Hello from my latest undisclosed location in northeastern Maryland. Today was partly sunny and a bit warmer than yesterday. All the snow appears to have melted. Before I start exploring, I'd like to present a few things going on:
From The Jerusalem Post, soon-to-be-former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (formerly D, now I) issues an executive order barring city officials from taking action against Israel. (If anyone thinks that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) is going to leave Adams's order in place, I've got a bridge to sell you.)
From The Times Of Israel, Iranian authorities open a criminal case against the organizers of a marathon after female runners are seen running without wearing a hijab.
From Gatestone Institute, why should the Iranian government, now on its knees, be revived.
From The Stream, six myths about slavery.
From The American Conservative, let's make a bet on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's professional future.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the modern bureaucrat turns gold into [bleep].
From National Review, the U.S. should not make the job of censors any easier.
From Townhall, a naval lawyer destroys the left's complaints about President Trump's airstrikes against narco-terrorists.
From American Thinker, if you run into a "404 Not Found", it might be censorship.
And from The Indian Express, a driver rams his car into a Christmas event on the French Caribbean island of Guadalupe, killing 10 people and injuring 9 others.
On a cold and snowy Friday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the boring truth comes out about the alleged January 5th pipe bomber.
From FrontpageMag, Somali sex offenders in Minnesota.
From Townhall, another Afghan man is arrested for allegedly planning a mass shooting.
From The Washington Free Beacon, the IT firms which discriminate against Americans.
From the Washington Examiner, according to a delayed report, inflation rose to 2.8 percent in September.
From The Federalist, the U.S. Conference of Catholics Bishops undermine their credibility on immigration by making money off the trafficking of children.
From American Thinker, for military personnel considering "disobeying illegal orders".
From NewsBusters, news networks ignore an allocution from Venezuela's former spy chief.
From Canada Free Press, protesting from the left-wing red-green axis.
From TeleSUR, Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets force an illegal aircraft to land in the state of Apure.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was a dud.
From EuroNews, E.U. legislators agree to say nyet to Russian gas by 2027.
From Free West Media, the E.U. inevitably marches against globalism.
From ReMix, the arrest of a mechanic and his son who shot burglars while defending their workshop in Romagnieu, France results in outrage. (If you read French, read the story at BMF and Le Dauphiné Libéré.)
From Balkan Insight, young Bulgarians successfully protest against a proposed 2026 government budget, which fuels hope for more protests.
From The New Arab, the Popular Forces militia in Gaza confirms that its leader Yasser Abu Shabab has been killed.
From the Daily Mail, an alleged rapist in Gowa, Indonesia is given brutal vigilante punishment.
From Organiser, a terrorist group based in Pakistan reportedly recruits 5,000 women.
From Arutz Sheva, out of fear of its leaders being eliminated by Israel, Hamas bans them from bringing electronic or medical equipment to meetings.
From the Orissa Post, Hindu schoolgirls in the Pakistani province of Sindh are allegedly pressured to convert to Islam in order to continue their studies. (Orissa is a former name of the Indian state of Odisha. My spellchecker has no problem with either name.)
From Gatestone Institute, the Chinese social credit system is being forced on the world.
From The Stream, Turkish President Erdoğan and Pope Leo XIV weaponize the latter's pilgrimage against Israel.
From The Daily Signal, President Trump receives the first-ever "FIFA Peace Prize".
From The American Conservative, the U.S. military sends another alleged drug boat to Davy Jones's Locker.
From The Western Journal, the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Republican redistricting in Texas.
From BizPac Review, former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines celebrates the new Texas "bathroom bill".
From the Daily Caller, the Supreme Court will decide if Trump can abolish automatic birthright citizenship by executive order.
From the New York Post, wildlife officials try weird methods to lure a bear out from under a house in Altadena, California.
From Breitbart, several Minnesota Democrats allegedly received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Somali scammers.
From Newsmax, according to a survey, Americans have a strong and bipartisan support for Ukraine against Russia.
And from SFGate, the best poke fish in the U.S. is not in Hawaii, but in the California mountain town of Big Bear Lake.
As the sunny but cold weather continues on a Thursday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, whatever happened to the Houthis in Yemen, former President Biden, and the wildfires in and around Los Angeles?
