Tuesday Tidbits

On a cold and rainy Tuesday, which is thus unsuitable for exploration, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the new era of drone warfare spreads across the Middle East.

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) promotes Islam.

From Townhall, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirms that Iran was close to getting nuclear weapons.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel forces "flatten" the building where Iran's Assembly of Experts were gathered to select the country's next supreme leader.

From the Washington Examiner, how Trump can avoid a "forever war" in Iran.

From The Federalist, how to stay sane and not appear stupid when discussing the war against Iran.

From American Thinker, there are people and things that the Democrats hate, but whom do they love?

From NewsBusters, while ranting against Trump, Politico finally admits that the Biden administration was "dysfunctional".

From Canada Free Press, migrants and left-wingers are a greater terror threat than Islamists are.

From TeleSUR, the poetry of Jose Marti shapes Cuba's musical identity.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Little Ice Age was the climate change that modern doomsayers ignore.

From Snouts in the Trough, weep for the U.K.'s future or lack thereof.  (The article's date is March 2nd, but I will let it slide because it's a "Tuesday=Wednesday blog".)

From EuroNews, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy clash over the Druzhba oil pipeline, with the E.U. caught in the middle.

From Free West Media, "when rules collapse".

From ReMix, 501 Afghans sue the German government for not letting them enter as previously promised.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, Serbia has a growing network of "slippery" surveillance technology.

From The North Africa Post, NGOs call for the protection of human rights in the Tindouf camps in Algeria and praise U.N. Security Council Resolution 2797.

From The New Arab, a drone strike on a power plant causes a blackout in El-Obeid, Sudan.

From the Daily Mail, the Albanese government in Australia is under pressure due to a promise to an Islamic group that mourned the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is at a strategic turning point.

From The Daily Signal, NCAA football legend Tim Tebow testifies to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism about child trafficking.

From The American Conservative, the "colonization" of the U.K. comes for soccer.

From The Western Journal, the rock band Radiohead doesn't like ICE using one of their songs in a tribute video to Americans who were killed by illegal aliens.

From BizPac Review, for the second time in recent history, an airplane lands in the Hudson River near New York City.

From the Daily Caller, a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan honors the aforementioned Ayatollah Khamenei and trashes the U.S.

From the New York Post, the sickening reason why an illegal alien with 30 prior arrests was released by a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia before he allegedly hacked a woman to death at a bus stop.

From Breitbart, a loss of phone and interwebz services in Medina County, Ohio is blamed on a squirrel.

From Newsmax, according to special envoy Steve Witkoff, Iranian officials last month claimed to have produced enough enriched uranium for 11 nuclear bombs.

And from The Babylon Bee, former President Biden asks why Trump simply didn't bomb the twice-aforementioned Ayatollah Khamenei in the leg.

Two Sites In Virginia

Today I drove around to two places near my undisclosed location in eastern Virginia, which is in the same general area where I was during September of 2023.  A short walk from the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center west of Fredericksburg, Virginia is this monument to Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.  The road behind it is Virginia route 3.

A Traveling Sasquatch's Dozen To Start March

Now that I've settled into my latest undisclosed location in eastern Virginia on a sunny and mild Sunday on the first day of March, here are 12 things going on:

From the Daily Mail, a man wearing a shirt that said "property of Allah" shoots and kills two people and wounds 14 others.

From Caliber, high school students in the German state of Nordrhein-Westphalia are told that terror by Muslims has nothing to do with Islam.

From the eponymous site of Daniel Pipes, how will the war against Iran end?

From Arutz Sheva, will the U.N. hold a moment of silence for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei?

From Gatestone Institute, does Iran have six scenarios for another war?

From The American Conservative, the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) is a "National Hostage Situation".

From TCW Defending Freedom, being suspicious of the U.K.'s ruling class is not paranoia.

From Snouts in the Trough, the BBC should get its international editor into Iran to tell us the "truth".

From American Thinker, Jews help U.S. hockey teams win gold medals in this year's Winter Olympics.

From Townhall, a breakdown of what happened during the first wave of strikes against Iran.

From FrontpageMag, no, large numbers of Americans are not leaving the U.S.

And from National Review, the Iranian people can't overthrow their government without having weapons.

Saturday Stuff For The End Of February

Now that I'm back after walking in a forest like a good Sasquatch on a sunny and mild Saturday on the last day of February, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the U.S. and Israel (again) bomb Iran.

From FrontpageMag, the Iranian people might have a chance to have liberty.

From Townhall, left-wingers stage astroturfed pro-Iran protests, and they are as bad as expected.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israeli officials claim that Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in strikes by Israel and the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump believes that reports of Khamenei's death are correct.

From American Thinker, Trump makes a "masterful" statement about the attack on Iran.

