March 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker

DOGE Stopped In Its Tracks

Featured image Today another federal judge threw sand in the Trump administration’s gears, in an order that is more important than the others that we have seen so far. Plaintiffs in the case are unnamed employees of USAID. Defendants are Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. The judge is Theodore Chuang of the District of Maryland. Judge Chuang granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order, finding that their »
March 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker

The AP Lies Again

Featured imageWhile outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, etc. tend to attract more conservative ire, the Associated Press is probably the news organization that does the most damage to America. The AP, which once was respected as a reasonably neutral purveyor of information, has gone all-in for the Democratic Party. But this one has to be seen to be believed. First, the headline: The article is an »
March 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Feeding Our Fraud: He Said he said

Featured imageYesterday’s trial proceedings opened with an argument about whether defendant Salim Said could play a campaign video featuring Ilhan Omar in Said’s defense. The video shows Omar talking up Safari restaurant inside the restaurant in Somali and bringing meals outside to waiting cars. Lead prosecutor Joe Thompson objected to Omar’s part in the video as an attempt to graft her prestige as a member of Congress onto Said’s defense. Judge »
March 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson

“You should watch the news”

Featured imageSecretary of State Marco Rubio is a formidable spokesman for the foreign policy of the Trump administration. On Sunday Margaret Brennan wondered about the merits of the administration’s case to deport Columbia’s Mahmoud Khalil. As though talking to a dummy, she enunciated her question asking whether there is a link to terrorism in Khalil’s case. In response Rubio made a comment that frequently applies to the hosts of the Sunday »
March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker

They Knew. They All Knew.

Featured imageIt is now just about universally acknowledged that the covid-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where gain of function research was being conducted with the support of the U.S. government. This was vociferously denied for years by Western governments, apparently because they were afraid to cross the Chinese Communist Party. But it came out a few days ago that Germany knew all along that covid-19 was a »
March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Lost In Space

Featured imageThe story of stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore deserves to be much better known. Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in the International Space Station since June 2024, nine months ago. They were scheduled to be in the space station for just eight days. One can only imagine the horror of being stranded in space for nine months, with no imminent hope of rescue. Boeing equipment that »
March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Trump vs. Big Law

Featured imageOn Friday, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Addressing Risks From Paul Weiss.” This follows similar orders relating to Perkins Coie, the firm that was involved in trying to rig the 2016 presidential election by fabricating the “Steele dossier” on behalf of the Clinton campaign, and Covington & Burling, one of the top firms in Washington, D.C. Paul Weiss is a great law firm, probably my favorite of all »
March 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Adios, Tren de Aragua [Updated]

Featured imagePresident Trump has moved aggressively and effectively against the horrific Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. He is using a federal statute, 50 U.S.C. 21, the Enemy Aliens Act, to expedite that removal. The legal analysis underlying his actions is, in my opinion, sound. 50 U.S.C. 21 says, in pertinent part: Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or »
March 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Introducing Bill Glahn

Featured imageAttentive readers will have noticed a new byline on this site: Bill Glahn, a colleague of mine at Center of the American Experiment. For a number of years, Bill served as a Research Consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives, supporting energy, economic development, housing, and budget committees. He served as a Deputy Commissioner of Commerce in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s administration. Bill worked as a management consultant for seventeen years »
March 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Berney Strauss, RIP

Featured imageBerney Strauss was my best college friend. After college we went to graduate school together pursuing our interest in literature before shifting our attention elsewhere. Berney died this past Tuesday morning. He was in the hospital confronting dire complications of continuing health issues. His beautiful wife Ebie had donated a kidney to Berney to deal with his issues, but the underlying disease had recurred. When I texted Ebie for an »
March 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Red flag warning

Featured imageLast month I wrote briefly about Senator Tom Cotton’s book Seven Things You Can’t Say About China on its official date of publication in “Seven Things You Can Say About Tom Cotton.” Now Professor David Garrow, author of Rising Star and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross, reviews the book for the Washington Free Beacon in “Red flag warning.” Professor Garrow writes: Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton, now chairman of »
March 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Constitutional Crisis? Not Yet

Featured imageI wrote here about President Trump’s appropriate and, in my opinion, perfectly legal effort to expel violent foreign gang members from the U.S. The fact that this effort is controversial tells you all you need to know about the current moment in our history. Democrats are accusing the president of “refusing to comply” with the order issued by District Court Judge James Boasberg, who directed the administration not to deport »
March 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Feeding Our Fraud: ?s for Tim Walz

Featured imageThere is of course a political angle to the massive Feeding Our Future fraud. How to get at it? I emailed questions to Attorney General Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz on March 3. I wrote Walz at the email address I found for his press team: “I am covering the Feeding Our Future trials in federal court for the Power Line site. I am working on a story about »
March 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn

A new Canadian PM

Featured imageOn Friday, Mark Carney was sworn in as His Majesty’s 24th Prime Minister of Canada. He replaces nepo baby Justin Trudeau, who had served in the office for the past decade. I must confess that I am completely baffled by Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. As I understand it, Carney is not a member of the Canadian Parliament, has never been a member of parliament, nor has he ever held elected office. »
March 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn

A “complex” too complex

Featured imageIn a report with “exclusive details,” the New York Post writes today, Texas nonprofit housing migrant kids took $3B in grants from Biden admin — and boosted executive salaries up to 139% — before Trump pulled plug. The nonprofit in question, the Austin, TX-based Southwest Key Programs, has been around for decades, but as the Post shows, their operations exploded under the multi-billion-dollar Biden grant. The group’s CEO now earns »
March 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Feeding Our Fraud: ?s for Keith Ellison

Featured imageJudge Nancy Brasel plans to submit the charges against Aimee Bock and Salim Said to the jury on Tuesday. When the jury returns with its verdict I hope to write an overview of the case for readers outside the Twin Cities metropolitan area who may find the case of interest. What happens when you cross a third-world tribal culture with a local Democratic establishment? It’s an interesting question. You can »
March 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured imageI celebrated John Sebastian’s 80th birthday in this series last year. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Lovin’ Spoonful in 2000 as the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. I had a great time compiling a set of videos in his honor. Hearing one of the tunes I compiled below on WUMB’s Highway 61 Revisited yesterday morning, I thought I »