From FrontpageMag, the story of a Democrat congressional delegate who texted Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing in 2019 just got more sordid. (This delegate is from the Virgin Islands, which are not a state, and thus has no vote in the full House.)
From Townhall, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) slams former Vice President Harris over comments she made about him in her memoir.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) once served on a far-left group which had policies hostile to police.
From the Washington Examiner, the FBI arrests a suspect in connection with the pipe bombs left in front of the local headquarters of the two parties in Washington, D.C. on January 5th, 2021.
From The Federalist, some Democrats would love to suppress free speech the way in which the U.K. does.
From American Thinker, former President Obama's presidential center is a "billion-dollar middle finger to America". (The article opines that it looks like a North Korean guard tower or a Jawa sandcrawler from Star Wars. I think it looks like a laser gun emplacement on either of the two Death Stars from Star Wars. I can imagine a few TIE Fighters flying around it.)
From NewsBusters, the U.K.'s Prince Harry tells TV host Stephen Colbert "I heard you elected a king". (You mean like they once did in Poland?)
From Canada Free Press, to stay sane, Canadians should ignore boasts and boasts from Liberals, read the Bible, and pray to God.
From TeleSUR, labor unions and rural organizations in Bolivia reject decrees from President Rodrigo Paz.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the delusional world of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
From Snouts in the Trough, it's good to know that the U.K.'s National Health Service has its priorities right.
From EuroNews, Spanish police arrest 11 people for allegedly smuggling in over 300 foreign workers, mostly from Nepal.
From ReMix, an Afghan migrant who stabbed in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany gets a lenient sentence for stopping his attack after the victim screamed. (If you read German, read the story at Aktuelle Informiert.)
From Balkan Insight, the Bosnian state court upholds the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a former member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, for allegedly committing war crimes in 1992.
From The North Africa Post, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is caught between inaccurate data a colonial ghosts.
From The New Arab, the Iraqi government reverses its designation of Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis as terrorists.
From Arutz Sheva, anti-Israel protesters try to storm into a debate about the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine being conducted in a building in Toronto, Canada.
From RAIR Foundation USA, funds for school choice in Texas have gone to a Muslim Brotherhood leader, who helped build recruitment and fundraising networks for al-Qaeda and Hamas.
From AMU, an Afghan man with alleged ties to ISIS-K is arrested near Washington, D.C.
From OpIndia, who is the Pakistani terrorist who allegedly wanted to kill everyone at the University of Delaware?
From Gatestone Institute, why President Trump's plan for Gaza is not a peace deal. (Emphasis on "not" is from the article's title.)
From The Stream, Somali Islamists flee Sweden after allegedly swindling welfare money. (If you thought that Somalis only did that sort of thing in Minnesota, you might be wrong. If you read Swedish, read the story at Expressen.)
From The Daily Signal, her case against Trump is finally dead, but Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis cost her county's taxpayers millions of dollars.
From The American Conservative, Trump's diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine is good, but here's how it could be improved.
From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned FBI arrests in connection with the January 5th pipe bombs.
From BizPac Review, did another Democratic Senator make a dog whistle calling for a military coup?
From the Daily Caller, a woman complains about people having to work in order to receive SNAP benefits.
From the New York Post, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Eric Gagne explains why Shohei Ohtani and two other Japanese players should play in the World Baseball Classic.
From Breitbart, the French government orders stricter security at Christmas markets due to possible terror threats.
From Newsmax, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers seize 57 pounds of fentanyl at the port of entry in San Ysidro, California.
And from CBC News, guitarist/songwriter Steve Cropper goes to the music studio in the sky.
On a sunny but cold Wednesday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the Catholic Church is clear in calling antisemitism a grave sin.
From FrontpageMag and the "I know nothing" department, Christians are massacred in Africa, as the West goes Sergeant Schultz.
From Townhall, the left will be [bleep]ed off at President Trump's pardon of a Democrat congresscritter.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Hamas's own internal documents show how it infiltrated U.N.-affiliated aid groups in Gaza.
From the Washington Examiner, Republicans enjoy congresscritter-elect Matt Van Epp's (R-TN) special election victory in Tennessee.
From The Federalist, the top five moments from the arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case about a pro-life pregnancy center in New Jersey.
From American Thinker, the U.S. Navy sinks pirate boats, just like it's supposed to.
