Friday Phenomena

On a warm and cloudy Friday, after I've been running around a bit, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Vice President Vance claims that Denmark has "underinvested" in Greenland's security.

From FrontpageMag, The New York Times finds its presidential candidate for 2028.

From Townhall, a law firm gives in after running afoul of President Trump's pen and phone.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what the Trump administration should do with the $430 million not given to Columbia University.

From the Washington Examiner, according to State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, the department is revoking the visas of pro-Hamas foreign students involved in on-campus riots "every day".

From The Federalist, deporting anti-American foreigners is not about free speech rights, since they have no "right" to be here in the first place.

From American Thinker, where the Chief Twit's chainsaw is needed the most.

From MRCTV, the media distort "Signalgate".

From NewsBusters, broadcast networks go Sergeant Schultz on congresscritter Jasmine Crockett's (D-TX) allegedly assaulting a reporter.

From Canada Free Press, say not au revoir but adieu to Canada.

From TeleSUR, Cuba awards its 2025 National Film Prize to actress/screenwriter/ documentarian Mirta Ibarra.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what U.K. Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch should be saying about Net Zero.

From Snouts in the Trough, there has been a miracle.

From EuroNews, a French court ruling could spell trouble for the 2027 presidential campaign of National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen.

From ReMix, will Poland cancel its elections if the "wrong" candidate wins, which appears to have happened in Romania?  (If you read Polish, read the story at wPolityce.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatian radio and television employees protest against layoffs proposed by the government.

From The North Africa Post, a tourist submarine sinks on its way to Hurghada, Egypt, resulting in six passengers being killed.

From The New Arab, according to sources, chemical weapons inspectors have been granted access to production and storage locations used by the outed regime of former President Bashar al-Assad.

From The Jerusalem Post, lawmakers in the U.K. and Australia try to restrict protests outside of synagogues.

From Jewish News Syndicate, sectarian violence in Syria reaches the capital city of Damascus and target Alawites.

From NDTV, a protester in Turkey dresses as the cartoon character Pikachu, but flees when the police show up.

From Raajje, the Maldivian government starts work to make student loans shariah-compliant.

From The Straits Times, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake strikes near Sagaing, Myanmar, causes damage in Thailand, and is felt in Vietnam.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto signs legislation to protect children in digital space.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia is ready to provide earthquake relief to Myanmar and Thailand.

From the Borneo Post, two men are arrested in Miri, Malaysia for allegedly smuggling drugs.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh welcomes visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwanese President William Lai oversees the first civil defense drills under his newly created Social Resilience Committee.

From China News, according to President Xi Jinping, China is still an "ideal, secure and promising" place for foreign investors.

From The Korea Herald, South Korean acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo slams North Korea's "illegal arms trade" with Russia.  (I wonder what he thinks of Russia using North Korean soldiers in Ukraine.  I also wonder how one person simultaneously acts as the holder of two offices.)

From The Mainichi, the Japanese royal family will soon have their own YouTube channel.

From Japan Today, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba finds U.S. President Trump's view on tariffs "difficult to understand".  (Even Trump supporters such as yours truly can't entirely figure them out.)

From Gatestone Institute, China is taking war to earth orbits, which could lead to a "space Pearl Harbor".

From Radio Free Asia, more on the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand.

From The Stream, why the confirmation of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) for U.S. Ambassador to Israel is a battle for Christian values in American foreign policy.

From The Stream, Trump tries to stop the left's war on history.

From The American Conservative, what would right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan do about Iran?  (The article notes that Buchanan co-founded TAC.)

From The Western Journal, prosecutors question the timing of drug maker Pfizer's announcement that its coronavirus vaccine proved to be effective.

From BizPac Review, a junior high school teacher in Bedford, Texas makes a half-hearted "attempt" to stop a student beatdown, but wouldn't even put down his coffee.

From The Daily Wire, USAID will lay off 4,600 employees and merge with the State Department by this coming fall.

From the Daily Caller, according to former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA), Vice President Harris becoming president in 2023 would have made things even worse for Democrats in 2024.

From Breitbart, after Hezbollah launches rockets into Israel, the IDF strikes back.

From Newsmax, the Federal Aviation Administration moves to protect the private information of aircraft owners.

And from the New York Post, actor Tom Hanks, who starred in the movie Forrest Gump, makes a cameo appearance in his son's Gump-themed music video.

Thursday Tidbits

On a sunny but cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump withdraws the nomination of congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for Ambassador to the U.N.

From FrontpageMag, the Chinese government wages war on the cross.  (They have managed to repress Christians, Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners.)

From Townhall, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits a high security prison in El Salvador and has a very short message for criminal illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Senate Education Committee launches an investigation of American Muslims for Palestine over its role in anti-Israel demonstrations on U.S. college campuses.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the Secret Service, a third dog owned by then-Vice President Biden attacked security and landscaping staff.

