February 23, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: U-S-A! Yeah, That Was Fun. “These Olympic Games have seen an unfortunate share of pathetic, ungrateful Americans. Thankfully, our biggest winners have been red, white, and blue patriots. Our hockey champions have really carried the flag. The future of the United States of America is in great hands with the young men and women we’ve just seen win hockey gold.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

HAPPY MONDAY! Warm up with this blast from the past.

Posted at 8:46 am by Glenn Reynolds

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

Posted at 8:39 am by Glenn Reynolds

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Taliban Legalizes Wife Beating: Afghanistan’s Shocking 2026 Penal Code and the World’s Outcry.

In a move that has shocked the international community and deepened the plight of women in Afghanistan, the Taliban has enacted a new penal code that effectively legalizes domestic violence against wives and children — provided no bones are broken or open wounds inflicted. Signed by the group’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, on January 7, 2026, this 90-page document, titled the De Mahakumu Jazaai Osulnama or “Criminal Procedure Code for Courts,” has been circulated to provincial courts for immediate implementation across the country.

The code not only permits husbands to physically punish their wives and daughters but also erects near-impossible barriers for any woman seeking justice — effectively making the family home a legal cage. The revelation, first published by Kabul-based human rights organization Rawadari on January 21 after they obtained the original Pashtu document, triggered an immediate global firestorm. The United Nations, world governments, human rights organizations, and prominent public figures lined up to denounce what many are now openly calling gender apartheid — a legally enforced system of sex-based oppression that has no parallel anywhere in the world in 2026.

This is the full story of what that code says, who it is already hurting, and why the world’s outrage — however loud — is struggling to find an answer powerful enough to reach inside Afghanistan’s courts.

Cue outcry from Western feminists in three… two… never.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

STRENGTH:

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Posted at 7:47 am by Stephen Green

I’M PRACTICALLY BLACK, SEE, BECAUSE I’M DUMB AND ILLITERATE:

Well….

Posted at 7:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Cuban security forces exit Venezuela as US pressure mounts.

Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez has entrusted her protection to Venezuelan bodyguards, according to four of the sources, unlike deposed president Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor, the late president Hugo Chavez, who both relied on elite Cuban forces.

Thirty-two Cubans were killed in the U.S. military attack that captured Maduro on January 3, according to the Cuban government. These soldiers and bodyguards were part of a deep security agreement between Caracas and Havana that began in the late 2000s in which Cuban intelligence agents embedded throughout the military and Venezuela’s formidable DGCIM counterintelligence unit, which was fundamental to weeding out domestic opposition.

“The Cuban influence was absolutely essential” to the survival of the Chavista government, said Alejandro Velasco, an associate professor of history at New York University and an expert on Venezuela.

Inside DGCIM, some Cuban advisers have been removed from their posts, according to a former Venezuela intelligence official. Some of the Cuban medical workers and security advisers have travelled from Venezuela to Cuba on flights in recent weeks, two of the sources said.

The Axis of Resistance’s western hemisphere outposts aren’t in such great shape these days.

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green

ICYMI:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

OH, CANADA.

Posted at 7:18 am by Glenn Reynolds

ICYMI:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds