Democrats
March 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Kyrsten Sinema announced today that she will not seek reelection to her Arizona Senate seat: Sinema’s move is significant but not unexpected. She raised only $595,000 in the final quarter of 2023, a fraction of the totals that Lake and Gallego each raised — although Sinema maintains nearly $11 million in her campaign account. So it sounds like her mind was made up a while ago. Sinema’s withdrawal means the
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February 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In 2001, 2005 and 2017, some Democrat House members objected to the certification of electoral votes for the winning Republican presidential candidate. Those objections, while “denialist,” were only symbolic. But Democrat leaders in the House are now suggesting that if they control that body following November’s election–as they well might–they may refuse to allow a victorious Donald Trump to take office. The Atlantic did the original reporting, behind a paywall.
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February 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump has descended into comedy, currently of the bedroom farce variety. As all the world now knows, Willis carried on a torrid affair with Nathan Wade, whom she hired to lead the Trump prosecution and to whom she paid an extraordinary amount of taxpayer money, and then helped him spend it. That is corruption of the most old-fashioned sort. Willis and Wade have claimed that
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February 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In 1962, there was a Senate race in South Dakota between Republican Joseph Bottum and Democrat George McGovern. The seat was open due to the death of Republican Francis Case. I was just a kid, but I remember that election well. Bottum was the favorite, but in the closing days of the race the Democrats spread a rumor that he was an alcoholic. That ploy may have been crude, but
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February 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Today, in an Atlanta courtroom, a judge heard testimony on a motion by defendants to disqualify Fani Willis from her prosecution of Donald Trump and others. The hearing was live-streamed, but I didn’t watch it. From all accounts, though, the day went badly for Fani. The issue is being framed as whether Willis had a conflict of interest in her prosecution of Trump et al. The conflict would arise, I
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February 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
More evidence that when Democrats talk about Our Democracy™️ they don’t mean democracy. They mean not having to deal with those pesky opponents that sometimes, God forbid, win elections. Thus, Rasmussen finds that 78% of Democrats approve of “state officials removing Trump’s name from the ballot.” Well, that’s one way to make it easy to elect Democrats. In a parallel finding, 77% of Democrats say that the January 6 protest
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February 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s stock has been in steep decline ever since it came out that she hired her illicit boyfriend, Nathan Wade, to head the prosecution of Donald Trump on absurd “RICO” grounds, and paid him a lot of money. That revelation came out in Wade’s divorce proceeding, always an unfortunate venue. But it turns out that may not be the worst of it, as some of Willis’s
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February 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden has posted a Super Bowl message. The message I extract from it is slightly different than the one he is peddling. The message I get from it is that he and his handlers think we’re dumber than doornails. We may be stupid, but you can’t clobber us in the face and pretend the other guy did it. Biden may not remember that he and his fellow Dems are
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February 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We live in a corrupt environment in which, increasingly, words are used to signify the opposite of their actual meaning. Thus, Democrats often use the word “democracy” to mean its precise opposite. This is a fine example: Democratic Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has denounced the Supreme Court as "not friendly to democracy" after the cold reception to Colorado's effort to block Trump from the ballot. https://t.co/wFgWfhAmtd That now
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February 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Hamas war on Israel is criminal and barbaric. It is genocidal in the the old-fashioned sense — the sense with which Final Solution familiarized us. The support for Hamas that has emerged in the Democratic Party, on campus, and elsewhere around the country is therefore appalling. The latest news on the fate of Israeli hostages provides a somewhat striking twist in this respect. Drawing on a New York Times
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February 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
If there is a story/video/photo that captures the madness of the moment, it must be the one featuring illegal alien Jhoan Boda flipping off the crowd as he left the courthouse in Manhattan last week. Miranda Devine recapitulated key elements of the story in her Devine Online newsletter with the subject heading “Crazy Town.” Here is her summary of the story: Look at this charmer coming out of Manhattan Criminal
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February 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Doing the job that the mainstream media natives would prefer not to do, John Hinderaker reports on the likely arson that damaged the office of Center of the American Experiment and two other conservative organizations at the suburban office building that houses them (video below). One can reasonably infer that the organizations were targeted on political grounds. Arson won't slow us down. New footage and update from our President John
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February 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
John Hinderaker wrote here about the apparent arson at the offices of the Center of the American Experiment and other conservative organizations in suburban Minneapolis over this past weekend. The Star Tribune hasn’t gotten around to covering the story yet. Someday soon, but not yet. In the meantime, Alpha News is doing the job that the local mainstream media natives won’t do. Alpha News posted its story here yesterday afternoon.
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February 1, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were,” sang Neil Young back in 1972. Half a century later, Steven Crowder transformed that tune into “The Hunter Biden Song” (below), well worth attention with Hunter’s old man Joe in the White House. At the outset of 2024, a crucial election year, the people could use more material like that. “Hey Joe,” as Jimi Hendrix wondered, “where you
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January 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I thought Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was an unfettered leftist. With his vocal support of Israel, however, I have had to reassess. Fetterman is a better man — a better man than I previously judged. He seems more in tune with old-school Democrats than with the throbbing heart of the current Democratic Party. Last month Annie Karni collected quotes from Fetterman and Bernie bro progressives expressing their disapproval of him
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January 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s Democrats call themselves the Democrat Farmer Labor Party, even though the party includes virtually no farmers and hardly any laborers. But the delusion doesn’t stop there. This vignette captures the sheer childishness of the DFL’s leadership. Joe Biden visited Duluth yesterday. He was joined for a photo op by Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz and Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, along with Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin. Biden was led to
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January 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Democrats and their toadies in the news media never tire of asserting that the Republican Party has been “radicalized,” and is a “threat to democracyTM.” I suppose the following kind of platform language would strike liberals as radical and reactionary: We believe that a party platform is a covenant with the people to be faithfully kept by the party when entrusted with power, and that the people are entitled to
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