Friday Phenomena For The End Of February

On a sunny and mild Friday which is the last day in February, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Canadian government stops trying to prove the hoax about mass graves of Native American children.

From FrontpageMag, the U.S., in the persons of President Trump and Vice President Vance, gives Europe a taste of its own medicine.

From Townhall, the left finds an immigrant that it doesn't like.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) launches his reelection campaign with broad support from Arkansas politicians.

From the Washington Examiner, the White House meeting between Presidents Trump (U.S.) and Zelensky (Ukraine) doesn't go well.

From The Federalist, now under new management, the FBI could shed some light on the manifesto left by the Nashville school shooter.

From American Thinker, DOGE has a basis in the Constitution.

From MRCTV, congresscritter Melanie Stansbury (D-NMx) oinked during February.

From NewsBusters, the main task ahead for Trump's team.

From Canada Free Press, why the E.U. doesn't want the war in Ukraine to end.

From TeleSUR, two environmental activists are killed in Honduras.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the unflushable former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From EuroNews, France plans to "reexamine" its 1968 migration agreement with Algeria.

From ReMix, a migrant from Tajikistan who was convicted in Germany of being a member of ISIS avoids deportation by threatening to injure himself.

From Balkan Insight, according to experts, there is no quick fix to the political crisis in Montenegro.

From The North Africa Post, more on why the aforementioned migration deal between France and Algeria could be voided.

From The New Arab, the UAE sends drones equipped with AI to spot the crescent moon for the start of Ramadan.

From Dawn, at least six people are killed and 15 others injured in a suicide bombing at a madrassa in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, German social workers trying to integrate migrants are threatened after raising an Israeli flag.  (If you read German, read the story at Freilich.)

From Gatestone Institute, Islamists in Syria kidnap and possibly torture Christians.

From Radio Free Asia, a man from Kazakhstan who traveled to see his mother in China recounts his ensuing ordeal.

From The Stream, in vitro fertilization is practical, profitable and popular, but so was the slave trade.

From The Daily Signal, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signs an executive order requiring all cities and counties in the state to cooperate with ICE.

From The American Conservative, the CIA is hiding (so the article claims) something big about the assassination of President Kennedy.

From The Western Journal, Attorney General Pam Bondi accuses the FBI of lying and delivering only parts of the Epstein files, and gives the agency a new 24-hour deadline.

From BizPac Review, Trump thinks he knows who left the she-don't-lie in the White House in 2023.

From The Daily Wire, to protest the rollbacks of DEI, left-wings plan a 24-hour boycott of Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, McDonald's, and "other fast-food joints".  (Even a right wingnut such as yours truly can support their avoidance of Mickey D's and similar places, for health reasons.)

From the Daily Caller, a report reveals what the State Department thought that it was fine to send U.S. taxpayer money to the Taliban.

From the New York Post, a bombing suspect on the U.S. Marshalls "Most Wanted" list for over 40 years is caught using the ID of a dead former classmate.

From Breitbart, before the aforementioned meeting, Trump ribs Zelensky for not wearing a suit.

From Newsmax, Russia plans to send a new ambassador to the U.S.

And from Newsweek, a woman visits the bathroom on a flight and finds an anonymous note on her seat asking for her phone number when she returns.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday Things

On a cloudy and mild Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump promises tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on March 4th, and new tariffs on China.

From FrontpageMag, getting rid of wokeness in government.

From Townhall, pro-Hamas activists assault and injure an employee at Bernard College in New York City.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a poll, a vast majority of Americans support Israel's right to defend itself.

From the Washington Examiner, according to former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a Democratic "firing squad" prevented then-President Biden from running for reelection.

From The Federalist, the White House Correspondents' Association is freaking out because it's losing power and control, not losing freedom of the press.

From American Thinker, Attorney General Pam Bondi promises to release today long-awaited documents about the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From MRCTV, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accuses the Chief Twit of not knowing what he's doing with DOGE.

From NewsBusters, media outlets claim that cuts to the National Park Service are causing chaos for park visitors, but ignore assurances to the contrary from the NPS itself.

From Canada Free Press, outspoken truth tellers in the Canadian province of British Columbia are under fire for alleged "residential school denialism".

From TeleSUR, according to a U.N. rapporteur, Colombia and Panama must protect migrants in the Darien gap.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s incompetent rulers blow away billions upon billions of pounds.  (According to an old joke, "billions and billions" make up a Sagan.)

From Snouts in the Trough, is U.S. President Trump actually playing a new round of "The Great Game"?  (Since this post is a "Thursday-Friday blog", I'll let its date slide.)

From EuroNews, can the U.K.'s military restore itself in time for a security crisis in Europe.

From Free West Media, why shouldn't elections be held in Ukraine?

