Monday Stories For The End Of August

On a warm and mostly cloudy Monday on the last day of August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, more ships are passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

From FrontpageMag, what a Palestinian photographer for The New York Times shows - and doesn't.

From Townhall, President Trump sends Vice President Vance a video showing Iran's Kharg Island being blow to bits.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Maine state Senate President and federal senatorial candidate Troy Jackson (D) cosponsors a bill that sends money to an academy that employs his son as a lobbyist.

From The Federalist, leftists run out of Confederate statues to destroy in Virginia.

From American Thinker, Venezuela goes to hell and back in 25 years.

From NewsBusters, according to former Hardball host Chris Matthews, Trump is not Hitler but Mussolini.

From Canada Free Press, former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt should not join The View.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian authorities soccer players and their agents for alleged involvement in drug and weapons trafficking.

From EuroNews, Iceland's "no" vote on E.U. membership deals a blow to its security pitch.

From ReMix, an Afghan migrant convicted of raping his 18-year-old former partner gets sentenced to probation.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, two Kosovo Serbs plead guilty to setting up roadblocks and barricades during unrest in 2022.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Senegal reaffirm their "unique" partnership.

From The New Arab, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune calls for the death penalty for arsonists due to 12 people dying in the country's forest fires.

From the Daily Mail, an illegal alien from Morocco allegedly rapes a woman on a Spanish beach.

From Gatestone Institute, Egypt's Palestinian "unity" project will legitimize terrorists.

From The Daily Signal, the Supreme Court allows construction on the White House ballroom to continue.

From Radio Free Asia, Taiwan steps up its defense against AI as fear of China interfering with its elections grows.

From The American Conservative, the religious minorities who helped build Karachi, Pakistan.

From The Western Journal, the Democratic Socialists of America are in a "civil war" over their future as congresscritter AOC (D-NY) is slammed for "opportunism".

From BizPac Review, a columnist for The Washington Post wants the leaker who gave information to the paper to be prosecuted.

From the Daily Caller, the 20 biggest donors in this year's midterm election campaigns so far.

From the New York Post, a man whose job is to build homes allegedly burglarizes them and resells stolen jewelry.

From Breitbart, three Moroccans in Ceuta, Spain are arrested for alleged chemical attacks against Spanish military officials.

From Newsmax, the company Kalshi bans former congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) from its platform.

And from The Babylon Bee and the "don't give him any ideas" department, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) installs a Muslim foot-washing station at the 9/11 memorial.

Sunday Links

On a very warm and mostly sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote finally gets a lawyer.

From FrontpageMag, according to California Secretary of State Shirley Webber, gym IDs, student IDs and drug prescriptions are good enough to be voter IDs.

From Townhall, undercover audio shows that senatorial candidate Don Osborn (I-Neb) is hiding his left-wing beliefs.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.

From American Thinker, 25 years after the terror attacks on 9/11, unchecked mass migration makes the threat of terror worse than ever.

From NewsBusters, the Philadelphia Inquirer incorrectly labels Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a "Republican".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German teenager who converted to Islam allegedly fatally stabs his father.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From the Daily Mail, the Taliban's most infamous execution, committed in a soccer stadium in Kabul in 1999.

From Gatestone Institute, the specter that is still haunting the U.S.

From The American Conservative, the debate over the common good ignores most people's desire to be left alone.

And from Fox News, if you live in California, you might soon be able to take off work on an Islamic holiday.

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, ICE finally catches "the worst of the worst", as in U.K. citizen and visa-overstayer Milo Yiannopoulos.

From FrontpageMag, after condemning left-wing antisemitism, former senatorial candidate Alexander Vindman (D-FL) funds senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich).

From Townhall, the Department of Justice launches lawsuits against states that give illegal aliens in-state college tuition discounts.

From The Washington Free Beacon, trying to avert an "electronic Pearl Harbor".

From the Washington Examiner, according to an official from Ukrainian President Zelensky's office, Russia may be planning for a ground offensive on the cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv.

From American Thinker, one unreported fact about "teen takeovers".

From NewsBusters, are the staffers at Stars and Stripes journalists or government employees?

From Snouts in the Trough, the author of SitT does not understand why the people ruling Ireland and the U.K. are doing what they're doing to ordinary citizens.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian government's "only solution is to build a nuclear bomb and fire it".

