March 6, 2026

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: That Time Talarico Demanded An Abortion Clinic in Every Federal Office.

We can question Talarico’s approach to Christianity, but no one can question his commitment to abortion. Late yesterday, a letter Talarico wrote in 2022 emerged on the subject of abortion. In this letter on official legislative letterhead, Talarico urged Joe Biden to open abortion clinics in federal offices and on federal land so as to frustrate abortion restrictions passed by the state legislature Talarico served.

Bear in mind that Texas passed abortion restrictions through its elected representatives in the state legislature, which is the ultimate expression of “public will” in representative democracy. The letter came shortly after the leak of the Dobbs decision that reversed Roe and sent the issue of abortion back to the states for the express purpose of allowing the “public will” to be served legislatively. And yet Talarico considered the ending of a 49-year judicial fiat (yes, that’s intentional) and the enabling of legislatures to be the real “subversion of the public will.”

Talarico then urged Biden to make the federal government into Abortions R Us in Texas, not just limited to federal funding of abortions, but to putting abortionists on the federal payroll for legal immunity. Also, Talarico envisioned a new era of putting an abortionist in every federal complex and national park:

On behalf of my constituents, I urge you and your administration to consider taking the following executive actions to protect the right to an abortion:

  • Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in fedeeral offices
  • Prohibiting states from imposing restrictions on abortion medication through the Food and Drug Administration
  • Hiring abortion providers as federal employees to provide immunity from state lawsuits

The General Services Administration manages more than 800 federally owned or leased buildings in Texas alone. Just repurposing a small fraction of those spaces can provide critical life-saving care to people across my state.

Bear in mind that Talarico and his fellow Democrats have been arguing for months that the federal government does not have jurisdiction to enforce existing federal immigration law in sanctuary cities and states. However, Talarico apparently thinks that the federal government has jurisdiction to abort babies, along with the executive authority to just make abortion providers into federal employees to protect them from state enforcement of abortion restrictions. I wonder whether Talarico has considered that position vis a vis attempts by Democrats in states like Minnesota and California to prosecute ICE agents.

Look, the man is simply doing all that he can for – checks notes – his “neighbors with a uterus:”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

COULD BE!

I guess that means there’s no one to accept Trump’s “unconditional surrender,” and the campaign will continue.

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green

NOT SATIRE: Come learn how Biden spent your tax dollars “to make the maps more gay.”

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL): Can you tell me, what is ‘queering’ the map?

State undersecretary Rodgers: So, I think we were trying to make the maps more gay.

Mast: Literally? How do you make a map more gay?

Rodgers: Since the age of cartography we had to do good maps, but maybe they weren’t gay enough. I know also – I took critical theory in college – I think sometimes people use queer as a verb. I do understand that the maps … were of Czechia and Slovakia so maybe those countries asked for it. I doubt it, but I don’t mind.

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Sorry, but this is NOT SATIRE. There is a real project called “Queering the Map” where gay people drop little pins to tell their stories. The Biden State Department funded said project.

It’s great to see Biden administration staffers queering the maps, making roads less racist, stealing women’s clothes from luggage carousels, and handing the Taliban two billion dollars worth of military equipment while bugging out of Afghanistan. The grownups were back in charge during those blissful four years, and those were all activities that grownups would do.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

REQUIRED READING:

Exit quote: “America’s military remains the greatest fighting force because of its people—not despite them. But when senior service college education produces more bureaucrats than warriors, we risk losing the next war before it starts. Denial won’t fix that. Reform will.”

Posted at 1:01 pm by Stephen Green

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 6. “They now have an inalienable right to a pine box.”

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

GOVERNMENT IS STUPID, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

There’s no surer way to make something more expensive than government trying to make it more affordable.

Posted at 11:59 am by Stephen Green

NOTHING TOO LUDICROUS FOR MSM ON IRAN: Brian Stelter, CNN’s Media Analyst, doesn’t have a clue about U.S. presidential decision-making or military planning, as is clear from his declaration that “Trump clearly has no plan or intention to explain to the American people why we went to war with Iran and what happens next and what victory looks like.”

