Source: WAFF 48 News
“Police say a Mississippi woman, fearing for her life, shot and killed one of two suspects wearing ski masks who broke into her apartment. The incident happened about 2:30 a.m. Sunday at the Park at Inverness Apartments in Jackson. Jackson Police say their investigation revealed two [b]lack males wearing ski masks broke into a woman’s apartment. Fearing for her life, the resident fired a weapon, hitting and killing one of the suspects. The second suspect fled the scene.” (02/09/26)
https://www.waff.com/2026/02/09/woman-fatally-shoots-teen-suspect-ski-mask-during-break-in-police-say/
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Sen. Schumer Touts Funding Genocide in Gaza, US Downs Iranian Drone Near Aircraft Carrier.” (02/09/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-sen-schumer-touts-funding-genocide-in-gaza-us-downs-iranian-drone-near-aircraft-carrier/
Source: Roads Go Ever On
by Bekah Graham
“If you grew up Evangelical around the time I did, you probably first heard the story of David and Bathsheba with the visual aid of a flannelgraph. That was certainly not the last time you heard it, as it is a frequently preached passage. It comes up in messages about repentance, or God using flawed people, or the compounding nature of sin, or even how idleness leads to sin. … Why are we talking about David as if he made a mistake and disobeyed God, and not that he kidnapped and raped Bathsheba, impregnated her, killed her husband, and then forced her to marry him? And then God punished David by killing her child. Do we ever once hear how she feels about any of this? Of course not. It’s not about her. It’s about David.” (02/10/26)
https://bekahgwen.substack.com/p/bathsheba-deserved-better
Source: The American Conservative
by W James Antle III
“‘Abolish ICE’ is the rallying cry heard from the streets of Minneapolis to the main stage at the Grammy awards. It’s the stick deployed against the Trump administration and the carrot consumed by Bad Bunny as he hops around at the Super Bowl. Closer to the nation’s capital, however, people have been muttering ‘abolish ice.’ The denizens of the Acela Corridor aren’t without their own misgivings about assertive immigration enforcement. But even the most hardened member of the Resistance — frozen solid — has to wonder why it takes two weeks after a moderate snowstorm for a Democratic-controlled city to plow a street or clear a sidewalk.” (02/10/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/abolish-ice-dems-cant-even-plow-snow/
Source: NOTUS
“Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna claimed on Monday that the Department of Justice improperly redacted the names and faces of six potential co-conspirators of the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The two lawmakers, who led the congressional charge to compel the DOJ to release every government file related to Epstein, arrived at Two Constitution Square to review less-redacted versions of the files than have been released to the public so far. After their in-person review on Monday, they again accused the DOJ of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act. … Massie claimed the men were ‘likely incriminated’ based on the document’s context, but declined for now to share their names. He said he first wanted to give the DOJ a chance to explain why those names weren’t made public.” (02/09/26)
https://www.notus.org/congress/ro-khanna-and-thomas-massie-names-jeffrey-epstein-co-conspirators
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Aaron Mackey
“For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community, organize politically, and participate in society. Section 230, which protects internet users’ speech by protecting the online intermediaries we rely on, is the legal support that sustains the internet as we know it. Yet as Section 230 turns 30 this week, there are bipartisan proposals in Congress to either repeal or sunset the law. These proposals seize upon legitimate concerns with the harmful and anti-competitive practices of the largest tech companies, but then misdirect that anger toward Section 230.” (02/09/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/its-30th-birthday-section-230-remains-lynchpin-users-speech
Source: Reason
“Libertarians Tried To Warn You About Executive Power.” (02/09/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/02/09/libertarians-tried-to-warn-you-about-executive-power/
Source: New York Times
“Israel’s government has taken unilateral steps to give itself greater control over the occupied West Bank, challenging President Trump’s opposition to Israeli annexation of the territory and possibly violating international law. The measures, which make it easier for [squatters to steal] land and undercut the Palestinian Authority in parts of the West Bank that it administers, appear to flout important agreements that Israel signed under the Oslo peace process decades ago. The changes were made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet at a closed-door meeting on Sunday. By enhancing Israel’s control over West Bank territory [within the borders of the State of Palestine], they effectively advance the cause of annexation by degrees — continuing a strategy that the government has been pursuing for years.” (02/09/26)
https://archive.is/ZPqke
Source: The American Conservative
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
“There is a lot of talk about getting rid of the massive agreement that guarantees Israel billions of dollars in military aid each year. And it’s not just critics of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Senator Lindsey Graham have even said they want to ‘taper off’ the money because Israel is ready to stand on its own two feet. But while a debate over the annual package would be a most welcome one given the enormous sums of American taxpayer money that has flowed to Israel’s wars in recent years, it is important to keep an eye on what might be a bait and switch: trading one guarantee for a set of others that might be less transparent and more expensive than what’s on the books today.” (02/09/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-nixing-aid-to-israel-a-poison-chalice/
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“U.S. military [pirates] boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces U.S. sanctions on its oil and relies on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. However, the Aquila II was one of at least 16 tankers that departed the Venezuelan coast last month after U.S. forces captured then-President Nicolás Maduro, said Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com. He said his organization used satellite imagery and surface-level photos to document the ship’s movements.” (02/09/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/09/pentagon-oil-tanker/
