Rainy Monday Mania

On a chilly and rainy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, "the world's most murderous ophthalmologist" is no longer in charge of Syria.

From FrontpageMag, former President Obama shows his talent for projection.

From Townhall, why Senator-elect Andy Kim (D-NJ) will be sworn in early.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Daniel Penny is acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a fellow New York City subway rider.

From the Washington Examiner, rebels in Syria install a transitional prime minister and pose as centrist reformers.  (What the political "center" is in Syria, I have no idea.)

From The Federalist, NBC reporter Kristen Welker questions President-elect Trump about birthright citizenship, but omits a key part of the 14th Amendment.

From American Thinker, why President Biden is the worst ever to hold the office, but has provided a silver lining.  (While there are certainly reasons to regard Biden's presidency as catastrophic, I must acknowledge that calling any president the "worst ever" is a matter of opinion.)

From MRCTV, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to take more guns from his fellow Canadians and send them to Ukraine.

From NewsBusters, Axios calls Fox News viewers "right-wing grandpas", but on average, MSNBC's audience is even older.

From Canada Free Press, Trump's second inauguration can't come soon enough.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan government calls for countries to avoid interfering in Syria.  (Although I'm no fan of the leftist Venezuelan government, I agree with them on this point.  Even though it's under new management, Syria is still a cluster[bleep].)

From TCW Defending Freedom, a prescient warning about the goals of globalism was issued in 1991.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K. leading the world in deindustrialization?  (To my surprise, my spellchecker has no problem with "deindustrialization".)

From EuroNews, the Netherlands reintroduces temporary border controls, to last for six months.

From ReMix, the right-wing party Sweden Democrats call for a review of residence permits issued to Syrians now that the regime of Bashar al-Assad has ended.  (This would imply that the new Syrian government is expected to be less dangerous to the Syrians in Sweden than al-Assad's regime was.  How well or poorly the new government treats their fellow Syrians, in country or returning from abroad, remains to be seen.)

From Balkan Insight, two former Kosovo officials plead not guilty to witness-tampering at the trial of former President Hashim Thaci.

From The North Africa Post, the Egyptian army takes control of imports of strategic commodities into Egypt.

From The New Arab, the new Syrian government grants amnesty to conscripted members of the former government's army.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Lebanese man allegedly stabs his ex-wife to death - in Berlin.  (If you read German, read the story at BZ.)

From AMU, Taliban members flog two people for adultery in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From ShiaWaves, the Taliban use 31 distinct methods of torture in their prisons.

From Gatestone Institute, why Hamas was "betrayed" by Arabs and Muslims.

From The Stream, what's next for Christians under Syria's new government?

From The Daily Signal, the media relies on anonymous sources in opposing the nomination of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense.

From The American Conservative, the return of Turkey's Kaisar-e-Rum.

From The Western Journal, the U.S. and Israel launch preemptive strikes in Syria as the aforementioned al-Assad flees.

From BizPac Review, more on the aforementioned acquittal of Daniel Penny.

From The Daily Wire, still more on the acquittal of Daniel Penny.

From the Daily Caller, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was "the most surprised person" in court when Penny was acquitted.

From the New York Post, after Perry's acquittal, calls mount for Bragg to "resign in shame".

From Breitbart, Mr. Bill blames the media for his wife Hillary's loss in the 2016 election.

From Newsmax, police release the identity of the suspect arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

And from The Babylon Bee, Biden cancels aid to Syria after learning that some of it might go to poor Americans living there.