Thursday Things For The End Of July

On a warm and cloudy Thursday falling on the last day of July, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump is right to blame Hamas for the woes in Gaza.

From FrontpageMag, what Israel is really doing in Gaza.

From Townhall, two residents of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, whose parents fled from communist countries, face a government that wants to take their respective properties.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how the U.N., which is supposed to be neutral, is helping Hamas oppress the people of Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, a newly declassified annex to Special Counsel John Durham's 2023 report reveals that the FBI ignored evidence of the Hillary Clinton campaign's plan to create the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

From The Federalist, classified documents were safer in Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago than with the FBI.

From American Thinker, the many problems with giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, years after masks were used by BLM and ProFa rioters, and required because of the coronavirus, PBS regards masks as bad when ICE wears them.

From Canada Free Press, only U.S. President Trump can save Canada from Hamas-supporting Prime Minister Mark Carney.

From TeleSUR, the "Free Cristina" campaign denounces the alleged persecution of former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when does the mass "grooming" of children in the U.K. become a real scandal?

From EuroNews, tensions increase between France and Spain over the removal of French Jewish teenagers from a flight from Valencia to Paris.

From ReMix, a Kosovar man in Belgium, released from prison due to overcrowding, allegedly sets his wife on fire.

From the Greek Reporter, when Constantinople had its own real-live Moby Dick.

From Ekathimerini, Greek parliamentcritters from the party New Democracy are criticized for being absent during a vote on the OPEKEPE case.

From the Greek City Times, the Greek islands of Crete and Naxos are in the top 5 emerging destinations for American tourists.

From the Sarajevo Times, the Bosnian canton of Sarajevo may be receiving a helicopter ahead of schedule.

From Total Croatia News, The New York Times spotlights the Zlatni rat beach in Bol, Croatia.  (The name "Zlatni rat" means "golden horn".  I don't know why "rat" is not capitalized, but I'm pretty sure that the place would not be spotlighted if it were infested with rats.  If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski.)

From Balkan Insight, former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is released on parole from prison.

From The Malta Independent, the Voice for Choice coalition urges Maltese parliamentcritters to legislate after a woman is sentenced for having an abortion.

From Malta Today, the Maltese people like turtles.

From ANSA, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (Italy) tells Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) that the situation in Gaza is unjustifyable.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland uses AI to make scarecrows more effective.

From France24, French cyclist Maeva Squiban wins stage 6 of the Tour de France Femmes.

From RFI, French swimmer Léon Marchand wins the 200 meter individual medley at the world championships in Singapore.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police issue a travel warning for a soccer match in the region of Algave.

From The North Africa Post, FIFA President Gianni Infantino hails Morocco's growing stature in world soccer.

From The New Arab, the Syrian province of Daraa builds temporary camps as 25,000 people flee the violence in the city of Suweida.

From the Daily Mail, for the second year in a row, the most common name for baby boys in England and Wales is Mohammed.

From Jewish News Syndicate, rewarding terrorism only brings more of it.

From Gatestone Institute, is France committing diplomatic terrorism by recognizing an imaginary Palestinian state?

From RFA, the military junta that controls Myanmar forms a new interim government ahead of elections.

From The Stream, the new movie Eddington shows how evil the coronavirus lockdown measures were.

From The Daily Signal, Congress faces some major decisions on how the federal government will be funded.

From The American Conservative, only American leverage can stop the horrors in Gaza.

From The Western Journal, according to a new report, a member of billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundation was involved with the Russiagate hoax.

From The Daily Wire, according to recently declassified documents, then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D) greenlit the Russiagate hoax to distract from her email scandal.

From the Daily Caller, according to MSNBC panelist Mara Gay, former Vice President Harris backed down from running for California governor because her Democratic base didn't want her to run.  (During the early 1960s, another vice president ran for president and two years later ran for California governor, losing both races.  His name was Richard Nixon.  I can't blame Harris for wanting to avoid Nixon's fate.)

From the New York Post, the aforementioned declassified files show that the FBI never investigated the talks between the DNC, Hillary Clinton's campaign, and the aforementioned member of the Open Society Foundation.

From Breitbart, Trump reaches a "full and complete trade deal" with South Korea.

From Newsmax, Trump will host several professional athletes to present an executive order reviving fitness tests in public schools.

And from BizPac Review, a Florida man allegedly steals Smokey the Bear signs, tries to sell them online, and is eventually nabbed with help from Smokey himself.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, what have the Democrats ever delivered for their voters?

From FrontpageMag, Arabs attack Druze and Kurds at a demonstration in Vienna, Austria.

