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ROOKE: Vance And Rubio Deliver One-Two Punch To Our Western Allies In Munich

February 17, 2026

By The Daily Caller

Vance’s tone was urgent and paternalistic, made starker by the fact the U.S. was a child of Europe. However, he urged Europe not to fear its own voters, stunning the audience and forcing a reckoning with how Europe had strayed from its heritage of liberty, rooted in Enlightenment ideals but underpinned by centuries of Christian moral theology.

This initial punch landed hard, setting the stage for a year of what Rubio would later allude to as punishment for forsaking Western ideals in their governance. Under Trump, American policy shifted toward reciprocity. Trump demanded that NATO allies meet defense spending targets. He placed tariffs on European goods to counter unfair trade practices. The U.S. leveraged its military might to pressure Europe to implement reforms, including halting migration flows, securing its borders, and revitalizing industries.

While some countries balked at the requirements, seeing them only as punishments, the U.S. clearly regarded them as corrective measures for wrongs committed against its people and the ideals of Western civilization. It echoed biblical notions of chastisement as a means of growth. Vance’s speech was the verbal harbinger of this phase, exposing Europe’s neglect of its people and heritage.

But Europe needed to hear the U.S.’s rebuke of its failings. Without Vance’s speech, they wouldn’t have understood why Rubio’s address will go down in history (I hope) as the catalyst for a renewed Western civilization, one that doesn’t hate or feel ashamed of its heritage but embraces it as one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.

Rubio’s 2026 address marked the redemptive second punch that brought Europe back into the fold. It built on Vance’s foundation but pivoted toward unity and renewal, rather than chastisement. He emphasized the importance of shared bonds and a path forward. He opened by invoking the MSC’s history amid Cold War divisions, celebrating the transatlantic alliance’s past triumphs over communism.

Still, Rubio didn’t hold back in acknowledging both the U.S. and Europe’s mutual mistakes in pushing deindustrialization, outsourcing our sovereignty, appeasing a climate change cult, and allowing unchecked mass migration that “threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.”

“We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild,” Rubio said, positioning the U.S. under Trump as a leader in this renewal, and inviting Europe to join not out of obligation but shared destiny.

“We care deeply about your future and ours,” Rubio said, “because we know that the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own.”

WATCH: Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks to the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. https://t.co/MSnxmlRf2w

— Department of State (@StateDept) February 14, 2026

Central to Rubio’s redemptive message was our shared Christian heritage. He wove it as the thread binding the West forever. He repeatedly invoked the West’s Christian faith as the “sacred inheritance” linking America and Europe. He credits it with the West’s cultural marvels, such as Mozart, Michelangelo, and the ideas of liberty and the rule of law.

Rubio argued that Western civilization’s pride and confidence stem from this heritage, and without it, the West risks civilizational erasure. Rubio framed Christianity’s universal truths of love, justice, and redemption as the West’s unique gift to humanity. He correctly warned that in a modern world threatened by authoritarianism, secularism, and cultural erosion, embracing our Christian heritage is the only salvation for the West.

Together, Vance and Rubio model a diplomacy that saves the West not through power but spiritual renewal. Grounded in Christian theology, this strategy reconnects the West to its heritage, ensuring survival amid contemporary perils. As Rubio eloquently put it, the West must be “unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance” to shape a future worthy of its past.

It’s no surprise that this message landed with leaders in Europe. Despite their efforts to ignore or discount their heritage, it is part of what makes them unique and binds them forever to the U.S.

Many accuse the Trump administration of being isolationist. The idea was never to pit the U.S. against the world, but rather to expose the rest of the West to their failings and to offer them a path to renewal. Vance and Rubio showed the West the paths before them. It is now up to the leaders to decide if it will be punishment or redemption.

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By George Caldwell

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JUST FACTS: Epstein Case Red Flags

February 16, 2026

By Royal A. Brown III

Please read this Just Facts exposé on Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein Case Red Flags

Here are 21 explosive facts about the Jeffrey Epstein case that have received scant attention, including some new facts from the DOJ and forensic experts who reviewed prison video footage on the night of Epstein’s death:

1) Bill Clinton claims that he “never visited” Epstein’s private island, but at least three people have stated that they saw Clinton on the island, including Virginia Giuffre (one of Epstein’s victims), Steve Scully (a worker on the island), and Doug Band (Clinton’s right-hand man during his post-presidency). Furthermore, White House visitor logs show that Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times while bringing at least eight different women with him.

2) Maria Farmer, who reported Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the FBI for molesting children 3 decades ago, told CBS News that Epstein’s mansion in New York was loaded with hidden cameras. Describing a surveillance room with a large number of monitors, she said, “I looked on the cameras, and I saw toilet, toilet, bed, bed, toilet, bed.” She then asked Epstein “What do you do with this?” he replied, “I keep it. I keep everything in my safe.”

