Friday Phenomena

On a sunny and mild Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Qatar does not deserve President Trump's guarantee of security.

From FrontpageMag, Colombian President Gustavo Petro doubles down on the statement that got his U.S. visa revoked.

From Townhall, the Department of Justice decides to investigate the Portland, Oregon police after their arrest of journalist Nick Sortor.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump gives Hamas a deadline.

From The Federalist, leftists have abandoned debate and embraced violence.

From American Thinker, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is neither a Spartacus nor a Socrates.

From MRCTV, a video about leftists such as Jane Fonda crying about censorship.

From NewsBusters, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accuses the Democrats of intentionally sabotaging the U.S.

From Canada Free Press, Canada should grab a grand bargain with the U.S.

From TeleSUR, El Salvador's government bans "inclusive language" in public schools.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Arctic ice keeps on refusing to melt.

From Snouts in the Trough, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's plan to protect the U.K.'s Jewish community.

From EuroNews, 15 unidentified drones are reportedly spotted flying over a military base in eastern Belgium.

From Free West Media, the long overdue end to the war on warriors.

From ReMix, the Spanish National Police arrest 12 people in the city of Vic for allegedly creating fraudulent partnerships between Spaniards and illegal migrants.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at 20minutos.)

From Balkan Insight, seven men accused of trying to tunnel into the underground evidence storage depot of the Higher Court in Podgorica, Montenegro are acquitted due to lack of proof.

From The North Africa Post, dozens of members of the GenZ 212 movement protest peacefully in the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Casablanca and Agadir.

From The New Arab, a musical ode to displaced Sudanese and Palestinian families living in Egypt.

From YemenOnline, the Swedish government launches an investigation of "Islamist infiltration" and influence by the Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, none of the 40 vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces carried any aid.

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, today it's Jews on Yom Kippur, tomorrow it will be Christians on Christmas.

From Gatestone Institute, the evil intention of destroying Israel.

From Radio Free Asia, Hong Kong plans to use AI to implement Big Brother.

From The Stream, Catholic bishops in the U.S. feed into the myth of Muslims being martyrs.

From The Daily Signal, NATO's newest member Sweden is outspending many longtime members on defense.

From The American Conservative, pressuring Russian President Putin is "a play in three acts".

From The Western Journal, just when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets an abortion drug back under review, the Food and Drug Administration approves another one.

From BizPac Review, a woman in Chicago smears dog [bleep] on a Tesla and quickly reaps the consequences.

From the Daily Caller, the Canterbury Cathedral gets its first female archbishop.

From the New York Post, a policeman in New York City becomes the fourth person in his family to be promoted to sergeant in the NYPD.

From Breitbart, a federal judge rules against two sanctuary cities, allowing Trump to cut off aid.

From Newsmax, the Senate rejects a stopgap measure that would have ended the government shutdown.

And from LifeNews, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) faces a lawsuit after dropping charges against an abortion supporter who allegedly assaulted a pro-life journalist.

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, two Jews are killed in an attack at a synagogue in Manchester, England.

From FrontpageMag, how President Trump can bust the Democrat money machine that's funding ProFa.

From Townhall, illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia finally might get deported.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Northwestern University's Center for Enlightened Disagreement calls for civil dialogue, but its co-chair negotiated on behalf of activists who called Jews "pigs".

From the Washington Examiner, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signs a bill that reverses California's anti-truancy law, which was championed by then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris (D).

From The Federalist, former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro recalls how he became a political prisoner during the Biden presidency.

From American Thinker, we all identify with the victims of horrific attacks.....until we don't.

From NewsBusters, according to a new Gallop poll, trust in news media has dropped to a new low.

From Canada Free Press, Pope Leo XIV appears clouded on the issues of abortion and the death penalty.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian journalists denounce the over 200 attacks against the media and demand an end to their being harassed.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the BBC program Panorama shows its bias about asylum hotel protests.

From Snouts in the Trough, is Reform party leader Nigel Farage already running the U.K.?

From EuroNews, more on the aforementioned attack at a synagogue in Manchester, England.

From ReMix, Italy moves to revive its nuclear energy industry with a new bill.

From Balkan Insight, the Romanian government approves legislation to establish a volunteer military training program.

From The North Africa Post, young protesters in Morocco can be genuine demonstrators or goons, rioters and manipulators.

From The New Arab, three Christian men are shot and killed in Anaz, Syria.

From RAIR Foundation USA, a Spanish priest faces three years in prison for telling the truth about Islam.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From the Daily Mail, still more about the twice-aforementioned attack at a Manchester, England synagogue.

