Author: John Hawkins

Mitt Romney, who was a moderate governor of a blue state, with a moderate staff, running a campaign that seemed to be geared around avoiding social issues and being as non-offensive as possible, lost to Barack Obama. Didn’t we see this same movie in 2008, except with John McCain in the leading role? Well, here’s […]

  Who says crime doesn’t pay? It certainly does if: you’re an illegal immigrant who wants to go to college in Massachusetts. Gov. Deval Patrick wants to allow some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates to attend state colleges and universities.A senior administration official told The Associated Press that Patrick will send a letter to […]

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor This: story about a business owner adding an Obamacare surcharge to his menu is intriguing, but it buries the real lead. While some business owners threaten to cut workers’ hours to avoid paying for their health care, a West Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant owner is going even further. John Metz said […]

  Hooray!: We can all win all of the time. Our contemporary hunger for equality can border on the comical. When my six-year-old son came home from first grade with a fancy winner’s ribbon, I was filled with pride to discover that he had won a footrace. While I was heaping praise on him, he interrupted […]

“THE DESIRE to prevent harm to innocent civilians in Gaza will ultimately lead to harming the truly innocent: the residents of southern Israel. The residents of Gaza are not innocent, they elected Hamas. The Gazans aren’t hostages; they chose this freely, and must live with the consequences.” –Gilad Sharon The Palestinians willingly chose to elect […]

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor After John Cornyn was reelected in 2008, he took over as the National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman. Since Cornyn was viewed as smart and conservative, most Republicans were pleased with that selection. However, Cornyn proved to be a DISASTER. To be fair, Cornyn did have a good year in 2010 […]

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor This is an absolute outrage and if the Republican Party doesn’t make this into a major issue, it should just fold its tents and go home. President Obama’s labor regulators are preparing to give his “army” of unions the private contact information of workers employed by non-union companies, as part […]

The “good news,” such as it is,: appears to be that “Elmo” isn’t a statutory rapist. The 23-year-old man who accused Kevin Clash, the man who has been the voice of Elmo on “Sesame Street” for nearly three decades, of having had a sexual relationship with him when he was a minor recanted the allegation today. […]

In 2004, we were hearing talk about how Republicans had realigned the map and Democrats were DOOMED FOREVER. Now, just 8 years later, after Mitt Romney lost an election he should have won, we’re hearing the same thing from Republicans. We lost, so it’s game over, man! The fact that an easy win for Obama […]

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor Will we have tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, either in the lame duck session or next year? Yes, probably. The polls show it’s a losing issue for the GOP. Fewer Republicans are signing on to Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge. Obama is using the issue as an excuse not to […]

  If you’ve ever wanted proof that women love a man in uniform, then: just look to David Petraeus and John Allen. The FBI probe into the sex scandal that prompted CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has expanded to ensnare Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon […]

  The Obama Administration: may be about to engage in unconstitutional social engineering via lawsuit? Not a shocker, right? President Obama intends to close “persistent gaps” between whites and minorities in everything from credit scores and homeownership to test scores and graduation rates. His remedy – short of new affirmative-action legislation – is to sue financial […]

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor Get used to: stories like this one: because you’re going to see a lot of them in the coming years. Hostess Brands permanently closed three bakeries Monday, including a plant in St. Louis where 365 jobs were cut, in response to a bakers’ union strike that started Friday. The bankrupt maker of […]