Saturday Links For The End Of January

As the sunny but very cold weather continues on a Saturday falling on the last day of January, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a detransitioner is awarded $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit, the first successful suit brought by a detransitioner.

From FrontpageMag, former CNN host Don Lemon and the abundance of "independent journalists".

From Townhall, a judge refuses to stop immigration officials from deporting illegal aliens in Minnesota.

From The Washington Free Beacon, NPR interviews the son of a former Iranian foreign minister who served under then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, while omitting that detail.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump endorses Texas state senatorial candidate Leigh Wamsganss (R), who is currently the COO of Patriot Mobile.

From The Federalist, the 10 greatest quotes from Justice Samuel Alito to mark his 20 years on the Supreme Court.

From American Thinker, what to the residents of New York City get for the high taxes that they pay?

From NewsBusters, as snowstorms and cold weather blow in, the media don't say much about global warming.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to U.K. and U.S. security chiefs, handing the Chagos Islands, which include a U.S. military base, over to Mauritius would be a "historic mistake".

From Gatestone Institute, a call for U.S. President Trump to not leave Iran's regime in place.

From The American Conservative, attacking Iran could result in a "Shiite jihad".

And from TMZ, actor Demond Wilson Jr., of Sanford and Son and The New Odd Couple, goes to the soundstage in the sky.  (via The Hollywood Reporter)

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the government can do better than President Trump's eponymous Trump Accounts.

From FrontpageMag, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raises money for the rioters in Minneapolis.

From Townhall, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasts Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) when she asks if Trump will follow the Geneva Convention when dealing with drug traffickers.

From The Washington Free Beacon, emails show that the late Jeffrey Epstein showered former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler with gifts.

From the Washington Examiner, the Department of Justice plans to release 3.5 million pages of material related to Epstein, including about 2,000 videos.

From The Federalist, the truth about what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is even scarier than the conspiracy theories.

From American Thinker, former CNN host Don Lemon has finally been arrested for allegedly disrupting a church service in Minneapolis, but it's not yet time to count chickens.

From Newsmax, MS NOW compares the U.S. to Russia, China and Turkey after Lemon's arrest.

From Canada Free Press, still more on Lemon's arrest.

From TeleSUR, Colombia resumes taking deportation flights from the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's 20-year war on the U.K.'s military veterans.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.S. President Trump's "diplomatic genius".

From EuroNews, Denmark plans to deport non-Danish citizens who commit crimes resulting in a year or more in prison.

From Free West Media, the U.K. bans Dutch right-wing commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek from entering.

From ReMix, Polish President Karol Nawrocki pushes for nuclear energy instead of liquefied natural gas to replace coal.  (If you read Polish, read the story at the Polish version of Business Insider.)

From Balkan Insight, a former Montenegrin presidential adviser allegedly threatens a government lawyer with the release sexually explicit material.

From The North Africa Post, the British mining company Aterial plc finds copper and silver in Morocco.

From The New Arab, the Syrian Democrats Forces agrees to integrate into the Syrian army.

From Gatestone Institute, is the West committing suicidal empathy?

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla) could be expelled if congresscritter Greg Steube (R-Fla) has his way.

From The American Conservative, will Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) run as an anti-Trumper in 2028?

From The Western Journal, the pastor of the church whose service was allegedly disrupted by the aforementioned Don Lemon speaks out.

From BizPac Review, the Los Angeles Metro reroutes buses having ads for First Lady Melania Trump's movie Melania in order to deter left-wing vandals.

From the Daily Caller, according to Malaysian Minister for Religious Affairs Zulkifli Hasan, working too hard can turn people gay.

From the New York Post, emails show that the Chief Twit was scheduled to visit the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein's island, but whether he actually visited the place is unconfirmed.

From Breitbart, according to Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, if the right shows up to the aforementioned movie Melania, it will be "a massive middle finger to the Hollywood left".

From Newsmax, a federal judge refuses to order pretrial release for the man who allegedly placed pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic party headquarters on January 5th, 2021.

And from KSAT, Bexar County, Texas Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez is indicted for allegedly handcuffing a defense attorney in her courtroom.  (She should not be confused with "the fastest mouse in all Mexico".)