From NewsBusters, ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl suggests that the attack on Iran will prompt "significant blowback" from Trump's supporters.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why U.K. parliamentcritter Rupert Lowe is wrong to regard halal and kosher as equivalent to each other.

From Gatestone Institute, U.N. funding empowers the Iranian regime and other opponents of freedom, peace, and human rights.  (Due to the events reported above, the current Iranian regime might not be around for much longer.)

From The American Conservative, let's hope that the war against Iran is over quickly.

And from the Humor Times, testifying under oath, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admits that she never met Mr. Bill.

Neil Sedaka 1939-2026

Before I put my intended regular post, I must acknowledge the passing of singer/musician Neil Sedaka, which happened yesterday in Los Angeles after an undisclosed medical emergency.  He was 86.  He had a successful career during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and later had a comeback during the mid-1970s.

Neil Sedaka was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn to Mordechai "Mac" Sedaka and the former Eleanor Appel.  In 1947, after taking some piano lessons, he successfully auditioned for a piano scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music's Preparatory Division for Children.  When he was 13, he started writing songs with his neighbor Howard Greenfield.  Although he turned to pop music, he maintained a fondness for classical music throughout his life.  Among his hits during the fifties and sixties were Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Next Door to an Angel, and Oh! Carol, which was inspired by his former girlfriend Carol Klein, later known as Carole King.  Sedaka and Greenfield also wrote songs for other artists including Connie Francis and Jimmy Clanton, before agreeing to part ways.

Sedaka had his lean years from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.  He still was popular in Australia and the U.K.  He joined up with new lyricist Phil Cody.  Their first song Solitaire was a hit for the Carpenters.  His comeback started in 1974 with the song Laughter in the Rain.  He joined Elton John's company Rocket Records and had a no. 1 hit with Bad Blood, on which John sang backing vocals.  Sedaka and Cody contributed English lyrics to ABBA's first hit Ring Ring.  He rerecorded Breaking Up Is Hard to Do as a slow ballad.  He reunited with Greenfield and wrote Love Will Keep Us Together for The Captain & Tennille, which went to no. 1 in 1975.  He eventually left Rocket and signed with Elektra Records.

Sedaka married Leba Strassberg in 1962.  They had two children.

Read more at AP News, Variety, People, ABC News and the Los Angeles Times.

Friday Phenomena

On a sunny but cool Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, yet another shooting suspect is transgender.

From FrontpageMag, yes, global warming has come to New York City.

From Townhall, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) reveals which possible heir to the MAGA whom he's most afraid of.

From The Washington Free Beacon, CNN climate correspondent Bill Weir can't believe that people are skating on frozen ponds in New York City's Central Park.  (I remember walking on the frozen Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s.)

From the Washington Examiner, testifying before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Bill denies knowing about the late Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.  (If you're asking whether the "sex offenders" label applies to Epstein or to Mr. Bill, the answer is "yes".)

From The Federalist, if the U.S. military "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program last June, as claimed by President Trump, why are we possibly attacking Iran again?

From American Thinker, the Democrats represent everybody except Americans.

From NewsBusters, today's journalism is viciously against Trump.

From Canada Free Press, in a video, Dr. Willie Soon tells the truth about climate change.

From TeleSUR, an interview with Cuban journalist Boris Luis Cabrera.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. needs an ICE.

From Snouts in the Trough, stop the boats, smash the gangs, and deport the illegal aliens.

From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen moves to implement the controversial Mercosur trade deal despite a judicial review launched by europarliamentcritters.

From ReMix, the Cologne Administrative Court rules that the German party AfD should not be classified as right-wing extremist.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro's government road construction company Monteput signs a deal with the Chinese company PowerChina-Stecol to build a second section of the Bar-Boljare highway.  (While Bar is a seaport in Montenegro, Boljare is in Serbia, next to the border between the two countries.)

From The North Africa Post, Morocco closes its southern fishing zone to protect juvenile sardine populations.

From The New Arab, a man is detained after driving a jeep bearing Israeli flags into a crowded area in Kerdasa, Egypt, thus injuring six people.

From the Daily Mail, a woman jailed in Morocco for wearing a T-shirt that said "Allah is a lesbian" could possibly have her arm amputated.

From Gatestone Institute, the Middle East presents a pile of fake narratives, a fake "Palestinian state", and a real threat to the West.

From The Daily Signal, more on Mr. Bill denying knowledge of Epstein's crimes.

From The American Conservative, why Trump is right to pursue peace between Ukraine and Russia.

From The Western Journal, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reveals that DHS staffers installed spyware on her phone until the Chief Twit caught them.

From BizPac Review, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tries to return some sanity to the organization once known as the "Boy Scouts of America".

From the Daily Caller, a serial child predator is rearrested on the day when he was set to be released from prison.

From the New York Post, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi, 30 more people have been charged in the storming of a church in St. Paul, Minnesota during an anti-ICE demonstration.

