Monday Links For Beethoven's Birthday

On a cool and rainy Monday falling on the generally accepted birthday of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, which is also the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, here are some things going on:

From National Review, four possible explanations for the drone sightings in New Jersey.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden claims to have run a "scandal-free" campaign.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard's (D-HI) iconoclasm as exactly why we need her as Director of National Intelligence.

From The Washington Free Beacon, LGBT groups, who praised the nomination of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, have little to say about Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent.

From the Washington Examiner, the status of the bald eagle as the U.S. national bird could finally be made official.  (Although commonly used as a symbol of the U.S. and referred to as our "national bird", is has never been officially designated as such.)

From The Federalist, the nomination of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense shows Republicans a way to stop losing and start defeating the swamp.  (Naturally, I must recall the ability of the Republicans to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, which should not be underestimated.)

From American Thinker, some people are getting tired of migrants from all over the world speaking languages foreign to their land, which in this case is not the U.S.

From MRCTV, WNBA player Caitlin Clark's wokeness buys her favor for only three days.

From NewsBusters, according to Morning Joe panelist Elise Jordan, the aforementioned Pete Hegseth would take the U.S. military back to the Crusades.  (Does this mean that she expects Hegseth to have our forces invade Israel, sack Jerusalem, besiege Damascus, and establish new states in the Levant?)

From Canada Free Press, the legacy media has its last gasp.

From TeleSUR, according to the NGO Plan International, migrant children face serious risks crossing through the Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama.  (This is precisely why no one should send their children to illegally migrate northward.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to a study, coronavirus vaccines harm mental health.

From EuroNews, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government lose a no-confidence vote.

From ReMix, Denmark offers each Syrian currently in the country €27,000 to return home.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.  I can't find anything related to this story in The Copenhagen Post.)

From Balkan Insight, how Serbian intelligence hacks phones without their owners knowing about it.

From The North Africa Post, the Bayt Mal Al Quds Acharif Agency, based in Rabat, Morocco, launches an application promoting the culture heritage of Jerusalem.  ("Al Quds" is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.)

From The New Arab, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claims that he did not flee Syria but was "requested" to "evacuate" by Russia.

From RAIR Foundation USA, Spanish parliamentcritter Rocío de Meer asks if it is hate to point out that Africa doesn't fit into Europe or to say that Spain should remain Spanish.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Salafist mosque calls for violence against non-Muslims - in Reutlingen, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at JouWatch.)

From NDTV, according to an opinion column, the Arab Spring has become an Islamic Winter.

From Gatestone Institute, with jihadists backed by Turkey taking over Syria, Kurds and Christians are under an intolerable threat.

From The Stream, can today's teens learn from Victorian-era novelist Louisa May Alcott?

From The Daily Signal, legacy media journalists deserve all the angst when President-elect Trump returns to office.

From The American Conservative, there's a "shootout in DOGE City".

From The Western Journal, Biden tells Vice President Harris that she's "not going anywhere", which terms are acceptable.

From BizPac Review, Trump campaign adviser Alex Bruesewitz appears to faint while speaking at a Republican gala in New York City.

From The Daily Wire, at least two are killed and seven others wounded when a "juvenile" opens fire at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin.

From the Daily Caller, according to Harris advisor Rob Flaherty, the Democrats are "losing hold of culture".

From the New York Post, Trump declines to comment on whether he would support the U.S. or Israel making preemptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) calls the aforementioned drones a threat to infrastructure in the American heartland.

From Newsmax, in wanting to end birthright citizenship, Trump is heading for a fight.

And from The Babylon Bee, historians in the year 3400 still struggle to figure out why singer Beyonce was famous.