Monday Links

On a cool and cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump announces tariffs on any country which buys oil from Venezuela.

From FrontpageMag, even Senator Socialism (I-VT) won't endorse congresscritter AOC (D-NY) for Senator.

From Townhall, another "transgender"-identifying activist is charged with allegedly vandalizing a Tesla service center near Chicago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, inside the largest coronavirus-related fraud in the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, Greenlandic leaders don't appreciate their island being visited by U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Second Lady Usha Vance.  (If you read Danish, read a related story at Sermitsiaq.)

From The Federalist, red states are paying for California giving health care to illegal aliens.

From American Thinker, how birthright citizenship works, in the U.S. and elsewhere.

From MRCTV, Disney's remake of Snow White flops on its opening weekend.

From NewsBusters, the website Twitchy shreds San Diego-area ABC affiliate KGTV for lamenting the new razor wire at the southern border wall.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney starts off this year's election campaign.

From TeleSUR, Panamanians oppose a proposed open-pit copper mining project.

From TCW Defending Freedom, yes, there should be disagreement in the U.K.'s pubs, because that's why they exist.

From EuroNews, 24 people are detained for allegedly helping French drug lord Mohamed Amra escape from prison.

From ReMix, to what extent is a ceasefire in Ukraine realistic?  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Portfolio.)

From Balkan Insight, Turkish police detain journalists covering opposition protests in İstanbul, whose mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was recently arrested.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The North Africa Post, recent rainfall improves Morocco's dam filling rate.

From the Libyan Express, authorities in Imsaad, Libya discover and seize military equipment washed up on the shores of the nearby port of Bardiyah.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the steamboat Kartal, once used by Türkiye founder Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, goes on display at the Çanakkale Naval Museum.

From Turkish Minute, according to an opinion column, the aforementioned arrest of Mayor İmamoğlu signals that Turkey is becoming a Russian-style autocracy.

From Rûdaw, according to a Syrian Kurdish official, the division of Syria is not on the Kurds' agenda.

From Armenpress, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan talks with his counterparts from Iran, Hungary, and Russia.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannsiayn, visa liberalization talks between Armenia and the E.U. will enter their next phase in April.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijan becomes a full member of the Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation.

From AzerNews, Azerbaijani gymnasts Madina Mustafayeva and Vladimir Dolmatov win a gold medal in the mixed pairs event at the Aerobic Gymnastics World Cup in Cantanhede, Portugal.

From The Syrian Observer, vehicle-born people promoting Islam in Christian neighborhoods in Syria disturb Muslims even more than they disturb Christians.

From North Press Agency, an unexploded missile found in a structurally compromise mosque is relocated and detonated.

From In-Cyprus, doctors in Cyprus raise the alarm over understaffing at the Famagusta General Hospital.

From The New Arab, according to the Iraqi government, reports of  Yemeni Houthis being present in Baghdad have been greatly exaggerated.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a sewer worker in the U.K. is fired for condemning Hamas and its October 7th, 2023 attack on Israel.

From Arutz Sheva, a Syrian commander tells his troops to not leave any Alawites alive.

From Gatestone Institute, Syrian terrorists wear suits and ties.

From Radio Free Asia, the Myanmar junta bombs a medical clinic in the region of Magway, killing 11 people.

From The Stream, evil exposes itself in attacks against Teslas and the Constitution.

From The Daily Signal, the president of the Heritage Foundation warns that the lack of U.S. presence in Panama has allowed China to step into the resulting "vacuum".

From The American Conservative, how the war with Russia has taken a toll on Ukraine's "City of Lions".  (During the late 1800s, one of my great-grandmothers left the then-Austro-Hungarian city of Lemberg and emigrated to the United States.  Today, it is the Ukrainian city of Lviv.  Because she was Polish, she would most likely have called the place Lwów.  The Polish word for "lion" is lew, in the nominative singular.  In the genitive plural, it becomes lwów.  This means that the city's name literally means "of lions".)

From The Western Journal, a data expert claims that many attendees at a rally for the aforementioned Senator Socialism and congresscritter AOC also attended many other rallies.

From BizPac Review, ICE and the IRS are reportedly ready to sign a deal giving ICE access to the tax information of illegal aliens.