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner pledges to hunt down the "wannabe Nazis" of ICE after President Trump leaves office.

From FrontpageMag, Trump betrays the Kurds in Syria.

From Townhall, Minnesota agrees to a major concession to the Trump administration on the enforcement of immigration law.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Kennedy Center was an object of politics long before Trump got involved.

From the Washington Examiner, how demands by Democrats for judicial warrants instead of administrative warrants could decimate the deportation agenda.

From The Federalist, without deportations, the border cannot be secured.

From American Thinker, a truth inconvenient to the left about agitator Alex Pretti's gun.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace displays an AI-edited photo of Alex Pretti.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian provincial premiers are working to take down the U.S.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan oil workers march in defense of their industry.

From TCW Defending Freedom, under new Archbishop Sarah Mullally, the Church of England will welcome all minorities, except for traditional Anglicans.

From EuroNews, according to E.U. High Representative Kaja Kallas, Russian President Putin should make some concession before talking with European leaders.

From ReMix, Muslim leaders in Padua, Italy demand the removal of a plastic pig from deli shop's window.  (If you read Italian, read the story at il Giornale.)

From Balkan Insight, what would Russia do if Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić lost power?

From The North Africa Post, Renault Group Morocco confirmed its leadership in the automotive sector in 2025.

From The New Arab, what now for the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria?

From The Jerusalem Post, a year after being arrested by the Taliban, an American citizen in still held in Kabul, Afghanistan without so far being charged.

From the Daily Mail, a woman collapses from being caned 140 times in the Indonesian province of Aceh for sex outside of marriage and drinking alcohol.  (What is this "ban on cruel and unusual punishment" speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump should stop Saudi Arabia's campaign against Jews and the Abraham Accords.

From The Daily Signal, parents are back in charge of their children, and the voters approve.

From The American Conservative, who's next for some regime change?

From The Western Journal, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) uses the aforementioned edited picture of Alex Pretti on the Senate floor, having previously pushed for anti-deep fake legislation.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld gives Democrat commentator Jessica Tarlov a piece of his mind over her allegedly selective outrage.

From the Daily Caller, states rush to get their lights back on as another winter storm looms ahead.

From the New York Post, former NFL player Tyrann Mathieu using bleach in an attempt to pass a drug test during his college days at LSU, which did not go well.

From Breitbart, left-wing haters try to tank First Lady Melania Trump's movie Melania.

From Newsmax, the man who allegedly sprayed congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) with apple cider vinegar is charged with several offenses related to the incident.

And from Kidspot, quack!  (via the New York Post)

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, today is the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

From FrontpageMag, it took the U.S. 25 years to deport a pedophile illegal alien from Somalia.

From Townhall, the FBI executes a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia reportedly related to the 2020 election.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Palestinian Authority promised to end its "pay-to-slay" payments to terrorists, but still gave them over $200 million during 2025.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, "no one knows" who would govern Iran if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei were removed.

From The Federalist, why Democrats want to keep illegal aliens in the U.S.

From American Thinker, left-wingers love institutions and hate people.

From NewsBusters, The Daily Show doubles down on comparing the Border Patrol to Nazis.

From Canada Free Press, largely under Western management, Ukraine is a sacrifice.

From TeleSUR, according to a poll, right-wing candidate Laura Fernandez, of the governing Pueblo Soberano Party, is leading Costa Rica's presidential race.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will unleash two-tiered terror with her plan to police AI.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s Labour-led government claims to be "putting more money into people's pockets".

From EuroNews, according to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Croatia will not join U.S. President Trump's "Board of Peace".

From ReMix, Poland unnerves Germany by expanding its businesses on the Baltic Sea coast.  (Due to my Polish heritage, I'm obviously biased toward Poland.  If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, former Montenegrin Supreme Court president Vesna Medenica is convicted of corruption.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI chairs a meeting about the new port and industrial complex at Nador West End.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issues a decree that would effectively bar Hamas from participating in municipal elections.

From The Jerusalem Post, a rabbi is attacked in the New York City borough of Queens.

