Andy Ogles accuses Bad Bunny of broadcasting ‘gay pornography’. Calls for Investigation.

by Rod Williams, Feb. 13, 2026- Does Andy Ogles have nothing better to do than pander to moralistic snowflakes and bigots? He has called for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show, suggesting it amounted to broadcasting “gay pornography” during prime time.  Wow! I guess Andy Ogles has never seen any pornography. While you may not have cared for the Bad Bunny performance, it was hardly porn. 

"Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air, " said Ogles.

I don't much care for the croach grabbing myself, but it is kind of common now, and a lot of artists do it. You can hardly make bad taste a federal crime. 

In a Feb. 9 letter to fellow Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Ogles demanded an inquiry into the NFL and NBCUniversal regarding their "prior knowledge, review, and approval" of the Latin rapper's performance.

Does he think this will accomplish anything? I don't think so, but he knows it will play well with his White fundamentalist Christian bigot constituents. It is simply performative. He is throwing red meat to the base. Also, attacking the people Trump has attacked seems to be an Ogle trait. He is Trump's number one lap dog. It is easier to be a Trump suck-up and pander to the Trump base than to govern. 

Read more about it at this link, or this, or this. 

Here is Ogles press release: 

ICYMI: Ogles Requests Congressional Probe Of NFL NBC Over Vulgar Halftime Show

Press Release, February 10, 2026, WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05) is requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, which featured explicit displays of sexual acts and lyrics on national television that represent a clear violation of FCC guidelines. 

“The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air. And if that weren't outrageous enough, the performance's lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways,” Congressman Ogles said.

“That is why I am requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of this indecent broadcast. American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence,” said Congressman Ogles.

Here is the letter: 

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Trump's Outrage of the Day for Feb. 10, 2026:

 1. FBI cited debunked claims to obtain warrant for Fulton County vote records, documents show. The FBI relied heavily on previously debunked claims of widespread election irregularities in Georgia as it persuaded a federal judge last month to sign off on plans to seize scores of 2020 voting records from the state’s most populous county, court documents unsealed Tuesday show. .. many of the irregularities they raised — including claims of duplicate ballots and missing ballot images — have been previously explained by county officials as the types of routine errors that frequently occur, are typically corrected in the moment, and are not significant enough to sway the outcome of an election. Independent reviews have backed up that conclusion.

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Update: David French in Nashville: "Five Constitutional Amendments to Save America."

Update: Feb 10, 2026- Due to the ice storm that hit Nashville earlier this month, the start of this class had to be rescheduled. It will now begin on Feb. 17th. There is time to enroll. 

by Rod Williams, Feb. 7, 2026- David French is teaching a class in Nashville on the topic of Five Constitutional Amendments to Save America. This is part of David Libscomb's Lifelong Learning program. One does not have to be an alumnus or otherwise associated with David Libscomb to attend this class. The fee for the five-class course is only $80.

I had this on my list to sign up for, but time slipped by me, and I missed the first one. However, I just registered today, so as of now, space is still available. I will be able to watch the missed class on my computer. If interested, I encourage you to sign up now. Follow this link. Click on "Class Offerings," and then click on "Tuesday."

This will be the third time I have taken a course taught by David French. Last year I took one on "Freedom of Speech," and the year before I took one on "The Second American Revolution," dealing with the 14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments. His classes are stimulating, informative, and thought-provoking, and David French is an excellent teacher. 

If you consume much news, you have probably read David French's column in the New York Times or The Atlantic or seen him on podcast such as The Bulwark, The Dispatch or as a member of guest panels on network news programs. Here are excerpts from his Wikipedia bio:

David Austin French (born January 24, 1969) is an American political commentator and former attorney. He is a columnist for The New York Times and a visiting professor of public policy at Lipscomb University. He was formerly senior editor of The Dispatch, a fellow at the National Review Institute, and a staff writer for National Review.

