June 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Clown Show In Congress

Featured image Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ostensibly on the State Department’s budget. But Democrats on the committee have no interest in any legitimate oversight role. Nor do they have any interest in asking Rubio questions. They proceed in what has become the usual style: they harangue the witness, often with an affect of insane rage, and the witness may or may not »
June 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Quote of the day

Featured imageStar Tribune publisher Steve Grove is cutting jobs and pursuing a nonprofit structure for the newspaper. The Star Tribune itself covers the story today here. The story quotes Grove employing the cliché of the “journey.” The Star Tribune is on a “journey.” We’re on the road to find out. Grove thinks in clichés: When asked if these layoffs indicate failed strategy, Grove said, “I certainly wish this [layoff] step in »
June 3, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Police officers cleared in Henry Nowak murder

Featured imageYesterday, the UK Telegraph reported, Officers in Nowak arrest did nothing wrong, police watchdog claims. Nothing? Nothing at all? From the Telegraph, The police watchdog claims there is no evidence the officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak as he lay dying committed misconduct, The Telegraph can reveal. The 18-year-old university student was arrested by police after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, who lied and claimed he had been racially abused and »
June 3, 2026 — Steven Hayward

The Power Line Show: Timothy Sandefur’s “Proclaiming Liberty”

Featured imageI’m finally back from two weeks overseas mixing an academic conference with some vacationing, and just in time. Here I am hanging on every word from the great John Malcolm at Università degli Studi di Enna Kore in Sicily last week. We’re now only a month away from the July 4 semiquincentennial of the founding of our country, and there’s still time to acquire and read through some of the »
June 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson

After last night

Featured imageRealClearPolitics has posted the current results of yesterday’s many primary elections here. The results are too numerous to take in or assess in one gulp, but the Democrat/MSM axis appears largely to be happy with them. Politico Playbook puts it more bluntly, and you can’t get any more Dem/MSM than PP: “Establishment Dems surge, MAGA quakes.” Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass survived the mayoral primary to proceed to the »
June 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Redpelleyed

Featured imageScott Pelley is the pompous windbag of 60 Minutes. Ted Knight played a character like Pelley for laughs in days of old on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Pelley amped up the character and drained it of humor. He is beyond satire. An insufferable fool, he plays himself seriously. Beyond the blissful ignorance represented by the blue pill, to be redpelleyed is to add elements of pomposity, arrogance, condescension, and »
June 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn

S&P 7,600, SpaceX on deck

Featured imageFrom the Associated Press (AP), Wall Street inches to more records thanks to booming AI stocks. Indeed, the S&P 500 index closed at an all-time record high above 7,609, after hitting a new all-time intraday high above 7,620. The index is up almost 11 percent for year-to-date 2026. SpaceX is on the verge of joining the party. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, SpaceX eyeing roughly $1.75 trillion valuation in »
June 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Henry Nowak: PM Starmer speaks, cop quits

Featured imageThe U.K. Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Sir Keir Starmer (KCB KC MP PC), spoke with reporters today about the brutal murder of the young university student Henry Nowak at the hands of Vickrum Digwa back in December of last year. Meanwhile, it was announced that one of the police officers involved in the incident was allowed to quietly and anonymously resign. From Sky News UK, One of the police »
June 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Henry Nowak, the government speaks

Featured imageSay his name. At the demand of the U.K. parliament, the prime minister dispatched his home secretary, the Right Honorable Shabana Mahmood, to make a statement and answer questions today. From the BBC, Home Secretary Mahmood addresses ‘horrifying’ murder of Henry Nowak in Commons I disagree with the BBC’s choice of verb. For now, official Britain is hiding behind an alleged independent watchdog investigation of the incident. The investigation may »
June 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A word from Spencer Pratt

Featured imageToday is the last day to vote in the Los Angeles mayoral primary. It is what we quaintly used to think of as an election day. Now it is more like a period of adjustment. As I understand it, ballot drop-off locations opened on May 5. The Los Angeles mayoral primary features former reality TV star Spencer Pratt. He is the voice of sanity, reality, and decency rolled up in »
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Henry Nowak: The Bodycam Footage

Featured imageBill has written here and here about Henry Nowak, the 18 year old Briton who was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh. The perpetrator, having stabbed Nowak, collaborated with family members to put out the story that Nowak was a “racist,” while his mother hid the murder weapon. This is the call that Digwa’s brother made to report the crime. The suggestion that the victim was a “racist” »
June 2, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Now for Something Completely Different

Featured imageAs we await primary results from Los Angeles, this is a break from the news. (For up to the minute hard news coverage, go here.) First a video, of a kid with remarkable skills as a mimic and an excellent knowledge of bird calls. It is taking the internet by storm. Following the video, some observations on turkeys. I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is »
June 2, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Two-Tier Justice

Featured imageFor years, working-class white Britons have suffered under a discriminatory system of justice in which they are second-class citizens. Left-wing British authorities have consistently had their thumbs on the scale in favor of non-white minorities, the Pakistani rape gangs being the most notorious, but by no means the only, instance. British police have come in for well-deserved criticism, as they have been more interested in arresting whites for controversial Facebook »
June 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Taking a stand — against St. Paul Academy

Featured imageBoth my daughter Eliana and I are alums of St. Paul Academy in the Twin Cities. The Washington Free Beacon has just published Eliana’s intensely reported story “An Elite St. Paul Private School Displayed an Antisemitic Poster to Middle Schoolers—Latest in a Series of Controversies to Roil School With ‘Best Academic Curriculum in Minnesota’” (“Dustup comes after math teacher wore keffiyeh to class on anniversary of Oct. 7 attack and »
June 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson

What manner of ceasefire is this?

Featured imageIt is difficult to understand the alleged ceasefire that President Trump claims to have obtained with Iran. Iran seems to keep on keeping on. "I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut… I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop." – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/DJhysrmVnO — »
June 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A mercy killing would be more like it

Featured imageThe New York Times reports that 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley is loudly unhappy with changes at the long-running CBS News franchise. In her effort to reduce show’s axe-grinding, Bari Weiss has hired Nick Bilton as its new executive producer. At an introductory session with Bilton, Pelley let the fur fly. If you have ever watched 60 Minutes, you know that Pelley could suffocate in his self-regard: CBS News faced »
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Professors Demand a Return to Testing

Featured imageIn the bleak days circa 2000, many universities abandoned admissions test requirements in the name of “equity.” They believed that certain races are inherently unable to compete, and therefore it was only fair to do away with tests as entrance requirements. The result has been a comprehensive disaster in higher education, made worse by the fact that, owing to grade inflation, there is no way other than the SAT and »