June 8, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Rep. Thomas Massie is on his way out of the House, having resoundingly lost his primary election last month. So how is he spending his last months in public office? He is defaming Israel. Today, on the floor of the House, Massie resurrected an old calumny against the Jewish state, the USS Liberty incident, which occurred in 1967 during the six-day war. He described his shameful performance as “one of
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June 8, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Increasingly, it seems that American liberals and conservatives are living on different planets. The latest case in point: 55% of Democrats say they would rather live in a country other than the United States: According to a new Elon University/YouGov poll, a full *55%* of Democrats said that they would rather live in a different country than the United States. Only 10% of Republicans said the same. pic.twitter.com/cSpccKhC6d — Greg
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June 8, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Election Day returns indicated that Spencer Pratt had easily secured the second position in the Los Angeles Mayor race, and would face incumbent Karen Bass in the general election. But ballots have continued to come in and be counted, and a remarkable number of those ballots have been for the initial third-place candidate, Nithya Raman. So it looks like the runoff election will be between two far-left candidates, and Los
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June 7, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Protests are currently going on in the U.K. over Britain’s two-tier system of criminal justice, but it turns out that the U.K. has a two-tier mental health system, too: NHS doctors are under pressure not to section psychotic black patients to avoid appearing racist. *** Nine current and former NHS psychiatrists reported being encouraged to limit the number of black patients they section under the Mental Health Act to avoid
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June 7, 2026 — John Hinderaker
President Trump was on Meet the Press this morning, and his interview with Kristen Welker turned incendiary when Welker attacked Trump over the proposed fund to compensate victims of government weaponization. Welker, of course, wanted to talk about the January 6, 2021 protest, the most over-hyped news story on record. But Trump wasn’t having it, and the conversation turned to election integrity. Welker insisted that there is no evidence of
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June 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I don’t usually write about un-American sports, but who can resist Norway’s World Cup soccer squad and its iconic team photo? Certainly not me, as an almost 100% descendant of Norwegians. Click to enlarge: The Norwegian players are evidently proud of their Viking heritage. As are many in my home state, Minnesota, where our NFL team is called, as everyone knows, the Vikings. Yet there are always killjoys. One of
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June 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
We have been following the Henry Nowak case that his roiled Great Britain. It is only the latest of many instances of Britain’s two-tier justice system, but for whatever reason it seems to be the incident that has opened the floodgates. Yesterday JD Vance weighed in on Twitter: Vance’s comments were only incidentally about the particulars of the Nowak case, and only partly about the U.K. His point was broader–a
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
As one scandal after another befalls Graham Platner, national Democrats have closed ranks behind him. No doubt they are privately calculating whether they need to dump him, and if so, whether it can realistically be done. But in public, they are with Platner 100%. With one exception: as in so many other instances, John Fetterman dissents: “Every Democrat knows P-Hustle has Nazi ink, was Captain D–k-Pic on Kik, abusive towards
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
More good economic news: The BLS number of jobs reported this morning for the month of May was close to 265,000 – when including the upward revisions from previous months. This is a phenomenal number given the declining workforce. The workforce is declining due to illegal aliens self-deporting or, in a smaller number of cases, being deported. This chart shows the numbers: At the same time, the financial markets are
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Democrats are outraged over the news that the administration is considering issuing a $250 bill in commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, with President Trump’s picture on it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent displayed a mockup of the hypothetical bill: I think this is a marvelous troll on the part of President Trump. Trump has a sense of humor, and his critics generally don’t. Thus, they often fail to understand when
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night, I was on the Sky News U.S. Report with host James Morrow. It was an excellent conversation that covered the latest allegations in the prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the clown show that Democrats have made out of Congressional committee hearings, and the collapse of 60 Minutes. There is a harkening back to Rathergate, and discussion of the Ku Klux Klan–a group that, years ago, I
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June 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Liberals like to denounce the rest of us as racists, but the truth is that they are the ones who are obsessed with race. This is a classic example: “BBC apologises for misquoting Farage on Nowak murder.” The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage after one of its presenters misquoted his comments about the killing of Henry Nowak. During Tuesday’s Newsnight programme, Matt Chorley, the presenter, said that the Reform
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June 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
John Bolton reportedly will plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information, and will pay a $2.25 million fine to avoid jail time. From the indictment that gave rise to the current plea: “From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his
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June 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I have often expressed puzzlement over the Trump administration’s cease fire in Iran and its strategy going forward. In general, my views align with Scott’s, as expressed earlier today. However, for a more optimistic view, check out Condoleezza Rice’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: The war against Iran has been a limited war, and its outcome is likely to be inconclusive. But it has achieved enough to produce a
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June 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
CBS News has fired Scott Pelley. The new regime at CBS News is praising Pelley, probably disingenuously: [New CBS News head Bari] Weiss nevertheless praised Pelley’s body of work and highlighted several of his recent reports for “60 Minutes.” “That unfortunate outcome does not discount from the amazing contributions and work that Scott Pelley has done for CBS and for ‘60 Minutes’ over the course of his career,” Weiss said.
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June 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ostensibly on the State Department’s budget. But Democrats on the committee have no interest in any legitimate oversight role. Nor do they have any interest in asking Rubio questions. They proceed in what has become the usual style: they harangue the witness, often with an affect of insane rage, and the witness may or may not
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June 2, 2026 — John Hinderaker
As we await primary results from Los Angeles, this is a break from the news. (For up to the minute hard news coverage, go here.) First a video, of a kid with remarkable skills as a mimic and an excellent knowledge of bird calls. It is taking the internet by storm. Following the video, some observations on turkeys. I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is
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