From The Times Of Israel, a memo written before the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023 calls Gazans killed by misfired rockets a "price of war".

From Sky News, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison responds to a demand from the Australian National Imams Council to end terms like "radical Islam".  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Jewish News Syndicate, Europeans make an obscene comparison of the war in Gaza to the Holocaust.

From Gatestone Institute, China is embedded in Canada's Arctic region.

From The Stream, according to the aforementioned Marco Rubio, the Venezuelan government is helping the U.S. to identify drug-trafficking boats.

From The American Conservative, Trump's ability to adapt is a good thing.

From The Western Journal, as chants calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be hanged ring out, some protesters realize whom they're in bed with.

From BizPac Review, a simulation shared by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the minutes leading up to the fatal collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter.

From the Daily Caller, the Church of England appoints Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.

From the New York Post, Amtrak plans to restore its service between New York City and Albany, New York.

From Breitbart, the BBC apologizes for ignoring the Jewish victims in its coverage of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

From Newsmax, Stephen Colbert announces the end of his hosting CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

And from SFGate, visitors at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park run for cover as Kilauea erupts.

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, President Trump is not the only one changing course in Minneapolis.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) sudden increase in wealth is now being investigated.

From Townhall, anti-ICE agitators are doing the opposite of what the Democrats hoped that they would do.

From The Washington Free Beacon, three Illinois Democrat senatorial candidates decline to support Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

From the Washington Examiner, Trump shifts his tactics and optics hoping to calm the situation in Minnesota.

From The Federalist, Trump should talk with the parents of people killed by illegal aliens before withdrawing ICE from Minneapolis.

From American Thinker, former President Obama makes a dangerous return to the megaphone.

From NewsBusters, CBS host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central host Jon Stewart bring back the smear of liking ICE to the Gestapo.

From Canada Free Press, the climate cult is dissolving under the weight of reality.

From TeleSUR, former Panamanian Vice President Jose Gabriel Carrizo is arrested for alleged unlawful enrichment.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the people of the U.K. are paying billions of pounds for the invasion of their country.

From EuroNews, at least three people are killed and 23 others wounded in a Russian strike on Odesa, Ukraine.

From Free West Media, the Mercosur trade agreement between the E.U. and six South American countries is signed in Asunción, Paraguay.

From ReMix, Ukrainian authorities ask Interpol to issue arrest warrants for Ukrainian-Israeli businessman Timur Mindics and his associate Alexander Zuckerman for suspected fraud worth €100 million.  (If the charge is true, all those alleged Somali fraudsters in Minnesota are pikers compared to these guys.  If you read Ukrainian, read the story at Strana.)

From Balkan Insight, Romania considers lowering its age of criminal responsibility after two teenagers kill a child.

From The North Africa Post, the Chinese company Jiangsu Aishelun Medical Technology Group invests €20 million in a factory for producing medical devices in Morocco.

From The New Arab, will the Syrian government's capture of land from the Syrian Democratic Forces result in a resurgence of ISIS?

From BirminghamLive, a judge in Birmingham, England calls letters defending a drunk driver who killed another motorist "nauseating".

From MustShareNews, an imam in Melaka, Malaysia resigns after a secretary for his mosque is caught watching adult material at work.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a festival in Berlin celebrating Palestinian culture is canceled after the Israeli Embassy raises concerns that its organizers displayed a Hamas-like symbol.

From Arutz Sheva, a Muslim Brotherhood official flees Egypt after allegedly sexually harassing and blackmailing wives and daughters of other Muslim Brotherhood officials.

From the Daily Mail, U.K. terror police reveal that they have stopped 19 "late stage" attack plots in five years.  (The last fives stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. refuses to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

From The Daily Signal, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the international policy consensus on coronavirus vaccines.

From The American Conservative, the MAGA movement needs less moralism on immigration.

From The Western Journal, MSNBC is caught photoshopping the face of the late anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti.

From BizPac Review, a woman is arrested after a toddler falls out of her SUV.

From the Daily Caller, according to former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem can't come back from her response to the killing of the aforementioned Alex Pretti.