3) Two days after Epstein’s arrest in 2019, the DOJ sent a letter to a federal judge stating that a search of Epstein’s New York residence on the night of his arrest found “compact discs” in “a locked safe” with “hand-written labels” like “Girl pics nude” and “Young [Name] + [Name].”

4) An FBI agent testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial that the FBI abandoned the contents of Epstein’s New York safe and left his home unguarded. When the FBI came back four days later, the contents of the safe were gone. This breach, which a veteran police detective described as violative of “basic protocols” and “unprecedented in my experience,” allowed one of Epstein’s most notorious accomplices to take and potentially scrub the evidence before handing it over to the feds.

5) Seven months after Epstein’s death, DOJ employees sent internal emails revealing that the search of Epstein’s New York mansion uncovered “approximately 40 devices that would have storage (computers, hard drives, thumb drives, etc.) and that’s not even counting at least 60+ CDs.” The emails also stated, “Notwithstanding their many promises to us about quick and effective processing of the 60+ devices they seized, the FBI is completely f*cking us on this.”

6) When the DOJ asked the FBI in 2025 for the “full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein,” the FBI withheld “thousands of pages of documents” and failed to disclose the “existence of these files.”

7) After the FBI arrested Epstein, federal prison officials placed him in a cell with a murderous, hulking ex-cop, which is a death trap for any child molester because they are frequently targeted by violent inmates. The cellmate, named Nicholas Tartaglione, was eventually convicted of torturing and strangling a man to death with a zip tie while making his nephew watch. He then took the nephew, another nephew, and a family friend of the man he murdered to a “remote wooded location, forced them to kneel, and executed them with gunshots to the back of the head.”

8) Less than two weeks after Epstein was placed in a cell with Tartaglione, prison guards found Epstein in the middle of the night in a semiconscious state with a rope and “friction marks” around his neck.

9) Despite a court order requiring the prison to preserve video surveillance footage near Epstein’s cell during the strangulation, federal prison officials failed to do so and also lost the backup due to “technical errors.”

10) Federal prison officials took Epstein off “suicide watch” just one day after the strangulation without determining whether Epstein was attacked by his cellmate or tried to commit suicide.

11) One day before Epstein’s death, federal prison officials removed his new cellmate and didn’t replace him. They did this even though a prison psychologist sent an email to over 70 prison staffers stating that Epstein “needs” a cellmate — a common suicide prevention measure.

12) While describing Jeffery Epstein as “arguably” one of the “most notorious” federal inmates, the DOJ Inspector General wrote that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons “provided” him “with the opportunity to take his own life.”

13) One day before Epstein’s death, a federal court unsealed more than 2,000 pages of lawsuit records that named and implicated wealthy and powerful people in Epstein’s child sex crimes, as well as federal officials in covering up the crimes. Among the named people were Palm Beach billionaire Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva Andersson-Dubin, Britain’s Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, former DNC Chairman Bill Richardson, artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel — who was later arrested in France for sex trafficking and allegedly died of suicide in a high-security prison.

14) One day before Epstein’s death, federal prison officials permitted Epstein to make a completely unmonitored phone call in direct violation of prison policy under the patently false pretense that he was calling his mother, who had died 15 years earlier.

15) Federal officers placed a hoard of linens in Epstein’s cell, which is commonly prohibited because they can be used to create nooses.

16) Federal officers left Epstein alone in his cell for nearly eight hours on the night he died — despite the fact that they were required to check on all inmates in his unit “at least twice per hour” and were only 15 feet from Epstein’s cell.

17) Federal officers falsified records to show that they had checked on Epstein, a violation of federal law punishable by up to five years in prison.

18) Federal prosecutors “dismissed all charges pending against” the two officers who falsified the records and “declined” to prosecute others who “falsely certified inmate countslips and round sheets on the day before and the day of Epstein’s death.”

19) Federal prison officials failed to record footage from 9 of the 11 surveillance cameras around Epstein’s cell on the night of his death, including one that showed Epstein’s cell tier and cell door.

20) Contrary to multiple federal officials who claimed that footage from one of the working cameras proves that no one entered Epstein’s cell tier on the night of his death, forensic experts who reviewed the footage told CBS News that “there was no way to conclusively determine from the video whether an unseen visitor was or was not let into the Epstein unit.”

21) The FBI and DOJ state that “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” but have provided no explanation of how he could have done all that with only one accomplice who has been prosecuted for these crimes (Ghislaine Maxwell).

All of these facts accord with the contention that others were complicit in the sex crimes and death of Jeffrey Epstein but have not been held accountable.

Read full exposé.

EPA Exonerates Carbon Dioxide

February 16, 2026

By Family Research Council

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday committed “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described it, by eliminating an Obama-era verdict against carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The 2009 Endangerment Finding functioned as the bottommost block in the Left’s Jenga tower of climate regulation, and the Trump administration hopes to save U.S. taxpayers more than $1.3 trillion by knocking it clear.

