There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
‘Randy Andy’ is now living what he never thought possible.
In an explosive turn of events, it has been reported that disgraced former Prince Andrew has been arrested.
The former Duke of York, son of the late Queen Elizabeth II and brother to reigning King Charles III, has been arrested on the day of his 66th birthday.
Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and he is in custody.
Police are also searching addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.
🚨 BREAKING
Royal Correspondent @CameronDLWalker reports on breaking news that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. pic.twitter.com/dkvtJOFrH8
“Police have been assessing claims against Mr Mountbatten-Windsor that emerged in the Jeffrey Epstein files, including allegations that he shared sensitive information with the pedophile when he was a UK trade envoy.
Six unmarked police cars and about eight plain-clothed officers, with one carrying a police-issue laptop, were seen arriving at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate just after 8am.”
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to Thames Valley Police.
“An unmarked police car was seen leaving around 30 minutes later, followed by another unmarked police car and then a third car thought to be containing Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor’s security.”
Andrew kneeling over a young woman – presumed victim of sex trafficking – in a photo released in the Epstein files.
“As part of the investigation, we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.
‘The man remains in police custody at this time.
‘We will not be naming the arrested man, as per national guidance. Please also remember that this case is now active so care should be taken with any publication to avoid being in contempt of court.”
Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said: “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office.
‘It is important that we protect the integrity and objectivity of our investigation as we work with our partners to investigate this alleged offence.
‘We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time.”
Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) went off on the Department of Justice on Saturday, alleging they’re still protecting powerful individuals, after the Department claimed that all the Epstein files have been released and that the Epstein Files Transparency Act has been fully complied with.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Pam Bondi said on Saturday that the DOJ has now released ALL Epstein-related materials in its possession. According to the Department of Justice, redactions in the Epstein files were strictly limited to Victim personal and medical information, Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), Information that could jeopardize active investigations, and Graphic images of death or abuse.
Unredacted versions are still available for congressional inspection at the DOJ.
In a letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Bondi write, “The only category of records withheld were those records where permitted withholdings under Section 2(c) and privileged materials were not segregable from material responsive under Section 2(a). As discussed in the Department’s December 19, 2025, and January 29, 2026, letters to Congress (the Prior EFTA Letters), the privileges that applied to the withheld records were deliberative-process privilege, work-product privilege, and attorney-client privilege.”
The letter continues, “No records were withheld or redacted ‘on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.'”
But Mace argues that the argument for withholding records under work-product privilege “will NOT save the DOJ from releasing all the Epstein files” and “won’t hold up in a court of law.”
“RE deliberative process privilege, it would not cover factual information, which is missing from the files. If they can give the names, then they can give them in unredacted files. The list is an admission that they can remove those redactions,” she adds, noting that the privileges may not apply due to their decision to close the investigation and send nobody to jail.
She further points to internal communications, which show “agents requesting ‘clear and specific guidance’ on redacting photographs depicting ‘former U.S. Presidents, Secretary of State, and other celebrities’ from the Epstein files.”
“So which is it? You didn’t redact to protect the powerful, or you needed specific guidance on how to do exactly that,” Mace questioned, accusing the government of still “withholding information” and excluding certain names from the list released on Saturday.
“TBH, it’s hard to find a legitimate reason not to expose every word in the Epstein files except for and unless you are prosecuting someone. That isn’t happening. DOJ will lose in court if it comes to that,” Mace added.
This comes amid controversy surrounding certain redactions the Department of Justice made in the files. As The Gateway Pundit reported, several high-profile names were redacted from the Epstein files in what lawmakers claim is a cover-up.
Mace further raises an argument about the photos and videos of victims, which were apparently scrubbed from the files, noting that “The DOJ screwed this up so badly early on that they let the Left paint the President in a bad light when his actions were the opposite.”
“SHAME ON THE DOJ,” Mace concluded.
Full statement below:
I want to be abundantly clear about the DOJ memo released tonight: Citing “Work Product Privilege” will NOT save the DOJ from releasing all the Epstein files. I’m not an attorney and even I know this won’t hold up in a court of law.