Early life and education : French was born on January 24, 1969, in Opelika, Alabama. His parents were students at nearby Auburn University.[2] He grew up in Georgetown, Kentucky.[3]

French graduated from Lipscomb University in 1991 with a BA, summa cum laude.[4][5] He then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1994 with his JD, cum laude.[6][7][8]

Career: French has served as a senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom,[9] has lectured at Cornell Law School, and spent much of his career working on religious rights issues.[10] He served as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), now known as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).[7] French retired from FIRE in 2005, citing plans to serve in the United States Army Reserve as a judge-advocate general officer.[11][12] He left the legal practice in 2015, and became a staff writer for National Review from 2015 to 2019,[13][14] and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.[15]

French has authored several books,[7] including the non-fiction Divided We Fall (2020).[16][17]

French is a former senior editor of The Dispatch,[18] and occasionally a contributing writer for The Atlantic. French is a distinguished visiting professor of public policy at Lipscomb University, his alma mater.[19]

French became a New York Times columnist in January 2023.[18]

In December 2019, French joined The Dispatch's Advisory Opinions biweekly legal podcast as a permanent guest contributor alongside host, Sarah Isgur.[20]

Military service: French is a former major in the United States Army Reserve[27] and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.[7] French was deployed to Iraq in 2007 during the Iraq War, serving in Diyala Governorate as squadron judge-advocate.[28] He was awarded a Bronze Star.[27]

Personal life: French is married to author Nancy French.[36] He and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee.[37] They have three children, including a daughter adopted from Ethiopia.[38]

French was until 2024 a member of the Presbyterian Church in America. Due to conflicts with his church and its members over political issues, and after personal attacks against him and his family, they switched to another church in Nashville.[39]

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George Will Highlights Potential Dangerous Path Ahead

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Feb. 4, 2026- In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, columnist George Will writes about the six paths to a fiscal disaster outlined in our recent paper, “What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like?”.

Will discusses each fiscal crisis in turn – financial crisis, inflation crisis, austerity crisis, currency crisis, default crisis, and gradual crisis – and how our rising national debt could set them off. Will pays particular concern to a gradual crisis, which he considers to be the “most probable, and most ominous” because unlike the other major crises, it is not action-forcing. As Will also mentions, it can be difficult to get elected politicians to bear short-term costs to address large, long-term issues.

A gradual crisis would be anesthetizing, rather than an action-forcing, cymbal-crash event that could stimulate recuperative reforms of U.S. political culture. Instead, this culture would become more toxic. Political power would be fought for, and wielded, with the desperate ruthlessness of a zero-sum competition in which one faction’s gains must equal other factions’ losses.

While it is impossible to know if or when a fiscal crisis could occur, policymakers can take steps to lower deficits and put the debt on a downward path by reducing spending, raising revenue, enacting trust fund solutions, finding health care savings, and implementing other pro-growth policies. And in Will’s words, providing this information to policymakers now can hopefully "galvanize congressional action to forestall a darkening fiscal future.”

Read the full piece here and read our full paper, “What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like?”.

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Our Progressive Metro Council is no More Committed to Free Speech or Fairness than any MAGA State Legislature.

Why did the Metro Council quietly reject a partnership with Liberty University?

by Megan Podsiedlik, The Pamphleteer, Feb 4, 2026- Last night, the council decided to reject a benignbill that would have created an agreement with the Office of Family Safety to provide fieldwork experience for students enrolled in Liberty University's social work programs. There’s no fiscal note; the arrangement is mutually beneficial. Metro has made similar arrangements with multiple universities in the past, so why reject Liberty?

Liberty University is widely understood to be a conservative institution rooted in evangelical Christian beliefs. Frankly, the rejection felt political. For onlookers paying attention, it’s hard to ignore the implications of the rejection and easy to come to the conclusion that, at the very least, the members were making a statement. 

From performative resolutions to defund police sentiments to blatant favoritism, we’ve seen it all from the most “progressive council in Nashville's history.” A council whose members rejected Morgan Wallen’s permit to put up a neon sign for his bar simply because they don’t like him. And the pettiness isn’t cheap. It costs a pretty penny, as was the case two years ago when the council selectively settled up one lawsuit regarding First Amendment rights and rejected a reasonable settlement for another, all in the name of identity politics—a $1.8 million mistake taxpayers will shoulder.