From The American Conservative, what Vice President Vance sees in the late Louisiana Governor Huey Long (D).

From BizPac Review, the U.S. military sends a floating fuel station run by a narco-terrorist group to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

From the Daily Caller, the Second Amendment Foundation (figuratively) fires the opening salvo in a Supreme Court case over bans on semiautomatic guns.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Milo Yiannopoulos might be out of here permanently.

From Newsmax, the Israeli security agency Shin Bet confirms that there was a threat against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son.

And from the New York Post, President Trump will serve as the "honorary chairman" of the Presidents Cup PGA tournament.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the menace from....believe it or not....Canada.

From FrontpageMag, crime is up 1000 percent in Ceuta, Spain after the migrant invasion.

From Townhall, President Trump drops some "huge" news for ranchers and farmers.  (Or as Trump himself might say, some "yuge" news.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the movie Coyote vs. Acme.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. military zaps three drones with lasers at the southern border.

From The Federalist, ProFa networks panic after the State and Treasury Departments sanction their Italy-based tech collective.

From American Thinker, economic freedom is better than the cruelty of communism.

From NewsBusters, media networks go Sergeant Schultz over Iran's threat to First Son Barron Trump.

From Canada Free Press, Big Tech literally replaced concern about the customer with machines being slavemasters.

From TeleSUR, Argentinian authorities block over 300 domains that were illegally broadcasting live sports.

From Snouts in the Trough, were either the Cleveland police or the courts partly responsible for the deaths of two police officers?  (Since the article mentions a crash on the "A66", a British highway, the Cleveland being discussed would not be the American city in the state of Ohio, but a region within the English county of North Yorkshire.)

From EuroNews, a Dutch mental health institute warns about ecstasy pills shaped to look like the head of U.S. President Trump.

From ReMix, Spain's National Police claim that an attack by migrants against military vehicles in the Benzú region of Ceuta was pre-planned.

From Balkan Insight, according to a report, one out of every five women in Montenegro has suffered from domestic violence.

From The North Africa Post, tracing the history of Casablanca, Morocco, including its Anfa quarter.

From The New Arab, how Sudan built the very militia that is now trying to destroy it.

From Gatestone Institute, Syria has become Turkey's new battleground against Israel.

From The Daily Signal, gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand (D-IA) wants to distance himself from his party, but his record won't let him do that.

From The American Conservative, can U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham thread the needle between Israel and Palestine?

From LifeNews, Pope Leo XIV tells Catholic politicians that they can't be Catholic and pro-abortion.

From BizPac Review, three FEMA workers are fired for ignoring MAGA hurricane victims.

From the Daily Caller, according to newly revealed documents, Dr. Anthony Fauci tried to destroy emails about gain-of-function research.  (Silly Dr. Fauci.  Only former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is allowed to do that sort of thing.)

From the New York Post, oil imports through the Persian Gulf rebound to two thirds their pre-war level.

From Breitbart, Democratic Socialists of America leader Ahmed Husain praises communist China as offering an "incredible positive vision" of socialism for the world.  (Does he know about China's world-leading manmade carbon dioxide output, its persecution of Falon Gong adherents, its control of Christian churches, or its internment of Muslim Uyghurs?)

From Newsmax, about 90 U.S. citizens are unaccounted for after floods in Nepal and Tibet.

And from Fox News, right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos, a U.K. national, is arrested by ICE and held in a detention center in Alexandria, Louisiana.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday Tidbits

On a very warm and mostly sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, five more problems that the U.S. has largely solved.

From FrontpageMag, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed defends former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who harbored Osama bin Laden.

From Townhall, here what we know about a government shutdown possibly being averted.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Hollywood talent agency stands behind actor Mark Ruffalo after he makes an "antisemitic" rant.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump signs and executive order renaming Lake Ontario.

From The Federalist, the recently departed Dolly Parton proved that artists can be successful without vulgarity.

From American Thinker, what the defenders of accused murderer Lindsey Clancy have shown about American women.

From NewsBusters, Fox News highlights ICE arresting 1,300 illegal aliens while MS NOW goes Sergeant Schultz.

