April 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hunter Biden moved to dismiss the criminal tax charges pending against Hunter Biden in federal court (the Central District of California). Indeed, Biden attorney Abbe Lowell filed eight motions to dismiss the charges. Judge Mark Scarsi — a Trump appointee — denied the motions in an order that is accessible online here. Judge Scarsi writes at page 33: As the Court stated at the hearing, Defendant filed his motion without
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April 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden revived one of the Democrat/left’s greatest hits in his shoutfest that passed for a State of the Union address last month: And now it’s my goal to cut the federal deficit $3 trillion more by making big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their fair share. Look, I’m a capitalist. If you want to make a million bucks – great! Just pay your fair share in taxes.
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April 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The IDF has struck the IRGC’s Syria/Lebanon leadership inside the building next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus. The strike reportedly killed seven members of the IRGC including the top Iranian commander in Syria. If so, that would be seven for the price of one. The Times of Israel reports the story here. The Israelis have awesome intelligence. Israel cannot live with the daily attacks from Hezbollah across its northern border.
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April 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In a holiday weekend news dump this past Friday, the EPA promulgated a rule mandating the displacement of gas-powered trucks and buses with electric simulacra. The EPA gives its press release the unwieldy heading “Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Strongest Ever Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles to Protect Public Health and Address the Climate Crisis While Keeping the American Economy Moving.” If you want a picture of the future, imagine a
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April 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the spirit of the day, the Washington Free Beacon’s Thaleigha Rampersad has compiled the video below for the Biden 2024 presidential campaign. It is posted here at the Free Beacon. Four more years! (or fewer, as the case may be). It only hurts when I laugh, but our enemies laugh pain-free. That much I can tell you. On a related not, the Free Beacon also breaks the news that
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April 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
It’s April Fool’s Day and perhaps not inappropriate to take a straightforward frolic and detour from the news of the day. We went to see country star Pam Tillis perform at the Dakota before a full house of fans this past Saturday evening. Among other things, she made me wish that I’d been listening to country radio in the 90’s when she broke through to become a star. She is
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March 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri awarded the Associated Press with a Pictures of the Year award for photos including Hamas savages absconding in a pickup truck with the corpse of Israeli/German victim Shani Louk (below, in the Team Picture Story of the Year category). The citation accompanying the award is itself a piece of work, but never mind that. (Credit: Ali Mahmud/Associated Press) Controversy
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March 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. I understand that Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians. The spirit of transgression moved Papa Joe. In honor of the day he formally added a new canon to the Democrat orthodoxy. On Good Friday Papa Joe issued A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024 — so it shall be written, so
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March 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Coleman Hughes was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of MI’s City Journal. MI has compiled his City Journal publications online here. He is the author of the book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, published last month by Penguin Random House. Hughes was invited to talk about the subject of his book on The View this week. I have posted the video
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
RealClearPolitics has posted the video (below) of Dave Rubin’s panel session earlier this month with the winners of the first RealClearPolitics Samizdat Prize — Twitter Files reporter Matt Taibbi, Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and New York Post reporter and Laptop From Hell author Miranda Devine. RCP has also posted transcribed excerpts along with the video here. It’s hard to keep up with the news of the day,
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon devotes The Stiles Section to the work of senior writer Andrew Stiles. Stiles previewed last night’s Million Dollar Bash in New York City in “Liberal Celebs Host ‘Fundraiser From Hell’ for Joe Biden.” This morning in his companion weekly newsletter (readers can subscribe to it here) Stiles ran it down this way: Worst party we weren’t invited to: Rich liberals shelled out as much as $500,000
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
John Hinderaker knows the history of the Civil War about as well as anyone I know, so I’m sure he’s ever more familiar with the case against secession than I am. His case for secession is pretty, pretty good, but I believe it runs contrary to the Constitution as well as American tradition and history. I thought the case was decided more or less definitively against it by the Civil
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll proudly celebrates her Power Line anniversary and announces the publication of Over My Limit – Ammo Grrrll’s Tenth Year of Shooting Fish In A Barrel. She writes: The NSFW but hilarious comic Ron White has the famous wonderful line (at least 30 years old, so I feel comfortable quoting it) about being unable to avoid further trouble when arrested: “I had the right to remain silent, but I
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March 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Talking about the outrage of the day with a friend, I was reminded of JFK “fat-shaming” the youth of America in his speech at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Children’s Bureau held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas, Texas (April 9, 1962, video below). In the speech, JFK spoke out against childhood obesity. Indeed, he went so far as to say that “[t]here is nothing, I think, more
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March 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The St. Paul Saints are the Minnesota Twins’ minor league affiliate across the river. Dating to 1992 in its current incarnation, the Saints were owned by Marv Goldklang, Mike Veeck, and Bill Murray and independent of major league baseball. The Saints have since become the top minor league Twins affiliate and, as of last year, been sold to Diamond Baseball Holdings. As you might guess from the Veeck and Murray
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March 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Karine Jean-Pierre dropped in for an outside-the-beltway visit on local radio in advance of President Biden’s rare joint appearance yesterday with Vice President Harris in Raleigh (White House text of their remarks here). In the audio clip below, KJP’s radio hosts ask about Biden’s mental decline and the obvious effects of Bidenomics. KJP treats the hosts with indignant incredulity before she abruptly hangs up. Was it something they said? Wow.
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March 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The public shaming of Ronna McDaniel by NBC/MSNBC’s partisan talent represents an almost unbelievable failure of self-knowledge. One wants to shout Look in the mirror, you fools! The mob in this case was led by Chuck Todd, who is himself a pathetic excuse of a journalist. Todd’s role in this episode rankles. He was among the many of his tribe who promoted the Steele Dossier and the Russia hoax during
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