June 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Plot Against Freedom 250 Event Foiled

Featured image The FBI has announced multiple arrests in connection with an alleged terrorist plot against the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House Sunday evening: The plot to attack the White House’s UFC Freedom 250 event Sunday involved at least 12 suspects across the US who adhered to an “accelerationist” ideology and hoped to bring down American capitalism, according to federal law enforcement sources. *** The suspects are in »
June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Waiting for the man

Featured imageI am at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis awaiting a press conference with United States Attorney Dan Rosen and the Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Michael McCarthy. We have been advised that they will announce charges against several defendants for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers and related charges arising from the efforts of members from two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups in violent oppostion to immigration »
June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson

The closing continues

Featured imageThis is the second in a series of posts this morning on the memorandum of understanding the Trump administration has reached with Iran. Vice President Vance is out selling it in a mode that recalls the “Always Be Closing” message conveyed by Nick to the desperate real estate salesmen in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. In a “you have got to be kidding me” appearance on CNN yesterday, Vance argued »
June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Memo to file

Featured imageThis is the last in my series of posts this morning on the memorandum of understanding the Trump administration has reached with Iran. The administration has not yet entrusted us with a look at it. If it were impressive, it would have been made public. In an appearance on CNN yesterday, Vice President Vance described the memorandum as “a very general document” with specifics of the deal to be worked »
June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Keane versus Vance

Featured imageJack Keane is the retired four-star General, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army and chairman of the Institute for the Study of War. He is smart and well-informed. He appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show following Vice President Vance’s “always be closing” turn in the previous segments. I think that General Keane has bent over backward to give the administration the benefit of the doubt about the »
June 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Newsom: Investigated for What?

Featured imageIn an unusual move, Gavin Newsom has publicly announced that he is being investigated by federal law enforcement. Newsom made the announcement on Twitter (liberals may hate it, but if you want people to see your announcement, BlueSky will hardly do). Notably missing from Newsom’s anti-Trump spiel was any suggestion as to what he supposedly is being investigated for: Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He »
June 15, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Funding the Taliban

Featured imageThe 205-page U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee staff report on Minnesota fraud includes this incredible detail on page 85, In 2017, DHS flagged concerns that the bank account of the owner of a child care center connected with the MMCA was frozen by the Office of Foreign Asset control due to the owner’s association with the Taliban.405 Despite these concerns, DHS mailed this individual a check for $24,000. 406 Yes, The Taliban, you read »
June 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker

UFC Freedom 250

Featured imageLast night President Trump hosted the Ultimate Fighting Championship on the White House lawn for a series of seven mixed martial arts bouts. The event was spectacular and went off without a hitch, after a delay for a possible rain shower. I watched the first six fights, then went to bed, probably missing the best match. Here are some thoughts: * I am a boxing fan, but not an MMA »
June 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Freddy Comes to America

Featured imageWe are late to the party on this one, so you probably have already heard about Freddy, the German soccer fan who came to America to cheer for his country’s World Cup team. Freddy and two companions flew into Atlanta and embarked on a journey across the American South, driving through Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and on to Texas. Freddy documented his trip on his Twitter feed. »
June 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Buc-ee’s is America

Featured imageI have not watched a single minute of World Cup 2026 game action. But I am thoroughly delighted by the reports of foreign fans visiting America and discovering the wonders of American cultural institutions…like Buc-ee’s. From Fox 4 (Dallas-Ft. Worth), The Hill newspaper reports that the miracle that is Buc-ee’s is spreading throughout this fair land, Buc-ee’s to open westernmost location soon, with more new stores on the way. The »
June 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

The deal this time

Featured imageLee Smith has written three books supporting President Trump against his attackers: The Plot Against the President (2019), The Permanent Coup (2020), and Disappearing the President (2024). His most recent book is The China Matrix: The Epic Story of How Donald Trump Shattered a Deadly Pact (2025). Trump himself has praised Smith’s work: “Lee Smith is a great American patriot who has understood, from the very beginning, that the radical »
June 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker

A Liberal Legacy

Featured imageAn actress dies, and this is how her family remembers her: 'ALF' Star Anne Schedeen Dies at 77; Family Remembers Her 'Burning Hatred for Trump' https://t.co/mwt76FpMLo — Variety (@Variety) June 15, 2026 What a legacy! Liberals are haters, with perhaps a few honorable exceptions, and hating Trump is what passes for both religion and philosophy for most of them. It is sad, but also dangerous. I don’t think we have »
June 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Always be closing

Featured imageVice President Vance has disclosed that that we have closed the deal with Iran by signing it digitally yesterday. The text is to be released later this week when the time is ripe, perhaps “some time after Friday,” as President Trump put it late this morning. Until that time, it might be wise to view this humiliating finale with the cynicism it deserves. It would be cruel to recall that »
June 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Waiting for memo

Featured imagePresident Trump has announced the completion of an interim deal with Iran. The deal is reflected in a memorandum of understanding that has yet to be made public by the White House. Perhaps that is because the deal will not be signed until Friday (in Switzerland). Perhaps that is because a wrinkle or two remain to be “ironed out,” as the Wall Street Journal puts it in paragraph six of »
June 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Anti-Americanism: It’s the Law!

Featured imageThat’s what one federal judge says, anyway. In May 2025, implementing an Executive Order by President Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the National Parks to do several things. First, to “identify any public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties…on lands within its jurisdiction that have been removed or changed from January 1, 2020, through the date of this Order…” and determine whether such “alteration or removal of each »
June 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Greed Unleashed

Featured imageGovernments are the greediest institutions in our society. So it was no surprise when the news that Elon Musk had become the world’s first trillionaire caused liberals to salivate at the thought of getting their hands on his money. Elizabeth Warren was perhaps the worst, but she had plenty of company. Democrats visualize Musk as a sort of Scrooge McDuck, skiing down mountains of gold: In fact, of course, the »
June 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Another critic heard from

Featured imageI wrote about the response to my Imprimis essay “Learning From Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal” in “The Imprimis experience.” Given Imprimis‘s circulation of some 7,500,000, the Imprimis experience has been something new for me. I rate it up there with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It’s not over yet. Last week I received an old-fashioned letter from Barry Ferst, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosphy at Carroll College in Helena Montana. Professor »