Sunday Solstice Stuff

On the first day of both the week and the winter season, with mostly sunny but cool weather, here are some things going on:

From National Review, 3I/ATLAS shrugs.....maybe.

From FrontpageMag, Los Angeles legalizes assault against ICE agents and attempts to steal their vehicles.

From Townhall, when the Brown University mass shooter killed himself has been determined.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of Russian author Leo Tolstoy's last novel.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) threatens to use "inherent contempt" to force the Department of Justice to fully release the Epstein files.

From American Thinker, comparing the life of Ötzi, who died about 5,000 years ago, to our cozy Christmas.

From NewsBusters, The New York Times and The Washington Post set their (figurative, I hope) hair on fire over the recently passed ban on transgender "care" for minors.

From TCW Defending Freedom, preventing the onset of puberty is an act of neurological vandalism.

From Jewish News Syndicate, according to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, waste fires set by Palestinians will be regarded as a threat to Israel's national security.

From the Daily Mail, a "deep dive" about the bombing of Pan-Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

From Gatestone Institute, Russia may get a hollow victory over Ukraine.

From The American Conservative, can President Trump convince his fellow Americans of his domestic agenda?

And from Gateway Pundit, speaking at Turning Point USA, right-wing commentator Benny Johnson tells his fellow right-wingers who their real enemies are.

Saturday Links

On a sunny but cold Saturday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, instead of draining it, President Trump starts to rename the swamp after himself.

From Townhall, the memes about the Epstein files are coming in, and they're hilarious.

From The Washington Free Beacon, this year's foreign policy winners and losers.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump's "alcoholic's personality", as claimed by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, comes through.

From American Thinker, it's hard being a donkey these days.

From NewsBusters, CBS host Stephen Colbert's Christmas cartoon has Trump and ICE arresting Santa Claus.

From TCW Defending Freedom, hatred of Jews is incompatible with Christianity, but not with Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's foreign support urgently needs to be cut off.

From The American Conservative, President-elect José Antonio Kast's victory heralds a new era in Chile, and in Latin America.

And from the New York Post, the hidden darkness in the man who gave the world a "willy nilly silly old bear".

Friday Phenomena

On a cool and rainy Friday that turned mostly sunny, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the suspected Brown University shooter is no longer with us, but questions about his motive remain.

From FrontpageMag, a review of a book written by the commandant of the prison where 21 Nazis were housed during the Nuremburg trials.

From Townhall, a county in Georgia admits to not following the election rules in 2020.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Northwestern University's campus in Qatar claims to give Middle Eastern woman a quality education, but almost 40 percent of its graduates come from elite Qatari families.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump's reclassification of marijuana "will go up in smoke".

From The Federalist, a Milwaukee County, Wisconsin judge is found guilty of obstructing ICE.

From American Thinker, the ugly truth about gun control and its advocacy.

From NewsBusters, broadcast networks go Sergeant Schultz about about a murder in Reston, Virginia allegedly committed by an illegal alien who was released by a Soros-funded district attorney.

From Canada Free Press, is Congress a gentlemen's club or a street gang?

From TeleSUR, Mexico sends 80,000 barrels of fuel to Cuba, aboard two Liberian-flagged ships.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to the U.K.'s National Energy System Operator, Net Zero will cost £350 billion.

From EuroNews, a fugitive German neo-Nazi activist convicted of incitement to hatred wishes to separate himself from his female alter-ego.

From Euractiv, 2025 has been an annus horribilis for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

From ReMix, an "African type" male is on the run in Switzerland after allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl and beating up her 69-year-old female caregiver.  (If you read German, read the story at Blick.)

From Balkan Insight, the U.S. bans the import of car tires made in Zrenjanin, Serbia by the Chinese business Shandong Linglong Tire Company due to the suspected use of forced labor.

From The North Africa Post, the German company WIKA Group opens a subsidiary in Casablanca, Morocco.

From The New Arab, a fundraising drive to reconstruct the Syrian city of Aleppo raises $150 million.

From The Jerusalem Post, antisemitic graffiti is posted near a Jewish community center in Tuscon, Arizona.  (My spellchecker objects to "antisemitic", but the article uses this exact spelling.  Is my spellchecker antisemitic?)

From Jewish News Syndicate, the University of Sydney fires a lecturer who accused Jewish students of being "depraved baby-killers".  ("Baby-killers"?  You mean like Hamas?)

From the Brussels Signal, an Italian court blocks the expulsion of an imam based in Turin, Italy.

From The Business Standard, a Hindu man is beaten to death for alleged blasphemy, and his body tied to a tree and set on fire in Bhaluka, Bangladesh.  (While seaching on Google for the name Bhaluka, I found another article about this incident on The Indian Express.)

