April 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: The 3WHH With Sober Thoughts on Immunity

Featured image We’re going up a day earlier than usual with this week’s (ad-free!) episode, partly because our constantly irregular travel schedules complicated things again, but more importantly to be timely, as John, Lucretia, and I have LOTS of thoughts on the Supreme Court argument yesterday about whether ex-presidents should enjoy broad immunity for any or all acts they took while in office. Lucretia and I think the president does, while John »
April 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Raising the Barr?

Featured imageI’ve said all along given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country. And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda. Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the Biden administration »
April 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Don’t mess with Texas, “protest” edition

Featured imageTexas Governor Greg Abbott has expressed his support for the removal of the pro-Hamas kill the Jews crowd from their nascent “occupation” of the University of Texas at Austin. In the tweet below Governor Abbott reported: “Arrests being made right now and will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters belong in jail.” Shut up, he explained: “Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.” Arrests being made right now »
April 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Take Columbia’s Khymani James — please

Featured imageWell, they may be ignorant or stupid, they may be evil, but they may also need help. Take, for example, Columbia undergrad Khymani James — please. James may be in need of help, but he appears to be busy negotiating with the authorities at Columbia to stand down. One of the Columbia students leading the “protest” posted this video stating that “Zionists do not deserve to live” Some in the »
April 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured imageAmmo Grrrll reports: DOOM-SCROLLING TAKES A HOLIDAY! Commenter-Con3 in the Rearview Mirror (things are closer than they appear). She writes: Well, Commenter-Con3 (April 14-16) has come and gone and, as my hometown newspaper used to report on all social gatherings, “a good time was had by all!” I TRIED asking attendees to hold off a week on discussing CC3 because I had an earlier – now defunct — version of »
April 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker

How Dumb Are These People?

Featured imageThe protesters setting up tent cities to celebrate Hamas may attend “elite” universities, but that doesn’t mean they are very bright. You may have seen this short video of a couple of Columbia students who aren’t exactly sure what or why they are protesting: 🚨VIDEO: A REAL interview we had at NYU: QUESTION: "Why are you protesting?" PROTESTER #1: "I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel [turns »
April 25, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Garrow Bonus Coverage

Featured imageLast August in “The Obama Factor,” Tablet’s David Samuels asked David Garrow if he could imagine Obama joining the Supreme Court. “He’d be terrible because he’s too lazy,” Garrow said.  “This in the book. It goes back to him being Hawaiian. At one point, he says, ‘I’m fundamentally lazy and it’s because I’m from Hawaii.’ That’s close to the actual quote.” Garrow’s massive Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama »
April 25, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Is Crime Falling?

Featured imageRight now we are hearing that crime—especially homicide—is falling (just like inflation—heh), suggesting that the runaway crime of recent years was somehow an epiphenomena of Covid. Here’s the chart getting wide circulation: These data are likely correct, but there is reason to doubt that crime overall is falling, for the simple reason that lots of people have lost confidence in law enforcement and prosecution and no longer report many crimes »
April 25, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Crisis at NPR?

Featured imageThe saga of how state-run radio (better known as NPR) continues to fester, despite the best attempts of NPR’s new apparatchick, Katherine Maher, to suggest her previous hostile comments about free speech, her “my trutherism,” and her Democratic partisanship are all “taken out of context.” (Understand that for the contemporary left, “context” is everything, so claiming something anyone says is “taken out of context” is not a denial that they »
April 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Half a mind to be president

Featured imageI have set the over/under on President Biden’s mental capacity at 40 percent. He has half a mind to be president. Yesterday he read the instruction inserted in the text of his remarks to “Pause” for the crowd to take up the chant of “Four more years.” The White House has posted the transcript of Biden’s remarks to North America’s Building Trades Union National Legislative Conference here. However, Biden’s reading »
April 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Jon Stewart Skewers the Media’s Trump Coverage

Featured imageNormally I expect that Jon Stewart, freshly back hosting The Daily Show on Mondays, will use his show to bash Trump. But this week he surprised by using a 15-minute opening segment to bash the media’s coverage of the Trump trial going on right now in Manhattan. I have to say it is pretty effective at making the media look stupid. It goes off the rails when he brings on »
April 25, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Earth Day and Me

Featured imageLast Monday, April 22, was Earth Day, which found me in Washington DC doing a program at the American Enterprise Institute on environmental progress along with Roger Pielke Jr. If you missed the livestream, the video of the entire event is now up. It’s almost 90 minutes long in total, but my portion of the program is just the first 25 minutes or so. Chaser—while we’re on this subject, check »
April 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Trump In the Supreme Court

Featured imageSpecial Prosecutor Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump was argued in the Supreme Court today. The issue is the extent to which ex-presidents are entitled to immunity for acts committed while they were in office. The New York Times covered the arguments with live updates. Here are some excerpts: Overall, several justices — maybe a majority — apear to have suggested through their questions that presidents should indeed enjoy some »
April 25, 2024 — Steven Hayward

The Campus Left Loses The Atlantic

Featured imageThe Atlantic today has posted up an article from George Packer that, as John Podhoretz noted on Twitter, you could have read in Commentary at any point for the last 35 years. The fact that this is appearing in The Atlantic perhaps marks a turning point in established  liberal opinion, but will college administrators and trustees take note and do anything about it? It’s a long piece, but here are »
April 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson

The Arizona indictment

Featured imageNow an Arizona grand jury has handed up a 2020 election-related indictment procured by Arizona’s Democratic attorney general. The indictment includes charges against Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others in connection with the scheme Trump was pursuing in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Trump is named an unindicted co-conspirator. The indictment is posted online here. Politico’s story on the indictment deciphers the names redacted from the indictment at »
April 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Leadership from the Speaker

Featured imageIn an act of leadership that contrasts with the malicious indifference of President Biden and his team, House Speaker Mike Johnson went up to Columbia University to call for the restoration of order on campus. He spoke from the steps of Low Library to denounce the treatment of Jewish students on campus. I have posted video below. Johnson was joined by a GOP delegation including Reps. Virginia Foxx, Anthony D’Esposito, »
April 24, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Ode to an Uncle

Featured imageJoe Biden believes that his uncle, Second Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., could have been eaten by cannibals after being shot down over Papua New Guinea during World War II. There is no evidence for the claim, and current PNG prime minister James Marape protests that “my country does not deserve to be labeled as such.” While this plays out, let me tell you about my uncle, World War II »