October 29, 2020 — John Hinderaker

France Under Attack

Featured image France has sustained a series of attacks by Islamic terrorists, leaving three dead. Sun has a good account with lots of photos. The principal violence occurred at a church in Nice: France is under siege after a woman was beheaded and two others killed in a church by a suspected terrorist and a another gunman was shot dead in a wave of violence. Two separate suspects are understood to have »
October 29, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

Princeton president tries to double talk his way out of pickle he created

Featured imageThis summer, Christopher Eisgruber, the president of Princeton University, admitted that the institution he has run for years is plagued by “systemic racism.” He also admitted that racist assumptions “remain embedded in structures of the University itself.” U.S. law bars colleges and universities that receive federal money from subjecting students to discrimination on the basis of race. Princeton receives lots of federal money. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Education, which »
October 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson

Biden documents disappeared [UPDATED BY PAUL]

Featured imageAt the top of his show featuring Tony Bobulinski this past Tuesday evening, Tucker Carlson flagged efforts taken to suppress the Biden crime family story: “We’re seeing it first hand. Last night we experienced an extraordinary attempt to interfere with our reporting on the Biden family. We’ll bring you details on that soon.” Tucker detailed the underlying facts at the top of his show last night. I have posted the »
October 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson

“Anonymous” no more

Featured imageIn September 2018 the New York Times published the column by a purported “senior official in the Trump administration” who vowed relentlessly to thwart Trump. The Times identified the author of the column as “Anonymous.” Wow. What a scandal! More proof that Trump was unfit for office. Even those who worked directly with him saw it! Who was that masked man? “Anonymous” has come out. He is Miles Taylor, who »
October 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson

Coronavirus in one state (119)

Featured imageWe appear to be riding another wave of the COVID-19 epidemic as reflected in positive tests, whatever they mean, increased hospitalizations and increased deaths. In yesterday’s data, for example, the authorities attributed 19 new deaths to the disease. Sixteen of these 19 deaths occurred among residents of long-term care facilities, which reminds us of how the same old thing rolls on. Other elements of the same old thing persist. The »
October 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker

Pre-Election VIP Live on Friday!

Featured imagePlease join your fellow VIPs for our big pre-election VIP Live event, Friday evening, beginning at 7 p.m. Central (5 Pacific, 8 Eastern). We will make our official pre-election predictions and note less obvious results we should be watching for on Election Night. Plus, it will be a pre-Halloween show. Costumes are optional but encouraged. If you are a VIP member, you will get an email with a link to »
October 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker

Big Tech On Trial

Featured imageCEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google testified today before the Senate Commerce Committee on Big Tech censorship, and its naked support of the Democratic Party. The hearing lasted for nearly four hours. This exchange between Ted Cruz and the apparently homeless Jack Dorsey has been the most discussed moment in the hearing: We may add further clips as they come to our attention. Basically, the Silicon Valley giants are sitting »
October 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

The perils of managing by formula

Featured imageI long railed on Power Line against the formulaic use of relief pitchers that was followed pretty much universally when we started our blog in 2002, and for many years thereafter. The formula was that the team’s “closer” would be used only in the ninth inning of games in which his team had a lead of one to three runs. The closer would always start the ninth inning; he would »
October 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker

Do Masks Work?

Featured imageWith regard to COVID, we are awash in unreliable or even intentionally misleading empirical claims. A neurosurgeon from D.C. who understands statistics analyzes a popular claim that is being made on behalf of mask mandates. I encountered a Washington Post figure making its way through social media, suggesting that not wearing masks is conclusively the reason for COVID spread: If you look at the figure closely, the y-axis is “% »
October 28, 2020 — Scott Johnson

The spike revisited

Featured imageSomeone posted a full video of last night’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight featuring the interview with Tony Bobulinski at YouTube [uppdate: it has now been removed]. In his introduction, at about 2:10 of the video, Tucker referred to the suppression of the Biden crime family story: “We’re seeing it first hand. Last night we experienced an extraordinary attempt to interfere with our reporting on the Biden family. We’ll bring »
October 27, 2020 — John Hinderaker

How Corrupt Are American Universities?

Featured imageThe Department of Education has completed an investigation into American universities’ compliance with federal law relating to reporting of foreign gifts and contracts. As you might expect, our universities believe that laws are for the little guys: American Universities failed to report $6.5 billion in foreign gifts and contracts, an investigation by the Department of Education found. Federal law requires schools to disclose substantial foreign gifts and contracts to the »
October 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

Woke Whites vs. establishment Blacks

Featured imageThe Washington Post reports on “the racial undercurrents of city politics” that loom over the upcoming city council election in Washington, D.C. The city is no longer majority Black due to the influx of young Whites and, says the Post, this development threatens the hold of Black establishment politicians. That’s a normal development. However, the ideological consequences of this demographic shift might be surprising to those who haven’t been paying »
October 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker

The First Honest Democratic Party Campaign Ad

Featured imageAllie Stuckey makes the case for voting Democrat. Her ad is a parody, and a funny one, but what is scary is how accurately it represents today’s Democratic Party: »
October 28, 2020 — Steven Hayward

Climate Virtue Signaling Falls Short

Featured imageLast week we reported on a survey that found climatistas fly more often than other academics/scientists/activists, a result entirely unsurprising to our readership. Today Nature magazine gets around to reporting on the survey, passing along some additionally embarrassing facts that I missed the first time around. The Nature story reports that, yes, indeed climate scientists fly more than other experts, but “make greater effort to offset their emissions.” That sentence »
October 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

The Supreme Court now

Featured imageWhat is the shape of the Supreme Court now that Amy Coney Barrett is a member? Three articles consider the question. Jason Richwine argues that the new court is best viewed, not as one in which Justice Barrett has replaced Justice Ginsburg, but as one in which Justice Kavanaugh has replaced Chief Justice Roberts as the key vote. I agree. Assuming no court packing, the question then becomes how much »
October 28, 2020 — Scott Johnson

Bobulinski speaks

Featured imageTucker Carlson met with Tony Bobulinski for an interview in Los Angeles about Bobulinkski’s work with the Biden family. Bobulinski authenticated the related materials on the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s laptop and testified to their veracity. As a result, Bobulinski has been disparaged and defamed when his testimony hasn’t been spiked. New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin spoke with Bobulinski yesterday. Goodwin’s column on his own interview was posted »
October 27, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

An intervenor in the DOJ’s suit against Yale!

Featured imageStudents for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) has filed a motion to intervene in the Department of Justice’s suit against Yale. The DOJ’s suit alleges discrimination by Yale against Whites and Asians/Asian Americans in undergraduate admissions. You can read SFFA’s motion and proposed complaint here. If SFFA is permitted to intervene — and I can think of no reason why it won’t be — this will mean the case can go »