From Arutz Sheva, "we are not all brothers", because we choose life and they don't.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. government's dangerous courtship with Bangladeshi Islamists.

From The Daily Signal, the Jewish festival of Chanukah is relevant for everyone, but not in the way that you might think it is.

From The American Conservative, Western guarantees of security for Ukraine are dangerous and counterproductive.

From The Western Journal, the Trump administration halts the visa program by which the aforementioned Brown University shooter got into the U.S.

From BizPac Review, Illinois faces power shortages and rising electric bills after closing several power plants.  (What is this "law of supply and demand" you speak of?)

From the Daily Caller, English comedian Russell Brand takes a swipe at his ex-wife Katy Perry's romance with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

From the New York Post, why the twice-aforementioned Brown University shooter may have targeted Brown and an MIT physics professor.

From Breitbart, four Venezuelans, including alleged leaders of the gang Tren de Aragua, are charged with terror offenses in Texas.

And from Newsmax, congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) decides to suspend her gubernatorial campaign and to not seek reelection to her current office.

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Today I got an error message when I clicked on Free West Media.  I will thus assume that the site is having technical difficulties.  Meanwhile, The Stream no longer publishes articles but has been converted into a TV app.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, the DNC cannot reveal why it lost the 2024 elections.

From FrontpageMag, polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct.

From Townhall, an illegal alien from El Salvador is released from jail in Reston, Virginia after a district attorney refuses to prosecute him, and a day later allegedly kills someone.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor made a campaign ad in 2022, praising Maryland public schools, which was filmed inside the elite private school attended by his kids.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will step up its efforts to denaturalize immigrants who got their citizenship fraudulently.

From The Federalist, the real target of the left's attack on Confederate General Robert E. Lee is America itself.

From American Thinker, President Trump's speech yesterday was bombastic but accurate.

From NewsBusters, ABC rages over Trump's speech.

From Canada Free Press, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) opens the door for legalizing assisted suicide.

From TeleSUR, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum offers to promote a peaceful solution between the U.S. and Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, let's be honest about the terror attack at Australia's Bondi Beach.

From EuroNews, according to the Estonian foreign ministry, three Russian border guards briefly entered Estonian territory.

From Euractiv, Brussels, Belgium gets inundated with tractors.  (It's been a while since I've used this source.  I don't even remember why I dropped it.  So let me give it another chance for the time being.)

From ReMix, a right-wing activist in Berlin successfully defends himself against two ProFa thugs.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian parliamentcritters throw bottles and clash with guards.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government allocates 121,000 hectares of state-owned agricultural land for projects by young people.  (A hectare is about 2.47 acres.)

From The New Arab, Egypt hints at possibly intervening in Sudan's civil war.

From The Jerusalem Post, over 1,000 civilians have reportedly been killed, about one third by summary execution, by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan after they took over a displacement camp.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas calls the October 7th, 2023 massacre as "the greatest day in Palestinian history".

From The Times Of Israel, the U.K. makes its first arrests for chants of "globalize the intifada".

From Gatestone Institute, the lament of foreign journalists and why Hamas suddenly wants them in Gaza.

From The Daily Signal and the "believe it or not" department, the acting head of the EEOC urges white males to promptly report discrimination.

From The American Conservative, few magazine editors have had the talent or influence that the recently departed Norman Podhoretz did.

From The Western Journal, in his Presidential Walk of Fame, Trump trolls Mr. Bill.  (Oh, noooooo!)

From BizPac Review, the NEA keeps on shoveling out the woke garbage.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter and gubernatorial candidate Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has gone full MAGA, but Trump still hasn't endorsed her.

From the New York Post, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. adds Trump to its name.  (This is sure to drive some people bonkers, as Trump tends to do.)

From Breitbart, a former mayor of Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico hides in a bathroom to avoid attending an anti-corruption hearing.

From Newsmax, for some 'holiday cheer", the Department of Homeland Security rolls out their latest "worst of the worst" list.

And from SFGate, a new martini at the Marea restaurant in Beverly Hills, California is gonna cost ya quite a bit, pilgrim.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles's streak of avoiding drama comes to a end.

From FrontpageMag, all of France has become a "no-go-zone".

From Townhall, how the Democrats feel about congresscritter Jasmine Crockett's (D-TX) run for the Senate.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Erik Murray (D-Kan) names former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown as his inspiration.

From the Washington Examiner, four Republican congresscritters give their Democrat colleagues a win by forcing a vote on extended Obamacare subsidies.