From the New York Post, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 10 people have been found dead in New York City since the start of last weekend's snowstorm.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Chuck Schumer rages against the aforementioned Kristi Noem.

From Newsmax, First Lady Melania Trump calls for unity.

And from the Genesius Times, how many activists need to die from back-alley deportations just because local officials want to ban the procedure?

Monday Mania

On a sunny but cold Monday, as many of us dig out from yesterday's snowstorm, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Minnesota is reeling.

From FrontpageMag, how could so many people have been wrong for so long about food?

From Townhall, horrifying details come out about the church invasion in St. Paul, Minnesota.  (Fun fact: St. Paul is the only U.S. state capital named after a Jew.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, solar companies rush to hide their connections to China as President Trump prepares rules that bar Chinese companies from receiving American taxpayer money.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump sends Border Czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis.

From The Federalist, a former 911 dispatched shares horror stories about mail-order abortions.

From American Thinker, three times when then-Special Counsel Jack Smit lost.

From NewsBusters, NPR host Scott Simon compares Trump's America to the Soviet satellite countries of the 1970s.  (Wait a minute.  Isn't Trump a fascist, not a communist?)

From Canada Free Press, in opposing Trump, the globalists reveal themselves.

From TeleSUR, the Association of Caribbean States plans to address the lack of funding for Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, research jobs are available in the U.K. - except for the native white British.

From Snouts in the Trough, have the people who run California ever heard of the "Laffer curve"?

From EuroNews, U.K. parliamentcritter Suella Braverman defects from the Conservative Party to Reform UK.

From ReMix, too many people trying to join Berlin's police department fail basic German language tests.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, truckers in four Balkan countries block border crossings to protest new E.U. rules limiting their travel in the Schengen zone.

From The North Africa Post, Libya signs a deal with the French firm TotalEnergies and the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips to increase it oil production.

From The New Arab, the Akhdam community in Yemen face poverty, marginalization, and denial of aid.

From the Daily Mail, how an idealistic project to house refugees and students together in East Amsterdam, Netherlands devolved into sexual assaults and violence.

From The Jerusalem Post, Pakistan's Generation Z faces inflation, unemployment, and censorship.

From AMU, the Taliban publicly flog 36 in the Afghan province of Khost.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the Australian government cancels the visa of a British-Israeli activist critical of Islam.

From The Sun, the U.K. is allegedly bringing ISIS brides back home.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas views U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace as "Gaza's Colonization Council".

From The Daily Signal, New York Attorney General Letitia James fires an assistant attorney general apparently for warning against gender transitions for children.

From The American Conservative, Shakespeare gets short shrift.

From The Western Journal, according to an opinion column, if you carry a gun, you should also carry some common sense.

From BizPac Review, soap opera actress Nancy Lee Grahn refuses to even look at Trump-supporting singer Carrie Underwood.

From the Daily Caller, local and state police allow lawless rioters to take over several block in Minneapolis.

From the New York Post, according to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the return of democracy in Venezuela could be Trump's "Berlin Wall" moment.

From Breitbart, in 2024, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) argued that no one has a right to carry a gun at "political rallies and protests".

From Newsmax, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, the funders of the protests in Minnesota have been identified.

And from The Babylon Bee, WNBA players vow to continue missing layups until ICE gets out of Minnesota.

Snowday Links

The anticipated winter storm is now upon yours truly's part of the world.  On a cold and snowy Sunday, here are some things (brrrr) going on:

From FrontpageMag, as New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) turns town federal aid to protest ICE, three people in New York City freeze to death.

From Townhall, three cousins in my part of the world are charged with tax fraud and conspiracy to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about how DEI and identity politics are infecting the American healthcare industry.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino, the agents who took down activist Alex Pretti did a "good job".

From American Thinker, how the Democratic Party really isn't.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post puts the anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis on page 1 but says nothing about the March for Life.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Online Safety Act has become the West's worst system of mass censorship.

From the Daily Mail, Sudan's child soldiers head to certain death.

From The Jerusalem Post, police officers at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport arrest a Lebanese man accused of supplying weapons and ammunition for a Hamas-linked terror plot.

