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March 23, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Inside the whale

Our friends at Commentary have released a sneak preview of the April issue to us. Given our interest in the unfolding events involving Harvard President Lawrence Summers, Commentary has forwarded the article by Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse — one of the few faculty members who spoke up for President Summers at the Harvard faculty meetings. The article is a first-hand account of events at Harvard as well as an analysis »
March 12, 2005 — Scott Johnson

The sixty-first minute revisited

Our friend St. Paul of Fraters Libertas has written to advise us that C-SPAN will broadcast the Center of the American program at which Rocket Man and I spoke earlier this week TONIGHT at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. (Eastern). St. Paul also reviews the local media coverage of the event: “Do you see what I see?” C-SPAN posts its daily schedule here. It is broadcasting our program under the title »
October 22, 2004 — Paul Mirengoff

The first 100 days, Part III

Charles Krauthammer explains how John Kerry will go about rebuilding our alliances so the world will come to our aid, especially in Iraq. He will do so by giving in to the demands of erstwhile allies such as France with respect to Israel. The main demand will be to re-start the “peace process” in its Clintonesque form — in other words, bringing Arafat back into the game, and extracting Israeli »
February 4, 2004 — John Hinderaker

First Power Line, Now the Times

The Big Trunk, America’s leading pop culture critic (well, Michael Medved is probably in there somewhere), was way ahead of the curve on Natalie Wood; I actually added a postscript too. Now the New York Times is racing to catch up: Wood is finally getting new recognition in [Gavin Lambert’s] biography and a new dramatized television film directed by Peter Bogdanovich…The book explores her performances in memorable films like “Rebel »
December 7, 2003 — Scott Johnson

Litlle Trunk moving up on the inside

Rocket Man has shamelessly beat the bushes for votes on our behalf in the competition for the best blog or best group blog in the Wizbang poll, and we are sincerely grateful for the readers who have expressed their support. One faithful Power Line reader points out that you might also help pull Little Trunk over the top for her work on Yale Diva in the competition for “Best adorable »
January 5, 2003 — Scott Johnson

David Frum is the first

David Frum is the first Bush (43) administration insider to offer an insider’s account of the Bush White House, in a book that is to be published later this month. This morning’s New York Times gives a taste of what Frum has to say: “It’s his party.” In terms of the war and foreign policy, Frum portrays Bush as Lincolnian: “At every step, President Bush has opted for the course »
July 23, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer

Would voters really reelect the ‘senescent, sticky-fingered … spavined’ Biden?

Featured image In a recent interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, former President Donald Trump recounted a long ago conversation he’d had with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He claimed he asked Kennedy whom he considered to be the smartest senator. Trump told Maria: “I won’t tell you the answer because I don’t particularly like the guy. I said, ‘Who’s the dumbest?’ He said, ‘Probably Joe [Biden].’” According to Trump, Kennedy replied, »
July 20, 2016 — Scott Johnson

The ordeal of Bill Henck

Featured image The IRS is at the center of the deepest scandals of the Obama administration. Bill Henck has given us a look from his perspective inside the IRS Office of the Chief Counsel, where he has worked as an attorney for 29 years. In 2014 we posted Bill’s personal account of a retaliatory audit conducted by the IRS against him in “Inside the IRS.” We followed up with subsequent posts by »
May 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: The 3WHH on “Never Murder a Man Who Is Committing Suicide”

Featured image Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, reminding us once again that Republicans are living up to their reputation as “the stupid party” with the proposed “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” that seems to have overlooked this quaint old thing called the First Amendment. Steve gamely tries to defend the political strategy behind it, but Lucretia is having none of it (putting her in rare alignment with the New York Times), wondering why anyone »
May 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker

The Farce Continues

Featured image Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump continues in Juan Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom. Today’s testimony was devoted mostly to the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump made an obscene reference to the liberties that celebrities are allowed to take. What that has to do with the “crime” with which he is charged, God only knows. The gist of the prosecution’s case is that Trump tried to prevent bad stories about him, »
April 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Mapes miasma

Featured image I am warming up to watch the documentary Rather, celebrating the career of the disgraced former CBS News anchor. It is to be aired this coming Wednesday on Netflix. Apparently having access to a screener for media critics, the Star Tribune’s Neal Justin found the documentary to be wanting (“when it comes to the stumbles, like walking off the set when a tennis match went long, the legendary broadcaster goes »
April 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker

JournoList 2

Featured image Commentary in the liberal press is so uniform that you wonder whether reporters and commentators have coordinated their coverage, down to the word and the phrase. Well, they have, of course. You remember JournoList, where, years ago, reporters would gather to coordinate their pro-Democrat, anti-Republican stories. JournoList supposedly disbanded after it came to light, but I assume it more likely just went underground. Here we have another instance, JournoList 2. »
April 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker

“I know I did something bad”

Featured image The Democrats hold a one-vote majority in Minnesota’s state Senate. They used that advantage to pass an unprecedented barrage of far-left legislation in the 2023 session. Their skinny majority is now in jeopardy, however, because a DFL senator has been arrested for burglary. This account is from a local news outlet in Alexandria, Minnesota: A state senator from Woodbury, Minnesota has now been charged with burglary for breaking into her »
April 9, 2024 — Steven Hayward

NPR: National Propaganda Radio

Featured image One of the classic articles from 30 years ago that still gets recalled fondly was Glenn Garvin’s “How Do I Hate NPR? Let Me Count the Ways,” which I think first appeared in the late Washington DC City Paper. Even back then I referred to NPR’s two main shows, “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” as “Morning Sedition” and “All Things Distorted.” The very voice tones of Susan Stamberg and »
March 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

More Stories of Censorship

Featured image “When Front Page Magazine applied to join Google’s AdSense advertising program we were turned down,” notes Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. “Since Google, like other Big Tech monopolies, has censored and deplatformed us in the past, we weren’t too shocked. But this time, Google told us why we had been banned.” The ban was due to this writer’s “Remember the San Bernardino Fourteen,” from December 3, 2021. »
March 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Our Ugly Ruling Class

Featured image Few things so clearly reveal the innermost ugliness and presumptuousness of our ruling class clustered in and around Washington DC (where eight of the ten highest-income counties in the nation now cluster) than the recent Wall Street Journal news account of a “scandal” in DC-area little league baseball. It seems politically powerful people, especially elite lawyers, rigged the local little league process for creating a level playing field among teams »
March 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured image Listening to a show on the SiriusXM Grateful Dead channel a few years ago I heard one of the announcers mention that Nicky Hopkins played with the Jerry Garcia Band. I hadn’t known that. Hopkins was a fantastic English pianist whose session work is virtually ubiquitous on great rock recordings of the ’60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Take a look, for example, at this Nicky Hopkins discography. I have been a »