Friday Phenomena

On a warm and rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, against exempting seniors from property taxes.

From FrontpageMag, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) joins forces with U.C. Berkeley.

From Townhall, guess why Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just pardoned a refugee from Albania convicted of murder in the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the movie Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.

From The Federalist, the real "Citizen Vigilantes" are Muslims in Europe imposing sharia.

From American Thinker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tries to protect an illegal alien pedophile, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio gets him deported.

From NewsBusters, CNN downplays the illegal status of a man killed by ICE and his attempt to run over an ICE agent.

From Canada Free Press, is the "bunny hop" performed by singer Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an attempt to keep current Prime Minister Mark Carney in office?

From TeleSUR, the Peruvian government will try to determine how many visitors the archaeological site of Machu Picchu can receive.

From TCW Defending Freedom, carbon dioxide emissions rose yet again in 2025.

From Snouts in the Trough, has the U.K. been beaten by its blundering bureaucracy?

From EuroNews, rules for visiting beaches in Europe this summer include, depending where you go, bans on music, tents, umbrellas, dogs, horses and elephants.

From ReMix, Moroccans riot in Düsseldorf, Germany after the Moroccan national soccer team is eliminated from the 2026 World Cup.

From Balkan Insight, Greek police arrest three people for allegedly planting incendiary bombs outside the home of a politician in Thessaloniki, Greece.

From The North Africa Post, the World Bank warns that the economic recovery in Tunisia will be fragile.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sets this coming November 28th as the date of legislative elections.

From Red State, Moroccans riot in London after the Moroccan national soccer team is eliminated from the 2026 World Cup.

From the Daily Mail, an American woman is found bludgeoned to death in her home in Killarney, Ireland, possibly by her "asylum seeker partner" whom she met "at a pro-Palestine march".

From Arutz Sheva, U.S. President Trump makes a risky bet on "reformed" Islamism in Syria.

From Gatestone Institute, while China launches an ICBM, U.S. Senator Socialism (I-VT) proposes American disarmament.

From The Daily Signal, why strengthened defense ties between Japan and South Korea are good for the U.S.

From The American Conservative, delusional leaders are dangerous ones.

From The Western Journal, Trump tells Iran that the "ceasefire is OVER".  (Emphasis in original)

From BizPac Review, Democratic socialists tout their plan "to end America as we know it".

From the Daily Caller, an ICE officers saves a 14-year-old who jumped out of a moving vehicle.

From Breitbart, France spends about €1.85 billion on its asylum system.

From Newsmax, Trump's pledge to give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air-defense systems could take a long time to come to fruition.

And from the New York Post, a mysterious new symbol starts appearing in Las Vegas, resulting in online conspiracy theories.

A Sasquatch's Thursday Dozen

On a warm Thursday that went from sunny to rainy, here are 12 things going on:

From LBC, a man is arrested in Moygashel, Northern Ireland for allegedly burning a replica of a mosque.

From BNO News, a man in my part of the world is sentenced to 15 years for trying to join ISIS and plotting an attack against Jews and people who support Israel.

From IranWire, an Iranian official claims that U.S. President Trump was "spared" while he was in Turkey.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas's latest trick is leaving the government of Gaza while keeping its weapons.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what would Winston Churchill think of the modern U.K. of Lucy Connolly, imprisoned for a post on X, and murdered Anglo-Polish student Henry Nowak?

From FrontpageMag, Iran puts up an illusion.

From Townhall, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) presents another doctrine of his fake Christianity.

From The Federalist, Democrats in Maine convince former senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D) to step aside only because they realized that he would not win.

From American Thinker, the U.S. can attack "birthright citizens" living in China with the IRS.

From The American Conservative, Trump should veto the 21st Century Road to Housing Act.

From the Daily Caller, for the third straight year, the most common name for baby boys in England and Wales is Mohammad.

And from Reuters, Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler goes to the soundstage in the sky.