From Arutz Sheva, the death toll in Iran's crackdown on protests reportedly exceeds 36,000.

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

From The Daily Signal, "why young Americans march for life".

From The Western Journal, President Trump's desire to have Somali-American criminals denaturalized is easier said than done.

From the New York Post, preparing for wintry weather, New Yorkers stock up on bread, milk, eggs - and weed.

From Breitbart, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara puts feelings over facts.  (Could this guy be related to another Chief O'Hara?)

And from Newsmax, American rock climber Alex Honnold climbs the Taipei 101 tower with neither ropes nor protective equipment.  (This shows the thin line between "badass" and "Darwin Award qualifier".)

Saturday Stuff

On a sunny but very cold Saturday, as a winter storm closes in, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, an armed man in Minneapolis messes with the Border Patrol, thus making his last mistake.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a support group for congresscritter and senatorial candidate Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) questions her strategy.

From the Washington Examiner, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem urges Americans to stay "alert" during the aforementioned winter storm.

From American Thinker, Somali immigrants in the U.S. are driven by their culture.

From NewsBusters, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) looks like the media's preferred presidential candidate for 2028.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the data about migrant crime in the U.K. that no one is allowed to see.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a U.N. official from the Netherlands who financed the murder of a teenage girl is picked for a seat on the Gaza Executive Board.

From the Pakistan Christian Post, the son of a Christian widow in Pakistan is forced to work for local landlords and tortured when he refuses to do so.

From the Borneo Post, a man in Marudi, Sarawak, Malaysia is arrested for alleged Islamophobic posts on social media.

From The New Region, according to the U.N., the humanitarian situation in Kobane, Syria is getting worse.

From Gatestone Institute, the beginning of the end for the Iranian mullahs.

From The American Conservative, the right way and the wrong way for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.

And from the New York Post, the rule that could help you survive and thrive during the upcoming winter storm.

Friday Fuss

On a sunny but cold Friday, ahead of a winter storm warning, here are some things going on:

From National Review, despite what the left says, "an unplanned pregnancy is never the end of the story".

From FrontpageMag, an insurrection on behalf of illegal alien pedophiles.

From Townhall, according to Vice President Vance, fraud in California is far worse than that in Minnesota.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the fact-checker of The New York Times needs to be fact-checked.

From the Washington Examiner, March for Life participants see Vance as the future of their movement in the Republican Party.

From The Federalist, how the media are lying about ICE and a "five-year-old boy".

From American Thinker, there is a way to go forward on Iran.

From NewsBusters, The New York Times swears that President Trump will bring about economic disaster, but it still hasn't come.

From Canada Free Press, Canada's impending downfall will be the fault of its Prime Minister Mark Carney, and not of U.S. President Trump.

From TeleSUR, Brazilians mark the 42nd anniversary of the social organization Landless Rural Workers Movement.

From TCW Defending Freedom, will the lies about the coronavirus ever stop?

From Snouts in the Trough, can we trust any of those click-desperate "journalists"?

From EuroNews, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz push for an autonomous and competitive Europe.

From ReMix, six people are injured in a knife attack in Antwerp, Belgium during a demonstration made in support of Kurds.  (If you read Flemish, read the story at De Standaard and Gazet van Antwerpen.  If you read French, read the story at RTL.)

From Balkan Insight, police detain 109 people Prizren, Kosovo for alleged vote-tampering.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan economy is projected to grow by five percent this year.

From The New Arab, what we know so far about the planned reopening of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

From the Daily Mail, more on the aforementioned knife attack in Antwerp.

From Gatestone Institute, "shooting over Greenland" versus the E.U.'s strategic myopia.

From The Daily Signal, the magistrate judge who refused to issue an arrest warrant for left-wing activist Don Lemon is married to a staffer for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D).

From The American Conservative, against killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and balkanizing Iran.

From The Western Journal, a woman sitting behind former Special Counsel Jack Smith during his testimony to a House committee appears pained as he answers questions.

From BizPac Review, left-wing agitators tell a right-wing woman to "drop" her child.