From The Federalist, the Western embrace of mass immigration from the Third World is civilizational suicide.

From American Thinker, retired pitcher Curt Schilling deserves to be in baseball's Hall of Fame.

From NewsBusters, the Media Research Center presents its award for the worst quote of the year.  (The Media Research Center is the publisher of NewsBusters.)

From Canada Free Press, the U.N. ends 2025 with more fruitless results.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan environmental groups condemn U.S. President Trump's blockade of oil tankers from Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, will there be rain tomorrow.

From Snouts in the Trough, are we in day 1,382 of history's most pointless war?

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin calls European leaders "swine".

From ReMix, Polish europarliamentcritter Jadwiga Wiśniewska slams the European Parliament's vote on a safeguard clause in the E.U.'s trade agreement with Mercosur countries.  (If you read Polish, read the story at wPolitice.)

From Balkan Insight, phishing is on the rise in Montenegro.

From The North Africa Post, U.S. technicians and explosive ordnance disposal experts train Moroccan soldiers in detecting and clearing mines.

From The New Arab, how oil became a front line in the civil war in Sudan.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, to make terrorism backfire, Australia should rescind its recognition of "Palestine".

From Quadrant, "when murder is a sacrament".  (See John 16:2.)

From Gatestone Institute, the terror threat in Europe is an exported war that no one wants to name.

From The Daily Signal, Wall Street warns that Germany's energy policies lead to economic suicide.

From The American Conservative, what has Trump added to the Monroe Doctrine?

From The Western Journal, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announces a plan to the military Chaplain Corps to its former glory.

From BizPac Review, Trump adds five more countries and the Palestinian Authority to his travel ban.  (In this case, the label "travels" includes "or lack thereof".)

From the Daily Caller, in 2006, the aforementioned Jasmine Crockett co-rented a car with a convicted robber, in an episode that did not end well.

From Breitbart, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent kicks off the launch of "Trump accounts" for young people.

From Newsmax, the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.

And from the New York Post, outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams (I) leaves a ratty parting gift for his incoming successor Zohran Mamdani (D).

A Few Tuesday Tidbits

Now that I'm back from running around on a cold and partly cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the White House goes into damage control after Chief of Staff Susie Wiles criticizes President Trump and other officials.

From FrontpageMag, Muslims plotting attacks on Christmas markets in Poland and Germany are arrested by police.

From Townhall, the charges faced by Nick Reiner, who allegedly killed his parents Rob and Michele.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) proposes commuting the sentences of juvenile offenders facing life in prison.

From the Washington Examiner, Education Secretary Linda McMahon rips Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) for allowing "ghost students" to apply for college.

From The Federalist, according to "newly uncovered emails", the FBI did not believe they had probable cause to raid Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, but did it anyway.

From American Thinker, the lack of a suspect in the Brown University mass shooting is unremarkable.

From NewsBusters, the Saturday Night Live caricature of Trump brags about seizing an oil tanker and shooting Santa Claus.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a new study exaggerates the safety of coronavirus vaccines.

From Arutz Sheva, Hezbollah allegedly violated its ceasefire with Israel 1,925 times during the past year.

From Jewish News Syndicate, video footage shows two people fighting against one of the shooters during the Bondi Beach, Australia terror attack.

From The European Conservative, more on the aforementioned thwarted attack in Germany.

From The Times Of Israel, one of the Bondi Beach attackers was a teenage preacher for an Islamic group.

From Gatestone Institute, the Australian government shows "moral bankruptcy on parade".

From The Daily Signal, the Pentagon is "escalating" its investigation of Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ).

From The American Conservative, the second Trump administration is pushing for a merger of technology and government.

From The Western Journal, according to a report, at least two of the five leftists arrested in connection with an alleged plot set off bombs in Los Angeles are transgender.

And from the Genesius Times and the "on second thought" department, police in Providence, Rhode Island release an image of the Brown University shooting suspect.

Monday Mania

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

From National Review, the Republicans have an opportunity on health care.

From FrontpageMag, the person who killed two American National Guard personnel and an interpreter in Syria was a member of the Syrian government security forces.

From Townhall, Republican congresscritters drop a bombshell about crime rates in Washington, D.C.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Australian authorities investigated one of the Bondi Beach shooters for possible links to ISIS but decided that he was not a threat.

From the Washington Examiner, will President Trump finally tell Republicans to allow Obamacare to defund itself.

From The Federalist, Trump's shocking and unprecedented seizure of an oil tanker really isn't.

From American Thinker, nobody on the right is celebrating the murder of actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele.

From NewsBusters, the liberal ladies of The View wonder where all the hate is coming from, but need to look in the mirror.

