July 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Proclamations

Featured image In 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 — 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 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Known to police

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

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 »
July 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Nuremberg Trial For Trump?

Featured imageWe have followed the sad descent of Tucker Carlson into madness. Here, he accuses President Trump and the entire Republican Party (except for Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, now gone from the party) of treason. He wants them subjected to Nuremberg-style show trials. Why? It has something to do with Israel. As best I can reconstruct it, some tinfoil hat types are saying that the National Defense Authorization Act »
July 24, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Real friends of fake Dan

Featured imageYou may have read about the fake Dan Sullivan running in Alaska to confuse voters and undercut Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. The Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman and Collin Anderson have turned over a few rocks to find the stealthy hand of Chuck Schumer in the mix: Days after Chuck Schumer denied any involvement in the campaign of Dan J. Sullivan—the newly declared Republican known as “Decoy Dan” who is »
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 24, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Accused Widdecombe killer in court

Featured imageFrom the U.K. Daily Mail earlier this week, Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times with a hammer after killer walked through open front door’. Yikes. The Daily Mail reports, Disturbing details of her brutal murder emerged today as her alleged killer Joshua Kerry appeared in court for the first time. And yes, if Kerry is the killer, he is exactly as you would imagine him to be. Who is the »
July 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Trump’s Success, and AI’s Bias

Featured imageMy colleague David Zimmer dug into the data to assess the success of President Trump’s immigration policies. He found them to be very successful, indeed: There has been a concerted effort by “open immigration” advocates, “anti-Trumpers,” and a supportive legacy media, to portray the immigration enforcement efforts of the Trump administration in the poorest light possible. Many detractors have virtually ignored the success the Trump administration has had at securing »
July 24, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Senator Sheehy has a few thoughts

Featured imageMontana Senator Tim Sheehy is a Minnesota native and alumnus of St. Paul Academy as well as the Naval Academy. After graduation from the Naval Academy in 2008, he “completed several deployments and hundreds of missions as a US Navy SEAL Officer and Team Leader, deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, and the Pacific region. Tim was honored to serve alongside many American heroes and was involved in dozens of »