NO, NEXT QUESTION: DR. STEPHEN BASKERVILLE: Does Anyone Still Read?
February 10, 2026
AREC BARRWIN? What North Korea Is Really Afraid Of. “In 2020, North Korea introduced the Anti-Reactionary Thought and Culture Act, which describes anything that comes from South Korea as ‘rotten ideology that paralyzes the people’s revolutionary sense.’ Anyone found with the media in their possession can be sentenced to five to fifteen years in a labor camp, and anyone who distributes it or organizes a viewing is subject to the death penalty.”
TWO SUPER BOWLS IN ONE!
Shot: Nevada sportsbooks see lowest Super Bowl betting handle since 2016.
Star power and excitement were way down in Super Bowl 60. So was the betting handle in Nevada.
The amount of money wagered at the state’s 186 sportsbooks on the Seattle Seahawks’ 29-13 win over the New England Patriots in Sunday’s NFL title game was $133.8 million, according to figures released Monday by the Gaming Control Board.
That number is the lowest in Nevada since 2016 ($132.5 million) and more than $50 million shy of the state’s record Super Bowl handle of $190 million set in 2024 for the first Super Bowl played in Las Vegas.
—The Las Vegas Review Journal, yesterday.
Puerto Rican star Bad Buddy (real name Benito Martínez Ocasio) brought his Latin roots to the stadium with his catchy hits including NUEVAYoL, DtMF and EoO.
And while ring-wing commentators and President Trump were quick to criticize, it has become the most watched halftime show ever after live viewing figures were revealed.
A whopping 135.4 million people worldwide watched the show live which also saw him make history by becoming the first musician to perform entirely in Spanish at a Super Bowl.
It just beats the record set last year by rapper Kendrick Lamar whose halftime show had 133.5 million viewers.
—The London Daily Mail, today.
Going forward, the NFL really should aim for putting on a Super Bowl its halftime show can be proud of.
THERE’S AN AWFUL LOT OF COLLAPSE IN A NARRATIVE: The Democrats’ Trump-Epstein Smear Campaign Just Collapsed.
IN MY DAY, IT REALLY DIDN’T SEEM LIKE WE NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT TO ARGUE: Teach students how to argue.
DAVID MANNEY: Don Lemon and the Cult of Self-Importance.
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YES, PLEASE: When It Comes to Climate and Energy, Let’s Retire the Politics of Fear.
Sometimes it feels like the climate change crusaders are oblivious to everything going on around them. For decades, they’ve been resorting to the same tired strategies to convince us that doom and gloom are just around the corner if we don’t change our ways. What they ignore is that their tactics aren’t working – more people than ever are tuning them out.
Americans in particular have grown wise to the predictions that don’t come true and the demands that don’t make sense. In fact, so badly has science become blatantly politicized that the number of people who have a great amount of trust in science keeps shrinking.
That fact was backed up by a recent Pew Research Center report that found that “Americans’ confidence in scientists remains lower than it was prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.” To many of us, it is now obvious that the inconsistent guidance on Covid and many pandemic edicts that were later found to be ineffective and even misleading demonstrated that science was not above being overtly politicized.
While the Pew study noted a Democrat-Republican disparagement regarding trust in science (Democrats trust it more, Republicans less), only 28 percent of all U.S. adults said they have “a great deal” of confidence in scientists “to act in the public’s best interest.”
It didn’t used to be that way — and it wasn’t the public that changed.
ACADEMIA HAS REACHED THE F.O. PART OF THE EQUATION: Oklahoma governor ends tenure at most public universities.
PLEASE OH PLEASE LET HER RUN AGAIN: Even MS NOW Mocks Kamala Harris’s ‘Headquarters’ Reboot. “When you’re a Democrat who’s lost MS NOW… no, wait… when you’re a female Democrat who’s lost MS NOW [record scratch] OK, last try… when you’re a female Democrat of color and MS NOW sees right through your latest B.S. [there it is!] then it’s obvious to everybody but you that you’re not only drowning, but that new life preserver you just bought is actually a boat anchor.”
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SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: University System of Georgia requires full syllabi transparency following Campus Reform article. “The policy change was announced in a Jan. 22 email to faculty, just one day after Campus Reform published an op-ed highlighting loopholes in existing guidelines. Under the new policy, professors across 26 of Georgia’s public institutions must post their full course syllabi online.”
I can’t imagine why anyone would resist that.
UGH: OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT.