From Breitbart, a statue of U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London's Parliament Square is vandalized by pro-Palestine activists.

From Newsmax, Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran calls for interest rate cuts.

And from The Poke, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posts a spoof commercial for his own action figure.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, yes, we should celebrate the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team.

From FrontpageMag, the 2015 White House summit that whitewashed Islamic terror and Somali money laundering.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, President Trump destroyed the Democrats at his State of the Union address by exposing who they are.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a protest by the Democratic Socialists of America in San Francisco erupts into chants of "tax the Jews".

From the Washington Examiner, what we now about the gunfight between the Cuban Coast Guard and Americans about a speedboat registered in Florida.

From The Federalist, according to a report, the FBI under then-President Biden spied on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

From American Thinker, before attacking Iran, let's remember Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

From NewsBusters, CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman claims that "Trump is right" that "the economy is strong", but he's "missing the big problem".

From Canada Free Press, blue cities support brown or migrant supremacy instead of supporting citizens.

From TeleSUR, 6,487 Venezuelans apply for amnesty under a law approved a week ago.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the large body of evidence over damage from weight-loss drugs.

From EuroNews, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proposes a "fact-finding mission" to the Druzhba oil pipeline and admits that his veto of a loan to Ukraine caused "difficulties".

From ReMix, Polish President Karol Nawrocki warns of an alliance between Russia and China, and calls Russia a "civilizational threat" to the West.  (If you read Polish, read the story at wPolytice.  When Poles call Russia a "threat", they're not kidding.)

From Balkan Insight, a Greek court finds four executives guilty of illegal wiretapping using Predator spyware.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities increased to $4.1 billion during 2025.

From The New Arab, Iraqi authorities arrest 17 people for allegedly recruiting for the Russian army.

From Jewish News Syndicate, French prosecutors indict five people for allegedly sending Hamas $47 million disguised as "aid".  (If you read French, read the story at Le Journal du Dimanche.)

From The Jerusalem Post, terrorists linked to al Qaeda and ISIS step up their violence in the borderlands of Niger, Nigeria and Benin.

From Arutz Sheva, the rape gang crisis in the U.K. amounts to modern-day slavery.

From Tempo(dot)Co, according to Coordinating Minister for Agriculture Zulkifli Hasan, Indonesia will not be importing chicken or rice from the U.S.

From Free Malaysia Today, if you must smoke when in Malaysia, be careful where you light one up.

From the Borneo Post, 4,458 people have been victimized by floods in the Malaysian state of Sabah.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man leads a delegation to inspect election preparations in the city of Hai Phong.  (Vietnam only allows one political party to legally exist.)

From the Taipei Times, according to Taiwanese Prime Minister Cho Jung-tai, Chinese-born legislator Li Zhenxiu should not be given any information until her eligibility to serve in public office is confirmed.

From China News, the Chinese company LandSpace plans a new recovery test for its reusable Zhuque-3 rocket.

From The Korea Herald, inside South Korea's enforcement of its immigration laws.

From The Mainichi, Japanese Olympic figure skating pairs gold medalists Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara exemplify the value of "never giving up".

From Japan Today, births in Japan fall to a record low for the 10th straight year.

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian Authority wishes to return to the Gaza Strip to join forces with Hamas, not to replace it.

From The Daily Signal, the House Oversight Committee has questions for Mr. Bill and Ms. Hill.

From The American Conservative, attacking Iran would put the U.S., the Constitution, peace, and the facts last.

From The Western Journal, why not censuring congresscritter Al Green (D-TX) might not be a bad thing.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) cries foul over the arrest of her guest at the State of the Union address.

From the Daily Caller, Energy Secretary Chris Wright makes a case for the U.S. having AI data centers.

From Breitbart, according to Medicare and Medicaid administrator Mehmet Oz, Cuban migrants have stolen Medicaid funds and then taken them back to Cuba.

From Newsmax, according to a Marist Poll, one out of every three people in New York state want to leave within the next five years.  (Due to Papa Bigfoot changing jobs, I did that a long time ago.)

And from the New York Post, a Los Angeles police officer is arrested for alleged insurance fraud because he is seen skydiving after after claiming disability benefits.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, President Trump's State of the Union address has something for everyone.

From FrontpageMag, what does right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson want from the Jews?

From Townhall, Vice President Vance reveals what he saw from Democratic congresscritters during the State of the Union address that most viewers didn't.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to congresscritter Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Trump's request that lawmakers stand if they believe that the government's first duty is to protect American citizens was "racist".

From the Washington Examiner, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigns from his positions at Harvard University over his past connections to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Federalist, seven ways which the Republicans can capitalize on the momentum from the State of the Union address if they want to win the upcoming midterms.

From American Thinker, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) delivers a "wretched" response to Trump's State of the Union speech.