From Canada Free Press, when it comes to our taxes and votes, we should never trust and always verify.

From TeleSUR, Uruguay officially mourns musician Ruben Rada.

From Snouts in the Trough, nobody has any responsibility anymore.

From EuroNews, according to local media, two people are killed in a "violent incident" in Gosen-Neu Zittau, Germany.

From Free West Media, can the world survive Russian President Putin's mistake.

From ReMix, police in Rzeszów, Poland investigate graffiti saying "white lives matter".  (The graffiti said "white lives matter" in English, not the equivalent in Polish.  If you read Polish, read the story at toRzeszów and a related story at wPolsce24.  ReMix gave me some technical difficulties when I clicked there on Tuesday and did not publish anything yesterday, but now appears to be back to normal.)

From Balkan Insight, former Bosnian Serb Army leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić is no longer with us.  (On Tuesday, I linked a BI article indicating that Serbia made a request for his release from prison on "humanitarian" grounds.)

From The North Africa Post, a Moroccan company works on producing an AI-powered drone that would monitor water quality in reservoirs and behind dams.

From The New Arab, the death of a Syrian detainee sparks fears that Syria's prisons could become like those under former President Bashar al-Assad.

From the Daily Mail, the Berlin police department struggles to find recruits who can speak German.

From Tasnim News, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian calls for greater unity among Muslim countries.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas running in Gazan elections by another name would still be Hamas.  (To my surprise, GI did not publish anything yesterday, but is back today.)

From The Daily Signal, according to a report, the housing affordability crisis was caused by "too much socialism", not too little.

From The American Conservative, how to Russia and China from supporting Iran's war efforts.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Will Chamberlain exposes left-wing commentator Mehdi Hasan inconsistency about group responsibility for historical injustice.

From BizPac Review, congressional candidate Eric Hafner (D-AK) advances in the Democrat primary for Alaska's one House seat, even though he's in a federal prison in New York.

From the Daily Caller, Trump weighs in on Senator Ted Cruz's (R-TX) 2028 presidential ambitions.

From the New York Post, as part of a project to build 20 nuclear "micro-reactors" in the U.S., New York state will get its first nuclear reactor built since 1988.

From Breitbart, Bangladeshi Muslims living in Venice, Italy threaten action after a permit for a mosque is denied.

From Newsmax, more on Trump changing the name of Lake Ontario.

And from SFGate, after ignoring Las Vegas for 17 years, the Michelin Guide gives out some stars to the city's restaurants.

A Bit Of Wandering For Wednesday

On a warm and partly cloudy Wednesday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, five problems that the U.S. has largely solved.

From FrontpageMag, "woke 2" is even worse than "woke 1".

From Townhall, what jobs are created by data centers?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a news site funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros identifies senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) as a "veteran" in mailers sent to Michigan voters.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) rejoins the Democratic Socialist of America after an almost seven-year hiatus.  (Yes, the DSA was around seven years ago.)

From The Federalist, America can't make national treasures like the recently departed Dolly Parton anymore.

From American Thinker, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten tells people to avoid shopping at Target because they don't actively oppose ICE.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell claims that U.S. President Trump is "trying to restrict the use of the French language in Canada".

From Balkan Insight, a plea deal reveals the logistics of smuggling marijuana from Macedonia into Serbia.

From Jewish News Syndicate, London police are looking for a man seen wearing invoking a 7th-century battle against Jews.

From Organiser, a study by the World Bank shows how "conservative Islamic norms" return to Muslim countries with migrants.  (Is this "conservative" Islam one which advocates for individual rights such as freedom of speech and religion, free market economics, and limited small-r-republican government?)

From The Daily Signal, journalist Nick Shirley and Republican California lawmakers rally in Sacramento against the law intended to oppose him.

From The Western Journal, according to Israeli officials, a naturalized U.S. citizen who attempted to truck-bomb a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan was the brother of a Hezbollah commander.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Jessica Tarlov offers a "curious" defense of the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed?

From the Daily Caller, the aforementioned Dolly Parton recalled defending herself with the 2nd Amendment.

From the New York Post, the NFL's Pro Bowl has been played for the last time.

From Breitbart, the original anthem kneeler receives a humanitarian award.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter John James (R-Mich), the Democrats bear responsibility for the increasing visibility of the aforementioned Democratic Socialists of America.

