Liberals
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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July 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Western Europe has been sweltering under a heat wave, and quite a few people have died as a result. The heat wave is unusual, but the phenomenon isn’t: every year, lots of Europeans die from extremes of heat and cold, far more than in the United States. And European climate deaths vastly exceed deaths in the U.S. from gun homicides, which many Europeans like to decry. A sane response to
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June 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The Southern Poverty Law Center has long been known as a far-left hate group, and now that it is under indictment for mail fraud and has been exposed as perhaps the largest funder of racist organizations in the U.S., one might expect its influence to wane. But left-wing organizations, like the teachers’ unions that control most public schools, won’t give up their allegiance to the SPLC without a fight. Thus
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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
I don’t know whether the Department of Justice will be able to make its indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center stick, or not. I certainly hope so. There has rarely been a more despicable organization than the SPLC. The gist of the federal indictment is that the SPLC raised hundreds of millions of dollars by pretending to be an anti-racist organization, while in fact it devoted some of those
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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 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker
An actress dies, and this is how her family remembers her: 'ALF' Star Anne Schedeen Dies at 77; Family Remembers Her 'Burning Hatred for Trump' https://t.co/mwt76FpMLo — Variety (@Variety) June 15, 2026 What a legacy! Liberals are haters, with perhaps a few honorable exceptions, and hating Trump is what passes for both religion and philosophy for most of them. It is sad, but also dangerous. I don’t think we have
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June 8, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Increasingly, it seems that American liberals and conservatives are living on different planets. The latest case in point: 55% of Democrats say they would rather live in a country other than the United States: According to a new Elon University/YouGov poll, a full *55%* of Democrats said that they would rather live in a different country than the United States. Only 10% of Republicans said the same. pic.twitter.com/cSpccKhC6d — Greg
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June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Bill has written here and here about Henry Nowak, the 18 year old Briton who was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh. The perpetrator, having stabbed Nowak, collaborated with family members to put out the story that Nowak was a “racist,” while his mother hid the murder weapon. This is the call that Digwa’s brother made to report the crime. The suggestion that the victim was a “racist”
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May 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The sorting of America into red and blue zones is one of the most important developments of our time, about which we have often written. People are leaving blue states for red states, in part in search of lower taxes. But that is actually half, or less, of the story. Richard Vedder and Nicholas Jadwisienczak of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity have analyzed growth in personal income from 2000 to
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May 23, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Stephen Colbert is finally off the air. We and CBS can both breathe a sigh of relief. Although–I am happy to say–I have never spent a single minute watching Colbert, one of the Left’s several faux comedians. Colbert has been on something of a farewell tour, as though he were important or popular. Left-wingers in entertainment and politics have offered one paean after another to the failed talk show host.
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
In the course of committing an armed robbery in Minneapolis in 2004, Marvin Haynes shot and killed the owner of a flower shop. He was prosecuted, identified by witnesses (“Oh my God, that’s him”), and heard to talk about “shooting an old white man” at the time of the murder. Haynes was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. His conviction was upheld by the Minnesota Court of
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May 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
When Scott and I began writing newspaper op-eds and magazine pieces circa 1990, one of the subjects we focused on was the Democrats’ persistent lying about taxes. One of our articles in National Review, which exposed lies that Democratic journalists told about former President George H.W. Bush’s taxes, generated a signed, hand-typed letter from Bush to us. Lies about taxes are particularly absurd, since the IRS publishes data every year
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May 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Price controls are in the Hall of Fame of bad ideas. They have an unbroken record of failure, stretching back literally thousands of years. And yet, they remain alluring to people with no knowledge of either history or economics, or–probably more relevant–to failing governments. There was a time when Britain’s government was known for a certain level of financial sophistication. No longer: [British Chancellor] Rachel Reeves is pressuring supermarkets to
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May 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Luigi Mangione, the Left’s murderous heartthrob, made a court appearance today, as the New York court addressed his lawyer’s motions to exclude evidence. As always, an admiring throng of (mostly) women turned out to support him: Luigi’s fans don’t want to free him because they think he is innocent, they want to free him because they know he is guilty and approve of his murder. If this video doesn’t come
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May 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The horrific Palisades fire in Los Angeles killed 12 people, destroyed 7,000 homes and businesses, and did $150 billion in damages. The fire was started by Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is currently being held without bail, awaiting trial. Rinderknecht is a good, if somewhat over-enthusiastic, Democrat: The deranged firebug accused of igniting the devastating Palisades Fire had become “fixated” with Luigi Mangione in the lead up to the deadly blaze —
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April 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Jimmy Kimmel has a late night show on ABC. On his program the day before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Kimmel did a bit about the dinner that included this: Jimmy Kimmel mocking Melania Trump at his alternate universe parody WH correspondence dinner saying .. "OUR FIRST LADY, MELANIA IS HERE. LOOK AT MELANIA, SO BEAUTIFUL MRS. TRUMP, YOU HAVE A GLOW LIKE AN EXPECTANT WIDOW." Your reminder to cancel
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