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10 Questions With Heather Mac Donald
13 Feb 2012 1:07 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: You’ve called racial profiling a myth. Why do you believe that’s the case?
Heather Mac Donald: The studies that purport to prove the existence of racial profiling are junk science that wouldn’t earn their authors an F in a freshman statistics course. Their biggest flaw? They ignore the most important factor in policing: crime. You can’t determine whether the police are stopping or arresting “too many” members of any given racial group unless you take into account the crime rates among different groups. No profiling study to date does that.
An example: …

RWN’s Michelle Malkin Interview #2
13 Feb 2012 12:59 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: Do you think it’s time to consider actually walling off the border, manning it with armed guards, etc., between the US and Mexico?
Michelle Malkin: At the very least, we should close the three-and-a-half mile hole in the fence at Otay Mesa between Mexico and California, which has been a playground for drug runners and human smugglers. The incomplete fence there is a triple steel, 15-foot-tall barrier that runs into the Pacific Ocean. Finishing the fence would free up Border Patrol agents who have had to man the gap.
As an aside, …

A Mini-Interview With Henry Copeland From Blogads
12 Feb 2012 12:58 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: How much of a drop off in advertising, if any, has there been from the election until today?
Henry Copeland: After dropping 40-50% for the first couple of months after the election, it looks like we’ll be at new highs in March and April. I won’t call it a tipping point, because you can only see those in retrospect, but we’re definitely at a tottering point.
John Hawkins: Can you give us an estimate of how many blogs cracked $25,000 in revenue earned last year & how much the top 5 blogads bloggers …

Twelve Questions With Michelle Malkin
11 Feb 2012 3:00 am John Hawkins

I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview FOX News commentator Michelle Malkin via email. Michelle has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, The McLaughlin Group, The Lehrer Report, and 20/20. Furthermore, her syndicated column is carried by 100 papers nationwide and her new book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores is currently ranked 9th on the bestseller list at Amazon.
John Hawkins: Do you believe that police departments should be involved in rounding up illegal aliens?
Michelle Malkin: They should cooperate with the INS. …

The Byron York Interview
11 Feb 2012 12:58 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: Would you think it’s fair to say that Air America Radio is failing as a business venture?
Byron York: So far it looks like they are. One of the problems with Air America is that it’s on in so few places around the country. It’s still only on about 50 stations so it’s hard to measure its nation-wide impact. We know that it’s doing extremely well in Portland, Oregon. We also know that it’s not doing that well most everywhere else. In New York where it had a pretty decent start …

An Interview With Linda Chavez
10 Feb 2012 1:05 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: You know, I realized unions had a lot of power and influence in the Democratic party, but while reading an excerpt of your book, I ran across a statement that I found to be amazing. Let me read it, then I’d like to get your comment on it. “As the FEC’s final report put it, the unions had ‘authority to approve or disapprove plans, projects, and needs of the DNC and its state parties.’” So the unions essentially have veto power over DNC decisions?
Linda Chavez: That is exactly right. That …

An Interview With Marc Danziger, One Of The Pajamas Media Partners
10 Feb 2012 12:57 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: You, Charles Johnson, and Roger L. Simon run Pajamas Media, correct? How did you decide to get this started and was what you’re doing now the original concept?
Marc Danziger: Yes – we’re the general partners; there are some other folks who have interests we’ve swapped for help in various ways, but it’s the three of us. Charles and Roger had been thinking about how to take the attention the blogs had been getting and make a business of it and I’ve been working on “long tail” business models for a long time. They …

The Tim Blair Interview
9 Feb 2012 3:12 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: What convinced you to start your political website?
Tim Blair: Ken Layne and Matt Welch were having too much fun running theirs. It seemed wrong somehow. And then all these Norwegians and bellicose women and law professors began appearing online � I was the last person on earth without a website.
Anyway, Layne helped set the site up for me last December, and then he taught me the secret HTML wisdom. Welch pimped me to several sites early on, which quickly built a profile, inasmuch as a weblog run out of a Sydney suburb can …

An Interview With Victor Davis Hanson
9 Feb 2012 2:59 am John Hawkins

I’m a huge fan of Victor Davis Hanson’s work. Not only do I consistently link his columns, I’ve recently read his brilliant book “Carnage and Culture.” That’s why I was thrilled that he agreed to do an interview via email with RWN. Read and enjoy…
John Hawkins: Hypothetically, let’s say that we go to Iraq and replace Saddam with a minimal number of losses. What do you think our next big move in the war on terrorism should be? Should we consider using military force in Iran, Syria, or perhaps in other …