And from Page Six, the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spend six figures to fly from Los Angeles to Birmingham, England on a private jet.

Dolly Parton 1946-2026

Singer/songwriter/actress Dolly Parton, one of the most successful artists in country music, has died at the age of 80 in Nashville, Tennessee.  Her nephew and longtime security chief Bryan Seaver revealed the news.  She had been admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with kidney and autoimmune issues.

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in a one-room cabin in Pittman Center, Tennessee, the fourth of the 12 children of Robert Lee Parton Sr. and the former Avie Lee Caroline Owens.  Her father was a sharecropper and later a tobacco farmer.  She started singing and eventually writing songs as a child.  After graduating from Sevier County High School in Sevierville, she moved to Nashville.  Her first success was a songwriter, sometimes in collaboration with her uncle Bill Owens.

In 1967, country music entertainer Porter Wagoner invited Parton to join his TV show The Porter Wagoner Show and his road show, staying on the former until 1974.  She then started a successful solo career, with songs such as Jolene, I'll Always Love You, Here You Come Again, and Two Doors Down.  In 1980, she starred in the movie 9 to 5, for which she wrote and sang its title song.  She later collaborated with many other artists, including Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on their album Trio.  Although Parton was known musically mainly for singing and writing, she also played instruments such as the guitar, piano, banjo, dulcimer, fiddle, recorder, autoharp and saxophone.  She also starred in more movies, including as Rhinestone, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk.  She created her own amusement park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Soon after arriving in Nashville in 1964, she met asphalt paving businessman and Nashville native Carl Dean outside a laundromat.  They were married two years later in Ringgold, Georgia.  It was the only marriage for both.  They had no children.  Dean passed away in 2025.

Read more at TMZ, Variety, People, ABC News and USA Today.

Tuesday Things

As the warm and mostly sunny weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the trade war with Canada is pointless.

From FrontpageMag, how two white liberal women in New York became Muslim terrorists.

From Townhall, ICE lodges a detainer in a Florida murder case.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Palestinian Authority schools glorify Hamas's attack on October 7th, 2023 as the West Bank government tries to gain power in Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, Governor Ron DeSantis (R) cuts tattoos, tanning beds and tobacco from Florida's welfare benefits.

From The Federalist, Department of Agriculture bureaucrats bemoan having to work at the office or in red states.

From American Thinker, the myth of Minnesota criminal George Floyd's overdose.

From NewsBusters, CBS calls out left-wing commentator Hasan Piker's antisemitism, but skips some of his other smears.

From Canada Free Press, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) knows nothing about politics and even less about finance.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela's oil production exceeds 1.23 million barrels per day.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K. leads the world in disabilities.

From EuroNews, Spain plans to reform its asylum laws to align with the E.U.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia again requests a "humanitarian release" of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian citizens lead the E.U. in removal orders in 2025 and early 2026.

From The New Arab, Egyptian soccer player Omar Marmoush is set to join the Manchester City club.

From the Daily Mail, a migrant boat hits a girl swimming in the sea near a Sardinian beach, and keeps going.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF and Shin Bet destroy five Hamas weapons storage sites inside mosques.

From Gatestone Institute, "the Islamization of Europe", as seen in Belgium.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, "the housing shortage isn't just about supply", but also about market access.

From The American Conservative, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) "is an opportunistic chameleon".

From The Western Journal, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed likens transgender surgery to circumcision.

From BizPac Review, senatorial candidate Angie Nixon (D-FL) changes her tune, but her opponent Ashly Moody (R-FL) gets fact-checked.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed's comments about circumcision.

From the New York Post, the son of the Iranian propagandist known as "Screaming Mary" tries his darnedest to stay in the U.S.

From Axios, President Trump claims that mines have been removed from the Strait of Hormuz.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, immigrant grocery store owners in New York City sue Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) over his plans to establish government-run grocery stores.

From Newsmax, the Secret Service is aware of Iran's threat against First Son Barron Trump.

From The Atlantic, is Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei no longer with us?  (via Newsmax)

And from the Genesius Times and maybe the "don't give them any ideas" department, Massachusetts passes a law requiring woman to have at least two abortions before giving birth to live babies.

