Wednesday Whatnot

On a cool and cloudy Wednesday, after I gave myself a day off due to my running around, here are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) will not be the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

From FrontpageMag, according to a released Israeli hostage, they "were looked at like animals".

From Townhall, the second would-be assassin of former President Trump is officially charged in Florida.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden reportedly gave lavish gifts to leaders of countries which abuse human rights.

From the Washington Examiner, a 1,547-page spending bill includes funding to extend for one year a "censorship scheme" within the State Department.

From The Federalist, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) doesn't seem to understand that the Republicans won.

From American Thinker, who exactly are "the working class"?

From MRCTV, the aforementioned spending bill allows congresscritters to "opt out" of Obamacare.  (Although the question was raised years ago, it bears repeating.  If Obamacare is as great as its proponents claim, why would anyone want to opt out of it?)

From NewsBusters, the Cold War is over, but we're still fighting communism.

From Canada Free Press, federal taxes will reportedly increase in 2025 - in Canada.

From TeleSUR, according to the International Organization for Migration one in every 30 people is a migrant.

From TCW Defending Freedom, there is a "net zero chance" that the U.K. will have electric armored vehicles.

From Snouts in the Trough, will the U.K. ditch the world's winner and join its losers?

From EuroNews, according to Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, Ukraine will not be asked to join NATO.

From ReMix, according to French parliamentcritter Marine Le Pen, for President Emmanuel Marcon, "it's almost over".

From Balkan Insight, Greece proposes to deal with minors convicted of lesser offenses in a sporting manner.

From The North Africa Post, a gas-producing project in Senegalese and Mauritanian waters is 97 percent complete.

From The New Arab, according to Iraqi and Kurdish authorities, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brother Maher has not entered Iraq.

From MEMRI TV, an imam in Warren, Michigan defines peace in the Middle East as the nonexistence of Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar blasts Irish President Michael Higgins's allegation that Israel wants to establish settlements in Egypt.  (Has Higgins never learned about the Exodus, when Israel purposefully, and with the help of a Higher Power, ended their settlement in Egypt?)

From AMU, the Taliban demolish the historic Jumhuriat Market in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From OpIndia, a man in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India claims that Pampers are inscribed with the name of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

From The Jerusalem Post, families in Gaza sue the U.S. State Department over the U.S. supporting the IDF. (Can Israelis sue these families for supporting Hamas?)

From Arutz Sheva, Islam takes over Europe and its Jews flee.  (The last six stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, will South Africa become the next failed rich state?

From The Stream, Satanists set up their "first ever" display in the Minnesota State Capitol building, and archaeologists find the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps.

From The Daily Signal, the 15-year-old high school shooter in Madison, Wisconsin left behind a manifesto, which documents family breakdown.

From The American Conservative, a MAGA agenda should include Puerto Rico.

From The Western Journal, according to a report, then-President Trump not only offered to have the military protect the Capitol in Washington, D.C. but he ordered them to, and was disobeyed.

From BizPac Review, the House Ethics Committee releases its report on former congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

From The Daily Wire, "Gaetz fires back".

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) will not support the aforementioned Speaker Johnson for another term as Speaker.

From the New York Post, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces that she will deploy 250 more National Guard troops to the New York City subway to keep riders safe.

From the The War Zone, a military base in New Jersey confirms that drones were used to smuggle contraband into a prison within its perimeter.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, the Federal Reserve cuts a key interest rate by a quarter percent.

From Newsmax, the use of vaping, alcohol and (other) drugs among U.S. teenagers remains low.

And from the Genesius Times, to atone for her white privilege, WNBA star Caitlin Clark will play in blackface.