May 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Week in Pictures: Trying Times Edition

Featured image The Trump trial has descended into farce faster than expected. Cohen be goin’ anyone? Biden keeps inflating his mental capacities with made-up claims about inflation. Harrison Butker delivered a butt-kick to political correctness by embracing traditional Catholic doctrine at—shocker!—a Catholic college! What next? MPGA—Make Pronouns Great Again perhaps? And why, oh why, did King Charles choose that portrait artist? And is he a direct descendant of Graham Sutherland?   Headlines »
May 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Bring on the Harris Pole

Featured imageJohn Kerry once tapped James Taylor to croon “You’ve Got a Friend” to the French, a performance Steve thought difficult to surpass. On the other hand, with his rendition of “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” in Kiev, Antony Blinken may have pulled it off. If the Democrats now seek to surpass Tony, they can turn to vice president Kamala Harris. Remember, she got her start charming Willie Brown, »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

The Times Threatens the Supreme Court

Featured imageThe New York Times believes that by right, it should have the Supreme Court in its pocket–as, to be fair, it did for quite a few years. So it is doing all it can to discredit the Court’s new conservative majority. It has directed its attacks mostly toward Justice Clarence Thomas, against whom the Times has levied baseless charges of ethics violations. Yesterday the Times went after Justice Samuel Alito, »
May 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Coastal Commission Surfari

Featured imageAn Australian man calling himself Sasha Jane Lowerson must be allowed to compete in a California surfing competition, which “cannot discriminate on the basis of gender.” As Sir Bedevere (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of biological science and athletics? Why, it’s the California Coastal Commission (CCC),  an unelected body that overrides the elected governments of cities and counties on the California »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Is Israel Responsible for Gaza?

Featured imageThe Biden Administration insists that Israel must have a plan for the “day after” it completes its victory over Hamas. A reasonable question is: why? Gaza started this war on October 7, and Israel responded as it had to, as any nation would, by fighting and, now, winning the war. Why should it be Israel’s burden to try to make something constructive out of the sickest culture in the world? »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Minneapolis, Four Years On

Featured imageOn Memorial Day, it will be four years since George Floyd’s death and the ensuing riots. The riots raged for days, centered on Lake Street in south Minneapolis. So, four years later, how is that part of the city faring? My colleague Bill Glahn drove down Lake Street to see how things are going. The one-minute video below is the result. Watch for a particularly poignant moment: the Minneapolis Police »
May 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: From Mainline to Sideline

Featured imageOur contributor Lloyd Billingsley wrote a book back in 1990 about the leftwing politics of the National Council of Churches, From Mainline to Sideline: The Social Witness of the National Council of Churches, detailing how the mainline Protestant churches that compose the NCC had swung far left. Maybe time for an update, as recent surveys find that the long-term decline of mainline Protestant denominations in America has reduced the number »
May 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson

From Jack Ryan to Ruben Gallego

Featured imageIn the 2004 Illinois Senate race that launched Barack Obama on the path to political prosperity, only Republican candidate Jack Ryan stood in his way. Ryan appeared to be a formidable candidate. George Will wrote a memorable column — I remember it, anyway — asking whether Ryan was “too good to be true.” He thought Ryan was an impressive and formidable candidate. Once Ryan secured the Republican nomination to oppose »
May 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured imageIt’s not Ammo Grrrll who is RUINING MOVIES. She writes: Well, friends, the last two Friday columns were pretty serious. It’s time to get back to “narishkeit” – foolishness. And, I hope, a little well-deserved timeout from all the relentless bad news. My own President – installed through no fault of my own — is on the side of Hamas. It doesn’t get any more depressing than that. But, I »
May 16, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Border Getaways

Featured imageWith some Democratic Senators up for re-election running ads attacking President Biden over our open border (both Jon Tester of Montana and Sherrod Brown of Ohio say they “have fought President Biden over the border” in TV spots), there are rumors that Biden is considering an executive order that would shut the southern border every day after 4,000 people have crossed. What a tough guy! It’s amazing how Democratic presidents »
May 16, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Another Look at Energy and the Environment

Featured imageNot long ago I had the occasion to check in with my old pals at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio to talk with their director, Prof. Jeffrey Sikkenga, about energy and environmental topics as a part of their regular series called “The American Idea.” I go over some of my greatest hits on environmental progress, and some new material on our current energy madness under President Biden. »
May 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: Classic Format with Jeremy Carl on ‘The Unprotected Class’

Featured imageThis classic-format, ad-free episode features me in a one-on-one conversation with with Jeremy Carl, author of a dynamite (almost literally) new book entitled The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart. Jeremy commits heresy in this book, offerng statistics that you aren’t supposed to mention, and truths that, in an earlier age, might have got you burned at the stake. In publishing this book Jeremy joins the ranks with »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Great Moments In Democracy

Featured imageIn yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt, a catfight broke out among Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democrats Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Insults were traded, involving Crockett’s fake eyelashes and Greene’s “bleach blonde bad built butch body.” You have to see it to believe it: This video lays out what happened in tonight’s heated exchange in the oversight hearing pic.twitter.com/7QTmpsa1eA — Acyn »
May 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Nine-Percent Solution: A sequel

Featured imagePresident Biden has taken to asserting on more than one occasion that inflation stood at 9 percent when he took office. The statement sems to call for a follow-up question on the source of his misinformation, as they put in the Censorship Industrial Complex that he heads. But no, we have been left hanging. Students of ancient history may recall that inflation rate was actually 1.4 percent when Biden took »
May 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker

America’s Next Vice President?

Featured imageI spent the last few days in Bismarck, North Dakota, attending the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference. It was a remarkable event, with more than 2,400 attending from five countries. Attenders included luminaries like Harold Hamm, but the conference’s most eagerly awaited appearance came this morning, when Governor Doug Burgum addressed the group. Burgum spoke without podium or notes, effortlessly citing energy facts and statistics. He knows energy better than any »
May 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson

An Alpha News Trump exclusive

Featured imagePresident Trump gave our own Liz Collin of Alpha News six minutes of his time for an interview before court this morning. I have posted the video below. The related Alpha News story is posted here. President Trump will be dropping into the Twin Cities tomorrow night to be the featured speaker at our impecunious state party’s Lincoln Reagan dinner. According to the current KSTP-TV/SurveyUSA poll, Biden leads Trump 44-42, »
May 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Mark Judge: My book launch

Featured imageMark Judge is a witness with a powerful story to tell about the operation to take down the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He tells the story in his 2022 book The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi. Mark recently returned with his timely review of Christine Blasey Ford’s book (cited below). We offered to publish Mark’s review and I have inserted the editorial »