Friday Phenomena

As the sunny and cool weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the delusion which is New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D).

From FrontpageMag, Mamdani will make New York's wave of sex crimes worse.

From Townhall, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) demonstrates that she regards some animals as being "more equal than others".

From The Washington Free Beacon, left-wing billionaire George Soros and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) combine to give Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones (D) $270,000.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) promises "swift legal action" if Speaker Johnson (R-LA) doesn't swear in congresscritter-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ).

From The Federalist, the "No Kings" movement is not protecting democracy, but suppressing it.

From America Thinker, why Russian President Putin won't stop the war in Ukraine.

From MRCTV, a video showing MSNBC correspondent Ken Dilanian admitting on Morning Joe that the indictment of former National Security Advisor John Bolton is legitimate, but still claims that it is political.

From NewsBusters, host Jon Stewart of The Weekly Show blames the federal government shutdown on "the Founders".

From Canada Free Press, TV journalist Don Lemon wants black Americans to go to war against ICE.

From TeleSUR, a bullet strikes a vehicle carrying Argentine senatorial candidate Juan Manuel Urtubey.

From TCW Defending Freedom, climate nuts need to get off the snow.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s GDP growth in August was 0.1 percent?

From EuroNews, the Party of European Socialists expels the Slovak party Smer, led by Prime Minister Robert Fico.

From Free West Media, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán accuses the E.U. and the Ukrainian government of plotting regime change in Hungary.

From ReMix, according to police, a driver allegedly intentionally ran over a cyclist in Düsseldorf, Germany.

From Balkan Insight, an explosion in an apartment building kills three people and injures at least 13 others in Bucharest, Romania.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Russia sign a four-year cooperation agreement on fisheries.

From The New Arab, a Lebanese judge orders the release on bail of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar left behind a written blueprint for worldwide jihad.

From the Daily Mail, a recently graduated university student is arrested in Sydney, Australia for allegedly trying online to motivate people to commit violent acts.

From Arutz Sheva, more on the Spanish priest who faces "jail time for criticizing Islam".

From Gatestone Institute, Europe needs to be more pro-business.

From The Stream, we on the right did not riot when activist Charlie Kirk was killed.

From The Daily Signal, the aforementioned Jay Jones is a "poster child for what's wrong with early voting".

From The American Conservative, against President Trump sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, the Department of Justice brings terrorism charges against two alleged ProFa members.

From BizPac Review, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers finds a way to tribute the late Charlie Kirk.

From the Daily Caller, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin admits that his position makes him want to pull out his own hair.

From the New York Post, U.S. families of terror victims sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority for their "pay for slay" program.

From Breitbart, left-wing TV host Jimmy Kimmel promotes the upcoming "No Kings" rally.

From Newsmax, the U.K.'s Prince Andrew decides to relinquish the title Duke of York.

And from Hot Air, Democrat strategist Lis Smith admits that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) and New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) used lawfare against Trump.

Ace Frehley 1951-2025

Ace Frehley, the founding lead guitarist of the hard rock band Kiss, passed away earlier today.  He had been suffering from bleeding in his brain which resulted from a fall he took in a studio.

Paul Daniel Frehley was born in the New York borough of The Bronx, the youngest of the three children of Carl Frehley and the former Esther Hecht.  Carl was from Pennsylvania and was the son of Dutch immigrants.  Esther was from North Carolina and was of German descent.  Ace's parents, brother and sister all played piano, his two siblings also playing acoustic guitar.  He started playing guitar at age 13.  His high school friends started calling him "Ace" because they thought that he was "a real ace" at getting dates.

During his teenage years, Frehley played in a series of bands, dropped out of high school, later returned and got his diploma, and worked several short-term jobs.  In 1972, he joined guitarist Paul Stanley, bassist Gene Simmons and drummer Peter Criss to form a new band, which they would name Kiss.  Frehley designed their double-lightning-bolt logo, with some touching up from Stanley.  When the band decided to paint their faces and wear costumes for their live performances, Frehley came up with a design that would become known as the Space Ace and later The Spaceman.