From Townhall, what was found inside FBI burn bags, and it's connected to the Russia collusion hoax.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a report from Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), the California high-speed rail project was the just tip of the iceberg for infrastructure boondoggles.

From the Washington Examiner, the economy grows by a 3 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2025.

From The Federalist, the Democratic Party has been as foul as congresscritter Jasmine Crocket (D-TX) for a long time.

From American Thinker, the dangers of allowing unlimited immigration of people who have un-American values.

From NewsBusters, so far during 2025, The View has had zero conservative or pro-Trump guests.

From Canada Free Press, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's document dump has been found.

From TeleSUR, fugitive Brazilian legislator Carla Zambelli is arrested in Italy.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the creeping censorship of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s National Health Service has a "non-jobs" bonanza?

From EuroNews, flights start to resume at U.K. airports after and air traffic control glitch is resolved.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian government pledges a revamp of all suburban HÉV rail lines and new bridges for Budapest.

From Hungary Today, the Paloznak Jazz Picnic returns to the Hungarian village of Paloznak.

From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán calls for moral equilibrium to be restored, and for the E.U. to pay the price.

From Remix, Ukrainian Ambassador to Hungary Sándor Fegyir claims the Russia is running a disinformation campaign, and Hungarians are reacting too emotionally to it.

From Russia Today, the Russian government claims that Russia has "immunity" from sanctions.

From Sputnik International, Russia's new combat laser melts through steel in a demonstration.

From The Moscow Times, residents of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka recount the recent magnitude-8.8 earthquake.

From Romania Insider, President Nicuşor Dan criticizes Romania's government pension and justice systems.

From Novinite, the Bulgarian government institutes year-long price controls to prepare for the country's adoption of the euro.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian utilities regulator cuts the price of natural gas by 3.8 percent, effective in August.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Cabinet allocates €460,000 for families affected by forest fires.

From Balkan Insight, according to a report by CIVICUS, the Serbian government is providing support to violent groups in an effort to crush anti-government demonstrations.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI offers Algeria a face-saving exit from their differences.

From The New Arab, Druze families are evacuated from Suweida, Syria amid a fragile ceasefire.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the number of Jews living in Yemen is now four.

From Gatestone Institute, preparing for war, Chinese President Xi Jinping is taking back Chinese farms and trying to destroy those in the U.S.

From The Stream, experts challenge claims made by Pope Leo XIV about Israeli aggression against Palestinian churches.

From The Daily Signal, a bill in Congress would impose prison sentences on people who harm police dogs with a deadly weapon.

From The American Conservative, the time has come for President Trump's America-first realistic policies.

From The Western Journal, one of the suspects in the Cincinnati mob attack was free on $400 bail after being indicted on four counts in July.

From BizPac Review, could the aforementioned Jasmine Crockett and former First Son Hunter Biden be the Democratic dream ticket for 2028?

From The Daily Wire, tsunami waves from the aforementioned Kamchatka earthquake hit Alaska, Hawaii, California and Washington state.

From the Daily Caller, Trump threatens to veto an anti-Israel proposal from Senator Socialism (I-VT).

From Breitbart, New York Governor Kathy Hochul appears to be misinformed about the alleged Manhattan shooter and his gun.

From Newsmax, Trump hails the aforementioned economic growth and demands that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell decreases interest rates.

And from the New York Post, cans for the energy drink Celsius are filled with the wrong beverage.

Tuesday Tidings

As the hot and sunny weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the illegal alien who became a policeman.

From FrontpageMag, what a victory by mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) will mean for New York City's Jews.

From Townhall, Border Czar Tom Homan wrecks one of my Senators over a pro-criminal stunt.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the EPA moves to rescind the legal basis, put in place by then-President Obama, for emissions regulations on gas-powered cars.

From the Washington Examiner, the "extraordinary" surge of migrants under then-President Biden.

From The Federalist, Russiagate would not have been possible without complicity from the media.

From American Thinker, those phantom nooses just keep popping up.

From MRCTV, pro-abortion activist Lena Dunham returns to TV with her new rom-com Too Much.

From NewsBusters, NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo blames a shooting in New York City on speech.

From Canada Free Press, solar power plants are disappearing.

From TeleSUR, Colombia strengthens security for a judge who convicted former President Alvaro Uribe of fraud and bribery.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how the U.K. left obscured the truth about the grooming gangs.

From Snouts in the Trough, when the media reports on Israel, "the truth is irrelevant".

From the NL Times, for one third of Dutch households who installed solar panels, the panels have payed for themselves.

From Dutch News, fewer Europeans and Indians are relocating to the Netherlands.

From VRT NWS, a woman in Essen, Belgium risks getting a Darwin Award nomination, and endangers her two children as well.

