March 12, 2017 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times devotes a long article, with video clips, to last night’s Saturday Night Live show. It appears that the entire program was devoted to attacking President Trump, or members of his administration or family. The opening sequence portrayed Trump as a coward. There is an alien invasion: Mr. Baldwin … began by asking, “Who here loves Trump?” “I know this guy over here, he loves Trump,” he
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March 11, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Of all the Obama administration scandals, what Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch did to the Department of Justice is one of the worst. Two manifestations of the depths to which DOJ has fallen emerged today. First, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the highly partisan Democrat who selectively prosecuted Dinesh D’Souza for a felony and tried to send him to jail because he contributed too much to a Senate campaign,
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March 11, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Not all liberals are bullies, but a great many are. Where liberals are in the majority, the bullies among them try to make life miserable for those who fail to conform. Almost every college campus is in this category. A case in point, one of many, is St. Olaf College, where my youngest daughter is a sophomore. The college newspaper has a commendably balanced story on the intolerance that prevails
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March 10, 2017 — John Hinderaker
This may be the dumbest news story of the day, courtesy of the anti-Republican Associated Press: “Attorney general seeks resignations of 46 US attorneys.” This was blared as a breaking news story on newspaper sites across the country. Of course the administration is asking the prior administration’s U.S. Attorneys to resign. U.S Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president, just like the Secretary of State
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March 10, 2017 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press is bidding to overtake the New York Times as the most biased news source in America. To perhaps a greater degree even than the Times and the Washington Post, the AP has set itself up as the opposition to the Trump administration. Often, its bias has to be seen to be believed. As with this story: “Jobs report no longer phony, Trump says, now that it’s his.”
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March 10, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Scott wrote this morning about the costs of Minnesota’s Somali refugee population to the state. He discussed, among other things, an article in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune that contains information about the cost of welfare benefits to Minnesota’s Somali refugee population. The Strib’s spin on the issue is a positive one: yes, temporary welfare costs are high, but just wait until all those refugees go to work and benefit the
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March 10, 2017 — John Hinderaker
This apparently is a legit BBC interview of an expert on something or other, tweeted by someone in the U.K. and passed on to me by one of my daughters: This BBC interview is amazing. Just wait until the mum rushes in… 😂 pic.twitter.com/LGw1ACR9rg — JOE.co.uk (@JOE_co_uk) March 10, 2017
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March 9, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Our friend Hugh Hewitt made news today with his interview of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Associated Press headlines: “AG SUGGESTS OPENNESS TO REVIEW OF PREDECESSORS’ ACTIONS.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested Thursday that he would be open to the appointment of an outside counsel to review actions taken by the Justice Department during the Obama administration. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Sessions in an interview if the new
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March 9, 2017 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats’ riled-up base is demanding that the party’s senators do everything they can to block the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court: Liberal groups that oppose Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court are telling Democratic senators to oppose him, or face the consequences. The groups on Thursday formed “The People’s Defense,” billed as a massive grassroots campaign to defeat Gorsuch’s nomination in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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March 8, 2017 — John Hinderaker
I know that today was International Women’s Day because it was all over my Instagram feed. (By the way, Instagram is the only social medium that I like, because it is almost completely nonpolitical. I use it only for personal stuff, but if you like, you can follow me at johnhinderaker.) However, the “Day Without Women” campaign that was promoted by left-wingers in the U.S. was a complete bust, as
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March 8, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Peter Nelson, my colleague at Center of the American Experiment, is one of the country’s leading experts on health care policy. On the Center’s web site, he urges conservatives to take a deep breath and understand the constraints that Congressional Republicans are working under. In particular, a full repeal of Obamacare must get through the Senate, which means it must get 60 votes. There are only 52 Republican senators. Therefore,
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March 8, 2017 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press headlines: NBC chief to Trump: We won’t be intimidated. The chief of NBC News has a message for President Donald Trump: We’re not going to be intimidated. NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said on Tuesday that the president’s attacks on some media outlets won’t deter his organization from doing its job. Actually, Trump was trying to encourage news organizations to do their jobs, not deter them. I
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March 8, 2017 — John Hinderaker
ADP’s National Employment Report shows that the economy added 298,000 jobs in February. January’s number was also revised upward from 246,000 to 261,000. The February number was well above what most economists had predicted. “February proved to be an incredibly strong month for employment with increases we have not seen in years,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute. For context, here are ADP’s numbers
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March 7, 2017 — John Hinderaker
No, not Jeff Sessions. Sessions was asked whether representatives of the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russian officials on behalf of the campaign, and Sessions said he didn’t know anything about that. He hadn’t had such contact on behalf of the campaign. His answer was completely and fully accurate. No one asked Sessions whether he had ever met a Russian. I am talking about Eric Holder, who almost
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March 7, 2017 — John Hinderaker
That is what a lot of people are saying: Obamacare Lite, or Obamacare 2.0. Paul Ryan, on the other hand, calls it the most significant entitlement reform in 50 years. Maybe it is. But the Republicans hold power in Washington in considerable part because of popular revulsion against Obamacare. Hasn’t just about every Republican in Congress pledged to repeal Obamacare? Haven’t the House and Senate actually voted to repeal Obamacare?
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March 7, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Martha Raddatz of ABC asked former press secretary Josh Earnest whether he would deny President Trump’s claim that the Obama administration spied on his campaign. Much like former President Obama’s current spokesman, Earnest weaseled: She asked Josh Earnest point-blank, “Can you categorically deny that the Obama Justice Department did not seek and obtain a FISA court order? [sic]” His response was full of weasel words: “What I can categorically deny,
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March 7, 2017 — John Hinderaker
I was on the Seth and Chris show with our friend Seth Leibsohn in Phoenix last night, talking about FISAgate. I think the conversation provides a good summary of what we know–and, equally important, don’t know–about this story. Here it is:
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