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An Interview With Andy Schlafly: Can He Get Obamacare Overturned In The Supreme Court?
20 May 2013 7:01 am John Hawkins

Have you heard about the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare that has been filed in Texas?

A Texas doctor sued the U.S. over President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms on claims the U.S. Supreme Court overlooked when it upheld the Affordable Care Act last year.
Steven Hotze of Houston claims the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, violates the U.S. Constitution’s origination and takings clauses, which weren’t part of arguments before the Supreme Court. The high court upheld the act by a 5-to-4 vote.
Hotze’s suit, filed today in federal …

An Interview With Mary Eberstadt On Her New Book “How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization”
15 May 2013 3:57 am John Hawkins

I interviewed Mary Eberstadt last week on her new book, How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization. Here’s the slightly edited transcript of our interview.

One of the core ideas of your book is that declines in Christianity and the disintegration of the American family are strongly connected. Can you talk about that, especially in light of the fact that birth rate/religion don’t always seem to be tightly connected in every circumstance?
…In Western Europe you now have historically low rates of church attendance and religious affiliations …

Talking Moon Bases, Crossfire, a Santorum/Newt Unity Ticket & Today’s Republican Leadership With Newt Gingrich
8 May 2013 6:07 am John Hawkins

Last week, I got together with Newt Gingrich at the South Carolina Energy & Opportunity Forum which was sponsored by the Southeast Energy Alliance and the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (A special thanks goes out to Gerri McDaniel and Adam Waldeck for helping to set the whole thing up). I was glad to get an opportunity to talk with Newt because I believe he’s one of the best idea men in the Republican Party and there were some questions I wanted to ask him about his run at …

Interviewing Jonathan Last on “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster.”
27 Feb 2013 11:08 am John Hawkins

In many respects, the spending crunch that we’re seeing here in America and across Western Europe is actually a demographics crunch. That’s why Jonathan Last’s latest book on demographics What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster is so important; it’s covering an issue that, despite having a dramatic impact on our lives, is seldom being discussed. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy!
Demographics is an extraordinarily important issue, but it’s something that’s completely off the radar for most Americans. So let’s …

An Interview With James O’Keefe
28 Jan 2013 10:14 am John Hawkins

Last week, I was pleased to get the opportunity to interview James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. Over the last couple of years, James O’Keefe has turned out to be the single best investigative journalist in America. He goes after powerful targets the mainstream media won’t touch because it’s liberal, he exposes the media’s hypocrisy, and he gets results. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
Your latest sting focused on guns. Tell us about that.

We did an expose on the issues in Westchester County, New York …

Interviewing Ben Shapiro About “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans”
21 Jan 2013 8:11 am John Hawkins

I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview my friend Ben Shapiro about his new book Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.
What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
First question, of course liberals would deny that they bully anyone. So let’s name names; give two or three of the biggest bullies on the Left.
Oh, clearly President Obama leads off the crew. President Obama, what he’s been doing with gun control is really an excellent example of it — and dragging out …

Interviews
1 Jan 2013 2:43 pm John Hawkins

Interviewing Jonathan Last on “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster.” (Feb 27, 2013)
Interviewing Ben Shapiro About “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans” (Jan 21, 2013)
Interviewing Stephen Moore On The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth In America (Oct 22, 2012)
An Interview With Andrew Marcus, Director Of The New Movie, “Hating Breitbart” (Oct 17, 2012)
Interviewing Evan Say About His New Book, “Kindergarden Of Eden: How Modern Liberals Think” (Oct 10, 2012)
My 10th Interview With Thomas Sowell: “Trickle Down Theory” and “Tax Cuts For The Rich” (Oct 9, …

Interviewing Stephen Moore On The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth In America
22 Oct 2012 6:12 am John Hawkins

I was very pleased to get an opportunity to interview Stephen Moore, one of the most brilliant conservative economists on the scene today, about his new book Who’s the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America. What follows is the slightly edited transcript of our discussion.
First question: Does America have the most progressive income tax system of any country in the Western world?
I think the most shocking finding of this book is that the United States is so dependent on rich people to pay …

An Interview With Andrew Marcus, Director Of The New Movie, “Hating Breitbart”
17 Oct 2012 6:59 am John Hawkins

Andrew Marcus is the director of Hating Breitbart, a movie about Breitbart’s legacy that opens on Friday.

Here’s the slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
Andrew started out as a liberal. Tell people how he moved from the Left to the Right.
The most influential factor in his transformation from Left to Right was the Clarence Thomas hearing. He said he had his popcorn ready. He was waiting to watch the show about the terrible man that they had primed him for. When the hearings began, what Andrew Breitbart witnessed …

Interviewing Evan Say About His New Book, “Kindergarden Of Eden: How Modern Liberals Think”
10 Oct 2012 6:26 am John Hawkins

Late last week, I had a chance to talk with Evan Sayet About his new book “Kindergarden Of Eden: How Modern Liberals Think.” Here’s the slightly edited transcript of our interview.
First question: In the book you say, “When I say the modern liberal is morally and intellectually retarded at the level of a five year old child, it is not hyperbole, it’s a diagnosis.” Explain that.
I was merely saying that the modern liberal is were simply immature in his thinking, I wouldn’t definitely pick the age of five. It sounds …

