Author: John Hawkins

Conservative blogger who just had heart surgery asks for prayers after he loses his insurance, doctor because of Obamacare

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Imagine going to the hospital with a “summer cold,” having that turn into an infection that spreads to your heart, losing sight in one eye and surviving the experience by the barest margins after having strokes in your brain. That’s exactly what happened to my friend Jim Hoft from Gateway Pundit. After that terrible break, […]

 

Rick Warren stands up to Piers Morgan: “I fear the disapproval of God more than I fear your disapproval or the disapproval of society.”

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This is how a real Christian is supposed to sound when he’s under attack for his beliefs by a liberal. Pastor Rick Warren reaffirmed his opposition to gay marriage in an appearance on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live,” saying he fears “the disapproval of God” more than he does Morgan’s – or society’s – disdain for […]

 

Obama Shakes Hands With Raul Castro While Ted Cruz Walks Out On Castro’s Speech

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Barack Obama could learn a lot about what real leadership looks like from Ted Cruz. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas walked out of the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday as Cuba’s President Raul Castro began speaking. A spokesman for Cruz, who is a member of the official U.S. […]

 

South Carolina Is About To Pass A Law Outlawing Obamacare In the State

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Fight the power, South Carolina! A bill set for fast-track passage in the South Carolina Senate in January aims to eliminate Obamacare in the state. The law could become a model for other states fed up with the federal health-care law. House Bill 3101, titled the “South Carolina Freedom of Health Care Protection Act,” passed […]

 

‘Duck Dynasty’ Star: They Told Us We Couldn’t Pray To Jesus Because It Would Offend Muslims

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While I don’t think we should deliberately try to offend people of different religions, if they find the very fact that you are a member of another faith to be offensive, then that seems like it should be their problem, not yours. Phil Robertson, the patriarch of AMC’s mega-hit show “Duck Dynasty”, said recently the […]

 

South Carolina Sheriff Defies Obama: He Refuses To Lower Flags As A Tribute To Mandela

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His reasoning makes sense, although I don’t see anything wrong with lowering the flag to half-mast to honor friends of the United States like Margaret Thatcher. A South Carolina Sheriff is defying President Barack Obama’s order to lower flags to half-staff as a tribute to South African leader Nelson Mandela. Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark […]

 

Colorado Baker May Face Year In Jail for Refusing To Make Cake For Gay Couple’s Wedding

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It’s bad enough that we’re further undermining marriage in America by legalizing gay marriage, but the law is also being used as a way to attack Christians who exercise their First Amendment rights. A Colorado bakery owner illegally discriminated against a gay couple when he refused to bake a wedding cake for the pair last […]

 

Lesbian Waitress Who Lied About Getting Hateful Comment Instead Of Tip Looks To Have Lied About What She Did With The Donated Money

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Lying about getting an anti-gay comment instead of a tip is bad enough, but this latest development may mean this case has now become prosecutable fraud. It has practically been proven that Dana Morales lied about receiving an anti-gay “tip” from two patrons while working as a waitress in Bridgewater, N.J. We later discovered that […]

 

Barack Obama Honors Nelson Mandela’s Death With A Picture Of Himself.

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Sadly, this has become the norm from the White House since Obama became President…. Rest in peace, Nelson Mandela. pic.twitter.com/4qlqsXLp6e — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 5, 2013 “Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic […]

 

Gun Confiscation Has Begun in New York

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It doesn’t matter what gun laws liberals propose, their ultimate goal is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS confiscating your guns. In liberal -controlled New York, they’ve gotten started on it. The New York City Police Department is taking aim at owners of certain shotguns and rifles, telling them all long guns with a five-round or more capacity […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Nov 29 – Dec 5

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Obama on ObamaCare: There’s no way we’re repealing this boondoggle while I’m president, America….Is this really the message Democrats wanted him to put out today, when news outlets are filled with stories about rate shock, glitchy enrollments, and catastrophic security lapses? I thought the headline was supposed to be “ObamaCare is wonderful,” not “There’s nothing […]

 

Congressman Trey Gowdy To Liberal Law Professor: If Obama Can Ignore Parts Of Obamacare, Could He Ignore Election Laws Too?

