Posts on Sunday, February 15, 2026

A San Jose assistant principal — a 2024 finalist for California Teacher of the Year — has been arrested after allegedly attempting to pay an undercover officer, whom he thought was a 13-year-old boy, for sex. Ruben Guzman, 31, a math teacher and assistant principal at the Sunrise Middle School for the past six years, was arrested as part of a large-scale, online chat operation by the San Jose police during Super Bowl week. Ironically, Guzman not only was a finalist for teacher of the year, but he was also recognized by the San Francisco 49ers football team for his work in education, the Daily Mail reported.

Rep. Tim Burchett criticized former President Barack Obama and the media’s coverage of Jeffrey Epstein during an interview with commentator Benny Johnson, raising questions about Obama’s political ascent and the lack of scrutiny he believes surrounded Epstein during Obama’s presidency. (snip) “But wait a second, like the vast majority of Epstein’s most heinous crimes took place while Barack Obama was president. Got out of jail right as Barack Obama was being put into office, and all of this stuff was going on, and it’s his lawyers, the White House Counsel,

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) issued a dire warning during a Friday podcast, saying, “If I go to sleep, democracy may very well die.” The clip from an appearance on the Black Girls Politickin podcast has gone viral on social media as part of an interview where the outspoken congresswoman explains to her interviewer how she is balancing her work in Congress with campaigning for this year’s U.S. Senate race in Texas. [Tweet, video] “I still want to show up when I can,” she said. “But I still have a full time job I was elected to do, and I am still showing up every single day at work

The Virginia Supreme Court handed Democrats a massive win Friday, allowing them to move forward with a redistricting referendum that would gerrymander the commonwealth’s U.S. House districts from five Republicans and six Democrats to one Republican and 10 Democrats. Democrats have been looking for a way to push through their referendum, despite legal challenges and court rulings saying the efforts are illegal, in time for an April 21 special election that would allow the gerrymandered map to take effect before the November general election.Early voting i(snip) If the referendum passes, it would allow the Virginia legislature the authority to redraw the congressional maps, instead of its nonpartisan commission.

Much to what one imagines is the consternation of his lawyers, William Kelly doesn’t seem to want to shut up. Kelly — arguably the most famous of the provocateurs, aside from Don Lemon, who entered Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January to effectively bring the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots into a Christian religious service — was in court on Friday, making an appearance on federal charges. His bizarre message: More Americans need to be like him — because ICE is made up of “executioners.” Kelly, a demonic presence who “protests” (huge air-quotes there) at churches because he says he wants to “scold demons for their bad life decisions”,

I find this statement by Andrew Wilson to be generally accurate: “The Epstein files create so much emotional charge that having rational discourse about them is basically impossible. People want arrests but don’t know who they want arrested. They want justice but don’t know who they want justice for. Totally Incoherent outrage. Mob panic.”A mass formation psychosis has fallen upon the Epstein matters and clouded the judgement of reasonable people. It’s the “reasonable people” facet that became the challenge that Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna needed to control.Led by financing from the anti-Trump administrative state allies, they created a controversy. Thomas Massie needed to create a political crisis he could

Following DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's scathing rebuke of Arizona's election security and failures, Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap announced Friday that his office has identified 60 non-U.S. citizens who illegally cast ballots in prior county elections, using a newly-expanded federal database to verify voter eligibility. (snip) officials confirmed U.S. citizenship for 58,782 persons flagged  , swiftly updating their records to restore full ballot access for upcoming elections. Yet the audit unearthed a troubling reality: 137 registered voters lacking citizenship status, including 60 who had previously voted

An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo proposes a sweeping “detention reengineering” initiative aimed at fixing the system’s most chronic failures — overcrowded facilities, slow transfers, and deportation backlogs that allow criminal aliens to cycle repeatedly through American communities. The proposal, backed by frontline ICE personnel and major law enforcement groups, would expand detention capacity, streamline processing, and accelerate removals of offenders who currently linger in local jails for weeks or walk free due to lack of space. The February 13 memo, marked “For Official Use Only” and published on the New Hampshire governor’s website, states that the initiative is needed to address the agency’s orders

The FBI opened 1,200 probes related to politicians, journalists, religious leaders, academics and others tied to "sensitive investigative matters," using a special investigative tool that requires no factual predicate to launch, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The GAO report (snip) provided details on the roughly 127,000 FBI assessments opened from 2018 to 2024 

Former CNN host Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the state. Lemon was arrested late last month and charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during the Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul. (snip) Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko reminded Lemon that he is allowed to travel as part of his job if he does not violate any state or federal laws  

Team Trump and other Republicans decided to use Valentine's Day as an excuse to have a lighthearted time of things on social media, with simple parodies of classic holiday greeting cards to complex videos with policy messaging included within their love letter-esque form. We'll start with the least engaging posts first, as well-meaning and good-natured in spirit as they might be. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee reminded everyone with their missive for the holiday that former President Joe Biden (or someone at the White House acting on his behalf) used that autopen a little too often:

President Donald Trump’s chief negotiators have warned that striking a “good” nuclear agreement with Tehran is historically “difficult to impossible,” as he declared regime change “would be the best thing that could happen” and ordered additional U.S. forces into position ahead of renewed talks. Trump asked U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner what the odds were of reaching an agreement with the Islamic Republic, according to reporting published Saturday. The two advisers told the president that history shows the West has never been able to secure a durable, positive deal with Iran’s rulers

