Category: John Hawkins

Not only do I like Wal-Mart, I know a lot about the company. My first job out of college was at a Wal-Mart portrait studio, I shop there every week, and I’ve read a lot about the company including the fact-filled book The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s […]

As we learned last week at The Huffington Post, Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan for 2012, “Change Is.” Since Obama is one of the worst Presidents in American history, if not the worst President in American history, that sounds more like a phrase his opponent would use. Given that Obama is completely and […]

Playing baseball games without keeping score. Parents not allowed to cheer for one side or the other at basketball games. Refusing to use red ink to grade tests because it’s too jarring. No dodgeball. Participation trophies. Telling kids, “You’re special,” without their doing anything to show they’re special. Newsflash: You may be special to God, […]

A few months ago, I got together with my friend Ali Akbar to hash out the idea of doing an anti-Mitt Romney website. A few weeks ago Ali and I, Yates Walker, Matt Mackowiak and others came out with Not Mitt Romney. At the time, I hadn’t settled on a favorite candidate and I was […]

When you work for yourself and don’t have the option of living paycheck to paycheck, you’re forced to start learning how to take better care of your money. There are some tricks that can help you out with that. Writing down every dime you spend for a month or using websites like Mint.com can give […]

Deciding who’s the “most influential” anything is inherently an arbitrary business. It’s even more difficult in this case when we’re comparing politicians, TV personalities, radio hosts, and columnists. Still, somebody had to do it, so… Honorable Mentions: Max Boot, Carolyn Glick, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Daniel Pipe, Norman Podhoretz, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Evan Sayet, Paul Wolfowitz […]

Milton Friedman was an extraordinary Nobel Prize-winning economist whose ideas helped underpin modern conservative economic theory. His contributions to economics and the conservative movement cannot be underestimated. Sadly, Milton Friedman passed away a little more than five years ago at the ripe old age of 94. Although Friedman is no longer with us, his words, […]

The candidates I’d support for President, in order of preference, with candid evaluations of each campaign: 8) Ron Paul: Paul is serious about the Constitution, getting spending under control, and paring back government. So, there are some things to like about him. However, he’s a Libertarian, not a conservative, his foreign policy views are way […]

Is life hard for you? Do you struggle all the time? Do you wish things were easier? If so, that puts you in exactly the same boat as EVERYONE ELSE on the entire planet. Many people don’t realize this because we trick ourselves. We think, “If I had ‘X,’ everything would be fantastic! If I […]

I spent last week-end at Freedomworks’ Blog Con in Denver, Colorado. It was an extraordinary event, in part because Tabitha Hale, Sarah Desprat, Kristina Ribali, Celia Bigelow, Matt Kibbe and the rest of the crew at Freedomworks did such a wonderful job and in part because we spent an inordinate amount of time interacting with […]

With a few exceptions, foremost among them the New York Post, the coverage of OWS protests compared to the coverage of tea-party protests is the worst media double standard in recent history. Nothing compares, because nothing else involves this much distortion on both ends of the coverage. It’s not just that most press outlets (like […]

I don’t like Mitt Romney. I never have and I probably never will. You see, politicians like Mitt Romney have a history of screwing over movement conservatives. You know the type. Lincoln Chafee. Arlen Specter. Charlie Crist. You might say, “No way! Romney’s more conservative than those guys!” Is he really? What gives you that […]

Over the course of my life, I’ve read hundreds of books about how to better your life and I’ve been fortunate enough to converse with an enormous number of extremely successful people. What I’ve learned is that for most people, success is no accident. Winners are winners for a reason just as losers are losers […]

There are a lot of fine candidates running for President who are not Mitt Romney. You can certainly say fantastic things about Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and some of the other candidates who are reaching for that brass ring. Like everyone running, Newt Gingrich has his flaws, but given the state of the […]

Earlier this week, Jonathan Bines did a post called “How to Speak Republican“. It was very inspirational because I have to tell you, it’s also pretty tough for most people to figure out what liberals mean sometimes. You think they’re on your side, but they’re not. You believe they’re saying “yes,” but they mean “no.” […]

My pal Ericka Andersen has up a “confessions” post called The Sorry I’m Not Sorry Post. I liked the concept, so I decided to do my own version — Sorry, but I’m not sorry that I support our civilized Israeli friends who want nothing more than peace over violent Palestinian savages who want nothing more […]

Occupy Wall Street is a lot like Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. It’s so vague that everyone sees what he wants to see in the protests. Some people hate the bailouts, others want free stuff, some are mad about jobs being shipped overseas, others are old hippies hoping for a sixties’ revival and that’s before you […]

I own or co-won five websites: Right Wing News, Linkiest, Viral Footage, Trending Right, and The Looking Spoon. I write weekly columns for Townhall and Pajamas Media along with a weekly post for the Huffington Post. I’m also on Twitter here and here, G+, and Facebook. I do 1-3 hours of radio appearances and get […]

It’s no accident that Mitt Romney has done so well during this election cycle. He has excellent name recognition, he’s extremely well organized, he’s a great fundraiser, he’s become a polished debater, and he’s not gaffe prone. His business experience doesn’t hurt either, although it is worth noting that the only reason he’s able to […]

7) The Fan Boys. I have no idea why some guys think they can show up on Facebook, find some attractive woman they’ve never met, talk about how pretty she is in every photo, compliment her excessively, and somehow turn that into a relationship. Does this work for anyone, ever? You never hear any woman […]

1) If you’re serious about going after Wall Street, it’s hard to see how you could vote for Barack Obama who ladled out billions in taxpayer dollars to Wall Street corporations. “Wall Street (also) donated twice as much money to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 as it did to John McCain’s.” How much sense […]

There tends to be a rough parity between parties in the American political system. That’s because both parties shift in response to changing conditions. They go after new groups of constituents, positions on the issues change, and the only rule at the end of the day tends to be that he who can deliver the […]