Sunday Stuff

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

From National Review, a federal court grants an injunction requested by the tech company Anthropic against the federal government's "supply chain risk" designation.

From FrontpageMag, some actions at "No Kings" rallies get ugly.

From Townhall, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) defends new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about "a new theory of human nature".

From the Washington Examiner, a look at the CPAC straw poll.

From American Thinker, why does a Canadian parliamentcritter deny slave labor in China?

From NewsBusters, speaking at CPAC, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr claims that President Trump is "winning" against the "fake news media".

From TCW Defending Freedom, can case law possibly turn the tide in favor of free speech?

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants sharia law, don't you?

From The Times Of Israel, Iranian authorities shut down a coffee shop chain over a design on their takeaway cups.

From Gatestone Institute, what might work in Venezuela might not work in Iran.

From The American Conservative, "antiwar art for conservatives".

From the Daily Caller, ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl presses Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) over the holdup of funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

And from the New York Post, Tiger Woods's newest mugshot appears on T-shirts.

Saturday Links

On a sunny but cold Saturday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, get ready for the all non-white X-Files.

From Townhall, Border Czar Tom Homan destroys the Senate for leaving ICE out to dry.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the only way to reduce to the price of oil is to finish the job against Iran.

From the Washington Examiner, the campaign against Iran benefits the U.S. and the world, not just Israel.

From American Thinker, RINOs have learning nothing from President Trump's victories.

From NewsBusters, ABC goes Sergeant Schultz over the House Ethics Committee finding congresscritter Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) guilty of ethics violations.

From TCW Defending Freedom, smart meters are not about lowering gas bills, but about government surveillance and control.

From The Times Of Israel, Iran's judiciary threatens to seize the property of a soccer player.

From the Daily Mail, Morocco starts killing dogs to "clean up" ahead of the 2030 World Cup.

From Gatestone Institute, leaving the Iranian regime in place would guarantee regional instability.

From The American Conservative, Senator Socialism (I-VT) believes that capitalism has its uses.

And from Gateway Pundit and the "you have been warned" department, left-wing radical congresscritter Maxine Waters (D-Cal) refuses to retire and could chair a powerful House committee starting next year.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, President Trump puts his autograph on the dollar bill.

From FrontpageMag, siblings from China allegedly plant an IED at CENTCOM headquarters in Florida.

From Townhall, a Secret Service agent reportedly shoots himself in the leg while escorting former First Lady Jill Biden at Philadelphia International Airport.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the House Ethics Committee finds congresscrittter Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) guilty of 25 violations.

From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Vance will be very difficult to defeat for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, but someone will try.

From The Federalist, Hollywood is trying to corrupt the work of author J. R. R. Tolkien.

From American Thinker, farm labor activist Cesar Chavez should be canceled, whether or not the recent allegations against him are true.

From NewsBusters, ABC host Jimmy Kimmel tries and fails at damage control over his remarks that new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is unqualified because he was once a plumber.

From Canada Free Press, the U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for slavery reparations.

From TeleSUR, 130,178 people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how can climate fearmongers at Oxford get away with so much?

From Snouts in the Trough, who are the "British" men who allegedly set ambulances on fire in the London area of Golders Green?

From EuroNews, Austria considers banning social media for children under 14 years old.

From Free West Media, a wave of elections is reshaping the E.U.

From ReMix, officials in Berlin's Neukölln district face criminal charges for allegedly burying a youth center rape case because they did not want to "stigmatize" the Muslim suspects.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, an alleged Serb agent provocateur is spotted in Moscow.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's plan for autonomy in the region of Sahara is supported by Costa Rica, and by Poland.

From The New Arab, is Saudi Arabia's plan to build a "ski resort in the desert" about to be abandoned?

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, Europeans must save themselves from themselves.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's bizarre tactics collide with reality.

From The Daily Signal, former President Obama makes an Orwellian push for redistricting in Virginia.

From The American Conservative, the Carter Doctrine comes to an end.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA) reads a quote about the Department of Homeland Security said by congresscritter Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in 2015.

From BizPac Review, self-appointed fraud investigator Nick Shirley speaks at CPAC.

From the Daily Caller, fitness expert Jillian Michaels shreds Democrats spreading alarmist rhetoric about ICE at airports.

From the New York Post, golfer Tiger Woods is involved in a rollover car crash, but his girlfriend Vanessa Trump and her daughter Kai Trump were not in his car.  (Vanessa Trump is the ex-wife of Donald Trump the Younger.)

