Leftism
March 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
That was one of the battle cries of the Gingrich rebellion of 1994, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen. While the grass roots movement of that era succeeded in many ways, it completely failed to defund the Left. On the contrary. Today, the Left is rolling in dough. This is partly because most rich people who are active in politics are on the Left, but probably more importantly, because government continues
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March 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Within hours, Senate Democrats will cave, and vote for the House’s continuing budget resolution. Enough of them will, anyway, to overcome a filibuster. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw in the towel yesterday. His surrender was likely driven by the realization that, after shrieking that the sky is falling every time the Trump administration delays a payment to a contractor or lays off an employee, the Democrats would look like fools
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March 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This captures the corruption and hypocrisy of the modern Left in a single news story: A United Nations judge was convicted on Thursday of trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave. United Nations: check. And a judge, too! Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, “exploited and abused” the victim, prosecutors said, forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and caregiver while
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March 13, 2025 — John Hinderaker
A left-wing mob has stormed Trump Tower and is engaging in a riot/demonstration on behalf of Mahmoud Kahlil, the Syrian (with an Algerian passport) whose green card the administration has revoked, for ample reasons explained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio here: Some of the rioters claim to be Jews; I wouldn’t bet on it. In any event, violent leftists are out in force, attacking Tesla dealerships and now Trump
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March 12, 2025 — John Hinderaker
My wife and I attended several days in court, near the end of the Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg trial in Washington, D.C. We witnessed a dramatic moment, when Mann’s lawyers had introduced into evidence a document, which was blown up for the jury and about which Mann testified, that contained a list of grants that Mann allegedly didn’t get as a result of the defendants’ purported
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March 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On the American Left, the fascist impulse is never far below the surface. At the moment, the leftists’ number one target is Elon Musk. They are invading Tesla showrooms, vandalizing Teslas, selling bumper stickers denouncing Musk–ironically!–as a fascist, because he wants to shrink the size of government and reduce its power. You can’t make this stuff up. BREAKING: HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer
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March 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Leftists organized themselves to protest against President Trump, DOGE, the waning of DEI, and whatever else is tormenting them these days, by organizing a shopping boycott for February 28–yesterday. The idea was to spend no money, anywhere, on anything, unless absolutely necessary. Some leftists tried to direct the boycott against companies that have recently abandoned DEI, having been reminded by the Supreme Court that race discrimination in employment is illegal.
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February 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last week, I received the email below from Gale Primary Sources, acting on behalf of the University of California’s Center for Right-Wing Studies. It sought permission to digitize and disseminate materials created by my organization, Center of the American Experiment. These materials would be part of an archive that Berkeley will “publish and commercially distribute,” for the purposes of academic research and education on the “Right Wing.” I noticed that,
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February 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I remember this case, because it was so horrible: in July 2007, Steven Hayes and a younger accomplice invaded the Connecticut home of Dr. William Petit in Connecticut. They held the family prisoners for hours, after tying up Dr. Petit and beating him with a baseball bat. Hayes forced Petit’s wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to withdraw $15,000 in cash from an ATM. He brought her back to the house, where he
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January 31, 2025 — John Hinderaker
From the world of commercial real estate, this shocking news: Minnetonka-based Onward Investors purchased the 31-story Ameriprise Financial Center at a big discount, adding to its growing portfolio of downtown Minneapolis office buildings. The firm paid $6.25 million in cash for the property at 707 S. Second Av., according to sources familiar with the deal. The building last sold in 2016 for $200 million. So that represents a 97% decline
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January 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
When Donald Trump pardoned the January 6 protesters, or commuted their sentences, it prompted a wave of complaints from Democrats that he was putting their lives in danger. The appalling Chris Murphy of Connecticut, for example, asserted that as a result of Trump’s pardons, “political violence just got legitimized in this country. And you’re going to see it again and again and again, specifically directed towards Democrats.” This talking point
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January 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Installed as Secretary of Defense, our friend Pete Hegseth has wasted no time executing the Trump Administration mission. General Mark Milley conducted himself disgracefully during Trump’s first term, contacting the Red Chinese on his own initiative to assure them that if President Trump issued any extraordinary orders, they would not be obeyed. Don’t worry, we won’t bomb you! Not that Trump intended to do any such thing, but this was
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January 27, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It has been a long time since we paid much attention to Paul Krugman, the far-left columnist at the New York Times. Years ago, I caught him in a number of lies, some of which are itemized here. When his retirement from the Times was announced recently, I commented on it here. I thought we were done with “poor, dumb Paul Krugman,” as I referred to him here. But now
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January 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
We can’t be sure, since his alleged presidency still has 16 days to go. But Biden’s awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros is likely to stand as his final insult to America. In honoring Soros, Biden said: “Born into a Jewish family in Hungary, George Soros escaped Nazi occupation to build a life of freedom for himself and countless others around the world,” reads the Soros citation.
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December 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday Luigi Mangione was arraigned in Manhattan. An adoring throng greeted Mangione outside the courtroom, and “[a]t least two dozen women packed the courtroom for the twisted heartthrob.” Mangione appeared to enjoy the proceedings: A grinning Luigi Mangione appeared to yuk it up in a Manhattan courtroom Monday as he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. What to make of Mangione’s popularity with a not-insignificant
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December 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Many have been shocked by expressions of approval for Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson on social media, in a few instances by journalists and other relatively prominent Democrats. But it turns out that those seeming outliers were speaking for many Americans. An Emerson College poll finds that Mangione’s murder is broadly supported by young people: A poll found 41 percent of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare
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December 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Paul Krugman is retiring as a New York Times columnist. His final column is here, but I haven’t found a way to get past the Times paywall. That’s OK: Krugman’s content is certainly not worth paying for. This is how much I can extract from the Times: What strikes me, looking back, is how optimistic many people, both here and in much of the Western world, were back then [when
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