From The Daily Wire, following the collapse of ceasefire talks, Israel has sent over a dozen Hamas leaders to their virgins.

From the Daily Caller, former President Biden reappears on X.

From the New York Post, if you've got $6.95 million lying around, you can former NFL player Mike Pouncey's home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which comes with its own football field.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) "has to be knocked over the head".

From Newsmax, Trump names his former defense attorney and current White House counsellor Alina Habba to be the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Chief Twit disguises an IRS building as a Tesla dealership in hopes that Democrats will burn it down.

A Sasquatch's Sunday Dozen

On a sunny but cool Sunday, here are 12 things going on:

From National Review, an Israeli strike in Gaza sends a senior Hamas leader to his virgins.

From FrontpageMag, former Voice Of American employees claims that the 1st Amendment protects their right to have jobs.

From Townhall, Republican congresscritters move to shut down Chinese "police stations" in the U.S.  (For anyone who disagrees with this action, please give me the number of American police stations currently operating within Chinese territory.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about baseball in small towns.

From TCW Defending Freedom, instead of migrants integrating with the people of the U.K., the people of the U.K. have integrated with the migrants.

From The North Africa Post, a Swedish national originally from South America is arrested at the Tanger Med port in Morocco for alleged international trafficking of she-don't-lie.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a 16-year-old boy of Palestinian descent is arrested after allegedly biting a rabbi in Orléans, France.  (Who does he think he is, Mike Tyson?)

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, Europe is dying, but it can be saved.

From Gatestone Institute, the Chief Twit as a public accountant.

From The Stream, life lessons learned on a pickleball court.

From The American Conservative, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) and the ghost of American founder Luther Martin.  (Not Protestant reformer Martin Luther, not American civil rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but Maryland Anti-Federalist Luther Martin.)

And from Fox News, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invites the judge who ruled that the military must allow transgender troops to report to some military bases.

Saturday Stories

On a cool and cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the autopsy of the Democrats isn't ready yet.

From FrontpageMag, the media opposes the deportation of a student visa holder who urged other students to take a "cue" from Palestinian terrorists.

From Townhall, the real reason why a French scientist was denied entry into the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu issue an ultimatum, which Iran and Hamas should heed.

From the Washington Examiner, the University of Maine complies with Trump's policy on transgender athletes after the administration threatens to pull funding.

From The Federalist, comedian Bill Burr's appearance on The View betrays his salt-of-the-earth persona.

From American Thinker, lessons about the left's obsession with race, from a box of crayons.  (I used crayons quite often when I was a Littlefoot.)

From NewsBusters, NPR hosts a debate between Democrats of the former Mr. Bill henchman Paul Begala variety and the congresscritter AOC (D-NY) variety.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the German governments coronavirus project fear.

From AMU, the Taliban flogged at least 456 people during the last 12 months.

From RAIR Foundation USA, two radical imams go to Texas help Islam expand there.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an illegal alien is arrested at a hostel in Mantes-la-Jolie, France after allegedly endorsing terror attacks on French soil.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Parisien and FDeSouche.)

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. must stop undermining efforts to prevent its own destruction.

From The Stream, 10 prominent counterfeits to the rule of Christ.

From The Daily Signal, how some drugs got to former Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) district.

From The American Conservative, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in the state capital of Richmond kicks of American's 250th anniversary observance.

From The Western Journal, former Clinton pollster Mark Penn finds that the Democrats are losing moderate working-class voters.  (Did these voters leave the party, or did the party leave them?)

From BizPac Review, former State Department official Mike Benz explains the ramifications of then-President Obama's repeal of the Smith-Mundt Actt.

From The Daily Wire, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) works with the Chief Twit to return a huge amount of money to the federal government.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats are angry that the Trump administration arrested a criminal illegal alien with a rap sheet going back 15 years.  (What would an illegal alien have to do in order to legitimately deserve deportation, as far as Democrats are concerned?)

From the New York Post, the dangers of betting against the Chief Twit and Tesla.

From Fox News, cable TV host Bill Maher warns that the Democrats could become like the Whigs.  (The Whig Party existed from 1833 to 1854 and included Presidents William H. Harrison, John Tyler until they expelled him, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From News(dot)com(dot)au, why women go to female-only gyms.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, the NBC show Law & Order sparks outrage by portraying a character apparently based on accused murder Luigi Mangione as a folk hero.