From Breitbart, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps starts recruit boys as young as 12 years old.

From Newsmax, according to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, his state's transgender athlete case is a key for Title IX protections.

And from the Humor Times, the reason why Trump wants to take over Cuba.

A Few Tidbits For Thursday

On a sunny and warm Thursday, now that I'm back from running around, here are a few things going on:

From the Daily Mail, according to opposition groups, Iranian security forces shoot at apartment buildings in Tehran to stop residents from chanting anti-regime slogans.

From American Thinker, the effort to convert Texas to Islam.

From The Federalist, the media are freaking out because illegal immigration has decreased.

From the Washington Examiner, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton running for president again is not as crazy as you might think.

From Townhall, while Democrats fearmonger about ICE, one of its agents saves a choking 1-year-old boy at JFK Airport.

From FrontpageMag, a terrorist points out that an "Allahu akbar!" isn't random.

From National Review, Senate Democrats are full of hot air about judicial nominee Katie Smithgall Lane.

From TCW Defending Freedom, appeasing Iran has gotten U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer up a creek.

From Snouts in the Trough, where the [bleep] is the useless Iranian army?

From ReMix, conservative European legislators warn of "no-go zones" resulting from mass immigration and Islamization.

From Gatestone Institute, "birthright citizenship is national suicide".

From The American Conservative, the left's method of manufacturing "consensus" by threat.

And from the Genesius Times, a retired "expert frisker" volunteers to help the understaffed TSA.

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, by restricting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is setting up a fertilizer shortage.

From FrontpageMag, a growing war within the Iranian military.

From Townhall, the left is lying about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's pastor remarks concerning senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX).

From The Washington Free Beacon, UCLA is sued for withholding records related to "activist-in-residence" Lisa Gray-Garcia who demanded that students pray to "Mama Earth" during a mandatory lecture.

From the Washington Examiner, First Lady Melania Trump welcomes an AI robot to the White House.  (Is the next race of Cylons here?)

From The Federalist, Democrats continue to hold American air travelers hostage for the sake of illegal aliens.

From American Thinker, President Trump was right to say that the U.S. and our allies were under an "imminent threat" from Iran's nuclear weapons program.

From NewsBusters, actress Christina Applegate regrets her abortion.

From Canada Free Press, our souls belong to Jesus, not to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

From TeleSUR, Argentina starts holding public hearings on reforming its glaciers law.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the book that exposes the coronavirus con as a dry run for government control.  (The same person wrote this article and the book.)

From EuroNews, four men are jailed in Berlin for allegedly storing weapons in order to carry out terror attacks under the direction of Hamas.

From ReMix, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suspends supplying natural gas to Ukraine.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo's Constitutional Court overturns a decree by President Vjosa Osmani to dissolve parliament and gives parliament 34 more days to elect a new president.

From The North Africa Post, in a joint operation, Spanish and Moroccan authorities arrest three ISIS operatives in Tangier, Morocco and the Spanish of Mallorca.

From The New Arab, Israel continues striking places in southern Lebanon.

From Gatestone Institute, why Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and U.S. President Trump were right about Iran.

From The Daily Signal, according to a poll, most Virginia voters oppose a Democrat redistricting plan.

From The American Conservative, it's "time for courage".

From The Western Journal, airports before and after ICE.

From BizPac Review, co-host Whoopi Goldberg of The View claims that she always has to present an ID in order to vote, but co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines say otherwise.

From the Daily Caller, the Iranian government rejects Trump's terms for ending the war.

From Reuters, the U.S. ships oil to Cuba's private sector.  (What?  Cuba actually has a private sector?  The story comes via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, Philadelphia District Attorney Lawrence Krasner is slammed for his "disgraceful" threat to ICE agents deployed at airports.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Hakeem Jeffreies (D-NY) can't get himself to answer a question about whether the alleged killer of Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman should be deported if he is convicted.

From Newsmax, Andrew Kolvet, a friend of slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, and who produced The Charlie Kirk Show, slams the "conspiracy garbage" surrounding Kirk's death.

And from SFGate, the 9-hot dog, 9-beer challenge at San Francisco Giants games falls short on the beer part.

Tuesday Tidings

On a sunny but cold Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why is the U.S. lifting sanctions on Iranian oil when we're fighting a war against Iran?

