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John Hawkins is a professional writer who runs Right Wing News and Linkiest. He's also the co-owner of the The Looking Spoon. Additionally, he does weekly appearances on the #1 in it's market Jaz McKay show, writes a weekly column for Townhall and PJ Media, does YouTube videos, and his work has also been published at the Washington Examiner, The Hill, and at Human Events.
Furthermore, he's also the blogosphere's premier interviewer and has interviewed conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Mark Levin, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn, G. Gordon Liddy, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, Michael Steele, Milton Friedman, Ron Paul, Jonah Goldberg, Jim DeMint, Walter Williams, Robert Novak, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, & Michelle Malkin among others.
Moreover, John Hawkins' work has been linked and discussed in numerous publications and on TV and radio shows including ABC News, BusinessWeek, C-Span, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Editor & Publisher, Fox News, Hannity and Colmes, The Laura Ingraham Show, Minneapolis Star Tribune, MSNBC, National Journal, National Post, Newsmax, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Tammy Bruce Show, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Washington Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Scarborough Country, U.S. News & World Report, WorldNetDaily and Human Events, where he had a weekly column. Right Wing News has been studied by college classes and even inspired an urban legend that was covered at Snopes.
Last but not least, John Hawkins also founded and led the Rightroots group, a grassroots effort that collected almost $300,000 for Republican candidates in the last 3 months of the 2006 election cycle. In 2008, he consulted for Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign and was on the board of Slatecard, which raised more than $600,000 for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle. In 2011, he helped found Raising Red, although he left the organization the same year and went on to become one of the co-founders of Not Mitt Romney.com.
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John Hawkins (Dec 27, 2011)
Mitt Romney was a moderate governor in Massachusetts with an unimpressive record of governance. He left office with an approval rating in the thirties and his signature... more
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John Hawkins (Dec 20, 2011)
Ron Paul is doing surprisingly well this year in some of the early primary state polls. There's a simple reason for that: Most people in the conservative media have... more
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John Hawkins (Dec 13, 2011)
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,... more
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John Hawkins (Dec 06, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Nov 29, 2011)
Milton Friedman was an extraordinary Nobel Prize-winning economist whose ideas helped underpin modern conservative economic theory. His contributions to economics and the... more
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John Hawkins (Nov 15, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Nov 08, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Nov 01, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Oct 25, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Oct 18, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Oct 11, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Oct 07, 2011)
Right Wing News has just released a 10 question interview with Rick Perry on illegal immigration.
In this interview, Rick Perry is asked all the questions on illegal... more
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John Hawkins (Oct 04, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Sep 27, 2011)
Admittedly, the country was not in great shape when Barack Obama came into office. The United States had already gone into recession, the housing bubble had burst, and the... more
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John Hawkins (Sep 20, 2011)
Illegal immigration has become a heads-we-win / tails-you-lose proposition in this country. If the supporters of amnesty and open borders could get that codified into law,... more
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John Hawkins (Sep 13, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Sep 06, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Aug 30, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Aug 23, 2011)
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.... more
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John Hawkins (Aug 17, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Aug 09, 2011)
If it wasn't for those darn Tea Partiers, we’d already be in Obamatopia with unicorn-powered cars and an economy driven to new heights by unity, hope, and most... more
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John Hawkins (Aug 02, 2011)
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,... more
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John Hawkins (Jul 26, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Jul 19, 2011)
"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... more
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John Hawkins (Jul 12, 2011)
"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... more
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John Hawkins (Jun 28, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Jun 22, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Jun 14, 2011)
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,... more
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John Hawkins (Jun 07, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (May 31, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (May 24, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (May 17, 2011)
If you just assume EVERY cry of "racism" in politics is illegitimate, you'll only occasionally be wrong. That's a consequence both of liberals thinking all conservatives are... more
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John Hawkins (May 10, 2011)
It has been heartwarming to see a few liberals actually thumping their chests about America in the wake of Osama Bin Laden's death via old age and a bullet to the face (but... more
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John Hawkins (May 03, 2011)
The biggest terrorist on Planet Earth has, at long last, been delivered to justice
courtesy of a SEAL's bullet. Some people may say we haven't won anything
because killing... more
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John Hawkins (Apr 26, 2011)
"No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the
masses will regard it as the truth." -- John F. Kennedy
The sad truth of the matter is that most Americans... more
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John Hawkins (Apr 19, 2011)
Government has become too damn big, too damn intrusive, and too damn
lucrative for the good of the country. That's why so much of the political class
in this country is... more
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John Hawkins (Apr 12, 2011)
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Does it seem too strong to call the way America deals... more
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John Hawkins (Apr 05, 2011)
You can't reason someone out of something that he didn't get into by using reason in the first place. That's why it's so difficult to refute conspiracy theories with logic.... more
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John Hawkins (Mar 29, 2011)
In a world where politics has become all-consuming and there's an interest group looking for an opportunity to exploit every issue, it has become almost impossible to have... more
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John Hawkins (Mar 22, 2011)
It seems like it was just yesterday when we had an "imperialist warmonger" in the White House who was going to be replaced by a peace-loving Democrat who promised "hope" and... more
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John Hawkins (Mar 15, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Mar 08, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Mar 01, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Feb 22, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Feb 15, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Feb 08, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Feb 01, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Jan 25, 2011)
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,... more
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John Hawkins (Jan 18, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Jan 18, 2011)
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... more
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John Hawkins (Jan 11, 2011)
Honorable Mentions: Al Franken, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Anthony Weiner,
Arianna Huffington, Bill Clinton, Bob Beckel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Dylan
Ratigan, Eric Holder,... more