From NewsBusters, only 24 percent of likely voters know that the alleged murderer of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was left-wing.
From Canada Free Press, celebrities show their climate hypocrisy. (To paraphrase a certain great Jewish man, before you pluck the SUV out of your neighbor's eye, take the private jet out of your own.)
From TeleSUR, Mexico plans to reduce its work week from 48 hours to 40 hours by 2030.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Labour Party lies because its policies are evil.
From Snouts in the Trough, the devil went down to......Westminster.
From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pushes ahead with a reparations loan from Ukraine, to which Belgium maintains its opposition.
From Balkan Insight, Kosovo authorities (again) ban the Srpska Lista party from participating in this month's parliamentary elections, which is harshly criticized by Western diplomats.
From The North Africa Post, Libya plans to accelerate the repatriation of illegal irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, but will grant access to public services to refugees from Sudan.
From The New Arab, according to Amnesty International, Sudan's Rapid Support Forces committed war crimes in the Zamzam camp in the province of North Darfur.
From Jewish News Syndicate, over 200 public figures support a petition calling for the release of Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.
From The Times Of Israel, a middle school in the New York borough of Brooklyn denies a Holocaust survivor a chance to give a talk because of his opinions on Israel and Palestine.
From Gatestone Institute, Venezuela's alliances against the U.S.
From The Stream, do humans really have free will?
From The Daily Signal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces new restrictions on visas for anyone believed to be conducting or supporting violations of religious freedom.
From The American Conservative, Trump should echo President Reagan when it comes to Israel.
From The Western Journal, singer Sabrina Carpenter slams the Trump administration for using one of her songs in a video about deporting illegal aliens, but she did worse to Christians.
From Brain Flushings, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revokes 3,000 commercial drivers licenses after an illegal alien crashes his truck.
From BizPac Review, Pope Leo XIV urges Trump to not oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
From the Daily Caller, a study on climate change and its economic effects published in 2024 is retracted.
From the New York Times, foreigners but 52 percent of newly built homes in Miami.
From Breitbart, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) submits a bill to remove non-citizens from welfare and to expedite deportations.
And from the Genesius Times and the "don't give him any ideas" department, Prime Minister Keir Starmer orders the arrest of anyone who says that the U.K. doesn't have free speech.
Now that I'm back from running around on a cold and rainy Tuesday, here are 12 things going on:
From Iran International, an Iranian court fines the U.S. $22 billion for supporting protesters during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
From Gatestone Institute, the strategic importance of President Trump's Office of Fusion within the Department of Energy.
From The Stream, can quantum mechanics help us to understand the soul?
From The American Conservative, Ken Burns's disappointing documentary about the American Revolution.
From The Western Journal, The New York Times defends Secretary of War Pete Hegseth from a hit piece by The Washington Post.
From TCW Defending Freedom, why the U.K. must ban the Muslim Brotherhood.
From National Review, the problem of fraud in Minnesota.
From FrontpageMag, anti-Israel protesters vandalize a memorial to a two-year-old boy who was killed at a synagogue in Rome.
From Townhall, guess how many illegal alien criminals New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) released back onto the street last year. (Tell me again how "no one is above the law".)
From The Federalist, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dismantles New Jersey's lawfare against a pro-life pregnancy center with one question.
And from the New York Post, retired New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia helps New York City transform a "dilapidated" field into a new sports complex in the borough of Manhattan.
On a sunny but cold first day of the last month of the year, here are some things going on:
From National Review, it's time to rethink immigration.
From FrontpageMag, "starving" people in Gaza are somehow able to buy iPhones covered in gold or diamond.
From Townhall, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) finds a demographic worthy of being deported.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Harvard University's divinity school hires a graduate who once assaulted an Israeli classmate.
From the Washington Examiner, according to President Trump, the conviction of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was a "setup" by then-President Biden.
From The Federalist, a list of gift ideas from each respective state.
From American Thinker, is money from Venezuela's cocaine going to terrorists killing Christians in Nigeria? (The story links to an article in The Wall Street Journal, to which you have to subscribe in order to read it.)
From Canada Free Press, a perspective on the shooting of two National Guard personnel in Washington, D.C.
