Monday, March 18, 2024

Monday Links

On a sunny but cool Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Socialism's (I-VT) 32-hour workweek.

From FrontpageMag, Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is shocked, shocked to learn that the vast majority of Scotland are white.  (If someone were to travel to Yousaf's ancestral country of Pakistan and while there dare to notice that just about everyone there is Muslim, would he leave Pakistan in a coffin or a body bag?)

From Townhall, congresscritters tighten the screws on the Biden administration's "mass-parole" of illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a synagogue in a suburb of Los Angeles, California leases space to a Muslim group, after which things go south.

From the Washington Examiner, the administration of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) audits college DEI courses for leftist "groupthink".

From The Federalist, allowing Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to continue prosecuting former President Trump is a miscarriage of justice.

From American Thinker, whether or not you're willing to face it, Georgia, here is a between illegal aliens and crime.

From MRCTV, while "strangling" the domestic oil industry, President Biden gives a large loan guarantee to Bahrain's oil industry.

From NewsBusters, the 41 times when the platform Google was used to interfere with U.S. elections, going back to 2008.

From CBC News, police in Ottawa, Canada forcefully arrest a black man in a case of mistaken identity.

From Global News, Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre urges an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the carbon price hike expected for April 1st.

From CTV News, according to Police Chief Myron Demkiw, carjackings in Toronto, Canada have more than doubled in the first three months of 2024 compared to same period a year ago.

From Canada Free Press, have Americans become "judges of evil thoughts", as in James 2:4?

From TeleSUR, thousands of Argentinians protest against hunger.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the IPCC plays the "great greenhouse gas numbers game".

From the Express, the Russian media makes a greatly exaggerated report of the (so far not yet happened) death of the U.K.'s King Charles III.

From the Evening Standard, former U.S. President Obama visits U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. artist known as Banksy creates a tree mural in north London.

From the (Irish) Independent, a former Irish jockey and Dancing With The Stars participant decides to run for europarliamentcritter.

From the Irish Examiner, illegal aliens asylum seekers in a street in Dublin, Ireland claim to have been attacked when they were at another site.

From EuroNews, President Putin (Russia) is open to a ceasefire during the 2024 Paris Olympics proposed by President Macron (France).

From Voice Of Europe, Croatia's Constitutional Court rules that President Zoran Milanović must resign before running for prime minister.

From ReMix, the E.U. sends €7.4 billion to Egypt in an effort to reduce illegal migration into Europe.

From Balkan Insight, according to "leaked data", Russians in Serbia voted heavily against reelecting President Putin.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco offers aid to 51,300 households whose dwellings were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake of September 7th, 2023.

From The New Arab, who is new Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa?

From Gatestone Institute, Biden offers Gaza a "Trojan pier".

From The Stream, the "fact-checker" PolitiFact covers up the role of Biden's policies in the death of nursing student Laken Riley.

From The Daily Signal, there's nothing peachy about Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee's ruling about the aforementioned District Attorney Fani Willis.

From The American Conservative, an open letter to the Democrats waging lawfare against Trump.

From The Western Journal, according to a poll, not only does Trump beat Biden, but "wallops" Biden's possible replacements.

From The Western Journal, during his St. Patrick's Day speech, Biden tells people when to clap.

From The Daily Wire, in my part of the world, false information is used to disciple a Jewish high school teacher who reported students staging a walkout during which they praised Hitler and called for the deaths of Jews.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats finally accept the reality that Trump could defeat Biden.

From the New York Post, a violent vagrant has been terrorizing the New York City neighborhood of Greenpoint for almost ten years, but still remains free.

From Breitbart, America First Legal exposes the federal government's aggressive censorship campaign.

From Newsmax, the magazine Sports Illustrated is under new management.

And from The Babylon Bee, illegal aliens politely decline a free flight on a Boeing 737.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Sunday Stories For Saint Patrick's Day

As the relatively pleasant weather continues on a Sunday, and you eat your corned beef and cabbage and drink your green beer, and pretend to be Irish just for today (unless, of course, you really are Irish), in honor of the patron saint of Ireland, who wasn't Irish, nor drove snakes out of Ireland, nor was even named Patrick, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, senatorial candidate Bernie Moreno (R-OH) sends a reality check to people who don't like former President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book on how British politician Winston Churchill forged the "special relationship" with America.