“The Trump EPA is strictly following the letter of the law,” Zeldin proclaimed, “returning commonsense to policy, delivering consumer choice to Americans, and advancing the American Dream.”

America’s two-decade mistake of treating carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant began during the Bush administration, when left-wing activists and progressive-leaning states sued the administration for not regulating carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act of 1963.

On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which a 5-4 liberal majority determined that carbon dioxide was a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, finding that its definition includes “any physical, chemical … substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air” and “embraces all airborne compounds of whatever stripe.” It directed the EPA to study whether carbon dioxide was worthy of regulation.

Of course, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant under any common understanding of the word. A pollutant is a substance that contaminates the surrounding environment with something foreign or harmful — like an oil spill or the harmful compounds that cause acid rain. Carbon dioxide, however, is the primary product of human (and animal) respiration and the primary input to the photosynthesis of plants.

Along with water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced in any combustion reaction involving hydrocarbon-based (CHX) fuels and oxygen gas (O2) — whether in a simple fire or in cellular energy production. It is therefore the natural byproduct of any carbon-based form of energy production, whether by wood, charcoal, coal, natural gas, oil, or some other product.

However, on December 7, 2009, Obama administration EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson found that atmospheric carbon dioxide (and five other gaseous compounds) “threaten[ed] the public health and welfare of current and future generations.”

This finding “led to trillions of dollars in regulations that strangled entire sectors of the United States economy, including the American auto industry,” Zeldin lamented. “The Obama and Biden administrations used it to steamroll into existence a left-wing wish list of costly climate policies, electric vehicle mandates and other requirements that assaulted consumer choice and affordability.” Since then, the U.S. government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars propping up green energy projects that were not ready for economic prime time, leading to widespread blackouts and lost investment in impractical electric vehicles. At the same time, the endangerment finding has been used to rachet up the fuel efficiency requirements on cars, making those cars more expensive in the process.

However, the EPA cited two more recent Supreme Court decisions that it said justified its decision to rethink the law. The first was West Virginia v. EPA (2022), which struck down a Biden-era carbon tax scheme based on the Endangerment Finding on the ground that such “major questions” of policy should be decided by Congress, not an agency. In 2024, the Supreme Court issued Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overruled the infamous Chevron test and reframed the level of deference due to agencies in rulemaking.

Following these decisions, President Trump issued a day-one executive order, “Unleashing American Energy.” In the order, Trump authorized an “immediate review of all agency actions that potentially burden the development of domestic energy resources,” which would include the 2009 Endangerment Finding.

The EPA’s decision came after an extended public comment period of 52 days, four days of virtual public hearings with testimony from more than 600 individuals, and approximately 572,000 public comments on the proposed rule. The extent of the feedback illustrates the magnitude of its consequences for American energy and business.

As a result of that review, the EPA concluded that the Clean Air Act “does not provide statutory authority for EPA to prescribe motor vehicle and engine emission standards in the manner previously utilized,” and therefore “the 2009 Endangerment Finding made by the Obama Administration exceeded the agency’s authority to combat ‘air pollution’ that harms public health and welfare, and that a policy decision of this magnitude, which carries sweeping economic and policy consequences, lies solely with Congress.”

Notably, the EPA ran “the same types of models utilized by the previous administrations and climate change zealots” and found that, “even if the U.S. were to eliminate all GHG emissions from all vehicles, there would be no material impact on global climate indicators through 2100.” The only effect such auto emissions standards would have is to make life more difficult for American consumers.

President Trump was present at the White House press conference announcing the EPA’s decision. “We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers,” he said. “This determination had no basis in fact — none whatsoever. And it had no basis in law. On the contrary, over the generations, fossil fuels have saved millions of lives and lifted billions of people out of poverty all over the world.”

Naturally, the left-wing response to the announcement was furious. NBC News memorialized the 2009 Endangerment Finding as “the legal finding that it [the EPA] has relied on for nearly two decades to limit the heat-trapping pollution that spews from vehicle tailpipes, oil refineries, and factories.” Unmentioned was the way that carbon dioxide also “spews” from human lungs with every exhalation, or the way that its “heat-trapping” quality prevents the earth from turning into the dark side of Mercury at night.

Of more substantial impact, major environmental groups have promised to challenge the decision’s legality. The Trump administration would likely have to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Massachusetts v. EPA.

In the meantime, however, the Trump administration has smashed the rule “referred to by some as the ‘Holy Grail’ of the ‘climate change religion,’” as Zeldin put it. It “didn’t just regulate emissions, it regulated and targeted the American dream,” he said. Even more fundamentally, the Trump administration has exonerated the essential, natural compound of carbon dioxide. As Interior Secretary Doug Burgum weighed in, “CO2 was never a pollutant.” And it should never have been regulated as one.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BEACHHEAD: Extremist Islamic Center of Orlando Expansion as Minarets Rise in Central Florida

February 16, 2026

By The Geller Report

The relentless but stealthy Islamic jihad against America has been going on for decades, but now it is no longer stealthy. Today everything is out in the open. Construction of enormous Islamic centers across our country continues apace. Claims of ecumenism and brotherhood accompany this expansion as a means of dulling our perception of the determined Islamic supremacy that underpins every move. This has always been Islam’s modus operandi in the western countries it has infiltrated and seeks to conquer from within.

First, when in a minority the subversion starts with the weary old and easily disprovable assertion that Islam is a “religion of peace”. As their numbers grow the Muslims start militating for considerations, both legal and social, unavailable to ordinary citizens. Then, when they are in the majority it is, “Do as we say or we will kill you” that becomes the order of the day. Make no mistake, Islam is diametrically opposed to the liberal democratic values cherished by western societies. It is entirely incompatible with the constitution of the United States and, therefore, it is incompatible with freedom.

Amir Taheri: These proposed giant mosques in residential neighborhoods with small Muslim populations are “rabats,” a beachhead to spread Islam. The first rabat appeared at the time of Muhammad.

The Prophet imposed his rule on parts of Arabia through a series of ghazvas, or razzias (the origin of the English word “raid”). The ghazva was designed to terrorize the infidels, convince them that their civilization was doomed and force them to submit to Islamic rule. Those who participated in the ghazva were known as the ghazis, or raiders.

After each ghazva, the Prophet ordered the creation of a rabat – or a point of contact at the heart of the infidel territory raided. The rabat consisted of an area for prayer, a section for the raiders to eat and rest and facilities to train and prepare for future razzias [raids].

Florida’s Wake-Up Call: Islamic Center of Orlando’s Expansion Marches On

RAIR Foundation USA, February 14, 2026:

Just months after being exposed, the Islamic Center of Orlando is doubling down—expanding its footprint, erecting minarets, and accelerating a long-term strategy to entrench its influence in the heart of Central Florida.

Just months after RAIR Foundation USA blew the lid off the Islamic Center of Orlando’s (ICO) deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamist agendas, they’re at it again – accelerating their massive expansion project with no signs of slowing down. Between Disney World and Universal Studios, where families come for magic and fun, ICO is building symbols of dominance: towering minarets, expansive courtyards, and more. This isn’t innocent “community growth” – it’s institutional infiltration, plain and simple.

In a new video update released by ICO themselves, they boast about occupying their newly built 24,000-square-foot mosque for over six months now and diving headfirst into Phase 2: The Courtyard. Concrete foundations for arch walls, columns, and sidewalks; two imposing minarets flanking the main entrance; tiling and paving across the courtyard floor; electrical and lighting setups. They aim to complete this in just 12 months.
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Don’t be fooled by the glossy renderings and calm narration. This video is not just a construction progress report; it’s a victory lap for the ongoing “civilization jihad” we’ve been warning about.

ICO is not just a place of worship – it’s a hub for embedding Muslim Brotherhood ideology into America’s fabric. Through “interfaith” iftars that twist Bible verses to claim Islamic supremacy, partnerships with terror-linked groups, and hosting radicals who glorified the October 7 Hamas atrocities, ICO has been systematically infiltrating Central Florida’s churches, schools, and universities.

ICO welcomed Sami Hamdi with open arms just three months after he raved about feeling “euphoria” over the Hamas attacks in a London mosque. “How many of you felt the euphoria?” he asked his audience, reveling in the slaughter. Thanks to RAIR’s relentless work, we exposed him and got him kicked out of America.

The connections run deep. ICO’s ties to the Muslim Students Association (MSA) – the Brotherhood’s student arm founded in 1963 – have turned local campuses like the University of Central Florida (UCF) and Valencia College into indoctrination pipelines. Taxpayer-funded events platform speakers who distort Christian theology, asserting that Muhammad is prophesied in the Bible and that Islam supersedes all other faiths.

ICO also collaborates with Islamic Relief, the Hamas-tied “charity” banned in multiple countries for funneling funds to terrorists. Their list of speakers is no less troubling: Sheikh Wisam Sharieff, later charged in a horrific child pornography case; Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who refuses to denounce Al-Qaeda or Hamas.

Even Imam Muhammad Musri from a linked mosque bragged about turning churches into mosques: “The people who are part of that community, one day will be Muslims. So we will make it into a mosque… Today, we bring back the favor… and turn their churches into mosques.”

ICO’s leaders have lamented not snapping up local churches for conversion and are eyeing massive expansions: a Pre-K to 8th-grade school, an 18,000-square-foot sports complex, and a 22,000-square-foot community center.