From Newsmax, Pope Francis is expected to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.

And from AP News, Olympic and professional boxer, businessman, Christian minister and author George Foreman goes to the arena in the sky.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, get rid of the Department of Education, with legislation.

From FrontpageMag, former President Biden wants his fellow Democrats to put him back in the action.

From Townhall, USAID is allegedly implicated in a government-backed censorship scheme.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration revokes the visa of a graduate student at Cornell University allegedly called for the U.S. to be destroyed.  (If you visit any country other than your own, calling for its destruction is probably not a good idea.)

From the Washington Examiner, authorities arrest 15 suspected members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 in Washington, D.C.

From The Federalist, left-wing lawfare attempts to keep accused murderers and rapists in the U.S.

From American Thinker, what should we expect from the recently released Kennedy assassination documents?

From MRCTV, CNN calls out California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) for lying that his office never used the term "Latinx".

From NewsBusters, how can the left ignore scientist Freeman Dyson and the Chief Twit?

From Canada Free Press, Democrats are busted for not burning their own Teslas.

From TeleSUR, Panamanian police repress a protest against the privatization of social security in the province of Colon.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the renewable energy scam is costing £100 billion and counting.

From Snouts in the Trough, what is really driving energy security secretary Ed Miliband's Net Zero crusade?

From EuroNews, the German upper house, the Bundesrat, passes a large increase in military spending.

From ReMix, mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor promises a referendum on the E.U.'s migration pact if he is elected president of Ireland.

From Balkan Insight, the Albanian government's controversial ban on the platform TikTok is still only partially working.

From the Sarajevo Times, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina extends the detention of former Minister of Security Nenad Nešić.

From Total Croatia News, a large renovation finally starts at Croatia's Zadar Airport.  (In 2007, I arrived in Croatia at Zagreb Airport and was bused with my tour group to Zadar.)

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian Railways signs a contract to buy 30 new electric freight engines.

From The Malta Independent, a nurse from India is allegedly stabbed by a colleague at Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta.

From Malta Today, a fisherman is seen selling catsharks in the Maltese village of Xlendi.

From ANSA, at a march in the volcanic Campi Flegrei caldera west of Naples, Italy, policemen are pelted with eggs.

From SwissInfo, according to the Swiss government, Switzerland must participate in the aforementioned E.U. migration pact.

From France24, could French cheeses go extinct?

From RFI, France is accused of failing teenage migrants who are trapped in a legal limbo.

From The Portugal News, a tax exemption for first-time home buyers in Portugal becomes popular.

From Morocco World News, Morocco revamps its transportation system ahead of World Cup 2030.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is chosen to host the 2026 Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor.

From The New Arab, reports that Egypt will temporarily host 500,000 Palestinians in the governorate of North Sinai have been greatly exaggerated.

From Arutz Sheva, the report alleging that Egypt would temporarily take in 500,000 Palestinians.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Malmö FF soccer player Taha Ali wants giant mosques to be built all over Sweden.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Samnytt.  If you read French, read the story at Résistance Républicaine.)

From 9News, a woman in the Australian state of Victoria who forced her daughter to marry the man who eventually killed her loses an appeal of her sentence.

From AMU, the Taliban's Ministry of Education opens 43 new religious schools in six months.

From Gatestone, could Bangladesh become the next terror hub in southern Asia?

From Radio Free Asia, Myanmar's ruling junta admits misconduct in its conscription scheme.  (A government body has actually admitted doing something wrong.  That's not a UFO you've just seen, but a flying pig.)

From The Stream, a resolution against same-sex marriage fails in the North Dakota state Senate after some Senators receive death threats.  (What is this "tolerance" you speak of?)

From The Daily Signal, instead of learning from former Presidents Clinton and Obama, the Democrats keep on moving leftward.

From The American Conservative, are the deportations of criminal illegal aliens to El Salvador justifiable?

From The Western Journal, Trump says something about teachers that the establishment media wishes he didn't.

From BizPac Review, Trump suggests that people who vandalize Teslas could serve their resulting sentences in El Salvador.