From the Washington Examiner, Russian President Vladimir Putin wins reelection.

From American Thinker, the government is not your father.

From NewsBusters, Fox News focuses on an illegal alien who committed crimes in New York City, but neither has been sent to prison for any significant time nor has been deported.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Church of England plunges into heresy.

From The Jerusalem Post, the U.K. has spent over £32 million to provide policing for pro-HamasPalestinian protests in London.

From Jewish News Syndicate, an imam fires into a Jewish neighborhood in Hebron, West Bank and is quickly sent to his virgins.

From Arutz Sheva, the aftermath of 10/7 looks worse than the aftermath of 9/11.

From Gatestone Institute, attempts to make lawyers "toxic".

From The Stream, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds to Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) call for new elections in Israel.

From The Daily Signal, a city manager in Michigan who promised to firefighters and police officers that he wouldn't impose a coronavirus vaccine mandate sues to restore his good name.

From The American Conservative, on certain issues, both parties are "bewitched" by "populism".

From The Western Journal, an 11-year-old boy who survived the October 7th Hamas terror attack finds a 2000-year-old coin from the Hasmonean Dynasty.  (The Hasmonean Dynasty ruled ancient Israel after its people revolted against the Syrian-based Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom and before the Roman colonization.)

From BizPac Review, according to former Attorney General Eric Holder, it's unfair to compare President Biden with former President Obama.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter and senatorial candidate Adam Schiff (D-Cal) hopes that Trump will go on trial before the upcoming election.

From the Daily Caller and the "well, what do you know" department, a PAC running a "Republican voters against Trump" campaign is funded by large Democratic donors.

From the New York Post, an illegal alien from Lebanon is caught at the border and admits being a member of Hezbollah.

From Breitbart, a book store in Phoenix, Arizona cancels a "Drag Show for Palestine" after critics point out that such shows would not go over well in Palestinian-controlled areas.

And from Newsmax and the "be careful what you ask for" department, Trump taunts Biden to bring about another indictment or two.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, according to journalist Matt Taibbi, the Chief Twit has been "very disappointing" when it comes to free speech.

From Townhall, President Biden's open border policies are responsible for a measles outbreak in Chicago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while California wants everyone to drive electric vehicles, its energy policies are making them ever more expensive to charge.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Socialism (I-VT) unveils his most recent hairbrained idea.

From The Federalist, a shooting on the New York City subway is the result of lawlessness colliding with "tolerance and diversity".

From American Thinker, the left-wing drive to dismantle America.

From NewsBusters, Reuters ignores statements from Biden, but fact checks The Babylon Bee.

From Canada Free Press, can the U.S. survive?

From TCW Defending Freedom, say "goodbye" to "long Covid".

From Snouts in the Trough, nobody seems to give a rat's rear end when adherents of "the religion of peace" kill each other.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's presence in Latin America.

From The Stream, we should not forget how coronavirus-related tyranny almost won.

From The American Conservative, the "twin deficits" which cause our economic dysfunction.

From The Western Journal, Biden is now committing election interference, but in this case the election is not in the U.S.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson trade barbs over the legislation to ban the platform TikTok.

From The Daily Wire, a guest on CNN argues that by the time Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis's case against former President Trump goes to trial, former First Daughter Malia Obama might be in the Oval Office.  (What is this "right to a speedy trial" you speak of?)

From the Daily Caller, a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation reveals that an investor linked to China owns a contractor to the Pentagon.

From the New York Post, the store chain Target will limit customers who use self-checkout to 10 items.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned TikTok reportedly has "a lot of lobbyists" and its payroll includes former Senators and former campaign advisors.

From Newsmax, U.S. prosecutors in Virginia investigate whether the company Meta had a role in illegal drug sales.

And from Fox News, "have you seen the little piggies"?  (Apologies to George Harrison.)

Friday, March 15, 2024

Friday Phenomena For The Ides Of March

On a warm and cloudy Friday on the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee rules that District Attorney Fani Willis can continue to prosecute former President Trump, if she removes Special Prosecutor and former boyfriend Nathan Wade from the case.

From FrontpageMag, the movie Cabrini is as beautiful and provocative as its namesake.

From Townhall, the Department of Homeland Security withholds information on the illegal alien charged with the murder of nursing student Laken Riley.

From The Washington Free Beacon, yes, the U.S. has undergone a political realignment.

