J D Vance
June 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Vice President Vance unloaded on Israel in a White House press conference (video here, transcript here) and other media appearances yesterday. He called out “people within Bibi’s cabinet” — let’s just say Israel — for attacking President Trump personally over the deal. I don’t think they have done that, but that’s what the man said. He called out Israeli forces for wanton killing in Lebanon while defending Israel against Hezbollah.
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June 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I was on the Rita Panahi Show yesterday, covering a number of topics: JD Vance venturing into the lion’s den of The View, the UFC terror plot and the ongoing risk of assassination attempts against President Trump, the Antifa indictments in Minnesota, Qatar’s investments in the U.S., and FIFA seeming to side with Iran’s regime. The video starts with Rita’s Lefties Losing It segment, featuring Jimmy Kimmel and others. I
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June 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker
JD Vance went on The View today, with a full complement of six harridans to harass him. Is that a good idea, bringing light into the darkness, or is it hopeless? If I were a politician I don’t think I would do it, but Vance girded his loins and waded in. The full video is below, but if ten minutes of The View is too much for you, here are
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June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
This is the second in a series of posts this morning on the memorandum of understanding the Trump administration has reached with Iran. Vice President Vance is out selling it in a mode that recalls the “Always Be Closing” message conveyed by Nick to the desperate real estate salesmen in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. In a “you have got to be kidding me” appearance on CNN yesterday, Vance argued
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June 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We interrupt this program to report that President Trump has more or less announced peace for our time on Truth Social: “The deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow.” Below is a screeshot of Trump’s text posted to Truth Social. President Trump is fluent in hyperbole. We will want to take a close like at the terms — the commitments and the mechanisms of enforcement — when they are made
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June 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Jesse Watters to the contrary notwithstanding, Israel is not “spying on the United States.” It is not “freelancing in Lebanon.” It is defending itself from attacks by Hezbollah that have depopulated large swaths of northern Israel. The Hezbollah attacks, by the way, violated the purported “ceasefire” negotiated by President Trump. What does Vice President Vance have to say about that? In what has become a characateristically “disappointing” performance, Vance sees
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June 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
We have been following the Henry Nowak case that his roiled Great Britain. It is only the latest of many instances of Britain’s two-tier justice system, but for whatever reason it seems to be the incident that has opened the floodgates. Yesterday JD Vance weighed in on Twitter: Vance’s comments were only incidentally about the particulars of the Nowak case, and only partly about the U.K. His point was broader–a
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May 17, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The 2028 election is a long way off, and much will happen between now and then. To mention just one non-remote contingency, it is possible that the Democrats will succeed in killing President Trump, so that by 2028 JD Vance is the incumbent president. That would render all current speculation moot. But who can resist? This post caught my eye last night: Is the author correct? Let’s go through the
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April 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Vivek Ramaswamy is running as a Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. He was the featured speaker at a TPUSA event hosted at the Ohio State University’s Mershon Auditorium this past Tuesday evening. The argumentative NPR News story on his appearance makes him sound like an impressive candidate to me. Among other subjects, he fielded a scripted question on American support of Israel. The question harks back to his 2024
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April 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
One could say that President Trump has burned his bridges with the formerly conservative podcasters who have turned on him, but for the fact that they burned them first. In any event, earlier today Trump unloaded on Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones. Mostly he just insulted them as stupid, pawns of the fake news press, and so on. But after today, there will be no going
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April 8, 2026 — John Hinderaker
On the Rita Panahi Show last night, we talked about yesterday’s dramatic developments in Iran. I expressed skepticism about any purported agreement, similar to what Scott has written this morning. We covered other topics, too, ranging from the special election in Georgia to Candace Owens’ breakdown. This clip begins Lefties Losing It, featuring a “crazy-eyed Swedish simpleton,” and continues with my interview at around the three minute mark:
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April 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Writing about President Trump’s denunciation of Tucker Carlson via Douglas Murray’s New York Post column “Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump,” John asserts that it’s a time for choosing on the right. That is the point I have been making for some time now with respect to the maniacal anti-Semitism of Carlson and his friends, including the Vice President of the United States. President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray
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March 30, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Responding to a question about Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her brother, Vice President Vance announced that he “definitely” believes Omar committed immigration fraud and that the administration is actively looking into legal remedies: So we actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said. “And I talked to [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller about this actually recently. We’re trying
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March 27, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Everyone knows this. From the New York Post, VP Vance claims Rep. Ilhan Omar ‘definitely committed immigration fraud’ by allegedly marrying brother. In February 2009, the future Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. It was her first legal marriage. The marriage ceremony was conducted by a Christian minister. There is no dispute about these facts, which are recounted by the Post. All available evidence
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March 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Of the three countries that President Trump has taken steps to liberate, the tyranny closest to collapsing is Cuba’s. Many of Cuba’s young people have left, its Communist government is utterly incompetent, and, with the supply of free or cheap Venezuelan oil cut off, the Communists can’t keep the power on. So I think the downfall of Cuba’s Communist Party, which has misruled that island for more than 60 years,
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January 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Multiple BBC presenters covered the day with no reference to the Jews and subsequently apologized for the — what’s the word? — omission. It wasn’t an oversight. When John posted the item about the BBC’s observance of the occasion, I thought I can top that! Below is the statement posted on Vice President Vance’s X account. Today we remember the millions of lives
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December 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Laurence Cooper is professor of political science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is the author, most recently, of Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau’s Philosophic Life (2023, University of Chicago Press). For the past five years or so I have studied the classics of political philosophy together with him and former Claremont Institute Chairman Bruce Sanborn weekly over lunch. Larry is our gifted teacher. I asked him
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