Now, with Phase 2 underway – concrete pouring, minarets rising – Central Florida is becoming a Brotherhood beachhead. These aren’t just buildings; they’re symbols of conquest in a tourist paradise. Interfaith dinners? A Trojan horse for subversion. University ties? An indoctrination machine. And all while potentially tapping into donations and even indirect taxpayer support through academic partnerships.

Parents, churches, citizens: Demand answers before it’s irreversible. No more blind “diversity” while radicals push their ideology into our schools and communities.

For the full details on ICO’s dark underbelly, read our original report here: Civilization Jihad Comes to Florida: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Orlando Invasion.

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Paul Schnee

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Meet Your Baggage Handler. He Hates You.

February 15, 2026

By The Geller Report

In this case, as in so very many others, it’s hard to know which is worse: the jihad terrorist who wants to see infidels dead, or the foolish and deluded infidels who ignored his bloody intentions in the name of multiculturalism, and gave him a splendid opportunity to realize those intentions.

At Toronto Pearson International Airport, there is a man who works as a Station Attendant named Sammy Allouba. According to Rebel News, which exposed this travesty in a Monday exposé, Allouba “unloads baggage from inbound and outbound aircraft. As well, he performs general aircraft maintenance.” That’s a position in which a person of ill will could do a great deal of damage if he wished to do so, and Sammy Allouba is nothing if not a person of ill will: he “goes out of his way to convey hatred against Jews, Israelis, Iranians, and anti-Hamas Palestinians. All the while he glorifies the terrorists who tend to massacre such people.”

Up for an air trip to Toronto? Neither am I. Allouba “openly calls for the elimination of almost 10 million Israelis. He’d like to see that carried out by the Iranian regime (even though the mullahs seem to have their hands full at the moment…).” He also “states he’s a proud supporter of designated terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.”

Allouba doesn’t appear to be engaging in a bit of radical chic in order to appear dashing and dangerous to the ladies. On the contrary, he appears to be a knowledgeable and committed Jew-hater: “He even praises Yahya Sinwar, the terrorist mastermind responsible for the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel.” And “it’s not just Israelis and Jews Allouba hates. He has also expressed interest in seeing anti-regime Iranians murdered. Same goes for anti-Hamas Palestinians. Allouba pretty much loathes anyone that chooses civilization over savagery.”

The first question that should spring to everyone’s mind is “When will this man be fired from his airport job?” The second should be “How did he get hired in the first place?” But no one at Toronto Pearson Airport wants to talk about that: “Rebel News reached out to the media relations departments of both Air Canada and the Greater Toronto Airport Authority. We wanted to know how someone so radicalized and potentially dangerous as Allouba is employed by Canada’s largest airline. As well, we wanted to know how Air Canada and the GTAA can guarantee the safety of their passengers by granting Allouba access to luggage and aircraft.” However, “neither Air Canada nor the GTAA could be bothered to answer these important queries.”

It is not surprising that Air Canada and the Greater Toronto Airport Authority would opt to stonewall it. After all, what can they say? They were either inexcusably negligent here or something worse than that, and there is no positive spin they can put on their actions. Nevertheless, it is easy to see why they took those actions.

I decided to check in on the Toronto Pearson Airport website, and wondered how long it would take me to find mention of the word “diversity.” As it turned out, the airport website has an entire page headed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” and filled with the usual leftist boilerplate: “You belong here. The GTAA is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse, equitable and inclusive airport where everyone can grow and thrive. ‘Our organization has set ambitious and achievable DEI goals, and together, we are taking the steps to turn our DEI strategy into action. We are creating an airport where you belong, and we will continue to put the joy back into travel by making YYZ the chosen place to fly and work.’ — Molara Awosedo, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, GTAA.”

The airport’s “ambitious and achievable DEI goals” are the same as “ambitious and achievable DEI goals” everywhere: make sure there are people hired from all the favored ethnic and racial groups, so as to create “an airport where you belong,” that is, not necessarily an airport where you’re actually safe or receiving service from competent people. Sammy Allouba was hired because he is an Arab. Even better for the DEI bean-counters, he may even be a “Palestinian,” and thus “oppressed” no matter how bloodthirsty he is.

It is certain that no one even attempted to vet Allouba for jihadist sympathies. To have done so would have been “racist” and “Islamophobic.” And if a white Canadian had been hired in his place, the DEI office would have been up in arms.

And so the next time you fly into Toronto, be aware that if you’re a supporter of Israel and an infidel, your baggage handler hates you. One day, Sammy Allouba or someone like him (and there are no doubt many like him at Toronto Pearson and other airports) will decide to act upon that hatred. But until then, celebrate diversity!

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Robert Spencer

U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford is being sent to the Middle East as U.S. unlikely to reach deal with Iran

February 15, 2026

By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford and its escort ships, deployed to the Caribbean, will be sent to the Middle East and are not expected to return to their home ports until late April or early May.