From The Daily Wire, Trump offers to pay the overtime for the two stranded and recently rescued astronauts out of his own pocket, if necessary.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, swatting should be regarded as attempted murder, and maybe even terrorism.

From the New York Post, the U.S. military unveils its sixth generation fighter jet, whose name Trump understandably likes.

From Breitbart, former congresscritter Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) calls the aforementioned Chief Twit "incompetent", a "thief", and a "Nazi".  (Considering how rich and successful the Chief Twit has been, I'd love to be as incompetent as he is.)

And from Newsmax, according to Trump, Canada would be "cherished" as the 51st state of the U.S.

Stories For The Start Of Spring

On a sunny and mild Thursday on first day of Spring, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the University of California moves away from its diversity statements in hiring.

From FrontpageMag, do normal people pay any attention to these Democratic nutjobs?

From Townhall, President Trump gets Columbia University to take antisemitism seriously.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrat congresscritters drive luxury cars at taxpayer expense.  (In doing so, they also contribute to manmade carbon dioxide emissions.)

From the Washington Examiner, Turkish authorities arrest dozens of people for online posts supporting detained opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Federalist, Wisconsin state Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford donated to a Democrat-aligned fundraising platform now facing allegations of fraud.

From American Thinker, totalitarianism is like the hydra of Greek mythology.  (Back here in real life, I once visited the Greek island of Hydra.)

From MRCTV, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett's (D-TX) wish is for the Chief Twit to be taken down.

From NewsBusters, a panel on MSNBC's The 11th Hour accuses Trump of "self-dealing" without evidence.

From TeleSUR, thousands of people march in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand better pensions for retirees.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how someone was used by the climate zealots at the BBC.  (The "someone" is the article's writer.)

From Snouts in the Trough, stay tuned for a "pretty good" blog tomorrow.

From EuroNews, according to former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, Europeans need to improve democracy.

From ReMix, homicides jump sharply in Berlin, with almost half of crime suspects being foreigners.

From Russia Today, Russian President Putin approves new rules for Ukrainians present in Russia.

From Sputnik International, Moscow's non-commodity and non-energy export went to 157 countries in 2024.

From The Moscow Times, a large explosion rocks Engel airbase in the Russian region of Saratov.

From Romania-Insider, three candidates compete in the Romania presidential race.

From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, Bulgaria intends to become a leading weapons exporter.

From The Sofia Globe, the Nebet Tepe archaeological complex in Plovdiv, Bulgaria reopens for visitors.

From Radio Bulgaria, China seeks to buy more agricultural products from Bulgaria.

From The Greek Reporter, a house from the 10th century BC is found near Lavrion, Greece.

From Ekathimerini, Greek opposition parliamentcritters walk out of a session inquiring into the train crash near the municipality of Tempi.  (The municipality, whose name ends with "-i", includes the Vale of Tempe, whose name ends with "-e".  Thus, the crash is called the "Tempe train crash".)

From the Greek City Times, the Greek government imposes building limits on small towns.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia is angered by a defense agreement between Croatia, Albania and Kosovo.

From The North Africa Post, Spanish authorities arrest a suspected ISIS supporter in the city of Córdoba, with help from Morocco's General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance.

From The New Arab, the Syrian government starts talks with the Syrian Democratic Forces to integrate them into the Syrian army.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas was reportedly preparing for another attack before Israel resumed its strikes in Gaza.

From Sky News, a video shows children of ISIS terrorists make beheading gestures in a camp in Syria.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Palestinian man in Philadelphia served kosher bagels for decades, until some of his customers found his profile on Facebook.

From Gatestone Institute, some Palestinians realize that they "are dying because of Hamas".

From Radio Free Asia, Thai journalists visiting Uyghurs deported from Thailand in the Chinese region of Xinjiang deal with Chinese surveillance.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Stream, the benefits of having a Christian health insurance company.

From The Daily Signal, chapters of Daughters of the American Revolution write letters to President Trump to help defend them from a transgender takeover.

From The American Conservative, Trump should not follow the lead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From The Western Journal, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) raises some red flags about Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator-nominee Mehmet Oz.

