Liberals
August 4, 2023 — John Hinderaker
There is vastly more money on the Left than the Right. You can see this across the country, but Minnesota provides a useful case study. It was the topic of Episode 2 of the American Experiment podcast. In the 2022 election cycle, if you add up all of the various sources of money as best public records allow, the Democrats and their supporters spent two to three times as much
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July 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Politics in the Netherlands have been increasingly contentious of late. The most recent coalition government fell earlier this month, and now Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag has not only resigned her post, but says she might be leaving the country. This article in the London Times illustrates how liberal elites see themselves and their opponents. But if you read between the lines, reality begins to glimmer through. Just two years ago,
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July 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
A Kinsley gaffe, of course, is when a politician inadvertently tells the truth. So, a footnote to yesterday’s IRS whistleblower hearing: Congressman Kweisi Mfume of Maryland denounces the Republicans’ criticisms of the Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS. Why? Because it is the job of those agencies to “keep this democracy in check.” That is perhaps, in a single sentence, the clearest statement of the difference between the
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July 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Who would want to live in San Francisco? Who would want to do business in San Francisco? Who will want to live in San Francisco when there is no one left doing business there? Via InstaPundit, another marker in that city’s downward slide: NEW: The Walgreens at 16th/Geary in San Francisco has chained up the freezer section ⛓️ Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream
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July 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
If you are looking for a little Sunday evening entertainment, check this out. Maybe it’s just me, but it made me laugh. And it is emblematic of a lot of things going on in our culture: Neither of you look like you could break the seal on a pickle jar https://t.co/tCnkHl0oYH — Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) July 16, 2023
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July 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, “Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism.” Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error. The Washington Post has had to post a correction
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June 28, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota is not thriving. The state consistently loses residents to states with lower taxes, like Florida and South Dakota. The exodus is especially alarming with regard to Minnesota’s most productive citizens, i.e., those with incomes over $50,000. What to do? Governor Tim Walz and his minions have suggested that Minnesota’s newfound status as a state that permits abortion up to and beyond the moment of birth, and as a “trans
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June 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
It isn’t worthwhile to catalog, every day, the outrages that emanate from liberals. Their hatefulness, their irrationality, their crudeness–these things are depressing and should be noted only occasionally. But the destruction of the Titan submersible prompted some liberal reactions that shouldn’t be ignored. This guy is a regular on MSNBC, wishing for the death of a Supreme Court justice with whom he disagrees: A question: what role does the word
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June 21, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The City of Minneapolis is circling the drain, but its Boy Mayor, Jacob Frey, remains ebullient. He celebrated Juneteenth by showing off some dance moves. He’s really good: Mayor Jacob Frey celebrates Juneteenth in Minneapolis: pic.twitter.com/jYGIJZlPkp — Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) June 21, 2023 We’ve come a long way from, say, Mayor Daley. Or Minneapolis’s own Charles Stenvig, a former police officer who was elected in the wake of riots and
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June 19, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I wrote yesterday about the appalling murder–call it what it was–of five young Somali women by a career criminal named Derrick Thompson. Derrick is the son of John Thompson, a former DFL legislator who is best known as an anti-police activist, and who also has a considerable criminal record, largely related to traffic violations. Derrick Thompson was clocked at 95 to 100 mph on Highway 35W, probably the Twin Cities’
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June 18, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The ACLU was once a worthwhile organization, but now is just a shill for left-wing causes of the moment. How far the ACLU has lost its way is indicated by this tweet: The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was
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June 14, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s DFL Party is being held up by leftists around the country as a paragon of success, so Governor Tim Walz is making the rounds. On Sunday Walz appeared on MSNBC, interviewed by Jonathan Capehart. In his typically low-class way, Walz took the opportunity to smear governors of nearby states, including South Dakota: [T]he Minnesota governor blasted his Republican counterpart in South Dakota, [Kristi] Noem, for her criticism of Target
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June 12, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Liberals across the country are congratulating Minnesota’s Democrats on the state’s just-concluded legislative session. Barack Obama cited the DFL’s “accomplishments” as evidence that elections have consequences. He is right, for once, even when an election flips a state’s Senate by just one seat and 321 votes. The Democrats’ margin may have been vanishingly slim, but the election’s consequences are indeed far-reaching. Minnesota Democrats legalized abortion up to the moment of
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June 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The data are in and the conclusion is inescapable: the covid shutdowns imposed by governments around the world were the worst public health disaster of modern times. This story is in the Telegraph, but the study it refers to is global: “Lockdown benefits ‘a drop in the bucket compared to the costs’, landmark study finds.” Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University examined almost 20,000 studies on measures taken
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May 30, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Remember when government officials told us that we needed just a brief shutdown of economic and social activity to “flatten the curve” of covid transmission? The theory, although few seem to remember it, was that the same number of people would eventually catch covid, we just wouldn’t catch it all at once and thus we wouldn’t overload the hospital system. In fact, two weeks of curve-flattening turned into a year
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May 27, 2023 — John Hinderaker
A global consensus has emerged that governmental responses to covid-19, which mainly involved shutdowns, limitations on mobility and other aspects of freedom, mask mandates, and vaccination requirements, did an enormous amount of harm. The issue is sometimes posed in terms of whether governments’ responses did more damage than the epidemic did. But that isn’t actually the right question. The epidemic happened. The question is whether the epidemic + government restrictions
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May 27, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This short video by the BBC’s “Disinformation Correspondent”–not a joke–explains how that news agency is seeking out disinformation and conspiracy theories. These are found on “alternative media,” i.e., not on the BBC, and the BBC is investigating the links between disinformation and “far right figures.” No mention of far left figures. And the BBC is using fake social media accounts to track what is happening in those venues, and how
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