FALLING APART WOULD MEAN SHE WAS EVER HELD TOGETHER:  AOC Falls Apart on the World Stage When Asked a Simple Foreign Policy Question at Munich Security Conference (VIDEO).

FANTASIES AND INSANITY, BUT SOME OF THEM WILL ACTUALLY HURT PEOPLE:  Teen Allegedly Plotted To Behead ICE Agents, Show Them Off To Indian Tribes.

YES:  Brown paper and string.  Is life cheap in Portugal?

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Duffy cracks down on trucking carriers and ‘sham school’ linked to Indiana crash caused by illegal immigrant.

CHASER:  Duffy Closes 7,500 CDL Schools in ‘Wild West’ Crackdown. DOT Highlights First-Year Results to Remove Unqualified Truck Drivers.

YES, PLEASE:  Conspiracies.  Stop making every-day evil sexy.

MY BOOK IN THE SALE WILL STAY ON SALE TILL THE WEE HOURS OF WEDNESDAY*:   The 2026 Spring Based Book Sale!  Runs Now Through Tuesday February 17, 2026.

Lots of free and 99c books by people who don’t hate your guts, though. I don’t require you not to read authors who hate you. We all have weaknesses. But give those of us on your side a chance.

*I’ll change it at midnight, but it’s not KU so it won’t change immediately.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Why the SpaceX IPO will be good, bad, and ugly for other space stocks.

ROGER KIMBALL: How Deep Is the Deep State? The deep state resists exposure—but not forever. Patience, persistence, and power may yet cauterize the Leviathan.

PARTY OF HATE: Democrats Openly Fantasize About Anti-White Revolution While GOP Grovels.

RFK, JR.’S IMPACT: Popular Fast-Food Chain Removing Microwaves From All Its Restaurants.

JLab Go Sport+ Wireless Workout Earbuds Featuring C3 Clear Calling. #CommissionEarned

AI AND THE LAW: “The Quality of Counsel’s Filings Further Deteriorated. . . . AI presents opportunities for efficiency gains to be sure, but the costs to clients and public faith in attorneys is steep where ethical duties and judgment are cast aside and a litigation put on autopilot.”

AND NOW A WORD FROM FORMER PRESIDENT HOPENCHANGE:

My favorite Obama “coming together” moment was when him and Hillary financed a phony dossier to sabotage the rightfully elected President https://t.co/rW522q6p7S

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) February 15, 2026

HERE’S A REVIEW OF THE Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0. “Smith & Wesson revamped its Bodyguard 380 and may have created the best handgun in that caliber.

Here are my thoughts.

THE SIBERIA JOB: How to Avoid Getting Killed While Making a Killing in Post-Soviet Russia.

My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com. 

STAY STRONG: Toniiq Liposomal NAD+ and Resveratrol Supplement. #CommissionEarned

THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN MUNICH:

Making a reference to the infamous occasion in 1938 when the British prime minister flew to Munich to meet with Adolf Hitler in an act of appeasement, Newsom continued: “We’re all becoming Chamberlains in this space. People have to stand up.” The moderator of the panel didn’t press Newsom on quite where Trump fitted into that particular analogy.*

While certainly not as inflammatory in what she said, Ocasio-Cortez was similarly direct in her criticism of the Trump administration. Speaking on a panel exploring the rise of populism, the congresswoman declared that this was a moment in time where “we are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the transatlantic partnership, rip up every democratic norm”. Joining Whitmer later on a panel discussing the “seismic shifts in US foreign policy”, Ocasio-Cortez expanded on her point, theorising that “as the president struggles at home, in my view, he is making rash decisions globally.”

Does the AOC of 2026 remember the AOC of 2019, when she was making an endless serious of rash decisions and wanting to rip up every democratic norm in a power grab to ban all the things?

Also, why would AOC bother running for president to take office in 2029, when the world will be coming to an end in 2030?

* I’m not sure if the moderator needed to: Watch Faces of Germans As Gavin Newsom Compares America’s National Guard to Nazi Stormtroopers (Video).

Gavin Newsom goes to Germany and compares American law enforcement to Nazi stormtroopers.

In GERMANY. pic.twitter.com/4hn3yLg9bl

— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) February 15, 2026

“Our favorite part is how he pats the one German on the shoulder like, ‘Hey bro, you get it, right?'”

Exit quote: “He just handed the GOP a great campaign ad … so we guess we should all thank him for his efforts.”

WELL, GOOD: I Love the Smell of Schadenfreude in the Morning: Gun Hater Stephen Colbert’s Ratings Have Collapsed.

CUNY “LAW” SCHOOL: CUNY to Host Talk On Hamas Tunnels as “Resistance to Colonialization”.

Grok tells me: “It’s the only law school in the U.S. explicitly founded to train outstanding public interest lawyers. The focus is on social justice, serving underrepresented communities, enhancing diversity in the legal profession, and progressive legal education. It integrates traditional doctrinal study with hands-on “lawyering” skills, clinics, and ethics training—praised by groups like the Carnegie Foundation as a national leader in practice-ready education.”

So there’s that.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: DEWALT 20V MAX Band Saw, 5″ Cutting Capacity. #CommissionEarned

TRUMP, CALL OFF THE ATTACKS ON IRAN — THEIR NEW STEALTH TECHNOLOGY IS UNBEATABLE!

Islamic Regime accounts are posting this “real footage” trying to be intimidating…

F*cking hell. I can’t stop laughing.pic.twitter.com/ozlBj4Y4dk

— Kosher (@koshercockney) February 14, 2026

YOU SHOULD OWN YOUR DEVICES: Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones.

THEY WON’T LET YOU? No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba. “In the pit of an economic slump, the island has gone from being run-down and picturesque to a horror show. The economy contracted by 11% between 2019 and 2024, with a further 5% fall through September 2025. Rubbish fills the streets, picked over by burgeoning bands of beggars. Rolling power cuts rack the island, spoiling the little food people have in their fridges, and making it hard to sleep. Anyone who protests is met with authoritarian force.”

If you want to leave, but are afraid of missing it, you might want to check out Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

Related: The Coming Revolution Down South: Will Cuba be Libre soon, and if so what happens next? And after that?

QUESTION ASKED: Why Has Nancy Guthrie’s Case Become America’s Only Story?

None of this diminishes the anguish of the Guthrie family. Their grief is real and ideally should remain private as law enforcement officials investigate their mother’s disappearance. But cable news is not a family support group. They will exploit any story to capture your eyes. When coverage becomes wall-to-wall, it is all you will see.

The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie was not picked up by the media because of the scale of the event but because of the status of those involved. Cable news executives know that name recognition, tragedy, and uncertainty are the main ingredients of a media product that keeps viewers engaged. As cable news continues to fixate on this open investigation, there is one question Americans should ask: What other stories are obscured by these walls of one-track coverage?

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:

Gruesome Kidnapping Just The Career Boost Crime Reporter Has Been Waiting For https://t.co/f6yATCkJui pic.twitter.com/scEf17YOUu

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 13, 2026