A Mountain Hike

Today I made like a good Sasquatch and took a hike in a forest on top of a mountain ridge.  Not far from my current undisclosed location is the Massanutten Ridge Trail.  I got onto the trail near an overlook, from which I took a shot of the landscape below.

Wednesday Whatnot

Now that I'm back from running around, in a different area, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what are Russian generals telling President Putin about the war against Ukraine?

From FrontpageMag, the socialists will eat the Democratic Party.

From Townhall, speaking at the NATO summit in Turkey, President Trump goes scorched earth against communism.

From The Federalist, former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan avoids prison for obstructing ICE agents.

From American Thinker, America's Founders would not recognize today's Democrats.

From NewsBusters, CNN cites a non-existent congresscritter as a source for information on Senator Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) health.

From Canada Free Press, Trump launches a "lawfare" portal to protect farmers and ranchers from radical environmentalists.

From TeleSUR, Bolivian bakers promote Marraqueta bread hoping that UNESCO will declare it a "heritage of humanity".

From TCW Defending Freedom, part 2 of an interview with former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss.  (TCW DF has announced that it will soon be discontinued.)

From Snouts in the Trough, in the U.K., is your foreign National Health Service doctor even qualified?

From EuroNews, Barcelona, Spain sets a new high temperature record.

From ReMix, a German woman tells a man whom she believes was stalking her to [bleep] off.

From Balkan Insight, the annual Peace March starts in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, marking the anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb military forces.

From The North Africa Post, the International Monetary Fund asks Algeria to stop printing money to finance its deficit.

From The New Arab, according to a rights group, Syria's Supreme Constitutional Court risks becoming a tool of the executive branch.

From Afghanistan International, according to a survey, 75 percent of Afghan respondents are dissatisfied with the Taliban.

From Arutz Sheva, an Israeli doctor once helped to save the life of Turkish President Erdoğan.

From Gatestone Institute, jihadists look to the Indian territory of Kashmir, but Kashmiris look away.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveals how then-Special Counsel Jack Smith and people working for him may have mishandled classified information.

From The American Conservative, in its decision on mail-in ballots, the Supreme Court misread the historical record.

From The Western Journal, the Treasury Department has no plans to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

From BizPac Review, Senator Mark Kelly's (D-AZ) scare story about Trump goes awry.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Brett Guthrie (R-KY) insinuates that the aforementioned Mitch McConnell is not even in Washington, D.C.

From the New York Post, where to go dining on California state highway 1.

From Fox News, according to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin of The View, the Democrats "botched" their vetting of senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME).  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, why Democrats want to replace Platner with a different nominee.

From Newsmax, Trump tells Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to discontinue all trade with Spain.

And from the Genesius Times, the twice-aforementioned Mitch McConnell gives a 17-minute press conference, pledging "no" on the SAVE America Act.

Tuesday Things

On a warm and rainy Tuesday, which prevented me from doing much exploring, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the woman who claims that senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) sexually abused her accuses The New York Times of downplaying her accusations.

From FrontpageMag, can the Iranian government be trusted to abide by any deal that it makes?

From Townhall, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History allegedly erases the American Founders and imposes "white supremacy culture" training.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a report, almost half of New York City's schools are failing.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Socialism (I-VT) calls upon the aforementioned Graham Platner to quit running for Senator.

From The Federalist, the Supreme Court's ruling about men in women's sports left one big question unanswered.

From American Thinker, after a Muslim migrant allegedly rapes a 16-year-old girl in Glasgow, Scottish police come up with a new euphemism to describe him.

From NewsBusters, 58 percent of Democrats now view socialism favorably.

From Canada Free Press, the long road to communism in Canada keeps getting shorter.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan government sets up 82 camps for earthquake survivors.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a left-wing U.K. bishop breaks ranks in the debate over a bill to ban LGBT conversion therapy.

From EuroNews, right-wing politician Marine Le Pen promises to run in the French presidential election next year despite being convicted of fraud.