From the Daily Caller, Missouri authorities move to shut down a trailer park bordering Whiteman Air Force Base and linked to a convicted fraudster with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

From the New York Post, doctors warn about snow boots.

From Breitbart, an interview with the producer of Melania, a film about First Lady Melania Trump.

From Newsmax, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and currently alleged drug trafficker Ryan Wedding is arrested in Mexico.

And from The Beaverton, the aforementioned Prime Minister Carney is invited to join Trump's "Board of Peace", along with Russian President Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Lex Luthor and Megatron.

Thursday Tidbits

On a cool and sunny Thursday, certainly milder than recent days, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Ambassador to Japan/Chicago Mayor/White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (D) wants top government officials to retire at age 75.  (I generally agree with this, but I'm pretty sure that anyone already over 75 years old would be grandfathered if this were enacted.)

From FrontpageMag, in the poll of desirable immigrants, Somalis come in last.

From Townhall, no one can fully explain why the U.S. murder rate plummeted in 2025.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump goes to Davos, Switzerland and brings his predecessor Andrew Jackson with him.

From the Washington Examiner, France seizes a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea.

From The Federalist, the new Virginia government treats criminals its constituents and vice versa.

From American Thinker, what should we make of all these anti-ICE thugs protesters?

From NewsBusters, a left-wing CNN pundit falsely accuses Trump of being part of a "human sex-trafficking network" and is forced to retract the accusation.

From Canada Free Press, climatologist Judith Curry refuses "to bow to the orthodoxy".  (If we're not allowed to question something, it's not science but doctrine.  Thus, the term "orthodoxy" is quite appropriate.)

From TeleSUR, Mexico sends 145 firefighters to combat wildfires in Chile.

From TCW Defending Freedom, will the U.S. offer asylum to the U.K.'s Jews?

From EuroNews, speaking in the aforementioned Davos, Switzerland, the Chief Twit predicts that robots will outnumber people.

From ReMix, an Arab man receives a five-year sentence for rape by a court in Gothenburg, Sweden, while his accomplice faces a psychiatric examination.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Riks.)

From Balkan Insight, ethnic Albanians in Serbia and the U.S. welcome a U.S. congressional bill to assess discrimination in Serbia.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Senegal confirm their plan to hold a session of the High Joint Partnership Commission later this month.

From The New Arab, Israel calls off plans to destroy a soccer pitch in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank.

From Gatestone Institute, who advises Qatar and Turkey, who will represent Hamas on U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace?

From The Daily Signal, alleged ringleaders of the church invasion in Minneapolis are arrested.

From The American Conservative, Democratic governors such as Tim Walz (Min) have no right to ignore federal immigration law.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned arrests of the alleged church invaders.

From BizPac Review, the Department of Homeland Security demolishes congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) accusation that ICE "detained" a five-year-old child.

From the Daily Caller, according to German Chancellor Freidrich Merz, Europe "wasted incredible potential" with bureaucracy and overregulation.

From Breitbart, the U.S. economy expanded by a 4.4 percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2025.

From Newsmax, Trump thinks that "another Democrat shutdown" is on the way.

And from the New York Post, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Larchmont is plagued by used contraceptives.  (Reader discretion is suggested.)

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump presses the case for U.S. control of Greenland, but rules out the use of force.

From FrontpageMag, mothers against ICE are imploding.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column "ICE doesn't need permission" from state governments to do its job.

From The Washington Free Beacon, new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) has a 48-hour honeymoon.

From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Vance is heading to Minneapolis.

From The Federalist, Minnesota Democrats are practicing nullification over illegal immigration.

From American Thinker, take a look at who gets to lecture about health in Wales, U.K.

From NewsBusters, CBS spends only 13 seconds on covering the anti-ICE mob storming a church

From Canada Free Press, Trump might have to invoke the Insurrection Act.

From TeleSUR, Cuba intends to remake itself as a tourist destination.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Big Brother is watching your carbon dioxide emissions.

From EuroNews, who has said what at the aforementioned WEF summit.

From Free West Media, climate hysteria and AI lead to an energy trap.

From ReMix, according to a study on the Netherlands, migrants are overrepresented among suspects of violence against medical care providers.