From BizPac Review, Unilever, the parent company of the ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's, fires their "woke" CEO.  (Yours truly visited Ben & Jerry's plant in Vermont in 1991.)

From The Daily Wire, a drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by then-President Biden is arrested and charged with more crimes.  (One of his alleged offenses is possessing a gun, which is forbidden to convicted felons.  This shows how criminals don't obey gun laws because they don't obey laws in general, and thus why more gun laws won't stop criminals from committing gun crime.)

From the Daily Caller, the New York Court of Appeals strikes down a New York City law that allowed non-citizens to vote.

From the New York Post, a theater opens in the Bronx, only that second in that New York borough.

From Breitbart, Chinese officials reportedly force Uyghurs in the aforementioned region of Xinjiang to video themselves eating lunch during Ramadan, which would violate their religious rules for that month.  (What is this "freedom of religion" you speak of?)

From Newsmax, the NBA's Boston Celtics, if a new deal goes through, will be under new management.

And from the Genesius Times, a district court judge overrules the U.S. victory in the Cold War and orders Germany to reconstruct the Berlin Wall.

Wednesday Wanderings

As the sunny and mild weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Russian President Putin is playing U.S. President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, could former Chicago Mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel save the Democratic Party?

From Townhall, Democrats are choosing some stupid hills to die on.

From The Washington Free Beacon, in its internal documents, Columbia University's Graduate Student Union list demands including a "sanctuary campus".

From the Washington Examiner, the Department of Energy approves a "massive" liquefied natural gas facility held up by the Biden administration's pause on such exports.

From The Federalist, the judge appointed by then-President Biden who blocked the military's new "trans" policy has donated thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates and causes.

From American Thinker, selective media outrage over a doctor and a funeral for a terrorist.

From MRCTV, watch White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt flambé a French socialist europarliamentcritter who asked the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty.

From NewsBusters, the grilling of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on CBS Mornings was really a left-wing group therapy session.

From Canada Free Press, flushing new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney out of the shadows.

From TeleSUR, Nicaragua withdraws from the Central American Court of Justice.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the migrant crime wave which the U.K. government tries its hardest to conceal.

From the NL Times, Dutch health officials find four measles clusters among primary school children in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven.

From Dutch News, according to a survey, 16 percent of Dutch voters have confidence in the country's cabinet.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at RTL Nieuws.)

From VRT NWS, almost 1.5 million Belgian phone users have put themselves on a don't-call-me list.

From The Brussels Times, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever warns that the E.U.'s rearmament plan contains "no free money".

From Deutsche Welle, China's grip is growing on Germany's car industry and on other sectors.

From Polskie Radio, Poland grants extended parental leave to the parents of premature babies.

From Radio Prague, according to Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, "Russia wants Czechia under its control".

From The Slovak Spectator, a small Slovak satellite contributes bigly to astrophysics.

From Daily News Hungary, the district of Csúcshegy could secede from Budapest, Hungary.

From Hungary Today, more victims of a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia arrive at hospitals in Hungary.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's government was Trump before Trump.

From EuroNews, North Macedonian officials close down dozens of illegal nightclubs after the aforementioned fire.

From Free West Media, have the aforementioned Presidents Putin and Trump checkmated the globalists?

From ReMix, 71.4 percent of all new jobs in Spain in the last five years went to foreigners.  (If you read Spanish, read a related story at El Debate.)

From Balkan Insight, as dissent grows in Serbia, time is no longer on the side of President Aleksandar Vučić.

From The North Africa Post, the Economic Community of West African States calls for urgent action to address the food crisis in Western Africa.

From The New Arab, who was Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Hamza, recently killed in an Israeli offensive?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a primary school in Hamburg, Germany lists only Islamic holidays in addition to its normal events.  (If you read German, read the story at Apollo News.)

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkish police detain İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on a variety of charges.

Form Gatestone Institute, is Germany moving "toward a new domination of Europe"?

From Radio Free Asia, according to South Korea's foreign ministry, Chinese authorities prevented South Korean authorities from investigating a steel structure in the Yellow Sea.

From The Stream, President John F. Kennedy didn't kill himself, and other things learned from the JFK assassination files.