From TeleSUR, a right-wing candidate supported by the U.S. leads the vote count in the Honduran presidential election.
From TCW Defending Freedom, covering Wales with solar panels would be economic suicide.
From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K. really needs migrants....not!
From EuroNews, the president of the International Criminal Court vows to resist pressure from the U.S. and Russia.
From ReMix, according to new data, knife crime in Germany has increased by 50 percent in four years. (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)
From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes committed in 1992 escapes from Serbia and joins Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan dirham has become a "safe-haven" currency in western Africa and the Sahel.
From The New Arab, Palestinian Christians hail Pope Leo XIV's call for a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
From The Jerusalem Post, police in the Australian state of New South Wales search for the culprits who vandalized structures and signs in the area of Bondi Beach with anti-Israel graffiti.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, at a Christmas market in Berlin, a Palestinian stall sells products that promote the destruction of Israel, with no objection for the city's authorities. (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)
From Arutz Sheva, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the suspect in the aforementioned shooting of National Guard troops may have been radicalized in the U.S.
From the Daily Mail, the man believed to be the new leader of ISIS was given sanctuary as a migrant in Sweden and later preached in mosques in the U.K.
From Gatestone Institute, why Qatar should not have any role in Gaza.
From The Stream, deranged liberals quickly blame Trump for the twice-aforementioned National Guard shooting.
From The Daily Signal, the Education Department turns up the pressure on American universities to disclose their foreign funding.
From The American Conservative, revelations from the Epstein files won't bring Trump down.
From The Western Journal, Trump is reportedly set to meet with cabinet members to discuss the "next steps" in dealing with Venezuela.
From BizPac Review, New York City's "serial spitter" receives some extrajudicial consequences.
From the Daily Caller, according to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey (R), WV National Guard member Andrew Wolfe has shown some positive signs while still in serious condition.
From the New York Post, presidential physician Dr. Sean Barbabella releases the results of Trump's MRI exam. (I almost misspelled the doctor's name as "Barbarella".)
From Breitbart, an article by Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) against the filibuster.
And from The Babylon Bee, in an effort to get journalist from talking about his fraud scandal, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) offers them free tampons.
On a cool, cloudy and rainy Sunday on the last day of November, here are some things going on:
From FrontpageMag, the fake outrage over President Trump calling Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) "retarded". (How many people now upset by Trump calling Walz "retarded" have no problem with left-wingers calling Trump and his supporters "Hitler", "Nazi" and/or "fascist"?)
From Townhall, Democrats downplay the terror attack against two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book by Senator John Fetterman (D-PA).
From the Washington Examiner, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) claims that Trump's pause on immigration from the "third world" is about keeping "brown people" out.
From American Thinker, a serious challenge finally emerges against the murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
From NewsBusters, the White House launches a "Media Offender of the Week" page.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the real problem with Islam.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Moroccan man allegedly threatens people with a knife at a Christmas market in Weimar, Germany. (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)
From The Jerusalem Post, a 19-year-old woman from Shahinshar, Iran is "disappeared".
From Jewish News Syndicate, protesters picket an Israeli-owned bakery in London.
From The Times Of India, three people are detained in connection with an explosion in Delhi, India.
From Arutz Sheva, a refugee from Afghanistan posts a video on TikTok allegedly hinting that he was building a bomb and planning to set it off in the Fort Worth, Texas area. (The previous five stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)
From Gatestone Institute, Iran's new race to make a nuclear weapon.
From The Stream, "awakening to the father cry".
From The American Conservative, rote responses to podcaster Nick Fuentes will not suffice.
From the Daily Caller, three teenage boys are charged with the murder of a man who "narrowly escaped death" on 9/11.
And from the New York Post, the New York borough of Brooklyn puts on a "winter village", which gets ripped for demanding a $12 cover charge.
On a sunny but cold Saturday, here are some things going on:
From FrontpageMag, a majority of Americans, including Democrats, no longer believe that college is worth the cost.
From Townhall, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) is still begging voters for money.
From the Washington Examiner, President Trump imposes a no-fly zone over Venezuela.
From American Thinker, the effect of mass and/or illegal immigration on entitlement programs.
From NewsBusters, according to an MS NOW analyst, Trump's FBI purge led to the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. (MS NOW is the media outlet formerly known as MSNBC.)
