Saturday Stories

On a cold and cloudy Saturday, after some graupel fell the previous evening, here are some things going on:

From National Review, among other items, was recently departed President Jimmy Carter (at least somewhat) pro-life?

From Townhall, President Biden awards the U.S.'s highest civilian honor to left-wing elites.

From The Washington Free Beacon, some of Biden's senior moments.

From the Washington Examiner, President-elect Trump slams the judge who is about to sentence him in his hush money case.

From American Thinker, Democrat congresscritters haven't got their act together, but they will "fart hard".  (For a while when I was a Littlefoot, Mama Bigfoot regarded the word "fart" as being very nasty, like words that I normally bleep out.  I might have gotten a lesson or two from the wooden spoon or the yardstick for saying that word.  Of course, congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal), also known for [bleep]ing a Chinese spy, could show his fellow Dems how to "fart hard".)

From NewsBusters, how late-night comedians covered Biden's cognitive decline.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the rape grooming gangs scandal in the U.K. is a Galileo moment.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From AMU, the Taliban publicly flogged over 580 people, including 42 women, during 2024.

From Hasht e Subh, in the province of Daykundi, the Taliban allegedly extort and torture former Afghan military personnel and their families.

From Gatestone Institute, there's a narrow opportunity to defeat the oppressive Iranian government.

From The Stream, seven significant challenges when you go through a transition.

From The Daily Signal, Congress needs to "make a resolution to fix Social Security".

From The American Conservative, the U.K. has a "long-overdue reckoning" with the aforementioned rape grooming gangs.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claims that there are no election deniers on his side of the aisle.

From The Daily Wire, Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede wants the island to become independent of Denmark.

From the Daily Caller, Trump approaches his second inauguration with record setting fundraising and détente with corporate donors.

From the New York Post, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump could end the war in Ukraine because he's "strong and unpredictable".

From Breitbart, the insurance company Allstate deletes the social media post from its CEO after a large backlash.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis), his fellow Republicans will make themselves "absolutely irrelevant" is they are not united behind Trump and his agenda.

And from the Daily Mail, why having a "dry January" might not be a good idea.  (via the New York Post)