From Sp!ked, how the West has failed the Danish cartoon test.

From Gatestone Institute, Qatar must apologize for its support of terrorist groups.

From The Stream, Canadian churches burn as the left provides the fuel.

From The Daily Signal, even as the federal government shuts down, construction on the border wall continues.

From The American Conservative, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair should not be inflicted upon Gaza.

From The Western Journal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushes back on criticism from the aforementioned Pope Leo XIV.

From BizPac Review, FBI Director Kash Patel cuts ties with the Anti-Defamation League because it branded Turning Point USA as an extremist group.

From the Daily Caller, Fox and Friends co-host Lawrence Jones fact-checks Senator Jeanne Shaheen's (D-NH) claim about health care for illegal aliens.

From the New York Times, a strip mall in Los Angeles blasts classical music at night to keep vagrants away.

From Breitbart, right-wing commentator Dennis Prager talks on camera for the first time since being injured and paralyzed in 2024.

From Newsmax, according to the aforementioned press secretary Leavitt, federal government layoffs due to the shutdown could reach the thousands.

And from SFGate, the actor known as "The Rock" wears heavy prosthetics for his lead role in the movie The Smashing Machine.

Stories To Start October

On a warm and sunny Wednesday on the first day of October and the Schumer Shutdown, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's changes will make the U.S. military stronger.

From FrontpageMag, California Highway Patrol officers protect former Vice President Harris on her book tour.

From Townhall, recently arrested former Des Moines school district Superintendent and illegal alien Ian Roberts has reportedly been receiving mail-in ballots from Maryland.  (You can live in Iowa and have a high-ranking job there, but vote in Maryland, all while being in the U.S. illegally.  Interesting how that works.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, AI platforms blame "right-wing ideology" for the murder of activist Charlie Kirk.

From the Washington Examiner, a bunch of congresscritters ask to have their pay withheld during the current government shutdown.

From The Federalist, the military's recruiting crisis under then-President Biden turns out to have been a leadership problem.

From American Thinker, one benefit of the shutdown is that there will be no bull[bleep] economic reports.

From MRCTV, appearing on MSNBC's Deadline White House, former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall claims that the military has never been woke.

From NewsBusters, TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert talk about Kimmel's suspension, but avoid the reason for it.

From Canada Free Press, what's in a name that costs lots of money and can't even be pronounced by most people?

From TeleSUR, the Federation of Kichwa Peoples of Northern Ecuador declares a temporary truce to open dialogue with the Ecuadorian government.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. is getting choked by Fabian knotweed.

From Snouts in the Trough, is Prime Minister Keir Starmer is greatest U.K. patriot ever?

From EuroNews, three alleged Hamas members are arrested in Germany for allegedly planning attacks on Jewish sites.

From ReMix, a family in Bougival, France defends their home against three armed burglars.

From Balkan Insight, the Serbian government grants citizenship to Russian nationals who were sanctioned by various countries.

From The North Africa Post, Mauritania announces plans for a nanosatellite program to boost its digital sovereignty.

From The New Arab, are Arab states legally bound to protect the Sumud Flotilla heading toward Gaza?

From The Times Of Israel, Druze in Syria push for autonomy.

From the Daily Mail, the Taliban shuts down the internet in Afghanistan to prevent "immorality".

From The Jerusalem Post, Iran claims that its missiles can reach "wherever needed".

From Gatestone Institute, should former FBI Director James Comey be convicted?

From The Stream, a revolution and other matters.

From The Daily Signal, you almost have to respect what Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is trying to do.

From The American Conservative, finding common cause with - believe it or not - activist Greta Thunberg.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) asks Republicans to "strike a deal with" her.

From BizPac Review, former TV host Don Lemon claims that the aforementioned Secretary Hegseth is a DEI hire.

From the Daily Caller, the family of the man convicted of trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh begs a judge for leniency because he's a transgender.

From Breitbart, actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) flies to Rome and joins a call from Pope Leo XIV for Catholics to "terminate climate change".  (The article doesn't say whether he flew on a private jet.  How many Catholics does China have?)

From Newsmax, Florida officials unanimously approve a plan to build the Trump Presidential Library in Miami.

And from the New York Post, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) makes an oopsie.

