The sick left
May 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Last year I attended the Manhattan Institute’s annual Alexander Hamilton Award dinner in New York City with my oldest daughter and reported on the experience “Of being called ‘Nazi filth.'” That was a new one on me. It was an early warning of the gathering Mamdani stormn. This year’s MI Alexander Hamilton Award dinner honored former Senator Ben Sasse, now suffering with Stage Four pancreatic cancer, and Jeff Yass, the
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April 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
You may have heard about the apologia for the murder of Brian Thomopson under the auspices of the New York Times by one Hasan Piker. It appears in the transcript of a conversation published April 29 with the headline (quoting Piker) “The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?” If you are so fortunate as to have lived your life in blissful ignorance of Piker, Jim Geraghty
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April 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
James Meigs is one of my favorite writers. He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of MI’s City Journal. I met Mr. Meigs at a Manhattan Institute dinner in 2024. He is a learned and delightful gentleman. As the editor of Popular Mechanics in years gone by, he made the magazine a major voice on technological issues of the day. Most recently, he has
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April 22, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It was Voltaire who observed that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. You can look it up. Unlike the Southern Poverty Law Center, however, it wasn’t a fraud from the name on down. The SPLC is. The Department of Justice has secured an indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Middle District of Alabama (Montgomery, the SPLC’s home base). The indictment is
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January 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The riot brigades cruising the Twin Cities look like an organized effort of the ICE resistance. The coverage available on X far exceeds anything I can find in the mainstream media and the nothing that is available at the Star Tribune site. The scene below depicts the Canopy by Hilton on South 3rd Street in downtown Minneapolis’s Mill District, about a block from US Bank Stadium. Minneapolis (Jan. 9) —
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November 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Barbara Wien posted flyers exposing White House adviser Stephen Miller’s address and calling for “NO NAZIS.” Drawing on Marc Caputo’s Axios story, Jessica Schwalb reports for the Washington Free Beacon (links omitted): On Sept. 11, a day after conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was killed by a politically motivated assassin, Barbara Wien, a retired 66-year-old American University professor, posted the flyers around Miller’s Arlington neighborhood showing a photo of the Trump
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July 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Jeffrey Epstein hysteria continues today with the Wall Street Journal story reporting that President Trump wrote Epstein a fiftieth birthday letter in 2003, some 22 years ago. President Trump denies the story and vows to sue the Journal. I would like to think that the Journal story represents the Epstein apex and that it’s downhill from here, but I wouldn’t bet on it. The fever pitch will continue for
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May 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I’m in New York for last night’s Manhattan Institute’s annual Alexander Hamilton Award dinner. Held last night at Cipriani on 42nd Street, this year the award honored long-time Manhattan Institute chairman Paul Singer. As of last night, Mr. Singer has stepped down and been succeeded as MI chairman by Betsy DeVos. Mr. Singer is the founder and president of Elliott Investment Management. He is also the philanthropic supporter of conservative
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December 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Certain denizens of elite precincts are celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione. UnitedHealthCare is UnitedHealth Group’s insurance arm. They see Thompson’s murder as a blow against the system of health care and health insurance to which the left itself has contributed. Their celebration seems crazier than Mangione. The sick streak running through our elites grows wider every day. DISGUSTING: On a poll of 634 UPenn
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November 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Mark Halperin remarked before the election on his Two-Way program that a Trump win might well set off a mass mental health crisis in the country. And at least in Seattle it looks like he was right: Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author and journalist has been accused
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January 13, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
[Herewith a sequel to the previous item about leftist violence in the U.S. Capitol that Democrats always seem to forget.] Often unaware of the date, time, and his own location, it was only natural that Joe Biden should forget 11/7, the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol by the May 19th Communist Organization. As William Rosenau showed in Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol, this was the “the first and
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December 22, 2023 — John Hinderaker
On December 3, a radical group hosted a “teach-in” titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” The panelists linked America and Israel as “settler colonialist” nations–the only ones, apparently, in world history–and thus the source of all evil. This is the whole thing. It goes on for more than two hours, and I don’t recommend that you watch it. Among other things, the panelists celebrate the Hamas massacre of October 7 as
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December 8, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
“WHY WOULD TRUMP LEAK THAT TUCKER CARLSON MIGHT BE HIS VP? Because Hitler’s dead?” As Sir Bedivere (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of politics and history? Why, it’s Keith Olbermann, in a December 8 post on X. The former ESPN mouthpiece is in familiar form. Back on 9/11, Keith Olbermann attributed Aaron Rodgers’ injury to his failure to vaccinate. Olbermann also
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November 27, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
On October 9, two days after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a pro-Hamas mob in Massachusetts trampled on the American flag. If this leaves observers puzzled, the principle at work has been dramatized in popular culture. In Fort Apache the Bronx, police toss an innocent Puerto Rican to his death from the roof of a building. Leftist critics viewed the 1981 film as cinéma vérité about conditions
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November 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Steve Hayward takes up “The Hamas wing of the ‘climate’ cult” in a column for The Pipeline. This is his conclusion: The open embrace of authoritarianism makes evident that climate change is only a pretext for their real object, which is revolution and the drive for power to achieve it. If climate change didn’t exist as a cause to be exploited, the deep left would find something else—any cause will
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March 31, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
What happens when those tasked with enforcing the law are the biggest thugs of all? This is not a rhetorical question. It is now obvious that the federal government has become hopelessly corrupt. A deliberate campaign to weaponize government agencies against political foes began during the Obama administration and accelerated when President Joe Biden took office. The targeting of conservative groups by the IRS between 2010 and 2012 gave us the first clue
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March 20, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has taken fire over the last two days for his silence regarding rumors that former President Donald Trump might be indicted by New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg for alleged hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, in 2016. His response managed to upset both Trump supporters and critics alike. Asked to weigh in at a Monday morning event, the Florida governor replied:
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