The Point

An inner-city high school? The University of Minnesota.  Parents are demanding the way safety is handled around the University of Minnesota change before students return this fall. Crime has risen 45 percent in nearby neighborhoods over the last four years. Why might that be? There was the extensive police defunding movement and the general culture […]

Reap what you sow. One of the precursors of the most recent wave of black nationalist violence was a shakedown of a Starbucks over a customer being asked to leave. The overpriced junk coffee company brought in Eric Holder and assorted black nationalist allies, closed its stores and engaged in performative breast-beating. During the BLM […]

Michael Moore and Rage Against the Machine briefly going viral is a blast from the 90s past. An extremely overrated one.  No one especially cares about Rage Against the Machine, whose songs were terrible and whose members were at least mildly defensible as angry second-generation radical young men, but are just pathetic as radicals in […]

It’s never an insurrection when your side is the one doing it. Just ask good ole Mayor Pete. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday defended protesters against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh who gathered earlier this week outside Morton’s steakhouse, where he was eating dinner. Buttigieg’s boyfriend, Chasten, tweeted in response to the news: “Sounds like he just wanted […]

Public service is hard. When you actually have to come to work. More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia’s new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News. This includes 183 Virginia Department of Transportation employees, 28 of whom cited “telework options” as […]

Funny how little actual interest the Dems seem to have had in legalizing abortion before the Supreme Court decision or even afterward. But there’s plenty of appetite for legislative trolling. An Ohio Democrat has proposed legislation allowing pregnant people to sue the person who impregnated them, regardless of whether the sex in question was consensual […]

This Gallup poll is nothing but bad news for the media. While institutional trust is in a state of mass collapse, the media’s collapse is truly catastrophic. In 2021, 13% of independents had a great deal of confidence in television news compared to 6% of Republicans. It’s now at 8% for both. What that means […]

With Biden the question is always how much of it is age and how much of it is him. Anyone who has followed Biden over the years knows that he has a knack for saying stupid and terrible things, and that he’s convinced that he’s a genius in his own mind. Obama and his people held […]

Biden repeatedly claims credit for the COVID-19 vaccines developed under Trump as part of Operation Warp Speed, so why not also take credit for defeating ISIS? In an op-ed for the Washington Post titled, “Why I’m going to Saudi Arabia”, a collection of random talking points that seem to have been a collaboration between the […]

After pro-abortion activists forced Justice Kavanaugh to leave a steakhouse, after an assassination plot against him, lefties harassed the steakhouse and the media hosted a debate over whether conservatives have a “right to eat dinner”. There’s no right to eat dinner. Lefties define everything in terms of rights and keep inventing new ones, like the […]

Twitter, eager to censor any conservative story, has no problem with this. ShutDownDC, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said on Friday that it will offer up to $250 to service industry workers in the district for every sighting of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. I’ve written about ShutDownDC before and its entanglement […]

As bad as the oughts were, at least the Iraqi information minister wasn’t doing a non-stop tour of Washington D.C. After spending months denying loudly that there were any problems, then seizing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to blame all the problems on Putin (or on corporate greed, depending which side of the coin lands […]

The Army’s recruiting problems can only get better after this. The Army is at only 40% of its recruiting numbers for the fiscal year despite raising its maximum enlistment bonus from $40,000 to $50,000. It now offers new recruits up to $10,000 for showing up to basic training in 30 days. And is no longer even asking them for […]

Ah, Japan. Once the utopian ideal for gun controllers. A shining example of what America could be if we eliminated the Second Amendment and turned Japanese. How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths – The Atlantic The Japan lesson: Can America learn from the country that has almost zero gun deaths – The Washington Post […]

When a politician finally goes down, the loyalists extricate themselves and write their memoirs.  Lis Smith, who worked for Spitzer and Cuomo, is doing that in a high-profile way with her book. Anything you needed to know about her can be summed up in this excerpt. Political strategist Lis Smith casts Bill de Blasio as […]

Back in April, I wrote that, “The tight integration and interrelationship of Big Tech means that Musk won’t be allowed to take over Twitter. And he knows it too. I suspect this is a game whose upshot will be demonstrating the narrow limits of competition and mobility in a landscape dominated by a handful of […]

The Left, especially in America, tends to seize power by declaring an urgent crisis. The bad news is that under these conditions, the rule of law is essentially postponed with judges refusing to intervene and “make the crisis worse”. The good news is that, at least for now, a crisis can’t continue indefinitely and thus […]

You can’t have an uprising of mothers, as happened in Virginia and is taking place in other states as well, if you get rid of mothers. That is the Orwellian approach. And the teachers’ unions, which claim to have full rights to control your children and all money they can seize through them, love the […]

The pandemic led to partial travel limitations that were never properly implemented or sustained, but another reminder that Chinese tourism may put some money in our pockets, but it takes a lot more out. Speaking alongside his British counterpart in London on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray called China the “biggest long-term threat” to both […]

Inconvenient narrative. Mass shooters are supposed to be suburban American kids. In statistical reality, if counting mass shooters by the number of victims, most are gang members in urban areas. And even the conventional concept of the mass shooter, a disgruntled or unstable individual opening fire at a school, workplace, or general area to cause […]

It’s not enough for the Biden administration to shut down federal border security to maximize the flow of illegal aliens and voters into America. Its corrupt DOJ is fighting to shut down any efforts to maintain some element of security, whether it’s Arizona’s citizenship voter test or Texas’ large-scale border security operation. The Department of […]

For the past few years, the entertainment industry inhabited a strange world in which massive amounts of streaming programming were unleashed on an unprecedented level. Led by Netflix, Amazon and followed by tradiitional industry competitors like Disney and HBO Max, the sheer amount of money being spent was astronomical, in the billions, and the hours of programming, the […]

Democrats want to make the midterms about abortion. There’s one big problem. Americans are upset about the economy and don’t care about abortion.  In the latest Monmouth poll, 33% of Americans rank inflation as their top concern while 15% list gas prices. 9% mention the economy and 6% grocery prices. And only 5% list abortion. Over […]

Racist DOJ official Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke announced that the Biden administration is targeting Arizona for trying to prevent non-citizens from voting. At issue is an Arizona law asking voters to show proof of citizenship. What should be an elementary and common sense requirement is being opposed by the Biden administration, officially on technical grounds, […]

Dumping the country’s oil reserves was the only strategy to lower energy prices that Biden would accept. He continues blocking domestic drilling and taxes remain high. The practical impact of the reserve releases was negligible and, worse still, 5 million barrels of oil from the reserve were actually exported abroad. More than 5 million barrels of […]