John Hawkins (columnist)


John Hawkins is a conservative blogger and columnist. He has published columns in several newspapers.

Early life

Hawkins graduated from Morehead High School in Eden, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he majored in psychology.

Career

Hawkins owns Linkiest and the conservative blog Right Wing News that "between 2013 and 2016", together with its affiliate pages "consistently saw more interaction on Facebook than the pages of many of the largest news media in the country: the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Fox News. Combined.". Right Wing News was removed by Facebook on October 11, 2018.
His columns appear once a week at BizPac Review and have been published in various newspapers like Townhall.com, The Washington Times, Human Events, The Hill, The Washington Examiner, The Huffington Post, Hot Air,
PJ Media and National Review.. He has interviewed Ann Coulter, Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, Milton Friedman, Ron Paul, Ben Shapiro and Andrew Breitbart among others.
Hawkins worked for the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008, claimed to have been blackballed from the Republican Convention that year for criticizing John McCain and was also the co-founder of "Not Mitt Romney.com" in 2012. Additionally, Hawkins was also on Current TV's first King Con, appeared on the first HuffPoLive live panel and was listed by Alternet as one of the 10 Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement
. Hawkins is known for his anti-marijuana stance.
Hawkins has also started a non-political, list based entertainment website called Grumpy Sloth and a self-styled men's website called Brass Pills .
During the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, Hawkins raised more than $600,000 for him via a GoFundMe campaign. Kavanaugh declined the money and Hawkins requested it to be sent to a charity Kavanaugh supports, the Archdiocese of Washington.