Talarico Walks Back ‘Six Sexes’ Claim, Calls Himself a ‘Border Security Democrat’

Oh, well...we're all OK then. Plausible deniably for his campaign.

Legal Insurrection  

Uh huh. Trans ok unless “unsafe” or “unfair”? Sounds suspiciously like the lies democrats use when they push unlimited abortion. Men playing in women’s sports is inherently unsafe, unfair and violative of women’s rights and privacy. 

"Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico backtracked on his previous transgender comments during a six-minute interview with Fox News.

"During a 2021 Texas State House Public Education Committee hearing, Talarico claimed there are six sexes. This is what went down during that hearing:

“The bill seems to think there are two,” Talarico said to Republican Rep. Cole Hefner, the bill’s sponsor.

“The one thing I want us to all be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.”

He added: “In fact, there are six, which honestly, Rep. Hefner, surprised me, too.”

Talarico explained that there are “six really common biological sexes” based on X and Y chromosomes — not just XX (female) and XY (male), but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY.

“The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous,” he said, according to the news outlet.

"Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor asked Talarico if he still believed that:

No, I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. Obviously, I didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes, there are two. And I think the reason that politicians in that convention center across the street want to talk about six sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel. Everywhere I go across the State of Texas people are struggling to survive in this economy. They are struggling to afford the basics, groceries, gas, utilities, health care. And that’s what I’m going to be focused on from now until Election Day. . . .

 More.

How an amateur photographer captured firefighters’ sacrifice on 9/11

 The Independent  

"Sorrentino, who was off-duty on September 11 but raced to the scene to help out, said he remains haunted by the sound of alarms worn by the hundreds of firefighters who were buried under the rubble."

. . . "“I knew that this was gonna be something really big,” McLamb, now 45, told The Independent. He immediately got his 35 mm Canon Rebel 2000 camera and climbed to the top floor of the 10-story building, snapping photos until he ran out of film.

"One of his pictures — of a lone fire truck racing across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning twin towers — is among the most remembered from that terrible day, symbolizing the bravery and sacrifice of the city’s first responders.

"All six crew members on the Ladder 118 fire truck were killed when the south tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. while they evacuated people from the adjacent Marriott Hotel." . . .

"Amateur photographer Aaron McLamb took a photo of Ladder 118 fire truck crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan during the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers. The image has come to symbolize the bravery and sacrifice of that terrible day (Aaron McClamb)"

Below: The Ladder 118 fire truck, left, sits demolished following the collapse 

. . . "Less than a month later, McLamb’s photo appeared on the front page of New York's Daily News under the headline, “The last run of Ladder 118.”

"After 25 years, McLamb said he’s grateful he could document the doomed crew’s heroism." . . .More.

VIDEO: Pink Ladies For Homicidal Maniacs and Why I’m for Flock Cameras

 Ann Coulter   

"I got off a plane from Europe completely jet-lagged, wrote two columns, and the New York Times spent the week generating the rest of the show for me.:

- My last dinner in London.

- At least on one matter Americans crush the British.

- Why we should never consider having a woman president.

- Elite women claim the world is stacked against them.

- Another thing Trump did right.

VIDEO: Pink Ladies For Homicidal Maniacs and Why I’m for Flock Cameras by Ann Coulter   Read on Substack      More...

Adam Carolla goes off on Gavin Newsom & California during GOP midterm convention

"As a life long Californian…I approve this message"

"The Golden Gate bridge would never get done in CA today. The bridge engineers innovated to make the bridge possible. Ever wonder how they got those huge [cables] up on the towers? They invented, built and implemented machines that spun the cables in place. Ever wonder why there's a brick structure under the S end of the bridge? Joseph Strauss, chief engineer, recognized it as a significant pre-civil war fort. He ordered a redesign of the bridge to save this historic structure. These issues alone would have frozen the bridge, just like similar issues delayed the E span of the Bay Bridge 10 years and added 9 BILLION $ to the cost. Just like the 'train to nowhere' has taken 20 years and spent $15 BILLION to not lay any track."

The rhetoric of September 10 and September 11

 "The collegiate interpretation of both of these dates, September 10 and September 11, is hopelessly absurd."  Dr. Ben Voth

Ben Voth   "On September 10, colleges and universities will observe the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus while debating members of the campus community. Kirk was embroiled in an escalating ideological debate about how higher education changes the American mindset and presses political arguments that are at least debatable. His assassination was a high mark of incivility." . . .

. . . We can barely recount the agency and purpose of the act 25 years later because the government of Iran, in the form of radical Shia supremacism, chants every day in their state-run mosques at Tehran, “Death to America!” That rhetorical world has not fallen away, and our own political sphere entertains the absurd notion that America deserved those 3,000 deaths and more. September 11 produced a war on terror rhetorically constructed to deflect the underlying religious motives of the 9/11 attacks and yielded massive military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. To avoid a 20th anniversary in Afghanistan, our troops were abruptly withdrawn in August of 2021, and now women live in unspeakable subjugation to an archaic, outrageous sectarian branch of Islam practiced by the Taliban." . . .  More...

