Friday, March 6, 2026

Jackson's Flank Attack

Today I visited the site of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's flank attack, which took place during the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2nd, 1863.  To my disappointment, the place had very little to see other than these informational displays.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has no one but herself to blame.

From FrontpageMag, the big lie about "Greater Israel".

From Townhall, according to former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, the mainstream media wants the U.S. to lose in Iran.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what victory in Iran would mean.

From the Washington Examiner, it's time to take seriously a 2028 presidential run for Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

From The Federalist, why Islam seeks shelter from the left.

From American Thinker, the fake alchemy of intermittent renewable energy.

From NewsBusters, President Kennedy's grandson proves that the media still bend their knees to his family.

From Canada Free Press, President Trump himself reads CFP.

From TeleSUR, the Brazilian Supreme Court rejects a request for house arrest filed by former President Jair Bolsonaro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, more evidence links coronavirus vaccinations to a worldwide increase in excess deaths.

From Snouts in the Trough, when it comes to U.S. action in Iran, why not look on the bright side?

From EuroNews, Hungarian authorities detain and plan to expel seven Ukrainians after raiding two security vans that were carrying currency and gold.

From Free West Media, the most shocking things in the Epstein files are the least remarkable.

From ReMix, Ukrainian President Zelensky threatens to send soldiers to Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's private residence.

From Balkan Insight, the Croatian parliament adopts the E.U.'s standards for the media and AI content labeling.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan researchers decode the genome of the argan tree.

From The New Arab, the UAE tries to paint a picture of normalcy as Iranian drones and missile fly overhead.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to the U.N., 100,000 people have been displaced due to clashes between Afghani and Pakistani border forces.

From the Daily Mail, police in London arrest four people for allegedly spying on the Jewish community for Iran.

From Arutz Sheva, why Europeans fear standing up to Iran's mullahs.

From Jewish News Syndicate, defeating Iran's wars of aggression.

From Gatestone Institute, the curious case of the "anti-Zionists".

From The Daily Signal, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the action against Iran is not a "dumb, politically correct" forever war.

From The American Conservative, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood takes on the rubber boats used by migrants to enter her country.

From The Western Journal, Trump lays out his demands for Iran.

From MediaITE, congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC) calls for an investigation of the aforementioned Kristi Noem.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, an illegal alien arrested and charged with over 50 alleged felonies is listed as "white" at his booking.

From the Daily Caller, U.K. counter-terrorism police threaten to throw teenagers in jail for social media posts. (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From the New York Post, former New York Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito shows that even being a third-stringer can be lucrative.

From Breitbart, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduces the National Constitutional Carry Act.

From Newsmax, the Florida Bar admits an "oopsie".

And from SFGate, another species in the San Francisco Bay Area is ravaged by the bird flu.

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, "Iran is losing its planes, ships, drones, and missiles" because of the U.S. military.

From FrontpageMag, the Israeli military strikes the headquarters of Iranian authorities who attacked anti-regime protesters.

From Townhall, President Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

From The Washington Free Beacon, after senatorial candidate James Talarico (D) wins the Democratic primary in Texas, some of his old Tweets resurface.

From the Washington Examiner, a "third-party" auditor investigating fraud in Minnesota received millions of dollars from the state's Medicaid agency.

From The Federalist, 10 times when Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) betrayed Trump and the MAGA movement.

From American Thinker, 47 years of Iran's economic war against the U.S.

From NewsBusters, the IDF debunks a left-wing media myth that Israel dragged the U.S. into a war against Iran.

From Canada Free Press, why attack Iran now?

From TeleSUR, Venezuelans observe the 13th anniversary of the passing of dictator Hugo Chávez.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's call for racial integration in the U.K. comes way too late.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is "the Muslim pander-man".

From EuroNews, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands sends naval ships to Cyprus.

From ReMix, Sweden's highest prosecutor decides against seeking the deportation of a teenage migrant who killed a man outside a restaurant in the city of Uppsala.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Upsala Nya Tidning and a related story at SVT.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatia responds sarcastically to being labeled "orange" on Serbia's list of "unsafe" destinations.

From The North Africa Post, the Canadian mining company Trigon Metals starts drilling in the Moroccan province of Tata.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah terrorists return to southern Lebanon to fight against Israeli troops.

From the Daily Mail, Iranian drones strike an airport in the Azerbaijani region of Nakhchivan.

From Arutz Sheva, the recently eliminated Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei bragged in 2025 that the U.S. couldn't do anything against Iran.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel and Somaliland show that size and location both matter.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) decides to call it a career.

From The American Conservative, boomer foreign policy produces lots of small fires.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Brandon Gill (R-TX) grills Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) over Somali fraud in his state.  (Let's go, Brandon!)

From BizPac Review, CNN gins up some new outrage as the approval nears for Trump's East Wing ballroom to be built.

From the Daily Caller, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduces a bill to eradicate fraud from unemployment programs.

From the New York Post, meet Trump's proposed replacement for the aforementioned Kirsti Noem.

From Breitbart, after U.S. forces sink an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, a second one is sent to Sri Lanka.

From Newsmax, Trump backs former federal prosecutor Kurt Alme to succeed the aforementioned Senator Daines.

And from the Genesius Times, watch the new movie Fat Gun: Doughboy.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Point Lookout Confederate War Memorial

While driving back from Point Lookout State Park, I made a brief stop at the Point Lookout Prisoners of War Memorial, dedicated to Confederates who were held prisoner at the Point Lookout POW camp.  The memorial includes a statue and a model of a wooden fort, both on top of a brick structure and surrounded by flagpoles.

Point Lookout State Park

After my visit to Historic St. Mary's City, I continued on to Point Lookout State Park, which is the southernmost point in Maryland west of the Chesapeake Bay.  Within the park are the remains and reconstructed buildings of a fort built during the Civil War.  Here are some of its earthworks.