Former Secretary of State and twice-filed presidential candidate headlined a panel at the Munich Security Conference Saturday called “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback.” After railing against supposed “anti-gender” and "anti-rights” movements that threaten females, Clinton turned the microphone over to her second guest — the first "female" one — openly transgender lawmaker Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-at-large). Clinton said McBride is someone who tried "to explain and truly bring people together around issues of gender.” “She’s a gender rights champion,” the one-time First Lady proclaimed. McBride wasted no time in blasting the United States for its supposed war on transgenders:

Attorney General Pam Bondi has officially transmitted to Congress the Department of Justice’s Section 3 report under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, confirming that the DOJ has now released ALL Epstein-related materials in its possession. The February 14, 2026, report — addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member Dick Durbin, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin — confirms that the Department has released all the files. “In accordance with the requirements of the Act, and as described in various Department submissions to the courts of the Southern District of New York

"What are you doing? You should probably go do your job where your job lives." These are only some of the actual words a boorish, self-entitled woke woman told a deputy sheriff while interrogating him about why he was sitting in his car outside of a school in Thurston County, Wash. It was an exchange she recorded and consciously put on social media to show the world her "bravery" in speaking truth to power. And it completely backfired on her. We have every right to ask questions of law enforcement, but this woman's moment of "bravery" instead outside of Seven Oaks Elementary School looked studied and mean. What she actually

A new report accuses the social studies curriculum of the School District of Philadelphia as being anti-Semitic and anti-American due to the curriculum’s new focus on looking at history through oppressor and oppressed categories. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis published a report Wednesday criticizing the SDP’s social studies curriculum for allegedly attacking Western values and institutions, specifically “capitalism, racism, and settler colonialism.” The report alleged the move toward “anti-racist, decolonizing curriculum” encouraged teachers to openly attack America, Zionism, and Israel in their classrooms, according to a Wednesday X post by CAMERA’s account. The report alleged the SDP curriculum for World History gives little attention to

This week’s major developments include a number of secondary explosions: government bureaucrats who censored free speech on internet platforms using NGOs as covers will be facing court action; the fallout from the boomeranging Epstein disclosures keep damaging the Democrats and their foreign allies; the media’s promotion of the moronic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez only served to highlight that she’s is ill-informed and too lazy to prepare for interviews; and DOGE and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent are making it very hard to keep hiding Democratic corruption. Censors Face the Music The CCDH (Center for Countering Digital Hate) is an NGO headed

While in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton participated in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.” During the panel, Clinton appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security. “There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration,” Clinton said. “It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don’t torture and kill people and how we’re going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization,” she added. Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier is

In a decision on Thursday, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg stated that the Trump administration needed to “remedy the wrong that it perpetrated” by deporting hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, according to Politico. While Boasberg instructed the Trump administration to “pay for airfare and provide documents to facilitate travel” for those who were deported, he explained that the migrants would “be taken into custody upon arrival.” “It is up to the Government to remedy the wrong that it perpetrated here and to provide a means for doing so,” Boasberg said. “Were it otherwise,

Fani Willis, the local prosecutor in Fulton County, Ga., had no concerns about costs when she hired a paramour for some $700,000 and assembled organized crime claims against President Donald Trump and a long list of codefendants. The defendants ended up spending some $17 million to protect themselves from her claims.But suddenly it’s different for Willis, as a state law that provides the prosecuting attorney’s office pay the costs for defendants when the prosecutor in their case is removed for cause, as Willis was. She is demanding that her office not be required to follow that law. In fact, she’s openly defying it, as a document in Fulton County’s court system—

How deep is the deep state? That’s a question I have thought and written about a lot. I had something to say about it recently at The Spectator on the occasion of Abigail Spanberger’s recent election as governor of Virginia. It saddens me to report that every time I think I have taken the measure of the Leviathan that is the deep state, new precincts and vistas open up beyond the boundaries I had delineated. Sometimes I think the deep state is like an onion. Peel back one layer, and another layer presents itself. Sometimes I think it is like a basement with an endless procession of sub-basements.

We reported on some of the crazy interactions between the Republican senators and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Thursday. It was definitely rocking when Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) accused Ellison of taking donations from people connected with the massive fraud scandal in his state and said he thought Ellison should be indicted. Ellison denied the allegation. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) also went to town on him for smirking when asked about the anti-ICE chaos and chastised him for inflaming things with anti-ICE rhetoric.

Political operatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have never mentioned the name Katheryn Ruemmler despite her name appearing thousands of times in emails within the Epstein files. Yet both Massie and Khanna went out of their way to publicly claim they forced the DOJ to release the names of four men they accused of being sex traffickers and pedophiles. Massie was very proud of his efforts to discover the names and force the DOJ to unredact them. As Massie proclaimed, continuously: if President Trump and the DOJ did not publicly unredact the names,

The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone... We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to reexamine what that looks like and what our role is going to be."That's what Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the press before he boarded a plane to Munich, Germany on Thursday evening. Little did we know that this quote was setting the stage for what turned out to be a momentous speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday morning, a speech that framed the end of one major geopolitical era and the beginning of another.

They’re all useful idiots. That must have been Roger Goodell’s opinion of typical NFL fans as he force-fed them Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show — a seamy spectacle that made parents cringe and would make a lefty college professor proud. And the NFL commissioner may have a point. The typical NFL fan — who skews right of center politically, a male and often a Trump voter — appears to be a glutton for left-wing punishment. In fact, the Bad Bunny fiasco appears to be symptomatic of the NFL’s broader, cynical business wager: It believes all those working-class white dudes who voted for Trump — those useful idiots —