Frehley sang his first lead vocal on the song Shock Me, on Kiss's sixth album Love Gun.  In 1978, all four members of Kiss released eponymous solo albums.  Frehley's contained the hit single New York Groove, written by Russ Ballard of Argent but originally recorded by the British band Hello.  He stayed in the band until 1982, later formed his own band Frehley's Comet, and recorded several solo albums.  He rejoined Kiss for its reunion tour in 1996 and stayed with them until 2002, afterwards resuming his solo career.

Frehley is survived by his wife Jeanette, his daughter Monique, his brother Charles, his sister Julie Salvner, and several nieces and nephews.

Read more at TMZ, Variety, People, USA Today and Ultimate Classic Rock.

Thursday Tidbits

On a cool and sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump looks like he wants regime change in Venezuela.

From FrontpageMag, a half dozen powerful families in Gaza oppose Hamas.

From Townhall, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (D) isn't going to like a video montage of her appearances in social media.

From The Washington Free Beacon, several Minneapolis public schools ban white and Asian students from enrolling in "BLACK Culture" classes.

From the Washington Examiner, Hamas claims to have no more remains of Israeli hostages to hand over.

From The Federalist, The New York Times is angry that Trump's reported refugee reform prioritizes people willing to learn English and to assimilate.

From American Thinker, the stubborn myth that there was tolerance in al-Andalus.

From MRCTV, a video showing congresscritter AOC (D-NY) accusing an accounting firm of "poisoning" rivers and mentioning "air that's drinkable".

From NewsBusters, according to a study, CNN town halls are much harder on Trump than on Democratic guests.

From Canada Free Press, recently fired Penn State football coach James Franklin's contract could be very expensive for the school, unless he finds employment elsewhere.

From TeleSUR, the Catholic Church will soon canonize Venezuelans José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles.

From TCW Defending Freedom, perhaps U.S. President Trump knows what he's doing.

From Snouts in the Trough, the "Great Replacement" just another conspiracy theory?

From EuroNews, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signs a law that abolishes the personal income tax for parents raising at least two children.

From ReMix, about 34.1 percent of babies former in France have at least one foreign-born parent.

From Balkan Insight, a planned protest by war veterans in Tirana, Albania sparks tension between the Albanian and Kosovo prime ministers.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan Ambassador to the U.N. Omar Hilale defends his country's sovereignty over the region of Western Sahara.

From The New Arab, upcoming elections in Iraq are clouded by mistrust, expected low turnout, and fears of vote-buying.

From The Times Of Israel, anti-Israel rioters in Barcelona, Spain break store windows and light fires.

From Jewish News Syndicate, why Muslims reject the movement Queers for Palestine, and why it rejects Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, Qatar and Turkey want to rebuild Hamas, not Gaza.

From Radio Free Asia, the junta that rules Myanmar admits that it can't conduct an election across the entire country.

From The Stream, condemn wicked speech, but don't get involved in double standards.

From The Daily Signal, defensive use of guns proves that armed citizens are not "vampires".

From The American Conservative, President Bush the Younger in the eye of a hurricane.

From The Western Journal, the Trump administration is reportedly retooling the IRS to go after left-wing groups that fund political violence.

From BizPac Review, a Florida judge temporarily blocks Miami Dade College from donating land to the state to be used for Trump's presidential library.

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, congresscritter John James (R-Mich) is favored to win the gubernatorial election in Michigan.

From the New York Post, Trump announces that he will meet Russian President Putin in Budapest, Hungary in a bid to end the war in Ukraine.

From Breitbart, the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico sounds the alarm after drug cartel operatives use drones to drop explosive devices near the tourist hotspot of Playas de Tijuana.

From Newsmax, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) exposes his fellow Democrats on the government shutdown and the failure of Obamacare.

And from SFGate, a rare species of plant is found in the Vasco Hills Regional Preserve in Contra Costa County, California.

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, why the Trump administration is offering a bailout to Argentina.  (We don't usually do that sort of thing, do we?)

From FrontpageMag, the courage of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

From Townhall, will Hamas soon find out?

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) call for the Treasury Department to investigate CAIR for alleged "financial links to Hamas".

From the Washington Examiner, against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's "swamptastic" rules for the press.

From The Federalist, President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for something that has nothing to do with the ceasefire in Gaza.

From American Thinker, how digital IDs make the American Dream impossible.

