Senator Joni Ernst joined me this morning: Audio: 04-19hhs-ernst Transcript: HH: Joined now by Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. I think I’ll call her Col. Ernst, retired Iowa National Guard Army Reserve this morning, because we begin, good morning, Senator, welcome back, good to talk to you. JE: Hey, great to be with you, Hugh. Thank you. HH: What do you know about, what’s your response to what Israel did overnight? JE: Well, at this point, Hugh, I only know what is publicly available. I should learn more today as I go into work at our beautiful nation’s capital. But it is in response, of course, t ..read more

The kerfuffle that has erupted since Uri Berliner’s revelations concerning ideological bias in NPR is both amazing and sad to watch.  There is very little real new involved to anybody that pays attention to NPR at all.  But that said news came for inside the organization and the organization’s response to that fact is where it becomes spectacle.  The commentary has been immense.  NPR tried to report on itself, which is somehow weird.  City Journal looked at the tweets of the new, current NPR CEO – and frankly something is broken that any purported news organization hir ..read more

So on Monday this article appears that is a bit jaw dropping.  The articles is about trying to make the current wave of weight loss drugs, which are very, very expensive, available to people that cannot afford them.  Because obesity is a health issue disproportionately affecting the poor.  There is the first jaw-drop – the poor are fatter than the rich.  The less money you have the more likely you are to eat too much.  Which makes me wonder, “How poor are they really?”  What if they saved all that money they spend on excess food?  Would they still be poor? So ..read more

Major cities were brought to a standstill yesterday as protestors describing themselves as pro-Palestinian, meaning anti-Israeli, blocked the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Kennedy Expressway leading into O’Hare in Chicago, Wall Street in New York and others. Tom Cotton on Fox yesterday noted that in his home state such people might just end up thrown off the bridge by the locals being blocked from getting to work, or, having glued themselves to cars and pavement, might find themselves stripped of skin as they were forcefully removed.  Cotton’s comments have drawn massive ire, a ..read more

Dr. Michael Oren, formerly Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, opened the rpogram this AM: Audio: 04-15hhs-oren Transcript: HH: Joined now by Dr. Michael Oren, formerly Israel’s ambassador to the United States, former deputy minister in a previous Netanyahu government. Good morning, Dr. Oren. I’m glad everyone survived Saturday night. I am curious what you think Israel should do now. MO: Well, good to be with you as always, Hugh. Israel should do three things. One, Israel should mount an international diplomatic effort to galvanize a front against Iran, to expose the fact that Iran is th ..read more

I was watching a very old (50’s-60’s era) television show last night and it featured a very elegant woman wearing a fur stole.  I started thinking about just how far out of fashion fur has become.  Somewhere in the 80’s the slogan “fur is murder” began to appear and things escalated from there.  As they escalated ladies in furs were dosed in red paint to illustrate that blood had been shed for their garment.  Fur did not really fall out of fashion; it was driven out of fashion by a bunch of moralistic jerks.  What was really irritating was how selective their moralism ..read more

I went to bed last night as news of the Iranian strike on Israel was breaking.  I posted this was no time for typical Biden administration incoherence.  And yet, sometime during the night it was reported that Biden said: President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won’t support any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios. Another report of the call says: He [Biden] also added that he would be meeting with G7 leaders on Sunday to coordinate a ‘diplomatic response to Iran’s ..read more

Iran launched a strike aimed at Israel, and according to the AP U.S. forces actively aided in the defense: U.S. forces shot down some Iran-launched attack drones flying toward Israel, according to a U.S. defense official and two other U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. The defense official said the effort to intercept the attack was continuing. (HT: National Review)  If Joe Biden has declared our support for Israel’s security as “ironclad,” as so widely reported, why the anonymity?  Typical Biden administration incoherency – that’s why.&nb ..read more

About a month ago I wrote a piece that seemed to foreshadow Kurt Schlichter this past week.  Both of us make the case that Donald Trump is distasteful but when it comes to actually governing the country a far better choice that Joe Biden.  What Schlichter does far more thoroughly than I is look at all the policy differences and where they might take us.  I essentially imply that voting for Biden is far costlier, as measured by national decline, than voting for Trump – Schlichter lays out those costs with far more detail.  The balance sheet is not close.  We need to do ..read more

O.J. Simpson was a murderer.  The evidence was overwhelming.  His acquittal in the criminal case was jury nullification – based on race.  A decade after that trial I sat on a jury in the same courthouse and witnessed what that trial wrought firsthand.  Murder is a heinous and awful crime, but the real villain of the O.J, Simpson saga is his attorney Johnny Cochran who did not hesitate to turn that case into a racial circus.  Were their racist cops involved?  Yes, there were, but the evidence is and was the evidence.  Their racism notwithstanding – the evidenc ..read more