From NewsBusters, Spanberger omits her tax wish list while ranting about "affordability" during her response.

From Canada Free Press, there was no inflation by tariff.

From TeleSUR, Cuban Border Guard personnel repel an armed speedboat registered in Florida from its territorial waters.  (It seems that protecting borders is OK when Cuba does it.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, Tommy Robinson and other people in the U.K. who could seek asylum in the U.S.

From Snouts in the Trough, getting tired of people claiming that the U.K. is becoming an Islamic country.

From EuroNews, the E.U. asks Ukraine to repair the Druzhba pipeline, while the Adria pipeline through Croatia offers an alternative route for oil.

From Free West Media, Saudi Arabia picks Syria as a new transit country for its data corridor.

From ReMix, a German-Turkish man, convicted of killed someone when he was 17, allegedly beats a gay couple in Augsburg, Germany because they are gay.  (If you read German, read the story at Augsburger Allgemeine.)

From Balkan Insight, supporters of Ukraine against Russia gather to show their solidarity in several Balkan cities such as Belgrade, Serbia and Athens, Greece.

From The New Arab, Egypt denies offering Ethiopia any dam sea access.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirms that a Doctors Without Borders psychotherapist is one of their commanders.

From Arutz Sheva, the three causes of the crisis in the West.

From the Daily Mirror, engineers at the Ceylon Electricity Board plan a "token" six-hour strike in response to the Sri Lankan government's failure to respond to union demands.  ("Ceylon" is a former name of Sri Lanka.)

From Raajje, when in the Maldive Islands, don't transport drugs.

From the Bangkok Post, people in Thailand will be able to see the total lunar eclipse on March 3rd, which coincides with the Buddhist holy day of Makha Bucha Day.

From The Straits Times, an Indonesian man who tried to deposit a fake $10,000 bill into his uncle's bank account gets seven months in jail.

From Gatestone Institute, fusion power should be born in the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, in his State of the Union address, Trump "gives oxygen" to the SAVE America Act.

From The American Conservative, with former President Bashar al-Assad gone, Alawites test the new order in Syria.

From The Western Journal, a camera captures congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) appearing to chant "KKK" instead of "USA".

From BizPac Review, former MSNBC host Joy Reid tries and fails to create a sing-along at the Democrat State of the Union watch party.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned incident between Cuban border guards and a speedboat.

From the New York Post, a look inside the messy love nest where the drug cartel leader known as "El Mencho" spent his last days.

From Breitbart, Trump mentions China in his State of the Union speech only to mock them.

From Newsmax, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) defends Democrats who stayed seated during the State of Union address.

And from SFGate, Olympic skating gold medalist Alysa Liu returns home to Oakland, California.

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, President Trump smacks the Supreme Court ahead of his State of the Union address.

From FrontpageMag, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) frees the worst sex offenders in the U.S.

From Townhall, a CNN contributor shows how the media have absolute contempt for families who have lost loved ones killed by illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a billionaire-funder super PAC does the dirty work for senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX).

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. men's hockey Olympic gold medal has become a political football.

From The Federalist, Republican politicians pretend that the courts will save us.

From American Thinker, why Democrats fight so hard on behalf of illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld nukes the "shut-in bloggers" at the HuffPost for their screed against the aforementioned U.S. men's Olympic hockey team.

From Canada Free Press, the collapse of marriage and childbirth in the U.S. won't recover without one change.

From TeleSUR, 16 former Salvadorian police officers and military personnel are sentenced for the extrajudicial killings of alleged gang members in 2019 and 2020.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a FOI request reveals that children in the U.K. died after receiving a coronavirus vaccination.

From EuroNews, Italy investigates the disappearance of military aircraft parts worth €17 million.

From ReMix, beef from Brazil contaminated with a banned growth hormone arrives in the E.U., thus proving opponents of the trade deal Mercosur right.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo upholds a former intelligence chief's jail sentence for deporting six alleged "Gulenists" to Turkey in 2018.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco produces more steel than it needs.

From The New Arab, Lebanese government workers strike as increases in fuel prices and VAT exceed their pay hikes.

From Khaama Press, according to the World Food Programme, millions of people in Afghanistan face hunger as Ramadan begins.

From Hasht e Subh, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, almost five million people returned to Afghanistan during the past two years.

From AMU, the Afghanistan Cricket Board appoints British coach Richard Pybus as head coach of Afghanistan's national cricket team.

From Dawn, two policemen are killed in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

From The Express Tribune, a court in Islamabad, Pakistan grants bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former First Lady Bushra Bibi.

From Pakistan Today, an international coalition of scholars and human rights advocates speaks out for the aforementioned Imran Khan's health and demands that he has medical access.

From The Hans India, 104 alleged fraudsters are arrested in 16 Indian states.