The G. Gordon Liddy Interview
9 Feb 2012 1:11 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: In your opinion, what would it take to solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict within let’s say a decade or so, if it’s solvable?
G. Gordon Liddy: I don’t think that it’s solvable peacefully because the other side has absolutely no intention of allowing an Israeli state in that part of the world. They are dead set against it. They were offered, I think, 97% of what they wanted and they turned that down because they wanted 100%.
So what I think is going to ultimately happen is going to be another war. At …

An Interview With Senator Sam Brownback
9 Feb 2012 12:53 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: From what I’m seeing out there in the blogosphere, there’s an enormous amount of anger at this deal that was cut with the Democrats on judges. Right now, a lot of conservatives seem to see this as a deal that keeps Republicans from using the constitutional option while allowing Democrats to filibuster at will and call it “extraordinary circumstances.” Do you agree with that?
Sam Brownback: Well, we did not pull the constitutional option off; that’s still available. It seems to me that you had a few people, but enough, structure …

An Interview With Phyllis Schlafly
8 Feb 2012 2:57 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: You’ve been a big name in the Conservative movement since 1964. How much ground do you think we have gained since then with the electorate? In particular, why do you think we’ve had so much success since 1980?
Phyllis Schlafly: The principal reason for our success is that we invented the pro-family movement, attracted believers out of their churches and synagogues, got them to work together with people of other faiths for a political goal they shared, and then supported a leader in Ronald Reagan.
John Hawkins: Now that the GOP controls the …

10 Questions With Thomas Sowell
8 Feb 2012 1:10 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: Do you believe a flat tax would help produce more economic growth than the progressive tax system that we currently have? If so, can you explain why?
Thomas Sowell: A flat tax would not penalize additional efforts at an increasingly higher rate. This would reduce the discouragements to such efforts and to the taking of risks.
John Hawkins: Could you explain why rent control is a bad idea?
Thomas Sowell: Like all forms of price control, rent control leads to a simultaneous increase in the amount demanded and a reduction in the amount supplied. The …

An Interview With Mark Krikorian
8 Feb 2012 1:06 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: Some people support giving illegal aliens “amnesty,” i.e. simply letting all illegals currently here become US citizens. Do you think that’s a bad idea? Why so?
Mark Krikorian: Yes, amnesty is almost always a bad idea because it doesn’t solve the problem of illegal immigration, it just relabels the illegal immigrants. And it encourages more illegal immigration in the future as people get the message that sneaking into the United States eventually will pay off.
It also demoralizes the people who work for you and me, i.e. the immigration authorities whose job …

An Interview With Newt Gingrich
8 Feb 2012 12:47 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: You’ve criticized how the Bush administration has explained the war effort to the American people. If you were in the White House instead of George Bush today, what would you be telling the American people about what’s going on in Iraq and the War on terrorism?
Newt Gingrich: …Let me just say that I think it would be helpful for the country if the President were consistently reminding people that we have real enemies, that these enemies are the irreconcilable wing of Islam, that they’ve said publicly and clearly …

The Walter Williams Interview
7 Feb 2012 2:58 am John Hawkins

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…
John Hawkins: Oh really? Would it have been a national show or starting in a big market?
Walter Williams: It would have probably been syndicated. I was offered that some years ago and I turned it down. Every once in …

The Richard Perle Interview
7 Feb 2012 12:47 am John Hawkins

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. I have no doubt about that. It�s taking longer than it should have. We made some mistakes immediately after the fall of Baghdad; in particular, we allowed the liberation to become an occupation. We thought we …

The Tammy Bruce Interview
6 Feb 2012 12:45 am John Hawkins

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 converts and then heretics. It is a dynamic where a complete submersion into the left, void of self, and erasure of the individual is required.
What I�ve found coming in from the left — and at least …

RWN’s Michelle Malkin Interview #3
6 Feb 2012 12:44 am John Hawkins

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 deal, it’s funny?
Michelle Malkin: I think that their snide reaction to the aggressive and violent behavior of a lot of these so-called tolerant and peaceful protestors is very telling. I’ve been on a handful of college …

An Interview With Glenn Reynolds
5 Feb 2012 3:12 am John Hawkins

John Hawkins: So how did a University of Tennessee law professor become the godfather of conservative blogging?
Glenn Reynolds: Beats me, especially as I don’t think I’m really a “conservative” in any meaningful sense. At least when you apply the term “conservative” to describe someone who supports gay marriage, the legality of cloning, and the eventual modification of the Martian climate to make it earthlike, I’m not sure what, exactly, is being conserved.
I do believe in certain eternal verities, like the inevitability of corruption in government, and the need to respond to violent …

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