From the Washington Examiner, Justice Elena Kagan leads the Supreme Court in a 6-3 tough-on-crime decision.

From The Federalist, more on the decision to allow the aforementioned Fani Willis to remain on the case against Trump.

From American Thinker, how the state of modern America was predicted during the 1970s by a punk rock band.

From MRCTV, the media praise Vice President Harris for her "historic" tour of an abortion mill in Minnesota.

From NewsBusters, those who run the Chinese-linked platform TikTok openly brag about its alleged "contribution" to the U.S. economy, even while facing a U.S. ban.

From Canada Free Press, the Big Apple becomes "the Big Banana".

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tells the E.U. to go fly a kite.

From TCW Defending Freedom, if you listen to U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's "energy sermon", you'll be able to smell the burning trousers.

From EuroNews, President Emmanuel Macron doesn't rule out sending French troops to Ukraine.

From Voice Of Europe, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is destroying Spain and eliminating the Spanish people.

From ReMix, police in Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany pull a teenage girl out of her high school and question her after she posts a TikTik video where she calls Germany her home.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Balkan Insight, at least 21 migrants die after their boat sinks in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey.

From The North Africa Post, Al Gore's invention has some technical difficulties in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

From The New Arab, female Syrian activists claim that their government fears them.

From Gatestone Institute, Biden should threaten Hamas and Qatar instead of threatening Israel.

From the Colombo Gazette, a Sri Lankan man accused of killing six fellow Sri Lankans in Ottawa, Canada is placed in protective custody.  (I wanted to provide a link from this source yesterday, but it had no articles published on that day.)

From The Straits Times, Singapore sends its third shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

From Tempo(dot)Co, how to dress when in Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, the former chairman of the company which managed the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recommends against hosting the games in 2026.

From the Borneo Post, 31 Ramadan Bazaar operators in the Malaysian state of Sabah are issued health citations.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam's ambassador to Italy visits the region of Basilicata to explore to explore potential cooperation between it and Vietnamese localities.  (For a brief look at Basilicata, go to this blog's archives for September 2012 and the post entitled "Matera".)

From the Taipei Times, Chinese and Taiwanese personnel join forces to rescue Chinese fishermen after their boat sinks.

From The Korea Herald, a pastor expelled from the Methodist Church of Korea for blessing same-sex couples takes his battle to be reinstated to a secular court.

From The Mainichi, portraits of ordinary people by an Edo-era Japanese painter offer a window into Japan's past.

From Japan Today, the Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda agree to explore a partnership in electric vehicles.  (Please welcome my newest source Japan Today.)

From The Stream, like the Patriot Act before it, the proposed ban on TikTok is a Trojan horse for big government tyranny.

From The Daily Signal, several states make progress in educational choice.

From The American Conservative, "activism" should stay out of schools.

From The Western Journal, Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon recounts the moment when she was almost killed by an illegal alien.

From BizPac Review, the Pentagon warns of the "alarming" number of drone incursions over the Mexican border.

From The Daily Wire, President Biden praises Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) speech criticizing Israel.

From the Daily Caller, the Democratic dark money machine prepares itself for the 2024 elections.

From Breitbart, before allegedly killing himself, the Boeing employee who became a whistleblower reportedly "made powerful enemies".

From Newsmax, law professor Alan Dershowitz puts in his $0.02 about the aforementioned decision to allow Jani Willis (but not her former boyfriend) to stay on the case against Trump.

And from the New York Post, inside a bathroom which has two toilets.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Stories For Pi Day

Today is 3/14, which is called "pi day", or maybe even "pie day".  Now that I've walked through a forest like a good Sasquatch on a warm and sunny Thursday, and while you're using pi to calculate something or eating your pie, here are some things going on:

From National Review, we intend to keep the constitutional republic that our founders gave us.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden's misguided respect for illegal aliens.

From Townhall, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is forming an investor group to buy the platform TikTok from its current Chinese owners.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat, whose speech at UC-Berkeley was shut down by an anti-Semitic mob, will get another chance.  (Or so we can hope.)

From the Washington Examiner, the IDF sends a Hamas commander to his virgins.

From The Federalist, a little-known option might save mothers from aborting their babies for being disabled.

From American Thinker, do ordinary left-wingers realize that they've been duped by their very rich ruling class?

