April 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I thought that question was settled a long time ago. People have knows that the Earth is spherical (more or less) for millennia. The ancient Greeks not only knew it was round, they used triangulation to calculate its circumference to within a small margin of error. So, are there really still people who think the Earth is flat? Allegedly so. This video got a lot of circulation on social media.
»
April 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is from Britain’s Telegraph, but I think we would see similar numbers in other countries, and worse in some: Only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on Oct 7, a major report has found. The numbers are even worse for “educated” Muslims: Younger and well-educated Muslims were the most likely to think Hamas did not commit atrocities on Oct 7, with
»
April 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins reviews the dishonorable role that the intelligence community played in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and predicts more of the same. In 2016: A Democratic presidential campaign, representing the incumbent party, fabricated evidence that its Republican opponent and the eventual president-elect was a Russian agent, and the in-power party’s FBI legitimated the evidence in the eyes of the media so it would be
»
April 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Earlier this week, an Israeli air strike inadvertently killed seven aid workers in Gaza. The strike was a mistake for which at least two Israeli army officers have been cashiered. It was the occasion for world-wide calumny, including a demand by Joe Biden that the Israelis go along with Hamas’s demand for a cease-fie, i.e., a Hamas victory. But tragedies happen in a war zone–even this one, where Israel has
»
April 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Thursday evening, a malevolent crowd at a public forum at Rutgers threatened Jewish students and drove the university’s president from the room. The Free Beacon reports: A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to “globalize the intifada”… “Globalize the intifada” means that no Jew should ever be able to live in safety, anywhere in the world. …hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish
»
April 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Many are hailing today’s establishment and household job reports, which show 300,000, or as many as 500,000, jobs being added in March. But Steve Moore points out in his Committee to Unleash Prosperity email that the picture is far from rosy: The new job numbers for March were strong with 300,000 jobs added in the establishment survey and 500,000 in the household survey. But those positive headline numbers camouflage a
»
April 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The “trans” industry’s assault on America’s youth includes persuading kids that they “really” are a boy rather than a girl, or vice versa. Sex change operations don’t come immediately; rather, the preferred sequence begins with puberty-blocking drugs. The rationale is that the effects of these drugs are reversible, so they merely buy time to allow the kid to sort out his or her “gender.” But are the effects of puberty-blocking
»
April 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is one of the most niche headlines ever, a grand slam (to mix sports metaphors) of wokeness: I stay up nights worrying about this. pic.twitter.com/f5Zjq4ZBNi — Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 4, 2024 Because apparently it never rained in Indonesia until recently. The Left has become impossible to parody. STEVE adds—I dunno John. Seems like this headline from CBS News is a contender:
»
April 4, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In my opinion, conservatism–i.e., freedom–is superior to liberalism–i.e., state power–on philosophical and moral grounds. But then there is the added argument that freedom, unlike socialism, actually works. We have seen this repeatedly: e.g., Jimmy Carter failed, while Ronald Reagan succeeded. Donald Trump (by no means a perfect exemplar of conservatism, but still, a sponsor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) succeeded, while Joe Biden failed. In recent years, we
»
April 4, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Via InstaPundit, the Wall of Anti-Semitism at Harvard: Remember when Jews at Harvard had to bring in their menorah every night at Hanukkah because the school couldn’t guarantee it wouldn’t be vandalized? This “apartheid wall” is on display now at Harvard yard, complete with quotes from terrorists, guarded 24/7 by school security. pic.twitter.com/IBAS0RmmxL — Yael Bar tur 🎗️ (@yaelbt) April 3, 2024 I can’t vouch for what she says about
»
April 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
When I was growing up, most families I knew had four children. More, if they were Catholics. That is one of the fundamental ways in which our society has changed: today, people generally have fewer children. And now, if you show me a family with four children, I will lay heavy odds that they are Republicans. In the New York Post, Glenn Reynolds writes about the fact that the world
»
April 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some of the most sophisticated work on energy in the country is being done by Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling of Center of the American Experiment. Here, Isaac explains in understandable terms why the supposed costs of wind and solar projects that you see reported in the press, and alleged by “green” advocates, are always wildly off base: [T]hese claims, which are already tenuous due to rising wind and solar
»
April 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Fifteen or twenty years ago, and for some years following, there was a great deal of publicity about bee colonies dying out. The cause of the decline was unclear, but most people assumed it was somehow our fault. Where I live, “Save the Bees” signs started cropping up in yards and in front of apartment dwellings, along with “All Are Welcome Here” and “We Believe In Science.” Some people let
»
April 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This morning’s New York Times email tells its subscribers that Russia and China are rooting for Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election: America’s biggest adversaries evidently want Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election. Vladimir Putin’s preference for Trump has long been clear. And now China’s government is taking steps to help Trump’s presidential campaign. The idea that either Russia or China prefers Trump to Joe Biden,
»
April 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is how Kamala Harris demagogues the abortion issue, which Democrats consider their lifeline to political survival: In America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban in effect. This is a direct result of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. He is the architect of this health care crisis. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 30, 2024 “Donald Trump’s Supreme Court”?
»
April 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
America’s colleges and universities have damaged our country badly, and don’t show any sign of reform. So one obvious path to improvement is for fewer people to attend them. Happily, that is happening: not only that, but young people are finding better alternatives. Links in original: Long beset by a labor crunch, the skilled trades are newly appealing to the youngest cohort of American workers, many of whom are choosing
»
April 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Not me: rather, J.K. Rowling, the world’s most popular novelist. I think Rowling started out as a liberal, but she isn’t crazy and she is a feminist. So she is appalled by the “trans” nonsense, and isn’t afraid to say so. Under newly-enacted law in Scotland, where she lives, that could subject her to arrest. I wrote about the insanity now prevailing in Scotland here. JK Rowling has challenged the
»