A Sasquatch's Tuesday Dozen For The End Of September

On a warm and cloudy Tuesday on the last day of September, here are 12 things going on:

From The Times Of Israel, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, documents from Gaza shows the "direct involvement" of Hamas with the aid flotilla.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to "six local women", some Palestinian men and UNWRA workers have been using humanitarian aid to sexual exploit Gazan women.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, children are taught to call for the destruction of Israeli at an Islamist festival in Berlin.  (If your read German, read the story at NiUS and Philosophia Perennis.)

From Gatestone Institute, China and Russia are "the axis of war".

From The Stream, what a 2,700-year-old stone inscription proves the eternal truth about Jerusalem.

From The Daily Signal, Democrats take heat over their proposed healthcare subsidies for illegal aliens.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a coronavirus enforcer admits that lockdowns were "never necessary".

From Snouts in the Trough, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will do "whatever it takes" to secure the U.K.'s borders....riiiiiight!

From FrontpageMag, President Trump uses the FACE act to go after leftists and Islamists who attack synagogues.

From Townhall, here's a soundbite for Republicans for the impending fight over the Schumer shutdown.

From The Federalist, the left-wing love for terrorists is nothing new.

And from the Genesius Times, Prime Minister Keir Starmer orders the arrest of anyone saying that the U.K. doesn't have free speech.

Monday Mania

Now that I've had a chance to settle back into my domicile on a warm and cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, young American communists believe that true communism has never been attempted.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump's wisdom at the U.N. falls on deaf western European ears.

From Townhall, eight Mexican cartel members are arrested for alleged shoplifting and money laundering in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how the media covered the death of convicted cop killer Assata Shakur, who as a fugitive fled to Cuba.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats refuse to stop calling Trump and his supporters "fascists".

From The Federalist, leftists feign sympathy for the autistic babies whom they would gladly abort.

From American Thinker, what Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's meeting with U.S. generals and admirals should and should not mean.

From NewsBusters, CBS suggests that the Unabomber had some good arguments and tactics.

From Canada Free Press, the mythical underpinnings of a proposed Palestinian state.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador is "at a turning point of austerity and repression".

From TCW Defending Freedom, a report from the launch of the party Advance UK in Newcastle, England.

From EuroNews, the pro-E.U. party PAS wins in Moldova's parliamentary elections.

From Free West Media, the German broadcaster NDR censors a documentary exposing election interference funded by USAID.

From ReMix, one person is dead and five others seriously injured in a battle between two Turkish families - in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

From Balkan Insight, former Yugoslav General Nebojša Pavković is brought back to Serbia before the end of his 22-year sentence for war crimes.

From The North Africa Post, speaking at the U.N., Malian Prime Minster Abdoulaye Maïga accuses Algerian of exporting terrorism to the Sahel region.

From The New Arab, Moroccans stranded in the Gaza Strip beg their government to not forget them.

From The Times Of Israel, a man is assaulted, injured, and called a "dirty Jew" - in Yerres, France.

From Gatestone Institute, thanks to Western useful idiots, Iran's terror proxies celebrate the proposed Palestinian state by moving their jihad to the West Bank.

From Radio Free Asia, who North Korea weaponizes AI and deepfakes.

From The Stream, violent left-wingers attack ICE officers and American sovereignty.

From The Daily Signal, why China wants the war between Russia and Ukraine to continue.

From The American Conservative, a letter from a TAC contributor to a friend.

From The Western Journal, witnesses give "shocking" accounts of the shooting at an LDS church in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

From BizPac Review, former White House Special Counsel Ty Cobb thinks that the charges against former FBI Director James Comey could be "tossed out well before the trial".

From the Daily Caller, analysts are split on what the withdrawal of current New York City Mayor Eric Adams (I) from the city's mayoral race means for candidate Zohran Mamdani (D).

From the New York Post, a fugitive who fled to India after allegedly killing a man in car wreck on Long Island in 2005 is extradited to back to the U.S.

From Breitbart, according to the AI studio that created her, Hollywood talent agencies want to hire AI actress Tilly Norwood.

From Newsmax, under a plan to end the war in Gaza proposed by Trump, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair would serve as the area's interim administrator.  (I've got a feeling that some Brits might be shouting "don't let him!")

And from The Babylon Bee, Democrats are outraged at the political prosecutions of people not named Trump.

I'm Back From Minnesota

After a relatively short flight and some delays afterward, and then going out to eat a late supper, I have finally returned.  I now know that the shuttles at Washington Reagan Airport don't all go to the economy parking lot, and that this lot is still the most expensive that I've ever used.  But all that is behind me now as I return to some semblance of my normal routine.  See all youz soon.

