John Hawkins runs Right Wing News (www.rightwingnews.com), Conservative Grapevine (www.conservativegrapevine.com), Right Wing Video (http://www.rightwingvideo.com) and writes a weekly column for Townhall. John Hawkins is the blogosphere's premier interviewer and has interviewed big name conservatives like Jed Babbin, Michael Barone, Sam Brownback, Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, Tom DeLay, Jim DeMint, Larry Elder, Milton Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Bernard Goldberg, Jonah Goldberg, David Horowitz, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, G. Gordon Liddy, David Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Dick Morris, Richard Perle, Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, Tom Tancredo and Walter Williams. John Hawkins's 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, Editor & Publisher, Fox News, Hannity and Colmes, The Laura Ingraham Show, Minneapolis Star Tribune, MSNBC, National Journal, National Post, Newsmax, 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 inspired an urban legend that was covered at Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/withdrawal.asp). 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, (http://www.Slatecard.com), which raised more than $600,000 for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Conservatives owe a lot to great men like Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley who helped keep the fires of conservatism burning when the movement was barely holding together. 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Here's the problem: horror films... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/10/20/10_horror_movies_for_conservatives_to_watch_this_halloween 7a39c9df-d403-47b8-ba2a-e4e746b1b481 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Because our servile journalists spend their days awash in ecstasy, thinking endlessly of the tingle that runs up their leg when they see Barack Obama, they don't seem to be able to find the time to ask him any tough... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/10/13/20_more_questions_for_barack_obama c9269a62-acd1-4022-a05c-e44e0c579aff Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Last weekend at the Defending the American Dream Summit, I had the opportunity to talk behind-the-scenes with some Republican staffers. During our back-and-forth exchanges, here are some of the things I told them that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/10/06/5_things_that_republicans_in_dc_need_to_understand 517a1735-cb74-4108-9541-c71aa143af73 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Because Barack Obama voted "present" on the health care bill by refusing to submit his own bill, Americans have been left with a number of different bills in Congress to evaluate. This has been made more difficult by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/29/20_questions_about_obamacare 55eca63e-6543-42f6-a4cf-2ddf4b440a9b Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Because of our nation's extremely complex history with racial issues, there have never been any "good old days" for race relations in America. We began as a slaveholding nation that simultaneously held the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/22/5_reasons_obamas_election_is_bad_for_race_relations f818f0a9-4be5-4bac-b267-45a2b41b2ded Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT The aftermath of Joe Wilson shouting out "You lie" at a shameless liar in the midst of a shameless lie about health care has turned out to be one of the most Orwellian moments in recent memory. After Wilson's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/15/10_more_you_lie_moments_on_health_care c951a3a3-c50c-4ab2-9a9e-38762737d1b3 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Hitler did not rise out of a vacuum: Many people assume that another Hitler can rise up in any nation, but that's not necessarily so. Hitler's rise in Germany was not a forgone conclusion in Germany, but there were a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/08/10_lessons_we_can_learn_from_the_rise_of_the_nazis 75d77116-1a31-47af-9719-91db1820b1a6 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:31 GMT Sadly, for Republicans who have richly enjoyed watching Democrats getting a taste of their own medicine at town halls across the country, the August recess is winding down. Still, there are already so many memories.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/01/the_top_7_most_embarrassing_town_hall_moments_for_democrats fad455bb-4ae3-4d69-b3e8-93a9c7ec85db Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Barrack Obama and his pals in the mainstream media are doing everything in their power to keep people from finding out the truth about the health care bills that are winding their way through Congress. Rather than... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/08/25/5_liberal_lies_about_obamacare 4d5a8539-57f2-43c0-a4bb-cbe500d737b1 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Although racism certainly exists in this country, it has become blessedly rare and marginalized. Some of the best evidence you can find for that is Barack Obama's election as President. Only in a country as colorblind... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/08/18/the_death_of_racism_four_ways_the_word_is_being_worked_to_death ab59c185-d334-4e18-a8f3-c4522034edc9 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT In the early days of Barack Obama's presidency, his approval rating soared to dizzying heights as many Americans thought we had entered a new era of hope, change, unity, bipartisanship and uplifting speeches. Then,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/08/11/obamas_seven_deadly_political_sins 265877cd-bddc-4d52-94d9-42e2eb9141e7 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT To liberals, actually pointing out when they're lying through their teeth is considered to be dirty politics and, in the case of the Obama Administration, perhaps racist, too. Still, despite the risk of infuriating... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/08/04/7_lies_of_the_obama_administration 0ef56785-15aa-4adc-b30d-fdafdce1d17b Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Back in 2008 conservatives were in a tough spot: we had a candidate that many of us believe is representative of much of what is wrong with the Republican Party -- running against an ultra-left-winger who told America... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/07/28/seven_things_that_would_be_different_if_mccain_had_beaten_obama 095124fc-6a16-4779-a679-a6326d0012fe Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT