September 3, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Talarico’s ‘Resident Alien’ Campaign Keeps Getting Weirder. “James Talarico is a native Texan who often seems as if he is visiting the state for the first time. He makes Beto O’Rourke look like Sam Freakin’ Houston. It’s obvious that his campaign knows they need to Texan him up a lot, but looking like he thinks that Cracker Barrel is a place he needs a passport to travel to isn’t going to accomplish that.

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Talafreako Is A Socialist Weasel. “Either he’s a woke-infected socialist hiding his true colors to try to get elected, or he’s Zelig-like chameleon with no core beliefs willing to say or do anything to get elected.”

Whichever, he’s a bad fit for Texas.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

KURT SCHLICHTER: All This ‘Feelings’ Nonsense Should Make You Feel Sick.

I watched some of the closing arguments in the Clancy case, and I did it through the eyes of a 30-year trial lawyer. The defense was in the toughest position because the facts are all against the defendant – she killed her children, one by one, after tricking her husband into leaving her alone so she could strangle them without him stopping her. She then tried to kill herself. All of this is indisputable evidence that she knew what she was doing was wrong when she did it, thereby meaning she was not insane under the law. Understand that merely having a mental illness diagnosis – and about half of young liberal women are diagnosed with some form of mental illness – is not, in itself, a golden ticket to escape from criminal liability. The test is right and wrong – can you tell the difference? And with the facts clearly showing that she could, the defense needed to find an alternative villain. Oh, it was the doctors. It was people in her life who didn’t care enough about her. Someone else was to blame, anyone else. And the defense had to exempt her from responsibility. Oh, she was a good mother – yeah, he actually said that. I’m still trying to figure out why a lawyer would start an argument in the heads of the jurors, most of whom would respond to that with, “How can she be a good mother when she killed her own kids?”

But that’s most of the jurors. Not all of them. Not the feelzocentric ones.

And I listened to the prosecution’s closing argument. When you’re doing a closing argument, you want to sum up the evidence, tie it to the law as instructed by the judge, and hand it over, wrapped up in a little bow, to the jury so it has no choice but to rule for your client. And the district attorney here was, I thought, fantastic in the parts I saw. Very calm, very methodical, highlighting bits of evidence, comparing them to the law, and telling the jury what they all meant. It was cool, rational, and logical, and that was probably the problem.

The facts, the evidence, and the law all told the jury that it had no choice but to find her guilty of three cruel and atrocious murders. But all that was outweighed by the feelz.

See, my mistake in appreciating the job the prosecutor did was that I assumed that if you made a rational argument supported by evidence, people would nod along. I should’ve known better. After all, I’m on X enough to know better. A significant number of people no longer respond to rational arguments. They choose the result they want and work backward to get it. That’s why you have morons asserting that the husband did it even though Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers don’t dispute that it was her hands that choked the life out of her children. That’s the power of feelz. Feelz let you ignore evidence that undermines what you want and let you manufacture evidence that doesn’t exist in your head. It’s OK to assume facts not in evidence if it gets you to the result you want.

Meanwhile, at Middle Earth’s Newspaper of Record:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

“PODCASTS AREN’T REAL.” NOPE.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE ASSASSINATION FAN BASE CONTINUES TO EXPAND:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

THAT SELDOM WORKS: Abandoning Core Beliefs Fails To Save Seth Moulton From Humiliating Loss. “At 10 and a half months, Moulton’s Senate bid lasted longer than his 2020 presidential campaign, which expired in August 2019 after 4 months. He managed to win the endorsement of the Boston Globe, the state’s largest newspaper. But Moulton, a 47-year-old ex-Marine with three degrees from Harvard, didn’t win enough votes in the primary to proceed, leaving his Senate race with the same outcome as his presidential campaign: a loss. With 96 percent of the vote in, he was trailing by 30 points. The significance goes beyond Moulton’s political career. It points to the difficulty of dislodging an incumbent senator—news that will come as no solace to John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, but that may help reassure Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. It points to the tenuous road for moderate candidates in Democratic primary politics. Most of all, though, it is a demonstration that totally abandoning whatever principles you had, or were pretending to have, is no recipe for victory.”

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE ONE THING THEY SHARE IN COMMON IS HATRED OF AMERICA:

Well, that and each believes they’ll come out on top of the other two to rule over the ruins.

Posted at 7:50 am by Stephen Green

A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS: Two major airlines join $1,000 Trump Accounts matching efforts.

Both Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced plans to match the government’s contributions for the children of their employees, according to the White House’s post on social media. The investment accounts allow every child born in the United States between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, to receive $1,000 from the federal government, according to the Trump Accounts website.

Parents maintain control of the account, which is created in the child’s name, until age 18. Up to $5,000 can be contributed each year, providing a way to build a child’s investment portfolio while under custodial care.

Delta and American join companies including Chipotle, SoFi Technologies, and Vanguard in pledging the funds, according to Yahoo Finance.

These are great — and sort of a youth version of the Social Security fix that Democrats celebrated killing 20 years ago.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

MERRICK GARLAND WAS A GARBAGE AG IN A GARBAGE ADMINISTRATION, PROTECTING GARBAGE LOCAL OFFICIALS:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

 

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

ROBERT SPENCER: Are You Ready for the TRUMP STRAIT? “MS NOW quickly took the bait, posting less than two hours later a huffy article trying to portray Trump’s trolling as a problem for Republicans.”

Posted at 7:00 am by Stephen Green

IT’S FEAR THEY’RE MAKING FUN OF:  Just as I am begging women to stop supporting a child murderer, I’m also begging men to stop erasing context from videos and supplying context you pulled out of your own ass. None of these are “making fun of baby murder”. They’re acting out genuine FEAR they recognize as being mostly irrational, and that’s the joke. It’s no different from a man picturing various scenarios of improbable things that could happen to his family. You’d think someone from Babylon Bee of all places would recognize this for what out actually is…

I think you have to be a mom to understand. For those who don’t know, I’m extremely ADD. My persistent nightmare when I was pregnant with older son/he was little: I put the baby in the garage and forgot him, and he died of starvation and heat stroke.  Now was I ever going to do that, in a million years? No. But I had vivid nightmares I’d done it. And in retrospect it’s hilariously crazy.

Posted at 6:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

THE GOOD OLD DAYS WEREN’T:  Soooo, guy I knew in of all places National Guard in Florida. He was taking a master’s in Optics at University of Central Florida. He had to do a paper. Just one of the random ‘do a paper’ assignments you do in a master’s program. He’d heard that tailings from coal mines could be a bit suspect in terms of radiation. Not in his direct field but in ‘physics.’ Good enough. There’s a coal plant about 20 miles from Orlando. Goes out, goes to the big pile of tailings, sticks a Geiger counter probe in it, expecting a bit above background.

Posted at 5:33 am by Sarah Hoyt