From ReMix, an illegal alien from Sudan is arrested after allegedly trying to push a woman onto the tracks at Châtelet-les-Halles railroad station in Paris.  (I passed through Châtelet-les-Halles station when I was in France in 2008.  If you read French, read the story at Le Parisien.)

From Balkan Insight, Romanian authorities unexpectedly allow the Tate brothers Andrew and Tristan to leave the despite their facing trial for alleged human trafficking and rape.

From The North Africa Post, a look at Russia's post-Wagner strategy in Africa.

From The New Arab, a group of human rights experts demand that Egypt releases jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose mother has been hospitalized due to a hunger strike.

From The Jerusalem Post, the BBC mistranslates the Arabic word for "Jews" and omits the word jihad from a documentary about Hamas.

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, landmarks around the world are illuminated in orange to honor Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir, who were killed while in captivity in Gaza.

From the Daily Mail, in the Indonesian province of Aceh, two men receive 82 and 77 lashes, respectively, from canes as punishment for same-sex relations.

From Gatestone Institute, a home run for Trump would be to neutralize Hamas, Qatar, the Houthis in Yemen, and Iran.

From Radio Free Asia, the U.S. condemns Thailand for deporting 40 Uyghurs back to China.

From The Stream, the "boiling frog" in America.  (From what I understand, the "boiling frog" analogy, in which a frog will sit in a pot of water as its temperature is slowly increased until it boils the frog alive as it sits there, is not realistic.  In reality, the frog will at some point will become uncomfortable with the slowly increasing heat and jump out before the water boils.)

From The Daily Signal, DOGE is doing some great work, but the U.S. is still broke.

From The American Conservative, the German government's "firewall" against the party AfD will collapse.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Scott Jennings has to point out to fellow panelists on CNN that the president is in charge of the military.

From BizPac Review, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is launching a new podcast.

From The Daily Wire, Maine state House Speaker Ryan Fecteau deletes his account on X in the controversy over transgender athletes.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritters duke it out in a DOGE hearing on foreign aid.

From the New York Post, vets save a dog's life after she eats things far worse then homework.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Joyce Beatty (D-OH) wrongly claims on X that Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was "killed in an act of police brutality", and then deletes her post.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), the budget bill currently being negotiated by House and Senate leaders "won't touch" Medicare and Medicaid".

And from the Santa Fe New Mexican, actor Gene Hackman, his wife classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and one of their dogs are found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Wednesday Wanderings

On a sunny and mild Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a poll, Democrats now rate Cuba higher than Israel.

From FrontpageMag, the left hates that the U.S. now has some responsible leadership.

From Townhall, people who voted for then-Vice President Harris for president can't reasonably be called "conservatives".

From The Washington Free Beacon, the International Red Cross, facing criticism from Republicans over participating in Hamas propaganda, seeks to place ads in TWFB.

From the Washington Free Beacon, according to President Trump, the U.S. and Ukraine will sign a "very big" minerals deal.  (Would this be a case of winning "bigly"?)

From The Federalist, Trump is expected to tap lawfare target Jeffrey Clarke as the regulation czar in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

From American Thinker, the Chinese Communist Party is terrified of......dancers.

From MRCTV, after years of censorship, platforms owned by Meta will instead adopt "community notes" as done on the platform X.

From NewsBusters, according to journalist Ian Lee of CBS, DOGE might turn you into bear food.

From Canada Free Press, the Trump administration's resolutions on Ukraine go one for two at the U.N.

From TeleSUR, the Citizen Observatory of Political Violence records 56 cases of political violence in Ecuador.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Ukraine, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and "his flock of headless chickens".

From EuroNews, prosecutors in Romania charge former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu with six criminal counts.

From Free West Media, Blackwater founder Erik Prince wants to join in the deportation business.

From ReMix, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is called into court as Polish prepares for upcoming elections.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Salon24.)

From Balkan Insight, Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik vows to defy a court verdict against him.

From The North Africa Post, a team of specialists at the Moulay Youssef Hospital Center in Rabat, Morocco performs the first-ever tricuspid valve insufficiency surgery.

From The New Arab, an Iraqi delegation plans to visit Syria to discuss border security and the threat from ISIS.

From the Daily Mail, an AI-generated video shows a statue of Trump and bearded belly dancers in a remade Gaza Strip, and provokes outrage.

From Gatestone Institute, it's time to bring down the curtain on Iran's axis of terror.

From Radio Free Asia, China conducts live-fire military drills near Taiwan "without warning".

From The Stream, CNN "blandly" reports that anti-Trump deep state government employees might hand U.S. secrets to foreign countries.

From The Daily Signal, the Office of Civil Rights in Trump's Department of Education investigates alleged civil rights violations ignored under then-President Biden.

