July 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson

The view from Haaland

Featured image Erling Haaland was the star of Norway’s World Cup soccer team. He returned to Norway carrying the Whiskey Raccoon he picked up in Dallas during his visit to Wild Bill’s Western Store. Like Freddy, Haaland is helping us see ourselves as others see us — with renewed appreciation. Now that Halland has returned home, I have imbibed Aakash Gupta’s mareketing retrospective on X: Nike pays Erling Haaland roughly $20 million »
July 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A word to Howie Carr

Featured imageBoston media’s great Howie Carr linked to my post “Unsafe At MIT.” My purpose was to draw attention to the book of that title by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, published on July 7. Before publication, the New York Times took note of the book in a fair-minded story by higher education reporter Mark Arsenault. Perhaps most notably, Barton Swaim wrote about the book in his July 8 Wall Street Journal »
July 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Why Are So Many Americans “Disabled”?

Featured imageThrough pretty much all of human history, if you wanted to survive you had to work. Of course, there have always been people who were truly disabled and needed to be cared for by others, but their numbers were small. In recent years, that has changed. Now, there is a virtual army of people who to all appearances are able-bodied, but who for some reason have successfully claimed to be »
July 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson

In lieu of a Strait update

Featured imageI had intended to provide a status report on the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz, but would prefer to let time provide additional the clarity another day or two might afford. In lieu of a Strait update, let’s tune in to Hugh Hewitt’s 8-minute segment with former Israeli Amabassor to the United States Michael Oren yesterday. Oren is the historian and author of the memoir Ally (2016) as »
July 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Democrats Need to Cease Fire

Featured imageToday Supreme Court Justices Amy Barrett and Elena Kagan testified before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Court’s budget for security. Justice Barrett testified about having to wear a bulletproof vest and about a swatting incident at her home: Threats against conservative justices must be taken seriously, given the foiled attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life. And swatting is a favorite liberal tactic. Is there any reasonable prospect of a »
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July 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Race Discrimination Is Illegal

Featured imageDemocrats are opposed to “bad” race discrimination and in favor of “good” race discrimination. They haven’t yet gotten it through their heads that this is not how the law works. As reaffirmed in the UNC and Harvard cases, there is no “good” race discrimination. Race discrimination–DEI–in employment and education is illegal, period. The point was made again by Inez Stepman under questioning by Brandon Gill, who is fast becoming the »
July 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Motive unclear

Featured imageFrom Sky News UK, Ann Widdecombe latest: Politician killed in ‘targeted attack’, counter terror chief says. Now they tell us. Over the weekend, local police tried to dismiss the “incident” as merely a random burglary gone wrong. Sky News reports, A 28-year-old white British man remains under arrest on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, as well as on suspicion of murder, the head of counter »
July 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

For whom the Strait tolls

Featured imagePresident Trump ordered another round of bombing Iranian military assets last night. Centcom made the announcement on X. The New York post reports here. I think we need to target the IRGC thugs who are running the show and conducting the hosilities. At 4:45 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, at the Commander in Chief's direction. These strikes will continue »
July 13, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Motive unclear

Featured imageFrom the U.K. Daily Mail, Ann Widdecombe ‘murder’ suspect had communist literature at home: Terror cops believe ‘attack’ WAS political. I’m not sure why the words murder and attack are in scare quotes. Widdecombe was a former MP, MEP, and Conservative government minister. More recently, she was serving as a spokesperson for the Reform UK party. We were told that there was no hint, nothing, not a clue pointing toward »
July 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Bernie’s Coming to Town

Featured imageBernie Sanders is coming to Minneapolis for a rally on behalf of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who is running for Minnesota’s open Senate seat. It will be a real rogues’ gallery, as Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison will also show up to back the far-left Flanagan: MINNESOTA: Join me, @peggyflanagan, along with special guests @IlhanMN and @keithellison next Monday in Minneapolis for a Many Over the Money GOTV rally ahead »
July 13, 2026 — Steven Hayward

Podcast: The Power Line Show Conversation with Michael Anton

Featured imageMichael Anton is best known for his famous “Flight 93” election essay that appeared seemingly out of the blue in September 2016, though many of us have long known of his qualities as a writer and thinker. He told me later that he never expected the “Flight 93” article to be a huge sensation, but after Rush Limbaugh read the entire essay on all three hours of his broadcast when »
July 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Blind ambition

Featured imageComments by MN state Clemency Review Commission members raise more questions about the controversial pardon of convicted child rapist, Tou Lue Vang. From Fox News, Exposed docs reveal why Tim Walz board awarded repeat child rapist pardon: ‘No future’ Tue Lue Vang, convicted of raping a girl starting at age 10, has been deported to Laos after Rubio intervened By now, everyone is familiar with the three-person membership of the state Board of »
July 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Unsafe At MIT

Featured imageProfessor Yossi Sheffi is the author of the book Unsafe At MIT: A Chronicle of a Campus War on the Jews. The book was published a week ago. When I first read about it, I wrote Washington Free Beacon deputy editor Vic Matus to ask if he had assigned it for review — I wondered if the book was worth buying. Vic wrote me back that he thought the book »
July 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson

What Khanna can do

Featured imageThe New York Post has published an unsparing editorial calling out Rep. Ro Khanna for the patently manufactured incident he conducted in order to defame Israel: Rep. Ro Khanna’s latest showboating stunt is too much even for other Democratic electeds — not only a transparent ploy to get past his all-in bet on the Graham Platner campaign, but a transparently pathetic bid to play victim of those darn Israelis. Just »
July 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Sell Your Daughter to Fight Climate Change?

Featured imageI saw this tweet by Rita Panahi, and found it (the news story, not Rita’s reaction to it) almost incredible: ABC claiming it's "climate change" and not Islam or third world cultural practices behind the scourge of child marriage. Reminder: ABC receives more than a billion in taxpayer funds annually. pic.twitter.com/ytDoG5MhrN — Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 12, 2026 ABC is the Australian Broadcasting Company. It is like the BBC, only »
July 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Freddy Returns

Featured imageMany thousands of Americans followed the adventures of Freddy, the German World Cup tourist, as he made his way across the country. We wrote about Freddy here and here. Almost everyone enjoyed Freddy’s posts, but they were anathema to liberals because they extolled the virtues of America. So they harassed him. A couple of weeks ago, Freddy deactivated his X account. As of today, Freddy is back: Hello again. We’re »
July 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson

A Graham moment of greatness

Featured imageSenator Lindsey Graham’s passing on Saturday evening represents a great loss to our public life. Senator Graham had a special moment of greatness in the 2018 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of then Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Senator Graham not only rose to Kavanaugh’s defense, he called out his Democrat colleagues on the committee for the disgusting charade they had performed in the attempted assassination of »