From FrontpageMag, CNN repeatedly messes up its coverage of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From Townhall, the medical reason why the illegal alien who allegedly killed a college student in Chicago missed his court appearance.

From the Washington Examiner, the incurable left-wing addiction to DEI.

From The Federalist, America's most infamous abortionist dies in a Pennsylvania prison.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From American Thinker, then-President Obama thought that he could unite the Muslim world, but current President Trump did.

From NewsBusters, why doesn't anyone fact-check climate doomsayers?

From Canada Free Press, the sea level refuses to rise as predicted by the climate doomsayers.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil honors Salvadorian Saint Oscar Romero.

From TCW Defending Freedom, HMS Dragon is the one U.K. naval ship that can stop Iranian missiles from hitting London, but it's on its way to Cyprus.

From EuroNews, peace talks for Ukraine stall as Russia starts its spring offensive.

From Free West Media, the U.S. has a missile problem.

From ReMix, police in Berlin are frustrated as migrant gang wars grip the city.  (If you read German, read the story at BZ.)

From Balkan Insight, an exhibit to mark the anniversary of NATO airstrikes against Serbia in 1999 is opened in Pristina, Kosovo.

From The North Africa Post, the African Development Bank hails Morocco's electricity network development programs.

From The New Arab, girls in the Gaza Strip take up boxing.

From Gatestone Institute, China is about to lose its bases in Cuba.

From The Daily Signal, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) celebrates the end of Ramadan with an imam who faced deportation over alleged ties to Hamas.

From The American Conservative, whatever happened to the antiwar left?

From The Western Journal, Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) prediction that having ICE at airports would lead to "trouble" couldn't be more wrong.

From BizPac Review, former CIA Director John Brennan claims that he tends to believe Iran more than he believes Trump.

From the Daily Caller, Egyptian archaeologists find a Christian monastery in the governorate of Beheira, dating from before the Muslim conquest of Egypt.

From Breitbart, the British judicial system decides to scrap short jail sentences in England and Wales.

From Newsmax, investigators probing the recent collision of an Air Canada jet with a firetruck are delayed due to long security lines manned by the TSA.

And from the New York Post, a Fox News reporter interviews youngsters on spring break and learns that Teh Stoopidt is alive and well.

Monday Mania

On a cool and cloudy Monday, now that I've had a chance to resume my normal routine, here are some things going on:

From National Review, "the Iranian mullahs go ballistic", as in missiles.

From FrontpageMag, the aforementioned Iranian mullahs execute wrestler Saleh Mohammadi.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, the MAGA movement is not falling apart because some podcasters did not get their way.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane joins the left-wing media company MeidasTouch.

From the Washington Examiner, another innocent life is lost because of Chicago's sanctuary policies.

From The Federalist, Connecticut gets ready to put homeschoolers under surveillance.

From American Thinker, a San Francisco firefighter launches a petition to rename the city's Cesar Chavez Street after the recently departed Chuck Norris.

From NewsBusters, more on the aforementioned loss of innocent life in Chicago.

From Canada Free Press, the mystery of Jeffrey Epstein's death takes a new turn.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelans march in Caracas to demand the end of U.S. sanctions.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the sleight of hand that gave the U.K. abortion up until birth.

From Snouts in the Trough, have you heard of Africa's "Meningitis Belt"?

From EuroNews, the E.U. is set to provisionally implement the Mercusur deal starting on May 1st.

From ReMix, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is wiretapped, for which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán calls for an investigation.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Mandiner.)

From Balkan Insight, the left-wing Slovenian governing party Freedom Movement narrowly defeats a challenge from the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party.

From The North Africa Post, according to the World Health Organization, a strike on a hospital in Sudan killed 64 people and injured 89 others.

From The New Arab, Syrian authorities walk back their plan to restrict alcohol sales in Damascus after protests and criticism.

From the Express, according to former U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, the firebombing of four Jewish community ambulances in the London neighborhood of Golders Green is terrorism.

From Gatestone Institute, begging Hamas to disarm is a misguided approach of U.S. President Trump's "Board of Peace".

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Andy Ogles (R-Ten) challenges Muslim leaders to condemn terrorism by Islamic extremists.

From The American Conservative, Americans should "make families, not war".

From The Western Journal, 13 U.S. airports will soon get some ICE.

From BizPac Review, Democrats are accused of being happy about long TSA lines in airports.

