Monthly Archives: September 2024
September 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Tonight was American Experiment’s Fall Briefing, with Christopher Rufo as our featured speaker. It was an excellent event, with Chris doing a terrific job. The audience loved his speech, because he combined solid substance with plenty of entertainment value. He told great stories about his own activist successes–getting Claudine Gay fired as President of Harvard, taking over Florida’s New College, staring down the leftists, reforming that previously failing school. And
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September 28, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Joe Biden recently left his beach chair for a guest-star appearance on “The View,” a pre-scripted show with a strong supporting cast. “I always felt you were going to probably do four years and then try to figure out where to go with Kamala,” said Whoopi Goldberg. But on the other hand, that Donald Trump “just wouldn’t – he was like a bug. He just kept being there. He was
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September 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I’m currently working on a long series of articles I’ll be posting on my new “Political Questions” Substack on the topic of “leftist fragility,” but there’s an example of what I’m after yesterday that is perfect for our short form here. The editor of Mother Jones magazine, Clara Jeffery, was offended and alarmed when an Alaska Airlines flight attendant triggered her with visions of fascism and the whole Handmaid’s Tale
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September 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Bill Maher’s weekly rant this week goes after leftist youth who hate America, and most of what he has to say about why they are stupid as well as wrong is pretty good. He uses a number of arguments some conservatives have used, including the politically incorrect observation that modern America is the first civilization where the poor people are fat instead of thin from privation. But he missed something
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September 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The London Times is a liberal paper, but not far-left like the New York Times or the Washington Post. So it is not surprising to see this headline: “Why killing of Hassan Nasrallah marks beginning of the end for Iran.” The piece is by Lina Khatib, associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Some excerpts: Iran found in Nasrallah a valuable tool for expanding
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September 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The whole gang is finally back stateside and even in the same time zone, but somehow John and Lucretia found themselves being stalked by Kamala Harris on Friday. First the Veep extraordinaire turned up near Lucretia’s border town to talk tough on immigration, and then decamped to the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, right across the street from the University Club, where John happened to be styling at the same
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September 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. The prime minister’s office posted the YouTube video (below) on X Times of Israel has posted the text. Diplomats of unfriendly nations left the room when Netanyahu took the floor. Like northern Israel, the room was mostly depopulated. Hezbollah is responsible for the depopulation of northern Israel as a result of its attacks on every day since October 8,
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September 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So our foreign policy geniuses in Washington are calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, chiefly because of panic over how the conflict will hinder Kamala’s campaign. But she can bomb all on her own, but she isn’t supplied with smart bombs, obviously. She even flopped when under the friendly questioning of the Ruhleing Class. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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September 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Hurricane Helene has been tremendously destructive, mostly, I believe, on account of flooding. Areas as far from the coast as Asheville, North Carolina, are seeing what is described as a 1,000-year flood. Why is Helene depositing so much water across several Southeastern states? One possibility is Hunga Tonga, the underwater volcano eruption of early 2022 that shot something like 100 million tons of water vapor into the air. Some sources
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September 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Right around the time Prime Minister Netanyahu took the lectern to address the United Nations General Assembly, Israel hit Hezbollah’s underground command center outside Beirut with a massive kaboom or two (video linked below). This strike follows up impressively on Israel’s “from the liver to the knee” pager assault of last week. Right now Israel and the IDF are showing the defeatist, self-hating secular elites of the west what it
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September 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Yesterday we got the news that China’s latest advanced nuclear submarine . . . sank. At the dock, apparently. And now China is trying to cover it all up like it was a virus as at a Wuhan lab. Is China also covering up its sinking economy? Chinese economic growth has been slowing, and lately the Chinese government has been doing its own form of quantitative easing to try to
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September 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Secret Service has come under attack for its laxity, especially in connection with the first Trump assassination attempt. Some have speculated that the Service, or some of its members, are deliberately exposing Trump to danger. I heard an anecdote yesterday that suggests the problem is incompetence, not political bias. It came from Minnesota State Senator Jeff Howe. I do a weekly segment, each Thursday, on Al Travis’s radio show,
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September 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the White House hosted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vice President Harris met with Zelensky. The White House has posted a readout of their meeting. Among other things, they discussed Zelenskyy’s plans for victory. In a public statement with Zelensky by her side Harris talked tough. “Putin started this war and he could end it tomorrow if he simply withdrew his troops from Ukraine’s sovereign territory,” she said. Harris: 'I
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September 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll contemplates ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN. She writes: October 4th, 2024 Oh my goodness. As my wonderful Astronaut friend Jim always says on my birthday, “Congrats on another trip around the sun.” And as my late Daddy often said, “Any day above ground is a good day.” And so next week I turn 78. So much for my childhood certainty that I would die spectacularly and young, some
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September 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Little did I know when I posted yesterday that Kamala Harris has a holistic problem with the use of the term “holistic.” Turns out The Daily Show was on to Kamala’s lighter-than-air intellect months ago (hat tip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air for spotting this gem):
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September 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In 2019, the Trump Administration set a course to address chronic disease, funding earlier interventions to curb the growing crisis. Five years later, this issue is exactly where it needs to be: at the center of the presidential debate, now in a unique partnership to heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act. After more than 40 years in the public health arena,
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September 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has introduced legislation to, as he says, “reform” the Supreme Court, and the federal courts in general. The bill is titled the “Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act.” Democrats have been threatening to pack the Supreme Court for a while, but that is not this bill. Wyden’s bill expands the Court to 15 justices, but not all at once: the next six will be appointed
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