Articles by John Hayward

John Hayward began his blogging career as a guest writer at Hot Air under the pen name "Doctor Zero," producing a collection of essays entitled Doctor Zero: Year One. He is a great admirer of free-market thinkers such as Arthur Laffer, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell. He writes both political and cultural commentary, including book and movie reviews. An avid fan of horror and fantasy fiction, he has produced an e-book collection of short horror stories entitled Persistent Dread. John is a former staff writer for Human Events. He is a regular guest on the Rusty Humphries radio show, and has appeared on numerous other local and national radio programs, including G. Gordon Liddy, BattleLine, and Dennis Miller.

Obama on immigration: 'No force on Earth can stop us!'

No-Drama Obama becomes quite animated when addressing his most politically useful constituents.

John Hayward October 3, 2014

Ending the oil-export ban

The intellectual resource we most urgently need to regulate into oblivion is Carter thinking.

John Hayward October 2, 2014

America's first test against Ebola is not going well

There's no reason for anyone to look down their noses at those who worry that the authorities will make...

John Hayward October 2, 2014

The Khorasan hustle

A tornado of spin whose purpose is to make it seem at least faintly plausible that Obama told something...

John Hayward October 1, 2014

Secret Service: the surprise scandal hit of the fall season

Even bipartisan criticism of obvious and shocking failure gets twisted into partisan sniping by the Left.

John Hayward October 1, 2014

Ebola does Dallas

Americans have good reason to think their government could be less effective than advertised at containing an...

John Hayward October 1, 2014

Another court decision against subsidies for the federal ObamaCare exchange

The legal threat to ObamaCare grows, and keeping it from a return engagement at the Supreme Court is getting...

John Hayward September 30, 2014

Obama's '60 Minutes' dodge

Administration flacks plow into each other in a damage-control clown show.

John Hayward September 30, 2014

Netanyahu at the UN: 'ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree'

Rules for Radicals prove useful to the enemies of civilization.

John Hayward September 29, 2014

Hong Kong protests Chinese tyranny, or maybe Ferguson police

The American left makes a silly attempt to hijack an important protest against authoritarian rule.

John Hayward September 29, 2014

Obama: 'They' underestimated ISIS

A play for sympathy with the dwindling number of Americans who still care about Obama's personal soap opera.

John Hayward September 29, 2014

Let's not dwell on every little fatwa Obama's favorite clerics have issued

The Administration's effort to rehabilitate a useful cleric is typically clumsy and confused.

John Hayward September 26, 2014

Sudden Jihad Syndrome in Oklahama halted by law-abiding gun owner

Sometimes the media thinks context is important for understanding violence; other times, not so much.

John Hayward September 26, 2014

Illegals blow off immigration hearings, govt. conceals it

The will of the American people on illegal immigration is clear, and must therefore be subverted.

John Hayward September 26, 2014