Category: John Hawkins

There’s a lot of talk about anti-intellectualism and intelligence in politics and much of it, like these comments from Kathleen Parker, manages to miss the point. Are Republicans stupid? This seems to be the question du jour. Chris Matthews entertained this idea with guests recently, pointing to several Republican presidential candidates as evidence. How else […]

If you went back through the whole of human history, for the most part you’d find people living in poverty and ignorance under one sort of tyranny or another. Travel was difficult, disease was rampant, wealth was sparse, scientific advances were slow and uneven, and parents had little reason to think their children would have […]

That’s the title of a long, punishingly dull article at the New York Times about wacky Headmaster Dominic Randolph. Randolph doesn’t seem to understand the most basic role of a headmaster, which is to educate children. If your kid has a higher IQ than normal, the last place you should want him would be in […]

Politically motivated prosecutions are always an ugly business because politics is not supposed to stretch into the courtroom. Sadly, that appears to be news to the very liberal State Bar of Arizona. On Monday, the State Bar of Arizona began its prosecution of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and two of his deputies, including […]

I grew up in the deep South and once, when I was going to high school, I went to a friend’s party. A couple dozen of us were hanging around downstairs, enjoying ourselves, when we found out that the father of the girl who was throwing the party wouldn’t let a kid into his house […]

I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We’ll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will […]

“Find something you love to do so much that you’d do it for free and find a way to make it into a career.” — Anonymous I don’t know who came up with that quote, but it changed my life. You see, I’ve always been an ambitious person, but the only thing I knew for […]

Rick Perry has gotten the Sarah Palin treatment since he declared his intention to run for the presidency. No surprise there. The long knives always come out for anyone who excites conservatives and could be the next President. That’s not to say that Perry doesn’t have flaws. He does. Like any politician who’s actually governed, […]

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. – Charles Krauthammer Even liberals who’ve accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds […]

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of […]

In real terms, what does it even mean to say, “We shouldn’t balance the budget on the backs of the poor?” The poor already pay no income tax and since they have very little money, taxing them wouldn’t do much to balance the budget. So, it’s not that. If it means that we should tax […]

Forgive them for they know not what they do. — Luke 23:34 Over at The Telegraph, James Dellinpole asks, “Are lefties incredibly stupid or just plain evil?” The column was spurred by comments made by Charles Krauthammer who once famously intoned, To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: […]

If one child complains that he didn’t get as much food as his brother because his frankfurter was cut into four pieces, while his brother’s hot dog was cut into five pieces, we laugh. What we often don’t realize is that the definitions of “fairness” that adults use are often every bit as arbitrary as […]

It’s no secret that liberals and conservatives don’t get along. But, if there’s any one thing that we’ve learned from the liberal love of sensitivity classes and situation comedies, it’s that once people get to know each other and learn about each other’s beliefs and concerns, all legitimate differences melt away. So, with that in […]

“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.” — Douglas Adams Like Douglas Adams’ description of space, the economic issues in this country have become quite big. […]

1) If we raise taxes, best case scenario, the new revenue will reduce the pressure to cut spending and worst case scenario, it will be used as an excuse for new spending. Even setting aside the fact that higher taxes may very well reduce economic growth, this is why it’s such a bad idea to […]

“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.” — Cal Thomas You’ve undoubtedly heard the old wives’ tale about frogs […]

In the immortal words of the President of the United States, The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that […]

There’s way too much fussin’ and fightin’ in politics, isn’t there? In Rodney King’s immortal words, “I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?” CAN WE all get along, folks? Can we conservatives cooperate and show just a little bit more of that unity that our valiant President, Barack Obama, promised […]

Don’t kid yourself: beating a seated President is NEVER a cakewalk. Knocking off Barack Hussein Obama won’t be a snap either. He may raise as much as a billion dollars, the mainstream media will pull out all the stops to get him re-elected, and he has the power of the presidency to try to impact […]

You hear a lot about “rights” in America. You have a right to an attorney. You have a right to remain silent. You have a right to free speech, a right to “keep and bear arms,” a right to “due process,” and a right to have “equal protection under the law.” Cruel and unusual punishment? […]

Anyone who follows politics knows that the mainstream media has two sets of rules: one set for conservatives and another set for liberals. Conservatives spend most of their time correcting smears and trying to explain to the public what they really believe. Liberals, on the other hand, can count on the press to hide their […]

Are we going to reform Medicare before 2012? No, unfortunately the Democrats have decided that using Medicare as an election issue is more important than actually doing the right thing for the country. So, they’re going to lie and tell every senior in America that the GOP is going to take their Medicare away. Then […]