Author: John Hawkins

“There are no solutions, only trade-offs.” – Thomas Sowell In a country where we have a constitutional right to bear arms, there is no gun control law: that could have prevented the mass murder at Sandy Hook. There was already a “gun free zone” in place, which Lanza ignored. He stole the weapons and the semiautomatic […]

My latest Townhall column is called, 5 Myths Liberals Have Created About Themselves (Part 2). Here’s an excerpt from the column. Greek mythology, with its tales of Zeus, Apollo and Hera doesn’t have a thing on the mythology that liberals have created around themselves. There’s Bubba, the President who can feel your pain, BO the […]

We now have more than one instance of a gang of white men violently attacking a black man for no reason and using racial slurs. The first wasKenneth Gladney who was attacked and called a n*gger by SEIU thugs.Sadly, neither of those creeps went to jail for that hate crime. Encouraged, union racists in Michigan: recently […]

  Sure,: this may sound insane even for California,: but there’s a good reason to support it. Legislation introduced Tuesday would give about 400,000 undocumented immigrants in California the same rights as citizens to unemployment benefits and various other government services. Very expensive unemployment benefits for non-Americans who are illegally in a state that’s headed towards bankruptcy? […]

One of the foolish assumptions of the Left is that we can raise taxes sky high with no consequences whatsoever. This shows a rather remarkable lack of understanding of human nature — but, of course, if liberals understood how the world really works, they wouldn’t be liberals. Here’s a little lesson about human nature for […]

Given Barack Obama’s ideological leanings, is: this really a surprise? No wonder Jeffrey Immelt is the chair of The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Charlie Rose agreed this week that “state run communism” works. “Really, the one thing that actually works, you know, state run communism may not be your […]

Let’s hope not.: Only 7% of Detroit public school 8th graders are proficient in reading. In the public schools in Detroit, Mich., according to the U.S. Department of Education, only 7 percent of the eighth graders are grade-level proficient or better in reading. Some public school teachers in the City of Detroit and around the state […]

And the conservative movement – a bulwark of American strength for the last several decades – is in deep disarray. Reading about some conservative organizations and Republican campaigns these days, one is reminded of Eric Hoffer’s remark, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” It may […]

< /a>Can Barack Obama sucker the Republicans into signing their own political death warrant? We’re: about to find out. Allies expect Obama to harness the combined political capital of his reelection and the outcome of the tax fight for an aggressive push to legalize millions of illegal immigrants in what could be a signature domestic achievement. […]

I’m just saying, paypal at Johnhawkins -at- rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com. It’s not like: you’re going to be using it anyway, right? Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year “Long Count” Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters […]

  The Republican Party’s infrastructure is dilapidated. Our get out the vote efforts are way behind the Democrats and we do very little minority outreach of significance. Additionally, our marketing/data research, new media, most of our Tea Party groups, voter registration, and activist training efforts are all starved for funds. Meanwhile, Obama: $1.123 billion vs. […]

Police? “Yes,: this guy has a gun on me,” said….the burglar! A Texas burglary suspect called 911 early Tuesday morning to report that a homeowner was holding him at gunpoint and threatening to shoot him, KDFW reports. Homeowner James Gerow said he awoke at around 12:30 a.m. and found a man wearing dark clothes and a […]

Setting aside the military, the only people you ever hear lauding government employees for their hard work are politicians and government employees. There’s: a reason for that. On the contrary, overstaffing is a serious problem in government, and the best evidence is a simple empirical fact: Government employees don’t work as much as private employees. If […]