Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Stories For Ash Wednesday

On a cloudy and cool Wednesday, on which some people might be walking around with ashes on their foreheads, here are some things going on:

From National Review, TV host Stephen Colbert and senatorial candidate James Tagarico (D-TX) are lying to you.

From FrontpageMag, a left-wing outrage mob comes after congresscritter Randy Fine (R-FL) because he loves dogs.

From Townhall, you won't believe what the Iranian government did to people mourning at a memorial for a 16-year-old girl, whom it killed while she was protesting.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor's 2028 presidential hopes are drowning in a river of bull[bleep].

From the Washington Examiner, a dozen Democratic Senators and congresscritters will boycott President Trump's upcoming State of the Union address and hold a counter rally on the National Mall.

From The Federalist, red states struggle to deliver on their promises to teach pro-American history in their public schools.

From American Thinker, the four horsemen of the Western left-wing apocalypse.

From NewsBusters, Americans agree with fact-checking the news and questioning the media.

From Canada Free Press, actor/director/producer Spike Lee embarrasses himself and the NBA by dressing up as a Palestinian flag.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Cuban leaders mourn the death of U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is it time to change the U.K.'s national anthem?

From Snouts in the Trough, how many doctors in the U.K. from outside the U.K. are actually qualified?

From EuroNews, France leads a backlash against European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica, of Croatia, attending the first meeting of U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace.

From Free West Media, has Trump lost control to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu?

From ReMix, Germany's industrial sector lost 124,000 jobs in 2025.

From Russia Today, the E.U. urges Ukraine to repair the Druzhba oil pipeline, through which Russian oil is sent to Hungary and Slovakia.

From Sputnik International, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, talks about Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland were difficult.

From The Moscow Times, two teenagers are sentenced to prison by a military court in Siberia for setting a military helicopter on fire.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian men's bobsled team registers their country's best results at the Winter Olympics in 34 years.

From Novinite, who's in Bulgaria's new caretaker cabinet.

From The Sofia Globe, more on Bulgaria's caretaker cabinet.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian research vessel Sts. Cyril and Methodius sails northward from Antarctica.

From the Greek Reporter, a former German soldier helps to restore the Agios Dionysios Monastery on Mount Olympus in Greece, which had been destroyed by Nazi German troops during World War II.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's Culture Ministry declares a photographic archive showing the executions of 200 communists during World War II a protected monument.

From Balkan Insight, the French family of a Croatian independence war fighter who died in 1991 in the city of Vukovar urges Serbia to extradite the man whom they believe killed him.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco uses desalinization to combat water shortages.

From The New Arab, some Sunni Muslim countries decide not to follow Saudi Arabia as to when the month of Ramadan begins.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calls the late Jeffrey Epstein's island the outcome of "Western civilization and liberal democracy".

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas supporters target café in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem run by a black Ethiopian Jew.

From Gatestone Institute, right-wingers turn against the Jews.

From The Daily Signal, the shooting at a hockey rink in Rhode Island shows that the FBI should investigate transgender-motivated violence.

From The American Conservative, as shown by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech in Munich, Germany, the Trump administration takes Western civilization seriously.

From The Western Journal, co-host Whoopi Goldberg of The View rushes to explain her appearance in the Epstein files seeking to use his private jet.

From BizPac Review, video shows an avalanche overtaking off-trail skiers in the Italian Alps.

From the Daily Caller, a coalition of right-wing groups wants Trump to step up his deportations of illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, according to his daughter, the Rhode Island hockey rink shooter had "demons" and alienated his family well before becoming trans.

From Breitbart, demand for core capital goods rises for the sixth straight month, reaching a new all-time high.

From Newsmax, billionaire Les Wexner claims to have been "duped" by the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.

And from NPR, a Czechoslovakian wolfdog joins an Olympic cross-country ski race in Lago di Tesero, Italy.  (via the New York Post)

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