From The Daily Signal, Trump pauses $175 million in federal funding to the alma mater of trans swimmer Lia Thomas.

From The American Conservative, the Chief Twit should defund the Legal Services Corporation.

From The Western Journal, according to two studies, marijuana use can lead to heart attacks and strokes in healthy young people.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld tells Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to "shut the [bleep] up".

From The Daily Wire, Israeli Christians gather at the Israel-Syria border in the Golan Heights to demand that world leaders protect Syrian Christians.

From the Daily Caller, Republican strategist Scott Jennings reminds former Biden administration official Neera Tanden that her former boss "let" Tren de Aragua gang members into the U.S.

From the New York Post, Ukraine plans to send robots armed with machine guns against Russian troops.

From Breitbart, Attorney General Pam Bondi issues a rule reversing the ATF's decades-long ban on restoring gun rights.

From Newsmax, Trump announces more tariffs to take effect on April 2nd, which he calls "liberating day".

And from SFGate, an unlikely doughnut is at the center of San Francisco's new pastry boom.  (Don't tell Homer Simpson.)

Tuesday Tidings

On a sunny and mild Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, where is former President Biden these days?

From FrontpageMag, what's with a journalist bumping President Trump in the face with a boom microphone?

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, "immigration is a privilege, not a right".

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israeli strikes in Gaza send four senior Hamas members and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman to their virgins.

From the Washington Examiner, IRS whistleblowers who investigated former First Son Hunter Biden are promoted to leadership positions in the Treasury Department.

From The Federalist, media headlines pretend that deported violent illegal alien gang members are just "migrants" looking for a better life.

From American Thinker, a recently self-deported Colombian who worked for congresscritter AOC (D-NY) was not the only illegal alien who has worked for Congress.

From MRCTV, the band Semisonic blasts Trump and his administration for using their one hit song in a video advertising their deportation of illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez suggests that Trump should be impeached (again) for his immigration policies.

From Canada Free Press, although the NAACP would have us believe otherwise, video evidence shows that a girl running in a relay race intentionally hit a competitor with her baton.

From CBC News, Canadian doctors urge measles vaccinations are case numbers rise in the province of Alberta.

From Global News, Calgary Transit in Calgary, Alberta, Canada will test two-car trains, which would run on weekends.

From CTV News, according to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada will boost its military presence in the Arctic.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello calls for a march to demand respect for the rights of migrants who were sent to prisons in El Salvador.  (He seems to overlook that fact that these "migrants" are members of the violent criminal gang Tren de Aragua and were in the U.S. in violation of its laws.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. Labour Party's dangerous trial of puberty blockers.

From Snouts in the Trough, watch and weep for the U.K.

From the Express, John "Paddy" Hemmingway, the last surviving fighter pilot from the Battle of Britain in World War II, passes away at age 105.

From The Standard, the U.K. government announces major reforms to its benefits system.

From the Independent, a woman in killed when a van crashes into a group of people near King's College in London, after which the driver is arrested.

From the Irish Independent, what is the meaning of the old Irish saying aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile, used to describe both Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor and U.S. President Trump?

From the Irish Examiner, the cost of rounding up stray goats near North Ring Road in the Irish region of Cork costs over €1,000 per goat.

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin agrees to a 30-day limited ceasefire against attacking Ukrainian energy and infrastructure targets.

From Free West Media, does Trump have any idea about what resolving the Russia-Ukraine war would actually require?

From ReMix, the Hungarian parliament passes a bill to prohibit pride events to protect children.

From Balkan Insight, there's anger but few answers in Kocani, North Macedonia after a fire in a local nightclub that claimed the lives of 59 people.

From The North Africa Post, Sudanese officials recover 11 bodies from a well in the capital city of Khartoum after government troops expel Rapid Support Forces fighters from the area.

From The New Arab, will the new agreement between Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the Syrian Democratic Forces result in a new chapter for Syrian Kurds, or just a temporary truce?

From ABP Live, violence erupts in Nagpur, India over rumors of a Koran being burnt.

From the Daily Mail, French riot policemen finally clear the Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris of the hundreds of migrants who were illegally occupying it.

From Gatestone Institute, the purpose of DEI is to tribalize our institutions.