Fort Snelling - Part 2

Although slavery was outlawed in what is now Minnesota under both the Northwest Ordinance and the Missouri Compromise, fur traders and military officers brought slaves to Fort Snelling.  The fort's surgeon, John Emerson, brought his slave Dred Scott to the fort from Missouri.  Scott married a woman named Harriet Robinson, who had been brought from Virginia to Fort Snelling by her enslaver Lawrence Taliaferro.  During their time at the fort, Dred and Harriet Scott are believed to have lived in the room behind the red door seen here, at one end of the fort's hospital.  According to our tour guide, they probably slept on the floor.  The Scotts would later sue for their freedom, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

Fort Snelling - Part 1

Today I visited Fort Snelling, which is administered by the Minnesota Historical Society.  It's pretty close to both my undisclosed location and Minneapolis International Airport.  It's located close to the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, which the Dakota people call Bdóte.  The fort was originally named Fort Saint Anthony, but was renamed Fort Snelling in 1825 after Colonel Josiah Snelling, who oversaw the completion of its construction.

Fort Snelling was decommissioned in 1946 and used as the headquarters of an Army Reserve brigade from 1963 to 1994.  Over the years, walls and buildings were removed.  In 1965, work began on restoring the fort to its original appearance.  Minnesota route 5 passes through tunnels under the fort.  The first thing I saw was this memorial to a treaty signed in 1805 by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike (after whom Pike's Peak was later named), near the modern parking lot.

Another Meeting And A Tour Of Minneapolis

Today I met for lunch with another friend from the blogosphere, who calls himself RZ, which is short for "Reactionariez".  Like Holger, with whom I had breakfast yesterday, he was a host on the erstwhile internet platform BlogTalkRadio.  He now has a show on Mixlr called "Ideas Are Bulletproof Radio".  Both of them live in the Minneapolis area and sometimes hang out together in real life.  We had lunch at Frenchman's Pub in the city of Richfield, which unlike Fat Nat's Eggs, has no website of its own, just a page on Facebook.

After eating, RZ took me on a little tour of Minneapolis.  He drove us up Chicago Avenue, including a section thereof named George Perry Floyd Square.  It was in this area that a criminal named George Floyd died while being restrained by a police officer's knee on his neck.  Near the north end of the square is this monument, apparently created by or in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.  On its base is the symbol which the Minneapolis-born musician known as Prince sometimes used as his name.

Staying Around The Twin Cities

Instead of setting out on a long drive from my undisclosed location, today I went on two shorter trips.  The first was to have breakfast with a friend from the blogosphere who calls himself Holger, after a legendary Danish king.  I used to listen to his show on BlogTalkRadio, back when the platform still existed.  He also has his own blog, Holger Awakens, but stopped posting in early 2021.  I first met him in person at a rally on the mall in Washington, D.C. back in 2011, along with a bunch of other fellow right wingnuts.  But in the near future, if you're in the Twin Cities area and get hungry for some breakfast, you can try out Fat Nat's Eggs.

Later in the day, I decided to go take a hike across another bridge.  This one is called Old Cedar Avenue Bridge, and spans part of Long Meadow Lake.  Like the bridge in Stillwater that I crossed a few days ago, it has middle lanes for cyclists and outer lanes for pedestrians.

A Swing Into Wisconsin

Today I drove eastward from my undisclosed location into Wisconsin.  Other than my walk across a bridge for pedestrians and bicycles from Stillwater, Minnesota that went over the St. Croix river, my most recent trip to Wisconsin was in 2023.  See this blog's archives from August of that year.  I visited two places, the first of which is the Devil's Punchbowl near the city of Menomonie.  The place features a waterfall set in a round section of cliff.

Clear Lake, Iowa

After visiting the plane crash site, as shown in my earlier post, I continued southward to Clear Lake, Iowa, where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson gave their past performances before their lives were tragically cut short.  They played on February 2nd, 1959 at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on a tour that was called the Winter Dance Party.  After I parked the temporary hybrid Bigfootmobile on Buddy Holly Place, I found the front of the Surf Ballroom.  The street is North Shore Drive, part of which has been renamed for Valens.

A Visit To Where "The Music Died"

My journey today was down to Iowa, a sort of pilgrimage to the site of the plane crash that claimed the lives of musicians Buddy Holly (real name Charles Holley), Ritchie Valens (real name Richard Valenzuela), and the Big Bopper (real name J.P. Richardson), along with their pilot Roger Peterson.  In order to get there, I had to drive on some backroads, including gravel roads, but easily found my way to the Don McLean American Pie parking lot.  The place includes a sign, a chair in front of it, a picnic table, and an informal place to get relief.  Yes, the white car is the temporary hybrid Bigfootmobile.