From The Federalist, 10 times when NPR proved that it doesn't deserve one more cent of taxpayer money.

From American Thinker, cameras could be installed at Fort Knox so Americans can see our gold.

From MRCTV, opening day for the Washington Nationals will include a performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.

From NewsBusters, these four minutes of video footage from PBS make a strong case for it being defunded.

From Canada Free Press, did left-wing supporters of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney repeat a satanic chant back to him?

From TeleSUR, Venezuela rejects threats from the U.S. and promises to defend the region of Essequibo as its sovereign territory.  (Essequibo currently makes up most of neighboring Guyana.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, is there any difference between the U.K.'s Labour and Conservative parties?

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron announces a plan for a "reassurance force" in Ukraine.

From Free West Media, ending the scapegoating of South Africa's Afrikaners amid the ANC's corruption.

From ReMix, French customs authorities find she-don't-lie in some amazing places.

From Balkan Insight, a court in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina finds a Serb former policeman guilty of raping a Bosniak woman in 1992.

From The North Africa Post, almost 1,000 athletes from 52 countries are expected to participate in Morocco's Marathon Des Sables in April.

From The New Arab, Syrians returning to their homes confront the threat of explosive devices left from the country's civil war.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, an Iranian journalist trades his microphone for a rifle and fights for Ukraine.

From Hasht e Subh, under Taliban rule, girls in several provinces of Afghanistan turn to drugs amid depression.

From The Hans India, Indian Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy points out the producing a billion tonnes of coal is a collective effort.

From the Hindustan Times, police in Delhi, India bust a vehicle theft ring connected to a kingpin based in Dubai, UAE.

From ANI, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, Bangladeshis and Rohingyas enter India through the state of West Bengal.

From India Today, the Indian Army plans to permanently deploy the new "72 Infantry Division" in the eastern part of the territory of Ladakh to guard the border with China.

From The Dhaka Tribune, travel during Eid in Bangladesh could face some major disruptions.  (Although the article doesn't specify which Islamic festival of Eid is meant, I believe that it's Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month Ramadan.  The other festival is Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.)

From New Age, observers of Eid-ul-fitr in Bangladesh face extortionists.  (The article uses a spelling different from "Eid al-Fitr" above.  This might be due to Arabic words being adopted into Bengali.)

From the Daily Mirror, an Indian couple returning from Thailand via Sri Lanka with their young child are arrested cannabis of the "Kush" variety is found in their luggage.

From the Colombo Gazette, 11 Indian fisherman are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan waters.

From the Bangkok Post, Thailand's cabinet approves a bill for casinos and entertainment complexes.

From Jewish News Syndicate, French Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls admits that hatred of the Jews "comes essentially from the Arab-Muslim world".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a migrant from Bulgaria allegedly attacks and rapes his ex-girlfriend in Frankfurt am Mein, Germany because she would not swear on the Koran.  (Muslims constitute 9.8 percent of Bulgaria's population.  If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From BBC News, according to police, five people were injured in a stabbing spree in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

From Gatestone Institute, the Alien Enemies Act, separation of powers, "public safety", and the word "or".

From Radio Free Asia, the Arakan Army, which controls most of the Myanmar state of Rakhine, plans to start conscripting both men and women.

From The Stream, how far did Trump go acting against election fraud, and what threats are still around?

From The Daily Signal, the real oligarchs who run the U.S.

From The American Conservative, if judges can obstruct the will of the people, then we no longer have a democracy.

From The Western Journal, after a group of Republican Senators blast Vice President Vance, they are blasted by Donald Trump the Younger.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tells a U.K. reporter to go back home, which has a significant migrant problem.

From The Daily Wire, Vance looks back and pays it forward while visiting the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia.

From the Daily Caller, former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza predicts a "really bad" two months for former President Biden.

From the New York Post, why students who get accepted into Ivy League schools are rejected elsewhere.

From Breitbart, a former Freddie Mac employee is arrested for allegedly making bomb threats against its headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

From Newsmax, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) jokingly predicts that pop singer Taylor Swift will write a song about the "terrible breakup" between the Chief Twit and the Democrats.

And from The Betoota Advocate, the original version of "brain rot" was playing Minesweeper without knowing its rules.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a sunny, cool and windy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, sometimes, admitting a mistake is the best thing to do.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump has the power to drive his enemies insane.

From Townhall, did you notice what disappeared from the story by The Atlantic about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Signal chat?

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) once attacked fellow congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL) for being married to a white woman.

From the Washington Examiner, Hegseth performs "rhetorical gymnastics" over what information was shared in the aforementioned Signal chat.

From The Federalist, Democratic Senators claim that there was no censorship industrial complex, and it would have been good if one did exist.

From American Thinker, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's snap election, which Trump saw coming.

From MRCTV, why did Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic wait 13 days before informing National Security Advisor Michael Waltz of the "massive security breach" when he was mistakenly including in the aforementioned Signal chat?

From NewsBusters, how then-President Biden's team mistreated a pliant press corps.

From Canada free Press, Illinois legislators attack the rights of parents to choose how their children are educated.

From TeleSUR, an environmental disaster from an oil spill in Ecuador gets worse.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a cunning plan to make everyone in the U.K. use smart meters.

From Snouts in the Trough, do you really believe that U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will cut public spending.

From EuroNews, the E.U. wants all of its member states to develop a 72-hour survival kit for its citizens in case of a crisis.

From ReMix, Germany's new government prepares to implement a stricter immigration policy in order to head off the growing popularity of the party AfD.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.  Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any German language version of the story.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti gets pranked by Russians pretending to be the president of Latvia.

From The North Africa Post, a Tunisian student is arrested for allegedly storming Radès Stadium, where a World Cup qualifying match was being played, and waving the Palestinian flag.  (Radès is a suburb of Tunis.)

From The New Arab, meet the female preachers appointed by Egypt's Al-Azhar University.

From IranWire, Iran reveals another underground "missile city".

From Iran International, Iran reportedly uses forged documents to sell oil and liquefied petroleum gas in Asian markets as coming from other countries.

From Khaama Press, the U.N. calls for female Afghan soccer players to be included in international competitions.

From AMU, according to Afghan official Khan Jan Alokozai, Afghanistan exported $500 million worth of goods to India over the past year, despite Pakistan closing some key trade routes.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif commends his team and nation for unlocking a new $1.3 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan Railways announces the resumption of operations in the province of Balochistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani YouTube user Rajab Butt apologizes while on an Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca for his perfume named "295", the number apparently referring to a section of the Pakistan Penal Code dealing with blasphemy.  (Whether his last name really is "Butt", I have no idea.)

From OpIndia, an Islamist mob throws stones at a Mangla procession in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India.  (If you read Hindi, read the story at Aaj Tak.)

From the Daily Mail, a British-Israeli man successfully sues the Palestinian Authority for £10.5 million after a terrorist killed his wife and two daughters.

From RAIR Foundation USA, the Tablighi Jamaat, known as a recruitment gateway for Al Qaeda, establishes a headquarters in Garland, Texas.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, the Palestinian Authority's antisemitism resembles the ideology of Nazi Germany.  (The last four stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is apparently planning to outwit or outwait U.S. President Trump rather than relinquishing its nuclear program.

From Radio Free Asia, Laos investigates executives who oversaw a long dam delay.

From The Stream, the Bible is clear that Christians should pray for Israel and act accordingly.

From The Daily Signal, did Biden make the fires in California and the Carolina worse by giving in to an environmentalist group?

From The American Conservative, what "Signalgate" really means.

From The Western Journal, a alleged Tesla vandal pays a price for his actions - twice.

From BizPac Review, NPR and PBS are set to have their government funding cut off, as their CEOs are expected to testify before the congressional DOGE subcommittee.

From The Daily Wire, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza are proof that Israel's policies are working.

From the Daily Caller, a judge who blocked the Trump administration's deportation of illegal alien gang members is assigned to a lawsuit involving Signal chat.

From the New York Post, NPR CEO Katherine Maher admits that the outlet did not cover the Hunter Biden laptop story "more aggressively or sooner".

From Breitbart, the Kennedy Center is reportedly dismantling its "social impact" initiative and laying off employees affiliated with it.

From Newsmax, Tesla is expected to launch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia next month.

And from SFGate, a mysterious "fireball" is seen flying over San Francisco, Las Vegas, and the Lake Tahoe area.

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, why should we classify our war plans if we're going to give them away anyway?

From FrontpageMag, impeding President Trump's deportation of violent criminal illegal aliens.

From Townhall, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard denies the Democrats the "signalgate" narrative that they so badly wanted.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) mocks Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R).

From the Washington Examiner, left-wing influencer Kat Abughazaleh announces that she will challenge congresscritter Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in a primary contest.

From The Federalist, five of the 15 judges on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia are foreign-born.

From American Thinker, we still need an investigation of coronavirus-related crimes.

From MRCTV, a school employee in Allentown, Pennsylvania is arrested for faking a hate crime against herself.

From NewsBusters, the media are still awful about anti-Tesla vandalism.

From Canada Free Press, Canada's important minerals, oil and gas, and Prime Minister Mark Carney's relationship with China.

From TeleSUR, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is willing to speak Prime Minister Carney.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is carbon dioxide a global warming villain or a scapegoat?

From EuroNews, the U.S. announces a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea.

From Free West Media, is negotiation the best way to end the war between Russia and Ukraine?

From ReMix, leaders of Germany's Green Party and the SPD want the party AfD to be banned.

From Balkan Insight, journalistic and rights organizations urge Albania's Constitutional Court to overturn a one-year ban on the platform TikTok.

From The North Africa Post, according to an Airbus official, Morocco is a key market with "enormous" growth potential.

From The New Arab, what do Tunisians want from new Prime Minister Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri?

From Arutz Sheva, a Hamas terrorist who also worked for Al Jazeera is sent to his virgins.

From The Times Of Israel, a heap of stones forming a "pyramid" near the Dead Sea might have been a fort for a taxman.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Palestinian man affiliated with Hamas tries to ram an Israeli police officer with his car, thus making his last mistake.

From YNetNews, former hostage Ilana Grichowsky recounts being sexually assaulted by her Hamas captors.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt makes a new proposal for a restored ceasefire in Gaza.

From Egypt Today, according to Egyptian Minister of Environment Dr. Yasmine Fouad, women have reached 50.4 percent of leadership positions in Egypt.

From the Sudan Tribune, according to the group Emergency Lawyers, Sudanese military airstrikes have killed over 100 people in the state of North Darfur.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance and the Agence Française de Développement reach a €28.5 million deal for budgetary and technical support.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian Health Minister Fahad Al-Jalajel inspects healthcare facilities in Mecca.

From Doha News, a Qatari charity launches an initiative to rebuild homes for Syrians displaced by the ongoing conflict in their country.

From CBS News, video footage shows the attempted kidnapping of an imam outside a mosque in New York City.

From Gatestone Institute, there is no difference between Hamas's "politicians" and its terrorists.

From Radio Free Asia, China releases employees of a U.S. consulting firm after detaining them for two years.

From The Stream, who were the ancient Philistines?

From The Daily Signal, according to congresscritter Michael Guest (R-Mis), the U.S. must learn from then-President Biden's failure at the border, or be "doomed to repeat it".

From The American Conservative, the hidden themes behind the violence in Syria.

From The Western Journal, a blue spiral seen in the sky above parts of Europe was from a rocket launch by SpaceX.  (I'm not saying it's aliens, but I am saying that it's not aliens.)

From BizPac Review, FBI Director Kash Patel has a warning for people who would commit "domestic terrorism" against Tesla and its products.

From The Daily Wire, according to a lawsuit, an anti-Israel group at Columbia University reactivated their account on Instagram just before Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023.

From the Daily Caller, according to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, she was "fully aware" that her job would be to eliminate her job.

From the New York Post, the FCC rejects a request from CBS to dismiss a complaint made against them over their controversial interview of then-Vice President Harris on the show 60 Minutes.

From Breitbart, testifying before the Senate, the aforementioned Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe claim that no classified information was shared on a group chat created by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz for coordinating strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

From Newsmax, New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo (D) tries to distance himself from rent reforms he signed into law when he was the governor of New York state.

And from the Genesius Times, a federal judge orders bombs which were moved from a Tesla dealership to be put back there and detonated.

Monday Links

On a cool and cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump announces tariffs on any country which buys oil from Venezuela.

From FrontpageMag, even Senator Socialism (I-VT) won't endorse congresscritter AOC (D-NY) for Senator.

From Townhall, another "transgender"-identifying activist is charged with allegedly vandalizing a Tesla service center near Chicago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, inside the largest coronavirus-related fraud in the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, Greenlandic leaders don't appreciate their island being visited by U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Second Lady Usha Vance.  (If you read Danish, read a related story at Sermitsiaq.)

From The Federalist, red states are paying for California giving health care to illegal aliens.

From American Thinker, how birthright citizenship works, in the U.S. and elsewhere.

From MRCTV, Disney's remake of Snow White flops on its opening weekend.

From NewsBusters, the website Twitchy shreds San Diego-area ABC affiliate KGTV for lamenting the new razor wire at the southern border wall.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney starts off this year's election campaign.

From TeleSUR, Panamanians oppose a proposed open-pit copper mining project.

From TCW Defending Freedom, yes, there should be disagreement in the U.K.'s pubs, because that's why they exist.

From EuroNews, 24 people are detained for allegedly helping French drug lord Mohamed Amra escape from prison.

From ReMix, to what extent is a ceasefire in Ukraine realistic?  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Portfolio.)

From Balkan Insight, Turkish police detain journalists covering opposition protests in İstanbul, whose mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was recently arrested.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The North Africa Post, recent rainfall improves Morocco's dam filling rate.

From the Libyan Express, authorities in Imsaad, Libya discover and seize military equipment washed up on the shores of the nearby port of Bardiyah.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the steamboat Kartal, once used by Türkiye founder Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, goes on display at the Çanakkale Naval Museum.

From Turkish Minute, according to an opinion column, the aforementioned arrest of Mayor İmamoğlu signals that Turkey is becoming a Russian-style autocracy.

From Rûdaw, according to a Syrian Kurdish official, the division of Syria is not on the Kurds' agenda.

From Armenpress, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan talks with his counterparts from Iran, Hungary, and Russia.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannsiayn, visa liberalization talks between Armenia and the E.U. will enter their next phase in April.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijan becomes a full member of the Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation.

From AzerNews, Azerbaijani gymnasts Madina Mustafayeva and Vladimir Dolmatov win a gold medal in the mixed pairs event at the Aerobic Gymnastics World Cup in Cantanhede, Portugal.

From The Syrian Observer, vehicle-born people promoting Islam in Christian neighborhoods in Syria disturb Muslims even more than they disturb Christians.

From North Press Agency, an unexploded missile found in a structurally compromise mosque is relocated and detonated.

From In-Cyprus, doctors in Cyprus raise the alarm over understaffing at the Famagusta General Hospital.

From The New Arab, according to the Iraqi government, reports of  Yemeni Houthis being present in Baghdad have been greatly exaggerated.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a sewer worker in the U.K. is fired for condemning Hamas and its October 7th, 2023 attack on Israel.

From Arutz Sheva, a Syrian commander tells his troops to not leave any Alawites alive.

From Gatestone Institute, Syrian terrorists wear suits and ties.

From Radio Free Asia, the Myanmar junta bombs a medical clinic in the region of Magway, killing 11 people.

From The Stream, evil exposes itself in attacks against Teslas and the Constitution.

From The Daily Signal, the president of the Heritage Foundation warns that the lack of U.S. presence in Panama has allowed China to step into the resulting "vacuum".

From The American Conservative, how the war with Russia has taken a toll on Ukraine's "City of Lions".  (During the late 1800s, one of my great-grandmothers left the then-Austro-Hungarian city of Lemberg and emigrated to the United States.  Today, it is the Ukrainian city of Lviv.  Because she was Polish, she would most likely have called the place Lwów.  The Polish word for "lion" is lew, in the nominative singular.  In the genitive plural, it becomes lwów.  This means that the city's name literally means "of lions".)

From The Western Journal, a data expert claims that many attendees at a rally for the aforementioned Senator Socialism and congresscritter AOC also attended many other rallies.

From BizPac Review, ICE and the IRS are reportedly ready to sign a deal giving ICE access to the tax information of illegal aliens.

From The Daily Wire, following the collapse of ceasefire talks, Israel has sent over a dozen Hamas leaders to their virgins.

From the Daily Caller, former President Biden reappears on X.

From the New York Post, if you've got $6.95 million lying around, you can former NFL player Mike Pouncey's home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which comes with its own football field.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) "has to be knocked over the head".

From Newsmax, Trump names his former defense attorney and current White House counsellor Alina Habba to be the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Chief Twit disguises an IRS building as a Tesla dealership in hopes that Democrats will burn it down.

A Sasquatch's Sunday Dozen

On a sunny but cool Sunday, here are 12 things going on:

From National Review, an Israeli strike in Gaza sends a senior Hamas leader to his virgins.

From FrontpageMag, former Voice Of American employees claims that the 1st Amendment protects their right to have jobs.

From Townhall, Republican congresscritters move to shut down Chinese "police stations" in the U.S.  (For anyone who disagrees with this action, please give me the number of American police stations currently operating within Chinese territory.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about baseball in small towns.

From TCW Defending Freedom, instead of migrants integrating with the people of the U.K., the people of the U.K. have integrated with the migrants.

From The North Africa Post, a Swedish national originally from South America is arrested at the Tanger Med port in Morocco for alleged international trafficking of she-don't-lie.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a 16-year-old boy of Palestinian descent is arrested after allegedly biting a rabbi in Orléans, France.  (Who does he think he is, Mike Tyson?)

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, Europe is dying, but it can be saved.

From Gatestone Institute, the Chief Twit as a public accountant.

From The Stream, life lessons learned on a pickleball court.

From The American Conservative, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) and the ghost of American founder Luther Martin.  (Not Protestant reformer Martin Luther, not American civil rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but Maryland Anti-Federalist Luther Martin.)

And from Fox News, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invites the judge who ruled that the military must allow transgender troops to report to some military bases.

Saturday Stories

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

From National Review, the autopsy of the Democrats isn't ready yet.

From FrontpageMag, the media opposes the deportation of a student visa holder who urged other students to take a "cue" from Palestinian terrorists.

From Townhall, the real reason why a French scientist was denied entry into the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu issue an ultimatum, which Iran and Hamas should heed.

From the Washington Examiner, the University of Maine complies with Trump's policy on transgender athletes after the administration threatens to pull funding.

From The Federalist, comedian Bill Burr's appearance on The View betrays his salt-of-the-earth persona.

From American Thinker, lessons about the left's obsession with race, from a box of crayons.  (I used crayons quite often when I was a Littlefoot.)

From NewsBusters, NPR hosts a debate between Democrats of the former Mr. Bill henchman Paul Begala variety and the congresscritter AOC (D-NY) variety.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the German governments coronavirus project fear.

From AMU, the Taliban flogged at least 456 people during the last 12 months.

From RAIR Foundation USA, two radical imams go to Texas help Islam expand there.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an illegal alien is arrested at a hostel in Mantes-la-Jolie, France after allegedly endorsing terror attacks on French soil.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Parisien and FDeSouche.)

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. must stop undermining efforts to prevent its own destruction.

From The Stream, 10 prominent counterfeits to the rule of Christ.

From The Daily Signal, how some drugs got to former Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) district.

From The American Conservative, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in the state capital of Richmond kicks of American's 250th anniversary observance.

From The Western Journal, former Clinton pollster Mark Penn finds that the Democrats are losing moderate working-class voters.  (Did these voters leave the party, or did the party leave them?)

From BizPac Review, former State Department official Mike Benz explains the ramifications of then-President Obama's repeal of the Smith-Mundt Actt.

From The Daily Wire, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) works with the Chief Twit to return a huge amount of money to the federal government.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats are angry that the Trump administration arrested a criminal illegal alien with a rap sheet going back 15 years.  (What would an illegal alien have to do in order to legitimately deserve deportation, as far as Democrats are concerned?)

From the New York Post, the dangers of betting against the Chief Twit and Tesla.

From Fox News, cable TV host Bill Maher warns that the Democrats could become like the Whigs.  (The Whig Party existed from 1833 to 1854 and included Presidents William H. Harrison, John Tyler until they expelled him, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From News(dot)com(dot)au, why women go to female-only gyms.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, the NBC show Law & Order sparks outrage by portraying a character apparently based on accused murder Luigi Mangione as a folk hero.

From Newsmax, Pope Francis is expected to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.

And from AP News, Olympic and professional boxer, businessman, Christian minister and author George Foreman goes to the arena in the sky.

Friday Fuss

On a sunny but cool Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, get rid of the Department of Education, with legislation.

From FrontpageMag, former President Biden wants his fellow Democrats to put him back in the action.

From Townhall, USAID is allegedly implicated in a government-backed censorship scheme.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration revokes the visa of a graduate student at Cornell University allegedly called for the U.S. to be destroyed.  (If you visit any country other than your own, calling for its destruction is probably not a good idea.)

From the Washington Examiner, authorities arrest 15 suspected members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 in Washington, D.C.

From The Federalist, left-wing lawfare attempts to keep accused murderers and rapists in the U.S.

From American Thinker, what should we expect from the recently released Kennedy assassination documents?

From MRCTV, CNN calls out California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) for lying that his office never used the term "Latinx".

From NewsBusters, how can the left ignore scientist Freeman Dyson and the Chief Twit?

From Canada Free Press, Democrats are busted for not burning their own Teslas.

From TeleSUR, Panamanian police repress a protest against the privatization of social security in the province of Colon.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the renewable energy scam is costing £100 billion and counting.

From Snouts in the Trough, what is really driving energy security secretary Ed Miliband's Net Zero crusade?

From EuroNews, the German upper house, the Bundesrat, passes a large increase in military spending.

From ReMix, mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor promises a referendum on the E.U.'s migration pact if he is elected president of Ireland.

From Balkan Insight, the Albanian government's controversial ban on the platform TikTok is still only partially working.

From the Sarajevo Times, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina extends the detention of former Minister of Security Nenad Nešić.

From Total Croatia News, a large renovation finally starts at Croatia's Zadar Airport.  (In 2007, I arrived in Croatia at Zagreb Airport and was bused with my tour group to Zadar.)

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian Railways signs a contract to buy 30 new electric freight engines.

From The Malta Independent, a nurse from India is allegedly stabbed by a colleague at Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta.

From Malta Today, a fisherman is seen selling catsharks in the Maltese village of Xlendi.

From ANSA, at a march in the volcanic Campi Flegrei caldera west of Naples, Italy, policemen are pelted with eggs.

From SwissInfo, according to the Swiss government, Switzerland must participate in the aforementioned E.U. migration pact.

From France24, could French cheeses go extinct?

From RFI, France is accused of failing teenage migrants who are trapped in a legal limbo.

From The Portugal News, a tax exemption for first-time home buyers in Portugal becomes popular.

From Morocco World News, Morocco revamps its transportation system ahead of World Cup 2030.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is chosen to host the 2026 Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor.

From The New Arab, reports that Egypt will temporarily host 500,000 Palestinians in the governorate of North Sinai have been greatly exaggerated.

From Arutz Sheva, the report alleging that Egypt would temporarily take in 500,000 Palestinians.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Malmö FF soccer player Taha Ali wants giant mosques to be built all over Sweden.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Samnytt.  If you read French, read the story at Résistance Républicaine.)

From 9News, a woman in the Australian state of Victoria who forced her daughter to marry the man who eventually killed her loses an appeal of her sentence.

From AMU, the Taliban's Ministry of Education opens 43 new religious schools in six months.

From Gatestone, could Bangladesh become the next terror hub in southern Asia?

From Radio Free Asia, Myanmar's ruling junta admits misconduct in its conscription scheme.  (A government body has actually admitted doing something wrong.  That's not a UFO you've just seen, but a flying pig.)