Monday Links

On a warm and mostly sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, five problems ignored by the U.S. government other than the national debt.

From FrontpageMag, King Charles III and the demise of the U.K.

From Townhall, how would a scandal like that of the recently deceased professor Jason Arday play out here in the U.S.?

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Education proposes a rule that would require accreditors to take academic freedom into account when assessing universities.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump opens his "economic D-Day against Iran.

From The Federalist, 142 state legislators call on Trump to appoint a Census Bureau director to insure an "accurate" count of citizens in 2030.

From American Thinker, California abolishes the "free press" portion of the 1st Amendment.

From NewsBusters, former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom did more than wear a shirt before being ejected from a WNBA game.

From Canada Free Press, U.S. President Trump and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer respond to Canada's claims about trade issues.

From TeleSUR, Argentine professors call for a 48-hour strike over a university funding law.

From Snouts in the Trough, is it good riddance when "10 worthless scrotes" are unalived?

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron confirms the ban on mobile phones in high schools.

From Free West Media, tensions between Israel and Turkey raise fears of a wider regional conflict.

From ReMix, 80.5 percent of North African migrants in Switzerland are accused of at least one crime.

From Balkan Insight, a Ukrainian soldier recalls his captivity at the hands of a Bosnian Serb.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan company OCP bets on low-cadmium fertilizers, which would improve its access to European markets.

From The New Arab, Syria sentences former Grand Mufti Ahmed Hassoun to life imprisonment.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian clan leader has 32 children and receives €100,000 per year in child benefits.  (If you read German, read the story at Apollo News.)

From The Straits Times, arson and bombings occur in over 70 places in southern Thailand.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a senior official from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Hamas is impeding humanitarian operations in Gaza.

From Al Jazeera, more on the aforementioned Ahmed Hassoun.

From The Daily Mail, an 18-year-old Afghan woman begs a Taliban official for a divorce from her allegedly violent husband.  (The last five stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian terrorist groups are reborn as political parties.

From The Daily Signal, Vice President Vance gives a rousing speech in Middletown, Ohio about manufacturing investments.

From The American Conservative, Trump has good reason to reduce the defense ties between the U.S. and South Korea.

From The Western Journal, more about the aforementioned Enes Kanter Freedom being ejected from a WNBA game.

From Sp!ked, the myth of the aforementioned Jason Arday.  (I found this story linked to a post on YouTube.)

From BizPac Review, a Chinese humanoid robot runs the 100-meter dash even faster than Usain Bolt did.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) threatens to hold up Trump's nominations over a rule put in place under then-President Biden, which farmers claim violates their property rights.

From the New York Post, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas tears into the left-wing notion that black people can't be conservative.

From Breitbart, Iran reportedly puts a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump.

From Newsmax, more on the aforementioned "economic D-Day" against Iran.

And from The Babylon Bee, Canada promises to retaliate against Trump's tariffs by imposing a crippling moose tariff.

Sunday Stories

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

From FrontpageMag, an Australian judge rules that a Muslim with a tattoo supporting Hezbollah is not a threat.

From Townhall and the "you can't make this up" department, former Anchorage, Alaska Mayor Dan Sullivan endorses Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) over challenger Dan Sullivan (R-AK).

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book by a former Democratic Party operative.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump takes a ride in his presidential limousine around the Freedom 250 Grand Prix racetrack in Washington, D.C.

From American Thinker, the climate change grift might finally be on its way out.

From NewsBusters, CNN coverage of White House aide Natalie Harp omits some important medical information.

From the Daily Mail, 90 of the students at Germany's "most dangerous" school are migrants.

From Arutz Sheva, a Jewish woman claims that a taxi driver in Warsaw, Poland told her to leave his cab because she wore a Star of David.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe is in a free fall.

From The American Conservative, the poor record of the Latin American right.

From Fox News, congresscritter Donald Beyer (D-VA) admits a systemic "failure" after an illegal alien accused of killing his landlord escapes to Tajikistan.

From ZeroHedge, did Canada just commit economic suicide?

From the New York Post, SNAP enrollment declines by 13 percent in 12 months due to the "big beautiful bill".

And from Breitbart, more on Freedom 250 and Trump's ceremonial lap on its course.