Author: John Hawkins

You have to wonder how many people are actually aware of the enormous impact our “lawsuit lottery” culture has on medical expenses. Sure, it’s easy to count the costs of gargantuan awards paid out to victims of malpractice, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Once you look below the surface, there is a […]

“For a host of reasons, reparations are a terrible idea — unjust, illogical, and dangerous. Living white Americans bear no culpability for slavery, and living black Americans never suffered from it. It would be unthinkable to make individuals responsible for the wrongdoing of their distant ancestors, or to require them to enrich the great-great-great grandchildren […]

Charles Krauthammer puts his finger on what we should be really debating when we debate these judicial nominations: how they think and decide. Instead their opinions are over-simplified and then given code-words to make them sound so terrible. Since few people are going to actually read what these judges have written, we end up debating […]

Someone has got to clue the Pentagon in on the fact that the press is not their friend, that the press is going to smear, undercut, and generally put a negative spin on every single thing that they do. You’d think the Pentagon would understand this, but they keep sending reporters out with the troops […]

“For example; a friend of mine worked in a small business that had 5 employees. The parking lot had 7 spaces, so everyone was able to park in the lot and still leave room for guests. It was not the kind of business where customers frequently came on site, but when one did, parking was […]

“Of course, the bulk of Bush’s 2003 tax cuts on dividends and capital gains will help people with the highest incomes, but they pay the most taxes in the first place. The tax cuts will also help the entire 100-million-strong investor class — about 50 percent of U.S. households. But when the new IRS income […]

Today on my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, there are stories about a blogger fired for blogging, more Dean beatdowns from Dems, breast feeding, illegal aliens, John Kerry’s medical records, taxes and more. If you want to know what’s going on around the blogosphere without having to read through 90+ blogs a day, CG is a […]

Today’s Democratic Party is fundamentally incapable of dealing with terrorism in a serious and substantial way. Want evidence? Well, despite all the tough talk we heard from Democrats in the run-up to the 2004 election, now that the heat’s off, we have prominent liberals like Joe Biden & Jimmy Carter calling on the Bush Administration […]

“What will future generations think when they see the front pages of our leading newspapers repeatedly preoccupied with whether we are treating captured cut-throats nicely enough? What will they think when they see the Geneva Convention invoked to protect people who are excluded from protection by the Geneva Convention? During World War II, German soldiers […]

The word is out on John Kerry’s transcript at Yale and “shockingly,” his grades were even lower than those of fellow Yalie, Chimpy McBushHitler, who we all know is dumb as a post because liberals keep repeating “he’s dumb” ad nauseum, like brain damaged parrots. Here are the goods on Kerry’s Ivy League marks: “During […]

The way they talk about Hillary — you’d almost think she was destined to be President. The mainstream press dotes on her, Republicans fear her, and any cleverly crafted poll that makes her look good gets press for days. However, she has a critical flaw that certainly makes me unlikely to support her candidacy were […]

Despite Amnesty International’s recent statement that the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay is a ‘gulag‘, President George Bush today said that Amnesty is “not exactly like” the Soviet-era newspaper Pravda. Gulags were Soviet forced-labor prison camps where the communist government sent millions of its own citizens as political prisoners to be tortured, starved […]

And you’ll never guess who did it! Has the entire world gone mad? It’s not enough for Dana Milbank to imply that Bush ships people who criticize him off to Gitmo or Linda Foley to say US troops are targeting journalists. No one seems interested in these outright slanders, nor in their obvious lack of […]

Who says there are no heroes anymore? What about Sgt. Leandro F. Baptista? Who is Leandro F. Baptista you ask? A Marine who won a Silver Star for heroism under fire in Fallujah. And just in case you’re wondering, oh yeah, he earned it: With six men wounded and two vehicles out of action, Baptista […]

I was pleased to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with sydicated columnist Jack Kelly. Mr. Kelly is former Marine, Former Green Beret, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration. We discussed a number of topics including Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Israel, China, chickenhawks, the cycle of […]

Last week, I wrote about our infuriating and irresponsible catch and release policy for non-Mexican illegal aliens in Texas. In effect, if you cross the border in certain parts of Texas and you’re not from Mexico, not only do you have nothing to fear from the border patrol, they actually MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR YOU. […]

(*** It hardly seems as if it could be possible, but yesterday was the one year anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death. It seems as if it were only a few months ago that Reagan left us, and rereading those old posts is more…difficult that it seems as if it should be at this point. But […]

Question 1: “What, in your opinion, is the root cause for the liberal’s anti-2nd Amendment movement in the US?” — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: There are a lot of reasons that liberals don’t like guns. First and foremost among them is liberals tend to be elitists who have a very minimal level of faith in the American […]

Question: “What are the chances of us seeing actual tax reform during the Bush Administration? How about in the next 50 years? By reform I mean some sort of flat tax, VAT, or national sales tax that does away with the IRS.” — taxsucks Answer: While there would be a lot of conservative support for […]

— Look for another interview, a very good one if I do say so myself, with a columnist who shall remain nameless until Monday. — Because of Memorial Day, it has been a slower week than normal for my advertisers. How about making it up to them by clicking on a few them? Trust me, […]

Question: “The recent uprising in Uzbekistan and the brutal crackdown ordered by the Uzbek premier Karimov – is that his name?! – has highlighted an obviously hypocritical element of US foreign policy, where support or at least benign acceptance is given to this particular tyrant whilest other are condemend in the strongest terms. The problem […]