From Canada Free Press, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker defies the U.S. Constitution.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela stops its natural gas supply deals with Trinidad and Tobago.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the terror attack at Bondi Beach in Australia is yet another bloodbath in the global intifada, aided by Western stupidity.

From Snouts in the Trough, do you trust the climate "Damascene" conversion of the lying U.K. Tories?

From EuroNews, all eyes are on Italy as the Mercosur agreement hangs in the balance.

From Free West Media, Trump tries to end jus soli.

From ReMix, for the first time ever, over half of the first graders in Vienna, Austria do not speak German.

From Balkan Insight, Croatia's plan for storing nuclear waste dismays activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, the airline Royal Air Maroc launches nine new direct routes to three continents in 2026.

From The New Arab, NGO workers go on trial in Tunisia for allegedly aiding illegal irregular migrants.

From The Jerusalem Post, Hamas observes its 38 anniversary and calls the October 7th, 2023 attacks a "towering milestone".

From Gatestone Institute, can "peacekeepers" and "monitors" in Gaza succeed, other than in wishful thinking?

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) makes her last legislative push before leaving the House of Representatives.

From The American Conservative, only a MAGA leader can hold the right together after Trump steps down.  (Trump supporters have often been accused of being in a "Trump cult".  In my opinion, if the MAGA movement does not continue after Trump's term as president, then that accusation will have been proven correct.)

From The Western Journal, we could all learn something from right-wing actor James Woods's response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner.

From BizPac Review, ABC News rolls out the fearmongering "science" about polar bears.

From the Daily Caller, no suspect has been identified in the Brown University shooting, after FBI Director Kash Patel's premature victory lap.

From the New York Post, Providence, Rhode Island police release low-resolution footage of a "person of interest" allegedly tied to the Brown University shooting.

From Breitbart, a tribute to the aforementioned Rob Reiner.

From Newsmax, the man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters is recovering after surgery for two bullet wounds.

And from The Babylon Bee, after being charged with several felonies, Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore is forced to move to the NFL.

Sunday Stories

On a sunny but cold Sunday after a night with some snow, here are some things going on:

From National Review, two terrorists kill at least 11 people at a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia.

From FrontpageMag, more on the terror attack in Australia.

From Townhall, the shooting at Brown University in which two people were killed and eight others wounded may have targeted an economics professor.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about two men on opposite sides of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

From the Washington Examiner, police detain a person of interest in connection with the aforementioned Brown University shooting.

From American Thinker, let left-wingers live under the policies that they advocate.

From NewsBusters, PBS host Christiane Amanpour is disappointed that most Americans oppose reparations for slavery.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the heresy of placing the baby Jesus in a human smuggler's dinghy.

From The Sydney Morning Herald, the man who tackled one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been identified.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Hamas uses the terror attack in Australia to reaffirm its doctrine that all Jews worldwide should be killed just for being Jews.

From Shafaq News, German authorities detain five men suspected of planning an attack on a Christmas market.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, the terror attack in Australia is what "globalize the intifada" looks like.

From the Daily Mail, still more on the terror attack in Australia.

From Gatestone Institute, President Trump refuses to be fenced in.

From The American Conservative, the "Canada of the United Kingdom" makes a right turn.

From the New York Post, Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia shows that he's a sore loser after not receiving the Heisman Trophy.

From Newsmax, according to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), China keeps trying to hack U.S. telecom networks.

And from Fox News, Trump tells Jewish Americans to "celebrate proudly" during Hanukkah.  (via Just the News)

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, more Department of Justice hijinks is the story of illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

From FrontpageMag, one of the largest mosques in the U.S. calls President Trump "garbage".

From Townhall, a 13-year-old boy is arrested at his school while allegedly in possession of about 1,500 suspected fentanyl pills.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "media darling" Hasan Piker as defined by 10 of his statements.

From the Washington Examiner, an ISIS-affiliated terrorist kills two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter near Palmyra, Syria.  (Yesterday, the WE required subscription in order to read its stories.  This requirement was not present today when I clicked on this one.  I hope that anyone clicking on this link also may freely read the story.)

From American Thinker, is my governor "another Democrat serial fabulist"?

From NewsBusters, David Frum of The Atlantic puts on his tinfoil hat and claims that Trump might arrest people to stop them from voting.

From TCW Defending Freedom, most countries don't care about greenhouse gas emissions.

From Gatestone Institute, Trump's policy toward Venezuela, which is Iran's "second home" in the Americas, is farsighted.

From The Daily Signal, a new "hate speech" bill under consideration by Canadian lawmakers targets freedom of speech and religion.

From The American Conservative, the inglorious final chapter of the Civil War.  (The article is about the Siege of Petersburg.  Go to this blog's archives from this past June to see Petersburg National Battlefield.)

And from Political Pistachio, today's Army-Navy football game is a reminder that the military supports our liberty.  (I met the blog's author, who is a Navy veteran, during a trip to California in 2009.)

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the executive director of Oklahoma City Black Lives Matter faces 25 charges for allegedly spending donated money on shopping, vacations and six properties.   (If true, this would show that "BLM" stands for "buy large mansions".)

From FrontpageMag, high school students in San Jose, California form a "human swastika" on their football field.

From Townhall, CNN commentator Scott Jennings gives a Democratic guest a history lesson on the suppression of voting rights.

From The Washington Free Beacon, yes, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) did what she's been accused of doing.

From The Federalist, President Trump should model immigration policy after those of the 1920s, because they worked.

From American Thinker, has Kenosha, Wisconsin self-defense shooter Kyle Rittenhouse found a happy ending?

From NewsBusters, ICE Director Todd Lyons explains how to keep ICE agents out of your neighborhood.

From Canada Free Press, Trump's version of the Monroe Doctrine becomes active in Latin America.

From TeleSUR, Cuba doesn't approve of the U.S. seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker.

From TCW Defending Freedom, TCWDF asks its reader to help find non-woke churches this Christmas.

From Snouts in the Trough, be astonished for U.S. President Trump's success, while weeping for the U.K.'s future.

From EuroNews, three years after being accused of money laundering and corruption, former europarliamentcritter Eva Kaili still hasn't been put on trial.  (What is this "right to a speedy trial" you speak of?)

From Free West Media, the modern versions of The Camp of the Saints.

From ReMix, police arrest a 15-year-old Iraqi migrant after he allegedly stabbed a teenager near the Christmas market in Herford, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild and Radio Herford.)

From Balkan Insight, Albania's Constitutional Court temporarily restores Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku to her duties.

From The North Africa Post, the UAE plans to make a major investment for renewable energies in the Moroccan region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, more women are seated in the Iraqi parliament, but struggle to exert any influence.

From Iran International, an Iranian nuclear scientist is executed after confessing, only from severe torture and threats to his mother.

From EU Today, at last, some European countries are pushing back against the infantilization of Muslim girls.

From India Today, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of the Indian state of Assam claims that other communities will not "survive" if the state's Muslim population exceeds 50 percent.

From The Times Of Israel, video footage shows six Israeli hostages observing Hanukkah in December 2023, eight months before they were executed.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Muslims in Germany cheer that the country allegedly belongs to them.  (If you read German, read the story at Philosophia Perennis.  The last five links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. has a plan to read all of your messages.

From The Daily Signal, Governor Tim Walz (D), the aforementioned Ilhan Omar, and the billion-dollar fraud scandal in Minnesota.

From The American Conservative, the brain drain in the U.K.

From The Western Journal, the Department of Justice sues four states for allegedly violating election law.

From BizPac Review, the Senate's "blue slip" tradition blocks another highly qualified conservative from becoming a U.S. attorney.

From the Daily Caller, how the late Jeffrey Epstein used the Ivy League to white wash his reputation.

From the New York Post, a raccoon who broke into a liquor store, ransacked the place, and got drunk has had other misadventures, and lived.

From Breitbart, more about one European country, Austria, banning head scarves in schools.

From Newsmax, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles earns a spot on the Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful Women.

And from SFGate, a "spectacular" phenomenon is seen on the Farallon Islands, 30 miles west of San Francisco.

A Sasquatch's Thursday Dozen

Now that I'm back again after running around on a clear and cold Thursday, here are 12 things going on:

From The Jerusalem Post, the Houthis in Yemen detain current and former U.S. embassy employees.

From the Daily Mail, two Afghan migrants convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl are sent to a prison where they are allowed to play Xbox games, take ensuite showers, go to the gym five times a week, and get £20 per week to spend in the prison shop.

From The Times Of Israel, Amnesty International finally accuses Hamas of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during and after October 7th, 2023.

From Gatestone Institute, in the U.S., socialism and antisemitism are masquerading as anti-Zionism.

From The Stream, were ancient and medieval science as primitive as sometimes alleged, and what did the church do to encourage scientific discoveries?

From The American Conservative, Netflix taking over Warner Brothers would combine the worst of Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

From TCW Defending Freedom, violent migrants are a far worse threat to the U.K. than the Russians.

From Snouts in the Trough, those Venezuelan fishermen sure are speedy.

From FrontpageMag, what lesson should be learned about Lebanon?

From The Federalist, "birthright citizenship" has roots in feudalism.

From American Thinker, the global war that you might not know about.

And from the Genesius Times, newly arrived immigrants demand that the countries which took them in become more like the horrible places from which they fled.  (Wait a minute.  Are you sure that this is satire?)

Wednesday Wanderings

Now that I'm back from wandering around on a cool and cloudy Wednesday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, former Vice President Harris's interview with The New York Times leaves even them wondering what she stands for.

From FrontpageMag, do Americans know about Dutch politician Geert Wilders?

From Townhall, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) thinks that she can "Mamdani" her way into the Senate.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration plans to investigate federal contractors who say that they won't hire American citizens.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump announces the seizure of an Venezuelan oil tanker.

From The Federalist, a D.C. appeals court upholds Trump's ban on trans-identifying people in the military.

From American Thinker, is Pope Leo XIV a hypocrite when it comes to illegal immigration?

From NewsBusters, look who just got Walter Cronkite Awards.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. is turning into a new East Germany.

From Snouts in the Trough, don't get conned by the U.K. Labour Party's "child poverty" scam.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a study, Turkish and Arab students in Germany claim that visiting former concentration camps makes them afraid for their own safety.

From Quadrant, "the jihadis next door" in Australia.

From Gatestone Institute, Hezbollah still holds Lebanon hostage as Christians are forced out.

From The Stream, according to insiders, then-President Biden repeatedly ignored warnings about the border crisis, fearing backlash from the left.

From The American Conservative, according to Polish "euroskeptic" sejmcritter Krzysztof Bosak, Europe might need a "shock" from Trump.

From BizPac Review, FIFA announces a "Pride Match" between teams from two Muslim countries.

From the Daily Caller, how Republicans tricked the aforementioned Jasmine Crockett into running for the Senate.

And from the New York Post, New York City's hottest new restaurant is in a railroad station.

Jerusalem Mill Village

Today I travelled west from my undisclosed location and visited Jerusalem Mill Village, located around the intersection of Jerusalem and Jericho Roads in Harford County, Maryland.  This large building was the original Jerusalem Mill, and is now the headquarters of Gunpowder Falls State Park.  You can see from the sign on the right that it was established in 1772.

On The Road In Pennsylvania

Today I ventured northward out of my undisclosed location and went into Pennsylvania.  After finding a place to eat along U.S. route 30, I made a brief stop south of Ronks, PA at the Londonvale Mill, seen here.

Back To The Massey Air Museum

Today I returned to the Massey Air Museum near Massey, Maryland.  Due to my previous visit in February, I was informed of a pot luck open house on today's date.  Since I was again staying in the area, it was easy for me to get some food and drop in.  Once again, I walked past this DC-3, with picnic tables under its right wing.  No one was eating there due to the cold, but plenty of guests eventually ate in two large indoor rooms.

Checking In On Saturday

Hello from my latest undisclosed location in northeastern Maryland.  Today was partly sunny and a bit warmer than yesterday.  All the snow appears to have melted.  Before I start exploring, I'd like to present a few things going on:

From The Jerusalem Post, soon-to-be-former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (formerly D, now I) issues an executive order barring city officials from taking action against Israel.  (If anyone thinks that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) is going to leave Adams's order in place, I've got a bridge to sell you.)

From The Times Of Israel, Iranian authorities open a criminal case against the organizers of a marathon after female runners are seen running without wearing a hijab.

From Gatestone Institute, why should the Iranian government, now on its knees, be revived.

From The Stream, six myths about slavery.

From The American Conservative, let's make a bet on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's professional future.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the modern bureaucrat turns gold into [bleep].

From ReMix, Polish Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek files charges against former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, former Agriculture Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, and former Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak.

From National Review, the U.S. should not make the job of censors any easier.

From Townhall, a naval lawyer destroys the left's complaints about President Trump's airstrikes against narco-terrorists.

From American Thinker, if you run into a "404 Not Found", it might be censorship.

And from The Indian Express, a driver rams his car into a Christmas event on the French Caribbean island of Guadalupe, killing 10 people and injuring 9 others.

Friday Phenomena

On a cold and snowy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the boring truth comes out about the alleged January 5th pipe bomber.

From FrontpageMag, Somali sex offenders in Minnesota.

From Townhall, another Afghan man is arrested for allegedly planning a mass shooting.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the IT firms which discriminate against Americans.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a delayed report, inflation rose to 2.8 percent in September.

From The Federalist, the U.S. Conference of Catholics Bishops undermine their credibility on immigration by making money off the trafficking of children.

From American Thinker, for military personnel considering "disobeying illegal orders".

