April 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Feeding our fraud goes to trial

Featured image I went to federal court in downtown Minneapolis yesterday morning for the opening statements in tbe first Feeding Our Future fraud trial. When it comes to Covid fraud, we’re number 1. The case features a cast of “diverse” defendants without much diversity. They are almost all Somali, I am sorry to say. By the same token, I believe that one of my Somali friends helped expose the fraud and assist »
April 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Mapes miasma

Featured imageI am warming up to watch the documentary Rather, celebrating the career of the disgraced former CBS News anchor. It is to be aired this coming Wednesday on Netflix. Apparently having access to a screener for media critics, the Star Tribune’s Neal Justin found the documentary to be wanting (“when it comes to the stumbles, like walking off the set when a tennis match went long, the legendary broadcaster goes »
April 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Scene at Columbia (With More PM Updates)

Featured imageAs I write, a little before 3 pm eastern time, it appears the letter from Columbia University’s leadership calling for a peaceful resolution of the situation, released on Friday, that Scott posted this morning is, to borrow the legendary phrase of Ron Ziegler, “inoperative.” That letter represented a de facto capitulation, and was, as Scott notes, playing for time, hoping the end of the school year would yield a dissolution »
April 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Who Are These People?

Featured imageSo who is behind the kill-the-Jews campus protests that, as Steve noted earlier today, have panicked Congressional Democrats who fear a political debacle as in 1968? Consistent with the retro nature of the protests, the organizers appear to be largely left-wing retreads, with a financial assist, it is reported, from one or more Soros entities. Take, for example, Charlotte Kates. Kates has been prominent in the Columbia protests: Radical anti-Israel »
April 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: The Great Llama Crisis of 2024

Featured imageJohn reported a few weeks back about how the “beepocalypse” (“Colony Collapse Disorder,” as it was called by the disordered minds of environmentalists) can now be added to the pile of discredited environmental catastrophies, but haven’t environmentalists noted that the America Llama population is collapsing? Where are the protests? The “Save the Llamas!” t-shirts? P.S. If the chicken population is up, how come eggs and chicken sandwiches are so much »
April 29, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

The Cure for ED

Featured imageBiden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona aims to “shut down” Grand Canyon University (GCU) an allegedly  “predatory” school, and already slapped with a fine of $37.7 million.  As Sir Bedevire (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of scholarship and the law? According to his official bio, “Cardona earned a bachelor’s degree from Central Connecticut State University, and a master’s degree and PhD from the »
April 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Weekend at Biden’s

Featured imageWho is Sasha Stone and why is she saying these things about Joe Biden? You can look her up online to try to get a handle on her. She is saying these things because she has seen President Biden’s public performances in recent days. Stone doesn’t invoke Weekend At Bernie’s as a metaphor, as I do in “Dead man walking,” but she assesses his recent recent public performances to arrive »
April 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Today’s Horserace Snapshot. . . [With Comment by John]

Featured imageA few days ago, in “State of the Race,” I passed along the latest Bloomberg poll showing Trump surging back into a significant lead over Biden. Today it is CNN’s turn: Trump’s support in the poll among registered voters holds steady at 49% in a head-to-head matchup against Biden, the same as in CNN’s last national poll on the race in January, while Biden’s stands at 43%, not significantly different »
April 28, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Barr Back Story

Featured imageIn One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, William Barr reveals his service for the CIA and his admiration for Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller and current FBI boss Christopher Wray. Barr also makes it clear that Obama and Biden were not in John Durham’s “crosshairs,” which calls to mind an episode not covered in the memoir. In the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, the FBI deployed massive military »
April 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Screams before silence

Featured imageSheryl Sandberg has fronted the documentary Screams Before Silence that was posted to YouTube on April 26. The documentary highlights the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas during and after its October 7 massacre. The trailer is below. Click on “Watch on YouTube” to be taken to the 56-minute documentary. Last year I saw more than a glimpse of the crazed sexual violence in the atrocity video compiled by the IDF »
April 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward

How Reagan Handled the Campus

Featured imageA lot of young conservatives today like to disparage “Zombie Reaganism,” without actually knowing very much about him. But is there any political leader right now speaking as clearly as this? There is NOTHING better to watch today than THIS ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/IGr1F2mAmq — miha schwartzenberg (@mihaschw) April 27, 2024 Though I’ll my mischievous suggestion for the day: »
April 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Columbia running out the clock

Featured imageThe Columbia Spectator brings us up to date on the state of play in “Columbia does not plan to call NYPD to campus, according to community email.” The Spectator story draws on the email from the president, provost, and co-chairs of the board of trustees that is included in the tweet below. The tweet provides an executive summary that can also be translated into the words of the old song »
April 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker

US Set to Regress From Modernity

Featured imageLiberals denounce Donald Trump as a would-be tyrant, but the fact is that he ruled less by executive order than any other recent president. It is Joe Biden who has discarded the Constitution and imposed a blizzard of illegal or probably-illegal regulations on the rest of us. Lately, they have been coming so furiously that it is hard to keep up with them. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board caught »
April 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Lesser of Two Evils

Featured imageA year ago, it would have been hard for me to imagine anything that would cause me to sympathize with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and its attendees. A more disgraceful event, and a more disgraceful group of people, are hard to conceive of. But last night, the dinner was beset by kill-the-Jews protesters, an even worse gang: "Shame on you!" pro-Palestinian protesters let their voices known to the members »
April 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Rathergate: 100 proof fraud

Featured imageThe Daily Beast’s John Fiallo reports that Dan Rather returns to CBS News today 18 years after his involuntary departure. Fiallo writes (emphasis added): The former CBS News anchor Dan Rather will make a brief return to the network Sunday, appearing in a live interview 18 years after his controversial exit. Rather, 92, is slated to be profiled on CBS News Sunday Morning through an interview with correspondent Lee Cowan, »
April 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker

The Power of Weakness

Featured imageModern liberals have distilled the true essence of Marxism, which is the idea that every human relationship is exploitative. Lenin summed it up as “who/whom”–who is doing what to whom? Of course this idea is ridiculous. Most human relationships, whether personal or economic, are not exploitative. But Marx’s idea has a perennial appeal to the discontented, and is endlessly malleable to suit the neuroses of the day. Thus, modern Marxists »
April 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Black Bear Matters

Featured imageThe news on hog futures once prompted the comedian Gallagher to proclaim, “hogs have no future, I mean bacon is not exactly a career.” That is true, and bacon may have peaked at the Black Bear Diner establishments, known for large portions. For breakfast, lunch or dinner, the place offers nothing that looks like the bottom of a bird cage or something you ate an hour ago. It’s all good, »