From MRCTV, the cartoon TV show Family Guy pokes fun at the transgender agenda and treatments imposed on those who disagree with it.

From NewsBusters, Meta's Oversight Board makes a shocking decision to not ban a video from former French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour.

From Canada Free Press, a bill against "online harm" draws deserved international attention to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Canada.

From TeleSUR, the Argentinian Senate starts debating President Javier Milei's "Necessity & Urgency Decree".  (The article indicates that the president of the Senate is also the country's vice president, which is exactly the arrangement in the U.S.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, smoke, mirrors and carbon dioxide.

From EuroNews, the Croatian parliament is dissolved, which will lead to an election this year.  (Sorry, my fellow Americans, be we can't do that to our Congress.)

From Voice Of Europe, a history of the European Union.

From ReMix, an interview with a Polish lawyer about the treatment of some protesting farmers.

From Balkan Insight, Russians exiled in Serbia plan to stage a protest against President Putin.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. welcomes the leadership of Moroccan King Mohammed VI in this humanitarian efforts for Gaza.

From The New Arab, in Morocco, pro-HamasPalestine protests become a new ritual for Ramadan.

From The Times Of Israel, more about the recently eliminated Hamas commander, who allegedly stole humanitarian aid.

From Arutz Sheva, anti-Israel protesters assault a man in Chicago who was carrying an Israeli flag, and what Jordanian Queen Rania doesn't you to know.

From The Hans India, diesel fuel in India is gonna cost ya a bit less, pilgrim.

From the Hindustan Times, tour operators in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh need to register with its tourism department.

From ANI, police in the Indian state of Punjab arrest four people for allegedly assaulting army officers.

From India Today, Assam state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asks why the media has asked about India's Citizenship Amendment Act and not about semiconductors.

From the Dhaka Tribune, pirates who hijacked the Bangladesh-flagged ship MV Abdullah in the Indian Ocean have not yet made any demands.

From New Age, more on the hijacked ship, which has been anchored seven miles off the coast of Somalia.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe hopes to gradually relax the importation of private vehicles.

From Raajje, when in the Maldives, please don't get upset if you can't find any alcoholic beverages.

From the Bangkok Post, five alleged fake doctors are arrested in the Thai cities of Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

From Gatestone Institute, the aforementioned site TikTok is "China's instrument of war".

From The Stream, was the life of Laken Riley worth less that that of George Floyd?

From The Daily Signal, LGBTQ organizations go Sergeant Schultz as the U.K. bans puberty blockers for minors.

From The American Conservative, Senator J.D. Vance's (R-OH) weapon in the cold civil war.

From The Western Journal, according to experts, gas prices will soon be a huge headache for Biden.

From BizPac Review, new evidence suggests that the FBI tolerated and maybe even encouraged political violence ahead of the 2020 election.

From The Daily Wire, a Tennessee government council urges the state's legislature to give "legal" status to underage illegal aliens when they turn 18.

From the Daily Caller, for the first time ever, the Democratic National Committee forms a team to deal with third-party and independent candidates.

From the New York Post, two vagrant arsonists make the New York City subway "a nightmare for straphangers".

From Breitbart, New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denies that he denied the Sandy Hook mass shooting.

From Newsmax, the first offshore commercial-scale bird chopper assembly in the U.S. opens about 35 miles east of Long Island, New York.

And from SFGate, a place to go if someone in the San Francisco Bay Area tells you to "take a hike".

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, the House passes a bill to force the Chinese company that owns the platform TikTok to sell it or face it being banned in the U.S.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) co-sponsors a resolution alleging that Israel sexually harasses Muslim women.

From Townhall, President Biden's team lies shamelessly about former Special Counsel Robert Hur's findings.  (He recently resigned as special counsel.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants Iran banned from the 2024 Olympics.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Lauren Boebert (R-Col) will not run in the special election to replace soon-to-be-former congresscritter Ken Buck (R-Col).

From The Federalist, yes, the transgender movement is coming for your kids, and are not trying to hide it.

From American Thinker, those who support former President Trump or oppose him, explained in terms of social superiority or inferiority.

From MRCTV, the website Deadspin is sold because its race-baiting finally caught up with it.

From NewsBusters, according to a study, the suicide rate for transwomen after receiving vaginoplasty is twice that of transwomen before the operation.

From Canada Free Press, finally, the globalists are under attack.

