Friday, February 20, 2026

Friday Fuss

On a sunny but cold Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump has always been wrong about the national trade deficit.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) husband is under investigation.

From Townhall, congresscritter Becca Balint (D-VT) admits that illegal aliens are voting in U.S. elections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a look at the style guide for Al Jazeera reporters, which forbid them to refer to terrorists as "terrorists".

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court strikes down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.

From The Federalist, Olympic skier Eileen Gu is an indictment of U.S. birthright citizenship and its immigration orthodoxy.

From American Thinker, Democrats make absurd arguments against the SAVE Act.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW contributors claim that it's ironic for MAGA to celebrate Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu's gold medal.  (What they fail to understand, in my opinion, is that MAGA is not against immigrants, such as Liu's father, but against illegal aliens.)

From Canada Free Press, revealing the FBI's playbook for January 6th.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan military endorses a new amnesty law.

From TCW Defending Freedom, turning the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius will be another millstone around U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's neck.

From EuroNews, Hungary blocks a €90 billion loan for Ukraine over damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline.

From Free West Media, violence is the last chance of the French left.

From ReMix, a German woman is found beheaded near Florence, Italy, and a North African migrant is arrested in connection to the murder.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Sky TG24.  If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Balkan Insight, Balkan leaders praise U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government's response to recent floods has been a successful test of sovereignty and crisis management.

From Morocco World News, a motorcyclist allegedly rams a police inspector in the Rahma district of Rabat, Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Türkiye is ready to contribute to Gaza "in every way possible".

From Turkish Minute, according to Türkiye's main pro-Kurdish party, Turkish authorities have detained 99 minors over protests against the Syrian government's operation against Kurdish-led forces in Syria.

From Rûdaw, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, over half of the 5,700 ISIS fighters held in Iraq are Syrian nationals.

From ArmenPress, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan stresses the rule of law, decency, and respectful debate ahead of Armenia's elections scheduled for June 7th.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian official Gevorg Mantashyan meets with world technology leaders in New Delhi, India.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approves a ban on asbestos circulation.

From AzerNews, Azerbaijan plans to use AI to predict court outcomes and simplify judicial procedures.  (You could say that they've welcomed their new robot overlords.)

From The Syrian Observer, the U.S. starts pulling its troops out of Syria.

From North Press Agency, ISIS claims responsibility for an attack that killed a Syrian government soldier and wounded another in the region of Deir ez-Zor.

From In-Cyprus, in Cyprus, octopus and lagana flatbread are gonna cost ya a bit more, pilgrim.

From The New Arab, a proposed second airport in northern Lebanon raises both hope and questions.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a study, the media gave 100 times as much attention to IDF fighting in Rafah, Gaza Strip than they did to protests in Iran.

From Gatestone Institute, Trump is allowing China to take over U.S. technology by allowing American data centers to buy Chinese equipment.

From The Daily Signal, conservative legislatures intend to protect truckers from "unqualified" illegal alien drivers.

From The American Conservative, going to war with Iran will only help China.

From The Western Journal, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh issues a dissenting opinion to the aforementioned decision on Trump's tariffs, which might give him a workaround.

From BizPac Review, a plastic surgeon comes clean about transgender surgeries for minors.

From the Daily Caller, according to Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), the border should be secured but ICE should be defunded.

From the New York Post, NASA sets a new date for the launch of Artemis II.

From Breitbart, a man steals an ambulance in Meridian, Idaho, crashes is into an ICE facility, and tries to set it on fire.

From Newsmax, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) defends Trump's tariffs.

And from the Genesius Times, the Supreme Court rules that the U.S. government can only tax Americans to death, not people in other countries.

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