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A lot of South Carolina Republicans were pining for Trey Gowdy to challenge Lindsey Graham and the fact that he has the conhones to bring this up shows you why so many conservatives like him. The post on Jonathan Turley’s testimony at yesterday’s House hearing was well received, so here’s another seven minutes on executive […]

 

Ex-Secret Service Agent On Benghazi: Obama Left Americans To Die Because He Feared Another “Blackhawk Down”

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Obama could have gotten help to the Americans fighting for their life in Bengahzi. He chose not to do so. Ex-Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino says Obama left those men to die for purely political reasons. It was an insider attack, planned for months. The administration didn’t want to admit that Libya was a failed […]

 

A Liberal At the Washington Post Whines Over Republican Congressmen Talking Impeachment

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Much to the dismay of the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, there are more than a few Republicans in the House talking about impeachment. History will record that on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary met to consider the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama. …It is, Rep. Steve King […]

 

The 50 Best Conservative Columnists Of 2013 (5th Annual)

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50) Phil Kerpen 49) Rachel Alexander 48) Thomas Purcell 47) Katie Kieffer 46) Daniel Flynn 45) Kathy Shaidle 44) Scottie Hughes 43) Rachel Marsden 42) Ross Douthat 41) Debra Saunders 40) Jeff Jacoby 39) Kevin McCullough 38) David Harsanyi 37) Philip Klein 36) Jack Kelly 35) Mike Adams 34) Sean Trende 33) Quinn Hillyer 32) […]

 

Obama Seriously Considers Minting 1 Trillion Dollar Coin To Get Around The Debt Ceiling

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Legally, Obama can’t do this without the approval of Congress, but when has that ever stopped him? The Obama administration was serious enough about manufacturing a high-value platinum coin to avert a congressional fight over the debt ceiling that it had its top lawyers draw up a memo laying out the legal case for such […]

 

Why Liberalism Is On The Wrong Side Of History

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C.S. Lewis ”One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian ‘isms’ of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it […]

 

Obama Prepares to Hurt Poor Military Families By Closing Commissaries

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Obama’s wasting billions on food stamps, Obamacare and every other boondoggle you can imagine, but he has no qualms about sticking it to dirt poor soldiers. The Pentagon is floating a controversial plan to close all U.S.-based commissaries in 2015 as part of a massive cost-saving effort after more than a decade of war. The […]

 

Lesbian Waitress Who Lied About Her Tip May Be About To Lose Her Job & Be Prosecuted For Fraud

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It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person. After a couple came forward with evidence that they had not stiffed Bridgewater, N.J. waitress Dayna Morales on her tip or left her an anti-gay note, the Gallop Asian Bistro restaurant has reported that Morales is not working at the restaurant, pending the completion of an investigation. […]

 

George Will: Medicaid is Next Obamacare Crisis

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The medium to long-term plan for the Democrats is to transition from Obamacare to single payer. This “bug” that George Will is discussing is the key “feature” they intend to use to make that happen. As the White House touted improvements to the troubled HealthCare.gov website Sunday morning, conservative pundit George Will said the real […]

 

How Obamacare Is Destroying The Life Of One Woman With Chronically Ill Kids

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What Obamacare is doing to this woman’s life is just wrong. This is a video from Pattie Curran, a mom who describes herself as a “Catholic Tea Party hippie”. This video is from August, she tweeted it out again yesterday, indicating that the issues outlined in the video still remain. …She notes: 1. Over the […]

 

Saudi Arabia Ships 50,000 Illegal Aliens Back to Ethiopia

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How is it that every country on planet earth seems to get this concept except us? Ethiopia has flown home over 50,000 citizens in Saudi Arabia after a crackdown against illegal immigrants in the oil-rich state, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. “We projected the initial number to be 10,000 but it is increasing,” foreign ministry […]

 

Obama’s Backdoor Gun Control: EPA Regulations Force The Last Lead Smelter In The U.S. To Close

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It’s hard to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights when the government is trying to cut you off from the lead you need to make your bullets. Thanks to Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we can no longer smelt lead from ore in the United States. The first contact the EPA made with The Doe Run […]

 

Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummings Admits Democrats Are Starting To Distance Themselves From Obama

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When a President’s approval rating drops as low as Obama’s has, it can create a political death spiral as his party disassociates from him, which leads to lower ratings, which leads to less support from his party, and so on and so on until he becomes George W. Bush, leaving office with a 25% approval […]

 

Seven Phony Hate Crimes Trumpeted By The Media

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One of the oldest rules in psychology and economics is that if you reward a behavior, you can expect to see it more often. In America, we reward victimhood. That makes us feel good about ourselves and in some cases, it helps improve the lives of the people who’ve been victimized, but there’s a dark […]

 

Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out After Obamacare Cost Him Insurance Is Now Being Audited By the IRS

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Using the IRS to attack your political enemies is an impeachable offense and at this point, it seems entirely possible that Obama is doing EXACTLY that. Bill Elliot was a cancer patient who lost his insurance due to ObamaCare and couldn’t pay the expensive new premiums. He was talking about paying the ObamaCare fine, going […]