April 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker

What Should Trump Do?

Featured image This morning, Judge Juan Merchan fined Donald Trump $9,000 and threatened to imprison him for violating Merchan’s gag order in the farcical Stormy Daniels case. The order prohibits Trump from commenting publicly on witnesses, jurors or prospective jurors, prosecutors (other than the District Attorney), staff members of the court or District Attorney, or family members of various persons. The offending statements by Trump were mostly reposts of comments by others »
April 30, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Move Over Dan Rather—There’s a Climate Crisis to Save!

Featured imageIt turns out that Dan Rather isn’t the only beneficiary of revisionist documentaries and feature films that pervert the truth. I somehow missed it, but two years ago a British drama attempted to reverse the narrative of the famous “climategate” scandal of 2009, when a trove of internal emails from the tight-knit circle of scientists clustered around East Anglia University in the UK revealed some serious weaknesses of the standard »
April 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Disaster at Columbia [Updated]

Featured imageKill-the-Jews protesters at Columbia have taken over that school’s main administration building, Hamilton Hall. Scenes from the campus are horrifying: Students at Columbia University have occupied Hamilton hall. Today the university president explicitly said to students the school would not be divesting and threatened to suspend students protesting. The last time this building was taken over by student protesters was in 1968 pic.twitter.com/IhoWVYlocB — Lama Al-Arian (@lalarian) April 30, 2024 »
April 30, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Breaking Wind

Featured imageEvery sensible person knows that wind power blows (and occasionally blows chunks), but today the Energy Information Administration (EIA) takes note. We’re adding massive wind power capacity under Joe Biden’s blowout “Inflation Reduction Act,” yet last year wind power output somehow went down: EIA’s write-up offers some fine comedy and obfuscation: U.S. electricity generation from wind turbines decreased for the first time since the mid-1990s in 2023 despite the addition »
April 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Britain Gets Sane

Featured imageBritain’s National Health Service is aligning itself with reality by acknowledging that sex is a biological fact: The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology. Changes to the health service’s written constitution proposed by ministers will for the first time ban trans women from women-only wards, and give women the right to request a female doctor for intimate care. »
April 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Feeding our fraud goes to trial

Featured imageI went to federal court in downtown Minneapolis yesterday morning for the opening statements in tbe first Feeding Our Future fraud trial. When it comes to Covid fraud, we’re number 1. The case features a cast of “diverse” defendants without much diversity. They are almost all Somali, I am sorry to say. By the same token, I believe that one of my Somali friends helped expose the fraud and assist »
April 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Who Are These People?

Featured imageSo who is behind the kill-the-Jews campus protests that, as Steve noted earlier today, have panicked Congressional Democrats who fear a political debacle as in 1968? Consistent with the retro nature of the protests, the organizers appear to be largely left-wing retreads, with a financial assist, it is reported, from one or more Soros entities. Take, for example, Charlotte Kates. Kates has been prominent in the Columbia protests: Radical anti-Israel »
April 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: The Great Llama Crisis of 2024

Featured imageJohn reported a few weeks back about how the “beepocalypse” (“Colony Collapse Disorder,” as it was called by the disordered minds of environmentalists) can now be added to the pile of discredited environmental catastrophies, but haven’t environmentalists noted that the America Llama population is collapsing? Where are the protests? The “Save the Llamas!” t-shirts? P.S. If the chicken population is up, how come eggs and chicken sandwiches are so much »
April 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Columbia running out the clock

Featured imageThe Columbia Spectator brings us up to date on the state of play in “Columbia does not plan to call NYPD to campus, according to community email.” The Spectator story draws on the email from the president, provost, and co-chairs of the board of trustees that is included in the tweet below. The tweet provides an executive summary that can also be translated into the words of the old song »
April 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker

US Set to Regress From Modernity

Featured imageLiberals denounce Donald Trump as a would-be tyrant, but the fact is that he ruled less by executive order than any other recent president. It is Joe Biden who has discarded the Constitution and imposed a blizzard of illegal or probably-illegal regulations on the rest of us. Lately, they have been coming so furiously that it is hard to keep up with them. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board caught »
April 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Lesser of Two Evils

Featured imageA year ago, it would have been hard for me to imagine anything that would cause me to sympathize with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and its attendees. A more disgraceful event, and a more disgraceful group of people, are hard to conceive of. But last night, the dinner was beset by kill-the-Jews protesters, an even worse gang: "Shame on you!" pro-Palestinian protesters let their voices known to the members »
April 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Mapes miasma

Featured imageI 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 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Scene at Columbia (With More PM Updates)

Featured imageAs I write, a little before 3 pm eastern time, it appears the letter from Columbia University’s leadership calling for a peaceful resolution of the situation, released on Friday, that Scott posted this morning is, to borrow the legendary phrase of Ron Ziegler, “inoperative.” That letter represented a de facto capitulation, and was, as Scott notes, playing for time, hoping the end of the school year would yield a dissolution »
April 29, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

The Cure for ED

Featured imageBiden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona aims to “shut down” Grand Canyon University (GCU) an allegedly  “predatory” school, and already slapped with a fine of $37.7 million.  As Sir Bedevire (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of scholarship and the law? According to his official bio, “Cardona earned a bachelor’s degree from Central Connecticut State University, and a master’s degree and PhD from the »
April 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Weekend at Biden’s

Featured imageWho is Sasha Stone and why is she saying these things about Joe Biden? You can look her up online to try to get a handle on her. She is saying these things because she has seen President Biden’s public performances in recent days. Stone doesn’t invoke Weekend At Bernie’s as a metaphor, as I do in “Dead man walking,” but she assesses his recent recent public performances to arrive »
April 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Today’s Horserace Snapshot. . . [With Comment by John]

Featured imageA few days ago, in “State of the Race,” I passed along the latest Bloomberg poll showing Trump surging back into a significant lead over Biden. Today it is CNN’s turn: Trump’s support in the poll among registered voters holds steady at 49% in a head-to-head matchup against Biden, the same as in CNN’s last national poll on the race in January, while Biden’s stands at 43%, not significantly different »
April 28, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Barr Back Story

Featured imageIn One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, William Barr reveals his service for the CIA and his admiration for Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller and current FBI boss Christopher Wray. Barr also makes it clear that Obama and Biden were not in John Durham’s “crosshairs,” which calls to mind an episode not covered in the memoir. In the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, the FBI deployed massive military »