May 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Fury versus Usyk

Featured image Last night’s fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk was big, for a number of reasons. For one thing, it yielded an undisputed, unified heavyweight champion for the first time in 25 years. I am not particularly a fan of the heavyweight division; in my opinion, the welterweight and middleweight divisions generally have better fighters and better fights. Still, a unified heavyweight title is a pretty big deal. Beyond that, »
May 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Baker versus Noonan

Featured imageSusan Baker read Peggy Noonan’s recent Wall Street Journal column so that you don’t have to. Baker took issue with Noonan in a letter to the editor published yesterday. It’s hard to nail Noonan down in the column, but Baker bites on Noonan’s set-up: Peggy Noonan starts out decrying Joe Biden as “too old and infirm” to be president and Donald Trump as “too crazy” (“2024: A Certain Fatalism Sets »
May 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Will the Anti-Semites Pay?

Featured imageProtesting for Hamas may have seemed like a lark to students at “elite” colleges and law schools, but it turns out that there might actually be consequences. Law firms, in particular, have expressed unwillingness to hire anti-Semites. Now we have this: S&C is our go-to law firm. Their principled approach here makes me want to send them more business. You should too. https://t.co/G0Ay3w9s0D — Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 16, 2024 »
May 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Hostages dead or alive

Featured imageOn October 7 Hamas brutally maimed and murdered — not necessarily in that order — Israelis attending the Nova Music Festival in Re’im. Hamas kidnapped the living and the dead to Gaza. Hamas has sought to Gaza exchange the living hostages and the bodies of the murdered Israelis for a multiple of living Hamas murderers incarcerated in Israel. Hamas seeks freedom for its incarcerated murderers so that they can assist »
May 18, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Mutant Social Growths Revisited

Featured imageIn the course of writing From Mainline to Sideline I came across Huan-Ying: Journey Through Workers’ China, authored by Janet Goldwasser and Stuart Dowty and published by Monthly Review Press in 1975. “We wrote it to combat misinformation, ” explained Goldwasser in 2019. “China had a different way of setting priorities in terms of healthcare and working conditions, so we intended to get information to readers who weren’t able to visit themselves.” »
May 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: The 3WHH on Bad Lawyers and Worse Decisions

Featured imageListeners want to know from John: did Justice Clarence Thomas let us down with his ruling in this week’s 7 – 2 decision upholding the unique independent funding structure of Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), which she designed intentionally to avoid congressional control as much as possible? John says no, and makes a persuasive three-part case for why Thomas’s opinion is thoroughgoing originalism, and good history to boot. »
May 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Menendez miasma: Cherchez la femme ed.

Featured imageNew Jersey Senator Robert Menendez and his wife are charged with corruption the likes of which will serve as fodder for Hollywood at some point. We haven’t kept up with his developing defense. Senator Menendez ungallantly blames his wife, who will stand trial separately. “[S]he took all the bribes, he claims,” the editors of the New York Post point out, “which doesn’t explain why he provided all the pro quos »
May 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The family business revisited

Featured imageKim Strassel’s weekly Wall Street Journal column argues a tad optimistically that the 2024 election will see “A Hunter Biden debate, finally” (behind the Journal paywall). Somehow I doubt it, but hope can’t be suppressed. The Journal has published Strassel’s column online with the video illustrating the House Oversight Committee’s Fourth Bank Records Memo (November 1, 2023). The Journal posted the explanatory video by Mark Kelly on November 3. It »
May 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Bring on the Harris Pole

Featured imageJohn Kerry once tapped James Taylor to croon “You’ve Got a Friend” to the French, a performance Steve thought difficult to surpass. On the other hand, with his rendition of “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” in Kiev, Antony Blinken may have pulled it off. If the Democrats now seek to surpass Tony, they can turn to vice president Kamala Harris. Remember, she got her start charming Willie Brown, »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

The Times Threatens the Supreme Court

Featured imageThe New York Times believes that by right, it should have the Supreme Court in its pocket–as, to be fair, it did for quite a few years. So it is doing all it can to discredit the Court’s new conservative majority. It has directed its attacks mostly toward Justice Clarence Thomas, against whom the Times has levied baseless charges of ethics violations. Yesterday the Times went after Justice Samuel Alito, »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Minneapolis, Four Years On

Featured imageOn Memorial Day, it will be four years since George Floyd’s death and the ensuing riots. The riots raged for days, centered on Lake Street in south Minneapolis. So, four years later, how is that part of the city faring? My colleague Bill Glahn drove down Lake Street to see how things are going. The one-minute video below is the result. Watch for a particularly poignant moment: the Minneapolis Police »
May 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Trump comes to town

Featured imageDigging into our archives I find a previous comment on Rochelle Olson: “Rochelle Olson is a pitiful excuse of a reporter for the Star Tribune. Back in 2006, I called her out as ‘reckless and feckless,’ a judgment I stand by today.” If you run into me around town and have an hour or two to spare, ask me why. Olson covered President Trump’s appearance as the featured speaker at »
May 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Bragg’s case in short

Featured imageManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg laid out his 34-count indictment of President Trump with links to underlying documents in this press release dated April 4, 2023. The indictment relies on section 175.10 of New York’s criminal law (“Falsifying business records in the first degree”): “A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and »
May 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Week in Pictures: Trying Times Edition

Featured imageThe Trump trial has descended into farce faster than expected. Cohen be goin’ anyone? Biden keeps inflating his mental capacities with made-up claims about inflation. Harrison Butker delivered a butt-kick to political correctness by embracing traditional Catholic doctrine at—shocker!—a Catholic college! What next? MPGA—Make Pronouns Great Again perhaps? And why, oh why, did King Charles choose that portrait artist? And is he a direct descendant of Graham Sutherland?   Headlines »
May 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Coastal Commission Surfari

Featured imageAn Australian man calling himself Sasha Jane Lowerson must be allowed to compete in a California surfing competition, which “cannot discriminate on the basis of gender.” As Sir Bedevere (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of biological science and athletics? Why, it’s the California Coastal Commission (CCC),  an unelected body that overrides the elected governments of cities and counties on the California »
May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Is Israel Responsible for Gaza?

Featured imageThe Biden Administration insists that Israel must have a plan for the “day after” it completes its victory over Hamas. A reasonable question is: why? Gaza started this war on October 7, and Israel responded as it had to, as any nation would, by fighting and, now, winning the war. Why should it be Israel’s burden to try to make something constructive out of the sickest culture in the world? »
May 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: Classic Format with Jeremy Carl on ‘The Unprotected Class’

Featured imageThis classic-format, ad-free episode features me in a one-on-one conversation with with Jeremy Carl, author of a dynamite (almost literally) new book entitled The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart. Jeremy commits heresy in this book, offerng statistics that you aren’t supposed to mention, and truths that, in an earlier age, might have got you burned at the stake. In publishing this book Jeremy joins the ranks with »