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.