From the Hindustan Times, how will the name of the Indian state of Kerala be changed?

From ANI, police in Hyderabad, India arrest a driver of a cash delivery vehicle for allegedly stealing some of the cash, which was bound for ATMs.

From India Today, two sisters in Bhopal, India are arrested for allegedly running a sex and religious conversion racket.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a kidnapped schoolboy is rescued due to an intervention by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

From New Age, Bangladesh Railway will start selling intercity train tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr on March 3rd.

From Gatestone Institute, China runs biological weapons labs in the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, the Border Patrol Union blames the Biden administration for a Mexican drug cartel having "military-grade weapons".

From The American Conservative, neocons worry that Trump will not attack Iran.

From The Western Journal, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is filmed praising a group of Muslims glorifying the killing of Christians and Jews.

From BizPac Review, Bastrop County, Texas drops its proposal to rename part of a highway after slain rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.

From the Daily Caller, country singer Charley Crockett cancels the Canadian part of his tour because Canada denies him entry due to a past drug conviction.

From the New York Post, otters at an aquarium in Baltimore enjoy the snow.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, voters in swing states are less likely to vote for any Democratic Senator who voted to shut down the Department of Homeland Security.

From Newsmax, a Serbian security expert calls on U.S. President Trump to intervene in tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

And from the Genesius Times, the aforementioned Gavin Newsom carries out a drive-by shooting in Compton, California to prove that he's "just like them".

Monday Stories

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

From National Review, Mexico kills a drug kingpin, and his cartel sets the state of Jalisco ablaze.

From FrontpageMag, Jews are now allowed to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

From Townhall, a record number of congresscritters are calling it a day, so what's next?

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) seems inconsistent about whether her father helped her financially.

From the Washington Examiner, former U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson is arrested for alleged misconduct related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.  (This is the second such arrest in the U.K., the first being that of former Prince Andrew.  As for Epstein-related arrests on my side of the Pond, I'm still waiting.)

From The Federalist, the State Department intends to revoke the visas of five people who censored Americans.

From American Thinker, Chinese agents establish "police stations" in the U.S. and other Western countries.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW host Ali Velshi faults President Trump for criticizing the Supreme Court, but omits even harsher criticism from the left.

From Canada Free Press, money talks, but "gold shines".

From TeleSUR, the Panamanian government assumes control of the ports at Balboa and Cristobal.

From TCW Defending Freedom, White Flight from London to Scotland to the county of Cumbria, and where to go next?

From Snouts in the Trough, what shall we do to her?

From EuroNews, the E.U. accuses Hungary of being disloyal for vetoing a €90 billion loan to Ukraine.

From Free West Media, the Dutch parliament considers what critics call a "capital destruction tax".

From the Daily Mail, an Afghan man attacks people with a knife at a Jehovah's Witness stand in a railroad station in Würzburg, Germany.

From ReMix, Polish border police arrest a Moldovan migrant who allegedly kept a disabled Russian man as a slave for five years.

From Balkan Insight, Croatian President Zoran Milanović and his government wrangle over selling weapons to Israel.

From The North Africa Post, electronic payments in Libya exceeded 313 billion dinars in 2025.

From The New Arab, the rise domestic violence against women in Iraq results in a call for new laws.

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas's new way to smuggle materials into the Gaza Strip is discovered.

From The Times Of Israel, a mosque near Nablus, West Bank is set on fire, apparently by Israeli settlers.

From The Jerusalem Post, about 20 IDF lone soldiers bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah ceremonies at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.  (The term "lone soldier" is defined in the article.)

From YNetNews, gender gaps reportedly persist in Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, according to Awqaf Ministry Spokesperson Osama Raslan, Egypt's moderate religious discourse enlightens the world.

From Egypt Today, a tour guide is arrested and questioned for allegedly drawing on the wall of the Pyramid of Pharaoh Unas in Giza.

From the Sudan Tribune, 80 cases of dengue fever are reported in Sudan's Northern State.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects Iraq's maritime claims near the Saudi-Kuwaiti divided zone.

From DohaNews, Qatar supports Kuwait against the aforementioned Iraqi maritime claims.

From RadioFreeEurope/Radio Liberty, exiled Iranian Kurdish groups announce a new coalition against the Iranian government.

From IranWire, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian calls protesters "terrorists".

From Iran International, a protester dies after being tortured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

From Gatestone Institute, the biggest beneficiary of the billions of dollars to be invested in the Gaza Strip will be Hamas.

From The Daily Signal, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to "Make America Healthy Again" is moving faster than expected.

From The American Conservative, the recently departed Jesse Jackson was a populist, for good or bad.

From The Western Journal, how even dummies can get their birth certificates.

From BizPac Review, conservatives volunteering for shovel in New York City run into "Jim SNOW 2.0".