Dr. Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of several academic books regarding political communication, presidential rhetoric, and genocide.

Who's Telling "Yarns" Now?

Ann Coulter   

"Trump can’t move fast enough to excise this nonsense from our public spaces. Burn down our cities, but leave our history alone."

"One of the greatest things President Trump has done for the country is to begin the long project of stripping our national parks and museums of anti-American bile.

"Earlier this year, I wrote about The New York Times’s special Fourth of July interview with Jia Lynn Yang, former national editor — and apparently quite an expert on U.S. history. Her main point was that Americans who are proud of their country are simpletons who believe in fairy tales. She then proceeded to emit a firehose of made-up stories of her own. (Someone needs to do a deep dive into those SAT statistics produced in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.)

"She claims we should discount inspiring stories about our founding because back then, history was nothing but “great stories that people like to tell over and over” that gave Americans “a sense of meaning.”

"Yang is confusing us with Africans. As we have been repeatedly told, “storytelling” is a primary source of African history. Indeed, the Western obsession with written records and documentation is a well-known example of “white supremacy.”

"But according to Yang, in the early days of our country, historians were just “rich guys … with a lot of time” on their hands, making up “great yarns.”

"Yes, like that slouch Justice John Marshall, who wrote a five-volume biography of George Washington, based on thousands of pages of public documents, privates diaries and the president’s original letters. Or the story of Paul Revere’s ride and the battles of Lexington and Concord based on 23 depositions signed by 94 eyewitnesses, including local minutemen, bystanders, alarm riders, and even three captured British soldiers, as well as Revere’s eight-pageaccount of his evening.

"Today, we have much more serious historians, like C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost, who wrote the book “A Black Queer History of the United States.” (A hint for those of you looking to do some early Christmas shopping!)

"To be fair, Yang doesn’t cite Snorton and Bost as examples of the “professional historians” she respects. The ones she cites are worse. They are Charles Beard and Annette Gordon-Reed. . . .More.

Women Should Rally Around Erika Kirk Instead Of Lindsay Clancy UPDATED

Shawn Fleetwood  

This spiritual sickness isn’t going to be cured overnight. It’s a deeply embedded societal infection that’s going to require men and women of faith to step up and fight the battles that matter when they matter. And sometimes that starts with just saying “no” in the face of evil — even if it means standing alone. 

"American women far and wide are rallying together to support one of their own. This woman, they say, has suffered immensely and deserves the public’s utmost compassion. According to them, she is both a victim and a shining symbol of bravery and courage in the face of adversity.

"The female these women are talking about is not Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated one year ago on Thursday. Rather, they’re referring to Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman recently on trial for killing her three young children in cold blood.

"It all sounds completely ridiculous and downright evil because it is. And yet, that’s the reality we find ourselves living in.

"All across the nation, these Real Housewives of TikTok and Clancy truthers are running to Clancy’s defense, demanding that she be declared innocent for a horrendous crime she doesn’t deny. They tell us that she is the real victim; that it’s actually her husband’s fault; and a host of other excuses needed to convince themselves that the woman with blood on her hands deserves to walk free.

"And if you thought this diseased mentality wouldn’t find its way into our justice system, think again.

"Since the case was declared a mistrial due to disagreement among the jury, three Clancy jurors — all middle-aged white women — have come forward to tell their side of the story on camera. And wouldn’t you know that one of their main objectives has been to attack the lone juror (a man) who reportedly refused to let Clancy off for her evil acts." . . . More.

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. 

Lindsay Clancy Jurors Are Reminiscent Of The Covid Cult   

“When I see somebody out in the world who’s not wearing a mask, I instantly think, ‘You are a threat. Or you are selfish. Or you are a Covid denier and you definitely haven’t been vaccinated,” rabid leftist Rachel Maddow scolded on the old MSNBC". 

"Female juror on the male holdout: “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay Clancy killed her children.'” . . . Dinesh D'Souza

. . . "Yes, the 11 are frustrated with the one. The judge was forced to declare a mistrial. A throng of pink shirt-clad Lindsay Clancy fangirls have been forced to cry into their TikTok accounts.  "But for now at least justice hasn’t died with the three little children Lindsay Clancy strangled to death. " . . . 

OMG! Several Lindsay Clancy jurors spoke and unwittingly indicted themselves   

. . . "Nothing, no claim of insanity, of “not responsible due to mental. Illness,” is a legal excuse for the cold-blooded murder of one’s own children.  There never is and can never be, an excuse for such a horrific crime.". . . Patricia McCarthy 

UPDATE: Lindsay Clancy's Attorney Again Bashes 'Holdout' Juror — His Accusation Is Just Appalling – RedState   . . . "He went further, saying the other jurors had been "robbed" and that Clancy "deserved to have the verdict that she was entitled to."..."That's an extraordinary way for a defense attorney to talk about a citizen whose job was not to give Clancy, Reddington or the other 11 jurors the verdict they wanted." . . .

Lindsay Clancy's Despicable Attorney Makes Longshot Bid to Avoid Retrial, Get a 'Not Guilty' Verdict – RedState  "Female juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial BLASTS the lone male holdout that led to a mistrial: “He had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”