November 14, 2026

November 13, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MARCO KEEPS CRUSHING IT:

Posted at 8:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE LEFTIST NARRATIVE FAILS:

Posted at 8:43 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CURIOUS HAPPENINGS:

Posted at 8:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MORE THOUGHTS FROM ESR ON THE MICROSOFT OUTAGE:

Posted at 5:41 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IT LIKELY WON’T EMBED, but you can watch Starship Flight 15 here on X.

Posted at 5:18 pm by Stephen Green

I’LL TAKE “WHAT IS MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE?” FOR $500, ALEX: St. Patrick’s Day parade canceled in Florida thanks to state’s anti-DEI law.

A new anti-DEI law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that goes into effect next year has resulted in the cancellation of a St. Patrick’s Day parade.

The city of Delray Beach announced that it was pulling the plug on the popular 60-year-old spectacle — as well as the city’s annual Pride celebration — after it did a review of Florida Senate Bill 1134, which DeSantis signed into law and goes into effect on Jan. 1.

This new law, the city posted on an official website, “establishes restrictions on municipal funding, promotion, and official actions involving activities defined under the legislation as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).”

Great minds think alike; I found this story after writing the above headline: DeSantis accuses Delray Beach of ‘malicious compliance’ over parade cancellation.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

TANKER COLLIDES WITH CRUISE SHIP IN NEW ORLEANS:

A tanker has crashed into a cruise ship carrying 129 people in New Orleans.

Footage shows the cruise ship tipping over on to one side on the Mississippi River before sinking rapidly beneath the water. Rescue efforts are under way, local media said.

A separate clip posted to X shows the moment the tanker seems to head straight into the ship, resulting in a huge boom.

The tanker collided with the American Cruise Lines’ American Heritage at 12.30pm local time on Friday, the Port of New Orleans press secretary said.

Pictures show people scrambling over railings as the ship lists. At least 14 people were rescued from the river, Billy Nungesser, the lieutenant governor, said.

Dozens of people have been taken to hospitals, local outlet WDSU reported. Their conditions are unknown.

Scary looking video of the crash has been posted to social media:

Language alert:

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:48 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE ASSASSINATION FAN BASE: What the Logan Circle Shooter Told Me.

Matt Lambert, a former emergency room physician and health care technology executive, shot five people and then himself on Thursday in D.C., apparently motivated by a bitter, ongoing and all-consuming legal dispute with the Metropole Condominium Association and the building’s property manager.

The back-and-forth had been dragging on for more than a year, draining his retirement savings and fueling a deepening desperation.

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In a series of interviews in late November and December 2025 — including two visits inside his gutted penthouse at the Metropole on 15th Street Northwest — Lambert described how a dispute over severe water leaks and black mold had turned into “psychological warfare” between himself, building manager James Stuart, the management company EJF Real Estate Services and their insurance defense attorneys.

“It’s affected every part of my life — my sleep, dietary habits,” Lambert told me in December. “I pride myself on my resilience, and I’ve been kind of surprised at how much it has been affected.”

On Thursday, D.C. police said, Lambert shot and killed Stuart at the VIDA Fitness Center located on the ground floor of the building in a targeted attack just before 8 a.m., then shot four more people in the vicinity and barricaded himself in his apartment before shooting and killing himself. Of the other four people who were shot, one was in critical condition, while three others had non-life-threatening injuries.

While at no point in the reporting process did Lambert give any indication he would resort to violence, he did frequently use intense, combative language — and at one point, his frustration veered into what at the time felt like dark humor. During a December visit with a neighbor, Lambert criticized the condo association’s legal strategy by making an offhand reference to Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the 2024 shooting death of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO who is accused of inscribing “delay, deny, depose” on his ammunition.

“What are they called? Delay, deny, defend … the Luigi three?” Lambert said.

The left knew that elevating Mangione into a folk hero would inspire plenty of others to go down that dark route, and didn’t care.

And note this, “Lambert reached out to me in late 2025 when I was a reporter at The Washington Post, pitching a story about how his million-dollar Logan Circle penthouse had been rendered unlivable. I continued reporting the story into the new year, but the article was abandoned when I was laid off from the Post in early 2026.”

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll