July 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson

AT SPA, Ottley is out

Featured image St. Paul Academy Chairman of the Board David Kristal has emailed the announcement that head of school Dr. Luis Ottley (as he invariably refers to himself) is resigning “and will depart the school later this month.” If he means what it says, that would be this week. The announcement was just disseminated this afternoon. Kristal’s announcment was accompanied by Dr. Ottley’s letter expressing pride in his accomplishments at the school. »
July 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker

A Terrorist In Paris

Featured imagePerhaps inspired by the (now happily deceased) terrorist who drove his car into a pride parade in Berlin, a Parisian Muslim attacked three women with a pair of butcher knives earlier today: The horrifying assault unfolded Monday in the north of Paris at Porte de Clichy, near the Paris Court. The man – seen in social media video with long, dark hair and wearing a cream-colored tracksuit – stalked the »
July 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Removable Genitalia

Featured imageMinnesota continues its descent into madness. This comes from the London Telegraph: Minnesota is planning to hand out transgender dolls to children as young as four years old. The paper dolls, which feature removable genitalia, were created by the University of Minnesota Medical School for children under ten to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be”… Each doll has a gender-neutral name, removable internal and »
July 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Dear diary

Featured imageSenator Rand Paul has obtained and transcribed the fallacious Dr. Fauci’s diary over the three-year period December 2019-December 2022. As we all will recall, Fauci served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the period covering the emergence of the Covid epidemic. He was the King of disinformation/misinformation regarding the origin of the virus and in support of the Covid regime. I call it »
July 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Delusional Britain

Featured imageI checked to make sure that this wasn’t a joke or a parody. It isn’t: Empowering young women. Right. I looked into this, and the British Citizen Award is a big deal. And Ms. Patel did indeed receive one. The awards were handed out a few days ago in the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster. You’ve come a long way, baby. »
July 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Proclamations

Featured imageIn order to avoid recognizing Independence Day or the 250th Anniversary of America, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has discontinued the practice of issuing proclamations altogether. I’m not kidding. The official “Proclamations” page now includes the following disclaimer, At this time, the office is no longer accepting proclamation requests. We appreciate your interest. Indeed, the final entry on the page is dated July 3 and honors Ethiopian Independence Day, Nothing has »
July 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Known to police [Update: suspect dead]

Featured imageThe horrific attack on a gay pride parade in Berlin (which John noted here) includes all the usual cliches. From Sky News UK, Police ‘do not rule out more attacks’ as manhunt for ‘armed and dangerous’ Berlin terror suspect continues. The suspect Abdul Ballout, homegrown, Abdul was released from juvenile detention two months ago, according to the Reuters news agency, which cites security sources. The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said »
July 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured imageSir Michael Philip Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England on July 26, 1943. He turns 83 today. Having read Stanley Booth’s True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1984) and Christopher Sandford’s The Rolling Stones: Sixty Years (2022), I think Mick’s 83rd birthday seems somewhat improbable. Forgive me for omitting your favorite songs, knowing less than I should, and making any errors that have crept in below. I haven’t even »
July 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Unholy Alliance

Featured imageWe have written many times over the years about the weird alliance between the far left and Islamic extremism. Is it just a marriage of convenience between seemingly antithetical ideologies, or are Communists and Islamists natural allies, since what they really care about is hating Western civilization and human freedom? I think the latter. This is an instance of the alliance, embodied in a single individual: The madman who screamed »
July 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Force majeure

Featured imageFrom the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Post Modern Times’ promise of free meals may have been too good to last. Restaurant that gave away food for free is forced to close for lack of money. No one could have seen that coming. Another way to look at it, restaurants that don’t charge for food are soup kitchens. The Star Tribune reports, Outside the restaurant walls, neighbors told a different story. They »
July 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Around the world with VDH

Featured imageOur friend Victor Davis Hanson sat for an interview with the Washington Post’s Kate Andrews. Andrews is one of the rotating hosts for the Post’s Make It Make Sense podcast. I hadn’t heard of the podcast and haven’t seen anything about this episode. It is available at the Washington Post here, but also on podcast platforms including YouTube (below). In its 35 minutes they cover the California dystopia (12 minutes), »
July 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker

A Heartwarming News Story

Featured imageThe New York Times bewails the state of the Democratic Party: The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the severity of the problems: asking vendors not to send bills until after the midterm elections. The bookkeeping maneuver, which was described by three people briefed on it, is the latest sign of financial duress for the Democratic National »
July 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Speaking of the “n” word

Featured imageLooking back at my law school education at the time of my graduation, I thought I had learned the answer to most difficult legal questions: It depends. I think that answer may apply to the question of whether calling someone the “n” word is protected speech under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has exempted “fighting words” from the protection of the First Amendment. It is a shrinking and dubious »
July 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Terror Attack in Berlin [Updated]

Featured imageA terrorist attacked a gay pride festival in Berlin, using terrorists’ favorite weapon–an automobile: At least one person was killed and several injured in Berlin on Saturday night after van drove into a crowd of people at the city’s Gay Pride festival. German police are hunting the driver of a white vehicle which onlookers say crashed into a group of people at the event at around 10pm at high speed. »
July 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson

And on the fourteenth day

Featured imageHaving noted Victor Davis Hanson’s comments on our recent ceasefire deals with Iran, I wanted to add that Centcom announced no strikes on Iran for the first time in two weeks last night. Are we talking again with the regime to reach a desired result? At this point, I think war war is better than jaw jaw. Searching Centcom’s X feed, I find the X post by Foundation for Defense »
July 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker

About the Minnesota “N-Word” Case

Featured imageMinnesota can’t seem to stay out of the news. Yesterday a jury in Rochester returned a guilty verdict in the prosecution of Shiloh Hendrix, a young woman was caught on video calling a Somali man a “nigger.” The incident occurred in a public park, where a Somali boy stole something from a bag belonging to Hendrix and her own young child. Hendrix recovered the item from the boy and called »
July 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker

The Week In Pictures: Long Strange Trip Edition

Featured imageThe long strange trip is, of course, the Odyssey. The Christopher Nolan film dropped, to mixed reactions from conservative reviewers. Along with reviews, it gave rise to a number of entertaining memes. It was a rather slow week, so there were leftover memes–the World Cup, the buffalo, and so on. But the largest number of memes attacked socialism. Socialism has always been a target in meme-world, but with the Democratic »