RE deliberative process privilege, it would not cover factual information, which is missing from the files. If they can give the names, then they can give them in unredacted files. The list is an admission that they can remove those redactions.
Furthermore, federal agencies have already waived privileges with the information they’ve already disclosed redacted and unredacted.
If there is an active investigation or prosecution the DOJ can indeed cite these privileges, but not when they’ve concluded their investigation and decided no one is going to jail, no one else will be prosecuted and after they wipe their hands clean, etc.
Meanwhile, the DOJ claims in this report that ‘no records were withheld or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.’
Then explain this: an internal FBI email from March 17, 2025 shows agents requesting ‘clear and specific guidance’ on redacting photographs depicting ‘former U.S. Presidents, Secretary of State, and other celebrities’ from the Epstein files.
So which is it? You didn’t redact to protect the powerful, or you needed specific guidance on how to do exactly that?
Your government is withholding information and files whether it’s SDNY, FBI, CBP, CIA, DOJ or elsewhere.
Also – they’re missing names on the list disclosed this evening.
Stay tuned…
And where are ALL the videos? If he had as many cameras as has been reported, there would be far more than 2,000 videos. Trust me on this. I know, because I’ve worked with an extensive number of victims in voyeurism cases.
TBH, it’s hard to find a legitimate reason not to expose every word in the Epstein files except for and unless you are prosecuting someone. That isn’t happening. DOJ will lose in court if it comes to that.
The DOJ screwed this up so badly early on that they let the Left paint the President in a bad light when his actions were the opposite. He was informing law enforcement early on when others were cozying up and covering up. So poorly managed, heads should roll.
And what they did to the victims.
SHAME ON THE DOJ.
I want to be abundantly clear about the DOJ memo released tonight: Citing "Work Product Privilege" will NOT save the DOJ from releasing all the Epstein files. I'm not an attorney and even I know this won't hold up in a court of law.
“Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.” —George Mason (1788)
DOGE is done? The Department of Government Efficiency no longer exists as an independent department with centralized leadership. However, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor insists that this does not constitute the end of DOGE as a project, saying, “The principles of DOGE remain alive and well: deregulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse.” Kupor’s position is supported by the fact that the DOGE X account posted on Sunday, with an update on 78 contracts representing $335 million in savings identified and cut over the last nine days. Former DOGE employees have now been embedded in other departments, such as Zachary Terrell, the new CTO of HHS, and Joe Gebbia, who heads the newly established National Design Studio intended to improve the design of government websites. DOGE is technically no more, but taxpayers can rest easy knowing wasteful spending is still being found and cut.
FBI says “no cover-up here” over no Crooks motive: Following a months-long investigation into the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, the FBI has concluded that Crooks acted alone. “We have reviewed this case over and over, looked into every nugget. We have spoken to the families, the president — there is no cover-up here,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino explained on Friday. “There is no motive for it, there is no reason for it.” FBI Director Kash Patel echoed Bongino, noting that Trump was “satisfied with the results and where we left it.” The case is now classified as “pending, inactive.” Should any possible new credible information come to light, it will be investigated. This announcement comes roughly a week after reports surfaced alleging that Crooks’s digital footprint revealed he used “they/them” pronouns and engaged in “furry” fantasies online.
100 House Dems vote for socialism: With NYC Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani visiting President Trump at the White House on Friday, congressional Republicans decided to officially express their opposition to socialism. They introduced a resolution that amounts to little more than a virtue signal condemning socialism. While the resolution easily passed, it exposed the fact that nearly half of House Democrats, 96 of them, refused to condemn socialism. This comes as little surprise given the party’s increasing embrace of radical leftism. For years, the Democrats have peddled soft socialism, and now more of them are willing to embrace this inherently anti-American, freedom-robbing ideology in the open.
Supreme Court allows use of new TX congressional map: Late Friday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order temporarily restoring Texas’s new congressional map, which favors Republicans, in response to an emergency appeal from state officials after the Fifth Circuit Court ruled the map unconstitutional. The lower court had ordered the state to revert to its older map, which Gov. Greg Abbott argued was a decision that came “far too late in the day.” As Texas Solicitor General William Peterson noted, “The chaos caused by such an injunction is obvious: campaigning had already begun, candidates had already gathered signatures and filed applications to appear on the ballot under the 2025 map, and early voting for the March 3, 2026, primary was only 91 days away.” Alito set a 5:00 p.m. Monday deadline for those suing to block the new map to file a response.
