May 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Biden Picks the Winners

Featured image Joe Biden’s 19 recipients for the Presidential Medal of Freedom include “Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi,” and as the Delaware Democrat explains: Nancy Pelosi served as the 52nd Speaker of the House and has represented San Francisco in Congress for more than 36 years. A staunch defender of democracy, she has shaped legislative agendas and Democratic priorities for decades. As Joshua Muravchik noted in “Pelosi’s Favorite Stalinist,” Pelosi once “took to the »
May 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Guest Column: Stop the Cultural Appropriation!

Featured image“Lucretia,” our “International Woman of Mystery” on the 3WHH podcast, is not our only academic friend who needs to proceed pseudonymously from time to time so as to avoid a struggle session with our sub-moronic college administrator class. A loyal Power Line reader of some academic prominence who goes by the name “Norm D. Ploom” sends along the following query about yet another double-standard in play in the current campus »
May 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson

At GWU

Featured imageMason Goad is a research fellow with the National Association of Scholars. Yesterday he visited the Kill-the-Jews crowd’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment at George Washington University, a mile from the White House, and posted a photo thread here on X. To borrow a phrase, the hate is too damn high! Goad sets the scene with this photo featuring the revolutionary who has donned a mask to protect his identity. Another mask »
May 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: The 3WHH on “Never Murder a Man Who Is Committing Suicide”

Featured imageLucretia hosts this week’s episode, reminding us once again that Republicans are living up to their reputation as “the stupid party” with the proposed “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” that seems to have overlooked this quaint old thing called the First Amendment. Steve gamely tries to defend the political strategy behind it, but Lucretia is having none of it (putting her in rare alignment with the New York Times), wondering why anyone »
May 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Northwestern ordure

Featured imageStudents of ancient American history may recall the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Northwest Ordinance covered the territory out of which Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin were ultimately carved. It guaranteed religious freedom (Article 1) and prohibited slavery (Article 6) in the territory. Adopted by the Confederation Congress, it is one of the four founding or organic laws of the United States. See generally Richard H. Cox, Four Pillars »
May 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Week in Pictures: Campus Cannibals Edition

Featured imageJoe Biden isn’t the only person with a cannibalism problem. College campuses are cannibalizing themselves, eating up their already dwindling moral and intellectual capital. And if the Columbia University administration had any sense it all, it might have cut off food to the occupiers of Hamilton Hall, whose imminent starvation if their pleas are to be believed, and surely cannibalism would soon have followed. Time for some fraternities to stage »
May 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker

The Farce Continues

Featured imageAlvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump continues in Juan Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom. Today’s testimony was devoted mostly to the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump made an obscene reference to the liberties that celebrities are allowed to take. What that has to do with the “crime” with which he is charged, God only knows. The gist of the prosecution’s case is that Trump tried to prevent bad stories about him, »
May 3, 2024 — Scott Johnson

From the mixed-up files, Gaza Solidarity Camp edition

Featured imageIn the eruption of support for Hamas and hatred of the Jewish people at Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, we have discovered a humorous sidebar. Olivia Reingold originally dredged up lost-and-found entries from the mixed-up files of the encampment and posted them on X. I’m in the lost and found chat for Columbia’s encampment, where a comrade is currently freaking out that their other comrades might steal their Adderall prescription. »
May 3, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured imageAmmo Grrrll is not among those CHOOSING “VICTIMHOOD” FOR FUN AND PROFIT. She writes: Let us assume for the moment that a woman who has 20 years of experience as an executive secretary, types 100 wpm, can take shorthand like a tape recorder, and is smart as a whip, discreet, well-groomed, and pleasant to all is also a few pounds north of what is an acceptable weight for a woman »
May 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Counterrevolution at Chapel Hill

Featured imageThe gentlemen of Pi Kappa Phi at UNC Chapel Hill have given us a morale booster by protecting the American flag from the kill-the-Jews crowd on campus. They join the Columbia night-shift custodian fighting off the Hamilton Hall Hamasniks in an early bid for man-of-the-year recognition. See the photo below depicting them standing guard. One of the best photos of 2024 so far: Fraternity brothers are pelted by anti-Israel protesters »
May 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker

It Didn’t Start In College

Featured imageMany Americans have been shocked at the spectacle of thousands of college students, along with thousands more non-college students, engaging in kill-the-Jews riots. These people are demonstrating in favor of Hamas, which means in favor of gang rape and mass murder. How could this possibly have happened? I have seen suggestions that left-wing professors have led students astray, and no doubt that is true. We have seen many professors participating »
May 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Now They Tell Us!

Featured imageToday the New York Times has a long article about the fact that covid vaccines have been responsible for a limited number of deaths. The article is featured in the paper’s daily email; this is how it begins: Let me start with a disclaimer: The subject of today’s newsletter will make some readers uncomfortable. It makes me a little uncomfortable. It makes the Times uncomfortable because it involves recanting a »
May 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Was It Everything We Did?

Featured imageJoe Biden is further under water than any modern president at this point in a first term. Here’s the table: It turns out that Biden is relatively stronger than many of his peer leaders: Gee—I wonder why so many leaders are so unpopular right now? (I wonder why the UK’s Rishi Sunak isn’t on this list, since he is heading for an electoral wipeout in just a few months.) Maybe »
May 3, 2024 — Scott Johnson

When it’s better you say nothing at all

Featured imagePresident Biden read a perfunctory statement yesterday addressing “recent events on college campuses.” That’s how the statement referred to the calls for intifada revolution and the occupation of university quads by mobs supporting Hamas. The brief statement ran to fewer than 500 words. It would have been better if it had been zero. This is how it began, according to the White House transcript: Before I head to North Carolina, »
May 2, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Vaxxing Questions

Featured imageLife must be lived forward, Soren Kierkegaard contended, but can only be understood backwards. That invites a glance at “CDC Found Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths,” by Zachary Steiber in the May 1 Epoch Times. As the author discovered: CDC employees worked to track down information on reported post-vaccination deaths and learned that myocarditis—or heart inflammation, a confirmed side effect of the vaccines—was listed on death certificates and in autopsies »
May 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Trump To Be Fined Again? Then What?

Featured imageJudge Juan Merchan is considering a motion by Alvin Bragg’s office to fine Donald Trump an additional amount for further violations of Merchan’s unconstitutional gag order. Merchan has also threatened to throw Trump in jail. So what did Trump do to merit such a response? The four new alleged violations are quoted here. Trump criticized the Manhattan venue and expressed concern that the jury would be unfair: “That jury was »
May 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Finding the Rot at Columbia

Featured imageMy pal David Bernstein of Scalia Law School at George Mason University notes the following on Twitter: One thing that hasn’t received enough attention is that major unviersities see themselves today not as American, but as global, institutions. American institutions are strongly opposed to antisemitism and support Israel’s existence. Globally, institutions ranging from the UN to the NGO establishment at best give lip service to antisemitism, and range from tolerant »