From MRCTV, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and reporter Jacob Soboroff spin for the Democrats so badly that a Democrat corrects them.

From NewsBusters, actor Bradley Whitford claims that Trump has "internment camps".  (This actor should not be confused with the Aerosmith guitarist.)

From Canada Free Press, Western elites continue to fearmonger about practicing Christians.

From TeleSUR, Colombia decides to skip the Summit of the Americas because Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have been excluded.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the elites who run communist China.

From Snouts in the Trough, shall we do the math on "genocide"?

From EuroNews, according to leaked information, the E.U. plans on having a "drone wall" against Russia by the end of 2027.

From Free West Media, rumors of drones overflying Denmark appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

From ReMix, according to presidential aide Marcin Przydacz, Poland accepted its limit of refugees from Ukraine.  (If you read Polish, read the story at RMF24.)

From Balkan Insight, according to Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein, Croatian anti-fascists "were on the right side" during World War II.

From The North Africa Post, the Chinese tire maker Shandong Yongsheng Rubber Group Co., Ltd. starts building a plant in Morocco's Betoya Free Zone.

From The New Arab, according to a Reuters investigation, the Assad regime in Syria moved a mass grave containing thousands of bodies, the process taking two years.

From the Daily Mail, a British woman in Turkey is blackmailed into donating her dying father's kidney.

From Iran International, an Iranian Kurdish Sunni cleric is shot and killed outside his home in İstanbul, Turkey.

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas transfers a body to Israel, which was not that of an Israeli hostage, but of a Gazan wearing an IDF uniform.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the Democratic Socialists of America issue a combative statement about Israel.

From Afghanistan International, Pakistan reaps the Taliban problem that they sowed.

From Gatestone Institute, it's time to seize China's companies.

From The Stream, two French authors claim that science points to God, and scientists listen.

From The Daily Signal, Republican congresscritters join Trump's war against ProFa.

From The American Conservative, Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has not been much of a peacemaker or lover of democracy.

From The Western Journal, celebrating the death of the aforementioned Charlie Kirk costs several foreigners their visas.

From BizPac Review, Trump asserts that Hamas will disarm or be disarmed.

From the Daily Caller, half of the people arrested over an alleged operation to steal donated clothes from charity bins are illegal aliens.

From Breitbart, Republican congresscritters draft a bill that would allow states to issue commercial drivers licenses to migrants who have a lawful immigration status.

From Newsmax, the Republican National Committee accuses Democrats of using "service members as political leverage".

And from the New York Post, actress and writer Miriam Katz goes on a mission to interview every person with whom she has had any sort of romantic relationship.

Tuesday Things

As the cool and cloudy weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why Democrat activists can't celebrate the ceasefire that they demanded.

From FrontpageMag, why no female hostages taken by Hamas were returned alive to Israel.

From Townhall, you won't believe who's living in the Virginia home of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).

From The Washington Free Beacon, Virginia Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Wincome Earle-Searles's (R) campaign launches a seven-figure ad buy pointing out her opponent Abigail Spanberger's (D) refusal to withdraw her endorsement of attorney general candidate Jay Jones (D).

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) turns up the heat on the Democrats over the federal government shutdown.

From The Federalist, the man whom the left calls a "Nazi" just signed a peace deal that millions of Jews.

From American Thinker, without the surge of illegal immigration on then-President Biden's watch, mass deportations would be unnecessary.

From MRCTV, a podcast about how the "Open Society Foundations" back the violent far-left fringe.

From NewsBusters, Saturday Night Live portrays critics of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) as paranoid Islamophobes.

From Canada Free Press, "blessed be the dealmakers".

From TeleSUR, a prison break by members of the gang Barrio 18 from a Guatemalan prison leads to President Bernardo Arevalo possibly making a change in his cabinet.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a power grab to create a two-tiered response to public chants.

From EuroNews, a general strike against proposed public spending cuts disrupts travel across Belgium.

From ReMix, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán, U.S. President Trump "did what others thought was impossible".

From Balkan Insight, Serbia again convicts three Serb fighters who abducted 20 passengers from the Štrpci railroad station in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993.