Stillwater, Minnesota

Today I set out from my undisclosed location and explored Stillwater, Minnesota and its environs.  After parking my temporary hybrid Bigfootmobile, I took two pictures of the Stillwater Lift Bridge.  At one time, this bridge carried Minnesota route 36 over the St. Croix River toward Houlton, Wisconsin.  Today, it is open only to bicycles and pedestrians, but still includes a section that lifts upward to allow boats to pass underneath.  Here's one shot of the bridge.

Checking In From The Norris Division

Hello from my latest undisclosed location in Minnesota, my most northern trip of this year.  I flew up here earlier today, and for the first time ever, I've rented a hybrid car.  Hopefully, it won't drive me nuts, or any nuttier than I already am.  Now I'm just relaxing and planning on some explorations starting tomorrow.  See youz soon.

A Few Links For Saturday

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

From The Times Of Israel, Pakistan offers Saudi Arabia the use of its nuclear weapons under a mutual defense pact.

From The Jerusalem Post, the organizations UNICEF and COGAT confirm that Hamas terrorists stole baby formula from humanitarian aid trucks.

From The Daily Mail, almost 1,100 illegal migrants arrive in the U.K. in just one day.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian government wants diplomacy today and retaliation tomorrow.

From The Stream, would a left-wing or a right-wing nation prosper?

From The Daily Signal, the FBI needs to understand that transgender ideology has motivated violence.

From The American Conservative, the recently assassinated activist Charlie Kirk was a moderate.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) corrects congresscriter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) about Kirk's alleged assassin supposedly being MAGA.

From TCW Defending Freedom, our right to free speech is threatened from multiple directions.

From FrontpageMag, former Vice President Harris suggest that President Biden's brother was running the show.

From Townhall, there's a simple reason why not much is being said about a murder of two women in Burien, Washington.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what the "Iron Beam" laser air defense system means for Israel, its enemies, and the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, a man carrying a gun and a knife is arrested at Arizona Cardinals Stadium, where Charlie Kirk's funeral is planned.

From The Federalist, a "study" being cited about right-wing violence has lots of fake data.

From American Thinker, what the media leaves out from its reporting on the National Guard in Washington, D.C. shows its relentless bias.

From NewsBusters, the Rolling Stone is suddenly concerned about free speech.

And from The Hill, the funniest joke that late night host Jimmy Kimmel never told.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, author J.K. Rowling is right to oppose assisted suicide in the U.K.

From FrontpageMag, FBI Director Kash Patel unearths the skeletons in the agency's closet.

From Townhall, NPR continues to pretend that the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin's political views are a mystery.

From The Washington Free Beacon, here are the Hamas leaders who run UNWRA's schools.

From the Washington Examiner, Palestinian authorities arrest a West Bank resident for alleged involvement in a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Paris.

From The Federalist, the federal government cannot trust Utah to achieve a death sentence for Kirk's alleged assassin.

From American Thinker, former President Obama's lectures about free speech and cancel culture are not worth listening to.

From MRCTV, the left's narrative about TV host Jimmy Kimmel, like their other narratives, just imploded.

From NewsBusters, according to a study, Kimmel's downfall began before his comments about Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin.

From Canada Free Press, American has violent modern brown shirts.

From TeleSUR, according to Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Venezuela's "Sovereign Caribbean 200" military exercise is underway.

From TCW Defending Freedom, climate fearmongers find that bird choppers don't work if there's too much wind.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood scares away those evil human smuggling gangs.....not!

From EuroNews, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán decides to designate ProFa a terrorist organization, replicating U.S. President Trump's policy.

From ReMix, a shop owner in Flensburg, Germany puts up a sign banning Jews from his store.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.  I don't see any German language version of the story.)

From Balkan Insight, is Russia's war in Ukraine entering a new phase?

From The North Africa Post, Algeria launches a manhunt for escaped former intelligence chief Nacer El Djinn.

From The New Arab, a Libyan hospital ship joins the Sumud flotilla bound for Gaza.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a U.N. report, the killing of civilians in Sudan increased greatly during the first half of this year.

From Sky News, hundreds of Afghans who were relocated to the U.K. have returned to Afghanistan for holidays and other trips.

From the Daily Mail, a British couple detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan for over seven months are released.

From The Times Of Israel, more on the shop in Germany with a sign banning Jews.

From AMU, the Taliban ask residents of the Afghan province of Herat to identify women working for international aid agencies, claiming that such women are "foreign spies".