From The Brussels Times, an area in Brussels, Belgium is reopened after a bomb threat.

From Deutsche Welle, the Nuremburg Zoo kills 12 baboons, causing an outcry in Germany.

From ReMix, Berlin's special visa program that allows Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans to sponsor their relatives is terminated by German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, 32 people have been detained over alleged ties to Russian intelligence.  (Looks like Poland has its own "Russian collusion" problem.)

From Radio Prague, according to Czech transgender activist Lenka Králová, Prague Pride is "more important than Christmas".

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak electric vehicle start-up Patak Motors falters under mounting debt, legal disputes, and production delays.

From EuroNews, a pro-HamasPalestine group protests the arrival of an Israeli cruise ship on the Greek island of Crete.

From Balkan Insight, the U.S. again postpones placing sanctions on the majority-Russian-owned Serbian oil firm NIS.

From The North Africa Post, how Tunisian President Kais Saied turned his country into an "open air prison".

From The New Arab, Morocco's cycle of droughts and floods gives rise to cloud seeding conspiracy theories.

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas is caught on camera looting humanitarian aid and blocking its distribution to Gazans.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to Iranian-born Belgian parliamentcritter Darya Safai, Iranian forces were planning to kidnap her when she visited Turkey.

From Jewish News Syndicate, two coaches for Israel's national soccer team are attacked in Athens, Greece.

From Gatestone Institute, the Muslim Brotherhood deserved to be designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization.

From Radio Free Asia, the Thai and Cambodian militaries chart their paths forward.

From The Stream, let's build a new Tower of Babel, but on sand.

From The Daily Signal, Poland benefits from climate realism.

From The American Conservative, some Afghan men come to Europe because of "blonde women and money from the wall".

From The Western Journal, a top executive at the investment firm Blackstone was among the victims of the shooting in New York City.

From BizPac Review, a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allows Californians to buy ammo online.

From The Daily Wire, the U.K. threatens to recognize the "state of Palestine" if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire in Gaza.

From the Daily Caller, a WNBA game is brought to a temporary halt when a player loses her wig.

From the New York Post, almost 2 million illegal aliens with deportation orders or criminal histories are still at large in the U.S.

From Breitbart, the perpetrator of the aforementioned New York City shooting claimed to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, for which he blamed the NFL.

From Newsmax, according to retired NYPD Detective Bo Dietl, New York City would not be protected from violent crime or terrorism under the policies of the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani.

And from SFGate, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is spotted at a Lady Gaga concert in San Francisco.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, the U.S. and Europe avoid a trade war.

From FrontpageMag, the lie about alleged starvation in Gaza.

From Townhall, President Trump just ended a war that nobody knows about.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a reporter leading the coverage of Hezbollah by The Wall Street Journal praises the terrorist group while condemning Israel.

From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Vance demands that street fighters in Cincinnati are "prosecuted".

From The Federalist, details buried in recently declassified documents further implicate former President Obama in the Russiagate hoax.

From American Thinker, voter ID is not the only election reform that the U.S. needs.

From MRCTV, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) regards keeping men out of women's sports is extremist.

From NewsBusters, NBC implies that the trade deal with the E.U. was done to distract from the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From Canada Free Press, the media ignore Trump's successes to focus on Jeffrey Epstein.

From CBC News, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney, trade negotiations with the U.S. are at an "intense phase".

From Global News, Carney reduces tolls on the Confederation Bridge, which links the province of Prince Edward Island with the rest of Canada.

From CTV News, 209 candidates contend for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons to represent a riding in the province of Alberta.  (A riding is the Canadian equivalent of a U.S. House district.)

From TeleSUR, a Colombian judge is expected to sentence former President Alvaro Uribe.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how cowardly police in the U.K. blamed the victims of the grooming gangs.

From Snouts in the Trough, sharia law officially comes to the U.K.

From the Express, more about sharia courts in the U.K.

From The Standard, four people are stabbed, two fatally, in the London borough of Southwark.

From the Independent, police from the English county of Merseyside are brought in to help deal with protests and counter-protests at a migrant hotel in the county of Essex.

From the Irish Independent, Irish President Michael Higgins writes a letter to 15 other European presidents calling for action on Gaza.

From the Irish Examiner, more on the aforementioned avoidance of a trade war.

From EuroNews, Portugal announces an investment of €137 million for upgrades to its electrical grid.

From Free West Media, has Russia learned anything?

From ReMix, former Polish socialist sejmcritter Andrzej Rozenek calls for the right-wing Confederation Party to be banned.

