Media
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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March 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
An elementary school in Iran was hit by an unknown missile during the first day of our bombardment of that country. The press in the U.S., as well as in Iran and other countries, is desperate to blame the explosion on the United States. Leading the way, as usual, is the New York Times. The Times goes to great lengths to try to blame the school bombing on the U.S.
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March 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
This past weekend on Life, Liberty & Levin, Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior advisor Richard Goldberg discussed the operational expertise displayed by the U.S. and Israeli militaries in carrying out the mission in Iran. After taking in Levin’s Saturday show, President Trump commented: “Rich Goldberg was GREAT on Mark Levin tonight. Two guys who really get it! Thank you both. President DJT” Thank you, POTUS pic.twitter.com/ejG6zJC96t — Mark R.
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March 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I canceled my brief subsription to The Economist when it published its Israel Alone issue in March 2024. The wish was obviously father to the thought. I got the message. Screw you, I thought. However, Saul Sadka has kept reading. He decries what he calls The Economist’s “fighting back the tears” obituary for Iran’s formerly supreme leader. Reading Sadka’s “key takeaways,” I wondered if this could be for real. Then
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March 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Matthew Chance is a British journalist working for CNN as the network’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent. Chance is working his global beat as Israel is engaged in efforts to suppress Hezbollah’s attacks on the northern part of the country emanating from Hezbollah in Lebanon. In the video below, historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States comments on Chance’s report from Lebanon. Oren comments on Chance’s blinkered coverage of
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Our friend Mark Perry notes that car thefts in Minneapolis this year over the months of January and February per 100,000 residents are almost 9 times the rate in Chicago: 246.3 vs. 28.5. That’s based on 776 motor vehicle thefts in Chicago with a population of 2.72 million vs. 1,054 auto thefts in Minneapolis, with a population of 428,000. Mark thinks this is news and asks where the local press
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Senior Minnesota federal district Judge John Tunheim held the second contempt hearing this week on the personal property that has gone lost or missing by ICE in the detention and removal of illegal aliens from Minnesota. I reported on Wednesday’s hearing before Judge Jeffrey Bryan in “For want of a shoelace,” now republished by Alpha News under the more straightforward headline “US attorney interrogated at contempt hearing over illegal aliens’
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February 28, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Imagine a single military strike so surgical and so devastating that it takes our the top forty (40) leaders of a regional power. Now imagine you work in the news media and your vision is so narrow, that this is your take: Politico: Iran gives Democrats a new opening on energy prices. The Hill: Iran attack becomes latest flashpoint in Senate races. UK Guardian: Protesters rally across US after Iran
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February 28, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The bombing of Iran is in progress, and Democrats, as far as I have seen, are more or less unanimously siding against the Iranian people and with the mullahs. Such is their hatred for President Trump and their desperation for things to go badly so they can regain power. Then–speaking of predictable!–there is this: Another 40 people were killed when Israeli missiles landed on a school, Reuters reported, citing Iranian
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February 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
While the deal isn’t done yet, it appears that Paramount Skydance, not Netflix, will acquire the assets of Warner Bros. Discovery, including CNN. This prospect inspires horror among pretty much all CNN employees, since Paramount Skydance is not controlled by leftists. CNN employees seem to believe that only liberals should be allowed to buy companies: CNN staffers are freaking out after learning that their left-leaning network’s owner Warner Bros. Discovery
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February 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It was big news on X and has made the New York Post, but I can find no trace of the story in the Star Tribune: “Somali trucker busted driving wrong way down highway failed English test and couldn’t read road signs.” Following the Star Tribune stylebook, we should probably make that “Somali trucker” a “Minnesota man.” The “Somali trucker” is reportedly “Minnesota man” Abdiasis Ibrahim Ali. 🚨🚨 DISTURBING: We
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February 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In today’s edition of the New York Post Week In Whoppers feature, the editors honor CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe’s risible question of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt this past Wednesday: “When does the president believe he has been falsely called a racist?” The Post editors write: We say: What was O’Keefe thinking? Democrats hurl “racist” at Trump just for sneezing. O’Keefe himself was implying the prez is a
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February 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Climate alarmist Michael Mann was for quite a few years the go-to “climate scientist” in the left-wing press. But the Associated Press’s sub silentio deletion of Mann from its story on the Trump administration’s revocation of the Obama administration’s CO2 endangerment finding suggests that Mann may have lost that status. The Associated Press is, of course, on the Democratic Party’s team on this issue. They are wrong, but that isn’t
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February 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
At his press conference this morning, Trump border czar Tom Homan had a lot more to say than that he is concluding Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities. His prepared remarks are devoted mostly to rebutting the hostility and hysteria conveyed by the Star Tribune and the local media every day that the operation has been in effect. The video is worth watching all the way to the end.
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February 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota’s DFL establishment presents a sort of neo-Confederate scene that used to go under the moniker of “massive resistance,” but the mentality goes beyond that. In 1861 the seceding states could not abide the election of Abraham Lincoln. Although he scrupulously vowed to uphold the Constitution, they feared his view of slavery. Whatever high-minded words they otherwise had to say, their resistance to Lincoln was all about slavery. Confederate Vice
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February 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Michael Herr titled one chapter of Dispatches, his Vietnam memoir, “Illumination rounds.” It’s a powerful book and a memorable chapter, separately available from the publisher. The title of that chapter serves as a useful metaphor. My flight home from DC having achieved liftoff, I would like to borrow Herr’s metaphor to fire off these illumination rounds on Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza. Round one: How many journalists, politicians, and
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February 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The Washington Post has been losing lots of money–reportedly, around $100 million annually–so something had to give. Owner Jeff Bezos has lowered the boom, with layoffs announced yesterday: The embattled Washington Post is laying off more than 300 employees—about a third of its already shrunken staff—as it guts sports, local news, and international coverage to cut costs and, its executives hope, boost readership. Among other things, the Post will no
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