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PETA Suing Sea World, Claims Whales Are “Slaves”

Back in October, I brought you a quick bite story about how PETA planned to get killer whales constitutional rights, saying that keeping them violated the 13th Amendment (slavery). The lawsuit against Sea World has now gone to a judge (LA Times) A federal judge appeared dubious Monday about a lawsuit filed by People for […]

Obama Leads From Behind, Rationalizes Why He Needs A Super PAC

Can we even term this leading from behind? He may be a “leader”, based on his position he purchased, but leading denotes guiding, directing, showing the way. Interestingly, a synonym of leading is “ruling.” Anyhow (Politico) President Barack Obama – in an act of hypocrisy or necessity, depending on the beholder – has reversed course […]

The Walter Williams Interview

John Hawkins:: You do a fantastic job filling in for Rush Limbaugh. Are we going to see a Walter Williams radio show coming up anytime soon? Walter Williams:: No, I’ve been teaching for about thirty-five years and that would require a career change; I’m not quite ready for it. I’ve been offered jobs a couple of times… […]

The Richard Perle Interview

John Hawkins:: To begin with, the Iraqis have a vote on their own Constitution coming up soon ‘ the election, the trial of Saddam, the training of troops is coming along slowly but surely. How do you currently look at the situation in Iraq? Are we headed toward victory? Richard Perle:: We will attain a victory eventually. […]

5 Things Conservatives Can Learn From Liberals

There are a lot of things NOT to like about liberals, but you have to give them some credit. These are people who are badly, dangerously, and devastatingly wrong on almost every issue of consequence and yet, year after year, they hang in there at a rough parity with conservatives. So, they may do a […]

Many Conservatives Were Shocked By Ann Coulter

I was going to blog about Romney’s recent flip-flops on the minimum wage issue and bilingual education — flip-flop #36 and #37, but when I saw Ann Coulter’s recent column praising RomneyCare, I have to admit, I just lost it. She called RomneyCare “free-market” and claims it’s a “conservative” approach to health care. Apparently, the […]

A Defining Moment

Governor Mitt Romney’s statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP’s nominee for president — with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen — have been […]

Waging War on the Trifecta of Tyranny

As a six-time undefeated middleweight world karate champion, I have a pretty good idea what makes a warrior. And there’s presently one particular presidential candidate in the political ring who wears those gloves better than the others. It’s one thing to enter a ring with a single opponent, but what if you had to enter […]

Obama Says He Deserves a Second Term; Let’s Consider

President Obama told NBC’s Matt Lauer in an interview Sunday, “I deserve a second term.” Well, let’s see. He had the courage to tell the Supreme Court off for daring to defy him in its campaign finance law ruling. And he did it during his State of the Union speech, when they weren’t in a […]

Response Of Plant Species To CO2 Levels

CHURCHVILLE, VA–The earth has stopped warming, but the greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate at higher levels in the atmosphere. In fact, it seems certain that the planet will have rising levels of atmospheric CO2 for the foreseeable future. No country has actually produced substantial cuts in its greenhouse emissions, and Asia continues to strongly increase […]

The president’s ‘social gospel’

For 60 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a Higher Authority. Last Thursday, President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement of Jesus for raising taxes. It beat the endorsement of Mitt Romney by Donald Trump. In his remarks, […]

Gingrich Should Have Kept It in Vegas

Losing candidates usually congratulate the winner — first by telephone and then in front of their supporters. Not Newt Gingrich. When he loses, Gingrich doesn’t even bother to pretend to be a good sport. Already, insiders are calling Newt’s Saturday Las Vegas news conference the modern equivalent of Richard Nixon’s pronouncement “You won’t have Nixon […]

Car company that got $500 million green energy loan announces layoffs

From: Politico. Excerpt: In another setback for President Obama’s clean energy loan programs, the recipient of more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans is laying off workers at their Delaware and California operations. Delaware’s News Journal: reports that Fisker Automotive, a California-based electric car start-up company, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff to try […]

My Latest Project: Now Racist in the U.S.

I have lamented on my blog that someone should start a list of all the things that are now considered racist so someone can avoid unwittingly saying or doing something that would land them in hot water. Well, no one did. So I took it upon myself. Presenting, Now Racist in the U.S. It’s a […]

Susan G. Komen Charity Starts to Enter the 21st Century

Western civilization has gradually progressed away from barbaric practices. By the 20th century, most developed nations stopped torturing people and executing them in cruel ways. In the US, only humane ways of execution are permitted for executing the most notorious criminals.   Similarly, support for abortion decreased in recent years as awareness spread of how […]

Why Yes, The Climate Change Hoax Is About Big Government

Grist let’s the cat out of the bag that the whole climate change movement is not about “the environment”, but about Big Centralized Government Why climate change will make you love big government This essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice […]

Let Greece Default Already

Greece is a crummy little country with terrible demographics, a mediocre economy, and a massive government that has been spending far more than it has for far too long. Liberals, being liberals, in Greece and across the rest of the world, can’t accept the plain and simple truth: Greece is in trouble because its government […]

And The Race Card Rises Again

So, we can see the majority of the elements Democrats will use to attempt to get the Most Incompetent President Ever re-elected. Class warfare led by a rich guy who doesn’t pay his fair share? Check. Redistributive rhetoric led by rich guys who won’t give up their own money? Check. Blaming Congress, half of which […]

The 20 Most Influential Hispanic Republicans

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: Alicia Colon, Ted Cruz, Bill Flores, Devin Nunes, David Rivera, Leslie Sanchez 20) Francisco “Quico” Canseco: Congressman 19) […]

The Tammy Bruce Interview

John Hawkins:: There’s an old saying: conservatives are always looking for converts while liberals are looking for heretics. Is that true in your opinion? Tammy Bruce:: I disagree. I think, in actually coming from the left, (that the left is) a religion unto its self if you will. It is really the ultimate entity that looks for […]

RWN’s Michelle Malkin Interview #3

John Hawkins:: One thing you’ve covered on your blog is the number of liberals throwing food, pies mainly, at conservative speakers. Around the left side of the blogosphere, liberals have treated it as a big joke whereas conservatives have taken it much more seriously. What would you say to people who claim this is no big […]

Box-checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon

It’s unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice. The first time was in an article last April on Obama’s foreign policy in which he quoted a “top aide” (National Security Adviser Tom Donilon? […]

This Week in Automotivators, January 30-February 5

Just a few stories that caught my eye over the past week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture for more information. Link: Gator Doug. Here’s the story, but I’m also linking Obi’s Sister on this one because she’s the only Dawg I know. Nickname-wise. Not metaphorically. Sheesh. Link: Trog. […]