Author: John Hawkins

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 […]

Hat tip to: LMAObama: for this graphic. Hat tip to: The Looking Spoon: for this graphic.

Who would have ever thought that: a single mother of 14 would be reduced to this? Come to think of it, just about everybody. Nadya Suleman, better known as “Octomom,” upset many Americans with the announcement that she had decided to go on welfare back in April. The mother of fourteen, eight of whom she gave […]

Just yesterday it seemed like Greece was the Western European nation going down the tubes and, of course, it still is. However,: these scenes from Spain seem awfully familiar, don’t they?? Thousands of jobless Spaniards marched through Madrid Saturday in the latest angry demonstrations against economic crisis cuts, as fears rose for the country’s financial stability. […]

Is there anyone on the Left who actually cares about the law anymore or is the Left fine with a President asserting dictatorial powers as long as he’s a liberal? Judging by this: column at the Huffington Post: by Robert David Jaffee, it’s the latter. President Obama has said that he would rather be a good one-term […]

The media: loves to report on psychological studies that confirm its existing biases: and if it requires a sensational headline that isn’t even remotely justified by the study, well, that’s just the price the media has to pay to get attention. Study: Girls As Young As 6 Are Thinking Of Selves As Sex Objects A new study […]

Over at Forbes, there is: speculation from Andrew McAfee that in the future, it’ll be the humans who become obsolete instead of the machines. To articulate the core of his argument, McAfee draws from the concept of exponential growth patterns. The numbers at the beginning of any exponential curve (1+2+4+8+16….etc) are easy to comprehend. It isn’t […]

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. —: Barack Obama

You’ve probably already heard: about the Democratic politicians skipping their national convention: because they’re afraid it’s going to be an anchor around their waist at election time. Over the past few days, a handful of Democratic candidates and elected officials have announced, through their campaigns, that they will not attend the 2012 convention in Charlotte, to be […]

Did you know that if American immigration law had been followed, there wouldn’t have been a 9/11? You don’t hear that said very often because it steps on the pro-illegal immigration agenda so many people in the media have, but: it’s absolutely true.. Sens. Jon Kyl and Pat Roberts said in a report that “the answer […]

There’s a little good news out there for Ford Motors today: Barack Obama’s favorite souped-up golf cart, the Chevy Volt, is: such a hopeless failure that it makes the Edsel look like a Mustang. The Press has for the most part failed to mention how pathetic this “second-best sales month” actually is. And even when one […]

“The president clearly demonstrated that he has absolutely no idea how the American economy functions. The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world – it is the American way. I wish this […]

If you set out to design a written test that racially discriminates against black and Hispanic Americans who want to be firemen, how could you do it? Keep in mind that we’re not quizzing people on pop culture here; we’re talking about a test for firemen. How could you ask about how to put out […]

The other night on Twitter,: I: went back and forth with: Dustin Stockton: about whom Mitt Romney should select as his VP. Over on Right Wing News, I’ve already written an article that goes: 30 picks deep: cataloguing the candidates from which Mitt Romney is LIKELY to select his VP. If you were laying odds, there’s probably a 95% chance that […]