Author: John Hawkins

“Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should […]

Courtesy of: The Drudge Report. If, and it’s a big IF, Mitt has actually locked down North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida locked down, then it’s entirely possible that this whole race could come down to who takes Ohio. Of course, if Romney took Pennsylvania or Michigan, he could even conceivably survive that. The good news is […]

The liberals at: Gawker, who apparently think the economy runs on pixie magic and hope, are huffy that extraordinarily wealthy CEO David Siegel has told his employees that he may have to fire them if Obama is re-elected and raises his taxes. But of course, this is how the real world works in countries where you […]

The politicians in D.C. created the housing crisis that tanked the economy with regulations that practically made handing out high risk housing loans a necessity for Freddie, Fannie, and many banks. Of course, you wouldn’t know that from listening to anybody in Congress because the politicians naturally point the finger elsewhere. Unfortunately, they’re alsopushing the […]

Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in the sixties and he was about as successful at it as he was in Vietnam. Of course, as the great: Thomas Sowell notes, minorities were on their way up economically long before Johnson ladled an extra heaping helping of socialism into the economy. For example, the usually insightful […]

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In many ways, Mr. Obama is the poster child for the young, unchallenged, and unproven wimps being created by the liberal nanny-state. Political correctness now orders that there are unlimited strikes in T-ball. No one can keep score. That everyone gets a trophy. That no one can be disciplined, called any names, or be held […]

Regrettably, Robert Samuelson, who’s a brilliant economist, may be: on to something here. What we are witnessing in Europe – and what may loom for the United States – is the exhaustion of the modern social order. Since the early 1800s, industrial societies rested on a marriage of economic growth and political stability. Economic progress improved […]

Yeah,: maybe. At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products. Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court […]

Non-Americans can’t legally donate to an American presidential campaign. In fact, there’s a system put in place to prevent it. So, how can Barack Obama’s campaign soak in the donations from all of his foreign fans? By disabling the system intended to prevent fraud – and that’s what it’s done. Just like it did in […]

Many Americans already know Obama tossed: 25 billion dollars: in taxpayer money down a rathole to bail out GM and Chevrolet. That was a bad idea. If the choice had actually been between letting both companies go out of business and losing 25 billion dollars of taxpayer money, we’d have been better off letting both companies get […]

“I’m sorry, Jim. I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not going to – I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.” – […]