From Balkan Insight, according to an assessment, the Balkans are losing their pristine rivers.

From The North Africa Post, Libya appeals to Italy and the E.U. for support in managing illegal irregular migration.

From The New Arab, an arrest warrant is issued for a Lebanese plumber who allegedly posed as a Saudi prince.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a tax official in Berlin, Germany is allegedly involved in tax refund fraud.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From BBC News, leaked photos show the faces of hundreds of protesters killed by the Iranian government's brutal crackdown.

From Gatestone Institute, if U.S. President Trump betrays Iranian protesters, Russia and China will celebrate.

From The Daily Signal, anti-ICE groups have gone silent on the aforementioned mob storming a church.

From The American Conservative, the endangered Christians that the U.S. should stop ignoring.

From The Western Journal, former sports reporter and commentator Michele Tafoya announces that she is running for Senator as a Republican from Minnesota.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Glenn Beck calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to be replaced.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) backtracks after he appears to oppose federal voter ID laws in a leaked letter.

From the New York Post, the House Oversight Committee votes to find Mr. Bill and Ms. Hill in contempt of Congress.

From Breitbart, speaking at the twice-aforementioned WEF summit, NATO chief Mark Rutte credits Trump with forcing European governments to increase their defense spending.

From Newsmax, according to a CBS poll, Trump's approval has hit a three-month high among Republican voters.

And from the Genesius Times, cold weather closes schools, which gives kids the chance to go sledding.  (I'm pretty sure that this also happened when I was a Littlefoot.)

Tuesday Things

On the sunny and cold weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump takes on the world.

From FrontpageMag, New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) criminalizes a Jewish group for speaking against Islamic terrorism.

From Townhall, dairy farmers in Pennsylvania celebrate the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Minnesota state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) defends the left-wing activists who disrupted a church service.

From the Washington Examiner, my most recent former governor declines to challenge the current one.

From The Federalist, Christians, including pastors, are allowed to work for ICE as they enforce immigration laws.

From American Thinker, civil rights belong to all Americans, not just to blacks and leftists.

From NewsBusters, actress Pam Grier claims to have seen lynched bodies hanging from trees in Ohio, but the last lynching in the state was in 1911.

From Canada Free Press, equal protection should be based on biological reality, including in sports.

From TeleSUR, Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast will present his cabinet ministers in a ceremony that will be overshadowed by wildfires.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the defection of U.K. parliamentcritter Robert Jenrick from the Tories to Reform matters.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K. turning into another California?

From EuroNews, according to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Danish sovereignty over Greenland is not negotiable.

From ReMix, 72 percent of welfare recipients in St. Pölten, Austria are foreigners.  (If you read German, read the story at Freilich.)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accepts U.S. President Trump's invitation to join the Peace Board for Gaza.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI accepts Trump's invitation to join the Peace Board for Gaza.

From The New Arab, the oldest Catholic church in Kuwait is elevated to Minor Basilica status.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Swiss Jews welcome the removal of Al Jazeera from two media platforms in Switzerland.

From the Daily Mail, 1,500 inmates escape from Shaddadi prison in Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, an Israeli comedian arrives at the airport in Toronto, Canada, is detained and interrogated for six hours, and later assaulted.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U.'s "woke Stasi commissars" are turning Europeans into "second class" citizens.

From the Daily Signal, congress reaches a deal on funding ICE.

From The American Conservative, neocons are in sorrow because the U.S. is not attacking Iran.

From The Western Journal, Trump publishes text messages about Greenland from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

From BizPac Review, after Indiana defeats Miami in the college football championship game, Indiana quarterback and Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza celebrates with his MS-stricken mother.

From the Daily Caller, where did media star Jennifer Welch come from?

From the New York Post, protesters in Zurich, Switzerland burn an American flag and vandalize American businesses ahead of Trump's trip to the city of Davos.

From Breitbart, a book by Peter Schweizer exposes the radical foreign groups that, according to him, helped elect President Obama.

From Newsmax, the Trump administration has deported or turned back 540,000 illegal aliens over the past year.