From The Daily Caller, traumatic brain injuries have reportedly become the dominant would among American troops fighting in the war against Iran.

From the New York Post, the Chinese anti-communist dance troupe Shen Yun claims that the Chinese Communist Party is behind the death threats against them wherever they go.

From Breitbart, Trump pauses attacks on Iran due to "good and productive" negotiations.

From Newsmax, over 400 TSA agents have quit due to the Democrats stopping their funding.

And from The Babylon Bee, the TSA reduces delays at its airport lines by eliminating the colonoscopy portion from their searches.

Checking In

I have returned home after a very long drive, which means that instead of blogging, I want to wind down, unpack a bit, and sleep.  Some bills have come in during my time away and there's taxes to figure out, so I will be busy with some stuff.  See all youz soon.

Saturday Stuff

On a warm and mostly sunny day in western North Carolina, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, an ally of farm labor activist Cesar Chavez who covered up his behavior for 60 years to protect the "movement".

From Townhall, you'll love President Trump's ultimatum to Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the legacy of the recently departed Dr. Paul Ehrlich.

From the Washington Examiner, CENTCOM says that it has destroyed Iran's intelligence support and the radars it used to track ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

From American Thinker, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is an E.U. maverick.

From NewsBusters, PolitiFact uses a double standard to benefit Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA).

From TCW Defending Freedom, Muslims take over Trafalgar Square in London as an "expression of power and intimidation".

From Snouts in the Trough, why the author of SitT fears that the U.K. will never recover.

From Gatestone Institute, the case for permanently eliminating the Iranian regime and Hamas.

From The American Conservative, veterans have earned the right to ask questions, so it's time that they did.

From BizPac Review, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) observes the end of Ramadan by having breakfast with Muslim inmates at Rikers Island.

From the Daily Caller, some analysts think that the economic effects from the war against Iran will last for years.

From the New York Post, American leftists travel to Havana, Cuba and stay in 5-star hotels while the Cuban people are starved of food, water, medicine and electricity.

From Breitbart, the alarming research on the psychological impact of "AI companions".

From Newsmax, Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan) claims that Trump's goals in Iran are "90 percent there".

And from Fox News, Connecticut Democrats oppose Republican efforts to secure elections, but demand IDs from people who want to recycle cans.  (via the New York Post)

Chuck Norris 1940-2026

Martial artist, actor and author Chuck Norris passed away yesterday after a medical emergency while on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.  He was 86.

Carlos Ray Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma to Ray Dee Norris and the former Wilma Lee Scarberry, and was the oldest of three brothers.  Has named after his father's minister Carlos Berry.  When he was 16, his parents divorced.  He moved with his mother and brothers to Prairie Village, Kansas and later to Torrance, California.

In 1958, Norris joined the Air Force and started training in the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do.  He eventually earned black belts in five different arts.  He won several karate tournaments between 1967 and 1969.  He developed two martial arts forms, first American Tang Soo Do and later Chun Kuk Do, which is now known as the Chuck Norris System.  During one of his competitions, he met fellow martial artist Bruce Lee, with whom he developed a friendship and working relationship.

In 1972, Norris portrayed Lee's opponent in his film Way of the Dragon.  He went on to star in movies such as Breaker! Breaker!, Good Guys Wear Black, A Force of One, The Octagon, Forced Vengeance, Lone Wolf McQuade, Missing in Action, Code of Silence, The Delta Force, Sidekicks, and Forest Warrior.  He also played the title role in the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger.

In 2005, the interwebz broke out with numerous "Chuck Norris facts", which humorously exaggerated his toughness, masculinity and abilities, sometimes to impossible degrees.  For example, Norris was allegedly able to divide by zero, slam a revolving door, and push the earth down when he did push-ups.  The discovery of such "facts" has continued since that year.

Politically, Norris was a conservative Republican, and wrote for the right-wing website World Net Daily.  He wrote nine books, the most recent one being a compilation of his favorite "Chuck Norris facts".

Norris married his high school classmate Dianne Kay Holechek in December 1958.  They had two sons, and divorced in 1989.  In November 1998, he married model Gena O'Kelley.  They had fraternal twins.  He also a daughter from an extramarital affair while married to Holechek.  He is survived by his second wife, his five children, and his 17 grandchildren.

Read more at KTVB, AP News, The Hollywood Reporter, People and the Los Angeles Times.