September 3, 2026

GLORIA STEINEM, A POTENT VOICE OF US FEMINISM AND CO-FOUNDER OF MS. MAGAZINE, DIES AT 92:

Steinem began her career as a journalist, notably reporting in 1963 on degrading conditions in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire — an undercover assignment she came to later regret. She credits a meeting six years later, where women spoke out in favor of abortion rights, with changing her career path.

“That speak-out was the beginning of activism for me,” Steinem, who had undergone a secret illegal abortion herself at age 22, told the AP in an email in 2022, reflecting on the reversal of Roe v. Wade. “Either our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we’re not living in a democracy.”

Those who watched Steinem denounce discrimination for so many years likely never suspected that she’d had to overcome a deep fear of public speaking. She would have simply stuck to writing, she said, if only editors at the time had been willing to let her write about the women’s movement.

But they weren’t interested, she told the AP in 2015. “So I ended up going out and speaking, which was my nightmare,” she said. “I mean, I was terrified. But I’m grateful, even though I still get scared even now.”

Curiously absent from the AP’s obit: CIA Funded Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies: “In my experience the Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent, and honorable.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

DANA WEIGHS IN ON TUCKER’S LATEST:

Posted at 11:58 am by Stephen Green

SO GET GUNS TO THEM: Trump says Iranians won’t rise up because ‘they’re being shot’ and refuses to say if CIA would aid protesters.

“I understand their plight, they’re being shot,” Trump said. “When I ask that question, I ask it sort of knowing the answer. The only answer is that they’re being shot.”

He asserted that close to 65,000 protesters have been killed following the attempted uprising that took place in December 2025 and January, which saw the mass mobilization of citizens into the Iranian streets. It was these protests that inspired Trump to promise Iranians that “help is on the way.” He eventually launched Operation Epic Fury, the large-scale assault on Iranian leadership and military infrastructure, in February.

But a crackdown from the government and military quashed the protests before the United States began its operations. Thousands of demonstrators were gunned down in the streets, and many more have been arrested and executed in the months since.

“That’s why it’s not happening — and who can blame them?” Trump said Wednesday.

They need the chance to shoot back.

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS FULLY IN REMISSION:

Up next: Mamdani demands city council repeal the law of unintended consequences.

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College admissions, now like “preapproved” credit cards!

Posted at 10:09 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE LEFT HAS PLAYED THIS GAME SO LONG, IT’S FAIR TO CONCLUDE THAT “MORE YOUNG DEAD BLACK MEN” IS THE GOAL:

Posted at 9:54 am by Stephen Green

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Wisconsin Cops Used Flock Over 100 Times To Track a Navy Veteran After He Lawfully Recorded a Traffic Stop.

Jones, a United States Navy veteran, was well within his rights to record the police stop. But even though he recorded from a safe distance without interfering, that didn’t stop the Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputy, Brandon Shayhorn, from later unlawfully stopping and arresting Jones.

After Shayhorn completed the traffic stop, Jones returned to his vehicle. But before Jones could exit the parking lot, Shayhorn turned on his lights and initiated a second stop, claiming Jones’ temporary license plate, displayed in the rearview window, was unreadable, reports TMJ4 News. Shayhorn demanded to see Jones’ driver’s license, but Jones refused, arguing that he’d been unlawfully pulled over on private property. Video clips of the encounter show the deputy opening Jones’ door and pulling him from his vehicle.

Jones was subsequently arrested “for resisting and obstructing,” according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the arresting officers and police department. But after being held in custody for five hours, he was released with no citations or criminal charges. An internal post-arrest memorandum reviewed by Reason revealed that Shayhorn’s supervisor informed him shortly after the arrest that he’d, in fact, illegally stopped Jones, and he therefore could not compel Jones to produce his identification.

Mostly what I get from Flock cameras is that they have the potential to undo much of the goodwill bought for the police, ironically enough, by bodycams.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Elephant in the Canadian Room: America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry—not trade alone—is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies. “The tragic irony is that Canada once punched well above its demographic weight, with a formidable military and a dynamic economy. . . . Apparently, Canada believes that opening its economy, insisting upon legal, meritocratic, diverse, and measured immigration, and fully developing its natural wealth would be a bitter medicine worse than even its present maladies.”

Nothing is more central to Canadian politics than not being like the USA.

Posted at 9:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

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