Scott Johnson
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I contribute to the site Power Line (https://t.co/nPwouaWbXD). I helped Dan Rather take early retirement from CBS News.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Joined January 2010
This appendix, and the book it appendizes, should make suspicion of esoteric writing the default position in approaching obvious contradictions, convenient misquotations, etc. in an otherwise carefully composed work.
@alexpriou @DobskiBJ Melzer’s 110-page appendix filled with quotes from writers attesting to esotericism, for digital sharing:
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The “Sde Teiman rape” never happened. And unlike the usual foreign libels, this one came from inside the IDF itself. A leaked and likely doctored video triggered a cover-up, a staged suicide note, and a crisis in Israel’s legal power structure. From @GadiTaub1:
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For years, Brian C. Anderson has been so busy making @CityJournal into one of our best and most important news sources, that he hasn't had time to write as much as he should. This piece is just what is needed: a concise and precise description of the information landscape, short
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The public will always need reliable storytelling.
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From my brilliant student Rabbi Meir Soloveichik: "George Washington [writing to Newport’s Jewish community] drew on his favorite verse in Scripture, Micah 4:4: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the
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Batshit crazy was two exits back. She just took the off-ramp to Camp Doolally. We’re now in weapons-grade whacko country. Someone call the IAEA. We’ve got radioactivity at levels no one’s ever seen.
🚨 URGENT Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something
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Chris, I have a new case for you. I hear that @Ilhan is herself the beneficiary of immigration fraud as well as the perpetrator of marital fraud for the purpose of abetting immigration fraud. That would be a great story to break. Chris, you can do it! https://t.co/3R8m6Jm2Js
We broke the Somali fraud story and called on President Trump to revoke the Temporary Protected Status for all Somalis. Now, the President has delivered. This is how we win. ⚔️
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"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every
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Absolutely incredible. @KevinRobertsTX took all that heat and lost so many good people from Heritage just to avoid criticizing Tucker, and Tucker throws him right under the bus. All Kevin did was condemn antisemitism and that’s apparently too far for Tucker. The loyalty only
Missed this: After all that, Tucker Carlson harshly criticized Kevin Roberts in a Nov 19 appearance on the 1819 podcast. Here’s a snippet of his exchange with 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson, where Carlson savages Roberts, a man he says he “knew and really liked” (past tense) but
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If you were a prime minister or president, would you send your military to learn from a country that has committed war crime after war crime? Well, despite allegedly committing every imaginable evil in the Gaza Strip since October 7, the IDF just hosted over 100 senior military
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Chris presents this as exclusive breaking news, but this has been reported locally by others and by me on City Journal itself since at least 2018 — though Chris has finally gotten others to pay attention. https://t.co/bKPPgOIcRS
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Mogadishu, Minnesota - A massive daycare fraud in America’s most welcoming state raises questions about the limits of assimilation. Click here to read more.
Somalis are stealing billions of dollars from American taxpayers and sending cash to terrorists back home. It's time for @realDonaldTrump to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for all Somali nationals in the United States. It's time for them to go home.
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The great David Pryce-Jones has died at age 89. Do yourself a favor and read his peerless book Signatures.
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David Pryce-Jones, the outspoken author and historian, who released a colourful memoir about their 'bonkers' aristocratic family, died peacefully at home on Monday aged 89.
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“He spoke so fast that the amazing perversity of his arguments escaped undetected; what remains of them is a monument of ingenuity and insolence.” "So wrote the English writer Christopher Hobhouse of the 18th-century parliamentarian Charles James Fox. The observation applies
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The podcaster offers a puzzling exegesis whose purpose he won’t or can’t explain.
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It’s not new but is still happening. The Palestinian Authority still pays terrorists to murder Israelis. In 2024 they paid $144 million. This year they’ve already committed $214 million. This is how the PA incentivizes Palestinians to commit violence. Pay For Slay must end.
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Tucker Carlson is a vile liar. No Israeli politician has ever said what he claims. Most Israeli politicians didn't even have a say in how the war in Gaza was being fought. Israel has been begging the world for years to stop UNRWA from indoctrinating Palestinian children with
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You mean (to take one example) something like the case of the Somali women convicted here of raising money for Al Shabab that we covered 14 years ago? Or (to take another) the case of Fozia Ali that we covered in 2018? https://t.co/ooJc23X9s8
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@scottwjohnson Yes, of course, although the Al-Shabaab reporting is new, which is what we deemed “exclusive”
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Anyone still inclined to take Tucker Carlson seriously should read @jamesbmeigs: Carlson Goes Full Truther
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Once a level-headed critic of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the former Fox commentator now caters to the anti-American, conspiracist audience in his new video series, The 9/11 Files.
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Niall Ferguson @NiallFerg said something crucial this past Sunday on @marklevinshow: The legal fight is the one that matters because it is how we enforce the Constitution and protect our civil liberties. But a republic is only a republic if we can keep it. America ended slavery
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Pathetic but sad. Flailing and forever disgraced. https://t.co/PRHEwdKcHJ
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"A cynical effort to stay on Tucker’s good side (or his audience’s) by pretending it’s unconservative (even neoconish and BLM-ish, wink wink) to have a problem with playing footsie with neo-Nazis."
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Chris, you make it sound like no one here has been covering these issues. Aside from coverage of the relevant trials and indictments on Power Line, I wrote a 2018 column for City Journal giving an early glimpse of the point you make here (which I sent to Ryan, by the way).
EXCLUSIVE: @RK_Thorpe and I have new reporting on America’s Somali fraud rings, which have stolen billions in taxpayer funds—and sent some to Islamist terrorists back home. “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer.” https://t.co/RDgnKXAnyP
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The eminent historian Gordon Wood delivered a remarkable Irving Kristol Award lecture @AEI Monday evening. Be sure to read or watch his remarks here: https://t.co/4ooWcb1fEy
@RobertDoar
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On November 17, 2025, American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar awarded Gordon S. Wood, renowned historian and professor of history emeritus at Brown University, the highest honor bestowed...
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