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Homeland Security kills a $58 million marketing deal with the Coast Guard for having LGBTQ and DEI ideology.

From the New York Post, CNN host Fareed Zakaria blasts "blue cities" for "out of control" budgets and "spending more" but "delivering less".

From Breitbart, Trump declares "National Angel Family Day" to honor the families who lost loved ones to crime committed by illegal aliens.

From Newsmax, rocket launchers capable of shooting down aircraft are seized in the Mexican operation that killed cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera.

And from The Babylon Bee, the U.S. Olympic hockey team melts down their gold medals to replace all their missing teeth.

Rainday Links

On a cold and rainy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a armed man shows up at Mar-a-Lago and makes his last mistake.

From FrontpageMag, Pope Leo XIV plans to visit the Italian island of Lampedusa, which has become the base for Muslim illegal irregular migration into Europe.

From Townhall, the U.S. Olympic hockey teams of both genders defeat Canada to win gold medals.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about slavery that you won't learn about in school.

From the Washington Examiner, Mexican security forces kill the leader of a powerful drug cartel.

From The Federalist, more on the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team defeating Canada.

From American Thinker, the high housing costs in Canada are a preview of what the Democrats want for the U.S.

From NewsBusters, NPR spends 11 minutes lamenting the removal of transgenders from the military.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some of the British people's favorite potholes.

From the Daily Mail, a kennel owner in Basildon, England starts serving a five-year sentence for animal cruelty and fraud.

From The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli Muay Thai boxer defeats his Turkish opponent.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan's bid to encircle Israel.

From The American Conservative, Chinese belligerence against Taiwan and Japan backfires.

And from SFGate, Saratoga, Californian bans Airbnb, but it might not even work.

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, a man says "farewell" to his Toyota Tundra.

From FrontpageMag, ICE prepares to deport the former mayor of North Miami, Florida due to immigration fraud.

From Townhall, Canadians are now even poorer than people in Alabama.

From The Washington Free Beacon, there's more at stake at the Winter Olympics than just medals.

From the Washington Examiner, Alaska welcomes the Trump administration's decision to open 2.1 million acres of its land to the development of oil, gas and minerals.

From American Thinker, the worst U.S. president whom you need to know about.

From NewsBusters, The Atlantic claims that President Trump hates facts, and then puts out some fiction about a child catching the measles.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is the Chief Twit the greatest businessman ever?

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Keir "Surrender Monkey" Starmer's "Great British Giveaway".

From RAIR Foundation USA, the dark truth behind the "largest dawah event" that shut down Times Square in New York City.

From The Times Of Israel, Jewish leaders in the U.K. condemn the vandalism of a London bakery which was accused of "funding Israel".

From Gatestone Institute, a deal with Iran would be a dangerous lifeline to its regime.

From The American Conservative, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is South Carolina last.

And from ESPN, Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski, known for the walk-off home run that won the 1960 World Series, goes to the baseball stadium in the sky.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, President Trump has always been wrong about the national trade deficit.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) husband is under investigation.

From Townhall, congresscritter Becca Balint (D-VT) admits that illegal aliens are voting in U.S. elections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a look at the style guide for Al Jazeera reporters, which forbid them to refer to terrorists as "terrorists".

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court strikes down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.

From The Federalist, Olympic skier Eileen Gu is an indictment of U.S. birthright citizenship and its immigration orthodoxy.

From American Thinker, Democrats make absurd arguments against the SAVE Act.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW contributors claim that it's ironic for MAGA to celebrate Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu's gold medal.  (What they fail to understand, in my opinion, is that MAGA is not against immigrants, such as Liu's father, but against illegal aliens.)

From Canada Free Press, revealing the FBI's playbook for January 6th.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan military endorses a new amnesty law.

From TCW Defending Freedom, turning the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius will be another millstone around U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's neck.

From EuroNews, Hungary blocks a €90 billion loan for Ukraine over damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline.

From Free West Media, violence is the last chance of the French left.

From ReMix, a German woman is found beheaded near Florence, Italy, and a North African migrant is arrested in connection to the murder.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Sky TG24.  If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Balkan Insight, Balkan leaders praise U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government's response to recent floods has been a successful test of sovereignty and crisis management.

From Morocco World News, a motorcyclist allegedly rams a police inspector in the Rahma district of Rabat, Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Türkiye is ready to contribute to Gaza "in every way possible".

From Turkish Minute, according to Türkiye's main pro-Kurdish party, Turkish authorities have detained 99 minors over protests against the Syrian government's operation against Kurdish-led forces in Syria.

From Rûdaw, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, over half of the 5,700 ISIS fighters held in Iraq are Syrian nationals.

From ArmenPress, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan stresses the rule of law, decency, and respectful debate ahead of Armenia's elections scheduled for June 7th.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian official Gevorg Mantashyan meets with world technology leaders in New Delhi, India.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approves a ban on asbestos circulation.