From Radio Free Asia, villagers flee in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River delta as the rebel Arakan Army push into neighborhoods in the region.

From The Stream, will Trump's team investigate the coronavirus panic and the resulting medical fascism?

From The Daily Signal, oil theft is now a major crime problem in western Texas.

From The American Conservative, racing horses in the Virginia Derby.

From The Western Journal, Trump announces new appointments for General Michael Flynn and right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk.

From BizPac Review, according to a CNN poll, the aforementioned AOC is the new "leader" of the Democratic Party.

From The Daily Wire, the Rutherford County (Tennessee) Library board votes to remove books promoting transgenderism to kids.

From the Daily Caller, according to four sources within the Department of Energy, the Biden administration "intentionally buried" an inconvenient study to justify its ban on exporting liquefied natural gas.

From Breitbart, according to Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, the Department of Defense has an obligation to hold military leadership accountable for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From Newsmax, Trump declines to be interviewed by The Atlantic.

And from the New York Post, University of Michigan baseball player Mitchell Voit apologizes after celebrating a three-base hit by pretending to snort she-don't-lie.

Stories For Saint Patrick's Day

Top o' the afternoon to you.  On a cool and cloudy Monday, on the date when we celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, who wasn't even Irish, and whose real name wasn't Patrick (although some would differ), here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump takes aim at the Houthis in Yemen.

From FrontpageMag, meet a Marxist hate group who are trying to interfere with ICE raids.

From Townhall, is former congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) in trouble after then-President Biden's autopen use?

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration cuts millions more from grants to Columbia University.

From the Washington Examiner, new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney snubs U.S. President Trump and courts other "reliable allies" in Europe.

From The Federalist, voter turnout in Wisconsin proves the media wrong about voter ID.

From American Thinker, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) explains why the autopen scandal is a big deal.

From MRCTV, according to an Illinois mother, high school girls were forced to change in a locker room with a trans-identifying boy.

From NewsBusters, according to columnist George Will of The Washington Post, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is useless, and should therefore be defunded.

From Canada Free Press, the autopen was mightier than the sword.

From TeleSUR, Cuba rejects the use of the Alien Enemies Act by the U.S. to deport Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens.  (The article uses the euphemism "migrants".)

From TCW Defending Freedom, the religious rite of the coronavirus vaccination.

From EuroNews, after the collision of two ships off the east coast of England, small plastic pellets are found washing up on shore.

From ReMix, left-wing extremists destroy a mountain climbing route used by Freedom Party of Austria leader Herbert Kickl.  (If you read German, read the story at Salzburger Machrichten.)

From Balkan Insight, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issues an arrest warrant for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik.

From The North Africa Post, Libyan Education Minister Moussa al-Megarief is sentenced to three and a half years in prison for his involvement in a school textbook shortage.

From The New Arab, a tense calm returns to the Syria-Lebanon border after the killing of three Syrian soldiers by Lebanese groups.

From Gatestone Institute, do not count on Arab countries to rebuild the Gaza Strip or to help the Palestinians.

From Radio Free Asia, China and Kiribati explore the possibility of a deep sea mining agreement.

From The Stream, Ukrainians are the victims of both Russia and the deep state.

From The Daily Signal, Trump strikes the aforementioned Houthis and warns Iran.

From The American Conservative, what sensible reform of H1-B visas would look like.

From The Western Journal, what will the fate of Syrian Christians be under imposed sharia?

From BizPac Review, the Houthis claim to have attacked the carrier Harry S. Truman while getting pummeled by the U.S. Navy.

From The Daily Wire, Irish UFC fighter Connor McGregor warns Trump about the "illegal immigration racket" in Ireland.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL) has a message for Democrats and media outlets who "vilify" black conservatives.

From the New York Post, Tesla cybertrucks have some technical difficulties.

From Breitbart, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) postpones his book tour.

From Newsmax, two U.S. astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for over nine months are expected back on earth Tuesday evening.

And from The Babylon Bee and the "don't give him any ideas" department, a federal judge orders that the two astronauts are returned to the International Space Station.

Sunday Links

On a warm and windy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, peace talks with Russia were "positive".

From FrontpageMag, a D.C. judge claims jurisdiction over the entire U.S., and maybe more than that.