From BBC News, the Taliban ban books written by women from universities in Afghanistan.

From Arutz Sheva, an Australian left-wing magazine claims a number of children under the age of 5 killed in Israel's war in Gaza exceeds the estimated pre-war number of Gazans under 5 years old.  (The last seven links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's campaign of extermination against the Druze and other minorities.

From The Stream, Charlie Kirk was not like us.

From The Daily Signal, will we heed the cautionary tale about free speech that the U.K. has become?

From The American Conservative, Russia drones in Polish airspace were not a probe, but a signal.

From The Western Journal, a boy who was injured after going missing reunites with the police dog who saved him.

From BizPac Review, the producer of The Charlie Kirk Show tells Comedy Central to keep on airing their South Park episode that parodies Kirk.

From the Daily Caller, congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh (D-IL) [bleep]s around with ICE and finds out.

From Breitbart, the House of Representatives passes a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk, with 58 Democrats voting against it.

From Newsmax, according to Republican National Committee senior adviser Danielle Alvarez, the Democrats "need to stop embarrassing themselves" over the aforementioned Jimmy Kimmel.

And from the New York Post, the Minnesota Zoo finds a "grizzly" way to deal with discarded invasive goldfish.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, why the Democrats don't really oppose President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, educators celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

From Townhall, Kirk's organization Turning Point USA elects his widow Erika Kirk to be its new CEO and chairwoman of the board.

From the Washington Examiner, a debate about free speech dominates Trump's visit to the U.K.

From The Federalist, Trump announces that he will designate ProFa as a terrorist organization.  (Of course, he did not use the term "ProFa", but called them by their self-designation "Antifa".  I call them "ProFa" because that's the name that they, in my not-so-humble opinion, deserve.)

From American Thinker, the demon in gender (and other) dysphoria.

From MRCTV, a video about ABC's suspension of late night host Jimmy Kimmel.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) said that "deplatforming works" when Fox News fired right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson.

From Canada Free Press, suspect and faulty temperature data should be questioned.

From TeleSUR, a look at projects in Cuba.

From TCW Defending Freedom, instead of smearing the alleged "far right", U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer should be going after the Britain-hating left.

From Snouts in the Trough, is one of Starmer's "enrichers" making the U.K. more like the country from which he came?  (The article links to a post on X.)

From EuroNews, protests against French budget cuts turn violent.

From ReMix, Spanish police arrest 19 illegal migrants for allegedly abusing, torturing and murdering 50 people who shared their boat while traveling from Africa to the Canary Islands.

From Balkan Insight, in Romanian mountain towns, beware of bears.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's national soccer team climbs to the 11th spot in FIFA's rankings.

From The New Arab, an Iraqi government program to buy unregulated firearms from citizens nears its completion, but according to some people, its success is "limited".

From The Jerusalem Post, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi refers to Israel as an "enemy" for the first time since then-President Anwar Sadat did so in 1977.

From RAIR Foundation USA, the network Muslim Network TV attacks Charlie Kirk.

From Arutz Sheva, Europe's favorite fantasy is building a Palestinian state, with parts and instructions from Ikea.

From Gatestone Institute, how "active measures" by the Soviet Union still manipulate the West.

From The Stream, to go forward, we must have love, not radicalism.

From The Daily Signal, more on Erika Kirk being elected the new leader of Turning Point USA.

From The American Conservative, renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War is a good first step.

From The Western Journal, a resolution to censure congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) for her comments about Charlie Kirk fails as four Republicans vote against it.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) backs up FBI Director Kash Patel's claims about the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From the Daily Caller, the transgender boyfriend of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin reportedly had ties to a strange trend.

From the New York Post, Saturday Night Live announces a cast shake-up and the first three hosts for the upcoming season.

From Breitbart, the U.K. Labour government defends sharia courts and a broad definition of "Islamophobia".

From Newsmax, a lawsuit alleges that various groups designated as terrorist organizations are complicit in Hamas's attack against Israel on October 7th, 2023.

And from the Genesius Times, because he is transgender, to avoid prosecution, the aforementioned boyfriend of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, has agreed to be both spayed and neutered.

Wednesday Wanderings For Constitution Day

On a cool and rainy Wednesday, falling on the anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Constitution, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the media are unable to cover violence from the left.

From FrontpageMag, a review of a book about honoring the founders of the U.S.

From Townhall, the Department of Justice denaturalizes an immigrant convicted of raping a child.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a lawsuit, a researcher at MIT was fired because he is a Jew.