From The American Conservative, Trump's executive order boosting in vitro fertilization presents a problem for pro-lifers.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned mineral deal between the U.S. and Ukraine.

From BizPac Review, filmmaker Michael Moore claims that deported illegal aliens could cure cancer or save the earth from a killer asteroid.

From The Daily Wire, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to investigate the national security implications of the U.K.'s demand to Apple.

From the Daily Caller, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin of The View shuts down panelist Sunny Hostin's attempt to make the issue of illegal immigration about race.

From the New York Post, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S.-bound migrant boats are making "U-turns" and going back to where they came from.

From Breitbart, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attacks U.S. President Trump and promises to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From Newsmax, the Trump administration requires federal agencies to develop plans to eliminate employee positions.

And from the Genesius Times, federal judge Hugh Jassole rules that asking government employees what they've done this week is unconstitutional.

Tuesday Tidings

On a sunny and mild Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a Minnesota leadership course teaches that the Republican Party has a white supremacist agenda.

From FrontpageMag, Europeans are going down a dark path, which the U.S. narrowly missed.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, there are lots of hypocrites and attention seekers in politics.  (As I've previously stated, just as Mark Twain realized that talking about members of congress and imbeciles is repeating himself, I believe that talking about politicians and hypocrites is repeating myself.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, protests against DOGE in red districts were organized by leftist groups.

From the Washington Examiner, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fires employees who leaked information and plans to fire more of them.

From The Federalist, bureaucrats who defy the Chief Twit's email request are proving the case for cuts identified by DOGE.

From American Thinker, why does the Catholic Church apply a double standard to Presidents Biden and Trump?

From MRCTV, a video showing some waste projects found by DOGE.

From NewsBusters, the ABC show The View celebrates Black History Month by promoting the discredited 1619 Project.

From Canada Free Press, Canada will be the unlikely birthplace of the "Marxist One World Order".

From TeleSUR, an Argentine federal judge suspends the privatization of the state-owned Bank of the Argentine Nation.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why U.S. Vice President Vance struck a chord in Switzerland.

From EuroNews, four alleged Hamas members face trial in Germany for terror-related offenses including making weapons stockpiles.

From Free West Media, German "chancellor-in-waiting" Friedrich Merz is a former BlackRock executive.

From ReMix, a Syrian migrant in Germany has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing 245 cars, beating up an 84-year-old woman, and possessing illegal weapons, but still won't be deported.

From Balkan Insight, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik rallies his supporters in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina ahead of his trial verdict.

From The North Africa Post, the first International Federation of Fishing Tourism is established in the Moroccan Saharan city of Dakhla.

From The New Arab, Iraq and the energy company BP reach a deal to develop new oil fields.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the Arrahma mosque in Strasbourg, France dismisses its imam for his statements about rape and marital violence.  (If you read French, read the story at Rue89 Strasbourg and FDeSouche.)

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, Hamas's release of hostages are "modern-day slave auctions".

From Gatestone Institute, according to a national survey, a majority of American voters want the U.S. to conquer the challenge of nuclear fusion energy.

From Radio Free Asia, Thailand extends the visa of a Vietnamese monk and five companions of his who are attempting a pilgrimage to India.

From The Stream, some bold moves, including Trump's appointment of Secret Service veteran Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director.

From The Daily Signal, Border Czar Tom Homan praises the Trump administration's success at the border, and promises more deportations.

From The American Conservative, Republican zombies spend a weekend in Washington, D.C.

From BizPac Review, according to an FBI whistleblower, some FBI employees have been destroying evidence of the agency's past sins.

From The Daily Wire, an illegal alien from Haiti convicted of sexual assault against a child is in ICE custody despite a parole board in Connecticut trying to save him from deportation.

From the Daily Caller, it took only one "long overdue" speech to expose the anti-democratic underbelly in Europe.

From the New York Post, over a million federal workers respond to the aforementioned email from the Chief Twit.

From Breitbart, an American woman is arrested in France after allegedly throwing a newborn baby out the window of a hotel in Paris.

From Newsmax, according to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Hamas's fear of Trump led them to release Israeli hostages.

And from SFGate, a man from San Francisco runs seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.  (If that doesn't deserve this blog's "badass" label, then I don't know what does.)

Monday Mania

On a sunny and mild Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump selects right-wing commentator Dan Bongino to be the deputy director of the FBI.  (The article uses the term "right-wing commentator", just as I have done to indicate right-wing commentators.)

From FrontpageMag, searching the Muslim world for condemnations of Hamas's killing of Israeli children Kfir and Ariel Bibas.  (Don't worry.  I won't hold my breath either.)

From Townhall, Border Czar Tom Homan is coming to Boston and bringing [bleep] with him.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration claimed that the U.S. could monitor Afghanistan after its withdrawal, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls the situation "far more uncertain".