From TeleSUR, the Panamanian Supreme Court admits a lawsuit against presidential candidate Jose Mulino.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Renters Reform Bill currently considered by the U.K. Parliament would demonize landlords and bankrupt local councils.

From Snouts in the Trough, the real cancer killing the U.K.'s people is the uselessness of their failing National Health Service.

From EuroNews, E.U. countries agree to send €5 billion more of military aid to Ukraine.

From Voice Of Europe, Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders is open to forgoing the role of Prime Minister if a new governing coalition is formed.

From ReMix, E.U. climate regulations, including bans on gas and coal fires in home, will be very costly to home owners.  (Meanwhile, coal-fired power plants keep proliferating, but not in Europe.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo will implement a court ruling that awards 24 hectares of land to a Serbian monastery.  (Since a hectare is about 2.47 acres, this would amount to about 59.30 acres.)

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI becomes the first world leader to send humanitarian aid to Gaza by a land route.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to name Mohammad Mustafa as the organization's next prime minister.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Iranian man on trial for allegedly shooting into a gay bar in Oslo, Norway demands special treatment because of Ramadan.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, inflation in Iran is making Persian new year meals more expensive.

From IranWire, what do the Arolsen Archives, housed in Arolsen, Germany, tell us about Iranians and the Holocaust?

From Iran International, abortion rates in Iran defy the government's population policy.

From Khaama Press, about 100 acres of poppy fields have been destroyed in the Afghani province of Balkh.

From Hasht e Subh, religious government and the violation of citizen's freedoms, in Afghanistan and Iran.

From the Afghanistan Times, women and children are disproportionately harmed by the hunger crisis in Afghanistan.

From Dawn, the new cabinet for the Pakistani province of Sindh includes only one woman.

From The Express Tribune, the Islamabad High Court dismisses a plea to deny former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan the right to appeal his conviction in his diplomatic cypher case.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani province of Punjab will implement safe city projects in 18 cities.

From Gatestone Institute, China plans to annex cis-lunar space.

From The Stream, the Islamic practice of taqiyya.

From The Daily Signal, what Georgia's "criminal alien" bill would and wouldn't do.

From The American Conservativethe hearing with testimony from the aforementioned Robert Hur was dominated by polarization.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) gets a primary challenger.  (AOC herself got into Congress by ousting an incumbent Democrat in a primary.)

From BizPac Review, the House Judiciary Committee will investigate the arrest and alleged "selective prosecution" of journalist Steve Baker and "disfavored" January 6th defendants.

From The Daily Wire, the State Department is forced to disclose the cost of the Biden administration's diversity agenda.

From the Daily Caller, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe blames "inexperienced" prosecutor Nathan Wade for the dismissal of six charges in the Fulton County, Georgia case against Trump and his co-defendants.

From the New York Post, eating out costs ya, pilgrim.

From Breitbart, Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) presses Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to pass the Laken Riley Act.

From Newsmax, the U.S. Military Academy will no longer use the motto "Duty, Honor, Country" in its mission statement.

And from the Genesius Times, Boeing jets are not safe, but come out as "trans-safe".

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

A Sasquatch's Late Tuesday Dozen

On a rather warm Tuesday, now that I've returned from running around, here are 12 things going on:

From Fox News, the New York state legislature, both chambers being controlled by Democrats, gets ready for budget battles with Governor Kathy Hochul (D).

From Axios, congresscritter Ken Buck (R-Col) says "enough for one lifetime".

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas's casualty figures should be taken with a grain of salt, or maybe even with a visit to Mrs. Lot.

From The Times Of Israel, a U.S. government delegation on religious freedom cuts short its visit to a heritage site in Saudi Arabia after its chairperson, who is Jewish, is asked to remove his kippah.

From Gatestone Institute, for Palestinian leaders, "revitalized" means unity with Hamas.

From The Stream, according to an interim report, the January 6th Committee was a partisan scam with no interest in the truth.

From The American Conservative, a letter from inside the "goulash gulag", run by the Viktator.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the BBC's bias is worse than ever.

From American Thinker, President Obama's conundrum with President Biden.

From The Federalist, it turns out that Biden lied about his late son Beau, Special Counsel Robert Hur, and why he took classified documents.

From FrontpageMag, Biden's myth of the lowest violent crime rate in 50 years.