From Balkan Insight, the Pristina Basic Court convicts two Serbs in absentia for the wartime rape of a Kosovo Albanian woman.

From The North Africa Post, the Sudanese military denounces the "phantom government" of the rebel Rapid Support Forces.

From The New Arab, the Palestinian Authority claims that Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked the Christian village of Taybeh.

From YNetNews, a Gazan toddler thought to be starving is actually suffering from a genetic disease.

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, fanatical radical Islam is a curse and must be stopped.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas's dream is to turn Palestinians into a "nation of martyrs".

From Radio Free Asia, a ceasefire goes into effect between Thailand and Cambodia.

From The Stream, a new genocide, a new group of jihadists and a new U.S. ally, but the same old story.

From The Daily Signal, according to the Department of Homeland Security, violent crime rates have fallen due to the arrest and removal of criminal illegal aliens.

From The American Conservative, could there be a "grand bargain" on foreign aid?

From The Western Journal, a man allegedly stabs 11 people at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, and is charged with terrorism.

From BizPac Review, the U.S. Coast Guard continues to intercept illegal aliens attempting to enter by sea.

From The Daily Wire, squatters take over a woman's house in Philadelphia.

From the Daily Caller, Vance scolds the corporate media for going Sergeant Schultz over the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein until now.

From the New York Post, New York City mayoral candidate (I) and former New York Governor (D) Andrew Cuomo calls current mayor Eric Adams (I) a "spoiler".

From Breitbart, leftists call a jeans ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney "Nazi propaganda".

From Newsmax, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that he will try to "fix" the program that compensates victims of vaccine injury.

And from The Babylon Bee, 10 things that are now more popular than Democrats.

I'm Back And A Few Links

Today I returned from my undisclosed location in southeastern Virginia and am just taking it easy.  My main task is now washing clothes, which can get downright sweaty in the hot weather I've seen during the past week.  Since it's late, I'll just throw out a small number of links.

From Hasht e Subh, an imam in the Afghan province of Nangarhar allegedly sexually assaults and kills one of his students.

From MyMotherLode, ISIS-backed rebels in eastern Congo attack a Catholic church, killing at least 34 people.  (Although the article does not state which of the two African countries named Congo the attack took place in, it indicates that it was in a province named Ituri, which is in the Democratic Republic of Congo.)

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in June 2025.

From The Stream, feeling like the biblical prophet Jonah.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. military "is in big trouble".

From TCW Defending Freedom, a review of a book about vaccines from smallpox to the coronavirus.

From American Thinker, President Trump warns Europe about unlimited immigration.

And from SFGate, for the first time in almost 100 years, an endangered species of salmon returns to the McCloud River in northern California.

Saturday Stories

As the hot and sunny weather continues at my undisclosed location, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, the U.S. hired an embassy guard named Mohammed - in Norway.

From Townhall, ICE arrests 243 illegal aliens in and around Denver, Colorado, including an accused murderer, an accused human trafficker, five sex offenders, and at least four members of Tren de Aragua.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Christians in the Middle East face a threat, but it's not from Israel.

From American Thinker, an 18th century Scottish historian anticipated what would happen to the U.S.

From NewsBusters, CNN anchor Victor Blackwell is upset that the Trump administration is ending race-based grants to farmers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss makes a rallying cry against the technocrats.

From Gatestone Institute, the head of Iran's official Islamic Propagation Organization announces a reward for the head of U.S. President Trump.

From Radio Free Asia, civilians are displaced on both sides of the border between Cambodia and Thailand.

From The Stream, 10 traits of a true messenger of God.

From The Daily Signal, let the market decide the use of intermittent renewable energy.

From The American Conservative, a tribute to recently departed former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doubles down on her criticism of Trump.

From BizPac Review, the House Committee on Ethics finds that congresscritter AOC (D-NY) broke House rules with her "Tax the Rich" dress worn at a Met Gala appearance.

From The Daily Wire, Trump holds phone conversations with the leader of Cambodia and Thailand and claims that a ceasefire between them is imminent.

From the Daily Caller, California bars illegal aliens with felony convictions from receiving taxpayer-funded legal aid in their immigration cases.

From the New York Post, French authorities investigate whether Jewish passengers were removed from a flight from Spain to Paris due to their religion.

From Newsmax, according to former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R), convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has "a deal to be made".

And from Breitbart, a man with a suspected habit of sniffing rear ends is arrested in Burbank, California for allegedly sniffing a woman's rear end.

Friday Phenomena

On a hot and sunny (at my undisclosed location) Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to the U.N., we're already dead.

From FrontpageMag, Iran blames Israel's victory in their 12-day war on the Jinn.