From the Washington Examiner, Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran's "shadow fleet".

From The Federalist, the resistance to Trump proves the left-wing disdain for democracy.

From American Thinker, Democrats once opposed illegal immigration, but now support birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.

From MRCTV, a boy claiming to be a girl takes third and fourth places in girls' skiing events in Maine.

From NewsBusters, the "Big Three" spend less than two minutes combined on the taxpayer savings from DOGE.

From Canada Free Press, offshore bird choppers are blowing away.

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez is leading current President Daniel Noboa in a poll conducted by an Argentine research firm.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. needs its own President Trump and Vice President Vance, or it's doomed.

From EuroNews, U.K. parliamentcritter Mike Amesbury gets 10 weeks in jail for punching a man in the town of Frodsham.

From ReMix, Austria is set to form a new government, which will not include the FPÖ.

From Balkan Insight, on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian exiles in Balkan countries rebuild their lives in uncertain times.

From The North Africa Post, year-long investigations and monitoring lead to Morocco's latest dismantling of a terrorist cell.

From The New Arab, Egypt criticizes Ethiopia's dam "unilateralism".

From The Jerusalem Post, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reveals that Israel offered Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas 94 percent of the West Bank in 2008.

From the Daily Mail, a British teacher, arrested with his wife in Afghanistan, could die because the Taliban are withholding his heart medication.

From The Times Of Israel, according to data from famine review groups, rumors of a famine in Gaza have been greatly exaggerated.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas's October 7th, 2023 attack was part of its jihad to destroy Israel.

From Radio Free Asia, a North Korean soldier captured by Ukrainian troops expresses a desire to defect to South Korea.

From The Stream, according to new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the coronavirus panic was a plan to establish totalitarianism.  (I realized a while back that the coronavirus gave the left the chance to do what it has always wanted to do, which is to control the lives of the people.)

From The Daily Signal, according to Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy (R), Trump has "rescued Alaska".

From The American Conservative, yes, we can and should negotiate with Russian President Putin.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned Dan Bongino being named as deputy director of the FBI.

From BizPac Review, TV host Megyn Kelly can't find any "white women tears" for TV host Joy Reid, whose show has just been canceled.

From The Daily Wire, the Trump administration is eliminating at least 1,600 positions at USAID.

From the Daily Caller, former Mr. Bill henchman James Carville says that he doesn't "give a [bleep]" about efforts to "protect" female athletes.

From the New York Post, just when you thought it was safe to watch videos.

From Breitbart, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) reveals that four government agencies were investigating the Biden family but were told to stand down.  (Tell me again how "no one is above the law".)

From Newsmax, anchor Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News announces that he will step down.

And from The Babylon Bee, Admiral Firmus Piett receives an email from Darth Vader asking about what he accomplished last week.

Some Late Sunday Stories

On a clear and cool Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, MSNBC decides to cancel Joy Reid's show The ReidOut.

From FrontpageMag, what do young people in Gaza want?

From Townhall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offers to resign, if it would lead to the end of the war with Russia.

From The Washington Free Beacon, meet the terrorist now overseeing the Palestinian Authority's system for paying terrorists.

From the Washington Examiner, the Trump administration says "you're fired!" to 2,000 USAID employees.

From American Thinker, President Trump must speak about the results of DOGE.

From NewsBusters, Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) shuts down NBC host Kristen Welker over cuts made by DOGE.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what happens when a nation's hopes are dashed?

From AMU, the Taliban publicly flog a woman in the Afghani province of Herat.

From The Jewish Chronicle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delays the release of Palestinian prisoners over the humiliation Hamas inflicted on Israeli hostages.

From Gatestone Institute, Trump and Netanyahu must abandon the ceasefire deal with Hamas.

From Radio Free Asia, North Korea confiscates coats lined with dog fur from civilians and gives then to military personnel.

From The Daily Signal, the sneaky way in which government unions rake in taxpayer dollars, and what congress can do about it.

From The American Conservative, Trump is right to get tough with Europe.

And from The Hard Times, after successfully completing a 42-year probationary period, Kirk Hammett officially becomes Metallica's lead guitarist.

Saturday Stuff

On a sunny but cold Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump urges the Chief Twit to "get more aggressive".

From FrontpageMag, quotes from the grand muftis of Saudi Arabia and the UAE condemning Hamas go viral, but it's too bad that they're fake.

From Townhall, new FBI Director Kash Patel gets to work.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Presidents Trump (U.S.) and Xi (China), and the Indian Ocean.

From The Federalist, Trump fires left-wing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown and other military officials who have pushed DEI.

From American Thinker, if you think that DOGE is new, you're wrong.

