Category: John Hawkins

It’s time for all of you toothless hillbillies in the Teabagger movement to learn something from your betters on the Left. So, you need to stop listening to hateful ideologues like Rush Limbaugh, Thomas Sowell, and whoever the KKK’s Grand Dragon is these days and start listening to reasonable voices of moderation like Paul Krugman, […]

At one time in this country, there were few workplace safety laws, few restraints on employers, and incredibly exploitive working conditions that ranged from slavery, to share cropping, to putting children in dangerous working conditions. Unions, to their everlasting credit, helped play an important role in leveling the playing field for workers. However, as the […]

We human beings tend to forget how far we’ve come as a species in a relatively short period of time. In the 1870’s, we had the first house that was lighted with electricity. Cars just started to become available 100 years ago. Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic flight in 1927. Televisions didn’t become widely […]

One of the most tragic things about modern politics is that it’s practically impossible for the average American to understand what’s going on without an interpreter. By that, I mean that the “Saving Kittens, Baby Pandas, and Puppies Act of 2011” may actually be a bill that gives $10,000 tax credits to lawyers who defend […]

Walter is a brilliant man with a knack for breaking complex economic issues down into easily understandable, bite sized sentences. This is no small feat because economics, despite what some people may tell you, is generally not intuitive or easy to grasp without a great deal of study. In his column today, Walter Williams dropped […]

The GOP just won its biggest victory in half a century, we’ve had the highest attendance ever at CPAC and yet the faces are so long, you’d think we were in a roomful of John Kerry imitators. How can so many people be so upset about CPAC when things are finally going in the right […]

Liberal luddites who hate capitalism and industry have spent billions to spread global warming propaganda, despite the fact that it looks more like a fraud, a scam, and a hustle every year. Not only do those on the Left use their control of the mainstream media and the school system to push this nonsense, they’ve […]

So yesterday, I tweeted this, “Single mothers shouldn’t be vilified, but they shouldn’t be glorified either. They’re people who made bad life choices.” Naturally, I was deluged with comments from angry single mothers and a few single dads, too. You see, we have an unwritten rule in this country that says, “Single mothers have it […]

Did you know liberals aren’t as happy as conservatives? Of course, you did. How could you not know it after listening to them incessantly wail, gripe, whine, and complain about everything? But, let’s bring….drumroll, please — the science! First, here’s the Pew Research comparison between Republicans and Democrats: The survey, released this week, points out […]

Tea Partier: Alert the captain! There’s a huge iceberg up ahead and we’re headed straight for it! If we don’t turn the ship aside now, we’re doomed! Liberal: Well, that’s not a very popular message. I mean, turning the ship aside would require interrupting the shuffleboard tournament. Tea Partier: The whole ship is going to […]

People who don’t follow politics tend to believe that conservatives and liberals are just flip sides of the same coin. In other words, conservatives are pro-life, pro-gun, and fiscally conservative while liberals are pro-choice, anti-gun, and want to tax and spend, but otherwise, there are no real differences. However, if you follow politics closely, you’ll […]

Yesterday, the House voted 245 to 189 to repeal the job-killing Obamacare bill. Is this bill going to pass the Senate? It seems unlikely. Even if it did, would Obama veto it? Yes. So, this vote is not going to actually lead to the repeal of the job-killing, death-panel-creating government takeover of health care. That […]

The people who answer the question in the title affirmatively, tend to do so for a simple reason: If the answer is no and people aren’t inherently good, then that must mean that we’re inherently evil. That’s a difficult proposition for people to swallow, not only about themselves, but perhaps more significantly, about their children. […]

Since Jared Lee Loughner went on his rampage in Tucson, we’ve been treated to perfectly ridiculous liberal howling about “violent rhetoric.” The reason it’s “perfectly ridiculous” is that “liberals being liberals,” they’ve tackled the whole debate in such a politically correct manner that it makes the debate laughable. According to liberals, what words supposedly incite […]