St. Mary's City, Maryland

Although my undisclosed location is in Virginia, I was able to drive to some places in Maryland today.  I first went to Historic St. Mary's City, which was the capital of the British colony of Maryland from 1634 to 1695.  This is the reconstructed State House, behind some trees.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Tuesday Tidbits

On a cold and rainy Tuesday, which is thus unsuitable for exploration, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the new era of drone warfare spreads across the Middle East.

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) promotes Islam.

From Townhall, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirms that Iran was close to getting nuclear weapons.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel forces "flatten" the building where Iran's Assembly of Experts were gathered to select the country's next supreme leader.

From the Washington Examiner, how Trump can avoid a "forever war" in Iran.

From The Federalist, how to stay sane and not appear stupid when discussing the war against Iran.

From American Thinker, there are people and things that the Democrats hate, but whom do they love?

From NewsBusters, while ranting against Trump, Politico finally admits that the Biden administration was "dysfunctional".

From Canada Free Press, migrants and left-wingers are a greater terror threat than Islamists are.

From TeleSUR, the poetry of Jose Marti shapes Cuba's musical identity.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Little Ice Age was the climate change that modern doomsayers ignore.

From Snouts in the Trough, weep for the U.K.'s future or lack thereof.  (The article's date is March 2nd, but I will let it slide because it's a "Tuesday=Wednesday blog".)

From EuroNews, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy clash over the Druzhba oil pipeline, with the E.U. caught in the middle.

From Free West Media, "when rules collapse".

From ReMix, 501 Afghans sue the German government for not letting them enter as previously promised.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, Serbia has a growing network of "slippery" surveillance technology.

From The North Africa Post, NGOs call for the protection of human rights in the Tindouf camps in Algeria and praise U.N. Security Council Resolution 2797.

From The New Arab, a drone strike on a power plant causes a blackout in El-Obeid, Sudan.

From the Daily Mail, the Albanese government in Australia is under pressure due to a promise to an Islamic group that mourned the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is at a strategic turning point.

From The Daily Signal, NCAA football legend Tim Tebow testifies to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism about child trafficking.

From The American Conservative, the "colonization" of the U.K. comes for soccer.

From The Western Journal, the rock band Radiohead doesn't like ICE using one of their songs in a tribute video to Americans who were killed by illegal aliens.

From BizPac Review, for the second time in recent history, an airplane lands in the Hudson River near New York City.

From the Daily Caller, a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan honors the aforementioned Ayatollah Khamenei and trashes the U.S.

From the New York Post, the sickening reason why an illegal alien with 30 prior arrests was released by a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia before he allegedly hacked a woman to death at a bus stop.

From Breitbart, a loss of phone and interwebz services in Medina County, Ohio is blamed on a squirrel.

From Newsmaxaccording to special envoy Steve Witkoff, Iranian officials last month claimed to have produced enough enriched uranium for 11 nuclear bombs.

And from The Babylon Bee, former President Biden asks why Trump simply didn't bomb the twice-aforementioned Ayatollah Khamenei in the leg.

Monday, March 2, 2026

Two Sites In Virginia

Today I drove around to two places near my undisclosed location in eastern Virginia, which is in the same general area where I was during September of 2023.  A short walk from the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center west of Fredericksburg, Virginia is this monument to Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.  The road behind it is Virginia route 3.

Sunday, March 1, 2026

A Traveling Sasquatch's Dozen To Start March

Now that I've settled into my latest undisclosed location in eastern Virginia on a sunny and mild Sunday on the first day of March, here are 12 things going on:

From the Daily Mail, a man wearing a shirt that said "property of Allah" shoots and kills two people and wounds 14 others.

From Caliber, high school students in the German state of Nordrhein-Westphalia are told that terror by Muslims has nothing to do with Islam.

From the eponymous site of Daniel Pipes, how will the war against Iran end?

From Arutz Sheva, will the U.N. hold a moment of silence for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei?

From Gatestone Institute, does Iran have six scenarios for another war?

From The American Conservative, the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) is a "National Hostage Situation".

From TCW Defending Freedom, being suspicious of the U.K.'s ruling class is not paranoia.

From Snouts in the Trough, the BBC should get its international editor into Iran to tell us the "truth".

From American Thinker, Jews help U.S. hockey teams win gold medals in this year's Winter Olympics.

From Townhall, a breakdown of what happened during the first wave of strikes against Iran.

From FrontpageMag, no, large numbers of Americans are not leaving the U.S.

And from National Review, the Iranian people can't overthrow their government without having weapons.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Saturday Stuff For The End Of February

Now that I'm back after walking in a forest like a good Sasquatch on a sunny and mild Saturday on the last day of February, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the U.S. and Israel (again) bomb Iran.

From FrontpageMag, the Iranian people might have a chance to have liberty.

From Townhall, left-wingers stage astroturfed pro-Iran protests, and they are as bad as expected.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israeli officials claim that Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in strikes by Israel and the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump believes that reports of Khamenei's death are correct.

From American Thinker, Trump makes a "masterful" statement about the attack on Iran.

From NewsBusters, ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl suggests that the attack on Iran will prompt "significant blowback" from Trump's supporters.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why U.K. parliamentcritter Rupert Lowe is wrong to regard halal and kosher as equivalent to each other.

From Gatestone Institute, U.N. funding empowers the Iranian regime and other opponents of freedom, peace, and human rights.  (Due to the events reported above, the current Iranian regime might not be around for much longer.)

From The American Conservative, let's hope that the war against Iran is over quickly.

And from the Humor Times, testifying under oath, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admits that she never met Mr. Bill.