From NewsBusters, ABC goes soft on fans of the man who allegedly assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealthCare.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a conversation with U.K. Prime Minister and former Brigadier Keir Starmer.

From The Times Of Israel, an Israeli bus driver got his passengers off the bus minutes before a bomb exploded.

From The Jerusalem Post, the body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas is returned from Gaza.

From BBC News, according to police in Berlin, a Syrian man suspected of stabbing a Spanish tourist at the city's Holocaust Memorial had planned for several weeks to kill Jews.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian government keeps playing the same old game.

From Radio Free Asia, former NPR China correspondent Emily Feng recalls her experience in China.

From The Stream, 20 reasons why evangelicals are deconstructing their faith.

From The Daily Signal, while Trump restores common sense and fairness to women's sports, there's still more to do.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. State Department should convoke a worldwide summit against illegal immigration.

From The Western Journal, actor George Clooney points out when he lost faith in then-President Biden.

From BizPac Review, a recap of Trump's fifth week back in office.

From The Daily Wire, a Washington, D.C. court orders anti-Israel activists to pay $182,000 to a rabbi whom they falsely accused of "stalking".

From the Daily Caller, Democrats have apparently chosen their hill to die on.

From the New York Post, how the James Bond franchise will be ruined, just like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

From Breitbart, Border Czar Tom Homan points out that 700,000 criminal illegal aliens are still walking the streets in the U.S.  (A criminal illegal alien is someone who has either entered or stayed in the U.S. illegally and has committed at least one other crime.)

From Newsmax, billionaire businessman Warren Buffett offers Trump some advice.

And from the (U.K.) Independent, the restaurant chain Hooters is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy.

On The Road In Eastern Maryland

After leaving Massey, Maryland and its Air Museum, I drove westward to the Caulk's Field Monument, which memorialized the Battle of Caulk's Field.  This little known battle took place on August 30th, 1814 during the War of 1812.  British Captain Peter Parker, commander of the Menelaus, led about 140 marines and sailors onto the east shore of the Chesapeake Bay against 174 members of the Maryland Militia led by Lieutenant Colonel Philip Reed.  During the battle, 14 British troops were killed, including Parker himself, while three Americans suffered minor wounds.  The battle lasted for about an hour, with both sides withdrawing, the British to their ship.  Today, this monument to the battle sits just off a side road connected to Maryland route 21.

Massey Air Museum

Today I ventured southward from my temporary undisclosed location and visited the Massey Air Museum, about a mile and half east of the unincorporated community of Massey, Maryland.  As I drove in, I saw this old DC-3.  It looks like you can have a picnic under its right wing.

A Few Late Thursday Tidbits

Now that I'm done from running around on a cold and cloudy Thursday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, the Senate confirms nominee Kash Patel as the new FBI director.

From FrontpageMag, pity the Democrats - on second thought, don't.

From Townhall, the Associated Press can't get themselves to call the Hamas terrorists "terrorists".  (I remember one host on the now-defunct BlogTalkRadio say the name "Associated Press" by accenting the first syllable.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, NPR does not seem to appreciate that Gazans were really celebrating the deaths of four Israeli hostages.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump's ban on federal funds for illegal aliens could save U.S. taxpayers a lot of money.

From The Federalist, the recent success at the border under Trump proves that Republicans never had to negotiate U.S. sovereignty.

From American Thinker, some FAQs (or maybe facts) about DOGE.

From MRCTV, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will reportedly not seek reelection in 2026.

From NewsBusters, left-wing media falsely blame Trump for the economic slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2024 - when he was not in office.  (What is this "chronology" that you speak of?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and "the strongarm of the law".

From RAIR Foundation USA, the Canadian military uploads an image of a soldier wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh.

From Elder Of Zion, Hamas makes a grotesque stage two dead Israeli children, their dead mother, and another dead hostage.

From IranWire, the Metro system of Tehran, Iran and "repentance rooms".

From Gatestone Institute, despite receiving over $3 billion from the U.S., the Lebanese Armed Forces has not disarm Hezbollah.

From Radio Free Asia, according to a report, China's homegrown technology enables the Chinese Communist Party to monitor its citizens at home and abroad, and boosts its overseas operations.

From The Stream, it's time for American education to make a major course correction.

From The Daily Signal, don't cry over the aforementioned Associated Press getting kicked out of White House press conferences.

From The American Conservative, how Pentagon Undersecretary of Policy nominee Elbridge Colby could prevail over the America-lasters.

And from SFGate, biologists will monitor wildlife on San Francisco's Farallon will leave them for the first time in almost 60 years.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a cold and cloudy Wednesday, with a bit of snow, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what's really going on with DOGE.

From FrontpageMag, three people whom President Trump broke.

