Anti-Americanism
July 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Graham Platner officially withdrew from the Maine Senate race today. This is his letter to Maine’s Secretary of State: I only want to call attention to the manner in which Platner concluded his letter, presumably expressing his priorities: F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts. “Up the Hearts” is a soccer reference, which I guess fits–so much for Platner’s blue collar bona fides. But “F*ck ICE” and “Free Palestine” are
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July 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Celebration of America’s 250th anniversary has been, I think, muted. President Trump has tried to clean up Washington, D.C., for the occasion, and has sponsored various festivities. But Democrats have actively opposed his cleanup efforts, so we have the absurd spectacle of Democrats cheering on the algae in the Reflecting Pool. And they have largely boycotted the celebrations. Many have compared the enthusiasm and good cheer with which our Bicentennial
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June 30, 2026 — Scott Johnson
California state senator Scott Wiener is running for the San Francisco congressional seat that Nancy Pelosi is vacating after 20 terms. She’s leaving big high heels to fill. Wiener seems like he could fill them. He’s far out in all the required respects. However, he was harassed mercilessly by one Dimitry Yakoushkin “for insufficient alacrity in condemning Israel for supposed genocide in Gaza,” as Rich Lowry puts it in a
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April 7, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It is old news, of course, but perhaps worth noting that both Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have arrived at the end point of their long, tortured journeys. Both of these former conservatives and former boosters of President Trump have now staked out the ultimate in TDS positions, driven in each case, perhaps, by antisemitism: Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump
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March 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post covers the story of Mayor Mamdani playing host to Hamas fan Mahmoud Khalil and his family at Gracie Mansion for Ramadan. Mamdani released the photo below including his supposedly private-figure Hamasnik wife. Posting a celebratory photo of an anti-Israel college protester who should be deported next to your “non public figure” wife, who cheered the rape and murder of Jews on 10/7, the day after two
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October 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In January 1933 the Oxford Union voted 275-153 to approve the motion: “That this House refuses in any circumstances to fight for King and Country.” The proposition became known as the Oxford oath. Winston Churchill was not amused. While others counseled that it be dismissed as youthful folly, he declined to ignore the proceedings at Oxford. Rather, he declared it “a very disquieting and disgusting symptom” and proceeded to explain
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August 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker
No, he didn’t die. But the era in which Colin Kaepernick, who had two or at most three good years in the NFL and hasn’t played a down in nearly a decade, and who had a losing record as a starter, could be regarded as some kind of cultural icon, has officially come to an end: Director Spike Lee’s multi-part documentary series for ESPN Films about former NFL quarterback Colin
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August 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the U.S. Report on Sky News Australia, with James Morrow. We talked about the far-left and overtly anti-American Panamerican Congress, in which five Democratic Congresspeople participated. We discussed James Carville’s urging Democrats, next time they control the House, the Senate and the presidency, to add states, change election laws and pack the Supreme Court to assure permanent Democratic Party power. And we reviewed the potential
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August 6, 2025 — John Hinderaker
When Donald Trump ran for president on an “America first” platform, it provoked howls of outrage from the Left. That struck me as bizarre: isn’t putting America first the president’s job description? In the years that have gone by since 2016, it has become increasingly clear that one of our major parties, the Democrats, do not put America first. In fact, they will put pretty much anyone other than Americans
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June 12, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi was arrested for participating in an anti-Semitic riot at Columbia. Now she is weighing in on the violence in Los Angeles: A sitting congresswoman’s daughter is calling for the death of America and Israel. Isra Hirsi has been arrested at antisemitic encampments that endangered Jewish students. Now she posts “Death to the colonial empire.” This is dangerous and cannot be ignored, @Ilhan. America… pic.twitter.com/Qi0LhEWlyq —
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June 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The insurrection against federal authority in Los Angeles continues. As always, when confronted with a well-organized and well-funded riot, the most pertinent question is: who is behind it? In this case, a significant part of the answer is a non-profit called the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA. READ THIS ENTIRE POST. The kicker: CHIRLA, the group behind the current rioting in LA, "received nearly $34 million in revenue
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May 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this month I attended a Manhattan Institute dinner at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York. The Manhattan Institute honored retiring chairman Paul Singer with the institute’s Alexander Hamilton award at the dinner. A rabid left-wing crowd of protesters would have shut the event down if a hundred or so of New York’s finest had not barricaded a path to enter the venue. Many Jews were in attendance. As
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May 22, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Tom Wolfe’s much-quoted adage is that “the dark night of fascism is always descending on America but always lands in Europe.” In a similar vein, one can say that the authorities and the press are always looking for “domestic terrorism” on the right, but in fact, it consistently comes from the left. The latest left-wing terrorist is Elias Rodriguez. Rodriguez was obsessed with Israel and chanted “Free, free Palestine” after
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May 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Our friend David Horowitz died earlier this week at the age of 86. David was of course the author (with Peter Collier) of best-selling family biographies of the Roosevelts and the Kennedys as well as many other books including the classic autobiography Radical Son and the multivolume compilation of his conservative writings in The Black Book of the American Left. Drawing on our archives, I am posting a few of
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April 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson
AEI’s Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka devoted their latest What the Hell? podcast to the Trump administration’s efforts to reach a deal with Iran. Danielle Pletka comments on it at her What the Hell? Substack along with transcribed highlights from the interview with podcast guest Elliott Abrams. Among other things Abrams served in the State Department during all eight years of the Reagan Administration, as assistant secretary of state for
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October 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
These days, that seems to be a minority sentiment. Kamala Harris, for one, supports replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, an early harbinger of the DEI fiasco that later engulfed the U.S. Here is Kamala: FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris supported changing Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples’ Day" pic.twitter.com/bqXpH55ynY — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 14, 2024 Far from representing “honesty,” erasing Columbus’s discovery of America in favor of honoring unspecified
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June 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward
• In the runup to the debate Thursday, Scripps TV News offered an item about how to cope with the stress, anxiety, trauma, and general mental health “challenges” posed by Trump v. Biden, including seeking counseling, medication, group therapy, art, aromatherapy, meditation (seriously, I am not making this up). Above all, consult “mental health professionals.” Anyone who needs to consult a “mental health professional” to cope with the most basic
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