From Townhall, what does Border Czar Tom Homan think about using ankle monitors to track illegal aliens?

From The Washington Free Beacon, George Mason University's president implemented hiring policies based on race, and later claimed to have done nothing wrong.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump responds to a South Park episode that mocks his presidency.

From The Federalist, five lies from John Brennan from then-CIA Director John Brennan that set the Russiagate hoax in motion.

From American Thinker, so-called sanctuary cities are really slavery cities.

From MRCTV, former Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona faults Trump and white people for wanting the team to revert to being the Cleveland Indians.

From NewsBusters, why Democrats rail against the upcoming cancellation of late-night TV host Stephen Colbert.

From Canada Free Press, there's no reason for CBS to keep Colbert on the air until next May.

From TeleSUR, the People's Summit for Peace and Against War starts off in Caracas, Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how Christianity shaped every fiber of U.K. politician Winston Churchill's being.

From Snouts in the Trough, according to the U.K. government, mass migration is not a threat, you are.

From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet with U.S. President Trump in Scotland to discuss trade.

From ReMix, a Ukrainian border guard, having had enough with President Zelensky, defects to Hungary.

From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian court upholds the prison sentences given to seven combatants and military policemen from crimes against civilian prisoners in 1992.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian President Abdelmedjid Tebboune meets with Pope Leo XIV in an "attempt to polish his image".

From The New Arab, could El Fasher, Sudan fall to the rebel Rapid Support Forces?

From AMU, according to a U.N. report, the Taliban are torturing and detaining former migrants who return to Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, how Bangladeshi expatriate workers are powering the global jihad.

From Radio Free Asia, thousands of people evacuate from the border between Cambodia and Thailand in order to seek safety.

From The Stream, will the patron saint of Spain ever ride again?

From The Daily Signal, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) attacks lawmakers attempting to protect women's sports.

From The American Conservative, going behind the curtain on Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill".

From The Western Journal, a report claims to have found a message from Mr. Bill to the recently departed Jeffrey Epstein placed in a book in 2003 for the latter's 50th birthday.  (You could say that both men give this story the "sex offender" label.)

From BizPac Review, a Kenyan-born ethnic Somali who serves in the Maine state legislature calls moving to the U.S. a "bootcamp".

From The Daily Wire, federal money earmarked for training diplomats bankrolled the activities of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's (D) father.

From the Daily Caller, fans of the aforementioned Stephen Colbert seem unaware how much CBS was losing on his show.

From Breitbart, Trump tells the media to talk about former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and the aforementioned Mr. Bill when discussing the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.

From Newsmax, Democrats post a graph on X in an attempt to blame Trump for high grocery prices, then delete it when they realize that it shows increases for prices under then-President Biden.

And from the New York Post, a real-life RoboCop directs traffic in Shanghai, China.

Fort Monroe

A while back, visited Monroe, Michigan, which was named after President James Monroe.  Today, I visited Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton, Virginia, the fort likewise being named after our fifth president.  It was built between 1819 and 1834, and stayed in Union hands during the entire Civil War, despite being in a Confederate state.  After parking at the visitor center and getting some information, I walked over a bridge spanning the fort's moat to a pedestrian entrance.

Wednesday Wanderings

Let me take a break from my vacation and present, on a warm and sunny Wednesday, some things going on:

From National Review, the FBI surveilled a Catholic priest in 2023 after he refused to divulge what an arrested man told him in confession.

From FrontpageMag, the Trump administration downsizes the Department of Education.

From Townhall, this pro-abortion legislation from Democrats is hard to believe.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration starts investigating Harvard University's foreign visa practices.

From the Washington Examiner, this past May, Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Trump that his name is in the Epstein files.

From The Federalist, Democrat congresscritters resist cleaning voter rolls to prevent dead people from voting.

From American Thinker, the media keep resurrecting former President Obama, not as he was but as what they need him to be.

From NewsBusters, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard embarrasses left-wing journalists over the Russian collusion hoax.

From Canada Free Press, "honk" if you support Canadian journalist Ezra Levant.

From TeleSUR, the group Caribbean Freedom Project calls on Barbadian Prime Minister Philip Davis to pardon a man who vandalized a statue of Christopher Columbus in 2021.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s King Charles III needs to understand that Islam and Christianity cannot be combined in to one.

From Snouts in the Trough, some items about "our friends from our favorite religion".

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron sue U.S. right-wing journalist Candace Owens for claiming that Brigitte is a man.

From Free West Media, the German media has a moment of truth.

From ReMix, an 18-year-old Syrian migrant receives only probation for torturing and assaulting a 13-year-old German boy.