From Townhall, to help decide when she should remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) enlists the help of noted race baiter Al Sharpton.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration freezes funding to Palestinian Authority "security forces" who have carried out terrorist attacks against Israelis.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump sharpens his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  (The WE has been placing their articles behind a paywall for the last few days, at least seen from my perspective, but this one seems to lack a paywall, again at least from my perspective.)

From The Federalist, FBI Director nominee Kash Patel is perfect for the position because he has already successfully taken on the deep state.

From American Thinker, maybe a government shutdown would be a good thing.

From MRCTV, will DOGE and Trump put an end to Senator Fake Cherokee's (D-MA) "consumer finance protection bureau"?

From NewsBusters, left-wingers at CNN panic as if NATO is dead, claiming that Trump is "abandoning Europe".

From Canada Free Press, European elites fear Trump, the Chief Twit, and the truth.

From TeleSUR, former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claims that her current  successor Javier Milei is falling apart.

From TCW Defending Freedom, fix the U.K. before lavishing its people's cash on "bonkers" projects outside the U.K.

From Snouts in the Trough, it's great to see that Trump's team is kicking rear end.

From EuroNews, according to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, hospitalized Pope Francis is in good spirits.

From Free West Media, real estate investor Steve Witkoff is "Trump's point man on Ukraine".

From ReMix, a lawyer who supports the party AfD is fined €3,000 for criticizing the German government.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Balkan Insight, the rise and dramatic fall of former Bosnian Security Minister Nenad Nešić.

From The North Africa Post, the Malian army depends on Morocco for training, equipment and logistics.

From The New Arab, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fires prisoner affairs official Qadura Fares for supporting payments to the families of detainees held in Israeli prisons.

From The Times Of Israel, pro-HamasPalestinian activists stage a protest in a Jewish neighborhood in the New York borough of Brooklyn.

From Gatestone Institute, why Trump must insist that Hamas is removed from power in Gaza.

From Radio Free Asia, ten people in the Myanmar region of Sagaing are arrested in connection with the killing of a Catholic priest.

From The Stream, Catholic bishops join forces with Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood to stop a pro-life bill in North Dakota.

From The Daily Signal, Republican congresscritters attending a conference in London see firsthand how Trump is shaking up Europe.

From The American Conservative, European warmongers take aim at Trump.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Kash Patel "clears a huge hurdle" in the Senate and gets a major Republican endorsement.

From BizPac Review, the aforementioned Volodymyr Zelensky lashes back at Trump.

From The Daily Wire, the aforementioned Pope Francis says that he signed a resignation letter back in 2013.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at the Spanish site ABC, which should not be confused with either the Australian site ABC or the American TV network ABC.)

From the Daily Caller, former Vice President Harris finds a new gig.

From Breitbart, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) claims that she "wasn't aware" of fire warnings before the Palisades Fire on January 7th, but she posted those warnings herself on X a day earlier.

From Newsmax, the Senate confirms former Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) to lead the Small Business Administration.

And from the New York Post, you can get now married in Norway under the northern lights.

Tuesday Things

On a mostly sunny but cold Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a new coalition of pro-life groups seeks to redefine discourse about abortion, with a $30 million investment.

From FrontpageMag, mythologies about the Chief Twit.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, an "embarrassing" AP report about air traffic controllers shows why the White House was wise to disinvite them from attending President Trump's press meetings.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the movie Captain America: Brave New World.

From The Federalist, some programs by the Department of Education that DOGE should look at.

From American Thinker, why Arabs reject Trump's plan for Gaza.

From MRCTV, a boy claiming to be a girl wins the Maine state pole vault championship for girls.

From NewsBusters, moderator Whoopi Goldberg of The View demands to know when did she give permission to NASA to sign contracts with the Chief Twit's company SpaceX.  (She's being quite silly here.  She should realize that, unlike her Star Trek character Guinan, she has no standing when it comes to space exploration.)

From Canada Free Press, DOGE finds some "social insecurity".

From TeleSUR, Venezuela rejects accusations from Guyana about an alleged attack by the former's troops against the latter's.

From TCW Defending Freedom, global warming belief is built on a 120-year-old error.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cancels a previously scheduled trip to Saudi Arabia.

From Free West Media, an interview with human rights activist Dan Roodt about Trump's actions toward South Africa.

From ReMix, the Hungarian far left seeks to emulate the current protests in Serbia during this coming spring.  (This is one of the few times that I've read the word "far" in connection with the word "left".  If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatian President Zoran Milanović is inaugurated for his second term.

From The North Africa Post, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati praises Morocco's push for development in the region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, former Syrian Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun is spotted in the province of Aleppo, with calls for him to be arrested due to his links with former President Bashar Al-Assad.