From The North Africa Post, the British airline Jet2 launches a new route from Newcastle, England to Marrakesh, Morocco.  (Will Graham Nash now have to sing "flying..." instead of "riding on the Marrakesh express"?)

From The New Arab, Tunisian army personnel fire teargas to disperse protesters in the city of Gabes.

From The Jerusalem Post, how Hamas kept Israeli hostages in chains.

From the Daily Mail, Hamas executes Gazan civilians.

From BBC News, who are the released Israeli hostages?

From Gatestone Institute, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is on the wrong side of history.

From Radio Free Asia, the U.S. and the U.K. sanction a Cambodian conglomerate for alleged involvement in scams.

From The Stream, "Trump has the right idea" about preventing another civil war.

From The Daily Signal, the Maryland Supreme Court will get to decide on a climate change case against oil companies.

From The American Conservative, yes, U.S. President Trump can end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, the New Zealand parliament is suspended after an unexpected Māori haka breaks out.

From BizPac Review, a Chicago TV producer [bleep]s around with ICE and finds out.

From the Daily Caller, American activist Linda Sarsour is unexpectedly on the guest list of a conference in Turkey put on by an allegedly Hamas-linked group.

From the New York Post, everything to know about the "National Day of Remembrance" for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

From Breitbart, Hollywood's silence about the peace deal between Israel and Hamas shows that they never really wanted one.

From Newsmax, dashcam video footage contradicts actor Alec Baldwin's version of events that led to his crashing his car into a tree.

And from the Genesius Times, the GT releases its debut single Everyone I Don't Like Is Hitler.

Stories For Columbus Day

On a cool and cloudy Monday falling on the observed Columbus Day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a hard-fought win for Israel.

From FrontpageMag, why Christopher Columbus draws so much venom from the left.

From Townhall, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's (D) wife mourns the death of a Hamas propagandist.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the 20 remaining living hostages held by Hamas return to Israel.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump proclaims the recognition of Columbus.

From The Federalist, why Democrats demonize Columbus and lionize Communist mass murderer Che Guevara.

From American Thinker, how fear, when it comes to the climate, has replaced science.

From MRCTV, a video showing a college student trying to explain her major.  (Warning:  If you listen to it, you might become stupider as a result.)

From NewsBusters, Vice President Vance calls out NBC News noting boos at Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu while skipping applause for U.S. President Trump.

From Canada Free Press, the latest news on the release of Israeli hostages and the peace plan for Gaza.

From Snouts in the Trough, will U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer get the Nobel Peace Prize?

From EuroNews, two Russian citizens in Poland are charged with spying for Russia.

From Free West Media, the Pentagon admits that an Iranian missile hit a communications dome at a U.S. base in Qatar.

From ReMix, China disproves the myth that the West needs foreigners in order to have an economic future.

From Balkan Insight, an AI "candidate" is proposed for the mayoral election in Tirana, Albania.

From The North Africa Post, a kamikaze drone is tested in Morocco.

From The New Arab, Egypt awards Trump the Order of the Nile award for his efforts to bring about the truce in Gaza.

From the Daily Mail, the aforementioned Keir Starmer arrives in Egypt for the peace summit.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Israel decries the opening of the Nova Café in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, the peace deal between Israel and Hamas is "terrible".

From Gatestone Institute, Trump brings "diplomacy with a baseball bat".

From Radio Free Asia, China arrests the founder and dozens of pastors and members of an underground church.

From The Stream, thousands of Israelis in Tel Aviv chant "Thank you, Trump".

From The Daily Signal, the attorney general race in Virginia might show some proof of the Charlie Kirk effect.

From The American Conservative, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) searches for the real MAGA.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Prime Minister Netanyahu nominates Trump for the Israel Prize.

From BizPac Review, Attorney General and former congresscritter Keith Ellison (D-Min) claims ignorance about ProFa, but evidence left on the Internet proves otherwise.

From the Daily Caller, Israeli police quickly remove two knessetcritters who heckled Trump during his speech celebrating the peace deal.

From the New York Post, the Israeli hostage who was forced by Hamas to dig his own grave is reunited with his parents.

From Breitbart, during his speech, Trump alleges that decades of terrorism and jihadism have backfired on their perpetrators.

From Newsmax, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the federal government shutdown is starting to affect the American economy.

