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July 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Twenty years ago I covered Keith Ellison’s first campaign for Congress extremely closely. I talked to sources all around the United States in the course of the campaign. I have an Ellison file six inches thick deriving from my work on that campaign. Star Tribune reporter Rochelle Olson covered that campaign for the Star Tribune. Her coverage essentially performed public relations on its behalf. Her motto was not there’s no
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July 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Erling Haaland was the star of Norway’s World Cup soccer team. He returned to Norway carrying the Whiskey Raccoon he picked up in Dallas during his visit to Wild Bill’s Western Store. Like Freddy, Haaland is helping us see ourselves as others see us — with renewed appreciation. Now that Halland has returned home, I have imbibed Aakash Gupta’s mareketing retrospective on X: Nike pays Erling Haaland roughly $20 million
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June 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Wall Street Journal’s opinion editors have posted the documentary The Lockdown Dissidents. The documentary was produced, written, and directed by Michael Pack. Tim Blake Nelson provides the voiceover narration. The documentary comes with this précis: “During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of prominent scientists challenged the prevailing government approach to lockdowns. The Lockdown Dissidents tells the story of researchers like Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, and Robert Redfield—voices who say
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March 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon publishes a companion story for its “Beastmode” video of President Trump contrasting Winston Churchill with Keir Starmer in the Oval Office yesterday. Trump was hosting Ireland prime minister Micheál Martin for St. Patrick’s Day at the time. I wonder what Martin was thinking. Warming to his task, Trump contrasted his treatment of the Churchill bust on display in the Oval Office with its treatment by “Barack
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March 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
When Minnesota Democrats took control over the political branches following the 2022 elections, they all but adopted Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” as their theme song. One verse would have addressed the special fervor with which they promoted the sacramental view of abortion. Chuck Chalberg explained it for us here on Power Line. Minnesota Democrats look forward to another “Let’s Go Crazy” session following the upcoming elections. State senator Mary Kunesh
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August 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have heard that the TSA put Tulsi Gabbard under surveillance in its Quiet Skies program (“Quiet Skies is a TSA surveillance program with its own compartmentalized suspected terrorist watchlist”). The story was originally broken by UndercoverDC (sorry, never heard of it) in “Federal Air Marshal Whistleblowers Report Tulsi Gabbard Actively Under Surveillance via Quiet Skies Program.” The story includes a screenshot from the actual “Target Package” used by
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May 18, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Back from the treatment for depression that followed on his stroke, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman pretends he is capable of doing his job. Earlier this week Fetterman questioned Silicon Valley Bank executive Greg Becker during a Senate Banking Committee hearing about SVB’s March collapse. Steve Hayward posted this pathetic video clip. This is just sad. pic.twitter.com/q1NKwUWcMR — Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) May 16, 2023 See if you can follow
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February 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Speaker Kevin McCarthy marshaled the votes to remove Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on grounds of her anti-Semitic bigotry. David Harsanyi comments on her removal in this New York Post column. Anticipating her removal, Omar had this to say on the House floor: “I am a Muslim. I am an immigrant. And, interestingly, from Africa. Is anyone surprised that I am a target?”
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March 30, 2022 — Scott Johnson
We’ve sought to follow a variety of “walkbacks” from President Biden’s logorrhea over the past week. Biden has a chronic case of the malady, but he aggravated it in Europe. That logorrhea — as in Jimi Hendrix’s “Manic Depression,” it’s a frustrating mess. Speaking with the 82nd Airborne in Rzeszów, Poland, on March 25 — White House transcript here — Biden sought to excite them over the sights they would
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January 26, 2022 — Scott Johnson
At FOX News Tucker Carlson dubbed attorney Michael Avenatti Creepy Porn Lawyer. CNN and MSBNC couldn’t get enough of Avenatti trashing Trump. They treated him as a valued guest and highly credible critic of President Trump. Indeed, they all but invited to run for president. He fit right in to their nonstop Trump hatefest. Carlson has proved himself a better journalist and judge of character than everyone at CNN and
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October 26, 2019 — Scott Johnson
In her new book Kim Strassel calls it Resistance (At All Costs). You know what “it” is: the opposition to Donald Trump that has manifested itself in each branch of the government and the media since the Trump presidential campaign. From the “counterintelligence investigation” of his campaign conducted by the intelligence and law enforcement authorities of the Obama administration and related leaks to the media, to the Mueller Special Counsel
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June 27, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Amanda Seitz and Beatrice Dupuy purport to straighten out benighted conservatives on the curious case of Ilhan Omar in the current edition of the AP’s “NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week.” The lesson is delivered in this week’s edition of the AP’s “ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories
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