Monthly Archives: March 2021
March 31, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
There is widespread support for using federal money to improve the nation’s infrastructure. Donald Trump favored doing so, but never put forth legislation. Now, Joe Biden has unveiled an infrastructure bill of sorts. Unfortunately, his proposal is so bad that even the Washington Post has noticed. The first problem with Biden’s bill is that it isn’t much about infrastructure. The Post reports: Many economic experts agree that significant investments in
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March 31, 2021 — John Hinderaker
The Black Lives Matter movement has roiled the U.K., just as it has the U.S. In response, Boris Johnson’s British government established a Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which issued its report today. One can only imagine what such a report, commissioned by the Biden administration, would look like. Happily, Britain’s commission, staffed mostly by minorities, has gone in a more sensible direction. I haven’t yet seen the complete
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March 31, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
The Final Four is set for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It features two teams from Texas — Baylor and Houston — and two from the west coast — Gonzaga and UCLA. The east coast, home of the last six champions and 16 this century, has no team in the Final Four. Neither does the Big Ten, which most people considered the strongest conference in the country this year. The
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March 31, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Last night we had one of our special live Zoom events for Power Line VIP subscribers, but a gremlin seems to have prevented many VIPs from getting timely notice of the link to the event. So we decided to post up the audio of the event for VIPs who didn’t get a link or who were unable to join us for whatever reason–and for any curious listeners who want to hear
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March 31, 2021 — John Hinderaker
Each night this week on the Ingraham Angle, Alan Dershowitz and I have briefly recapped the day’s events in the Derek Chauvin trial. We will be on at around 9:20 Central tonight, and I believe we will be talking about the drug overdose issue. If you get a chance to tune in, it should be interesting. I am not sure whether Laura will want me on the show every night
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March 31, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She currently sits on the U.S. District Court in D.C. This nomination was 100 percent expected. In fact, there has been speculation that Biden promised to nominate Judge Jackson to pacify radicals unhappy with the selection of Merrick Garland for Attorney General (as if the selections of radical race
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March 31, 2021 — Steven Hayward
This just tears it. The cancel madness has now set its gaze on Spongebob Squarepants. CNN reports that two “inappropriate episodes” are being pulled from rotation, one because of a plot line involving a virus that leads to a quarantine, and a second episode that involves a panty raid, which is now thought not “kid appropriate.” C’mon, man! This is getting beyond ridiculous. Except that it is a sneak attack
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March 31, 2021 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota martial arts practitioner Donald Williams returned to the stand and concluded testimony that began Monday afternoon. He reiterated his observations culminating in Floyd’s death: tremendous pain in Floyd’s face, his eyes rolling back in his head, his mouth open, drooling, gasping for air. All the while Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck, Williams’s “energy” did not let him feel he could intervene. After Floyd was loaded into the
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March 30, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
In the 2020 election, it is estimated that Donald Trump won around 12 percent of the Black vote. Among Black male voters, his percentage was higher, perhaps around 18 percent. Both showings were significantly better for Trump than in 2016. And Trump’s 2016 showing was better than Republicans had been doing among Black voters. What accounts for Trump’s 2020 numbers? The usual explanation is economic. Black employment soared under Trump
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March 30, 2021 — Steven Hayward
As is being widely remarked, today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton. I was a fresh-out-of-college intern working for Stan Evans up at the Capitol Hill office of his National Journalism Center, where we typically had the public radio classical music station on at low volume in the background. So when the station broke into the middle of the music to
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March 30, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
The Washington Post has awarded Joe Biden four Pinocchios (the max) for a patently false claim he made about the new Georgia law on voting. Biden said the following during a press conference: What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work. Two days later,
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March 30, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
A unanimous panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a professor can pursue a claim that his university violated his First Amendment rights by punishing him for refusing to use feminine pronouns to refer to a male student who identified as female. The professor declined the student’s request on religious grounds. The professor had proposed several compromises as a way of balancing his religious-based concerns with
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March 30, 2021 — John Hinderaker
California and Texas have both experienced extensive blackouts during the past year, with multiple fatalities in Texas. Why? Might blackouts come to your state? Are we entering an era of unreliable energy? If you want answers to these questions, I recommend tuning in to a webinar tomorrow featuring Isaac Orr, one of the nation’s top energy experts, and Brent Bennett of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The webinar will begin
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March 30, 2021 — Scott Johnson
I have been struggling with a bug that has sapped my energy and shortened my day yesterday. These notes are accordingly abbreviated. On Sunday I complained that the Star Tribune sought to bypass the issues in the case in the interest of framing it as a (racial) passion play. The Star Tribune is of course not alone in this regard, but is it really needed or illuminating at this point?
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March 29, 2021 — John Hinderaker
We haven’t done a VIP Live show for a while. Maybe we were stunned into silence by the election, I don’t know. In any event, we are back, or will be as of 7 p.m. Central (5 Pacific, 8 Eastern) tomorrow. We will kick around the issues of the day as well as taking questions and comments from VIPs. If you are a VIP member, you will get an email
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March 29, 2021 — John Hinderaker
President Trump has had it with taking shots from Dr. Fraudci and, most recently, Deborah Birx. Today he sent out this email, telling his side of the story. Quotable quote: “…Dr. Fauci, who said he was an athlete in college but couldn’t throw a baseball even close to home plate…” Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters
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March 29, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
“Action civics” is the means through which the left intends to indoctrinate students in radical dogma and enlist them as foot soldiers in radical activism. It has already effectively been imposed by law in Illinois and Massachusetts. But to perform its full transformative function, action civics needs to penetrate Red States. That’s why this report by Stanley Kurtz — “Civics Showdown in Texas” — is alarming. Stanley writes: Texas is
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