From the Washington Examiner, the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time in President Trump's second term.

From The Federalist, top U.S. universities have a lot less to say after the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk than they did after the death of Minnesota criminal George Floyd.

From American Thinker, "turn down the temperature!" say the people throwing the Molotov cocktails.  (They seem to be unaware that they're raising the temperature by calling Trump "Hitler" and his supporters "Nazis" and "fascists".)

From MRCTV, a video explaining how the radical left are attacking both Republicans and Democrats.

From NewsBusters, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) confronts host Kaitlan Collins of The Source for trying to obscure the motive of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin.

From Canada Free Press, instead of Labor Day, let's make Constitution Day a federal holiday.  (Full disclosure:  I met the author of this column while on vacation in California in 2009.  He had his own program on BlogTalkRadio, which no longer exists.  He blogs at Political Pistachio.  Although he wrote this column for a Canadian website, I can assure you that he's very much an American.)

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello claims that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration staged a false flag operation against Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how did the Daily Telegraph get Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally so wrong?

From EuroNews, France braces for more strikes and protests starting tomorrow.

From Free West Media, the dilemma faced by ethnic Americans.

From ReMix, France suffers a wave of violent attacks against police officers.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Union.)

From Balkan Insight, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin testifies for the defense in the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan navy participates in UNITAS, the world’s longest-running multinational naval exercise.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah is still reeling from Israel's pager attack, which was staged a year ago today.

From the Daily Mail, Australian Senator Fatima Payman has no sympathy for Charlie Kirk.

From The Times Of Israel, a professor at the University of Pisa in Italy is beaten by pro-HamasPalestinian protesters who disrupted his class.

From Jewish News Syndicate, why Lebanon and the rest of the Arab world refuse to grant Palestinians citizenship.

From Gatestone Institute, international Big Brother builds a digital prison - part 1.

From Radio Free Asia, Thai security forces and Cambodian protesters class at a disputed border area.

From The Stream, did Attorney General Pam Bondi endorse Canadian-style censorship of "hate speech"?

From The Daily Signal, a conservative student organization calls on universities protect free speech by students on campus.

From The American Conservative, the many faces of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

From The Western Journal, Trump is furious as documents show how the Biden administration targeted Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA.

From BizPac Review, Jemele Hill of The Atlantic is shamed into deleting a post on Bluesky where she claimed that Kirk was the victim of a "white supremacist gang hit".

From the Daily Caller, more on the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates.

From the New York Post, U.K. Queen Camilla appears to usher Princess Kate away from U.S. First Lady Melania Trump.

From Breitbart, ICE announces the arrests of "the worst of the worst" criminal illegal aliens.

From Newsmax, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that Charlie Kirk texted her a day before his assassination, but she didn't read it until afterwards.

And from SFGate, two lakes in southern California are "infested" with invasive mussels.

Tuesday Tidbits

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

From National Review, the left's disinformation campaign surrounding the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

From FrontpageMag, leftists are now posting the names of other people whom they want murdered.

From Townhall, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) admits that there are "physiological differences" between men and woman.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a survey, almost 80 percent of Jewish college students worldwide have hidden their religious identity during the past year.

From the Washington Examiner, New York City is on the brink.

From The Federalist, debunking the top 5 lies told by left-wingers about Charlie Kirk.

From American Thinker, what is, and what was, a fascist?

From NewsBusters, according to Greg Gutfeld of Fox News, "the media is dead to us" because of how they covered Charlie Kirk's murder.

From TeleSUR, after the U.S. decertifies Colombia in the drug war, President Gustavo Petro announces that Colombia will no longer use weapons made in the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the day when the British lion roared.

From Snouts in the Trough, will Manchester, England Mayor Andy Burnham get into the U.K. parliament?

From EuroNews, Polish authorities detain a Ukrainian man and a Belarusian woman for allegedly flying a drone over government buildings in the capital city of Warsaw.

From ReMix, an Eritrean man commits 46 crimes over 13 months while in Switzerland, including indecent exposure.  (If you read German, read the story at Nau(dot)ch.)

From Balkan Insight, Romanian prosecutors indict former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu on six charges.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is reportedly trying to acquire its first submarines.

From The New Arab, a "porta-potty sex ring" in Dubai, UAE is linked to the suspicious deaths of two African women.

From World Israel News, an Egyptian professor denies the Holocaust.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the Arab colonialism that no one talks about.

From Arutz Sheva, the only victim of genocide in Gaza is the truth.

From Gatestone Institute, how Israel helped the Gaza Strip before the attacks of October 7th, 2023.