From Townhall, Border Czar Tom Homan reveals his theory about why then-President Biden let in millions of illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the "Red Scare".

From the Washington Examiner, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces the construction of more border wall in Arizona.

From American Thinker, a look at the D.C. swamp.

From NewsBusters, President Trump's team skips the swampy gridiron media dinner, which mocks him, the Chief Twit, and "big balls".

From TCW Defending Freedom, Western titans lead the reset that we need.

From Snouts in the Trough, let's celebrate the U.K.'s disastrous DIE hires - part 1.

From RAIR Foundation USA, the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas reportedly teaches children to hate America and justifies violence against Israel.

From Arutz Sheva, the BBC is accused of making "puff piece propaganda" for Hamas terrorist who hold Israeli hostages.

From Gatestone Institute, French President Emmanuel Macron and two French ghosts.

From Radio Free Asia, the U.N. is discussing the possible creation of a humanitarian aid corridor from Bangladesh to Myanmar.

From The Stream, to stop the decline of Christianity, Christians need to return to the fundamentals.

From The Daily Signal, a high school in Fairfax County, Virginia observes Women's History Month by teaching the ABCs starting with "A is for abortion".

From The American Conservative, Trump should offer a path to U.S. citizenship to Afghans who were our allies against the Taliban.

From The Western Journal, Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is arrested on an international warrant for alleged crimes against humanity during his war on drugs.

From The Daily Wire, Trump gets some "yuge" poll numbers.

From the Daily Caller, CNN reporter Scott Jennings gloats as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) votes with Republicans to defeat the "Jim Crow" filibuster against a bill to keep the federal government open.  (President Obama once called the filibuster a "Jim Crow relic", but its history is far more complicated.)

From the New York Post, Major League Baseball player Joey Gallo decides to try doing a Babe Ruth in reverse.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, the Democrats' popularity has sunk to a historic low.

From Newsmax, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the U.S. will keep on attacking the Houthis in Yemen until they stop attacking commercial shipping.

And from GBN, the Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust is trying to "decolonise" William Shakespeare's birthplace in Avon, England.  (via the New York Post)

Saturday Stuff For The Ides Of March

On a cool and cloudy Saturday falling on the Ides of March, here are some things going on:

From National Review, U.S. and Iraqi forces team up to send a high-profile ISIS leader and another terrorist to their virgins.

From FrontpageMag, an Indian graduate student at Columbia University whose visa was revoked for advocating for violence self-deports.

From Townhall, President Biden's daughter Ashley faces scrutiny from the IRS over an unreported donation from inactive U.K. royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel has some powerful friends in the U.S., and a few enemies, too.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump orders strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and demands that Iran stops funding terrorists.

From American Thinker, Senator Mark Kelly (R-AZ) exposes the Democrats' hypocrisy about electric vehicles.

From NewsBusters, the media's selective coverage of political violence.

From TCW Defending Freedom, there's no cure in sight for coronavirus derangement syndrome.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian mullahs can never change or be our "friends".

From Radio Free Asia, North Korean soldiers allegedly sell their equipment in order to buy food.

From The Daily Signal, driving in Washington, D.C. has become hell, and Congress should do something about it.  (When I go into or through D.C., I usually take the Metro or a MARC commuter train.  I can't even remember the last time I was brave enough to drive in that place.)

From The American Conservative, the Ukrainian military offensive into the Russian oblast of Kursk was a miserable failure.

From The Western Journal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio designates South African Ambassador Ebrabhim Rasool persona non grata.

From BizPac Review, former Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D, I-AZ) exposes the Democrats' hypocrisy about the filibuster.

From The Daily Wire, is the U.S. washing DEI and BLM off its hands?

From the Daily Caller, the emerging Democrat field for 2028 might not be too good for liberals.

From the New York Post, the ice cream seller Mister Softee opens its first ever brick-and-mortar store on Long Island.  (Mister Softee has operated out of trucks for a very long time.  Some of them came through my neighborhood in western New York state when I was a Littlefoot.)

From Breitbart, Vice President Vance gets booed by left-wing crybabies at the Kennedy Center.

And from Newsmax, the Chief Twit might have his own version of Russian collusion.