Author: John Hawkins

“In a play on Clint Eastwood‘s RNC speech to an empty chair, intended to represent an absent President Barack Obama, Republican supporters are attacking Obama’s record under the hashtag: #emptychairday.”   From: The Looking Spoon The only known picture of Barack Obama and Karl Marx.

So, are the Dems being racist by requiring ID to get into #DNC2012 or were they hypocritical when they said requiring ID to vote is racist? – John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) September 3, 2012 Seems like a fair question, doesn’t it? And the Democrats sure don’t seem to have: any qualms about demanding ID at their convention. […]

I have no beef with Muslims participating in an open-air prayer ceremony before the DNC. I’d have been just as happy to see a similar event before the RNC. Yes, this is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles, but in this country, we believe in the “free exercise” of religion. It’s one of our […]

Missed the convention? Catch up with our: countdown of the top ten speeches…:  10) Grant Bennett 9) Pam Finlayson : Chris Christie 7) Artur Davis 6) Rick Santorum 5) Condi Rice 4) Mike Huckabee 3) Ann Romney 2) Mitt Romney 1) Paul Ryan

Well, obviously, because you need to find out what all those “racist dog whistles” you heard at the Republican National Convention actually mean. Take this zinger from Mitch McConnell, for example,: “(Obama) hasn’t been working to earn reelection, he’s been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!” Did you know that’s actually a coded […]

Live by the wacky, whiny interest group,: die by the wacky, whiny interest group. Because the Democratic National Convention has just banned children from the convention floor – including breastfeeding babies – unless those children have convention credentials. Which, needless to say, is relatively unlikely. It is not clear what motivated this particular policy. However, in […]

It’s not really a shocker that Charlie Crist endorsed Obama or that he’s: speaking at the Democratic National Convention. It’s also probably not going to ultimately be any more helpful than an endorsement from Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, or Scozzafava or any of the other politicians who’ve made it clear they’ll say and do anything to […]

I was not a Mitt Romney fan during the primaries. Hell, I was one of the co-founders of NotMittRomney.com and I would have been thrilled with a brokered convention. But, it didn’t work out that way. Mitt Romney collected the delegates he needed to win. In other words, the game’s over and all the Republicans […]