May 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It was a wide-ranging conversation on the Rita Panahi Show last night, covering the latest on welfare fraud and on Iran. We talked about the Senate race in Texas, where Kan Paxton won the runoff decisively, and Rita wondered whether a candidate like James Talarico could really get elected. We also discussed my Power Line post on the growing supremacy of red states, and wrapped up with RFK Jr’s remarkable
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May 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is justifiable, but perhaps the most radical idea the Trump administration has floated so far: 🚨 HUGE DEVELOPMENT: Sec. Markwayne Mullin announces DHS is drawing up plans to BLOCK ALL international flights into sanctuary cities by ending Customs screening there This would DEVASTATE those cities. Mullin is doing it as a direct result of sanctuaries refusing to cooperate… pic.twitter.com/GRHOWtdipv — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 27, 2026 As I understand
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May 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker
For many years the Soviet Union, and then Russia, financed the environmental movement in the United States. Their purpose was to suppress American production of oil and gas, and they succeeded to a considerable degree, to their own great benefit. Today, we are in the midst of another kind of race with Communist China–the race to develop superior systems of artificial intelligence. The Chinese Communist Party knows that if it
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May 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The sorting of America into red and blue zones is one of the most important developments of our time, about which we have often written. People are leaving blue states for red states, in part in search of lower taxes. But that is actually half, or less, of the story. Richard Vedder and Nicholas Jadwisienczak of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity have analyzed growth in personal income from 2000 to
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May 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
France’s Minister of Justice, expected to be a candidate to succeed Emmanuel Macron, is coming out against immigration: French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has called for a three-year pause on immigration, arguing that the country has reached its “limit” due to the mass influx of foreigners over the past few decades. *** Speaking to Le Journal du Dimanche, the Justice Minister said he rejects the notion that race prevents some
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May 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
In honor of Memorial Day, I am re-posting this video which I recorded in 2007. I did a second post with the same video in 2014. It is from a choir concert in which my youngest child participated when she was 11. I will repeat what I wrote in 2014, then add an additional comment after the video. ********************************* Mark Steyn wrote yesterday (actually, it’s an excerpt from his book
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May 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
So goes, we hope to God, no other state. Currently there are two big election campaigns going on in the formerly prosperous state of California. The first is for Governor, where Democrats are aghast at the reality that Republican Steve Hilton may very well win. The Democrats’ problem is that, as so often is the case, notwithstanding their claims to overwhelming intellectual superiority, their candidates suck. One of those bad
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May 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Two weeks ago I gave a talk at a symposium on anti-Semitism on the right in New York. One of those who attended the symposium was Dr. Randall Bock. Dr. Bock has a podcast and a Substack. After the symposium, he asked me to be a guest on his podcast, to which I was happy to agree. We talked about a number of things, including Dr. Bock’s work on the
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May 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Price fixing is a terrible idea, pretty much always and everywhere. That goes for fixing the price of labor as much as anything else. This old lesson is now being re-learned in Britain: Rishi Sunak: What I got wrong on the minimum wage. What the former Prime Minister got wrong is, he was in favor of it: As Labour prepares for this leadership debate, it should heed figures out this
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May 23, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Who is on the left these days, and who is on the right? Who can tell? Hunter Biden appeared as a guest on the Candace Show, illustrating the new political alignment–not so much left vs right, as crazy vs sane. I haven’t listened to the show–I only have so many brain cells left–so I rely on the New York Post for a report on the interview: Former first son Hunter
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May 23, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Stephen Colbert is finally off the air. We and CBS can both breathe a sigh of relief. Although–I am happy to say–I have never spent a single minute watching Colbert, one of the Left’s several faux comedians. Colbert has been on something of a farewell tour, as though he were important or popular. Left-wingers in entertainment and politics have offered one paean after another to the failed talk show host.
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Young conservatives often refer to themselves as “based.” What does it mean? A based conservative is a young, populist, America First, non-establishment conservative. That isn’t a description that applies to many lawyers and judges, especially these days. Is there such a thing as a based approach to the law? There is, and it probably sounds to you like common sense. Law professor Ilan Wurman explains: Right. At the margins, under
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Democrats think they have the GOP on the run for this year’s midterms courtesy of their Iranian allies, but a problem looms: they need a presidential candidate for 2028. It has been a while since the Democrats have fielded a strong presidential nominee. Joe Biden was pedestrian at best in 2020, and Kamala Harris was awful in 2024. Surely they can do better in 2028. Right? Perhaps not. Rasmussen reports
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
In the course of committing an armed robbery in Minneapolis in 2004, Marvin Haynes shot and killed the owner of a flower shop. He was prosecuted, identified by witnesses (“Oh my God, that’s him”), and heard to talk about “shooting an old white man” at the time of the murder. Haynes was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. His conviction was upheld by the Minnesota Court of
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Via InstaPundit, check out this chart showing political donations by occupation, where the donations are most one-sided either in favor of Democrats or Republicans: The most striking part of this chart is how much bluer the bluest occupations are than the reddest are red. Progressives & liberals are far likelier to live in a monopartisan/monocultural bubble. pic.twitter.com/ZO4DlKzQjp — Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 19, 2026 Dan McLaughlin’s observation is clearly right,
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May 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
When Scott and I began writing newspaper op-eds and magazine pieces circa 1990, one of the subjects we focused on was the Democrats’ persistent lying about taxes. One of our articles in National Review, which exposed lies that Democratic journalists told about former President George H.W. Bush’s taxes, generated a signed, hand-typed letter from Bush to us. Lies about taxes are particularly absurd, since the IRS publishes data every year
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May 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Earlier today, Scott attended the press conference in Minneapolis hosted by Robert Kennedy Jr., Dr. Oz, U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen, and others from DOJ and the FBI. He no doubt will report on the press conference shortly. I will just add a few observations of my own. * The assembled officials announced 15 new fraud indictments relating to various Medicaid programs. This is the fulfillment of what Assistant U.S. Attorney
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