Author: John Hawkins

During his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was like a mixture of the Teletubbies, a Hallmark card, and Morgan Freeman’s portrayal of God in Bruce Almighty all mixed up in one big fruity glass. Every time you listened to the guy it was “hope” this, “change,” I love “unity,” “we are the ones we’ve been waiting […]

My latest PJ Media column is called, 5 Behaviors That Make You Trash. Here’s an excerpt from the column. People aren’t trashy because of who they are, they’re trashy because of how they behave. That means the cast of Jersey Shore, Perez Hilton, and the Kardashians didn’t pop out of their mama’s wombs wrong. To […]

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Conservatives and liberals may disagree on reasons, motivations, and excuses for Barack Obama’s performance, but the facts are still facts. There may be many reasons that a pro football coach goes 1-15, but everyone can […]

Earlier this week, I interviewed Jonah Goldberg about his outstanding new book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. If you’re looking for a book about politics that isn’t just a regurgitation of things you already know or so topical that you can throw it out in a couple of […]

There’s a reason gun sales are through the roof, gold advertisements are everywhere, products like survival seeds have started to creep into the edges of our consciousness, and Doomsday Preppers now runs on National Geographic. It’s the same reason people have started asking about ways to hedge their money against inflation and which countries they […]

1) Affirmations. Affirmations are a list of traits, behaviors, thought patterns, or future goals you want in your life. Ideally, they should be relatively short, specific, and written in a way that captures your imagination: (here’s a good, short how-to guide on word affirmations). You should read your list of affirmations daily, at least once – […]