From The Stream, a resolution against same-sex marriage fails in the North Dakota state Senate after some Senators receive death threats.  (What is this "tolerance" you speak of?)

From The Daily Signal, instead of learning from former Presidents Clinton and Obama, the Democrats keep on moving leftward.

From The American Conservative, are the deportations of criminal illegal aliens to El Salvador justifiable?

From The Western Journal, Trump says something about teachers that the establishment media wishes he didn't.

From BizPac Review, Trump suggests that people who vandalize Teslas could serve their resulting sentences in El Salvador.

From The Daily Wire, Trump offers to pay the overtime for the two stranded and recently rescued astronauts out of his own pocket, if necessary.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, swatting should be regarded as attempted murder, and maybe even terrorism.

From the New York Post, the U.S. military unveils its sixth generation fighter jet, whose name Trump understandably likes.

From Breitbart, former congresscritter Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) calls the aforementioned Chief Twit "incompetent", a "thief", and a "Nazi".  (Considering how rich and successful the Chief Twit has been, I'd love to be as incompetent as he is.)

And from Newsmax, according to Trump, Canada would be "cherished" as the 51st state of the U.S.

Stories For The Start Of Spring

On a sunny and mild Thursday on first day of Spring, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the University of California moves away from its diversity statements in hiring.

From FrontpageMag, do normal people pay any attention to these Democratic nutjobs?

From Townhall, President Trump gets Columbia University to take antisemitism seriously.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrat congresscritters drive luxury cars at taxpayer expense.  (In doing so, they also contribute to manmade carbon dioxide emissions.)

From the Washington Examiner, Turkish authorities arrest dozens of people for online posts supporting detained opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Federalist, Wisconsin state Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford donated to a Democrat-aligned fundraising platform now facing allegations of fraud.

From American Thinker, totalitarianism is like the hydra of Greek mythology.  (Back here in real life, I once visited the Greek island of Hydra.)

From MRCTV, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett's (D-TX) wish is for the Chief Twit to be taken down.

From NewsBusters, a panel on MSNBC's The 11th Hour accuses Trump of "self-dealing" without evidence.

From TeleSUR, thousands of people march in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand better pensions for retirees.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how someone was used by the climate zealots at the BBC.  (The "someone" is the article's writer.)

From Snouts in the Trough, stay tuned for a "pretty good" blog tomorrow.

From EuroNews, according to former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, Europeans need to improve democracy.

From ReMix, homicides jump sharply in Berlin, with almost half of crime suspects being foreigners.

From Russia Today, Russian President Putin approves new rules for Ukrainians present in Russia.

From Sputnik International, Moscow's non-commodity and non-energy export went to 157 countries in 2024.

From The Moscow Times, a large explosion rocks Engel airbase in the Russian region of Saratov.

From Romania-Insider, three candidates compete in the Romania presidential race.

From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, Bulgaria intends to become a leading weapons exporter.

From The Sofia Globe, the Nebet Tepe archaeological complex in Plovdiv, Bulgaria reopens for visitors.

From Radio Bulgaria, China seeks to buy more agricultural products from Bulgaria.

From The Greek Reporter, a house from the 10th century BC is found near Lavrion, Greece.

From Ekathimerini, Greek opposition parliamentcritters walk out of a session inquiring into the train crash near the municipality of Tempi.  (The municipality, whose name ends with "-i", includes the Vale of Tempe, whose name ends with "-e".  Thus, the crash is called the "Tempe train crash".)

From the Greek City Times, the Greek government imposes building limits on small towns.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia is angered by a defense agreement between Croatia, Albania and Kosovo.

From The North Africa Post, Spanish authorities arrest a suspected ISIS supporter in the city of Córdoba, with help from Morocco's General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance.

From The New Arab, the Syrian government starts talks with the Syrian Democratic Forces to integrate them into the Syrian army.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas was reportedly preparing for another attack before Israel resumed its strikes in Gaza.

From Sky News, a video shows children of ISIS terrorists make beheading gestures in a camp in Syria.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Palestinian man in Philadelphia served kosher bagels for decades, until some of his customers found his profile on Facebook.

From Gatestone Institute, some Palestinians realize that they "are dying because of Hamas".

From Radio Free Asia, Thai journalists visiting Uyghurs deported from Thailand in the Chinese region of Xinjiang deal with Chinese surveillance.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Stream, the benefits of having a Christian health insurance company.

From The Daily Signal, chapters of Daughters of the American Revolution write letters to President Trump to help defend them from a transgender takeover.

From The American Conservative, Trump should not follow the lead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From The Western Journal, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) raises some red flags about Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator-nominee Mehmet Oz.

From BizPac Review, Unilever, the parent company of the ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's, fires their "woke" CEO.  (Yours truly visited Ben & Jerry's plant in Vermont in 1991.)