From Balkan Insight, student protesters evicted from a Student Cultural Center in Belgrade, Serbia deny allegations that they stole computer equipment.

From The North Africa Post, the U.N. World Food Program warns of possible food aid cuts due to funding shortfalls.

From The New Arab, forests in the Syrian province of Latakia face years of ecological harm from fires that struck this month.

From The Jerusalem Post, Turks attack Israeli teenagers in Rhodes, Greece.

From Gatestone Institute, the world condemns Israel for preventing al-Qaeda-linked fighters from committing genocide against Druze in Syria.

From Radio Free Asia, Thailand recalls its ambassador to Cambodia and expels the ambassador from Cambodia.

From The Stream, Israel stands against chaos in Syria.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduces a bill that would target the financiers of riots with racketeering charges.

From The American Conservative, "Versailles on the Potomac".

From The Western Journal, did Obama himself order what became the Trump-Russia collusion hoax?

From BizPac Review, Border Czar Tom Homan gives former First Son Hunter Biden an unpleasant new title.

From The Daily Wire, why a religious charity in Israel stepped up to help Druze in Syria.

From the Daily Caller, the aforementioned Tulsi Gabbard suggests that the Obama administration hid from then-President-elect Trump information that disproved the Russia collusion hoax.

From the New York Post, the real reason why the Coldplay concert cheating scandal went viral.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Joyce Beatty (D-OH) can't accept the good economic numbers under Trump.

From Newsmax, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) claims that no one is preventing the aforementioned Epstein files from being released.

And from The Babylon Bee, Uyghur slaves in China dutifully sew the slogan "pay us what you owe us" onto shirts to be worn by professional athletes.

Sites At Oregon Inlet

After I visited the Bodie Island Lighthouse, seen in today's earlier post, I continued southward over a bridge to the north end of Hatteras Island.  The channel between the island and the long spit of land on which the lighthouse sits is called Oregon Inlet.  Just after the bridge, there's a left turn which leads to a parking lot, from which I could walk to two things that I wanted to see.  The first is the Oregon Inlet Life Saving Station, which looks like it's no longer in use.

Bodie Island Lighthouse

Today I ventured southward from my undisclosed location and went to North Carolina.  Instead of visiting the Wright Brothers memorial for the third time, the second visit being recorded in this blog's archives for January 2020, I went further south to the Bodie Island Lighthouse.  Yes, it's another lighthouse after the two that I saw in Ohio.  This lighthouse overlooks the north end of Pamlico Sound and the south end of Roanoke Sound.  It's located on a long spit of land that includes places such as Duck, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head, whose north end is in Virginia.  A lagoon that connects to Pamlico Sound via some inlets is close to the lighthouse.  From a large open grassy area, I took this photo.  The lighthouse and a nearby small building are surrounded by a fence.

Virginia Beach Boardwalk - Part 2

This afternoon I again set out from my undisclosed location on foot, this time going southward.  I soon came upon this statue of Neptune.  The rocks from which he appears to rise are covered with various sea creatures, while he holds a turtle in one hand.

Virginia Beach Boardwalk - Part 1

This morning, I ventured out from my undisclosed location - on foot.   I got on the Virginia Beach boardwalk, went northward, and found this memorial to Virginia Beach's finest.

My Latest Trip - And Some Technical Difficulties

Today I drove down to southeastern Virginia to my latest undisclosed location.  Let's just say that I'm pretty close to the Atlantic Ocean.  I wanted to post earlier, but the wi-fi in this place was working only intermittently.  But after some venting of my frustrations with the front desk, it seems to be doing better now.  So if you can, please knock on wood for me.  Of course, I'll be posting my travel reports in due course.  See youz soon.

Saturday Stuff

As the warm and cloudy weather continues on a Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Boston's Freedom Trail, even in hot and humid weather, still rouses the heart and soul.

From FrontpageMag, some Democrats are convinced that the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show on CBS is a conspiracy.

From Townhall, President Trump's America First agenda has resulted in jobs going mainly to U.S.-born workers.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an Israeli student who was assaulted at a "die-in" protest sues Harvard University for protecting his attackers.

From the Washington Examiner, on the sourcing of the article in The Wall Street Journal claiming that then-private citizen Trump sent a letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

From American Thinker, against any path to citizenship for illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Jake Tapper claims that the aforementioned Stephen Colbert was fired because Trump can't take criticism.

From TCW Defending Freedom, human rights has become a multi-billion-pound industry.

From Snouts in the Trough, have you ever seen U.K. police officers do this to a non-white person?

From Dawn, three men are arrested for allegedly "molesting" and "raping" two teenagers in Maharwali, Pakistan.