During last night’s docket, heard alongside a toothless resolution denouncing Elon Musk’s underground transit project in Nashville and other token gestures, the council rejected Liberty University without discussion.

Perhaps they're taking cues from the mayor, who often projects a particular about-face depending on which groups he's speaking to. In front of the mainstream, he often masks the intentions behind his decisions or indecision. When amongst his progressive cohort, he smooths any ruffled feathers with a wink and a nudge. Of course, this is mere observation. All very easy to plausibly deny. So, council members, was it political?

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Rod's Comment: Unfortunately, both MAGAs and Progressives share similar views. Free Speech is for my team, but not your team. Fairness is for my people, but not your people. It seems that power and tribalism are the driving forces. Each side will excuse whatever is done by their team, but attack the other team for similar actions. Trump has done bad things on a much greater magnitude than Democrats have ever done, but of a similar kind. Trump is the biggest crook we have ever had in office, but we should not forget the Biden family's China dealings and Hunter's corrupt practices. While Trump has trampled the rule of law to a greater extent than ever before, we should not forget that the Biden administration pressured universities to deny due process to men accused of sexual harassment. The Obama administration pressured the IRS to deny tax-exempt status to conservative non-profits with "patriot" or "tea party' in their name and Trump has threatened the tax-exempt status of liberal churches. One has little moral authority to criticize Trump's use of the IRS for political revenge unless they so criticized the Obama administration. 

Our progressive Metro Council is no more committed to free speech or fairness than any MAGA state legislature. 

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Kid Rock is the Perfect Alternative Artist for the MAGA Half-time Show. His Values Align With Trump's. Enjoy the Show.

Dear MAGA friends and family, 

I hope you all enjoy the Super Bowl today. Thankfully, for the half-time show, you will have an alternative to that disgusting Hispanic pervert called Bad Bunny. You can instead watch the wholesome, patriotic alternative show featuring Kid Rock. He is White and he doesn't cross-dress. 

I had never heard of Bad Bunny until recently, but then I'm not very hip and tuned into contemporary culture. The Super Bowl folks, however, I don't think, just picked him at random to piss off MAGA folks and offend Christians. He is a global music phenomenon and one of the world's biggest pop stars, having been named Spotify's top global artist four times (2020-2022, 2025) with over 100 billion total streams. That's pretty impressive, you've got to admit. He has won the 2026 Grammy for Album of the Year. 

I know he sings in Spanish and has brown skin, but he is an American. No, I know some people assume he is an immigrant or a foreigner and was picked to do the half-time show just to poke MAGA folks in the eye, but he is an American. He's from Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is part of America. Really, I'm not making that up. Puero Ricans are Americans. 

Kid Rock is very much pro-Trump, and he will probably say some pro-Trump, maybe even some anti-immigrant things during his show. He can be pretty outrageous, so who knows what he will say. He has a Rheinstone suit patterned on the U.S. flag. Maybe he will wear that. 

I think he is the perfect entertainer to represent the MAGA crowd. His values align with what I perceive to be Trump's values, as expressed in the lyrics of this song he wrote and recorded. 

Enjoy the Super Bowl. 

Rod

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Columbia Mayor Molder holds financial advantage in 5th District race

 Columbia Mayor Chaz Molder, shown hugging a supporter
at his congressional campaign kickoff, holds a financial
advantage in the Tennessee Congressional District 5 race.
(Photo: Holly McCall/Tennessee Lookout)

 By J. Holly McCall, Tennessee Outlook, February 4, 2026 - Columbia Mayor Chaz Molder holds a whopping financial advantage over other candidates running for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, including incumbent U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, campaign finance disclosures show. 

According to end-of-year reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Molder raised $412,000 in the last quarter of 2025. Since announcing his candidacy for the seat in September, the Democrat has raised more than $1.2 million and has $978,000 cash on hand. 

Ogles, a second-term Republican who has been the subject of campaign finance investigations, reported raising $151,300 during the same period. This brings Ogles’ total for the two-year election cycle beginning after the 2024 elections to $317,000. 

