March 4, 2026

EPIC FURY: When the Can Finally Stops Getting Kicked Down the Road.

Almost fifty years of being the murderous troll under the world’s bridge, threatening to blow it sky high every other week, even as it plucked travelers off the boards to consume and satiate its bloodlust.

Whatever manifestation of evil spewed forth from the bearded, turbaned trolls under the bridge, the world would always turn away, turn that other cheek. Ignore what was going on under the bridge, wiping a tiny tear for the random victims summarily pulled off the bridge, while coldly considering them sacrifices to keep the trolls themselves from climbing up onto the roadway and into our world proper.

Eyes averted, fingers in ears. Humanitarian aid, and pallets of cash feeding almost fifty years of malignant troll tumor growth.

Much of it is very personal to Marines. Much of it is very personal to our family.

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Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

FASCINATING:

“Regardless of your opinion on Trump, everyone agrees he’s a master at playing competitive forces against each-other.”

Posted at 9:25 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The GOP Can’t Be Rid of Thom Tillis Quickly Enough. “Tillis is one of those backstabbing members of the GOP who have me convinced that the Democrats have Manchurian candidate plants in the party. He’s not reliable on most big votes. If he does end up not screwing over his own party, it’s only after a lot of grandstanding so that he can get some all-important facetime in front of the cameras.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

SADLY TRUE:

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Posted at 8:58 am by Glenn Reynolds

FASTER, PLEASE: Federal bureau approves lithium mine expansion.

The mine sits alongside the roughly 250 person town of Silver Peak and has been in operation since 1965 by international mining company Albemarle. It pumps water from local brine water aquifers into open air ponds, then distills the lithium down with solar evaporation. Annually, the mine produces around 5,000 tons of lithium, according to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

“I don’t have any issues with the expansion of the mine,” Shaaron Netherton, executive director of the Friends of Nevada Wilderness, told The Center Square of the mine, which employs roughly 60 people. She added later, “It’s sort of the lifeblood of the little town of Silver Peak.”

Netherton also said that the environmental disruption to the Silver Peak area had already been done over the mine’s past 60 years of operation, which would likely see minimal new damage from the expansion.

The Silver Peak mine expansion has been billed as a matter of national security, with less than 1% of global lithium production coming from within the U.S., according to the Dallas Fed.

Speed up rare earths, too, please.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

I’M OKAY WITH THIS, EVEN IF JEALOUS WESTERN WOMEN AREN’T:

This is the tweet she’s responding to, which has been so thoroughly wrecked by responses that X’s bots have decided it’s abusive.

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Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE LEFT NEEDS A MASSIVE CLEANUP: Masked Man Arrested Outside GOP Campaign Event – Cops Bagging Multiple Rifle and Pistol Magazines – No Injuries. “The man reportedly had no identification on him. A staff member on Paxton’s campaign team said that the man had asked to go into the hotel to use the bathroom, a story he doubted. The man insisted he was an Uber driver, a story which the staffer told the Times he doubted, given that the car he was driving allegedly had no plates.”

Posted at 8:10 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Incumbent Rep. Dan Crenshaw loses Texas GOP primary race.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who has served in the House of Representatives since 2019, lost his primary race Tuesday in the Lone Star State’s 2nd Congressional District.

Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL in his fourth term, was defeated by businessman and state representative Steve Toth.

With about three-fourths of the ballots counted, Toth had 58% of the vote to Crenshaw’s 40%. The Associated Press called the race for Toth at 1 a.m. EST.

President Trump did not endorse a candidate in the contest. Crenshaw was the only House Republican in Texas running for re-election that did not receive Trump’s seal of approval.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) endorsed Toth last week.

“Steve is an unwavering fighter for school choice, fiscal responsibility, and the next generation of Americans,” Cruz wrote in an X post announcing his endorsement. “Washington needs bold leadership and representatives who will stand up for Texans at every turn.”

Related: Cornyn and Paxton Will Advance to a Texas GOP Senate Runoff.

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

THIS IS THE HARDEST THAT THE ATLANTIC HAS EVER ATLANTICKED: Pete Buttigieg in the Wilderness. “He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?”

This brings us back to what we might call the IOP problem: Buttigieg has punched his card, has followed all the prescriptions, has received every honors grade and service patch one can get by the age of 44. But it turns out that lots of people, and not just jealous Ivy Leaguers, hate this. They hate pretensions of expertise. They hate people who work to become what they are not—even when they work to become better people, or better presidents. “I’m like you,” Gavin Newsom told a crowd in Atlanta in February. “I’m no better than you. I’m a 960 SAT guy.” That score is well below average. The audience cheered.

Buttigieg’s critics seem to fault him for the vaguest reasons, many of which come down to: he’s too perfect; he’s not authentic; he’s not a man of the people. It’s an odd line of attack. Is it possible to be too perfect? Is perfection a flaw? Social psychology has documented something known as the “pratfall effect”: the distrust of people deemed too perfect.

I swear to you this is a real Atlantic piece and not a Babylon Bee or old-school Iowahawk sendup.

Related (From Ed): Iowahawk does have thoughts on the Atlantic giving Buttigieg the full Annie Leibovitz treatment, though:

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Posted at 7:18 am by Stephen Green

INCOMPETENCE OR CORRUPTION? JustTheNews is reporting that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration was made aware of fraud in benefits programs early in his tenure, but failed to take action to stop it, an interim report based on testimony from nine state officials concluded.

“Testimony obtained by the Committee reveals that Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of widespread fraud in social service programs, lied about their knowledge of the fraud, and retaliated against employees who dared to raise concerns,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement.

“Instead of protecting vulnerable Americans, they handed over billions in taxpayer dollars to fraudsters and threw their own state employees under the bus,” Comer added.

The competence question is a given. The question is when a public official looks the other way at fraud to maintain his or her voter base, is that corruption?
As the Good Professor has said: “embrace the power of and.”

Posted at 7:15 am by Charles Glasser

BITTER JASMINE CROCKETT BLAMES ‘CHEATING’ AFTER VOTE COUNTS IN TEXAS SENATE RACE DON’T GO HER WAY:

Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) has been a lightning rod for criticism due to her outlandish statements, ever-changing accents, and generally reprehensible behavior. Yet somehow, she thought she was ready for the United States Senate.

The voters are weighing in, and their answer so far is: yeah, maybe not so much.

Although the official vote count has not been made final, Crockett trails at this hour to her competitor, TX state representative James Talarico. There’s already some legal back and forth, and courts are involved, so the final outcome may not be confirmed for days. Already, though, Crockett is blaming her poor performance on… election fraud.

Wait, I thought it was a danger to Democracy to even suggest such things could ever occur in the United States of America?

A downcast Crockett went there anyway[.]

Stephen Colbert’s stunt to promote Talarico over Crockett and blame it on Trump worked perfectly.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

ASTROTURF:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds