Thursday, February 27, 2025

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.

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