X adds location feature, leaving political shills in shambles: The social media platform X unveiled a new feature this weekend that users had been wanting for months — a way to identify an account’s national origin. As expected, several large “MAGA” accounts were identified as foreign grifters either attempting to manipulate the movement or cash in on clicks. @1776General was posting from Turkey, and @AmericanVoice__ was posting from Southeast Asia. Both deleted their accounts after exposure. Leftists were quick to celebrate the “fall of MAGA,” but it’s hardly a one-sided phenomenon. “Gaza-based journalist” @AbujomaaGaza is based in Poland, @xIsraelExposedx is based in Saudi Arabia, and @CounterAIPAC is based in Egypt. As this feature becomes fine-tuned, it will strike a fatal blow to international accounts manipulating politics under a mask of patriotism.
Joyless Behar defames Trump: President Trump is a litigious man, having brought multiple defamation suits just this year. Apparently, the harridans of “The View” forgot that. The Epstein files were once again a source of much talk last week, when legislation to release more information on the investigation was signed into law. Joy Behar jumped on the topic Thursday to defame Trump: “But isn’t it obvious he was — that Trump was involved with Epstein?” Perhaps Behar isn’t aware that Trump was one of the few celebrities to break ties with Epstein before the allegations against him became well-known. Of course, anyone paying attention realizes that if Trump were implicated in the investigation, the Biden administration would’ve worked overtime to leak that information. Her comments were particularly bizarre given that Trump signed the Epstein legislation the night before.
Trump wants Somalis out: President Trump has revoked Temporary Protected Status for the 300,000 Somalis in the country. This announcement follows the recently exposed scam perpetrated by Somalis on the state-run insurance program. Christopher F. Rufo summarized, “Somalis in Minneapolis opened fake autism treatment centers, secured fraudulent autism diagnoses, stole hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers, and gave kickbacks of $300 to $1500 per month to parents who participated in the scheme.” They also sent millions back to Somalia to the coffers of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization. The problem is that many of them, like Rep. Ilhan Omar, are already citizens or have been granted green cards. While we may not be able to deport all of them, citizens who defraud the government and support terrorist organizations can be charged with crimes and sent to jail. Whether or not Gov. Tim Walz’s corrupt state will do so is another matter.
Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with ICE: On Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the IRS engaged in “unlawful conduct” in sharing immigrant taxpayer information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Plaintiffs have shown that the IRS’s implementation of the Address-Sharing Policy was arbitrary and capricious because the IRS failed to recognize that it was departing from its prior policy of strict confidentiality, failed to consider the reliance interests that were engendered by its prior policy of strict confidentiality, and failed to provide a reasoned explanation for the new policy,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote. She further ruled that the IRS did not offer a good reason for entering the sharing agreement with ICE and therefore violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The IRS is permitted to share taxpayer information with law enforcement to identify criminals.
The golden age of homeschooling? The COVID lockdowns pushed many parents to begin homeschooling after Zoom lessons exposed the hogwash teachers were pushing on their kids. A lockdown-inspired boom in homeschooling could be expected to end when the lockdowns did, and indeed, many students returned to traditional schooling. However, the rate of homeschooling growth nationally has never returned to the meager 2% annual rate seen before the lockdowns. In the last reported year, 2024-2025, the growth rate was 5.4%. Three states and the District of Columbia showed a decrease in homeschool enrollment from the previous year, but Vermont and New Hampshire, which shrank in the last year, grew by more than 10% in 2024-2025, so long-term trends are still being assessed. More than a third of states that report homeschool numbers recorded their highest enrollments ever, with several experiencing double-digit growth — South Carolina homeschooling grew by an astonishing 21%.