From Free West Media, Poland decides to buy three submarines from Sweden.

From ReMix, 70 percent of tested "unaccompanied minor" migrants in Madrid, Spain turn out to be adults.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Debate.)

From Balkan Insight, meet the Albanians taking to the streets in the capital city of Tirana.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan tax authority used AI against organized fraud in 2025.

From The New Arab, can Iraq's crackdown on corruption succeed?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim bus driver in Ergoldingen, Germany parks his bus for several minutes in order to pray.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Arutz Sheva, several explosions occur in Damascus, Syria near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron is staying.

From the Daily Mail, media reports of the death of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad turn out to be greatly exaggerated.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, an Australian Muslim influencer is accused of faking charitable work for poverty-stricken children with AI-generated images.  (The last four stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian government's war on Christians.

From The Daily Signal, right-wing commentator Victor Davis Hanson, who wrote the article, tells New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) that he is a product of privilege and thus should act grateful.

From Radio Free Asia, according to analysts, China's Pacific missile test sends a message to American allies.

From The American Conservative, U.K. parliamentcritter Nigel Farage resigns his seat and calls for a by-election, challenging the "establishment" to defeat him.

From The Western Journal, a truck driver who killed a Pennsylvania state trooper in a crash turns out to be an illegal alien from Haiti who was given a Commercial Driver's License in Massachusetts.

From The Western Journal, "high-level sources" report that Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is brain dead.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, a visa loophole is "quietly crushing" young Americans.

From the New York Post, the aforementioned Mitch McConnell tells Republican allies that reports of his brain being dead are greatly exaggerated.

From Breitbart, about 73 percent of Italians want illegal aliens to be deported.

From Newsmax, according to a survey, the number of Americans taking weight-loss drugs has almost quadrupled in two years.

And from The Babylon Bee, the U.S. reenters the World Cup after President Trump deports the entire Belgian team.

Catherine Furnace

After visiting Cross Keys Battlefield, I drove northward and eastward to the Catherine Furnace, located southwest of Newport, Virginia.  I turned off of U.S. 340 onto Newport Road and then onto Catherine Furnace Road, which is full of gravel, exposed rocks, and potholes.  I thus had to be very careful with the Bigfootmobile, but after a few hundred yards, I found the furnace's parking area.  Here's the side facing the road.

Cross Keys Battlefield

Today I visited Cross Keys Battlefield, southeast of Harrisonburg, Virginia.  The Battle of Cross Keys took place during the Civil War on June 8th, 1862.  Confederate troops led by Major General Richard Ewell defeated a Union force led by Major General John Frémont, who in 1856 had been the first Republican presidential candidate.

Unlike many battlefields that I have seen, this one did not have any monuments or cannons.  It had some informational displays, such as this one near the parking long, scattered around the field.

Sunday Stories From A Traveling Sasquatch

Earlier today I arrived at my latest undisclosed location, the first in over three months, in central Virginia.  As it has been back home, the afternoon high temperature is in the 90s.  So while I sit back and enjoy the summery weather, here are a few things going on:

From FrontpageMag, Mr. Bill accuses the Donald of his own crimes.

From Townhall, despite some inclement weather, President Trump's America 250 celebration was one for the history books.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about George Washington.

From the Washington Examiner, Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow (D) drops out of the race for federal Senator weeks ahead of the Democratic senatorial primary.

From American Thinker, wokesters bring their weirdness to the America 250 celebration in San Diego.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW trots out "the science guy" Bill Nye to back up New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) thermostat scold.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s King Charles III cannot defend all faiths and still defend The Faith.

From The Times Of Israel, satellite images show construction near an Iranian nuclear site, an apparent violation of the MOU with the U.S.

From SOHR, 4,163 Syrians have been killed for their identities since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad.

From the Daily Mail, how did things work out for the far left the last time they allied themselves with Islamists?

