

  “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” —Winston Churchill There are a lot of arguments about whether communism, socialism, and liberalism are the same thing. What shouldn’t be arguable is that they’re all closely related branches of the same […]

The 7 Reasons Why I’m A Conservative, Not a Liberal 1) I’m a pragmatist: At its heart, isn’t politics supposed to be about making life better for people? If an education program sounds good, but doesn’t help kids learn, what good is it? No matter how good an economic policy sounds today, if it turns […]