And from Breitbart, the Metropolitan Opera goes woke by slapping a trigger warning on the Puccini opera Turandot, set in feudal China, for its "racial stereotypes".

Monday, March 11, 2024

Monday Mania

As the sunny and windy weather continues on a Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, cutting through the fog of lawfare against former President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, disparities in achievement in schools come from outside the classroom.

From Townhall, one sport decides to protect its female athletes.

From The Washington Free Beacon, when students  at Middlebury College planned to host a vigil for victims of Hamas's attacks on September 7th, administrators told them to not use the word "Jewish".

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden is losing control of his party's message in the controversy arising from his calling an illegal alien an "illegal".

From The Federalistin her memoir, former congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) covered up Trump's request for for National Guard troops to be deployed ahead of the Capitol riot.

From American Thinker, a high school in St. Leon, Indiana appears to ban the American flag, against which students fight back.

From MRCTV, a teenage girl puts another teenage girl into the hospital outside a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, and in a district which won a DEI award.

From NewsBusters, journalists get more upset about the word "illegal" than about murder.

From Canada Free Press, will the U.S. survive as one country or become Balkanized?

From TeleSUR, Venezuela fights against illegal mining in the states of Bolivar and Amazon.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a salute to the Irish voters.

From Snouts in the Trough, don't be fooled by lies from the U.K.'s NHS about being understaffed.

From EuroNews, climate change activists including Greta Thunberg block entrances to the Swedish parliament building.  (In my opinion, they should protest in front of the Chinese embassy, preferably without blocking any of its entrances.)

From Voice Of Europe, police in Berlin ban the display of German flags at the European Football Championship on their own vehicles.  (This is the game that we Americans call "soccer".  If you read German, read the story at Tagesspiegal.)

From ReMix, celebrities in France are targeted in a wave of "home-jackings".

From Balkan Insight, Romanian Orthodox priests are told to stay out of politics during the country's upcoming elections.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco unveils its incentives for investing in green hydrogen.

From The961, Lebanon advances on seven sustainable development goals from the U.N.

From Arutz Sheva, a would-be terrorist from Jenin, West Bank is killed before he could carry out his deed.  (Does he still get his virgins?)

From The Times Of Israel, Israel and Hamas are both trying to determine the fate of the latter's no. 3.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF can eliminate terrorists, but what about their ideology?

From YNetNews, Israel transfers 60 orphans from an orphanage in Gaza to the West Bank, at Germany's request.

From the Egypt Independent, getting your tuk-tuk licensed in Egypt is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From Egypt Today, on the first day of Ramadan, Egypt and the UAE drop humanitarian and relief aid into the Gaza strip.

From the Sudan Tribune, the U.N. Security Council renews the mandate of the Panel of Experts who assist the Sudan sanctions committee.

From the Saudi Gazette, gates are allocated at the Grand Mosque in Mecca for the entrance and exit of Umrah pilgrims.

From Doha News, what, during Ramadan, is a ghabqa?

From The New Arab, Jericho, West Bank names a street after the American airman who immolated himself in protest of Israel's actions in Gaza.

From RAIR Foundation USA, police in Amsterdam police stop an assassination attempt against Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a couple in Lyon, France is arrested after a kilo of "homemade" explosive is found in their home.  (If you read French, read the story at Europe1 and FDeSouche.)

From Gatestone Institute, some words of wisdom from the past.

From The Stream, extortion as a form of jizya.  (My spellchecker has no problem with "jizya".)

From The Daily Signal, the Department of Justice hides documents about a report comparing concerned parents to the KKK.

From The American Conservative, a bill from Senator J.Z. Vance (R-OH) would reveal the true expense of U.S. involvement the war in Afghanistan.

From The Western Journal, according to former Mr. Bill henchman Dick Morris, Biden is failing to bring in his bass.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter and senatorial candidate Adam Schiff (D-Cal) advises the Intelligence Committee to undermine Trump, if is reelected.

From The Daily Wire, the Gold Star father who was arrested for disrupting Biden's State of the Union address doesn't regret doing so.

From the Daily Caller, according to Trump, Biden's SOTU speech was good enough to keep him from being ousted as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.

From the New York Post, Capital One announces a bid to acquire Discover Financial.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Chip Roy (R-TX), having Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) deliver the rebuttal to the State of the Union was a mistake.  (Never underestimate the ability of Republicans to shoot themselves in the feet.)