From Arutz Sheva, the hypocrisy of the "free Gaza" movement.

From Gatestone Institute, NATO stages a photo op in Ankara, Turkey.

From The American Conservative, the architect of economic bubbles.

And from Click On Detroit, a man claims to have discovered a specimen of the possibly-non-existent beast whose name I have appropriated, and that its DNA is part modern human and part Neanderthal.  (via the New York Post)

Happy 250th Birthday, America

My fellow Americans, happy 250 birthday to the greatest country ever to exist on earth.  Due to the continued high temperatures, I've decided to take it easy today and not go anywhere.  So as usual, I now present a few things going on:

From Townhall, American patriotism is alive and well on its 250th birthday.

From The Washington Free Beacon, 250 things to love about the United States of America.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump and Senator John Thune (R-SD) share a friendly greeting after recent clashes.

From American Thinker, the birth of America was not easy.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post seeks to condemn the description of Native Americans in the Declaration of Independence.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a sad announcement.

From the Daily Mail, Egyptian World Cup fans riot in London - after their team wins.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is banned from attending his father's funeral.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's regime believes that is has "no choice but to build the nuclear bomb".

From The American Conservative, all honor to American Founder Thomas Jefferson.  (Jefferson and his political rival John Adams passed away 200 years ago today, on the 50th birthday of the country that they helped create.)

And from the New York Post, what were the temperatures like 250 years ago today in Philadelphia?

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, American has a 250-year winning streak.

From FrontpageMag, pro-Hamas rioters will soon have their own congresscritters.

From Townhall, two illegal aliens from Romania plead guilty to wire fraud in a plot to defraud SNAP.

From The Washington Free Beacon, preserving America's principles in a world without any.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump tells Second Lady Usha Vance that he has to be "careful" or he'll break President William Howard Taft's weight record.

From The Federalist, the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision is Chief Justice John Roberts's Roe v. Wade.

From American Thinker, the other declaration of 1776, made by General George Washington.

From NewsBusters, the media go the wrong way on the facts when it comes to girls' sports.

From Canada Free Press, the one thing that Christianity and socialism have in common.

From TeleSUR, FIFA decides to donate $500,000 to Venezuelan children affected by the two recent earthquakes.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s King Charles has become the "ditherer of the faith".

From Snouts in the Trough, "there is no economic growth" in the U.K.

From EuroNews, European police hunt for a Ukrainian woman allegedly involved in a bomb attack in Monaco.

From Free West Media, racism against the mixed-race "coloured" people of South Africa.

From ReMix, according to President Zelensky, Ukraine urgently needs more Patriot missiles after a Russian attack on Kyiv.

From Balkan Insight, in a retrial, former Serbian forces leader Ekrem Bajrović, an ethnic Bosniak from Kosovo, is found guilty of war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in May 1999.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian records a sharp increase in suspicious financial transaction reports between 2020 and 2025.

From The New Arab, the Houthis in Yemen threaten Saudi Arabia after an alleged intrusion into Yemeni airspace.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.N.'s human rights "experts" are "biased, bought and paid for".

From The Daily Signal, a review of a book about George Washington.

From Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan activist dies after setting himself on fire outside the U.N. headquarters in New York City.

From The American Conservative, President Washington's Farewell Address is still very relevant.

From The Western Journal, according to an opinion column, to make Colombia free again, it should be brought back to its Judeo-Christian roots.

From BizPac Review, White House advisor Stephen Miller gives an inspirational and timely speech to National Guard troops.

From the New York Post, in a road rage incident, a "Karen" in Santa Clarita, California hurls racist insults at her neighbor.

From Breitbart, singer Lauren Mascitti pays a musical homage to her great-grandfather's journey to Ellis Island.

From Newsmax, according to a survey, nearly half of Americans don't know what tomorrow's milestone commemorates.

And from SFGate, a resident of San Francisco goes from sushi in Mission, California to Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City.