Kushner, Witkoff warn Trump: US unlikely to reach deal with Iran

“Difficult to impossible” – Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reportedly warn President Trump that the odds of reaching a new nuclear deal with Iran are extremely low, even as they continue to give diplomacy a chance

The United States is unlikely to reach a new nuclear agreement with Iran, two of President Donald Trump’s top advisors have reportedly warned him, even as they continue their efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution with the Islamic Republic.

On Saturday, Channel 12 wrote that according to a senior US official, White House special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner recently told the president that given historic precedent with Iran, achieving a nuclear deal with Tehran now is “difficult to impossible.”

However, while the two expressed pessimism regarding the prospects for talks, they added that they would continue to “take a tough line” in negotiations in the hopes of defying the odds and making a diplomatic breakthrough.

“If they agree to what we are asking for, we will give you the option and you decide,” Witkoff and Kushner reportedly told the president.

On February 6, the US and Iran held their first round of talks since the June 2025 war, with Witkoff heading the American delegation to Muscat, Oman.

Both sides agreed to continue negotiations, though no major progress was reported by either side, with Iranian officials downplaying the importance of the summit, claiming it was merely used as a forum for both sides to exchange messages.

In the meantime, the US continues its military buildup in the region, with the US Navy dispatching a second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Middle East, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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How Trump’s ICE Built Nationwide Police Alliance Right Under Democrats’ Noses

February 14, 2026

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump dramatically expanded a little-known program allowing local law enforcement to assist deportation operations even in liberal states, documents show.

Since 2019, more than 1,350 local agencies have penned agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including 68 from Democratic states and 88 in swing states, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of ICE records found. Liberal activists and officials are coming up with ways to thwart the contracts, known as 287(g) agreements, after Trump’s officials gained a foothold for ICE around the country under his first and second terms.

Join the rapidly growing number of agencies teaming up with ICE to keep their communities safer from criminal aliens through our 287(g) program!

💻Learn more: https://t.co/qxQ7iwBXnv pic.twitter.com/27GfvLfZFN

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) May 30, 2025

The 287(g) contracts are “the most effective tools [ICE] agents can use to integrate with local and state law enforcement,” Chad Wolf, former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head in Trump’s first term, told the DCNF. He now leads homeland security and immigration policy at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank.

Democrats and groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argue that local law enforcement should focus on local offenses, while supporters of 287(g) partnerships say they let ICE take migrants from jails without hunting them down in neighborhoods.

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Congress created the 287(g) program through a 1996 law, years before the Bush administration formed the first agreement in 2002 during its post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts. ICE later grew the 287(g) program from 35 jurisdictions to nearly 150 under Wolf’s leadership, he noted in comments to the DCNF.

The contracts fall into three categories: one allowing jail authorities to identify and transfer deportable migrant inmates to ICE, another letting police interrogate or arrest based on immigration violations during normal duties, and a third that involves ICE training officers to execute immigration warrants on migrants in jail.

“The agreements force-multiply immigration enforcement and create safer conditions for federal agents, local law enforcement, and detainees,” Wolf said.

Former President Joe Biden acted against 287(g) contracts “to open our borders and limit immigration enforcement,” Wolf said. Biden’s officials put a freeze on any new contracts while terminating others, according to an archived ICE webpage. ICE’s current database shows no ongoing agreements began under Biden.

Thanks to our 287(g) partnership with Florida’s @CollierSheriff, Cuban criminal illegal alien Erisbel Artiles is in ICE custody. Besides an existing removal order, he has convictions for larceny and KIDNAPPING — taking a hostage to escape.

His rap sheet also includes arrests for… pic.twitter.com/u4HXYu88cJ

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) November 2, 2025

“Today, federal officers are faced with the enormous task of locating, detaining and removing millions of people — many of whom are criminals — that came in under Biden,” Wolf told the DCNF. “Sanctuary cities refuse to cooperate with ICE, and in cases like Minneapolis, residents violently protest their presence.”

Trump’s second term has produced more than 1,000 287(g) partnerships in 2025 and over 100 in 2026 so far, ICE records show. Local law enforcement under 287(g) agreements helped ICE locate convicted child rapists, other sex offenders, murderers, drug traffickers and other criminals since Trump’s return to office, according to monthly ICE reports.

“We have had tremendous success when local law enforcement work with us including 40,000 arrests in Florida,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the DCNF.

“Elected officials who refuse to cooperate with DHS law enforcement are wasting law enforcement time, energy, and resources, while putting their own constituents in danger,” McLaughlin said.

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Washington State, Oregon, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine and New Mexico already have state-level policies banning 287(g) partnerships, ICE’s website and state records show. Democrats in other states aim to follow suit.

Maryland’s Democrat-led legislature passed legislation on Tuesday that would ban the contracts despite nine local agencies signing them, and Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said on Friday that he is “looking forward to” approving it, local media outlets reported. “We are going to do everything in our power to keep people safe, but that does not mean deputizing the people who are keeping people safe to go perform functions by a rogue ICE agency,” Moore reportedly said.

