March 6, 2026

HMM: GOP’s Bruce Blakeman Narrows Gap With Kathy Hochul in New York Race. “New York, long viewed as one of the most Democratic states in the nation, has become increasingly competitive over the last few years. Hochul faced a closer-than-expected race in 2022, and former Vice President Kamala Harris underperformed past Democratic presidential candidates against President Donald Trump in 2024.”

Democrats keep pushing the boundaries with terrible candidates, but blue state voters keep going for them.

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Finally, Another Stolen Ambulance. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why you should wait for the paramedics to finish up, how ‘pickleball brawl’ entered the vernacular, and the worst time to pull off a robbery in Texas.”

Posted at 3:21 pm by Stephen Green

LAUGHING WOLF HAS THOUGHTS ON DECAPITATION STRIKES: Surprise, Response.

The thirty-minute window was predicated on detecting Soviet missiles being launched. Flight time from there to here is roughly thirty minutes. If we saw them fueling (Soviets/Russians use a lot of liquid-fueled ICBMs), longer period for response. That was sufficient: thirty or forty years ago.

Even twenty years ago, depressed trajectory shots from subs not too far off the coast cut that time from detection to impact to about fifteen minutes. The assurances the subs couldn’t get that close, and would be detected if they did, were deafening, though reminding me a bit of toddlers drumming their feet and yelling while having their fingers in their ears.

Today, we have massive container ships plying the waters of our country. If I can figure how to put one or more land-attack cruise missiles into a container for launch, I guarantee you others have as well. When you look at more modern drones, boy howdy are you talking the ability to get things in the air and to target with little or no detection. Iran has the capability (or did) and China has been openly experimenting with it. For all the open, think iceberg and know others have as well, a lot of others.

We lost our sense of seriousness about these things during the Clinton administration, and never fully got it back.

Posted at 2:50 pm 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.

UPDATE: SF Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Security Team Attacked in Wild Scene — He Leaves Officers to Fend for Themselves.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

REVEALED: The Story of the United Kingdom’s Betrayal in Operation Epic Fury Is Absolutely Wild.

Given Spain’s history over the last century or so, it wasn’t exactly surprising that they’d take the side of Islamic fascists over the country that pays for their defense. The Western European country once again fell woefully short of its NATO spending requirements in 2025 while continuing to expand its welfare state, a dynamic that has been allowed to exist for far too long.

You’d expect better from the United Kingdom, though. Well, at least up until fairly recently. After all, the Brits are supposedly America’s closest, most reliable ally. Yet, in a stunning move, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer denied the use of his country’s military bases for logistical support. Further, he refused to mobilize any forces for defensive operations in the weeks before Iran’s missile and drone barrages began.

That proved disastrous, with several Gulf allies lambasting Starmer for hanging them out to dry, even as hundreds of thousands of British nationals were coming under attack.

This time the NSC agreed that the basing request be granted. Downing Street’s official line is that the situation changed when Iran began firing missiles at hotels and other civilian sites in Dubai and Bahrain. An attack on the Bahraini capital Manama narrowly missed killing British military personnel stationed there. But it is also the case that Starmer and his ministers were shocked by the undiluted fury of their Middle East allies that more had not been done to protect them. Jordan was “fucking furious,” a former minister with friends in Amman says. “The Emiratis, Kuwaitis, and even the Canadians are all asking, ‘What the fuck are you doing? Whose side are you on?’” The Emiratis pointed out that Britain was failing to help protect the 240,000 British citizens living in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

As the above excerpt notes, the British NSC did eventually reverse its decision, though it all appears to be too little, too late. Iran’s missile and drone launches have already been reduced to a trickle by American and Israeli airpower. It’s what happened before that, though, that is truly disturbing.

According to newly revealed details about the British NSC’s deliberations, the initial requests for base usage and the deployment of defensive assets (two destroyers, in this case) were denied for political reasons. 

 I’d say there were a few clues leading up to that initial denial: Revealed: Britain to get Islamophobia tsar.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

ROBERT SPENCER: UK Mulls Banning 67 Dog Breeds for ‘Animal Health’ — but Is That Really the Reason? “Given that these claims about the health of well-known and beloved dog breeds are so implausible, what else could be going on here? Well, Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) recently landed himself in hot water when he posted this on X: ‘If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.’ Could it be that Muslims in Britain are forcing exactly this choice, or that Britain’s far-left Labour government is trying to ensure that the country’s growing and restive Muslim population continues to vote for Labour en masse?”

Posted at 2:19 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE:

Posted at 2:02 pm by Stephen Green

“EXPERTS:”

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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