Monthly Archives: April 2023
April 30, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Liberals love to talk about threats to “our democracy,” which just means threats to Democrats winning elections. Voting is a threat to “our democracy” when it doesn’t go their way. But there is a very real threat to our democracy making its way through state legislatures. It is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I wrote about it as far back as 2019. The “compact” is legislation, adopted state by
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April 30, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Left has launched a comprehensive war on modern agriculture. One aspect of that war consists of attacks on animal husbandry, which to some degree ties in with longstanding crank theories espoused by vegans and others. However, contemporary attacks on meat are mostly climate-based. As such, they are dangerous to your family’s health. The Telegraph reports: Meat is crucial for human health, scientists have warned, as they called for an
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April 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Like most people, I always thought of Jerry Springer as a carnival barker, though that is an insult to carnies everywhere, since real carnival personalities provide some entertainment, while Springer mostly provided degrading spectacle. Or so it seemed from the only 20 seconds of his show that I ever watched. But he did local news commentary on a TV station in Cincinnati, and one of them, recalled by our friends
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April 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
It is great fun to joke about how the Clintons must be the force behind the suspicious death of Jeffrey Epstein in his New York City jail cell in 2019, but after the bombshell story published this morning in the Wall Street Journal about heretofore unknown close connections Epstein had we’re moved to ask: who didn’t have a motive for wanting him gone? The story is behind the Journal‘s paywall,
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April 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I root for the hometown teams — the Gophers, the Vikings, the Twins, the Timberwolves, and the Wild. When the Wild and the Timberwolves crash and burn, as they just have, I consider them and their season a failure. The Wild lost to the Dallas Stars in the first round of the NHL playoffs — they lost to the better team. The Timberwolves lost to the Denver Nuggets in the
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April 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sat down with James Taranto and David Rivkin for the Wall Street Journal weekend column “Justice Alito: ‘This made us targets of assassination.” As the Journal loves to do on its opinion pages, the column breaks news. Behind the Journal’s paywall, the whole thing is worth reading. Here are the quotes I think are particularly worth pulling: • “I personally have a pretty good idea
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April 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Los Angeles Times White House reporter Courtney Subramanian appears to have accommodated President Biden’s daycare minders with the substance of the question she would ask when called on at the joint news conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol last week. Biden was prepared with a cheat sheet instructing him to call on her first, paraphrasing the question, and otherwise identifying her for his benefit. Seeing the set-up with
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April 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Forget the Russia-Ukraine War. The oldest war of all—the War Between the Sexes—has a new front opening this summer: the Battle of Barbecue Grill. Someone on Twitter named @Judiana (“Ruckus Causing Redhead”) blasted out this bellicose manifesto: We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity . When a man volunteers to do the
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April 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
My colleague Bill Glahn has taken a dive into the data now available on political spending in Minnesota during the 2022 election cycle. He has written several posts on his research at AmericanExperiment.org. Bill’s most recent findings are disturbing: 23 of America’s richest billionaire families donated to Minnesota Democrats (DFL) in the past three years. Collectively, they donated over $6.2 million to the MN DFL in that time. These 23
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April 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Last week, I was on the “U.S. Report” program on Sky News in Australia, with host James Morrow. James is also one of the hosts of Outsiders. U.S. Report, obviously, focuses on news from America. It was a fun appearance. We talked about the Dirty 51, Joe Biden’s ineptitude, the 2024 race, and Critical Race Theory in American schools. I think you will enjoy it:
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April 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
We’re flipping the script this weekend: since we had a special mid-week edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, today we’re offering up a classic format conversational episode, and it’s a really fun one. Who is the only federal judge to have played basketball in the Olympics for Cuba? Who is the only federal judge known for driving around town in a 1960s-era convertable Rolls Royce? Who is the only
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April 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Tucker Carlson was the keynote speaker at Center of the American Experiment’s Annual Dinner in 2018. It was a great event, attended by 1,200 conservatives. I rummaged around in a drawer and found the video of Tucker’s speech; it is embedded below. What is striking, watching it now, is how fully developed Carlson’s populist themes were five years ago. The same thing emerged in the interview I did with him
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April 29, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The fabricated controversy over Justice Thomas and his billionaire friend Harlan Crow has missed what should be the real controversy. Crow contributed $105,000 to Yale Law School! YLS is of course Justice Thomas’s alma mater. But wait! There’s more. The Thomas connection is no coincidence. Crow’s contribution was for a worthy cause, sure to generate heartburn among the authorities at YLS. Crow’s contribution was for a portrait of Justice Thomas
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April 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
So did Anheuser-Busch get to Rupert Murdoch and plead to have public ire redirected from Bud Light? Does anyone else think Tucker Carlson should launch a beer? (No, of course it couldn’t be light beer. Goes without saying.) Meanwhile, Buzzed Lighthead, AKA Joe Biden, is running again. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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April 28, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I’m so old I can remember when the media was obsessed with the fact that President Reagan often used 4 x 6 cards for talking points at most meetings and other events where he was meeting someone in the cabinet room or Oval Office, including even visiting heads of state. This became a media talking point for suggesting Reagan was an idiot, a creature of his staff, etc. Of course
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April 28, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity pass along this interesting forecast: The stampede of people moving out of Blue States may slow before the end of the decade, but if it continues apace, this is what the shift in congressional seats in the 2030 Census would look like. Democrats could lose another 10 to 12 seats to red states like Texas, Florida and Tennessee. Chaser: People like to
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April 28, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I briefly noted the fallacious Dr. Fauci’s New York Times interview in “Fauci speaks: It ain’t me, babe.” This interview deserves more attention than I gave it. The Spectator’s pseudonymous Cockburn takes a longer look in the column “Fauci retcons the pandemic in laughable NYT interview,” which the Spectator has now made accessible at our request (for the next week or so). Cockburn does a particularly good job deconstructing Fauci’s
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