From The Daily Wire, a drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by then-President Biden is arrested and charged with more crimes.  (One of his alleged offenses is possessing a gun, which is forbidden to convicted felons.  This shows how criminals don't obey gun laws because they don't obey laws in general, and thus why more gun laws won't stop criminals from committing gun crime.)

From the Daily Caller, the New York Court of Appeals strikes down a New York City law that allowed non-citizens to vote.

From the New York Post, a theater opens in the Bronx, only that second in that New York borough.

From Breitbart, Chinese officials reportedly force Uyghurs in the aforementioned region of Xinjiang to video themselves eating lunch during Ramadan, which would violate their religious rules for that month.  (What is this "freedom of religion" you speak of?)

From Newsmax, the NBA's Boston Celtics, if a new deal goes through, will be under new management.

And from the Genesius Times, a district court judge overrules the U.S. victory in the Cold War and orders Germany to reconstruct the Berlin Wall.

Wednesday Wanderings

As the sunny and mild weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Russian President Putin is playing U.S. President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, could former Chicago Mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel save the Democratic Party?

From Townhall, Democrats are choosing some stupid hills to die on.

From The Washington Free Beacon, in its internal documents, Columbia University's Graduate Student Union list demands including a "sanctuary campus".

From the Washington Examiner, the Department of Energy approves a "massive" liquefied natural gas facility held up by the Biden administration's pause on such exports.

From The Federalist, the judge appointed by then-President Biden who blocked the military's new "trans" policy has donated thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates and causes.

From American Thinker, selective media outrage over a doctor and a funeral for a terrorist.

From MRCTV, watch White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt flambé a French socialist europarliamentcritter who asked the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty.

From NewsBusters, the grilling of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on CBS Mornings was really a left-wing group therapy session.

From Canada Free Press, flushing new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney out of the shadows.

From TeleSUR, Nicaragua withdraws from the Central American Court of Justice.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the migrant crime wave which the U.K. government tries its hardest to conceal.

From the NL Times, Dutch health officials find four measles clusters among primary school children in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven.

From Dutch News, according to a survey, 16 percent of Dutch voters have confidence in the country's cabinet.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at RTL Nieuws.)

From VRT NWS, almost 1.5 million Belgian phone users have put themselves on a don't-call-me list.

From The Brussels Times, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever warns that the E.U.'s rearmament plan contains "no free money".

From Deutsche Welle, China's grip is growing on Germany's car industry and on other sectors.

From Polskie Radio, Poland grants extended parental leave to the parents of premature babies.

From Radio Prague, according to Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, "Russia wants Czechia under its control".

From The Slovak Spectator, a small Slovak satellite contributes bigly to astrophysics.

From Daily News Hungary, the district of Csúcshegy could secede from Budapest, Hungary.

From Hungary Today, more victims of a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia arrive at hospitals in Hungary.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's government was Trump before Trump.

From EuroNews, North Macedonian officials close down dozens of illegal nightclubs after the aforementioned fire.

From Free West Media, have the aforementioned Presidents Putin and Trump checkmated the globalists?

From ReMix, 71.4 percent of all new jobs in Spain in the last five years went to foreigners.  (If you read Spanish, read a related story at El Debate.)

From Balkan Insight, as dissent grows in Serbia, time is no longer on the side of President Aleksandar Vučić.

From The North Africa Post, the Economic Community of West African States calls for urgent action to address the food crisis in Western Africa.

From The New Arab, who was Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Hamza, recently killed in an Israeli offensive?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a primary school in Hamburg, Germany lists only Islamic holidays in addition to its normal events.  (If you read German, read the story at Apollo News.)

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkish police detain İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on a variety of charges.

Form Gatestone Institute, is Germany moving "toward a new domination of Europe"?

From Radio Free Asia, according to South Korea's foreign ministry, Chinese authorities prevented South Korean authorities from investigating a steel structure in the Yellow Sea.

From The Stream, President John F. Kennedy didn't kill himself, and other things learned from the JFK assassination files.

From The Daily Signal, Trump pauses $175 million in federal funding to the alma mater of trans swimmer Lia Thomas.

From The American Conservative, the Chief Twit should defund the Legal Services Corporation.

From The Western Journal, according to two studies, marijuana use can lead to heart attacks and strokes in healthy young people.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld tells Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to "shut the [bleep] up".

From The Daily Wire, Israeli Christians gather at the Israel-Syria border in the Golan Heights to demand that world leaders protect Syrian Christians.

From the Daily Caller, Republican strategist Scott Jennings reminds former Biden administration official Neera Tanden that her former boss "let" Tren de Aragua gang members into the U.S.

From the New York Post, Ukraine plans to send robots armed with machine guns against Russian troops.

From Breitbart, Attorney General Pam Bondi issues a rule reversing the ATF's decades-long ban on restoring gun rights.

From Newsmax, Trump announces more tariffs to take effect on April 2nd, which he calls "liberating day".

And from SFGate, an unlikely doughnut is at the center of San Francisco's new pastry boom.  (Don't tell Homer Simpson.)