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December 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
THE DAILY CHART: DEMOGRAPHIC DISASTER
I’m so old I remember when everyone believed the “population bomb” nonsense, so
it is with no small sense of irony that among demographers the hot topic of the
moment is rapidly falling fertility rates, to sub-replacement levels in most
advanced industrialized nations. As I put it in my recent article for Civitas
Outlook, it is possible that the last South Korean will be born some time late
in this »
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December 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
A SATANTIC FOOTNOTE
Throughout yesterday afternoon I corresponded with Minnesota Department of
Administration spokesmen Julie Nelsen. I was trying to understand how the
Minnesota Satanists’ exhibit was approved for display inside our beautiful
capitol building in St. Paul. I was looking for the substantive criteria such
exhibits must satisfy for approval. As I found none, I finally asked Ms. Nelsen
for a copy of the Minnesota Satanists’ application. Ms. Nelsen responded late
this »
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December 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
THEIR SATANIC MINNESOTANS REQUEST
We have a literally satanic display inside Minnesota’s beautiful capitol
building. It’s a perversely offensive Christmas season special. Offense seems to
be its reason for being and it has garnered some of the notoriety it seeks. The
Center of the American Experiment’s Bill Glahn takes it in here. Other coverage
of the exhibit is not as illuminating as Bill’s. FOX9’s Mike Manzoni begins his
story on the display in the »
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December 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
TRUMP’S TEAM SPEAKS
Jonathan Martin’s interview with Trump co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita and
Trump campaign pollster Tony Farbizio is not to be missed. Politico has
published it under the headline “‘The Black Swan Election’: Trump’s Campaign
Chiefs Tell Their Inside Story.” It is interesting and entertaining from
beginning to end. I particularly enjoyed this passage in the middle of things:
LaCivita:[B]ack in May, we did an analysis of what it would take to »
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December 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
THOUGHTS FROM THE AMMO LINE
Ammo Grrrll gets in the spirit of the season with aSCREED FROM A NON-COMPLIANT
NON-TRANS WOMAN! She writes: Warning: There will be some clinical terms for body
parts discussed in this column. If that bothers you, perhaps just skip it. It is
my firm belief that we are all adults here who took High School Biology. I am
mad as heck and I have it on good authority from Chief »
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December 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
The Census Bureau released its population forecast earlier today. The American
Redistricting Project has translated the Bureau’s forecast into Congressional
representation as of 2030. As you would expect, it is bad news for the
Democrats: 2030 Apportionment Forecast+4: TX, FL+1: AZ, ID, UT -3: CA-2: NY-1:
IL, MN, OR, PA, RI, WI * Based on the 2024 Census Population Estimates released
December 19, 2024. pic.twitter.com/lX8GYnFhCG — The American Redistricting
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December 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
WALZ DIDN’T HELP HARRIS IN MINNESOTA
Observers around the country wondered how Minnesota Governor Tim Walz could
possibly have been chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate. His performance as a
VP candidate ranged from inept to buffoonish. His description of himself as a
“knucklehead” during his disastrous debate with J.D. Vance will go down in the
history of remarkable debate moments. Plainly, he didn’t do Harris much good, if
any. Not even in Minnesota: the results »
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December 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
THE WINS KEEP COMING
Since we’re now deep into the NFL season, perhaps we can indulge some football
analogies, and assert that Donald Trump is the Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen of
American politics. Just when you think he’s in deep trouble he scrambles out of
the lawfare pocket and delivers a strike down the field for yet another win.
Today’s win comes from Georgia, where Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis got
her fanny »
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December 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED THIS TIME
Only last week I recalled Gene Smith’s best-selling account of the end of the
Wilson presidency When the Cheering Stopped. My paperback copy gives it the
subtitle The Strange, Untold Story of the Last Years of Woodrow Wilson!,
although part of that was a Bantam Books embellishment. I predicted that an
enterprising historian will do Smith’s number on the Biden presidency. It’s not
much of a prediction. The story of »
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December 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
DOGE SHOWDOWN
GOP House leadership negotiated what appears to be a lousy continuing resolution
with the Democrats. It is 1,500 pages long and dropped with barely enough time
for legislators to review it, which should alone be reason to vote No. What is
the worst that could happen? A “government shutdown,” in which the government
unfortunately does not shut down. I would welcome that outcome. Enter DOGE, in
the form of Elon »
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December 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
PODCAST: THE 3WHH ON GLOBULL THREATS TO LIBERTY
This special mid-week holiday edition of the 3WHH makes up for the lost ground
over the weekend, when schedules prevented the bar from opening at any of the
usual meet-up times. I’m this week’s host, and Lucretia and I open by grilling
John Yoo about his latest article, “Globalization’s Challenge to American
Constitutionalism,” published at the sparkling new website of the Civitas
Institute, where I also appears for the first »
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December 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE
John Adams Wettergreen, long-time professor of political science at San Jose
State University in the 1970s and 1980s, sadly passed away at the too-early age
of 45 back in 1989. At the time he had been writing a magnum opus, which he
tentatively called Total Regulation. It was a novel and heterodox account of the
rise and transformation of what we today call the administrative state, going
all the way »
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December 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
THE DAILY CHART: EDMUND BURKE FOR NBA COMMISSIONER!
I recently provoked some reader disagreement with the proposition that the
introduction of the three-point shot has ruined the NBA—not all at once, but
slowly over time. The old fast-break and half-court offenses are largely gone,
once the statisticians figured out that a higher number of lower-percentage
three-point shots yielded more scoring. (I believe I saw a statistic about how
few times Larry Bird attempted three-point shots, for example.) And »
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December 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
DEEP MEANING OF ACTUAL MALICE
A public figure must prove “actual malice” as one element of a defamation claim.
It’s a high hurdle for plaintiffs, yet ABC News gave up the defense of President
Trump’s claim that George Stephanopoulos had defamed him and settled with Trump
for $15 million plus $1 million for attorneys’ fees. John noted the settlement
here. ABC News has treated Trump with actual malice in the ordinary meaning of
the words. »
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December 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
THE DEMOCRATS HAVEN’T LEARNED
Democrats have engaged in many election post mortems, but they are either unable
or unwilling to come go grips with the real reasons why they lost the 2024
election. One of many cases in point is this op-ed by Rahm Emanuel in The
Washington Post. Emanuel’s theme is that the Democrats are too nice, and too
joyful, for their own good. The Post’s subhed for the piece is “Campaigns of »
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December 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
THE DAILY CHART: MEDIA LIES
While we’re having fun bashing the media this week, let us not forget the long
long list of media lies and fabrications of the last few years. Here’s a handy
table, suitable for putting under a magnet on your refrigerator: »
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December 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
TUCKER CARLSON: THE JOY OF SACHS
JNS reports that the U.S.-based advocacy group StopAntisemitism has named
Candace Owens Antisemite of the Year. Candace has worked hard to earn the
distinction and she revels in it. However, I think it should have gone to Tucker
Carlson. In 2023 Tucker himself hosted Owens in the immediate aftermath of the
Hamas massacres of 10/7. I wrote about Carlson’s interview with Owens here.
Carlson loves to host maniacal haters of »
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