Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, President-elect Trump gets ready for a confirmation war.

From FrontpageMag, Border Czar-designate Tom Homan has a tough message for Democrat governors who favor open borders.

From Townhall, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) decides to run again in 2026.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) warns universities about antisemitism.

From the Washington Examiner, the good, the bad, and the ugly among Trump's nominees.

From The Federalist, America's adversaries don't want Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to become its next secretary of state.  (This, of course, is precisely why Rubio should become secretary of state.)

From American Thinker, the problem with the government is not fraud, waste and abuse, but bureaucratic power.  (I would somewhat disagree.  Fraud, waste and abuse are still a problem, but power wielded by unelected bureaucrats is a bigger one.)

From MRCTV, co-host Whoopi Goldberg of The View joins the anti-Trump sex strike.  (I liked her much better when she played Guinan, the host of Ten Forward on the Enterprise D.)

From The Times, police in the U.K. investigate a nine-year-old kid for calling a classmate a "retard".  (When I was a Littlefoot, I was called "retard" and similar insults, and likewise insulted other kids, more times than I can remember.  The story comes via MRCTV.)

From NewsBusters, CBS worries that the Palestinians are afraid of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R), whom Trump picked to be ambassador to Israel.  (As with the aforementioned Secretary Of State-designate Rubio, this is precisely why Huckabee is a good pick.)

From Canada Free Press, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hides a list of suspected Nazi war criminals who immigrated to Canada after World War II.  (Former Nazi rocket scientist Werner von Braun, who had a second career at NASA in the U.S., is unavailable for comment.)

From TeleSUR, Tropical Storm Sara makes landfall in northeastern Honduras.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s National Energy System Operator tells climate official Ed Miliband that his plans cannot work.

From Snouts in the Trough, will Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeve's destroy all of the U.K.'s pensions?

From EuroNews, over 200 students go into the streets of Turin, Italy for a "No Meloni Day" protest and injure 15 police officers.

From ReMix, the Polish government locks 28 bank accounts belonging to Sacred Heart Priests.

From Balkan Insight, Croatian Health Minister Vili Beroš is detained for alleged bribery and corruption.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government exempts military industry investors from its corporate tax.

From The New Arab, today's date is Palestine's Independence Day.

From Gatestone Institute, the call to "globalize the intifada" was realized in Amsterdam.

From The Stream, encountering Marxism at your local public library.

From The Daily Signal, Trump can prevent endless wars by restoring deterrence.

From The American Conservative, for three Democratic Senators, how 2024 is a mirror to 2006, when they were first elected.

From The Western Journal, actor Sylvester Stallone calls Trump "the second George Washington".  (I disagree.  While Trump, like Washington, has been president of the United States, he has never been a surveyor, a horseman, a military leader, or a whiskey producer.)

From BizPac Review, recently imprisoned Trump alley Steve Bannon tells MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to "lawyer up".

From The Daily Wire, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), FEMA acted "contrary" to its "taxpayer-supported mission" and owes Americans some answers.

From the Daily Caller, according to data from ICE, sanctuary cities freed tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens during the Biden presidency.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Wiley Nickel (D-NC) calls for Democrats to set up a "shadow government" to oppose Trump, and suggests Senator-elect Adam Schiff for its "shadow" attorney general.  (This, of course, would take the idea that "Schiff happens" to a whole new level.)

From Newsmax, according to JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Wall Street bankers are "dancing in the street" over Trump's win.

And from the New York Post, dozens of new emojis will be available for your iphone in 2025, including one depicting the possibly non-existent beast whose name yours truly has appropriated.