June 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A word from Spencer Pratt

Featured image Today is the last day to vote in the Los Angeles mayoral primary. It is what we quaintly used to think of as an election day. Now it is more like a period of adjustment. As I understand it, ballot drop-off locations opened on May 5. The Los Angeles mayoral primary features former reality TV star Spencer Pratt. He is the voice of sanity, reality, and decency rolled up in »
June 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A mercy killing would be more like it

Featured imageThe New York Times reports that 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley is loudly unhappy with changes at the long-running CBS News franchise. In her effort to reduce show’s axe-grinding, Bari Weiss has hired Nick Bilton as its new executive producer. At an introductory session with Bilton, Pelley let the fur fly. If you have ever watched 60 Minutes, you know that Pelley could suffocate in his self-regard: CBS News faced »
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Professors Demand a Return to Testing

Featured imageIn the bleak days circa 2020, many universities abandoned admissions test requirements in the name of “equity.” They believed that certain races are inherently unable to compete, and therefore it was only fair to do away with tests as entrance requirements. The result has been a comprehensive disaster in higher education, made worse by the fact that, owing to grade inflation, there is no way other than the SAT and »
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Henry Nowak: The Bodycam Footage

Featured imageBill has written here and here about Henry Nowak, the 18 year old Briton who was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh. The perpetrator, having stabbed Nowak, collaborated with family members to put out the story that Nowak was a “racist,” while his mother hid the murder weapon. This is the call that Digwa’s brother made to report the crime. The suggestion that the victim was a “racist” »
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Platner Speaks

Featured imageWhen the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Graham Platner’s sexts with multiple women on a hookup app, written just months after his marriage, Platner remained silent and sent his wife Amy out to do a video. Amy said that she and Graham were working on their marriage, but it’s hard: a classic formula for our time. She reminded me of Hillary Clinton, salvaging her husband’s campaign back in »
June 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker

From AOC to Platner

Featured imageLast night on the Rita Panahi show, we had a wide-ranging conversation that started with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing a hijab, covered Zohran Mamdani scorning Israel Day in New York, the status of a deal (or not) in Iran, and Graham Platner, including this post on Platner’s anti-Semitism. We finished up with the City of Boston’s “Trans Period Pride” event. All in all, an entertaining segment. The video starts with Lefties »
June 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson

In plain sight

Featured imageThe Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council has privately reprimanded an unnamed federal district judge. The reprimand is focused on boinking in the judge’s chambers within the hearing of her law clerks, but it also implictes the judge’s attendance at an event celebrating Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis. The judge in issue appears to be Eleanor Ross. A pop music nut like me might want to say she has taken a load »
June 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson

The Pratt must be crushed

Featured image“Make them listen to me before it’s too late!” It could be the theme of Spencer Pratt’s campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, but it was the cry of Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) in the low-budget 1956 sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The extraterrestrial takeover from outer space begins — where else? — in California. A psychiatrist is called to a Los Angeles hospital where Dr. Bennell »
May 31, 2026 — John Hinderaker

The Tragedy of Rising Oil Prices

Featured imageDemocrats have shed oceans of crocodile tears over the plight of the average American, struggling to afford gasoline in the wake of “Trump’s war” against Iran. Never mentioned, of course, is the fact that for more than 20 years, Democrats have been doing all they can to raise, not lower, the price of oil. As with so many issues, Democrats rely on the rest of us suffering from memory loss. »
May 31, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Henry Nowak

Featured imageSay his name. Nowak was a young university student murdered late one night in an inexplicable incident in the United Kingdom back in December. Compounding the tragedy 100-fold is the fact that he might have survived his wounds if not for the reverse racism demonstrated by the responding police. Nowak was murdered by one Vickrum Digwa, 23, who was convicted in court last week of the crime. Digwa is an »
May 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured imageAfter celebrating Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday this past Sunday, I heard from the historian Ronald Radosh. Ron is the author (with Joyce Milton) of The Rosenberg File as well as the memoir Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, and other valuable books including Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left. All are highly recommended (by me). Ron »
June 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Henry Nowak

Featured imageSay his name. This young university student was murdered in England back in December. He spent his last few minutes on earth bleeding out from five stab wounds, including one to the face, while handcuffed and under arrest for “racism.” The police wouldn’t believe his repeated cries for help, “I can’t breathe,” “I’ve been stabbed,” because his killer had accused Nowak, age 18, of “racism.” Instead, police mocked Nowak in »
June 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson

After hours

Featured imageAt the Wall Street Journal Free Expression site, Kyle Smith observes that “Martin Scorsese is here to amuse you.” An accessible version of the column is also posted here at the Free Expression Substack site. Smith is the drama critic for the New Criterion and the film critic for the Journal in addition to his work for Free Expression. He is an observant and perceptive critic. In this column about »
June 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Paul Robeson: Tribute to a Stalinist

Featured imageA few weeks ago I decried TCM’s glaring blind spot for Communism in connection with its broadcast of Saul Turrell’s Oscar-winning 1979 documentary Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist. Introducing the film, host Dave Karger referred to difficulties in Robeson’s career as a result of his devotion to “civil rights.” The documentary is posted here. I haven’t double checked to confirm that it covers Robeson’s trips to the Soviet Union. »
May 31, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Why Platner?

Featured imageScott notes below the latest fiasco in the candidacy of Graham Platner for the U.S. Senate. On paper, one would think that Platner is the worst candidate for any office ever to surface in either major party. A self-described Communist with a Nazi tattoo, a man with zero political experience and little success in business, a crude bully and misogynist with a twisted sexual history–how could Platner possibly have crushed »
May 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A Platner to make you plotz

Featured imageMaine Democrat Graham Platner is about to become the Democrats’ nominee to take on incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in the 2026 elections. The Nazi tattoo Platner sported for years — until he decided to enter politics — would be enough to kill the dreams of most candidates, but it appears to be no problem for Democrats. CNN’s Michael Smerconish calls out Graham Platner over n*zi tattoo, “He didn’t cover »
May 30, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Paris is burning [Updated With Video]

Featured imageFrom the UK Sun, Chaos erupts in Paris as cars ablaze & flares set off with riot cops arresting over 235 after Champions League final. As the UK Daily Mail reported earlier in the day, the rioters didn’t wait for the final result, Riots break out in Paris within minutes of Champions League final kicking off. If you don’t know, and you shouldn’t, the “Champions League” refers to a European-wide »