Proud to stand with Sheriff’s from across the state in opposition to SB 0245 that would prohibit Maryland counties from entering into 287(g) agreements with ICE. pic.twitter.com/GpZRLorUEI

— Jason Gallion (@SenatorJGallion) January 20, 2026

Democrats in Massachusetts and New York also proposed bills to abolish the ICE agreements in 2025.

Other liberal governors are taking action on their own. Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, whose state has a 287(g) jail partnership established in 2020, signed a January executive order telling state agencies not to sign new ones unless they are “based on a specific, articulable public safety risk or need” and expire after 12 months. Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered state law enforcement agencies on Feb. 4 to scrap the five 287(g) agreements they signed in 2025 under former Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Spanberger cannot get rid of the others signed in 2025 by twenty-five county sheriff’s offices and two county jail authorities. However, Democrat-backed legislation would bar Virginia law enforcement from signing the contracts without agreeing to several restrictions on ICE, such as a provision barring ICE from inquiring about someone’s immigration status without a judicial warrant or subpoena.

The ACLU also sued law enforcement in Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in 2025 over the contracts, according to the group’s announcements and court records. The Teller County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado also settled an ACLU lawsuit by agreeing that its participation in the ICE program since 2020 was unlawful and accepting new restrictions, hampering Colorado’s only active 287(g) agreement, the ACLU announced in January 2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota may seem hostile to ICE, but the Trump admin does have a few friends there.

An East Central Minnesota sheriff argues that Democrat officials’ hostility toward ICE creates “chaos” as other sheriffs walk back their support.

“I did not want to have a… pic.twitter.com/BnSC0FLJEP

— Hudson Crozier 🇺🇸 (@Hudson_Crozier) February 6, 2026

Two sheriffs in Minnesota counties also voided their 287(g) contracts after a non-binding December opinion from Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison that attacked their legality, local media reported.

If states critical of ICE want to avoid encounters with agents in the streets — like those involving Minnesota protesters — they should welcome the system ICE is offering, Wolf told the DCNF.

“If states chose to partner with ICE through 287(g) agreements, ICE could focus on taking custody of illegal aliens in a safer jail setting, rather than conducting operations in local communities where the possibility of violence is amplified,” the former Trump appointee said.

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RAIR Foundation Texas Director testifies in Congress on the nature of Islam and its effects in the Lone Star State

February 14, 2026

By Vlad Tepes Blog

If anyone ever wondered what it meant when someone says “opening the Overton Window”, I think this may be an excellent example. Until now, one could not talk about Islam or sharia law in the way it was described, both in the Congressional hearings on Feb. 10th, or the launch of the Sharia-Free-America Caucus on February 3rd.

Anyone who has ever been concerned, and especially who have given up hope for a solution on the destruction of liberty and individualism that Islam was created to cause, should watch all the videos of those two events.

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EXCLUSIVE: A Look Into Trump’s Plans For ‘Rededicate 250,’ A Day Of Worship On The National Mall

February 13, 2026

By The Daily Caller

The Trump administration revealed to the Daily Caller its plans for an event on the National Mall focused on commemorating America 250 through worship early this summer.

President Donald Trump announced last Thursday that his administration plans to hold a faith event on the National Mall over the summer, in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. The event, titled ‘Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving,’ is set to take place on May 17.

Acts will include Christian singers, religious leaders and personas, and members of the president’s cabinet. The events will take place over the course of the entire day, from 6am to 6pm. Doors will open at 4:30 am.

The festivities hope to “rededicate” the country by means of “speech, song, and storytelling,” according to Freedom 250, an organization created to plan the celebrations in conjunction with the White House.

Senior Advisor to the President Vince Haley spoke with the Daily Caller about these upcoming events. He shared how he hopes to redirect the country into one that prays for its leaders and adheres to the pledge of “one nation under God.”

The event will not just be a day of prayer, Haley explained, but a day of worship through speech and song, and a day of giving thanks for country’s history of success and prosperity.

“This particular event will surely remind people of the work of God in American life,” Haley told the Caller.

“So many messages don’t reach people because they are culturally not valued, but we value celebrating and recognizing people of faith, and how people of faith have understood God to be active in the 250 year history of our country,” he added.

Haley said the administration is in “deep conversation” with a number of musicians, artists, and other potential participants in the day of worship.

“So let’s say Secretary Hegseth speaks there. He could talk about the details behind Washington’s evacuation under fog from Brooklyn in 1776 otherwise the army is decimated, and people consider that to be a miraculous event,” Haley said when mentioning potential speakers.

President Donald Trump has often spoken about his hope to redirect the country towards faith, saying at a July 2025 rally, “As we chart our course toward the next 250 years, let us rededicate ourselves to one nation under God.”