From AMU, according to the Afghanistan Journalists Center, the Taliban's ban on talk shows is intended to silence critical voices.

From RAIR Foundation USA, CAIR's plan to Islamize the U.S.

From Sky News, the anti-Semitic outbursts by two Australian nurses shows that the country's multicultural experiment is failing.

From Gatestone Institute, how USAID sent bags of $100 bills to the Taliban.

From Radio Free Asia, four U.N. experts call for Vietnam to release jailed blogger Duong Van Thai.

From The Stream, the optimistic outlook Americans have for the Trump administration.

From The Daily Signal, the people whom Trump has nominated whom the Senate has not yet confirmed.

From The American Conservative, Trump's orders on transgenderism are well within his authority.

From The Western Journal, DOGE finds a way by which $4.7 trillion of government spending became almost impossible to trace.

From BizPac Review, the Biden regime his then-Secretary of Defense nominee with a rushed IRS audit on its way out.

From The Daily Wire, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warns would-be illegal aliens "don't even think about it".

From CNN, Hamas terrorists claim that among the four dead bodies which they will return to Israel will be those of their two youngest hostages.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, four Republican congresscritters urge Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute officials and left-wing activists who subvert efforts to deport illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, singer Paul Simon, after appearing on the 50th anniversary show of Saturday Night Live, announces a new tour.

From Breitbart, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is "so excited" to work with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to "make American healthy again".

From Newsmax, actor Tom Hanks is facing a backlash over his portrayal of a hillbilly MAGA supporter on the aforementioned Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary show.

And from the Genesius Times, Democrats insist that Social Security recipients over age 100 are all real, and that they all voted for then-presidential candidate Biden.

Susquehanna State Park

Today I ventured out from my current undisclosed location and explored a bit of Susquehanna State Park, which is in Maryland between U.S. Route 1 to the north and Interstate 95 to the south.  The first place I stopped at was Rock Run Gristmill, which is about 50 feet from the Susquehanna River.  The mill includes a wheel and a pipe that brought water from across the road.

Late Monday Mania From A Traveling Sasquatch

For the first time this year, I've gone off to an undisclosed location.  However, I'm still in Maryland, but over 100 miles from my normal location.  On a sunny but cold (both here and there) Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, greetings from what might be a "model NATO ally".  (It's also one of yours truly's ancestral countries.)

From FrontpageMag, European elites hated Vice President Vance's recent speech.

From Townhall, the Chief Twit reveals that the Social Security database contains millions entries listing people as being from 100 to 159 years old.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a taxpayer-funded pro-illegal-immigration group seeks to "disrupt Trump's deportation machine".

From The Federalist, Democrats insist that their problems are due to their podcasts.

From American Thinker, what should be done about legal immigration?

From MRCTV, California will reportedly spend almost $10 billion on health care for illegal aliens this year alone.

From NewsBusters, NBC reporter Tom Costello ties President Trump and the Chief Twit to an airplane crash - in Canada.

From Canada Free Press, the Canadian anti-American would-be prime minister.

From TeleSUR, Cuba and Bolivia sign an agreement on nuclear medicine to combat cancer.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Gloucester, England school administrator Kristie Higgs wins "a victory for Christianity and free speech".

From Snouts in the Trough, what is the daily routine of the U.K.'s admirals?

From EuroNews, five key issues which the next German chancellor will have to face.

From Free West Media, more on Vance's speech in Europe.

From ReMix, according to German chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, Russian President Putin wants to annex part of Poland.  (It wouldn't be the first time that Russia has annexed part of Poland.)

From Balkan Insight, the Sofia Airport is renamed after Bulgarian national hero Vassil Levsky, called "the apostle of freedom".

From The North Africa Post, Morocco denies reports that it has plans to cull stray dogs before the World Cup in 2030.

From The New Arab, Tunisia considers "hosting" exiled Hamas figures amid Gaza ceasefire negotiations.

From The Jerusalem Post, at a forum hosted by the news outlet Al Jazeera, a Hamas official claims that the October 7th, 2023 attack was a "historic success".

From The Times Of Israel, Hamas terrorists are caught on tape accusing their leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid.

From Sky News, Muslim groups, including one listed on the U.K.'s terrorism register, accuse the media and politicians of "hypocrisy" over the outrage sparked by a video of two nurses caught in video threatening to "kill" Israeli patients.

From Arutz Sheva, it's been 46 years since the oppression of Iranian women began.

From Gatestone Institute, don't be fooled into thinking that the Palestinian Authority has stopped paying terrorists.

From Radio Free Asia, according to a human rights group, the ruling junta in Myanmar has freed almost 1,000 Rohingya from prison.

From The Stream, yes, believe it or not, the left were once peaceniks.

From The Daily Signal, emails show that Democrat governors arranged a meeting with the Biden White House to oppose the Trump agenda.

