The Week In Pictures
September 12, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Since it is the convention to speak of presidential election campaigns like horse races, we’ve reached the far turn before the homestretch. Biden is still sitting inside on the pole, but is tiring. Trump is coming up fast on the outside. The track is sloppy. The odds are narrow. The stands are starting to fill up. Photo finish ahead? Headlines of the week: And finally . . . Lauren Boebert
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September 5, 2020 — Steven Hayward
So, Nancy Pelosi is having the Bad Hair Day from Hell right now, because she was set up by a cabal of Trump-supporting hairdressers in . . . (checks notes) . . . San Francisco? That sounds about as implausible as CNN reporting a story accurately, or a liberal Democrat telling the truth about President Trump. Meanwhile, a Kennedy actually lost an election in Massachusetts, showing that Trump really is
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August 29, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Anybody remember years ago when the 7-Up people marketed their clear cola as the “un-cola”? Well this week we got the GOP “Un-Convention,” a format that was not really a convention, but which showed, in contrast to the Democrats’ Zoom-a-Thon last week, that the supposed advantage of having Hollywood talent on your side doesn’t actually count for much. And how nice of all those “spontaneous” and “mostly peaceful” pro-Trump rallies
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August 22, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Hi everybody! Emily Litella here. Say, I’m confused. I kept hearing all week that it was the 100th anniversary of ending all-male voting. But then I keep hearing Democrats demand that we have an all-male election in November. But there are no male boxes because Trump has locked them up in cages at the border. Are male boxes just individuals with a cervix? I’m sure Joe Biden can explain the
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August 15, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Anything of note happen this week? I’ve actually been distracted by things. I hear Joe Biden has selected the next President of the United States. Very nice of him to do it for us; saves us the trouble of a nomination contest and such. I hear the going rate for food tasters has gone up sharply over the last 72 hours. Funny, with so many restaurants closed down you’d think
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August 8, 2020 — Steven Hayward
According to the polls Joe Biden has a big lead over Trump, but I seem to recall a candidate once before named Joe (Lieberman), who claimed some early successes gave him “Joe-mentum,” right before his campaign crashed and burned. Say what you will about Trump discovering “Yo-semitism” or “Thighland” (isn’t that a club in Vegas?), but if Biden keeps stumbling at the rate he did this week, watch suppositories sell
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August 1, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Sometimes you close down the bar. And sometimes the Barr closes down you! I think Attorney General Barr should volunteer to do as many hearings as Democrats want. There are at least two Democratic ex-senators (McCaskill and Donnelly) who blame their loss in the 2018 election to the Democratic freak show over the Kavanaugh nomination. Here’s a fun idea for our Troller-in-Chief: suggest appointing Barr to the Supreme Court. Headlines
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July 25, 2020 — Steven Hayward
So we have sports back, starting with major league baseball in empty stadiums, but with artificial crowd noise piped into TV broadcasts as if the game is an unfunny sitcom or something. And in one sense it is an unfunny sitcom, since so many players seem intimidated into the political exhibitionism of kneeling for the national anthem. Here’s a thought: if we want to get real crowds into stadiums, let’s
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July 18, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Boy by golly Goya—that leftist Tweetstorm certainly backfired! And if we didn’t have enough fun watching the leftist mob turn into a stimulus package for packaged Mexican food, we have the additional spectacle of Trump yesterday issuing a message celebrating the 75th anniversary of our invention of the atomic bomb, which was perfectly packed to cause 50 megaton detonations of the disarmament crowd. To quote Ronaldus Magnus, “We begin bombing
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July 11, 2020 — Steven Hayward
I remember back at the very end of the Reagan presidency when R. Emmett Tyrrell proposed in the pages of the American Spectator that Reagan be added to Mount Rushmore, just to watch liberals have an embolism. Well, now that the left wants to take down Mount Rushmore for the sin of being built on “unceded native American land” plus slave-owning (Washington, Jefferson), colonialism (TR), and all-around hatred for greatness
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July 4, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Can there be any more fitting image for the 4th of July this year than the McCloskeys of St. Louis, showing us what self-defense will look like in our forthcoming de-policed age (which an older generation of better educated leaders would recognize as the world of Hobbes)? I do wish they had better trigger discipline, but still, this is perhaps the most meme-worthy moment of 2020, and we’ve got a
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June 27, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Did you hear the noose today? It was indeed fake. Talk about the ultimate pseudo-event. Meanwhile, the left is actively trying to strangle America with its violence, canceling, and Orwellian rewriting and erasure of our past. Yes, the current scene is grim and serious, but always remember, especially over your Saturday morning coffee, is that one thing the left really hates is being laughed at. So let’s keep up the
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June 20, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Welcome to the Power Line Autonomous Zone—or is it supposed to be Power Line Occupied Place (PLOP?) instead? I think I like PLOP better, but in any case we decline to be bound by the petty rules of conformity and rote confessional. PLOP is a sanctuary polis for common sense and good cheer. Especially on Saturday mornings. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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June 13, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Everything these days is “systemic.” But what is that “system”? I think it must be capitalism, when you get right down to it. Just think, the basic accounting terminology of capitalism is rife with implicit racism. Just think about it: when a business is losing money, we say it is “in the red.” An obvious slur at native Americans. And when a business is doing well and making profits, we
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June 6, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Our elites wonder why the people’s trust in our leaders and institutions (and especially the media) keeps sliding lower, oblivious to the obvious hypocrisy of saying no one should go outside and congregate together in large groups of any kind—except the protesting and rioting kind. “Social justice” turns out to be more important than social distancing. Meanwhile, I’m so old that I can remember when Democrats wanted the federal government
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May 30, 2020 — Steven Hayward
I thought Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the greatest White House press spokesperson of all time because of the way she treated the press corps (that’s pronounced “core,” Mr. Obama) like unruly and slow-learning kindergarten kids, as they deserve to be treated. But Kayleigh McEnany has turned it up to 11, not only treating the press corps like children, but as the enemy as well, which they are. And note the
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May 27, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Well, all good Wednesday things must come to an end, and with the coronavirus quarantine starting to end—whether by intention or by civil disobedience—this will be the last edition of a Midweek in Pictures, at least until Anthony Fauci changes his mind, discovers a new virus. We might revive a special midweek edition depending on the nature and pace of the fall campaign, and with Biden making three or four
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