Category: John Hawkins

Liberalism offers up a utopian vision of the world and then invites its practitioners to feel good about themselves for embracing it. Not only does this beautiful fantasy world never come to pass, liberalism fails to address the root causes of the problems it sets out to solve while creating whole new disasters in the […]

Republicans who support amnesty are like global warming alarmists. They can’t answer the most basic questions about what they believe. Since the Republican Party is now once again considering going to war with itself over amnesty instead of trying to move the ball forward for conservatism, it seems like a good time to ask some […]

1) Body Language Is Crucial. Ever heard someone say,: “Ninety-three percent of all human communication is nonverbal“?: That’s a mangled attempt to explain a study done by Albert Mehrabian back in 1967, and while it’s not true, dogs show that it’s not all that far off the mark. Dogs, which are actually below: Honey Boo Boo: on the brains […]

Just as moderates are completely unrepresented in a Democratic Party that’s dominated by liberals, movement conservatives often don’t feel represented by the Republican Party. At first glance, this seems rather odd since most Republicans in Congress are conservative. However, it’s a natural reaction to the Republican establishment that has its hands welded to many of […]

1) Guns for making all those poor innocent criminals break the law. 2) The old, dead white guys who founded America and their ridiculous, outdated Constitution that doesn’t mention global warming or limits on soda size even once. 3) Nosy voters who ask questions like, “What kind of change?” and “Forward to where?” 4) Adorable […]

Thanks to pick-up artists who’re convincing men that women love jerks, being a jerk is back in. Of course, maybe we should be pointing the finger at the women who really do like jerks instead of the guys in goggles and top hats who point it out? On the other hand, given that gossip mags […]

With the swearing in of the: 113th: Congress, the media has been proclaiming the death of the Tea: Party’s influence in Washington. This narrative is certainly not: accurate, though is true that the: establishment: has garnered more sway since: Election Day than it has had after the 2010 elections. One primary example of this: took place in the: Republican Study Committee: (RSC). One of the […]

1) Our Congress passes bills that run into the thousands of pages; then we’re surprised that the bills are full of loopholes, set asides for lobbyists and toxic clauses no one seemed to know about. 2) We’ve replaced telling the difference between right and wrong with legalisms; then we’re surprised that people are always looking […]

Honorable Mention) Richard Mourdock’s Campaign: After defeating Richard Lugar, he should have been able to easily retain the GOP’s Senate seat in a state that Mitt Romney won by 10 points. He PROBABLY would have pulled it off, too — if, in a display of tone deafness comparable to the Democrats turning Paul Wellstone’s memorial […]

As a Christian, it can be difficult to reconcile all the evil that happens in the world with an all knowing, all powerful loving God who could stop it if He wants, but chooses not to do so. If our hearts break for the innocent children who were senselessly murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, how […]

No wonder every kid grows up wanting to be a superhero. The comic books make it sound awesome: your life is exciting, you’re important, you’re famous, and being a hero is part of the description of what you do on a regular basis! It’s like being a celebrity-astronaut-Seal who can lift a car over his […]

There are now calls from the Left for gun control legislation in response to Adam Lanza’s unconscionable mass killing of innocent children at Sandy Hook Elementary. However, very few people seem to be asking the most basic question of all before getting started: What gun control legislation could have stopped Adam Lanza? The answer is […]

Your behavior is influenced by information that surges through three different channels – your conscious mind, your subconscious mind, and your instincts. Your conscious mind is easy to explain. Think about how you use your conscious mind and, congratulations, you’re using your conscious mind. Now, think about what that means – and again, you’re using […]

20) As baby boomers retire and health costs rise, this spending will mount. In 2010, there were 40 million Americans 65 and older. By 2020, that number is projected to be 55 million; by 2030, 72 million. — Robert Samuelson 19) A college degree used to mean that a person would add on average $1 […]

I never imagined what being 40 would feel like, because it never occurred to me that I’d ever be 40. I didn’t think I wouldn’t be, mind you. It was just too boring to enter my brain, and it seemed like forever from now. –: Stephanie Dolgoff Been there, done that, got the postcard. Haven’t we […]

Liberalism is like a restaurant with ugly decor, terrible food, overflowing toilets and roaches scurrying across the floor — that stays packed every night. Sure, liberals may be sanctimonious, mean spirited and advocate policies that don’t work, but you can’t help but admire the excellence of their public relations network. A big part of that […]

To understand evil, we must set aside the comfortable belief that we would never do anything wrong. Instead, we must begin to ask ourselves, what would it take for me to do such things? Assume that it would be possible. –: Roy Baumeister Many people consider monsters like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin somehow uniquely evil. […]

There’s a lot to be said for talking about the Constitution, economic theory and what’s best for the country. However, one place we conservatives have slipped in recent years is framing our policies in a way that answers the very first question on the mind of most voters, “How does this benefit me?” That needs […]

Given what we know in 2012, saying that capitalism will make a society richer than socialism should be about as controversial as saying the earth is round, not flat. Yet, a recent: Gallup poll shows that more liberals have a positive view of socialism than capitalism. This is only possible because there are so many perverse […]

50) George Will 49) David Swindle 48) Jack Kelly 47) Ross Douthat 46) John Fund 45) Mona Charen 44) Mike Adams 43) Kathy Shaidle 42) Karl Rove 41) Katie Kieffer 40) Wes Pruden 39) Andrew McCarthy 38) Debra Saunders 37) Rachel Alexander 36) Bill O’Reilly 35) John Ransom 34) Larry Elder 33) Daniel Flynn 32) […]

1) Working hard, being self-reliant and taking responsibility for your own life are good for you and will make you much happier than having too much leisure time, being overly dependent and giving others responsibility for your life. 2) The more a behavior is rewarded with attention, fame, sympathy or money, the more of it […]

Based on the comments we’re hearing publicly, there are obviously a number of Republicans in Congress who are preparing to go along with the Democrats on a tax hike for wealthy Americans. This is what they need to know. IF you’re going to give in on higher taxes… 1) We’d be better off if we […]

Although studies show that: we conservatives are usually happier and more optimistic than most about our personal lives, we also tend to be a bit more pessimistic than the average person about the country. We look at our unsustainable level of spending, the dramatically expanding, increasingly lawless welfare state, encouragement of tribalism and class hatred as […]

Ever heard someone say, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me?” I get that on a very personal level, except in reverse, because I didn’t become a social conservative, social conservatism came toward me. Granted, many social conservatives who would be reluctant to count me amongst their ranks, and as someone […]

Win, lose or draw, we’re always supposedly hitting a tipping point where social issues just no longer work for the Republican Party. At first glance, this would appear to be a rather puzzling sentiment. After all, in 2010, despite the fact that the GOP was just as socially conservative as we were this year, the […]