From The American Conservative, still more on Vance's speech.

From The Western Journal, the Chinese government is furious over a change to the U.S. State Department's website - for what is now doesn't say.

From BizPac Review, a liberal woman throws a fit over a man's hat which includes the American flag.

From The Daily Wire, the White House refutes allegations that DOGE released classified data.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats assemble their billionaire friends in an effort to create their own answer to podcaster Joe Rogan.

From the New York Post, more on the aforementioned airplane crash in Canada.

From Breitbart, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness calls for Jamaicans living illegally in the United States to return home.

From Newsmax, Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez (R) resigns.

And from The Babylon Bee, how to tell if the aforementioned Chief Twit is the father of your child.

Sunday Links

On a cool and rainy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) responds to a call to run for New York City mayor.

From FrontpageMag, U.K. authorities arrest a man who burned a Koran, but free on bail a Muslim who allegedly stabbed him for it.

From Townhall, bombs which the Biden administration withheld from Israel arrive there thanks to President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the history of the Supreme Court.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump takes a lap around the Daytona International Speedway in "the Beast".

From American Thinker, the left's unhinged reaction to Trump is confusing.

From NewsBusters, CBS touts Department of Justice "impartiality", as if that were then-President Biden's brand.

From TCW Defending Freedom, clean energy and other mythical creatures.

From Jewish News Syndicate, hundreds of thousands of people protest in London against Israel and Trump's plan for Gaza.

From The Jerusalem Post, one of the pro-HamasPalestine protesters in London is arrested for making a Nazi salute, while others shout "Zionist pig".

From the (U.K.) Independent, a woman and her two-year-old daughter die from injuries they suffered in the car ramming attack in Munich, Germany.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran makes a "gravy train to Africa".

From Radio Free Asia, two Laotian women warn about "sham marriages" in China

From The Stream, "reclaim solitude".

From The Daily Signal, USAID's troubling connections to woke non-profit groups who called the shots during the Biden presidency.

From The American Conservative, Senator Socialism (I-VT) turns his back on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

From The Western Journal, when then-candidate Trump complained about the stage he was on in Minnesota.

And from The Spoof, media personality Khloe Kardashian admits that she went out with a Taliban hit man, but just once.

Saturday Stories

On a cold and cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Hamas releases three more Israeli hostages.

From FrontpageMag, then-Special Counsel Jack Smith received $140,000 worth of pro bono legal services from a law firm that was also the Biden campaign's legal counsel.

From Townhall, DOGE's greatest hits, so far.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump's "art of diplomacy".

From the Washington Examiner, a foreign-funded dark money organization sent millions of dollars to left-wing groups during the 2024 election.  (And the American left wing still lost.)

From American Thinker, Pete Hegseth is "a warrior's Secretary of Defense".  (Hegseth's willingness to do some physical training with his troops earns him this blog's "badass" label.)

From NewsBusters, according to cable TV host Bill Maher, Trump "has gone way too far" by issuing an executive order which says that there are only two sexes.  (In other words, recognizing basic biology is "going too far".)

From TCW Defending Freedom, Canadian author Mark Steyn accuses a TCWDF writer of making "breezy throwaway lines" about Australian being a dangerous place for Jews.

From The Jerusalem Post, on a stage on Khan Yunis, Gaza, Hamas displays its opposition to Trump's plan to relocate Gazan Palestinians.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a school in Cologne, Germany threatens to fine a woman for taking he daughter out of a trip to a mosque.  (If you read German, read the story at Express, which should not be confused with either the British site Express or the Austrian site Exxpress.)

From Gatestone Institute, Trump makes his first "big disastrous" mistake.

From Radio Free Asia, according to an opinion column, banning the denial of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge is a bad move for both Cambodia and the world.

From The Stream, ways for Christians to reach LGBT+ people without compromising the gospel.

From The Daily Signal, something which could curtail states from suing to stop Trump's executive orders.

From The American Conservative, Trump is running the playbook of Argentine President Javier Milei.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Pete Hegseth slams a Fox News reporter for "fake news" over money for repairs to his new government residence.

From The Daily Wire, the Penfield, New York school board walks out on parents upset about an LGBT book and then prohibits public comments during their meetings.

From the New York Post, a judge in Genesee County, Michigan sentences people who shoplifted from a Walmart to washing cars in its parking lot.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, DNA analysis finally reveals the true identity of Jack the Ripper.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, a multi-agency task force arrests three previously deported illegal aliens and seizes 344 pound of methamphetamine near Plum Grove, Texas.

From Newsmax, Pope Francis spends a quiet first night in Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

And from TechSideline, Virginia Tech softball pitcher Emma Lemley throws her second straight perfect game.