Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night on the Rita Panahi show, we had a wide-ranging conversation that started with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing a hijab, covered Zohran Mamdani scorning Israel Day in New York, the status of a deal (or not) in Iran, and Graham Platner, including this post on Platner’s anti-Semitism. We finished up with the City of Boston’s “Trans Period Pride” event. All in all, an entertaining segment. The video starts with Lefties
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February 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I usually do a couple of radio shows a week, and I don’t normally post them here. But I am making an exception for this appearance yesterday morning on Chicago’s Morning Answer, with John Anthony filling in for Dan Proft. John is a radio host in Detroit, on whose show I have also been a guest. We talked about the silliness of the Epstein List, Iran, AOC’s venture into foreign
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February 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flopped in her first major appearance on the world stage, to the point where she became a laughingstock. When she fumbled around trying to answer basic foreign policy questions, many were reminded of a famous video clip from years ago, starring Miss Teen South Carolina. This is one of several versions of that comparison: .@ClayTravis and @BuckSexton wanted to know… Who said it better? AOC or Miss Teen
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September 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today the House of Representatives passed a resolution that honored Charlie Kirk and condemned his assassination. The text of the resolution is here. Its “Whereas” clauses praise Kirk, while the resolution itself mostly condemns the assassination and political violence in general, but also “honors the life, leadership, and legacy of Charlie Kirk, whose steadfast dedication to the Constitution, civil discourse, and Biblical truth inspired a generation to cherish and defend
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December 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On the left, everything is violent except violence. We see this often in the context of speech, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez extended the universe of violence to include denial of health insurance coverage: “This is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as
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June 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Jamaal Bowman held a joint rally in the Bronx. Their purpose was to boost Bowman’s candidacy, as he is too much of a lunatic even for that constituency and seems likely to lose his primary on Tuesday. Ocasio-Cortez came on stage to an obscene rap by Cardi B: Hoes better lower they tone when they spittin’. Bitches is washed, soap on the dishes. I
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June 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Liberals claim to be in favor of democracy–or, at least, Our Democracy™️–but if someone actually runs against them, they take it as a personal offense. Consider this tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom I take as a good exemplar of contemporary liberalism: People everywhere need to understand how disgusting and abnormal it is for special interests to dump nearly $15 million to unseat a member of Congress in a primary. This
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June 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tries to enlighten the rest of us on the need for Congress to “rein in” a “rogue” Supreme Court. She demands that the Supreme Court be “accountable” to Congress. Unless I am mistaken, Ms. Cortez is a high school graduate. But apparently they didn’t teach civics in her tony suburban high school: AOC: If Congress can’t “rein in" the Supreme Court, then we are heading towards
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November 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Democratic Party is undergoing a civil war over Gaza and Israel. Traditional Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are pro-Israel. Possibly this has something to do with the fact that American Jews contribute a large portion–last time I saw the numbers, more than half–of all campaign funds for Democratic candidates. To be fair, however, it may also reflect basic human decency. But the newer generation of
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October 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Around the world, groups of Muslims turned out to celebrate Hamas’s successful sneak attack on Israel. More surprisingly, perhaps, the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America also demonstrated in Times Square in favor of the invasion. That would be the chapter to which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez belongs. At least six members of the House of Representatives are also members of DSA: 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Tomorrow, October 8, at 1PM. Times
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February 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
During yesterday’s Super Bowl, a Christian group aired two ads with the theme “He gets us.” They were pretty innocuous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLX2heol5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5x1RyJOwP8 But they weren’t anodyne enough for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who denounced them for endorsing “fascism”: Something tells me Jesus would *not* spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 13, 2023 What was she talking about? I have no
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August 1, 2022 — Steven Hayward
Ken Green takes up the old moral instruction “two wrongs don’t make a right,” but in fact game theory suggests that a strict tit-for-tat response actually leads to optimal outcomes eventually. Rather than walk through the headache-inducing and opaque equations and symbols of game theory, he simply ponders why treating the left with their own medicine is more likely to make them discover game theory for themselves: So, I was
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July 19, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Earlier today, there was a pro-abortion demonstration outside the Supreme Court building in Washington. A number of Democratic politicians participated. The protesters blocked traffic so as to get themselves “arrested” as an act of political theater. What is funny about this is that several of them, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, put their arms behind their backs, pretending to have been handcuffed by police officers. A liberal’s gotta suffer,
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July 14, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Liberals have been illegally demonstrating in front of Supreme Court justices’ homes and harassing them in public places, like restaurants. This isn’t a new thing–liberals carried out similar campaigns of harassment against officials in the Trump administration. Nor are these outrages being perpetrated solely by fringe characters on the Left. On the contrary, they are encouraged by liberals from the White House on down. A Harvard Law instructor is among
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June 30, 2022 — John Hinderaker
Liberals are gnashing their teeth over today’s decision by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA, in which the Court found that Congress has not delegated to the EPA power to reduce CO2 emissions by rearranging the country’s electricity producing system. The case, and the Left’s reaction to it, have several interesting features. First, the Court has erected a barrier, at least in this instance, against the seemingly inexorable
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March 31, 2022 — Steven Hayward
At first glance, this headline in New York might seem to convey that her worship Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was finally learning something about the real world: So maybe Democrats should move back to the middle? Of course not. The problem, from her point of view, is that Biden has been too timid, and didn’t simply steamroll Joe Manchin and go full progressive. “I have the utmost respect and confidence in the
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December 21, 2021 — Steven Hayward
I’m out of popcorn already, and it’s only Wednesday. I note that amidst the Democrats’ Manchinangst, clear signs of Venezuela-envy have emerged. The CNN story about the civil war inside the party includes this tidbit: There are clear signs that the party is hardly on the same page about how to move ahead. In a phone call Monday, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said
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