Both Molder and Ogles must survive primary elections to make it on the final ballot.

Charlie Hatcher

Former Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture Charlie Hatcher will take on Ogles in the Republican primary. Hatcher has raised $411,000 since entering the race in September, with notable donors including former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker with a $2,000 contribution, former Gov. Bill Haslam with $3,500, and Haslam’s father and brother — James Haslam, II and James Haslam, III, respectively — each donating $3,500.

Molder faces opposition from three Democrats, including first-term Metro Nashville Councilmember Mike Cortese. Cortese raised just over $100,000 in the final quarter of the year for a cumulative fundraising total of $263,000. Two other candidates, Jim Torino and Joyce Neal, have raised less than $20,000 combined. 

Notable donors to Molder include former Tennessee Speaker of the House Jimmy Naifeh and Loren Chumley, who served as commissioner of revenue under former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, both with $1,000 contributions. John Ingram, businessman and owner of the Nashville Soccer Club, has kicked in $7,000 to back the second-term mayor. 

National Democrats look at Tennessee’s 5th District as an opportunity to flip the seat, which was held by Democrats for nearly a century before Republican legislators redrew district lines during 2022’s redistricting process. 

Prior to 2022, the district was composed of Davidson County and portions of Cheatham County. Redistricting divided Davidson County into three portions — the other parts are in the 6th and 7th Congressional Districts — and the 5th District now includes all of Maury, Lewis and Marshall counties and parts of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson Counties. 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted the seat and lists it as one of its “Districts in play.” The Cook Political Report, which provides independent, non-partisan analysis for federal and gubernatorial races, has shifted its predictions for the seat from “Solid Republican” to “Likely Republican.”

Ogles won the seat in 2022, beating state Sen. Heidi Campbell, a Nashville Democrat, by 13 percentage points. He defeated nine other candidates in the Republican primary, including former Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell. 

In 2024, Ogles handily defeated Metro Councilmember Courtney Johnston in the primary election.

U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles

But Ogles has faced criticism since his election for claims of resume inflation, has been the subject of an FBI fraud investigation, and faced calls for investigation into his campaign finances from the U.S. House Ethics committee. He has been highly critical of Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell over his opposition to a federal sweep of South Nashville streets for immigrant residents in May and in December said judges in Nashville should be impeached.

Ogles received an endorsement from President Donald Trump in each of his congressional campaigns. After Hatcher announced in September he would challenge Ogles in the 2026 Republican primary, Trump endorsed Ogles again, calling him a “conservative warrior.”

In Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District, Van Hilleary, who represented Tennessee’s 4th District from his 1994 election through 2002, is running in the Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. John Rose, who is running for governor. 

Also running in the GOP primary is Goodlettsville Republican Rep. Johnny Garrett. Garrett is sitting on $1 million cash on hand, having loaned himself $600,000 in addition to more than $590,000 he has raised so far. 

Hilleary, who is chief of staff for Rose, has raised a total of $840,716. 

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For more information on Charlie Hatcher or to make a donation, follow this link. 
For more information on Chaz Molder or to make a donation, follow this link. 

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Marsha Blackburn Outrage of the Day: Feb. 7, 2026

 

1. Sen. Blackburn demands a probe of Ketanji Brown Jackson for attending the Grammys.

2. US Sen. Marsha Blackburn faces allegations that she and her campaign engaged in "flagrant violations" of federal and state law by using donations from her Senate campaign for her gubernatorial race.

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The Trump Outrage for the Day: Feb. 7, 2026

1. Racist Truth Social Post depicting former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as

apes.

2. Trump will provide Federal funding of badly needed NY-NJ tunnel and subway extension if Penn Station and Dulles airport be renamed as Trump Station and Tump Airport

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81% of Tennesseans Want Limits on Property Tax Increases

 

by Rod Williams, Feb. 6, 2026- A new poll from The Beacon Center shows that 81% of Tennessee voters believe there should be a limit on how much property taxes can increase in any single year. The poll was conducted in conjunction with Targoz Market Research and polled 1200 residents. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.77%.

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