January 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Strange interlude

Featured image “President Biden” probably won’t be done inflicting harm on the United States until he leaves office later today. There is yet more to come. At the moment, we have today’s preemptive pardons. Biden’s “presidency” already seems like a strange interlude in our history. One might have thought that only an avowed enemy of the United States would open our borders and invite the rest of the world to come on »
January 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Coup’s next

Featured imageOne would never understand the lawlessness of the Minnesota Democrats from the news pages of the Star Tribune. They are engaged in a slow-motion coup that is obscured by DFL representatives’ disappearance from the state House of Representatives, which convened by law this past Tuesday at noon. They seek to prevent the current Republican majority from organizing the House by purporting to deprive them of a quorum. In this case, »
January 19, 2025 — Steven Hayward

One Last Kick on the Way Out the Door

Featured imageDown to the last few hours of the Biden interregnum, and the scene is almost enough to make this near-geezer giddy. First, who would imagine you’d ever see this: Now, is that a Village Person, or is it Elon Musk in costume doing his patented X-dance? I’m good either way. But the New York Times isn’t: While we’re talking about the Times, it is worth gong back to savor how »
January 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson

The prophetic voice

Featured imageWhen Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his nonviolent campaign against segregation to Bull Connor’s Birmingham, he laid siege to the bastion of Jim Crow. In Birmingham between 1957 and 1962, black homes and churches had been subjected to a series of horrific bombings intended to terrorize the community. In April 1963 King answered the call to bring his campaign to Birmingham. When King landed in jail on Good Friday for »
January 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker

More Confirmation Follies

Featured imageMy takeaway from the confirmation hearings so far is that the Democratic Party suffers from a severe IQ deficit. Their senators are at best dull-witted, and often embarrassing. Rarely do they ask a serious question; rather, they repeat discredited anti-Trump tropes that the witnesses can generally swat away without difficulty. Here, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, a dim bulb even by Senate Democrat standards, tries to run the “family separation” chestnut »
January 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Inauguration, Confirmation Hearings and the Biden Clown Show

Featured imageLast night I was on the Outsiders TV show on Sky News, Australia. As always, it was a fun appearance. We talked about Trump’s nominees and their confirmation hearings, in particular Pete Hegseth, about the end of the disastrous Biden Administration and the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump. I am impressed to see that the YouTube version of the interview has already gotten 53,000 views: I’ll be doing the Bolt »
January 19, 2025 — Steven Hayward

Bill Maher for Governor of California?

Featured imageThere are several memes going around featuring trendy Californians expressing their disgust for our current government (which I think is a real thing—so much so that if Kamala runs for governor she just might repeat Richard Nixon’s famous 1962 faceplant), in which the punchline is: “Next time I’ll vote for a different Democrat!” Sadly there’s a lot to this, owing to the feebleness of the Republican Party in California these »
January 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Faceless in Gaza

Featured imageThe celebration has commenced today in Gaza with the commencement of the ceasefire. Surviving members of Hamas have reemerged from the shadows. Three innocent women held hostage by Hamas — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher — are in the process of being freed while Israel is to release 30 actual terrorist murderers for each freed hostage. Despite the commandment to redeem captives, there must be a commandment somewhere »
January 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured imageSinger/songwriter Richie Havens died in 2013 at the age of 72. This coming January 21 is the anniversary of his birth. His music has meant a lot to me. Until Albert O observed Richie’s birthday with a few cuts on WUMB’s Highway 61 Revisited yesterday morning, I hadn’t heard his voice for a long time. While I limit myself to 10 videos that emphasize his early career — the years »
January 18, 2025 — Steven Hayward

Immigration Rethink: It’s Happening in Europe

Featured imageFor a long time I have been speculating that the time will come when Europe faces a choice—it will need to expel large numbers of culturally incompatible immigrants, or face the extinction of their national identities. It is easy to make the case that Europe will choose, by default, the second option. But perhaps the turn is coming, from the most unexpected place. From Reuters: Sweden seeks to change constitution »
January 18, 2025 — Steven Hayward

Podcasts: The 3WHH & Ricochet Double-Header

Featured imageAnother podcast double-header for your weekend listening. First up, there is nothing “jejune” about this week’s edition of the 3WHH, except perhaps for the first-ever use of “jejune” in a podcast, but it is the perfect term to describe Joe Biden’s “farewell address,” which, aside from its jejune content, is a most welcome sound, since he will be gone in about another 48 hours, never to be heard from again »
January 19, 2025 — Steven Hayward

The Retro World of AI

Featured imageI can’t get my head around all the permutations of the AI world coming to us at a rapid pace, though it looks as revolutionary at Gutenberg’s movable type in the 15th century. Who knew that the mass production of books would have such far reaching effects. One use of AI that I am enjoying, however, is its retro possibilities. Two from “Abandoned Films” on YouTube update contemporary Sci-Fi icons »
January 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Tangled up in lies

Featured imageState representative Walter Hudson has kindly compiled the video update below on the last week in Minnesota politics. I hesitate to reiterate the ins and outs of all the maneuvers and developments we have tried to track. The theme here is that Democrats are tangled in their own lies. Your #mnleg week in review. pic.twitter.com/Lqc8deM2dY — Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) January 18, 2025 On Friday, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that »
January 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Speaker Johnson’s testimony

Featured imageLast week Free Press founder/editor Bari Weiss interviewed House Speaker Mike Johnson for her Honestly podcast. In the clip below, Johnson testifies to his observation of the mental incompetence of “President Biden.” John draws on the New York Post story reporting Johnson’s testimony in his post “It isn’t funny.” Eli Lake posted the video and reported on it in his Free Press story here. EXCLUSIVE: @SpeakerJohnson tells @BariWeiss that President »
January 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker

It Isn’t Funny

Featured imageWe and many others had fun yesterday at Joe Biden’s expense. He tweeted an announcement: the Equal Rights Amendment has been adopted! It’s the law of the land! No one took it seriously; if a president really tried to change the Constitution via executive order, he would be impeached and driven from office. Personally, I doubt Biden has any idea that he tweeted the supposed adoption of the ERA. I »
January 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Mass Deportations? Well, Yes (Updated)

Featured imageHaving opened our borders to many millions of illegal immigrants, Democrats now argue that it is impossible, or impractical, to send them back where they came from. In their view, once an illegal crosses the border he is home free. The sheer scale of their malfeasance makes it impossible to do anything about it. NBC’s Kristen Welker runs that theory past Marco Rubio, and he is having none of it. »
January 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Sunset of the ERA

Featured imageYesterday “President Biden” announced the dawn of the Equal Rights Amendment era — the ERA era. The White House posted “Biden’s” statement on the ERA and posted a companion announcement on X. Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their »