Liberals
March 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today the DOGE Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene, on government funding of PBS and NPR. The heads of those organizations, Paula Kerger and Katherine Maher respectively, testified. Republicans on the subcommittee attacked the witnesses for the obvious bias of their organizations–for example, the fact that NPR has 87 registered Democrats in its news room, and zero registered
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March 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Liberals love to talk about the slavery of 400 years ago, which the Republican Party successfully abolished in this country, but when it comes to slavery today, it is a different story. And there is quite a bit of slavery today–mostly in Islamic countries, which for many centuries have been the prime centers of slave owning and slave trading, and in China. Some years ago, I wrote about a report
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March 22, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I am not easily surprised these days, but I confess to having been taken aback by the outpouring of support for Mahmoud Khalil, the notorious anti-Semite, vandal and pro-Hamas agitator. Who, after all, is not being imprisoned, but merely sent back to where he came from. But where, exactly, is that? Khalil is always referred to as a Columbia student, but in fact he is 29 or 30 years old.
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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 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 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Via InstaPundit, Politico reports on a conclave of Democrats in Virginia, “a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback”: New @playbookdc: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback. We got their takeaways. pic.twitter.com/lA1nVshriG — Adam Wren (@adamwren) March 2, 2025 A few observations: * “Embrace patriotism, community, and
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March 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On CNN this morning, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who might be the dumbest man in government today, decried the Trump administration’s position on the Russia/Ukraine war. You can read much more at the link, but I am going to focus on just a couple of points. First, the question asked by CNN’s Dana Bash: Host Dana Bash said, “Do you think there’s hope of salvaging this relationship with Ukraine?” This
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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
This story is from Rochester, Minnesota. Some would say it is a narrative of narrow-minded oppression. Why shouldn’t elementary school students be instructed–by the public schools–in the gay S/M culture? The local newspaper headlines: “Rochester Pride cancels reading by Emily Neilson, whose book was removed from Franklin Elementary.” After planning to travel halfway across the country to visit the community where her book was removed from the shelves of an
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February 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It is often said that the future belongs to those who show up. And the most relevant way of showing up, is having children. Anecdotally, it has been obvious for a long time that conservatives are more likely to have children than liberals, and apt to have more children. But the data are clear, and getting clearer: The "relationship between voting Republican and having more babies is growing stronger over
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February 11, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Rocky Mountain Institute is a far-left, “environmentalist” organization that is best known for leading the campaign to ban gas stoves. But there is more to the organization’s radicalism than that, as energy expert Robert Bryce notes: RMI is pushing these policies even though 69% of voters oppose bans on gas stoves. However, the gas bans are only one aspect of RMI’s radical agenda. In 2023, it published a report
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February 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Is liberalism a mental disorder, as is often said? There is a great deal of social science research showing that conservatives are happier than liberals, enjoy better mental health than liberals, are more involved in their communities than liberals, are more philanthropic than liberals, and so on. Probably more important, though, is that conservatives are more likely to have children, and to have more children, than liberals. Since the future
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February 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
One odd thing about liberals is that they are not good at nuance. They are not skillful readers, and often have trouble understanding the tone of communications. This is what leads them, for example, to fact-check the Babylon Bee. More importantly, it causes them to misunderstand President Trump. Trump has several ways of speaking: sometimes he is deadly serious; sometimes he is casually offering an out-of-the-box idea, perhaps for the
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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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