Category: Column

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor Will we have tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, either in the lame duck session or next year? Yes, probably. The polls show it’s a losing issue for the GOP. Fewer Republicans are signing on to Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge. Obama is using the issue as an excuse not to […]

Liberals brag about having won the hearts and minds of America, as if, through logic and argument, they’ve persuaded people to accept their bankrupt European socialist ideas. Democrats haven’t changed anyone’s mind. They changed the people. More white people voted for Mitt Romney this year than voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980. Barack Obama lost […]

Here’s a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior to Hurricane Sandy’s devastation. When the hurricane hits, a husband, wife and their two youngsters might seek the comfort of renting two adjoining rooms. However, when they arrive at the motel, they find that rooms now rent […]

While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boozes it up in Australia and the Pentagon grapples with more floozy eruptions, outraged military families are still waiting for answers about the forgotten 9/14 attack on Camp Bastion. Muckrakers and distraction engineers are having a front-page field day with the so-called “sex scandal.” But for surviving relatives and […]

Democrats won big last week. So government will continue to grow. Individual freedom will yield. At least some people with records of supporting liberty were elected: Sen. Jeff Flake in Arizona and U.S. Reps. Justin Amash and Kerry Bentivolio in Michigan and Thomas Massie in Kentucky. Also, Washington and Colorado voted to allow any adult […]

Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is demography destiny? Conventional wisdom in the Republican establishment is […]

Asked what could effect a change in his governing plans, incoming British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan said “events, dear boy, events.” Events are what will save the Republican Party. Start with a fundamental question: Are President Obama’s policies right or wrong? If you think they are correct, stop reading this column right now. Events will […]

The conservative Gotterdammerung is finally here. “Like dazed survivors in a ravaged city, America’s conservatives are wailing and beating their collective breasts,” opines the Economist’s “Lexington” columnist. “A leading conservative thinker,” asked by the Economist to “list today’s conservative ideas, laughs bitterly and replies, ‘Are there any?’” Former Reaganite Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.) laments in […]

CHURCHVILLE,: VA–If President Obama still cares about more: U.S.: jobs and high food costs he can now immediately gain on both.. An economist in Indianapolis just calculated that the U.S. is losing: a million jobs: this year–along with $30: billion: in economic growth–because we shifted too much of our corn into ethanol. Tom Elam says direct employment in the food industry would […]

PARIS — French public reaction to American CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus’ suicide-bombing of his own career demonstrates a lack of understanding of the perceived offense in favor of a blind defense of libertinism. It was learned last week that Petraeus had an extramarital affair with his biographer, reserve Army officer Paula Broadwell (who, like […]

Nobody likes to lose. But defeats can prove advantageous if used as a learning tool. Newt Gingrich lost his first two congressional campaigns, but won his third. Twenty years after his first defeat, he changed the nation with the Contract With America. Those who may be disheartened and dismayed over Tuesday’s election results might want […]

On November 11th of each year, we pause to reflect on the service and sacrifice of the men and women of our Armed Forces. Our nation’s veterans – many of whom have given their lives in defense of our freedoms – to protect our constitutional rights. On this Veterans Day, it seems a bit different, […]

  If you’ve ever wanted proof that women love a man in uniform, then: just look to David Petraeus and John Allen. The FBI probe into the sex scandal that prompted CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has expanded to ensnare Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon […]

  The Obama Administration: may be about to engage in unconstitutional social engineering via lawsuit? Not a shocker, right? President Obama intends to close “persistent gaps” between whites and minorities in everything from credit scores and homeownership to test scores and graduation rates. His remedy – short of new affirmative-action legislation – is to sue financial […]

By John Hawkins TPNN Contributor Get used to: stories like this one: because you’re going to see a lot of them in the coming years. Hostess Brands permanently closed three bakeries Monday, including a plant in St. Louis where 365 jobs were cut, in response to a bakers’ union strike that started Friday. The bankrupt maker of […]

Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment– nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have. The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when Thomas […]

On the heels of a pivotal national election, I’d like to remind Americans that it is our troops’ service and sacrifice that safeguards our precious right to cast those ballots and savor the freedoms that we hold dear. They represent the best of America. Today, we honor all U.S. veterans and troops currently serving for […]

We conservatives may never reach a consensus among ourselves as to the main factors that caused our election defeat, but surely we can agree that we must do a better job of selling our ideas. Never mind, you say. The electorate has irreversibly become a taker class, and conservative ideas of self-reliance, personal responsibility and […]

The most widely offered explanation for Mitt Romney’s defeat is that the Republican Party is disproportionately composed of — aging — white males. That is, alas, true. But the real question is what Republicans should do with this truth. There are two responses. The nearly universal response — meaning the response offered by the liberal […]

The months and months of campaigning, the hundreds of millions of TV advertising, the incessant travel schedules of the candidates and the vigorous efforts of both sides to get their vote out, made little to no difference in the outcome of the election of 2012. To begin with, only two states — North Carolina and […]

“The color of the world is changing day by day.” — “Les Miserables,” the musical A look at the electoral map indicates the Republican Party won in square miles. Unfortunately for them, electoral votes, not landmass, won President Obama a second term. Analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics estimated that total spending on federal […]

“This election is over, but our principles endure.“- Gov. Mitt Romney, conceding 2012 presidential election In the wake of the reelection of President Barack Obama, many conservatives are understandably discouraged. It is natural to feel momentarily defeated when a setback occurs. However, conservatives must remember that we fight for specific principles not because they are […]

These numbers, courtesy of Robert Samuelson, would have been considered beyond belief if they’d have happened in a short period of time. But it’s like that old saw about the frog in the slowly warming pot of water who doesn’t realize he’s in trouble until it starts boiling and he’s cooked. Well, guess what, folks?: Dinner’s […]

Lukewarm. That’s the feeling I get from the election numbers. Turnout was apparently down, at least as a percentage of eligible voters. The president was re-elected by a reduced margin. The challenger didn’t inspire the turnout surge he needed. Every re-elected president since Andrew Jackson has won with an increased popular vote percentage. Barack Obama […]

I’m not much of a whiner, nor am I someone who makes predictions. I’d hoped for a Romney victory, though more for an Obama defeat. But that, when you think about it, was the problem. While there’s no doubt Romney would’ve been a much better President than the current occupant of that office, when people […]

A cigar aficionado and amigo of mine named Irwin penned a note to the Republican Congress the night after Obama got elected for four more years of this slop, and I thought I’d pass it on to you. Check it out … Dear Republican Congress, As a conservative Republican I am begging you to give […]

The European Centre for Law and Justice, the International affiliate of the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ): which was founded by Jay Sekulow recently made a submission defending Israel to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The ECLJ took issue with the […]