Monthly Archives: May 2023
May 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
We’ve heard about the IRS whistleblower in the joint Justice Department-IRS investigation of Hunter Biden. Byron York put it this way in his column on what he calls the “brewing scandal.” I would describe it as the obvious suppression of the Hunter Biden case by the Department of Justice: The whistleblower was a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who, according to his lawyer, could reveal “clear conflicts of interest”
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May 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is not telling you to STAY IN YOUR LANE! She writes: Of all the stupid made-up expressions that are meant to shut discussion down and shut people up, “Stay in your lane!” has to be among the most offensive. “Excuse me, Mr. Colbert, or any other robotic loser who says that, but who died and made YOU The Lane Czar?” How ironic that most of the jerks saying
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May 25, 2023 — John Hinderaker
How bad is America’s education system? Worse than you can possibly imagine. At George Washington University (annual cost $78,335, although probably no non-Chinese citizen actually pays that, as college tuition numbers are fraudulent), students protested against the school’s teams being called the “Colonials.” George Washington University changed its “Colonials” moniker to “Revolutionaries” after facing scrutiny from students who deemed the school’s mascot as offensive. Revolutionaries! I suppose we should be
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May 25, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Years after the claim was exposed as a clumsy fraud, most Democrats still believe that Donald Trump likely colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election. Rasmussen finds: The first question in the survey asked, “How likely is it that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russian agents during the 2016 election?” Forty-three percent (43%) believed it was likely, including 26% who thought it was Very Likely. Forty-seven percent (47%)
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May 25, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• No sooner do I note yesterday that Vanity Fair had lost its mind with its “DeSantis is Hitler” headline than The Atlantic says to VF, “Hold my Bud Light.” In fact they did a series to one-up VF: It can no longer be denied: The Atlantic has gone to pot. Not to be left behind, behold The Root: • Finally—the long-awaited J.J. Abrams reboot/re-imagining of Free Willy: Revenge of
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May 25, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I suppose we could excuse John Fetterman, who is not firing on all cylinders, for this kind of ignorance, except that it is rampant in the Democratic Party today: Move over Equal Protection Clause! Raising the debt ceiling was the whole reason the post-Civil War Congress passed the 14th Amendment. Who knew? “Responsible people” like to say that being able to hold the debt ceiling “hostage” is irresponsible and a
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May 25, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The hiatus in Hollywood brought on by the current writers strike seemed a good occasion to check in with Christian Toto with a classic format one-on-one conversation. Christian, a previous guest on our podcast, is proprietor of the indispensable HollywoodInToto website, as well as a podcast, and a terrific recent book, Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul. Our conversation ranges widely from the problems of streaming
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May 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I covered the Supreme Court oral argument in Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County last month in “Geraldine Tyler’s day in court.” The following week I stepped back for a broader view of the case in “Argumentum interruptum — live on FOX News!” In the latter post I wrote (link omitted): Ms. Tyler lost in the district court and on appeal because the courts felt bound to apply the 1956 Supreme
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May 25, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued a subpoena to the FBI on May 3 to obtain an unclassified FD-1023 which allegedly details a bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. As I reported on Tuesday, the FBI refused to hand over the document by the original compliance date and continues to obstruct Comer’s efforts. Comer fired off a new letter to FBI Director Christopher
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May 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Andrew McCarthy considers the transformation of the Department of Justice’s investigation of President Trump for mishandling classified investigation into an obstruction of justice probe. He traces the transformation our having “suddenly learned…drumroll…that Joe Biden had been illegally hoarding classified information for decades, from his time in the Senate through his time as Obama administration vice president” in locations ranging from his private office to his private den to his private
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May 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Following up on “Don’t shoot Matt Taibbi either,” I want to note Matt Taibbi’s subscribers-only post “My crazy IRS case.” Taibbi has of course been a key contributor to the Twitter Files. In his Twitter Files reporting Taibbi has documented the government/social media censorship industrial complex led by the FBI. See, for example, his December 24, 2022 Twitter Files thread “Twitter and ‘other government agencies.'” The FBI disapproved of Taibbi’s
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May 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Of all the strange phenomena of our strange era, the most inexplicable to me is woke capitalism. We see it all around us: Major League Baseball moving the All-star Game out of Atlanta (does anyone remember why?), Delta Airlines aligning itself with the Democratic Party, the Bud Light fiasco. Along with Budweiser, a number of other companies have driven off the “pride” cliff. This is only a partial list, but
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May 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Most consumer boycotts don’t get much traction, but the consumer revolt against Bud Light has traction because Trannheuser-Busch managed to anger both sides of the issue. And consumers have clearly swung their light beer purchases to Bud’s competitors: Meanwhile, Fox News is reporting that Target has gone to DefCon1 in fears a decision to market trans-friendly clothing may pitch them into a “Bud Light situation.” Some southern Target stores were forced
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May 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Actually, I’ve got two news stories that will bring a smile to your face and a bounce in your step. • The Sierra Club is facing significant layoffs: Sierra Club, the largest anti-nuclear environmental group in America, appears to be coming apart at the seams. Last month, Ben Jealous, the 130 year-old organization’s new Executive Director, announced major layoffs. The Sierra Club, he told employees, was restructuring and needed to
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May 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
When I first saw this headline appear on Twitter, I assumed it was fake. But no—it is real. Take a bow, Vanity Fair: The author of this trenchant piece is Bess Levin, whom I have never heard of either, but Vanity Fair describes her as “An essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop. If you need
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May 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Alpha News editor Anthony Gockowski has compiled this list of the Democrats’ “accomplishments” in the legislative session that concluded earlier this week. Anthony introduces the list with the observation that “Democrats returned to St. Paul in January with a $17.5 billion surplus and total control of state government, which hinges on their one-seat majority in the Senate that was decided by just a few hundred votes.” In just 120 legislative
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May 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
My friend Howard Root is the founder of Vascular Solutions and the author of Cardiac Arrest. He announced his departure from corporate America in the Wall Street Journal column “Sally Yates’s legacy of injustice.” Howard now waves goodbye to Minnesota in a Star Tribune column. Howard’s criticisms of the local scene focus on the doings of the DFL in the legislative session that concluded earlier this week and make for
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