From AzerNews, Azerbaijan plans to use AI to predict court outcomes and simplify judicial procedures.  (You could say that they've welcomed their new robot overlords.)

From The Syrian Observer, the U.S. starts pulling its troops out of Syria.

From North Press Agency, ISIS claims responsibility for an attack that killed a Syrian government soldier and wounded another in the region of Deir ez-Zor.

From In-Cyprus, in Cyprus, octopus and lagana flatbread are gonna cost ya a bit more, pilgrim.

From The New Arab, a proposed second airport in northern Lebanon raises both hope and questions.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a study, the media gave 100 times as much attention to IDF fighting in Rafah, Gaza Strip than they did to protests in Iran.

From Gatestone Institute, Trump is allowing China to take over U.S. technology by allowing American data centers to buy Chinese equipment.

From The Daily Signal, conservative legislatures intend to protect truckers from "unqualified" illegal alien drivers.

From The American Conservative, going to war with Iran will only help China.

From The Western Journal, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh issues a dissenting opinion to the aforementioned decision on Trump's tariffs, which might give him a workaround.

From BizPac Review, a plastic surgeon comes clean about transgender surgeries for minors.

From the Daily Caller, according to Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), the border should be secured but ICE should be defunded.

From the New York Post, NASA sets a new date for the launch of Artemis II.

From Breitbart, a man steals an ambulance in Meridian, Idaho, crashes is into an ICE facility, and tries to set it on fire.

From Newsmax, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) defends Trump's tariffs.

And from the Genesius Times, the Supreme Court rules that the U.S. government can only tax Americans to death, not people in other countries.

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) utopian vision runs into reality.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump is deporting the voters whom the Democrats need.

From Townhall, an illegal alien truck driver causes a fatal crash in Hendricks County, Indiana.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approves Trump's White House ballroom.

From The Federalist, the E.U. Parliament officially adopts transgender ideology.

From American Thinker, dogs, beer and bacon can stay, but Islamists don't have to.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Abby Phillip performs a post-Munich cleanup for congresscritter AOC (D-NY).

From Canada Free Press, Californians run away from Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and head for Las Vegas.

From TeleSUR, Argentina is paralyzed by a general strike called by unions protesting labor reforms pushed by President Javier Milei.

From TCW Defending Freedom, left-wingers in the Church of England play the race card over slavery reparations.

From EuroNews, the European Commission convenes an emergency meeting of the Oil Coordination Group after Hungary and Slovakia stop the supply of diesel fuel to Ukraine.

From Free West Media, the security conference in Munich, Germany shows Europe's path to independence.

From ReMix, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reportedly wants to end anonymity on the interwebz for people who criticize the government.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian official Gergely Gulyás, the Hungarian government has released the country's crude oil reserves.

From Balkan Insight, digital repression is rife in southeastern Europe.

From the Sarajevo Times, six days of protest in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina over a fatal tram accident conclude, but a new gathering is scheduled for February 21st.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian tourism is presented at a fair in Munich, Germany.  (Have I picked on Munich enough for one post?)

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia passes legislation to finance rare disease treatments currently available only abroad.

From The Malta Independent, over 150 artists call for the Maltese government to withdraw the country from Eurovision 2026.

From Malta Today, CCTV operators in Bormla, Malta tawt dey taw a putty tat.

From ANSA, according to the NGO Sea-Watch International, a court in the Italian region of Catania has ordered the release of its migrant rescue ship Sea Watch 5.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss AI system "listens" to mountains in order to detect avalanches.

From France24, a French prosecutor seeks homicide charges in the beating death of "far-right" activist Quentin Deranque in the city of Lyon.

From RFI, speaking at a summit in New Delhi, India, French President Emmanuel Macron calls Europe a "safe space" for AI.

From El País, a Spanish police inspector whose accusation of rape led to the resignation of the accused is "devastated" after her identity is revealed on social media.

From The Portugal News, Portugal will attend meetings of U.S. President Trump's Peace Council on Gaza.  (Most outlets refer to the Peace Council as the "Board of Peace".)

From The North Africa Post, a Confederation of Africa Football official denounces the "great injustice" against the Moroccan team in last month's Africa Cup of Nations final.

From The New Arab, Syrian Civil Defense teams rescue a 4-year-old boy who fell into a well near the city of Tabqa.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority claims that Israel opened graves and cut off the fingers of dead landowners to use fingerprints instead of signatures in order to steal land.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, barbers in Afghanistan are under pressure if they trim men's beards too short.

From the Daily Mail, a British couple are sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for "spying".

From NDTV, the Taliban legalizes domestic violence if there are no "broken bones".

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas should be listened to - in Arabic.