From TCW Defending Freedom, young people flee the U.K. in response to high taxes.
From Snouts in the Trough, can the U.K. survive the Labour Party's Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse?
From Allah's Willing Executioners, authorities investigate a "secret" mosque in Graz, Austria that allegedly incites hatred against Jews. (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)
From Juno News, according to an op-ed, "Canada has a brewing Islamist problem". (Juno News is a Canadian site. I don't know if this is a coincidence, but Juno was also the section of the Normandy beaches where Canadian forces, with some British forces, landed on D-Day during World War II.)
From Gatestone Institute, why is one small Jewish state a problem, but eight officially Islamic states are not?
From The Stream, an evangelical Catholic gives 11 reasons for his being an evangelical Catholic.
From The American Conservative, what's next, now that Ukrainian President Zelensky's top advisor has resigned?
And from SFGate, the tiny California town of Valley Ford becomes an unexpected travel destination, possibly because of a routing tweak on Google Maps.
Now that I've returned from Virginia on a cold and mostly clear day, with just a few snow flurries, here are some things, other than Black Friday shopping, going on:
From National Review, the tragedy of two National Guard personnel being shot in Washington, D.C.
From FrontpageMag, refugees from Afghanistan have killed 55 people and wounded 92 others, right here in the U.S.
From Townhall, President Trump announces a new plan to prevent future terror attacks here in the U.S.
From The Washington Free Beacon, why Trump's 48-point plan for peace in Ukraine may be pointless.
From the Washington Examiner, scientists find a possible explanation of how soybean oil leads to obesity, as new nutrition guidelines from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. loom.
From The Federalist, 25 gift ideas for the "trad wife" in your life.
From American Thinker, the "fishermen" were drug smugglers after all.
From NewsBusters, media leftists call "illegal immigrant" the new n-word and say crazy things about Trump and Vice President Vance. (I don't like the term "illegal immigrant", because someone who comes or stays illegally is not an immigrant, thus rendering the term self-contradicting. I prefer "illegal alien", and not just because of the song by Genesis.)
From Canada Free Press, a bill being considered in the Canadian province of Quebec would establish "secularism on steroids".
From TeleSUR, the Mexican Senate starts the process for appointing a new attorney general.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. has a marriage crisis worse than the wedding being lost to the coronavirus lockdown.
From EuroNews, Syrians in Europe consider returning home now that Bashar al-Assad is no longer Syria's president.
From Free West Media, despite previous problems, digital IDs are on the way. (I wonder how many people who oppose voter ID are in favor of digital IDs.)
From Balkan Insight, Romanian Defense Minister Ionuţ Moşteanu unexpectedly resigns due to a dispute over his academic credentials.
From The North Africa Post, a proposed undersea tunnel between Morocco and Spain is deemed technically feasible despite costing €8.5 billion.
From The New Arab, is the UAE quietly preventing Pakistani citizens from obtaining visas?
From The Times Of Israel, women in Tehran, Iran "let their hair down".
From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan in Vienna, Austria knifes his flatmate's hand allegedly for "praying incorrectly. (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)
From the Daily Mail, a teenager in the Netherlands is drowned in a swamp allegedly by her father and brothers in an honor killing, for "Western behavior".
From Gatestone Institute, Qatar tries to import Muslim Brotherhood policies into Western campuses.
From The Stream, Iran names a Tehran metro station "Virgin Mary", but this act is a farce.
From The Daily Signal, a woman working at a 7-Eleven is fired for defending her life with her gun.
From The American Conservative, why is the establishment ignoring newly released files relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
From The Western Journal, in response to the attack on two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, D.C., congresscritter Randy Fine (R-FL) wants all immigration to be halted.
From BizPac Review, a black political activist in Chicago lambasts Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) for his race-baiting policies.
From the Daily Caller, Trump blocks the entry of people from Afghanistan after the aforementioned attack on National Guard personnel.
From the New York Post, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moves to "cut off" illegal aliens from tax benefits and cross-border money transfers.
From Breitbart, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu finally declares a state of emergency in response to a string of brutal attacks and kidnappings against Christians.
From Newsmax, eight people are arrested in connection with a fire in a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong, which killed at least 128 people.
And from the Genesius Times, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) demands that "Black Friday" is renamed "Friday of Color".
