July 20, 2026 — Bill Glahn

7th Prime Minister in 10 years

Featured image From NBC News, ‘King of the North’ Andy Burnham to become 7th UK prime minister in a decade. The 7th in ten years, dating back to David Cameron in 2016. By my count, only Burnham’s immediate predecessor, Keir Starmer, took office immediately following a general election. Burnham and four others first assumed office following something like a palace coup. Until recently, Burnham was the Mayor of Manchester. A month ago, »
July 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Biden Judge Blocks Paramount Acquisition

Featured imageIn February, Paramount Skydance agreed with Warner Bros. Discovery to acquire that company for $111 billion. The agreement followed a convoluted battle between Paramount and Netflix to be the buyer, which Paramount ultimately won. The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice cleared the acquisition last month, finding no anticompetitive impact. The Antitrust Division is highly respected; its analyses are largely mathematical and look at the pricing implications of alleged »
July 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

“This depraved rag”

Featured imageStar Tribune columnist Rochelle Olson has cheered on the pardon conferred on child rapist Tou Vue Vang by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. Olson’s congratulatory comments are unsurprising. She is a core supporter of the Democrats. At right in the photo below Olson was on her way to cover the 2024 Democratic convention that would nominate Walz its »
July 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Liberal Terrorist Attacks Federal Building in New York [Updated]

Featured imageEarlier this morning, an anti-ICE activist set off an explosion at the entrance to 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. The building houses ICE and the FBI, and illegal immigrants are processed there: Police say a man armed with a collection of weapons started a fire outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning. Officials said two people had minor injuries and the incident is being investigated as a »
July 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

“Genocide” for dummies

Featured imageThe proposition that Israelis seek to commit or have committed “genocide” in Gaza is patently absurd. It works an inversion of reality that has proved useful to Hamas and its supporters. It has become a shibboleth required of ambitious pols seeking to nail down the “Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control.” Bret Stephens is the New York Times columnist and former editor of the Jerusalem Post. »
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July 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Keane insight

Featured imageIn his interview with Joe Rogan last week, Vice President Vance promoted the line that the Israelis oppose blew up his beautiful Iran deal because they want “to keep the war going on indefinitely.” The editors of the New York Post responded with an obvious point: It was Iran that broke the 60-day “comprehensive cease-fire” established by the Memorandum of Understanding by attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz, period: »
July 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Is Trump Nixon 2.0?

Featured imageAt InstaPundit, there are interesting links and quotes about the fact that Richard Nixon is enjoying a renaissance among young Americans. Many young conservatives are re-evaluating Nixon, and comparing him with Donald Trump. Those observations are worthwhile, and I commend them to your attention. There are obvious parallels between Nixon and Trump, including the fact that both came back from what seemed to be the end of their political careers, »
July 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker

You Can’t Arrest Him! He Went to Harvard

Featured imageSunny Hostin, lawyer turned far-left television personality, is a creature of privilege. She is paid handsomely for daily smears directed at Republicans in general and President Trump in particular. No doubt her bubble is as unsullied as they come. So she was shocked when her 24-year-old son was arrested. Police apprehended Gabriel Hostin trespassing on railroad tracks in New Rochelle, New York. Sunny tried to talk the cops out of »
July 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Strait escalation [updated]

Featured imageI have been following developments in our conflict with Iran via the dry daily Iran updates posted by General Keane’s Institute for the Study of War. This is the second paragraph of ISW’s July 18 update (emphasis in original, footnote omitted): An Iranian missile attack on a base in Jordan killed two US service members on July 17. A third service member is missing in action. Unspecified US officials told »
July 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn

The downward spiral

Featured imageConvicted Feeding Our Future fraudster picked up for drugged driving. From Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV (NBC affiliate) on Facebook, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s former policy aide Abdi Nur Salah, who is awaiting sentencing for his role in the $300 million Feeding our Future meal fraud scheme, was charged this week with suspected DWI. The Facebook post by Raguse covers the basics of the story. Salah worked for Mayor Frey »
July 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Mamdani to Arrest Netanyahu?

Featured imageThe New York Post headlines: “Mamdani desperately seeking legal loophole to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel PM visits NYC.” The Pro-Palestine, Israel-hating, socialist pol said in an interview published Saturday that it’s unclear whether he has the authority to order the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu during the prime minister’s expected trip to the Big Apple for the U.N. General Assembly – but is in an “active conversation” with the city’s »
July 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn

The centrist trap

Featured imageMedia in Minnesota are desperate to win a fifth-consecutive election for governor for the Democrats. But they know that they have an uphill battle. So, they are working overtime to portray the Democrat nominee Amy Klobuchar (now a sitting U.S. Senator) as a moderate, centrist, middle-of-the-road politician. The Minneapolis Star Tribune is carrying this water by the tanker truck, As Democrats move left, Klobuchar makes a business-friendly pitch in governor’s »
July 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn

The habeas defiance

Featured imageJoe Biden-appointed Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan leads Minnesota-based federal district judges in defying an 8th Circuit court of appeals’ ruling on the detention of illegal aliens awaiting deportation. Aliens have been filing habeas corpus cases in record numbers, seeking release from ICE detention at facilities around the state as part of a nation-wide trend. We are approaching 1,400 habeas cases filed, just in Minnesota, since the first of the year. »
July 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Fraud: More Than We Can Imagine?

Featured imageThe U.S. government spends more than $900 billion annually on Medicaid. How much of that money is stolen by criminals? HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. pegs the theft total at $100 billion. I am going to embed the entire quote in the tweet below: RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft. He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient »
July 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Sunday morning coming down

Featured imageDion — Dion DiMucci — turned 87 yesterday. Six years ago Dion released a new set of recordings titled Blues With Friends. The friends ranged from Jeff Beck and Joe Bonamassa to Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen. I thought Dion sounded like an artist in his prime. When I saw that the disc was going to be released in 2020 it served as the occasion for a life-in-lockdown edition of »
July 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Maternity Leave [Updated]

Featured imageThis really speaks for itself, but I will add a few comments below: Karoline Leavitt will be back behind the podium at the White House today, which means she took a shorter maternity leave than Mayor Pete. 😂 pic.twitter.com/3itzDOmk7J — Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) July 16, 2026 The Democratic Party has become a cult. To be a member, you have to be willing to profess things that everyone knows are crazy. »
July 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson

At SPA, an update

Featured imageSt. Paul Academy parent Matt Bauer and his son have sued the school for breach of contract and other claims related to the son’s dismissal for the upcoming academic year. The son did nothing wrong. That is undisputed in the lawsuit. Mr. Bauer did nothing wrong either, but he has offended head of school Luis Ottley with his opposition to the Ottley regime. Ottley has invoked what I call “The »