Media
March 28, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Bruce Springsteen is the headliner at the flagshiip No Kings rally at the state Capitol in Saint Paul this afternoon. Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, and Bernie Sanders are also primed to appear. Truth in advertising would require the rally to be redesignated Gimme That Old Time Religion or In Search of Lost Time. As the Rolling Stones once trilled, “What a drag it is getting old.” Tim Walz, Keith Ellison,
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March 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
When Imprimis editor Doug Jeffrey invited me to write “Learning From Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal” for the January issue, I knew it offered a new experience. Imprimis is the monthly publication of Hillsdale College. It goes out to 7,000,000 free subscribers and is posted online as well. Since it was published in mid-January, I have heard from state and federal government officials wanting to follow up on the essay. I
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March 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In this nearby post, Bill Glahn comments on the Star Tribune story reporting the Eighth Circuit’s decision in the Avila case The story is credited to two Star Tribune repoters. The story reports: “In recent weeks, judges have raised the possibility of holding Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen in contempt over the government’s failures to immediately return many immigrants’ property upon release from custody when their habeas cases were granted.”
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March 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn
This headline had to hurt: from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Federal court backs Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy. After this morning’s 2-1 decision by the 8th circuit appeals court, the Star Tribune was left to deliver the bad news to its ever-dwindling liberal readership. Minnesota federal judges had not been following the clear letter of the law in more than a thousand habeas corpus cases. These rogue judges had been
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March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Unless you watch the CBS Evening News, you missed the report taking viewers inside Temple Israel and the damage done by family guy Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. As I say in the linked post, the family guy had mass murder on his mind. In the event, thanks to what seems like divine intervention, the damage he did was limited to the security officer who stopped him and to the building itself.
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March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Star Tribune Washington reporter Sydney Kashiwagi reported in the paper’s March 17 Morning Hot Dish newsletter: Zeroing in on Omar once again. Trump especially fixated on Omar during his announcement [of a fraud task force], elevating the unproven claim that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud and is thus “here illegally and she’s a congresswoman.” Trump urged Vance and members of the task force to look into the
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March 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The photo of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali all but shrieks, “Don’t Cry For Me, New York Times.” The Times, however, wanted it known that the guy with mass murder on his mind — the mass murder of Jewish children at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan — was just a grieving family guy. He was grieving the loss of his Hezbollah brother and wanting to contribute to the cause in his
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March 17, 2026 — John Hinderaker
“America, Alone” is the heading of today’s New York Times email. I thought, are they channeling Mark Steyn? Obviously not. The Times bemoans the fact that we are fighting Iran alone, with no allies. That isn’t true, of course: we have teamed up with Israel, by far the best ally we could have for this mission. The Times doesn’t see fit to mention Israel’s contributions. The Times focuses specifically on
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March 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Under three bylines, the Wall Street Journal reported on its news pages in its March 14 edition: The family of the man who rammed his vehicle into a synagogue outside Detroit was recently killed in Lebanon by an Israeli attack, officials said. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old who was born in Lebanon and became a U.S. citizen in 2016, died in Thursday’s attack at Temple Israel, a Reform Jewish synagogue
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March 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The supporters of genocidal anti-American terrorist groups have no fear or shame gathering to express their allegiance on the streets of New York or elsewhere. Leaving the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis one Thursday afternoon during the second Feeding Our Future trial I found Hamas supporters wearing their keffiyehs massed outside the doors. They made me ill. I took the skyway back to my car. With recent terrorist attacks in
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March 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It didn’t take long for the mainstream media to come up with a preferred story line for Ayman Mohamad Ghazali’s wild terrorist attack at West Bloomfield’s Temple Israel synagogue. In addition to the New York Times stories cited below, see, for example, this Associated Press story (“Man who rammed into Michigan synagogue had just lost family in an Israeli strike in Lebanon”), this Washington Post story (“Suspect in synagogue crash
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you go looking on the home page of the Star Tribune for a story on the wild anti-Semitic attack at Michigan’s Temple Israel yesterday, you won’t find it. Ditto re the terrorist attack and murder at Old Dominion University. It’s not for want of space on the home page. The Star Tribune home page lists more than 40 stories, columns, and features. Yesterday’s terrorist stories just aren’t deemed that
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March 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
My oldest daughter, Eliana Johnson, is editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon. The Beacon also has a comapanion Substack site here. Eliana appeared yesterday on Katie Miller’s podcast to discuss the media landscape as she has seen it in the course of her career and from her perch at the Free Beacon. Even though I am familiar with Eliana’s work and assessments, Katie asked good questions and elicited good answers.
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March 11, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Like you, I’ve been trying to follow events in the war against Iran and feel like I know next to nothing, despite (because of) the advent of the internet, satellites and social media. I think that pundit Richard Fernandez may be on to something with this post, where he writes, You could call it a battle between misinformation and secrecy, between the deceivers and the masters at saying nothing. On
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March 11, 2026 — John Hinderaker
One might have thought that the prospect of an acquisition of its parent company by Paramount Skydance would lead CNN to moderate its left-wing stance, but no: in the past 48 hours it has repeatedly embarrassed itself, over just one news story. The story, of course, is that of the two Islamic extremists who tried to murder anti-Islam demonstrators, police officers, and bystanders outside of Gracie Mansion with improvised explosive
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March 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I wrote about The Economist’s obituary of Ayatollah Khameni in “Tears in Jannah.” In my post I quoted Saul Sadka’s shocked condemnation of the obituary and noted that the obituary purported to take us inside the mind of the ayatollah. It presumed to channel Khameni’s thinking, as James Joyce did Molly Bloom’s in the last chapter of Ulysses. This accounted for some of Sadka’s takeaways. It wasn’t the obituarist speaking,
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March 9, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Panicans hardest hit. Oil prices (WTI) finished the day at $87/bbl, down from $117 this morning. We are now within Landman’s sweet spot for oil prices. The S&P 500 index was up for the day. At today’s closing price, the index is within three (3) percent of its all-time record level. Rasmussen Reports has Pres. Trump’s approval rating at 46-53. Underwater? Yes. But the Trump approval rating is up one
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