February 24, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gavin Newsom Wants Folks to Know He’s Down With the Struggle. “Newsom’s dyslexia is the Joe Biden’s stutter of 2026. We’re hearing a lot about it lately. Dems who can’t play a race card suddenly have childhood problems that they like to brag about having to overcome. In all of Joe Biden’s decades in Washington I never heard of his boyhood stutter until he started struggling with English during the 2020 presidential campaign. Newsom recently brought his dyslexia front and center in an attempt to dunk on Sen. Ted Cruz on X. That ended up being a huge self-own, but Democrats are incapable of being embarrassed by their own actions anymore. All it seems to have done is prompt Newsom to bust out the dyslexia excuse even more.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

IT’S ONLY OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Medicaid’s ‘perverse incentives’ tanking Colorado’s budget.

As economist Linda Gorman recently explained, the rapid 2010 expansion of Medicaid did not produce large gains in physical health, suggesting that the new expansion enrollees were mostly healthy people not in need of taxpayer-subsidized healthcare.

Because Medicaid spending in Colorado is mostly driven by enrollment, Gorman suggests the legislature target the bloated rolls to close the state’s budget hole and make healthcare spending more affordable and sustainable.

The Paragon report adds to that by noting Medicaid is “plagued by perverse incentives” that are fundamental to the programs’ structure due to its open-ended federal reimbursement of state spending.

“The policy encourages states to spend more to receive more federal money, leading to the proliferation of financing schemes that function as de facto money laundering mechanisms to obtain federal funds without commensurate state expenditures,” the report reads, in part. “The Affordable Care Act’s 90 percent federal reimbursement rate for able-bodied, working-age adults—providing roughly seven times more federal funding per state dollar than for traditional Medicaid enrollees—has diverted resources away from the truly needy.”

In Colorado, this has led to health care eating up one third of the state’s budget, quickly crowding out other budget priorities.

Exit quote: “It remains ultimately up to Colorado legislators to address the program’s systemic issues.”

I get the feeling that Medicaid grift and fraud are Denver’s budget priorities.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

IT TOOK THEM UNTIL NOW TO FINALLY NOTICE ALL THE TORPEDOES CIRCLING BACK?

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM AND BRYLCREEM?

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

THE TORPEDOES THE DEMOCRATS PUT IN THE WATER FOR TRUMP KEEP CIRCLING BACK ON THEM:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

CHANGE: Trump poised to fill two influential appeals court vacancies.

Last week, Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Cincinnati, and Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston, of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York City, announced their plans to assume senior status later this year. Both judges were appointed by President George W. Bush.

Judicial appointments have remained a central priority for the Trump administration, though vacancies on the federal appellate courts have been limited in recent years. The impending departures offer a significant opportunity to extend the administration’s influence over courts that routinely adjudicate consequential constitutional, regulatory, and commercial disputes.

The Sixth Circuit, which hears appeals from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, already holds a conservative supermajority. A new appointment there would likely reinforce the court’s existing ideological balance.

The Second Circuit presents a more consequential opening. Covering Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, the court presently maintains a narrow liberal majority. Given its prominent role in cases involving financial regulation, national security, and major civil litigation, a conservative appointment could have a meaningful impact.

That would nice.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

Take that, Starmer.

Posted at 7:17 am by Stephen Green

OUR HATEFUL MEDIA:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds