Author: John Hawkins

The recession officially ended all the way back in 2009.: Yet… Household income is down sharply since the recession ended three years ago, according to a report released Thursday, providing another sign of the stubborn weakness of the economic recovery. From June 2009 to June 2012, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent, to $50,964, according […]

No matter how loudly the American people shout about illegal immigration, thegovernment never seems to listen. Ten officers and agents for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) including ICE Agents Union President Chris Crane, today filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton challenging […]

Mike Huckabee built up so much indy cred with Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day and he’sthrowing it all away on Todd Akin.   The Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren’t rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded and bleeding, a casualty of his self-inflicted, but not intentional wound. In a Party that supposedly stands […]

At what point do you: go so far past diversity that you’re just being quirky? The Department of Justice is certainly testing those limits with its hiring practices. The PJ Tatler has obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have “psychiatric disabilities” or “severe intellectual […]

Is there anything, anything at all that Americans can do without having some government busybody sticking his nose into it? Apparently,: not even birthday parties are safe. Pitchfork-wielding Virginia farmers rallied to support a woman who claims local officials came down on her for, among other things, hosting a children’s birthday party on her spread. Martha […]

What does it say about our country that we semi-regularly see reports of phony “hate crimes”: like this one: in the media? The lesbian who claimed three masked men broke into her home last month, tied her up, carved anti-gay slurs into her body and tried to set her house on fire will be arrested, after police […]

Even if Keynesian stimulus worked – and the historical evidence overwhelmingly shows that it doesn’t –: this doesn’t seem very ah…stimulating. The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration’s “green training” job efforts on two […]

Over at: The Root, it was asked: Does Paul Ryan’s Black Ex-Girlfriend Matter? As reported on Twitter by CNN’s Pete Hamby, Ryan said he has a black sister-in-law, but perhaps even more interesting, his “college sweetheart” was African American. So here is the million-dollar question: Is the fact that Ryan has dated interracially a noteworthy detail to […]

Of course, given the shape that Detroit is in, would it look all that different after a nuke? All right, all right, that’s hyperbole, but: this story: is not just ridiculous, it helps explain what’s gone wrong with Detroit, Michigan, and the American auto industry. Despite having no horses, the water and sewerage department for the city […]

Maybe we’ll have burglars protesting to be called, “Object removal experts”: next. A small group of immigrants gathered in Woodbury Monday to protest the use of the word “illegal” to describe those who have entered the United States without documentation. “By saying illegal, they’re assuming that we broke a criminal law,” said Jackeline Saavedra, 27, of […]

Barack Obama’s net worth is almost: 12 million dollars. So why does his own brotherhave to beg for money to pay for his son’s hospital bills? A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was […]

Many liberals love Julian Assange because they hate America and he disclosed top secret American documents. How many people died because of what Julian Assange did? We don’t know for sure and intelligence agencies around the world have reason to stay quiet about it, but we do know he put information out that should have […]