A source close to the situation tells CNBC that OpenAI “expects ads to make up less than half of its revenue long term.” Last week, Anthropic showed off a Super Bowl commercial poking fun at OpenAI, saying “ads are coming to AI,” but not to its AI chatbot Claude. The version of the ad that aired during the game was a little less direct after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the campaign “clearly dishonest.”
OpenAI will show ads to logged-in users who use the app for free or subscribe to its cheaper Go subscription. The company says it will “keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers,” but notes that the ads will still be “optimized based on what’s most helpful to you.” Advertisers won’t have an impact on ChatGPT’s answers, according to OpenAI.
OpenAI might not share your conversations, but they’ll surely sell your most confidential data to optimize those ads.
FACTS MATTER:
It's really not.
He knowingly overstayed his tourist visa.
He spent 20 years knowingly breaking the law, probably skirting taxes, and otherwise flouting the law.
Now he has to go home because he got caught.
Remind me again why I should feel bad for him?
— Hannibal Lecture (@AltKurtis) February 9, 2026
And the politics aren’t what some people think:
"Here's an attractive white guy they want to deport. That will outrage those white racists and demonstrate their hypocrisy."
*Send his pale potato-gobbling ass back on the next Aer Lingus flight*
"Wait, wut?" https://t.co/uaNjqoeJRn
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 10, 2026
THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAY TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES AND CAREERS WERE RUINED FOR BEING PREMATURELY, UNFASHIONABLY, CORRECT:
Anybody remember Richard Sander?
He was a law professor who proposed the “mismatch” theory of racial preferences in school admissions.
The theory basically claimed that racial preferences in admissions to elite schools actually HARMED those minority students who were admitted… pic.twitter.com/ow2OTTxJMN
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 10, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Fly Me to the Moon — Elon Musk Says, ‘YES!’ “To the lay space exploration enthusiasts like me, a lot of what NASA did after the Apollo 17 mission felt like backwards steps. The sclerotic NASA bureaucratic structure was responsible for both the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. NASA’s recent focus on getting a manned mission back to the moon almost 60 years after that was first accomplished has a sort of Groundhog Day feel to it.”
PRIVATEERS TAKE YOUR STATIONS! CDR Salamander: The Sanctioned/Stateless Tanker Nabbing Gives…if we are Willing to Take …the commerce raiding hint screaming from on high. “So, from the GUIK Gap to the Indian Ocean, the US Navy (and her USCG sidekick) are, in essence, conducting entry-level commerce raiding.”
Plus: “Be ready, because at least in the opening months of the next Great Pacific War, if we are smart and ready, we will be commerce raiding from Tierra del Fuego to Svalbard.”
I repeat: Privateers ahoy!
CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Why is California Protecting 33,179 Criminal Illegal Aliens in its Prisons and Jails?
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons just slammed California Attorney General Rob Bonta with a demand letter: stop playing games with Americans’ lives and start honoring ICE detainers for the over 33,000 criminal illegal aliens rotting in your jails — including cold-blooded murderers, child predators, rapists, and drug traffickers.
Time will tell if California’s insane sanctuary policies will win out in this high-profile case of the rule of law versus virtue-signaling politicians like Bonta and Gavin Newsom. Of course, we know that the innocent citizens of California will be the real victims if the illegals aren’t taken into custody and given a free plane ride out of the country.
So far, though, Newsom and his fellow travelers are winning this battle. In just the past couple of weeks, they’ve turned loose 4,561 criminal illegal aliens. These are people who have 31 homicides, 661 assaults, 574 burglaries, 184 robberies, 1,489 dangerous drug offenses, 379 weapons offenses, and 234 sexual predatory offenses on their rap sheets. It’s a pretty safe bet they haven’t suddenly turned their lives around and given their hearts over to Jesus while they were briefly in custody.
Indeed.
IT’S ONLY “CONTROVERSIAL DOMESTICALLY” BECAUSE IT HURTS DEMOCRATS, WHO DEPEND ON ILLEGALS FOR VOTES:
“Controversial as it may be domestically, Trump’s stace on illegal immigration is unexceptional in the global context. Many other nations … pursue similar policies, and usually without anything close to the same level of controversy.”https://t.co/fTlv00ExDh
— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) February 9, 2026
GOOD, THEY SHOULD BE CRUSHED: Weird How Voting Rights for 500K Illegals Can’t Buy You Love: Spanish Socialists Trounced in Regionals.
SADLY BELIEVABLE: Mitch McConnell Might Try To Smother The SAVE Act To Spite Trump.
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