On a cool and rainy Wednesday, which is also the first day of Lent for western Christians, here are some things going on:
From National Review, in his speech to Congress, President Trump scores on the opening drive and "spikes the football".
From FrontpageMag, these days the communists hate the Russians.
From Townhall, Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposes visa restrictions on foreign officials who aid illegal immigration.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats jeer as Trump makes a 13-year-old boy's dream come true.
From the Washington Examiner, after violating decorum during Trump's speech, congresscritter Al Green (D-TX) faces at least three censure resolutions. (Will he be taken to the river?)
From The Federalist, Trump proves that the border bill pushed by Republican congresscritters during the Biden presidency was unnecessary.
From American Thinker, Democrat congresscritters tell Trump to "sit on it".
From NewsBusters, networks call Trump's address to Congress a "campaign rally speech". (Since Trump can't run again, he can no longer in any meaningful way campaign.)
From Canada Free Press, hurray for the aforementioned 13-year-old boy.
From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian presidential candidate Luisa Gonzales promises to revoke the contract for the Sacha oil field.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the purveyors of green power know that it doesn't work, but squander our money on it anyway. (This is one reason why I believe that the green power purveyors are not so much interested in helping the environment, but in controlling our lives.)
From Free West Media, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate that operates ports near the Panama Canal agrees to sell its shares to BlackRock.
From Russia Today, Russia sentences a British mercenary who fought for Ukraine to 19 years in prison.
From Sputnik International, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's latest "ceasefire" offer shows that he's back to his old jokes.
From The Moscow Times, according to Kremlin spokesman Peskov, Russia welcomes possible peace talks with Ukraine, but "nuances" remain.
From Romania Insider, Romanian activist Radu Hossu starts a fundraising campaign for Ukraine after the U.S. stops its aid. (If you read Romanian, read the story at Defense Romania.)
From EuroNews, Romania expels Russian military attaché Victor Makovskiy and his deputy Evgeny Ignatiev for allegedly violating the Vienna Convention.
From Novinite, Bulgaria plans to establish a Defense Innovation Center to align with the E.U.'s rearmament plan.
From The Sofia Globe, the Air Forces of Bulgaria and the U.S. conduct a joint exercise.
From Radio Bulgaria, according to a report from the Council of Europe, journalists in smaller media outlets in Bulgaria face particularly difficult work.
From the Greek Reporter, according to the Greek tourism minister, the island of Santorini will soon reopen for visitors. (Yours truly was in Santorini while on a cruise in 2006.)
From Ekathimerini, clashes break out after the end of a rally in Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece.
From the Greek City Times, the Greek governing party faces a no-confidence vote over its response to a deadly train crash in 2023 between the villages of Tempi and Evangelismos. (For details on the crash, go to Wiki. The crash was also the reason for the rally reported by Ekathimerini.)
From Balkan Insight, the deputy head of North Macedonia's state road company is fired after taking a selfie with a dead bear.
From The North Africa Post, Morocco plans to build a major military base in the region of Sahara.
From The New Arab, the UAE rejects the appeals of 53 sentenced in an allegedly "unfair" trial for links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
From Jewish News Syndicate, Iran creates a new terror organization in Syria.
From Gatestone Institute, the aforementioned President Zelensky agrees to Trump's "Marshall Plan".
From Radio Free Asia, Thailand had offers from three countries, including the U.S., to take in 48 Uyghurs who had fled from China, but deported 40 of them back to China anyway.
From The Stream, editors discuss what's really behind the war in Ukraine.
From The Daily Signal, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) praises Trump's address to Congress.
From The American Conservative, it was "a night of triumph for Trump". (You could say that you can't spell "triumph" without "Trump".)
From The Western Journal, according to a poll, Trump's speech was an overwhelming victory.
From BizPac Review, according to Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Black Lives Matter Plaza could soon be gone.
From The Daily Wire, according to journalist Joy Behar, Trump shaking hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts means that separation of powers is now gone.
From the Daily Caller, the Trump administration is reportedly cutting 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
From the New York Post, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits the New York City subway station where a migrant allegedly set a sleeping homeless woman on fire.
From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the 2nd Amendment does not protect "access" to a gun without a background check. (If anyone knows where the 2nd Amendment or any other part of the Constitution mentions background checks, please point it out in a comment.)
From Newsmax, according to a poll, up to 74 percent of Jewish college students believe that antisemitism is a serious problem on campus.
And from SFGate, California finds an unlikely scapegoat for high energy bills.
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