Richard Pollock points to that Stelter demand and multiple others like it in the Mainstream Media as evidence that that these folks know nothing about what they are talking about and he reminds them that there was a reason FDR did not disclose to the media anything about the D-Day plan prior to that memorable day.

Posted at 11:50 am by Mark Tapscott

GOOD GAL WITH A GUN: Felony Stupid: Woman Forces Entry on Des Moines Home.

There’s dumb and then there’s felony stupid. Stannita Wilson probably couldn’t spell “felony stupid” but she lived it boldly and with pride. At 46, Wilson should have known that life is harder if you make stupid choices, but bless her heart, she still tries. In this case, the questionable decision-making turned a Saturday night in Des Moines into a one-woman home invasion tour.

A homeowner, probably minding his or her own business with a cup of warm milk and a Wheel of Fortune rerun on the tube before bed, heard a shrieking lunatic in their back yard and banging on the door. That was Wilson.

Then the banging started on the back door. The far-too-polite soul unlocked it — probably because Midwestern manners, you know — and BAM, in stormed Wilson like she owned the place, acting like a violent fool and attacked the homeowner.

Fortunately, in addition to Midwestern manners, the victim was also in possession of a firearm. The un-named homeowner had grabbed it before calling 911, a move that may have saved their life.

Exit quote: “Please don’t shoot me no more.”

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

CONSISTENCY IS THE HOBGOBLIN OF LITTLE MINDS OR WHATEVER:

At least admire the rapid turnaround time.

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

HOW CHINA CORRUPTS ACADEMIC RESEARCH. I knew it was bad, but sheesh. Even Xi Jinping is an academic fraud, apparently, having had his dissertation ghost-written. And, of course, pointing out that fraud is even harder in China than it is here, since you might just catch a bullet for your trouble.

Posted at 11:19 am by Robert Shibley

HMM:

Not sure if I buy this report or not, but it isn’t as though Chinese gear has proven effective in either Venezuela or Iran

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH: Iran had a plan to fight Israel and the US. It all collapsed after October 7.

And yet, since the joint US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran began over the weekend, killing its supreme leader and devastating the regime’s military and infrastructure, the response from the axis of resistance has been fairly feeble.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which in the past has boasted of the ability to destroy Tel Aviv, fired a “handful” of rockets into Israel, which prompted a much larger campaign of airstrikes by Israel in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Wary of being dragged into yet another war, the Lebanese government has taken the unprecedented step of banning military activities by the group. Yemen’s Houthis, who dramatically shut down most global shipping through the Red Sea two years ago, have been conspicuously quiet. Militants in Iraq claimed a drone attack on a US military base in Erbil, but the attack was intercepted without any casualties, and some groups seem to be staying quiet.

The impotent response is part of a larger story of the Iranian regime’s collapse from a fearsome military power to a weakened state fighting for its survival against an emboldened America and Israel. Rather than secure it from attack, its strategy of backing proxy forces in conflicts abroad played a critical part in dragging it into the existential crisis it faces now.

And while there are a number of factors that led to its unraveling, there’s one clear moment when it all started to go south: Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

That terror invasion was so despicable that it required being a vicious antisemite — or a fairly ordinary leftist — to dismiss or excuse it.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: How did San Francisco become such an abomination of a city? As Adam Carolla notes, “San Francisco represents the progressive movement at its purest form. This is when they get to do everything they want. That’s San Francisco. And so I’m not even going to make a judgment call. I’m just going to say take a bunch of Americans, show them San Francisco then, show them San Francisco now, and go this is the result of them doing everything they want.”

And unlike New York, which had a major reset by Rudy Giuliani starting in 1994, and continued for another decade years by Mike Bloomberg (albeit with hundreds of miles of new bike lanes), San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1964.

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Hey, conservatives aren’t the ones making the new rules — we’re just asking questions.

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green