From NewsBusters, news networks ignore an allocution from Venezuela's former spy chief.

From Canada Free Press, protesting from the left-wing red-green axis.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets force an illegal aircraft to land in the state of Apure.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was a dud.

From EuroNews, E.U. legislators agree to say nyet to Russian gas by 2027.

From Free West Media, the E.U. inevitably marches against globalism.

From ReMix, the arrest of a mechanic and his son who shot burglars while defending their workshop in Romagnieu, France results in outrage.  (If you read French, read the story at BMF and Le Dauphiné Libéré.)

From Balkan Insight, young Bulgarians successfully protest against a proposed 2026 government budget, which fuels hope for more protests.

From The New Arab, the Popular Forces militia in Gaza confirms that its leader Yasser Abu Shabab has been killed.

From the Daily Mail, an alleged rapist in Gowa, Indonesia is given brutal vigilante punishment.

From Organiser, a terrorist group based in Pakistan reportedly recruits 5,000 women.

From Arutz Sheva, out of fear of its leaders being eliminated by Israel, Hamas bans them from bringing electronic or medical equipment to meetings.

From the Orissa Post, Hindu schoolgirls in the Pakistani province of Sindh are allegedly pressured to convert to Islam in order to continue their studies.  (Orissa is a former name of the Indian state of Odisha.  My spellchecker has no problem with either name.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Chinese social credit system is being forced on the world.

From The Stream, Turkish President Erdoğan and Pope Leo XIV weaponize the latter's pilgrimage against Israel.

From The Daily Signal, President Trump receives the first-ever "FIFA Peace Prize".

From The American Conservative, the U.S. military sends another alleged drug boat to Davy Jones's Locker.

From The Western Journal, the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Republican redistricting in Texas.

From BizPac Review, former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines celebrates the new Texas "bathroom bill".

From the Daily Caller, the Supreme Court will decide if Trump can abolish automatic birthright citizenship by executive order.

From the New York Post, wildlife officials try weird methods to lure a bear out from under a house in Altadena, California.

From Breitbart, several Minnesota Democrats allegedly received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Somali scammers.

From Newsmax, according to a survey, Americans have a strong and bipartisan support for Ukraine against Russia.

And from SFGate, the best poke fish in the U.S. is not in Hawaii, but in the California mountain town of Big Bear Lake.

Thursday Things

As the sunny but cold weather continues on a Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, whatever happened to the Houthis in Yemen, former President Biden, and the wildfires in and around Los Angeles?

From FrontpageMag, the story of a Democrat congressional delegate who texted Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing in 2019 just got more sordid.  (This delegate is from the Virgin Islands, which are not a state, and thus has no vote in the full House.)

From Townhall, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) slams former Vice President Harris over comments she made about him in her memoir.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) once served on a far-left group which had policies hostile to police.

From the Washington Examiner, the FBI arrests a suspect in connection with the pipe bombs left in front of the local headquarters of the two parties in Washington, D.C. on January 5th, 2021.

From The Federalist, some Democrats would love to suppress free speech the way in which the U.K. does.

From American Thinker, former President Obama's presidential center is a "billion-dollar middle finger to America".  (The article opines that it looks like a North Korean guard tower or a Jawa sandcrawler from Star Wars.  I think it looks like a laser gun emplacement on either of the two Death Stars from Star Wars. I can imagine a few TIE Fighters flying around it.)

From NewsBusters, the U.K.'s Prince Harry tells TV host Stephen Colbert "I heard you elected a king".  (You mean like they once did in Poland?)

From Canada Free Press, to stay sane, Canadians should ignore boasts and boasts from Liberals, read the Bible, and pray to God.

From TeleSUR, labor unions and rural organizations in Bolivia reject decrees from President Rodrigo Paz.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the delusional world of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

From Snouts in the Trough, it's good to know that the U.K.'s National Health Service has its priorities right.

From EuroNews, Spanish police arrest 11 people for allegedly smuggling in over 300 foreign workers, mostly from Nepal.

From ReMix, an Afghan migrant who stabbed in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany gets a lenient sentence for stopping his attack after the victim screamed.  (If you read German, read the story at Aktuelle Informiert.)

From Balkan Insight, the Bosnian state court upholds the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a former member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, for allegedly committing war crimes in 1992.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is caught between inaccurate data a colonial ghosts.

From The New Arab, the Iraqi government reverses its designation of Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis as terrorists.

From Arutz Sheva, anti-Israel protesters try to storm into a debate about the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine being conducted in a building in Toronto, Canada.