Haley noted that the president considers himself to be a fierce defender of religion. He told the Caller that President George Washington’s farewell address has shaped Trump’s vision for the future of America.

Washington famously stated, “Religion and morality are indispensable supports” for “political prosperity.”

The country has been on a religious rise in the last year, especially among Generation Z. 45% of Americans between the ages of 18-29 consider themselves Christians, according to a 2025 Pew Research poll. President Trump proudly mentioned in his National Prayer Breakfast address that church attendance had gone up almost twice the rate as the year prior.

“Like President George Washington, we believe that religious people and religious institutions are at the heart of American success,” Haley told the Caller.

The event is set to take place on the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress’s observation of a day of “fasting, humiliation, and prayer” in hopes of seeking divine fortune for the future of the colonies. This day of observance came just two days after a resolution was passed that instructed the Congress to propose the Declaration of Independence.

“We want to support a culture in which people feel emboldened to live out their faith and go to church,” Haley told the Caller.

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House Passes SAVE America Act, All Eyes Now On The Senate

February 13, 2026

By The Geller Report

One small set for voter integrity, one giant step for …… the Senate. This is a no brainer. Any Republican opposed is working for the enemy.

The House has passed the SAVE America Act in a 218–213 vote, requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections and establishing a nationwide voter ID requirement. Now the fight moves to the Senate.

Supporters say the principle is simple: American citizens should decide American elections. Speaker Mike Johnson called the measure straightforward and overdue, while Rep. Chip Roy urged the Senate to take it up immediately.

The bill faces a difficult path in the upper chamber, where most legislation requires 60 votes to advance. But advocates argue this is a defining moment for election law reform.

All eyes now turn to the Senate.

Now all attention will turn to the Senate.

CALL YOUR SENATORS. DO IT.

Wall Street Journal: In a 218-213 vote almost entirely along party lines, the House approved the measure known as the SAVE America Act, a measure that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and would establish a nationwide voter identification requirement for casting ballots. Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas voted with Republicans in favor of the bill. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy (R., Texas), reflects continued Republican efforts to reshape federal election rules following President Trump’s repeated claims that U.S. elections are vulnerable to fraud. House lawmakers and Trump have pressed Senate leaders to quickly take up the bill and try to find a way to get around the chamber’s 60-vote threshold for most legislation, but it is seen as having a difficult path. “Only Americans should vote,” said Roy on the House floor on Wednesday. “But in this age of progressive, suicidal empathy, basic concepts such as voter ID and proof of citizenship have been attacked as suppression”.

SpeakerJohnson: The SAVE America Act could not be more simple: American citizens decide American elections. Period. House Republicans have already passed the SAVE Act — twice. Proof of citizenship to register to vote. Now we will add valid ID to vote in federal elections. Only citizens should vote in American elections. This is not controversial to anyone but Washington Democrats .

Chip Roy: Now to the Senate, let’s turn up the heat!.

The Federalist: 213 Democrats Vote Against Requiring Voter ID And Proof Of Citizenship To Vote

Nearly every single Democrat voted against legislation that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID for voting in federal elections.

The House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act 218-213. Just Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas voted to pass the legislation alongside his Republican colleagues. A similar version, known as the SAVE Act, passed the House last year with the support of four Democrats

The legislation now heads to the Senate, though it would need 60 votes to reach cloture. Self-described “Republican” Lisa Murkowski has already stated she would oppose the election integrity legislation, while Democrat Chuck Schumer has suggested the legislation is “dead on arrival.”

But as The Federalist’s Matt Kittle reported, Republicans — who control the Senate — could invoke the “talking filibuster,” which would force Democrats to keep talking to stall a vote on the legislation. Legislators would have no opportunity for a break and, as Kittle points out, would have to “explain to the 80 percent of Americans (including a significant number of Democrats) who support citizenship and ID requirements, why they so vehemently oppose basic election integrity.”

Some Republicans, however, don’t want to force a vote on the popular legislation, as Kittle reported — but they should.

While it’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote, the law is largely toothless. The SAVE America Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Right now, the only thing standing between a noncitizen and our free and fair elections is a tiny square box on the federal voter registration form asking prospective voters to attest under penalty of perjury that they are citizens. In other words, the honor system.

That honor system has allowed thousands of noncitizens to register to vote — including some who ended up casting a ballot. A Georgia audit found 20 noncitizens registered to vote — nearly half of whom cast a ballot in previous elections, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Pennsylvania previously found 11,198 noncitizens registered to vote, according to The Washington Times, despite — as Democrats are fond of repeating — it being illegal for noncitizens to vote. In September 2024 Oregon’s secretary of state found nine noncitizens who had voted in past elections after discovering “more than 300 noncitizens were erroneously registered to vote.” Alabama GOP Secretary of State Wes Allen announced in January that his office found 25 noncitizens had allegedly voted unlawfully, with 186 noncitizens registered to vote.

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