And from The Babylon Bee, people who have been calling for a ceasefire in Gaza for two years now denounce the ceasefire in Gaza.

Sunday Stories

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

From National Review, the Israeli hostages who are expected to soon be freed.

From FrontpageMag, the U.S. is paying a high price to Qatar for a deal that Hamas is already violating.

From Townhall, Vice President Vance roasts former Mr. Bill henchman George Stephanopoulos during a live TV interview.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about World War II in 1942.

From the Washington Examiner and the "believe it or not" department, Democrats credit President Trump for the peace deal between Israel and Hamas.

From American Thinker, as Columbus Day approaches, leftists bring out their lies about Columbus.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC spreads the fake news that ICE allegedly used zip ties on children, which Fox News debunks.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is Pope Leo XIV Catholic?

From the Daily Mail, a pro-HamasPalestinian protest in Bern, Switzerland turns violent.

From Arutz Sheva, imagine a world without alcoholic beverages, which would be an Islamic world.

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian Authority's campaign to undermine the relations between Christians and Israel.

From The Stream, a singer goes from a small voice to her God-sized dream.

From The Daily Signal, "Columbus Day celebrates our civilization", which was carried across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, which is why the holiday has so many enemies.

From The American Conservative, the committee in charge of the Nobel Peace Prize goes to war.

From The Western Journal, fans don't appreciate Amazon editing guns out of pictures of James Bond.

From Breitbart, migrants in the U.K. reportedly receive £10 billion in welfare benefits.

And from the New York Post, how a serial burglar exploited New York City's bail laws, and how he was finally locked up.

Saturday Links

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

From FrontpageMag, some of the victims of Hamas terrorists who are being freed as part of the peace deal with Israel.

From Townhall, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger's (D) reaction about political violence has become a brutal ad.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Israel's strength led to peace.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Biden starts radiation and hormone therapy for his cancer.

From American Thinker, President Trump has succeeded in the Middle East by not doing what Democrats did.

From NewsBusters, the MSNBC show Morning Joe hails congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a working class hero.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the New World Order points its (figurative, so far) guns at the platform X.

From Snouts in the Trough, native British die homeless while illegal migrants live in luxury.

From The Jerusalem Post, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders suspends his campaign due to a possible security threat.

From the Daily Mail, while pro-HamasPalestine supporters chant "death to the IDF", police in London arrest pro-Israel demonstrators.

From RAIR Foundation USA, former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf backs a new "Muslim Impact Forum".

From Gatestone Institute, why Iran must be prevented from selling its oil.

From Radio Free Asia, North Korea shows off its new intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in the capital city of Pyongyang.

From The Stream, a video about the Ruth Institute's amicus curiae brief opposing Colorado's "must stay gay" law.

From The Daily Signal, why aren't all those activists who called for a ceasefire in Gaza celebrating the peace deal brokered by U.S. President Trump?

From The American Conservative, "college basketball loses its patron saint", who lived to be 106.

And from The Western Journal, a long-lost Roman grave marker turns up in an overgrown backyard in New Orleans.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, a member of the Arlington County, Virginia school board sympathized with a sex offender who claimed to be transgender in order to expose himself in female locker rooms and bathrooms.

From FrontpageMag, with the peace deal with Hamas, the U.S. could be repeating its mistakes made in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From Townhall, Democrats double down on their support for California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter.

From The Washington Free Beacon, CNN host Kasie Hunt tries to excuse New York Attorney General Letitia James's alleged mortgage fraud with an "everybody does it" type of excuse.

From the Washington Examiner, the shutdown-related federal government layoffs have begun.

From The Federalist, the Democratic Party's establishment is giving up on democracy.

From American Thinker, Russian President Putin eviscerates the Nobel Prize committee for passing over U.S. President Trump.

From MRCTV, nominees for the worst media take of the week.

From NewsBusters, left-wing media networks bury a leftist attempt to bomb a church service traditionally attended by several Supreme Court justices.

From Canada Free Press, manufacturing is back.

From TeleSUR, former Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, after being removed from office, appears to have gone missing.

From TCW Defending Freedom, can U.K. opposition leader Kemi Badenoch defeat the green blob?

