July 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

For whom the Strait tolls

Featured image President Trump ordered another round of bombing Iranian military assets last night. Centcom made the announcement on X. The New York post reports here. I think we need to target the IRGC thugs who are running the show and conducting the hosilities. At 4:45 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, at the Commander in Chief's direction. These strikes will continue »
July 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

What Khanna can do

Featured imageThe New York Post has published an unsparing editorial calling out Rep. Ro Khanna for the patently manufactured incident he conducted in order to defame Israel: Rep. Ro Khanna’s latest showboating stunt is too much even for other Democratic electeds — not only a transparent ploy to get past his all-in bet on the Graham Platner campaign, but a transparently pathetic bid to play victim of those darn Israelis. Just »
July 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Sell Your Daughter to Fight Climate Change?

Featured imageI saw this tweet by Rita Panahi, and found it (the news story, not Rita’s reaction to it) almost incredible: ABC claiming it's "climate change" and not Islam or third world cultural practices behind the scourge of child marriage. Reminder: ABC receives more than a billion in taxpayer funds annually. pic.twitter.com/ytDoG5MhrN — Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 12, 2026 ABC is the Australian Broadcasting Company. It is like the BBC, only »
July 13, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Motive unclear

Featured imageFrom the U.K. Daily Mail, Ann Widdecombe ‘murder’ suspect had communist literature at home: Terror cops believe ‘attack’ WAS political. I’m not sure why the words murder and attack are in scare quotes. Widdecombe was a former MP, MEP, and Conservative government minister. More recently, she was serving as a spokesperson for the Reform UK party. We were told that there was no hint, nothing, not a clue pointing toward »
July 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Bernie’s Coming to Town

Featured imageBernie Sanders is coming to Minneapolis for a rally on behalf of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who is running for Minnesota’s open Senate seat. It will be a real rogues’ gallery, as Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison will also show up to back the far-left Flanagan: MINNESOTA: Join me, @peggyflanagan, along with special guests @IlhanMN and @keithellison next Monday in Minneapolis for a Many Over the Money GOTV rally ahead »
July 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Freddy Returns

Featured imageMany thousands of Americans followed the adventures of Freddy, the German World Cup tourist, as he made his way across the country. We wrote about Freddy here and here. Almost everyone enjoyed Freddy’s posts, but they were anathema to liberals because they extolled the virtues of America. So they harassed him. A couple of weeks ago, Freddy deactivated his X account. As of today, Freddy is back: Hello again. We’re »
July 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A Graham moment of greatness

Featured imageSenator Lindsey Graham’s passing on Saturday evening represents a great loss to our public life. Senator Graham had a special moment of greatness in the 2018 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of then Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Senator Graham not only rose to Kavanaugh’s defense, he called out his Democrat colleagues on the committee for the disgusting charade they had performed in the attempted assassination of »
July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn

You don’t need a weatherman

Featured imageThe pardon of child rapist Tou Vang by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison continues to reverberate. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted on X today, So, if deporting a single child rapist doesn’t make the state better or safer, how about deporting a thousand rapists? 10,000? Comments like these appear to deny the existence of a tipping point. It’s the logical fallacy of faulty generalization: »
July 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker

The Versatile Sophie Cunningham

Featured imageSophie Cunningham is the professional basketball player who over the last couple of weeks has become a leading figure in the world of memes. Equally impressive, Ms. Cunningham is a member of this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit team: But that’s not all! Last night in Las Vegas, she made her debut as a ring card girl. First, a word of explanation. It is traditional in boxing, and now in mixed »
July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Motive unclear [With Comment by John–Updated]

Featured imageFrom Reuters, No Evidence of Political Motive in Murder of Former UK Minister Widdecombe, Police Say. Ann Widdecombe was a prominent figure on the right in Britain. She served in government under former Prime Minister John Major as a Conservative and member of the U.K. Parliament. Later in life she joined the Reform party as a spokesperson and member of the European Parliament. She also did some reality TV shows. »
July 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Strait notes

Featured imagePresident Trump gave the thugs calling the shots in Iran a deadline of Saturday evening to declare the Strait of Hormuz open. No threats, no tolls, no shooting, no drones. In other words, he sought a statement of compliance with our understnading of previous agreements. The Wall Street Journal summarized the state of play as of Friday night: The Trump administration believes that a nuclear deal with Iran is growing »
July 13, 2026 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: The Power Line Show Conversation with Michael Anton

Featured imageMichael Anton is best known for his famous “Flight 93” election essay that appeared seemingly out of the blue in September 2016, though many of us have long known of his qualities as a writer and thinker. He told me later that he never expected the “Flight 93” article to be a huge sensation, but after Rush Limbaugh read the entire essay on all three hours of his broadcast when »
July 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson

When the Times covered “Minnesota men”

Featured imageThe New York Times is estalishing a Twin Cities newsletter it call The Local. The promotional announcement requires some translation I am unable to provide: “The Local is a pilot newsletter to connect readers to their communities through journalism…” Sounds like another brick in the wall of the Minnesota left to me. The Times announcment has me thinking back to local stories on which my work has overlapped with that »
July 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker

How to Lie With Statistics

Featured imageThe New York Times has probably put out more significant misinformation than any other news outlet over the last 40 years. Being scrupulously fair, I admit that the National Enquirer may have propounded even more fake stories than the Times, but the Enquirer’s misinformation is generally insignificant–three-headed calves, cabbages that look like Jesus, and the like–while the Times’ lies are important, like the Russia collusion hoax. Here is a nice »
July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Endorsements

Featured imageThe local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has begun announcing their endorsements for the 2026 election cycle. First up was their re-endorsement of state Sen. Omar Mahmood Fateh, representing a district in south Minneapolis. Sen. Fateh has played a prominent role in the infamous Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, among other irregularities. Of course, none of this has/will matter to voters in south Minneapolis. Sen. Fateh is »
July 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson

My correspondence with Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Featured imageWriting about my quarrel with Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s 2018 New York Times profile of Ilhan Omar, I incorrectly stated that Ms. Stolberg failed to respond to my inquiries about her story in writing. She did. However, she asked me to keep her response off the record. She was a gracious and friendly correspondent. She also took my phone call as I stated in the linked post. I didn’t think to »
July 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Lindsey Graham dies at 71

Featured imageThis morning comes the shocking news that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham died yesterday evening. He had just turned 71 this past Thursday. According to his office, he died after a “brief and sudden illness.” He was completing his fourth term in the Senate and gliding to reelection in November. Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). pic.twitter.com/CQ5yVvqTH1 — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 12, 2026 What »