From The Jerusalem Post, a pro-HamasPalestinian protest in Umeå, Sweden shows lynched skeletons wearing concentration camp uniforms.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe must confront the Iranian government.

From The Stream, finding friendship, heartbreak and healing at a Lutheran youth gathering.

From The Daily Signal, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) shows that the Democrats can't quit Obamaism.

From The American Conservative, frustration with immigration is a two way street, my fellow Gringos.

From The Western Journal, a driver in Los Angeles rams his car into a crown, injuring 30 people, and gets fatally shot by a bystander.

And from Only In Your State, a weekend road trip in Georgia.

Friday Fuss

On a warm and cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the story of the late Jeffrey Epstein just won't go away.

From FrontpageMag, an attempt to understand President Trump's response to the Epstein "list".

From Townhall, another former aide to former President Biden pleads the Fifth.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) claims to have edited his father's writings to make them "more accessible".

From the Washington Examiner, a timeline of the relationship between Trump and Epstein.

From The Federalist, according to Axios, "no one knows" why illegal immigration has decreased.

From American Thinker, has the world learned anything from Mein Kampf, which was published 100 years ago today?

From NewsBusters, Biden's autopen scandal gets censored.

From Canada Free Press, corporations spy on a new target - your children.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela is producing so much coffee that they can now export it.

From TCW Defending Freedom, regulators in the U.K. are stifling business, and should be reined in.

From EuroNews, Czech President Petr Pavel signs a law that criminalizes communist propaganda.

From ReMix, youth unemployment in Poland grows at the largest rate in the E.U.

From Balkan Insight, an ethnic Serb policeman in Kosovo is detained over allegations of spying.

From The North Africa Post, after 65 years, France pulls its military personnel out of Senegal.

From The New Arab, 70 people are killed in a fire at a shopping mall in al-Kut, Iraq.

From Gatestone Institute, are jihadists establishing an Islamic theocracy in Bangladesh?

From Radio Free Asia, the Cambodian government cracks down on "scam centers".

From The Stream, whether you get called "Nazi", "fascist", Christian Nationalist" or "racist" depends on the day.

From The Daily Signal, Border Czar Tom Homan issues a blunt warning to those who would attack ICE officers.

From The American Conservative, what's going on with the Democrats?

From The Western Journal, an illegal alien hoaxes being kidnapped by ICE.

From BizPac Review, Trump claims that stories of him drawing a cartoon of a woman have been greatly exaggerated.

From The Daily Wire, according to a report, the U.S. economy will benefit from Trump's energy dominance agenda.

From the Daily Caller, a man who axed four members of his family to death when he was 16 will be released from prison under a law signed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D).

From the New York Post, congresscritter Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) decides not to endorse the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani.

From Breitbart, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) agrees with Mamdani's plan for government grocery stores.

And from Newsmax, Donald Trump the Younger claims that he has never seen his father doodle.

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, a look at former President Biden's autopen scandal.

From FrontpageMag, who really had the power to protect the late Jeffrey Epstein?

From Townhall, police in Iron Mountain, Michigan arrest a man for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Republican headquarters for Dickinson County.

From The Washington Free Beacon, domestic violence survivors speak out against New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's (D) call to stop cops from responding to domestic violence.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Cory Mills (R-FL) keeps attracting big campaign donors despite his mounting controversies.

From The Federalist, illegal aliens contribute to the growth of international theft rings.

From American Thinker, President Trump's tariffs drive a $27 billion budget surplus for this past June.

From MRCTV, Media Research Center reporter Dan Schneider explain why it's "critical and important" to end subsidies for PBS and NPR.

From NewsBusters, a CBS reporter claims that Trump supporters gave him PTSD after Trump was shot.

From Canada Free Press, New York City's Bolshevik Revolution gains steam.

From TeleSUR, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accuses U.S. politicians of funding subversion in his country.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. politician Donna Edmunds tries to set up an archive for survivors of grooming gangs.

From Snouts in the Trough, how the mainstream media like to use the words "unexpected" and "surprise" when reporting negative news about the U.K. economy.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that his country will increase its domestic weapons production.

From Free West Media, has NATO reached a turning point?

From ReMix, an Islamist influencer in Germany is jailed for defrauding his followers of €496,000 including €78,000 raised for a "For Palestine" campaign.  (If you read German, read the story at Frankfurter Allgemeine.)

From Balkan Insight, millions of euros in subsidies were paid to fake farmers in Greece.

From The North Africa Post, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir calls for the lifting of sanctions on his country to bolster its fragile peace process.

From The New Arab, the Syrian government accuses local armed factions of carrying out a "massacre" at the Suweida National Hospital.

