Author Archives: John Hinderaker

Trump Has Had Enough

Featured image Scott noted earlier President Trump’s disgust with the condition of the captives that Hamas has most recently released. Now Trump has followed up by demanding that Hamas release the hostages–all of them–by noon on Saturday. High noon, one is tempted to say: President Trump warned the Hamas terror group Monday night to release all remaining hostages by noon Saturday, or he would allow Israel to cancel the ongoing cease-fire and »

Trade War?

Featured image It is hard to get straight news about tariffs and trade. Currently, there is consternation over President Trump’s stated intention to impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum. As usual, we will have to wait and see what happens. While the press loves to talk “trade war” when Trump is in office, we pointed out here that customs duties received by the federal government were higher under the Biden administration »

Men In Women’s Sports: The Resistance

Featured image President Trump has issued an executive order that, in various ways, seeks to prevent men from competing on women’s sports teams. The state of California has announced that it will not abide by Trump’s executive order, and will continue to allow men in women’s sports. That has gotten quite a bit of publicity; what is less well known is that the Minnesota State High School League has said the same »

Net Zero? Please

Featured image The only surprising thing about Peter Hitchens’ demolition of Net Zero, to which the U.K. still pretends to be committed, is that it was permitted on the BBC: EPIC: Peter Hitchens tears Net Zero to shreds, to the dismay of BBC panellists and audience members. "We didn't just close down our coal fired power stations, we blew them up, we were so certain we were right to do so. At »

The Resistance, In Court

Featured image Yesterday, federal judge Paul Engelmayer, a Democrat, issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from getting access to its own Treasury Department’s documents. The injunction applies to all political appointees, which includes the Secretary of the Treasury. It was issued ex parte, which means the government was not even heard in opposition. Judge-shopping is pretty much universal in politically-charged cases. We can expect much more of this: Democrats »

Who Ran the White House?

Featured image During the last months of Joe Biden’s presidency, he obviously was not fit to serve as president. So who ran the White House during that time? Lindy Li is a former Democratic National Committee insider who was heavily involved in Kamala Harris’s campaign. Li answers that question: According to Li, Joe Biden, already staggering from public scrutiny, effectively lost control of the White House after that fateful debate [with Donald »

Coming Soon: Energy Dominance

Featured image Other Trump initiatives have gotten most of the headlines, but his moves to unleash American energy should prove, long term, to be among his most significant. I wrote about the executive orders that Trump signed on day one here. Now, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has followed up with a Secretarial Order that implements some of the President’s key initiatives. The order is titled, “Unleashing the Golden Era of American Energy »

We Are Winning

Featured image Is liberalism a mental disorder, as is often said? There is a great deal of social science research showing that conservatives are happier than liberals, enjoy better mental health than liberals, are more involved in their communities than liberals, are more philanthropic than liberals, and so on. Probably more important, though, is that conservatives are more likely to have children, and to have more children, than liberals. Since the future »

The Real Constitutional Crisis

Featured image More than any other actions of the new Trump administration, Democrats are hysterical over his attacks on administrative agencies, particularly USAID. They say that Trump’s investigations of these agencies, suspension of payments to third parties, and layoffs of agency employees are illegal and unconstitutional. Thus, from today’s New York Times: Constitutional crisis? The president can’t shut down agencies that Congress has funded, yet that’s what Trump did, with Elon Musk’s »

Democrats Pull All-Nighter But Fail Test [Updated]

Featured image Chuck Schumer, who puts cheese on a raw hamburger before grilling it and believes we import most of our beer from Mexico, is perhaps the unlikeliest street fighting man in America. Yet the Democrats are so desperate that they send Schumer into the streets to rouse rabble, inciting violence against Republicans. (Something for which, by the way, he is now coming under investigation.) But more broadly, just as the Trump »

No Men In Women’s Sports: What Does It Mean?

Featured image President Trump’s executive order banning men from women’s sports has gotten a lot of attention, most of it positive. But, as with many of his orders, I had questions about what exactly it said. Does the president actually have legal authority to “ban men from women’s sports?” No. So what, exactly, did he do? And will it stand up in court? In my view, the order is impressively specific and »

Score One For the GOP

Featured image As Scott noted earlier, the month-long standoff in Minnesota’s House of Representatives came to an end last night, as the Democrats, who have boycotted the session since it opened on January 14, have agreed under intense pressure to go back to work. Because I disagree with Scott’s evaluation of the outcome, I am writing separately. Absent last night’s agreement, there would not have been a quorum in the House (under »

The Real Two-State Solution

Featured image One odd thing about liberals is that they are not good at nuance. They are not skillful readers, and often have trouble understanding the tone of communications. This is what leads them, for example, to fact-check the Babylon Bee. More importantly, it causes them to misunderstand President Trump. Trump has several ways of speaking: sometimes he is deadly serious; sometimes he is casually offering an out-of-the-box idea, perhaps for the »

Politico and the AP Were On the Government Payroll [Updated]

Featured image Really, the Democratic Party’s payroll, only taxpayers were footing the bill. This is absolutely stunning news: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Wednesday that Politico has been receiving funds from the U.S. government that will dry up as President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cracks down on spending. Leavitt was asked about reports that “media outlets” will be impacted by Elon Musk’s plan to cut funding »

A Collusion Hoax Coda

Featured image In April 2018, the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting was awarded jointly to the New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting on the Russia collusion hoax that was concocted by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Subsequently, multiple investigations confirmed that the claim of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was false and, indeed, a completely unfounded fraud. President Trump and others then called on the Pulitzer Prize »

Guantanamo, Open For Business

Featured image When I first heard President Trump talking about sending illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay, I doubted that he was serious. It turns out that he was: The first flight carrying detained migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay was set to head to the American naval base in Cuba, as the Trump administration undertakes the initial phases of expanding a small migrant-detention center there. A flight Tuesday from Fort Bliss »

Voices of Sanity on USAID

Featured image I don’t know who this young woman from Uganda is, but she makes more sense than the entire Democratic House and Senate caucuses combined. I find it interesting that President Trump’s temporary pause in foreign aid spending has brought some foreign voices out of the woodwork, saying, yes: USAID’s spending is riddled with fraud and political corruption, and as a result is at best a mixed blessing for recipient countries: »