From The Daily Signal, the Supreme Court could soon release opinions on some big issues.

From The American Conservative, the recently departed Jesse Jackson was a "complicated man".

From The Western Journal, a 70-year-old black woman whose grandson was killed in Washington, D.C. defends Trump from racism accusations made by the media and Democrats.

From BizPac Review, an ad put out by ICE reaches 20 million views.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats keeps their mouths closed about campaign cashed donated by congresscritter Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), currently indicted for allegedly stealing FEMA money and other charges.

From the New York Post, the Slovakian team has been the surprise of the Olympic hockey tournament, and could be a problem for the U.S. team.

From Breitbart, Riverside County Sheriff and gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco (R-Cal) promises to support a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens if he is elected.

From Newsmax, nine members of Trump's Board of Peace pledge a total of $7 billion for relief in Gaza, and five countries pledge to deploy troops.

And from The Guardian, let's all wish the U.K.'s former Prince Andrew a happy birthday.

Stories For Ash Wednesday

On a cloudy and cool Wednesday, on which some people might be walking around with ashes on their foreheads, here are some things going on:

From National Review, TV host Stephen Colbert and senatorial candidate James Tagarico (D-TX) are lying to you.

From FrontpageMag, a left-wing outrage mob comes after congresscritter Randy Fine (R-FL) because he loves dogs.

From Townhall, you won't believe what the Iranian government did to people mourning at a memorial for a 16-year-old girl, whom it killed while she was protesting.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor's 2028 presidential hopes are drowning in a river of bull[bleep].

From the Washington Examiner, a dozen Democratic Senators and congresscritters will boycott President Trump's upcoming State of the Union address and hold a counter rally on the National Mall.

From The Federalist, red states struggle to deliver on their promises to teach pro-American history in their public schools.

From American Thinker, the four horsemen of the Western left-wing apocalypse.

From NewsBusters, Americans agree with fact-checking the news and questioning the media.

From Canada Free Press, actor/director/producer Spike Lee embarrasses himself and the NBA by dressing up as a Palestinian flag.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Cuban leaders mourn the death of U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is it time to change the U.K.'s national anthem?

From Snouts in the Trough, how many doctors in the U.K. from outside the U.K. are actually qualified?

From EuroNews, France leads a backlash against European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica, of Croatia, attending the first meeting of U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace.

From Free West Media, has Trump lost control to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu?

From ReMix, Germany's industrial sector lost 124,000 jobs in 2025.

From Russia Today, the E.U. urges Ukraine to repair the Druzhba oil pipeline, through which Russian oil is sent to Hungary and Slovakia.

From Sputnik International, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, talks about Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland were difficult.

From The Moscow Times, two teenagers are sentenced to prison by a military court in Siberia for setting a military helicopter on fire.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian men's bobsled team registers their country's best results at the Winter Olympics in 34 years.

From Novinite, who's in Bulgaria's new caretaker cabinet.

From The Sofia Globe, more on Bulgaria's caretaker cabinet.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian research vessel Sts. Cyril and Methodius sails northward from Antarctica.

From the Greek Reporter, a former German soldier helps to restore the Agios Dionysios Monastery on Mount Olympus in Greece, which had been destroyed by Nazi German troops during World War II.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's Culture Ministry declares a photographic archive showing the executions of 200 communists during World War II a protected monument.

From Balkan Insight, the French family of a Croatian independence war fighter who died in 1991 in the city of Vukovar urges Serbia to extradite the man whom they believe killed him.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco uses desalinization to combat water shortages.

From The New Arab, some Sunni Muslim countries decide not to follow Saudi Arabia as to when the month of Ramadan begins.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calls the late Jeffrey Epstein's island the outcome of "Western civilization and liberal democracy".

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas supporters target café in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem run by a black Ethiopian Jew.

From Gatestone Institute, right-wingers turn against the Jews.

From The Daily Signal, the shooting at a hockey rink in Rhode Island shows that the FBI should investigate transgender-motivated violence.

From The American Conservative, as shown by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech in Munich, Germany, the Trump administration takes Western civilization seriously.

From The Western Journal, co-host Whoopi Goldberg of The View rushes to explain her appearance in the Epstein files seeking to use his private jet.

From BizPac Review, video shows an avalanche overtaking off-trail skiers in the Italian Alps.

From the Daily Caller, a coalition of right-wing groups wants Trump to step up his deportations of illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, according to his daughter, the Rhode Island hockey rink shooter had "demons" and alienated his family well before becoming trans.

From Breitbart, demand for core capital goods rises for the sixth straight month, reaching a new all-time high.

From Newsmax, billionaire Les Wexner claims to have been "duped" by the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.

And from NPR, a Czechoslovakian wolfdog joins an Olympic cross-country ski race in Lago di Tesero, Italy.  (via the New York Post)