Monday, January 15, 2024

Stories For The King Holiday

As the snow falls on Martin Luther King Day, which this year falls on his actual birthday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why former President Trump is going to "win bigly" in Iowa tonight.  (The term "win bigly" is shamelessly pilfered from Trump himself.)

From FrontpageMag, a man who tried to keep Trump off state ballots faces federal tax charges.

From Townhall, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Switzerland agrees to host a peace summit for Ukraine at the request of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, every Republican presidential candidate in the Iowa caucus can beat President Biden in the general election.

From The Federalist, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas admits that wind and solar power by themselves can't keep Texans warm during the current Arctic blast.

From American Thinker, a pro-Hamas protester "tries that in a small town", as in Lucas, Texas.

From MRCTV, new Miss America Madison Marsh is in the Air Force, on her way to becoming a pilot, and is a real woman.

From NewsBusters, right-wing commentator Laura Ingraham calls out airlines and the Biden administration for their obsession with DEI.

From Canada Free Press, the Democratic Party really isn't.

From CBC News, heavy snow is expected for the Canadian province of British Columbia.

From Global News, if El Niño winters are supposed to be mild, why is Canada having such extreme cold?

From CTV News, police in British Columbia solve a murder by using DNA taken from tea cups.

From TeleSUR, 36 people have died because of a landslide in Carmen de Atrato, Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, an open letter to the mayor of North Tyneside, England about the national UK-100 network.

From the Express, the U.K.'s Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will have to follow some strict rules, even though they live in the U.S.

From the Evening Standard, Liberal Democrat party leader Sir Ed Davey faces calls to resign over the Post Office Horizon scandal.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Greater Manchester Police warn of a "reckoning" for sexual offenders in the town of Rochdale.

From the (Irish) Independent, gardaí arrest a man after a scuffle with protesters attempting to block asylum seekers from arriving at a hotel in Roscrea, Ireland.  (In Ireland, a cop is a "garda" and two or more cops are "gardaí".)

From the Irish Examiner, Irish broadcaster Dave Fanning sues a Hong Kong website and Microsoft for using his picture with an article about a different broadcaster on trial for alleged sexual misbehavior.

From EuroNews, German farmers protest against the Bundestag's plan to end diesel fuel subsidies.

From Voice Of Europe, an interview with Serbian parliamentcritter Dragan Stanojević.

From ReMix, the "green" government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to buy three luxury VIP helicopters for €200 million.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo observes the 25th anniversary of the massacre that helped bring about NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco chairs an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers to address a memorandum of understanding between Ethiopia and Somaliland.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claims that Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched a cruise missile that struck the Israeli city of Haifa.

From Jewish News Syndicate, an Israeli woman is killed and at least 17 other people are wounded in a ram-and-stab attack in Ra'anana, Israel.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Algerian man incarcerated in France allegedly threatens to slit the throat of another inmate who refused to convert to Islam.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Dauphiné and FDeSouche.)

From Arutz Sheva, a woke West cannot defeat radical Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, how DEI grade inflation hurts Jews, Asians, and others.

From The Stream, on this year's MLK Day, what we can learn from the massacres in Buffalo, Nashville, and Israel.

From The Daily Signal, Hungary offers a "last warning to the West".

From The Western Journal, Trump gets endorsed by former rival Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

From BizPac Review, the FAA seeks to hire people with "severe intellectual disability" and "psychiatric disability" in its new DEI push.

From The Daily Wire, the FBI arrests a man who claims to be a woman for allegedly threatening to kill "trans phobes", suggesting that he has ties to "alt-right extremism".

From the Daily Caller, New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to impose a curfew on several migrant shelters.

From the New York Post, NASA and Lockheed Martin debut the relatively quiet "son of Concorde".

From Breitbart, lava from a recently awakened volcano engulfs homes in Grindavík, Iceland.  (If you read Icelandic, read what appears to be a related live blog at RUV.)

From Newsmax, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) tells Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) to stop sending illegal migrants to his state.

And from the Babylon Bee, the increased precipitation across the U.S. is shown to be tears from fans of the Dallas Cowboys.

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