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Deductible Jesus

Talarico's Campaign Theology The clip is the house theology with a punch line. N.B. March 4: Why Talarico Won’t Win Texas. September 15: Losin’ Texas. Same file. The church is no longer backdrop. It is the source code. Andrew Breitbart was right. Politics is downstream from culture. James Talarico’s culture has a street address. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin raised him. Jim Rigby baptized him, married his parents, and has been his pastor since he was two. Talarico has said so himself. That pulpit taught him what to do with Jesus. The Senate race is the delivery system. The deductible…

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The Angry Elf

The Terrible Temperament Michigan is hiring a senator, not a terrible temperament. I have watched Abdul El-Sayed long enough to stop treating each eruption as a one-off. They are not one-offs. They are a temperament. Michigan is not hiring a temperament. Michigan is hiring a senator. Call him what the tape made him. The Angry Elf. Small man energy aimed at bigger rooms. A dare where an answer belongs. A lecture where a neighbor would use a noun. Hard questions do not get absorbed. They get upgraded into a fight, a wound, or a second creed for a second audience. That…

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The Deadly Results of Democrat Policies

Illegal. Released. Again. Crime, immigration, and fraud are one chain. November is the sequel. I wrote in May that crime, illegal immigration, and fraud would be major midterm issues. I have written the fraud half of that sentence until the cows come home. The last ten days handed the country the staple. A coalition of Democrat states went to court to keep welfare off the green-card test. A rideshare driver who should never have been here was charged with raping a seventeen-year-old girl in Maryland after New York had already let him walk on a sex-abuse arrest. Same week. Same argument.…

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The Art of the Hemisphere, Part VII

The Infinite Life Greenland did not have to change hands. The lock on the door did. N.B. Read Parts I, II, III, IV, V, and VI of this series. See also Trump’s Greenland Gambit. May 8 was the mineral proof. August 28 closed the southern flank. Friday recorded the north. President Trump posted that the United States had entered an “Infinite Life” agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland: permanent control over security “and all other needs,” no cost to the United States, no end date, and a rule that no adversary may put a base, a troop presence, or…

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Walking the Line

The Classroom Is the Census Heritage was never a photograph. Coppell already did the counting. I live in Plano, Texas. I have watched this county change from the parks, the drop-off lines, and the streets I walked with my kids. I wrote that change into Restore the American Melting Pot in April. I wrote the native-versus-native split into Divided Among Ourselves the next day. I wrote the H-1B housing tape into American Families Gain Ground in June: puja rooms, spice kitchens, Dallaspuram, then the first slack in the line when the visa tap tightened. This week the country tried to have…

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Losin’ Texas

The Preacher Texas Will Not Hire He’s losin’ Texas, I can tell. Gen X already knows the face. Isaac. Black hat. The child preacher whose sermon did not belong to the town. James Talarico gives off the same vibe. Soft voice. Still smile. Holy language in a room that is not holy. That flinch is not a movie joke. It is how a lot of people get to the real word before they get to the tape. Inauthentic. Texas has hired preacher candidates. It has not hired this one and thought ours. I wrote in March that he would not win…

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They Needed an Issue

Watch the Diner, Watch the Memo N.B. This morning: Watch the Diner. I wrote this morning that you watch the diner. The chain wants a smoking ban and a living wage. Six months later the independent shop is a parking lot and nobody passed a bill titled Kill the Diner. They passed public health. What Washington did today is name the chain. Over one weekend the frontier labs asked the country to slow down. Monday morning Chuck Schumer demanded a classified briefing for every senator on “unchecked AI.” Before nightfall Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris were speaking from the…

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Watch the Diner: The Regulatory Capture of the AI Health Code

The Restaurant Chain Wants a Smoking Ban and a Living Wage Who Writes the Health Code? I have never believed a tool decides a people. I said that when the argument went to orbit. I said it when the argument came down to a pad and a hearing. I will say it again in a room every town already knows. Two weeks ago the question on the pad was the hall. Neighbors. Load. A ledger and a vote. Creaturehood was the measure then because particular people still have to live there after the ribbon. This month the same men are selling…

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Declassified 9/11 Presidential Daily Briefings

Heed the Book, Question the Narrative The CIA posted the 1998-2001 portfolio this morning. I write this as a man who has watched official story-making do its work twice in one lifetime. The first time, the country buried a presidential warning under a commission narrative and a laugh line. The second time, agencies, legacy newsrooms, and the platforms that now police speech treated dissent on a virus, a lab, and a shot as a hygiene problem. I do not stitch those years into one plot. I use the second as a warrant to reopen the first. Once a government has sold…

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From the Archives: 9/11 Remembered

Everything Has Changed N.B. First published as Volume II:26 on JamesKBishop.com, September 12, 2001. I wrote it from Internet America, then the largest independent ISP in Texas. The security team stayed on duty more than twenty-four hours. We were sure a cyber attack against the Internet itself was coming. It did not. The planes had already done the work. This is what I filed while we waited. On Tuesday, the world became smaller. The hijacking and suicide mission of four commercial flights caused the destruction of the World Trade Center, severe damage to the Pentagon, and a loss of life that…

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