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, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Let's face it: if you're conservative, you're not going to get your proper due from the mainstream media for your accomplishments. Case in point: Barbara Walters named Michelle Obama the most fascinating person of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/12/29/the_top_10_conservatives_of_2009 023b649f-2c97-49aa-8d4d-b2c7536ca483 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Have you ever seen one of those wild-eyed people with a sandwich board around his neck standing on the corner, screeching incoherently about how the end of the world is coming? Now, what if those people were insisting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/12/15/10_global_warming_doomsday_predictions f8041e7b-10b7-4c70-aff7-9d1c90199fb6 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Repeating the words "scientific consensus" over and over and telling sad stories about polar bears does not qualify as "science." So, why is it that the people who insist that Man-made global warming is based on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/12/08/four_colossal_holes_in_the_theory_of_man-made_global_warming b38f6d04-9e77-4c16-b289-237a0ac82618 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT "My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery." -- Sarah Palin Since he has been elected, Barack Obama has been like a four year old wearing water wings and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/12/01/five_more_amateur_mistakes_by_the_obama_administration 1c441891-130d-4cfc-aedf-96d938fe24f2 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Calling a politician dishonest is like calling a burglar dishonest. The difference is that burglars take less of your money, don't get invited on the Sunday morning shows, and are more dangerous -- unless you happen to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/11/24/would_obama_be_president_if_he_made_these_five_campaign_promises 09bf6394-d16f-4377-8c72-55ad02d4b778 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT "You will find that I am kind. Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand...I require only that you kneel." -- King Xerxes, 300 Liberalism is an extraordinarily deceptive, ruinous and cruel ideology.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/11/17/five_terrible_cruelties_of_liberalism 32787f33-bdfc-48ad-ad94-5b145308831e Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT "Make no mistake about it, this generation is a generation of thieves and the people who stole their parents and their children's money to make their own lives cushier are at it again. This time the target is their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/11/10/4_reasons_the_american_dream_will_be_over_unless_we_act 2299ba1d-faa3-4a30-b8e6-5384da4a14ea Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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. Without their efforts conservatism... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/11/03/three_reasons_the_conservative_movement_should_be_grateful_to_rush_limbaugh 05741f4c-3c17-49b3-9ae0-f23fd90103e9 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years. Everybody... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/10/27/5_messages_for_elite_republicans 54a1ca6a-c06d-4a35-aea1-ed0344f38074 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Halloween is almost upon us and you're probably thinking, "Gee, wouldn't it be great to kick back on the couch and rent a few conservative horror flicks for the big night?" 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