From Snouts in the Trough, what happened to the story of a man who allegedly set fire to a mosque in Peacehaven, England?

From EuroNews, NATO will conduct an exercise next week, focusing on protecting its nuclear weapons.

From ReMix, ProFa conducts a wave of terrorism in Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia has a destructive appetite for date mussels, despite a ban on harvesting them.  (During my trip to Croatia in 2007, I learned that mussels are a popular appetizer there.  Hopefully, we didn't consume any banned date mussels.)

From The North Africa Post, Algeria allegedly vassalizes Tunisia with a defense agreement.

From The New Arab, Syrian authorities arrest an officer of the former Assad government for allegedly crimes against civilians in the province of Daraa.

From The Times Of Israel, Indonesia decides to block Israel's team from participating in the world gymnastics championships.

From The Jerusalem Post, a synagogue in Minneapolis is vandalized with antisemitic and pro-Hamas graffiti on the anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

From Gatestone Institute, is Germany headed towards a left-wing reich?

From The Stream, about democracy, republics, rights, and the American founders.

From The Daily Signal, Trump is not "declaring" a civil war in Chicago, but preventing one.

From The American Conservative, Democrats take a trick from the Tea Party movement from a few years ago.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Katie Porter once fired a staffer for being distracted by the murder of her best friend.

From BizPac Review, more left-wing violence that will largely be overlooked.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice charges a man who allegedly sent a death threat to right-wing activist Benny Johnson.

From the New York Post, Pope Leo XIV condemns.......clickbait.

From Breitbart, First Lady Melania Trump announces the reunification of eight Ukrainian children who had been held in Russia with their families.

And from Newsmax, bassist-singer John Lodge of the Moody Blues goes to the musical stage in the sky.

Thursday Tidings

On a sunny and cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Colorado is still confused on both free speech and gender.

From FrontpageMag, "the victory that saved Western civilization" should still inspire us today.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, we on the right are winning important victories.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Supreme Court will hear a case about a strangly shaped black majority congressional district in Louisiana.

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) will be the first in his position to take calls on C-SPAN in over 20 years.

From The Federalist, according to a lawsuit, those who read Michigan's voter rolls see dead people.

From American Thinker, Christian Zionism has been around for a while.

From MRCTV, a video about the left's quest to find leadership.

From NewsBusters, the Congressional Budget Office recorded a surplus in September.

From Canada Free Press, the age of the Paris Climate Agreement is over.

From TeleSUR, former Bolivian President Evo Morales rejects alleged attempts to delay his country's presidential elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. doesn't have room to add the equivalent population of the city of Sheffield every year.

From EuroNews, President Putin admits that Russian air defenses shot down an Azerbaijani passenger airplane in 2024.

From ReMix, a record 6 million foreigners live in France, with 400,000 of them arriving in 2024.

From Balkan Insight, Greek police arrest ten members of a Pakistani organization for allegedly trafficking and exploiting workers from Nepal.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Nigeria establish a joint venture to manage their planned gas pipeline project.

From The New Arab, a Lebanese Christian parliamentcritter proposes to turn tunnels dug by terror group Hezbollah into wine cellars.

From Gatestone Institute, who should not be allowed to play any role in post-war Gaza?

From Radio Free Asia, according to a report from Taiwan, China is sharpening its forces for a possible future attack.

From The Stream, the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England exposes the three most dangerous Islamic doctrines.

From The Daily Signal, Presidents Trump (U.S.) and Tokayev (Kazakhstan) show the U.N. its future.

From The American Conservative, could there be a Muslim equivalent of NATO?

From The Western Journal, eight people, including some non-citizens, are arrested in Texas for allegedly performing illegal abortions.

From BizPac Review, visiting Disney Company parks is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritters who called for a ceasefire in Gaza go Sergeant Schultz now that Trump has secured one.

From the New York Post, under a law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D), California will start phasing out ultra-processed foods from meals served in schools.

From Breitbart, Government Accountability Institute Director of Research Shamus Bruner identifies some of the funders behind ProFa riots.

From Newsmax, French President Emmanuel Macron seeks his country's sixth prime minister in under two years.

And from SFGate, a legal battle gets underway as two golf courses on the Hawaiian island of Maui turn from green to brown.