From RAIR Foundation USA, funds for school choice in Texas have gone to a Muslim Brotherhood leader, who helped build recruitment and fundraising networks for al-Qaeda and Hamas.

From AMU, an Afghan man with alleged ties to ISIS-K is arrested near Washington, D.C.

From OpIndia, who is the Pakistani terrorist who allegedly wanted to kill everyone at the University of Delaware?

From Gatestone Institute, why President Trump's plan for Gaza is not a peace deal.  (Emphasis on "not" is from the article's title.)

From The Stream, Somali Islamists flee Sweden after allegedly swindling welfare money.  (If you thought that Somalis only did that sort of thing in Minnesota, you might be wrong.  If you read Swedish, read the story at Expressen.)

From The Daily Signal, her case against Trump is finally dead, but Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis cost her county's taxpayers millions of dollars.

From The American Conservative, Trump's diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine is good, but here's how it could be improved.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned FBI arrests in connection with the January 5th pipe bombs.

From BizPac Review, did another Democratic Senator make a dog whistle calling for a military coup?

From the Daily Caller, a woman complains about people having to work in order to receive SNAP benefits.

From the New York Post, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Eric Gagne explains why Shohei Ohtani and two other Japanese players should play in the World Baseball Classic.

From Breitbart, the French government orders stricter security at Christmas markets due to possible terror threats.

From Newsmax, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers seize 57 pounds of fentanyl at the port of entry in San Ysidro, California.

And from CBC News, guitarist/songwriter Steve Cropper goes to the music studio in the sky.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a sunny but cold Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Catholic Church is clear in calling antisemitism a grave sin.

From FrontpageMag and the "I know nothing" department, Christians are massacred in Africa, as the West goes Sergeant Schultz.

From Townhall, the left will be [bleep]ed off at President Trump's pardon of a Democrat congresscritter.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Hamas's own internal documents show how it infiltrated U.N.-affiliated aid groups in Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, Republicans enjoy congresscritter-elect Matt Van Epp's (R-TN) special election victory in Tennessee.

From The Federalist, the top five moments from the arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case about a pro-life pregnancy center in New Jersey.

From American Thinker, the U.S. Navy sinks pirate boats, just like it's supposed to.

From NewsBusters, only 24 percent of likely voters know that the alleged murderer of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was left-wing.

From Canada Free Press, celebrities show their climate hypocrisy.  (To paraphrase a certain great Jewish man, before you pluck the SUV out of your neighbor's eye, take the private jet out of your own.)

From TeleSUR, Mexico plans to reduce its work week from 48 hours to 40 hours by 2030.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Labour Party lies because its policies are evil.

From Snouts in the Trough, the devil went down to......Westminster.

From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pushes ahead with a reparations loan from Ukraine, to which Belgium maintains its opposition.

From ReMix, a man from Afghanistan in Sweden allegedly murders his friend, dismembers his body, stores it in a freezer, and uses his identity to commit fraud.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo authorities (again) ban the Srpska Lista party from participating in this month's parliamentary elections, which is harshly criticized by Western diplomats.

From The North Africa Post, Libya plans to accelerate the repatriation of illegal irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, but will grant access to public services to refugees from Sudan.

From The New Arab, according to Amnesty International, Sudan's Rapid Support Forces committed war crimes in the Zamzam camp in the province of North Darfur.

From Jewish News Syndicate, over 200 public figures support a petition calling for the release of Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.

From The Times Of Israel, a middle school in the New York borough of Brooklyn denies a Holocaust survivor a chance to give a talk because of his opinions on Israel and Palestine.

From Gatestone Institute, Venezuela's alliances against the U.S.

From The Stream, do humans really have free will?

From The Daily Signal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces new restrictions on visas for anyone believed to be conducting or supporting violations of religious freedom.

From The American Conservative, Trump should echo President Reagan when it comes to Israel.

From The Western Journal, singer Sabrina Carpenter slams the Trump administration for using one of her songs in a video about deporting illegal aliens, but she did worse to Christians.

From Brain Flushings, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revokes 3,000 commercial drivers licenses after an illegal alien crashes his truck.

From BizPac Review, Pope Leo XIV urges Trump to not oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

From the Daily Caller, a study on climate change and its economic effects published in 2024 is retracted.

From the New York Times, foreigners but 52 percent of newly built homes in Miami.

From Breitbart, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) submits a bill to remove non-citizens from welfare and to expedite deportations.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) secures the addition of a provision in the NDAA to require the FBI to notify Congress when it investigates candidates seeking federal office.

And from the Genesius Times and the "don't give him any ideas" department, Prime Minister Keir Starmer orders the arrest of anyone who says that the U.K. doesn't have free speech.