Headlines
Trump will designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization (Just the News)
Democrats consider using ranked-choice voting in 2028 presidential primaries (National Review)
Maine’s Platner calls to abolish ICE, drag agents before Congress (Washington Free Beacon)
Trump admin gives mass migration warning to U.S. allies (Newsweek)
Sex trafficking was “widely tolerated” on Meta’s sites, according to unsealed court docs (Not the Bee)
New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (Fox News)
Humor: Breaking: Hamas breaches White House perimeter (Babylon Bee)
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the feisty MAGA representative from North Georgia, has announced her resignation from Congress, effective January 5, 2026. After seeing her video, the first question I have is a serious one: Why is her Christmas tree up already when it’s not even Thanksgiving yet?
Okay, kidding (mostly) aside, Greene’s resignation after five years in Congress prompts numerous questions for the Republican Party. At the same time, it could be little more than a ripple in the grand scheme of things — by which I mean that a Democrat is not about to win GA-14.
“I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility,” Greene wrote. That’s a funny line, but why resign before her term is up? Why cheat the people in her district, whom she claims to love and represent, by getting out of Dodge halfway through the term she was elected to serve?
On second thought, maybe I should be asking why she’s waiting until January 5. Well, Greene’s generous congressional pension becomes fully vested on January 3.
Oh.
Republican Governor Brian Kemp will call a special election within 10 days of the vacancy, but the seat will remain empty for at least a couple of months, robbing House Speaker Mike Johnson of a critical vote in a razor-thin majority.
MTG’s resignation came just days after President Donald Trump personally threw her under the MAGA Express, calling her, among other things, a “traitor” and a “ranting Lunatic.” She had earned it, of course, by becoming increasingly vocal against Trump’s priorities and actions in office to the point where Trump and others were wondering if she wouldn’t be a better fit on the other side of the aisle. On the other hand, Trump is a “ranting Lunatic” sometimes himself, so maybe it takes one to know one.
For better or worse, President Trump sets GOP priorities, and a single representative isn’t going to win that fight.
In a human sense, though, her statement included something with which I sympathize: “I … do not want my sweet district to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.”
That’s politics, but it’s not insane to say, “No thanks.”
If she has honestly faced death threats after Trump’s “traitor” condemnation, then she shouldn’t have to put up with that either.
Greene invested a lot in Trump — for example, showing personal loyalty to the point of showing up at his New York trial when few other Republicans did. The sudden souring of their relationship has been both spectacular and completely normal for people in Trump’s orbit.
As our Douglas Andrews noted after Greene issued her statement, she listed five specific issues on which she’s disagreed with Trump of late: over-issuance of H-1B visas, which she says take American jobs; state-level AI moratoriums, which she believes encroach on states rights; 50-year mortgages, which she called a debt-for-life scam; our involvement in foreign wars, which is code for Trump’s military support for Israel; and the release of the Epstein files, for which I suspect she feels some vindication. What’s interesting is that Trump is recognized as a populist president, but MTG is on the populist side in each of these five issues.
That said, Greene leans far too hard into the Uniparty idea of hers, as if there’s no difference between the parties. Sometimes, that certainly seems true. Or at least it’s true that Republicans are frustratingly ineffective at truly distinguishing themselves from Democrats. Yet Greene is simply not correct that “the results are always the same — nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.” So far, Trump’s second term has been far short of the economic turnaround people hoped for, but his first term demonstrably improved people’s lives. So did making his first-term tax cuts permanent in this second term.
Remember, no Democrats voted to cut your taxes.
As for Trump and Greene’s relationship, Trump said on Saturday that he was open to reconciliation. “Sure, why not?” he responded to a reporter’s question. “I mean, I get along with everybody.”
He added, “I said, ‘Go your own way,’ and once I left her, she resigned. She would never have survived the primary, but I think she’s a nice person.”
Right. Also on Saturday, Trump posted on Truth Social, “The Republican Party has never been so UNITED AS IT iS RIGHT NOW! Other than Rand Paul, Rand Paul Jr.(Massie!), Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, and a couple of other ‘lowlifes,’ and other than the fact that many want the Election threatening Filibuster TERMINATED (the Dems will do it in the first minute of their first chance!), and some don’t, there is great spirit and cohesion.”
