April 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Loose Ends (250)

Featured image • For the many of you wondering and sending me notes, this week’s 3WHH podcast will post up tomorrow. Complicated schedules have prevented us from finding time this week to record the episode. • This is a sign of civic health: • The Associated Press continues its beclowning process: • You might well think that even with its diminished cognitive capacity, the New York Times would be able to draw »
April 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Judge Noreika: Dad not picking on Hunter

Featured imageAbbe Lowell is the attorney for Hunter Biden in the criminal proceedings that have been brought against him. I’ve observed a time or two before that Lowell will say approximately anything on Biden’s behalf in return for his compensation in the cases. Judge Maryellen Noreika asked the question that crushed the sweetheart plea deal arranged for Hunter. She says as much about Lowell as I do above in denying his »
April 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Week in Pictures: Eclipsolypse Edition

Featured imageDid everyone survive the eclipse okay? It seems some of the usual suspects (i.e., The View, The Squad, etc) didn’t, but that’s not exactly breaking news. But I am still waiting for a statement from Greta. I’m sure she said something important about the eclipse and climate change, but our media ignored her or something. In any case, let’s start with the real eclipse: Oh: Headlines of the week: Never »
April 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Biden does Sharpton

Featured imagePresident Biden paid his respects to Al Sharpton and his National Action Network yesterday. In prepared remarks read from his teleprompter (transcript here), Biden spoke virtually at NAN’s annual convention. At the top of his remarks, video below) Biden celebrated Sharpton: “Look, we’ve known each other for a long time. I’m grateful not only for your leadership and partnership but, quite frankly, more importantly for your friendship.” In his remarks »
April 12, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Investigate the Fatal Bureau

Featured imageRep. Mike Garcia recently told FBI boss Christopher Wray “I don’t trust you to protect us,” which makes perfect sense given the record. The FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015), and Orlando in 2016. Some cases deserve special attention. US Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who billed himself as a “soldier of Allah,” was communicating »
April 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Rashida Says: No Comment!

Featured imageRashida Tlaib is the appallingly left-wing and anti-Semitic Congresswoman who represents, among other precincts, Dearborn, Michigan, the center of Hamas’s American support. When pro-Hamas demonstrators in Tlaib’s district chanted “Death to America!” Fox News naturally sought out Ms. Tlaib for comment. After all, they are not just her constituents but probably her most fervent supporters. But she refused to respond: Dear America, You have a Congresswoman called Rashida Tlaib who »
April 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker

How Desperate Is the Biden Campaign?

Featured imageThe stock market was down sharply again today, as a result of fears of resurgent inflation. Inflation is second only to senility as a threat to Joe Biden’s campaign, and the campaign is desperate to find an answer. How desperate? They plan to blame Donald Trump: On Wednesday, after the latest inflation data showed an unexpected acceleration in price gains, Mr. Biden again tried to assure voters that he is »
April 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker

War With Iran?

Featured imageIran reportedly is considering an attack on Israel that would widen the war in the Middle East. This is from the Wall Street Journal: Israel is preparing for a direct attack from Iran on southern or northern Israel as soon as Friday or Saturday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A person briefed by the Iranian leadership, however, said that while plans to attack are being discussed, no »
April 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured imageAmmo Grrrll contemplates RENEWAL AND RENAISSANCE. She writes: Every single winter in Minnesota – and several summers here in Arizona – I have looked in dismay at the trees and other dormant, frozen, or parched foliage in my yard and said, “Well, THAT ain’t comin’ back.” And I am always wrong. It feels good to be wrong. That which looks dead and gone springs to life, warms the heart, and »
April 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker

This Will Be a Doozie of a Correction

Featured imageI don’t really have much of a comment on this. I suppose it reflects the obsession with Donald Trump that has driven most of the traditional media off a cliff. But still, it is weird at best: Quite a mistake. https://t.co/s85xdoVa4T — Byron York (@ByronYork) April 11, 2024 It will be interesting to see whether the Times’ correction tries to explain the error. It would be hard to explain without »
April 11, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Latest Romper Room Temper Tantrum at Yale

Featured imageIt is hard to know which ivy league university is the most pathetic, but Yale always has a strong entry in the weekly sweepstakes. At first I thought this demand letter from Yale students to the administration was a fine effort at droll satire (it’s the bit about carbon emissions from the Gaza war on page 2 that made me think this was an attempt at comedy writing), but I »
April 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Fly ‘Em In, Joe!

Featured imageEveryone knows that Joe Biden has deliberately encouraged seven or eight million illegals to cross our southern border during his administration. This is the most treacherous act by a president since Democrat James Buchanan shipped war materiel to the South, in hopes that it would be used thereafter by secessionist rebels. Assuming that historical nugget is correct. But there is no doubt about Biden’s treachery, and the Center for Immigration »
April 12, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Bidenflation by the Numbers

Featured imageAs readers will know by now, the mid-week inflation report came in “hot,” such that a June interest rate cut if thought to be off the table. Markets tumbled, and expectations for interest rate cuts tanked as well. Apparently no one has been paying attention to soaring commodity prices, which is usually a bad sign. In any case, here’s a before- and after- shot at why Biden is desperate for »
April 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Is Hamas winning?

Featured imageAaron MacLean is host of the School of War podcast and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Before that, Aaron worked on Capitol Hill as senior foreign policy advisor and legislative director to Senator Tom Cotton and served on active duty as a U.S. Marine for seven years, deploying to Afghanistan as an infantry officer in 2009–2010. Following his time in the operating forces, he was »
April 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Can Biden Buy the Election?

Featured imageThe Democrats don’t have a candidate, but what they do have is wheelbarrows full of cash. The New York Times checks out the money race and concludes that their candidate is doing very well indeed: President Biden may be down in the polls, but he’s way up on Donald Trump when it comes to campaign funds. Each quarter since the president announced he was running again, Biden has lapped his »
April 11, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

No Wray of Hope

Featured image“Foreign terrorists, including ISIS, al-Qaida and their adherents, have renewed calls for attacks against Jewish communities here in the United States and across the West,” Christopher Wray warned on Tuesday. The FBI boss also cited threats from Russia, Iran, North Korea and China, which is “throwing its whole government at undermining the security and economy of the rule-of-law world.” But it wasn’t just about foreign threats. Wray “blasted House Republicans »
April 11, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Plastic Madness

Featured imageSo we went and banned plastic straws and plastic bags in much of California and elsewhere because they are made from fossil fuels and a solitary turtle was once found snorting fentanyl through a plastic straw, or something. In any case, Greta/Gaia was displeased, so plastic products had to go. Well guess what: the substitutes for plastic products mostly produce higher greenhouse gas emissions than plastic. Not by just a »