Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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.

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