Actually, there are increasing signs that the MAGA movement Trump built is unravelling a bit. Something tells me that when MTG starts her own podcast, she’ll contribute a little more to that fraying. For example, she name-dropped the dreaded “Neocons” toward the end of her resignation statement, though she seems to define that as conservatives who want America to engage with the world or, more specifically, support Israel.
That’s not the correct definition, but maybe she and Tucker Carlson know that.
In any case, the Republican Party doesn’t have long to figure out what it stands for in the 2026 midterms and beyond.
Douglas Andrews: Real Commie Meets Fake ‘Fascist’ — Friday’s remarkable meeting between the Leader of the Free World and the Leader of the Democrat Party was remarkable for what a single brief exchange said about the two men.
Thomas Gallatin: Trump’s Ambitious Ukraine Peace Plan Is a Two-Edged Sword — The Trump administration proposes a 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. Will Vladimir Putin actually accept anything short of 100% annexation?
Emmy Griffin: Gender-Benders Shellacked by Truth in HHS Report — A report compiled by independent professionals shines a bright light on the flimsiness of so-called “gender-affirming care” for gender-confused kids.
Gary Bauer: Kamala’s Revenge? — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never tried to release the Epstein files. They were totally uninterested in them. But now, Harris is screaming for them to be released.
Roger Helle: Remembering David Wilkerson: Part I — Pastor Wilkerson’s life, ministry, books, and movie inspired me to start Teen Challenge centers across the Midwest. He was a hero to me.
Activist Judges Are Destroying Our Country — Across the country, courts are packed with ideological left-wing judges who are imposing their own political agenda from the bench. This is not justice. It’s judicial activism.
The Death of Debate — America’s tradition of public debate is under attack. Nothing exemplifies this better than the assassination of Charlie Kirk at a college campus event in September.
How Emancipation Reinforced Slavery to End It — The legal paradox of the Emancipation Proclamation, a fascinating document and bold presidential action, reveals Abraham Lincoln’s legal genius.
SHORT CUTS
Fact-Check: True
“If the Democratic Party was run by the people in it … it would be the party of labor unions. It would be the party of taxing the rich.” —Senate candidate Graham Platner (D-ME)
Letting the Mask Slip
“I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes. I hate the pedal taverns. I hate country music. I hate all of the things that make Nashville. … I hate it.” —Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn (D)
Defamation
“Isn’t it obvious … that Trump was involved with Epstein?” —”The View” co-host Joy Behar
Mea Culpa
“Our guests have a right to be upset. … We messed up.” —Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino
Re: Mass Migration
“Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. [T]he State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.” —State Department
“There is a difference between Little Italy, Little Tokyo, and Little Mogadishu. Not all cultures are equal. Some exist in a state of civilization, others exist in a state of barbarism. Choose wisely.” —Christopher F. Rufo
“If you want to stop socialism in this country, you have to do more than condemn it. For starters, maybe stop importing millions of third-world socialists, who are the entire reason Mamdani was elected in New York City.” —Sean Davis
Re: The Left
“The problem with a party line is that it is deductive, not inductive. Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions. So inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous.” —Victor Davis Hanson
“It is incredibly cruel of so many judges to push murderous thugs on the innocent public! And double shame on anyone who funds them to do so.” —Elon Musk
For the Record
“It’s not your imagination. Traveling has become more uncivilized!” —Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on the sorry state of air travel
“I met with Nigeria’s National Security Advisor and his team to discuss the horrific violence against Christians in their country. Under POTUS leadership, DOW is working aggressively with Nigeria to end the persecution of Christians by jihadist terrorists.” —Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
“The [Epstein] files, of course, will never be enough. There will be hundreds of ghosts to chase. If conspiracists don’t get what they’re after, they’ll simply claim that other files are being hidden.” —David Harsanyi
Upright
“The cultural identity of the United States — the religiously imbued habits, values and expectations that enable our national creed, ‘E Pluribus Unum’ — has never been infinitely malleable. America has always had a dominant public ethos shaped by a historical Protestant-majority culture.” —Josh Hammer
ON THIS DAY in 1987, the U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which banned an entire class of nuclear weapons and called for dismantling short- and medium-range missiles.
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