From AMU, Taliban authorities arrest two people in Kabul, Afghanistan for allegedly Christianity.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon, the U.N. is silent on a massacre in Syria but targets Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, an 80-year-old Druze sheikh dies after being publicly humiliated by members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in al-Tha'la, Syria.

From Gatestone Institute, the latest scam by Palestinians is that Hamas can become a "political party".

From Radio Free Asia, Taiwan holds its annual life-fire drills that simulate an air attack by China.

From The Stream, Catholic bishops play with fire and get burned, such as by the attack on the secrecy of confession.

From The Daily Signal, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood does not provide "health care", and their defunding was long overdue.

From The American Conservative, "how Trump can promote religious liberty" in U.S. allies and partners that suppress minority faiths.

From The Western Journal, an ESPN commentator calls WNBA player Caitlin Clark a "villain" seconds after she wins the "WNBA Player of the Year" award at the ESPYs.

From BizPac Review, according to a poll, 49 percent of Americans want a third political party, but not one founded by the Chief Twit.

From The Daily Wire, New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa (R) unloads on his rival Andrew Cuomo (I).  (According to Google Translate, śliwa is the Polish word for "plum tree".)

From the Daily Caller, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduces an amendment that would require the Department of Defense to vet U.S. defense contractors for ties with Chinese intelligence.

From the New York Post, Buddhist monk Sadom Kaewkanjana, from Thailand, is one shot out of the lead at the British open.

From Breitbart, Trump cancels $4 billion in funding for California's "train to nowhere".

From Newsmax, two people are dead and several others injured when an apparent Israeli airstrike hits the only Catholic church in Gaza.

And from SFGate, a film sells out at a theater in San Francisco - a year before its release.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm and cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, will the American left even notice the massacre of civilians in the Middle East?

From FrontpageMag, will the U.S. finally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group?

From Townhall, how judges and lawyers are protecting illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, faculty members at George Mason University ask their president to denounce antisemitism like he denounced Islamophobia, to which, according to emails, he declined.

From the Washington Examiner, former First Son Hunter Biden offers his reason why the Democrats lost the 2024 elections.

From The Federalist, a Republican-backed amnesty bill is a gift to Democrats and a middle finger to American voters.  (In my not-so-humble opinion, it's also a middle finger to every person who immigrated to the U.S. legally.)

From American Thinker, what if former President Obama's plan to "fundamentally transform" America is already being implemented?

From MRCTV, the media miss an important constitutional issue while reporting on the new curfew in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

From NewsBusters, according to Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show, conservatives wanted to make Obama "the black president".

From Canada Free Press, will President Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein affair ruin his second presidency?

From TeleSUR, former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez sends a message of support to her country's retirees.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is the U.K.'s Imperial War Museum ashamed of the gallantry of the U.K.'s armed forces?

From Snouts in the Trough, are you prepared to face de-development?

From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils a greatly increased €2 trillion budget for the E.U.

From ReMix, three men are arrested in Poland for the alleged kidnapping of a Syrian man in Stuttgart, Germany.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia starts constructing its largest-ever array of bird choppers.

From The North Africa Post, according to UNICEF, children in the Sudanese region of Darfur face famine as the area's conflict cuts off aid.

From The New Arab, in Tunisia under President Kais Saied, dissent can result in decades in prison.

From The Jerusalem Post, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) promises to tone down his "globalize the Intifada" rhetoric.

From Quadrant, "why Muslims hate dogs".

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump can still help Ukraine defeat Russia.

From Radio Free Asia, a Chinese dissident invents a cryptocurrency to fund his activism.

From The Stream, when Christian Spain defeated the armies of Islam.

From The Daily Signal, Republicans hold out for a hero to replace Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), who will not seek reelection in 2026.

From The American Conservative, do we still trust in Trump?

From The Western Journal, the man who allegedly assassinated a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and wounded two others releases a "wild" manifesto.

From BizPac Review, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) calls on Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her statement about the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Daily Wire, a medical school in Illinois promotes puberty blockers that "are not permanent" for children.

From the Daily Caller, Republican strategist Scott Jennings sends former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross into a tizzy by questioning her characterization of Alligator Alcatraz as a "concentration camp".

From the New York Post, the largest Martian meteorite on Earth sells at auction for $5.3 million.  (Does it come with an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?)

From Breitbart, ICE arrests an illegal alien from Jordan who has 40 prior criminal convictions, including sexual abuse.

From Newsmax, four Republican Senators propose a bill requiring greater transparency for nonprofits that accept money from hostile countries.

And from the Genesius Times, Trump considers appointing a special prosecutor to cover up the files on the twice-aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.