My 10th Interview With Thomas Sowell: “Trickle Down Theory” and “Tax Cuts For The Rich”
9 Oct 2012 12:08 am John Hawkins

Late last week, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Thomas Sowell about his new essay, Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich. Here’s the slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
This is probably a very basic question for you, one you cover with your Economics 101 students, but it’s one that I think a lot of people in politics need to hear. As a general rule, why are low tax rates on everyone, including the wealthy, preferable to high tax rates?
For a number of reasons, but …

An Interview With Rev. William Owens On Gay Marriage, Obama as Judas, & The NAACP Being Paid Off To Back Gay Marriage
13 Sep 2012 8:16 am John Hawkins

Reverend William Owens from the Coalition Of African American Pastors has been in the news for criticizing Barack Obama and for the CAAP’s 100,000 Signatures for Marriage petition. Earlier this week, I had the privilege of interviewing the reverend. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
Not only has Barack Obama endorsed gay marriage, but support for gay marriage is now a plank of the Democratic Party platform and speaker after speaker talked about gay marriage from the stage of the convention. What do you think about …

An Interview With Congresswoman Sandy Adams
6 Aug 2012 6:05 am John Hawkins

Sandy Adams, who has been endorsed by Allen West and Sarah Palin, is going up against John Mica. Both Adams and Mica are already in Congress, but because of redistricting, they’re being forced to go toe-to-toe in the 7th congressional district of Florida. The interview was done on Chick-fil-A appreciation day last week. I had just gotten back from Chick-fil-A and Sandy told me she ate there, too.

What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation.
Why should conservatives select you over John Mica?
Well, I think it’s very easy. Maybe 20 …

Interview with Star Parker on the HHS Mandate and the 2012 Elections
12 Jun 2012 12:07 am Dustin Siggins

Star Parker is the President of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and a leading pro-life activist. A nationally syndicated columnist, she has led the fight against the HHS contraception/sterilization/abortifacient mandate, both in writing and publicly speaking out against its violations of a myriad of American rights and traditions. These speeches and columns can be found at her website, www.StarParker.com, and on her Facebook page.
This morning Star gave me her thoughts on how opponents of the HHS mandate can convince the American people that the mandate is as …

Interviewing Dawn Eden On Healing Sexual Wounds With The Help Of The Saints
4 Jun 2012 11:40 am John Hawkins

Dawn Eden has a new book out called My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints.
We had a chat about the book and here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.
You wrote a book on chastity that got a lot of attention including negative attention from the Left. There are a lot of feminists who hate your guts and have viciously publicly attacked you. So being a public figure, it takes some guts at this late date to admit that you …

Interviewing Robert Stacy McCain About Brett Kimberlin
25 May 2012 10:03 am John Hawkins

Robert Stacy McCain, who blogs at RWN on occasion, has become a story himself this week. After reporting on “Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin, Stacy announced to the world that Kimberlin had been in touch with his wife’s employer and that he had moved his family out of their house as a result. Quite naturally, this caught people’s attention — and that was before this article from Patterico came out today credibly alleging that Kimberlin and his allies had engaged in harassment that included having a SWAT team called to his …

Interviewing Arthur Brooks On His New Book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise”
16 May 2012 6:41 am John Hawkins

Arthur Brooks is the President of the American Enterprise Institute and his new book is called The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise. Late last week, I got together with Arthur Brooks for an interview. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of the interview.
You wrote a book on happiness and in the pitch for this book you say, “This book will show you the secret behind true happiness and why only free enterprise supports achieving it.” Tell us what it is; what is the …

Interviewing Herman Cain On The VP Slot, Improper Sexual Conduct Charges, & Whether Obama Will Cause America To Default On Its Debt
10 Apr 2012 6:57 am John Hawkins

Late last week, I was pleased to get the opportunity to talk to former Presidential candidate, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, and former talk radio host Herman Cain. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
First question: is it time for Santorum, Gingrich and Paul to hang it up or should they keep fighting this thing?
The numbers are on Mitt Romney’s side and from the outside it would appear as if the others should suspend their campaigns so that we can get on with the head-to-head competition. But what …

Interviewing Thomas Sowell On Intellectuals and Society
15 Mar 2012 6:13 am John Hawkins

Thomas Sowell has come out with a revised edition of Intellectuals and Society and I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview him about the book. Here’s a slightly edited transcript of our conversation on Tuesday.
All right, first question, the first sentence in your book is “Intellect is not wisdom.” That’s absolutely brilliant. I was hoping you could expound on it a bit because I think it’s an extremely important point that often goes right over a lot of people’s heads.
Well, yes, intellect would be your sort …

A Conversation with Darwin (Webmaster of the Darwin Awards)
8 Mar 2012 3:14 am John Hawkins

I got together with Darwin at 2 am her time and we chatted for an hour and a 1/2 or so. I have a hunch that she was about to keel over by the end of the interview =] If you are one of the 3 or 4 people that haven’t heard of the Darwin Awards, make sure you check out the link at the end of the article. After all, her site pulls over 300 thousand users per month for a reason…
John Hawkins: Tell us a little bit about yourself …

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