From Newsmax, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) and other leading Republican congresscritters slam Biden's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2025.

And from The Babylon Bee, January 6th Capitol rioters request to be called "undocumented tourists".

Sunday, March 10, 2024

A Few Things For Sunday

On a sunny and windy Sunday, here are a few things going on:

From Townhall, Democratic Senators block a bill which would have prevented illegal aliens from being counted in the census.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book on what seven U.S. presidents did after leaving office.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. military gets non-essential personnel out of Haiti and bolsters the security at the U.S. embassy.

From American Thinker, the New York Fire Department tries to give dissidents who booed New York state Attorney General Letitia James the North Korea treatment.

From NewsBusters, ABC host and former Clinton henchman George Stephanopoulos's attempt to rape-shame congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC) over her support for former President Trump goes over like a lead balloon.

From Canada Free Press, President Biden's war games.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a church in Poissy, France is vandalized with anti-Christian graffiti.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Parisien and Valeurs Actuelles.)

From The Jerusalem Post, a Jordanian man is arrested for alleged threats against Orthodox Jews - in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

From The Times Of Israel, pro-HamasPalestinian activists plan to disrupt the Oscars ceremony with a street protest.

From Gatestone Institute, Europeans fear the elephant in the room, and its mahout.  (A mahout is to an elephant as an equestrian is to a horse, you might say.)

From The Stream, how to be true to your convictions without being arrogant.

From The American Conservative, those who try to make Trump poorer misunderstand his appeal.

From The Western Journal, after a bull elk is euthanized, a necropsy of its body reveals a piece of plastic.

From BizPac Review, according to Donald Trump the Younger, "MAGA is the new Republican party".

From The Daily Wire, Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) blasts Biden over the crisis at the southern border.

From the Daily Caller, NBC host Kristen Welker presses Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) about whether Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis should step down from her case against Trump.

From the New York Post, Pope Francis calls for Ukraine to wave the "white flag" invokes comparisons to the appeasement of Nazi Germany before World War II.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Senator Britt gets parodied by Saturday Night Live.

From Newsmax, Trump endorses the aforementioned Nancy Mace.

And from TechSideline, Virginia Tech's softball team records its 1,000th win.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Saturday Stories

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

From National Review, CNN refuses to air a State of the Union ad which blames President Biden for the death of nursing student Laken Riley.

From Townhall, in Pennsylvania, Biden appears to forget what office he's running for.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a miniseries about a B-17 Flying Fortress unit in World War II.  (Yours truly had an uncle who flew on a Flying Fortress during WWII.)

From the Washington Examiner, the "angry old man campaign" gets underway.

From American Thinker, trying to get the Maryland State Board of Elections to keep accurate and updated voter roles.

From NewsBusters, while The New York Times blames Republicans for discord at the latest State of the Union address, Democrats started such things with then-President George Bush the Younger.

From Canada Free Press, we're now in "the age of the liar".

From TeleSUR, gangs attack the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what has become of "the land of hope and glory"?

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K.'s National Health Service doing less with more?

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, accepting violence by Muslims during Ramadan insults the vast majority of Muslims.

From Gatestone Institute, the sham "elections" in Iran.

From The Stream, NFL player Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles highlights his family and the significance of fathers in his retirement speech.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slams the Justice Department's collusion with the Southern Poverty Law Center.  (Confession: I was once a donor to the SPLC, until they started to label opposition illegal immigration as hate.  And please note that I'm taking about ILLEGAL immigration.)

From The American Conservative, inside the disaster in the U.K.

From BizPac Review, a pro-Trump PAC puts out an ad warning that "you're not safe in Joe Biden's America".

From The Daily Wire, in his latest episode of Facts, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro lists the top five things which Americans need to know about Russia.

From the Daily Caller, with an election happening later this year, will the Biden administration finally get serious about natural gas?

From the New York Post, according to his campaign apparatus, former President Trump will officially clinch the Republican nomination next week.

From Breitbart, Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) is a board member of an organization with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

From Newsmax, a federal judge in Texas upholds a Biden administration program that allows up to 30,000 asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the U.S. every month.

From The Hill, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signs legislation to ban legacy admissions at the state's public colleges.

And from Fox News, actor Harrison Ford claims that Indiana Jones theme music was played as he underwent a colonoscopy.