Thursday, February 12, 2026
In the aftermath of the big layoffs at The Washington Post, there has been an explosion of commentary—again—about the decline of newspapers.
But if our concern is about journalism and not simply protecting old newspapers, there’s little to worry about.
Readers will always read. News junkies will always find and especially read news. Reading is simply faster than broadcast, so news delivered by text is always going to have a market.
“Journalism is a craft, not a profession,” the late Michael Kelly would routinely state when he was a weekly guest on my radio program. And the craft survives and thrives in the United States unlike anywhere else in the world because of our First Amendment. The never-ending “creative destruction” of capitalism—thanks for the phrase goes to Joseph Schumpeter—is the constant companion of every business, including journalism.
Text-only platforms remain abundant. News delivery platforms are plentiful. And there are zero gatekeepers.
In America, at least, the Golden Age of Journalism has begun.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Roger Goodell and the NFL want to expand the appeal of the league to international audiences. So: Offering a Spanish-language halftime might have made sense—had that been the extent of the messaging.
Instead, Goodell allowed Bad Bunny and his allies to lecture Americans about immigration enforcement. Not for the first time, the NFL treated its own domestic fan base as toxic and backward to pander to progressives.
When else have we seen this level of disdain for the culture of a company’s customers? Bud Light scolded their patrons as they pressed transgender Dylan Mulvaney. Gillette treated men as predators and bullies. And: Target pressed transgender swimwear for children.
These brands assumed their loyal consumers would stick around to be insulted. In all instances, the brands lost significant ground.
More than six million people tuned out to watch Turning Point USA’s All American Halftime Show. Perhaps Goodell should think about how many more may vote with their feet next season.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
A genocide against Christians in Nigeria is taking place. This week one attack there killed at least 170 people. Most of the slaughter is from the Islamist organization Boko Haram. For those that don’t know, Boko Haram means “Western civilization is sacrilege.”
Last month, the leadership of Iran mowed down at least 30,000 Iranian civilians in two days. But: from our colleagues to the Golden Globes and Grammys all this has been met with silence, even as they preen over their commitments to human rights elsewhere.
The whole point of the notion of human rights is there should not be one rule of torture for people of one faith or ethnicity and another rule for another—we used to call these concepts universal. The selectivity we see from our elites is exactly why there are post-World War II laws and declarations on human rights and genocide. The silent are in league with those that caused us to create universal norms in the first place. Sadly, Hollywood used to understand that silence equals death. It no longer does.
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Americans have been appalled — and rightly so — by the scope and scale of the fraud uncovered in Minnesota. Now, it looks like there’s a lot more to come: this time, from California.
Eighteen percent of America’s home health care billing comes from Los Angeles County, which claims almost 2,000 hospice agencies. That’s more than 36 six states combined — and 30 times more than the whole state of Florida or New York.
One investigator examined the cluster of 287 hospice providers in a two-mile radius. Some addresses led to strip malls, a wrecking yard and a vacant lot. One doctor billed taxpayers $120,000,000 in a year, claiming to treat 1,900 patients.
Brazen corruption flourishes in one-party states that glorify big government without oversight or transparency. Taxpayers deserve better. Let’s hope they get it –soon..
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Friday, February 6, 2026
Don Lemon—the former CNN host—has been arrested over the recent invasion of Cities Church in St Paul Minnesota. There are massive religious liberty and constitutional issues at stake.
What we witnessed was a political mob invading an evangelical church at worship. It was grotesquely and morally wrong. It was also illegal. There is no constitutional right to go into a place of worship and interrupt it for political protest. Period.
And what about Don Lemon? He was central to the story from the beginning.
His own comments indicate that he was egging the entire process on. He went with the invading group into the church and became part of the interruption.
My main concern is with the integrity of Christian worship. For the court, Constitutional issues will be paramount.
What’s at stake here is the freedom of a gospel congregation to worship according to its own convictions and to declare the gospel without fear of interference.
I think we all understand – those are huge non-negotiable issues.
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Thursday, February 5, 2026
George Orwell’s dystopian warning about language manipulation is increasingly writ large in the mainstream media.
The New York Times published essays from a man they identified as a ‘Gaza doctor’ who sharply criticized Israel for fighting the war Hamas started. Turns out this “doctor” is a well-known Hamas colonel.
And at CNN, the staff rebelled at the continued inclusion of analyst Scott Jennings, one of their few conservative contributors. Why? Jennings uses the term “illegal alien” to describe … well … illegal aliens, rather than “undocumented immigrants”—the latest approved euphemism of the Left.
The term ‘illegal alien’ is not derogatory. It’s a term found in federal law and acts of Congress. The ‘journalists’ of CNN find it offensive because it is both accurate and truthful.
Accuracy matters. Truth matters. The mainstream media is only interested in dishonest propaganda masquerading as journalism.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
In January last year, President Trump signed an executive order restricting irreversible sex change procedures for minors. But a recent legal judgment may do almost as much to bring this barbaric practice to a halt.
A twenty-two- year-old woman has just won $2 million dollars after suing physicians who pushed a double mastectomy on her when she was sixteen. A psychologist and a surgeon persuaded her reluctant mother to consent, warning that refusal could place her at risk of suicide.
Her attorneys argued that the doctors failed to ensure that her other psychological conditions were properly diagnosed and treated before operating.
A jury agreed.
This is the first successful detransitioner lawsuit, but it won’t be the last. Nearly thirty others are in process, and there will be more if ridiculously short statutes of limitations are reformed.
It’s a reckoning that’s long overdue.
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