From Radio Free Asia, Chinese and Philippine ships collide in the South China Sea near the disputed Scarborough Shoal.

From The Stream, "zombie" Republicans can't deal with the hate that we face.

From The Daily Signal, Senators Marcia Blackburn and Bill Hagerty (both R-TN) explain how President Trump chose Memphis for his crackdown on crime.

From The American Conservative, human rights diplomacy with China doesn't work.

From The Western Journal, former President Biden's post-presidency financial situation is reportedly not as good as he expected.

From ABC News, a judge throws out two murder charges related to terrorism against the alleged killed of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, black pastors spew their hate for Charlie Kirk.

From the Daily Caller, new audio undermines the Biden administration's reason for arresting former Trump advisor Peter Navarro.

From the New York Post, according to a prosecutor, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was obsessed about leaving his "grandpa's rifle" at the scene of the crime.

From Breitbart, AI raises a huge question for conservatives.  (We can only wonder when the next generation of Cylons will arise, and the cycle of time will resume.)

From Newsmax, New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo (I) can't name a single living Democrat that he admires.

And from CNN, actor/director Robert Redford goes to the movie studio in the sky.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, after the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, a new type of "cancel culture" goes after the left.

From FrontpageMag, did anyone really believe that men could become women?

From Townhall, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) tells his fellow Democrats to cool their rhetoric against President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the FBI is investigating social media posts that appear to indicate foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump plans to sign an agreement about nuclear energy with the U.K.

From The Federalist, some ideas about stopping left-wing violence other than thoughts and prayers.

From American Thinker, a patriotic awakening that the U.K.'s establishment cannot contain.

From MRCTV, a video about the media's sad attempts to blame conservatives for political violence.

From NewsBusters, Bloomberg economist Anna Wong admits that the U.S. economy was likely in a "recession" since before the 2024 election.

From Canada Free Press, how Trump, while in the Oval Office, learned about the Charlie Kirk assassination.  (The story links to an article in The New York Sun, to which you'll have to subscribe in order to read.)

From TeleSUR, Mexico observes the anniversary of "Grito de Dolores", which led to its independence movement.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a first-hand account from the Unite the Kingdom rally in London.

From Snouts in the Trough, are Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeve's taxes only about grabbing more money from U.K. subjects?

From EuroNews, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson calls Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's claims that criminal gangs are training underage Swedish girls to be assassins "outrageous lies".

From ReMix, a car belonging to the family of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is stolen from his home in the city of Sopot.  (If you read Polish, read the story and a related story, both at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, thousands of costumed people attend the East European Comic Con in Bucharest, Romania.

From The North Africa Post, according to the French paper Le Journal du Dimanche, Christians in the Algerian region of Kabylie face religious and political persecution.  (The French word dimanche means "Sunday".)

From The New Arab, Gazans view the Sumud Flotilla "between symbolism and despair".

From the Daily Mail, an Afghan convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl in France, who fled to the U.K., fights his extradition by claiming that his cell in Paris might be too small.

From IranWire, a Shiite cleric in southern Iran is executed for murder.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the BBC censures a presenter for telling the truth about Hamas.

From The Jerusalem Post, Hamas starts moving Israeli hostages above ground in the Gaza Strip in an attempt to hinder the IDF's operations.

From Gatestone Institute, the Australian government's fantasy of social cohesion.

From Radio Free Asia, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's daughter could possibly be his successor.  (Just like Kim Jong-un succeeded his father Kim Jong-il, who succeeded his father Kim Il-sung.)

From The Stream, how the English Saint George flag was forged by centuries of warfare against Islam.

From The Daily Signal, four ways by which Trump is bringing back manufacturing jobs.

From The American Conservative, Trump is merely enforcing the immigration laws.

From The Western Journal, FBI Director Kash Patel reveals the content of a note written by Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin.

From BizPac Review, Ukrainian President Zelensky says that he's ready to discuss peace with Russian President Putin.

From the Daily Caller, members of the Chinese Communist Party are studying at U.S. colleges near you.

From the New York Post, the automaker General Motors recalls 23,000 Chevy Corvettes after several of them spontaneously catch fire.

From Breitbart, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains how the U.S. got China to agree to a deal about the platform TikTok.

From Newsmax, according to Trump, a Cuban suspected of beheading a man in Dallas, Texas is in the U.S. illegally and was released by the Biden administration this past January.

And from The Babylon Bee, McGruff the Crime Dog goes undercover to infiltrate a furry terrorist cell.