And from SFGate, myths about earthquakes that even Californians wrongly believe.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, pro-lifers still need to make themselves heard in Washington, D.C.

From FrontpageMag, left-wingers live by lies.

From Townhall, accurately understanding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose life is remembered on today's holiday.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how former CNN host Don Lemon helped anti-Ice activists storm a church.

From the Washington Examiner, against President Trump's intention of taking Greenland.

From The Federalist, "ICE Watch" activists are not "legal observers", but criminal obstructors.

From American Thinker, a visit to Dr. King's birthplace.

From NewsBusters, the media's 20 worst quotes about Trump during his first year back in office.

From Canada Free Press, Karens are angry that right-wingers know how A.W.F.U.L. they are.  (Having known some very nice females named "Karen" over my lifetime, I get dismayed that their name has been used to describe such very obnoxious females.)

From TeleSUR, conflict between FARC dissident groups in Colombia leaves fighters 26 dead.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch needs to get out more.

From Snouts in the Trough, whom the U.K. allows in and whom it doesn't.

From EuroNews, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Europe wants to "avoid any escalation" with the U.S. over Greenland.

From Free West Media, leftists in Minnesota declare insurrection against the U.S. government.

From ReMix, foreigners are identified as suspects in sexual assaults and knife attacks at a thermal bath in Werder, Germany.  (If you read German, read a related story at Berliner Zeitung.)

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev announces his resignation, which leads to speculation that he might form a new party.

From The North Africa, Morocco is reportedly considering acquiring K2 Black Panther tanks and Cheongung air defense systems from South Korea.

From The New Arab, what to know about the truce between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to the France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network, two protesters, one of them a child, were sexually assaulted by security forces in Kermanshah, Iran.

From the NL Times, after Morocco's national soccer team loses in the final match of the Africa Cup of Nations, Moroccans riot - in The Netherlands.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS and a related story at AT5.)

From Gatestone Institute, if Iran's regime continues, U.S. President Trump's Gaza "peace" plan will fail.

From The Daily Signal, Ohio state Attorney General Dave Yost explains how a major women's sports case at the Supreme Court could impact Ohio.

From The American Conservative, what pro-lifers and people who call for restraint on foreign policy can learn from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

From The Western Journal, the Department of Justice confirms that the aforementioned Don Lemon and anti-ICE activists who invaded a church will be facing charges.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld writes a tribute to the recently departed Scott Adams.

From the Daily Caller, only one 2028 Democratic presidential contender is willing to tell the truth about transgenders.

From the New York Post, here comes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) property tax hike.

From Breitbart, an illegal alien allegedly sells counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl at a farmers market in Forest Park, Georgia.

From Newsmax, according to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D), when vetted by then-Vice President Harris's presidential campaign, he was asked if he had been a double agent for Israel.  (The story links to an article in The New York Times, to which you'll have to create an account if you want to read.)

And from The Babylon Bee, Attorney General Pam Bondi promises to prosecute the Minnesota rioters when she finishes releasing all those Epstein files.

A Returning Sasquatch's Sunday Dozen

Now that I'm back on a cold and cloudy Sunday, here are 12 things going on:

From the Daily Mail, a Yazidi woman enslaved by ISIS recounts her seven-year ordeal of torture and sexual abuse.

From Gatestone Institute, according to President Trump, the best is still ahead of us.

From The American Conservative, Mexico and Canada go in opposite directions as trade talks loom.

From The Western Journal, a leftist with "any pronouns" is arrested for allegedly making threats against the College Republicans chapter at the University of Utah.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is a huge disappointment, and other matters.

From American Thinker, why pretending that boat-borne cartel drug smugglers are "fishermen" results in dead Americans.

From FrontpageMag, the Board of Peace proposed for Gaza includes state sponsors of Hamas.

From Townhall, Trump's latest move involving Minneapolis is going to drive liberals nuts.

From EuroNews, pressure mounts on the E.U. to respond to U.S. President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on countries which oppose his efforts to buy Greenland from Denmark.

From The Daily Signal, "the warmth of collectivism" keeps on failing.

From the Daily Caller, new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) repeals former Governor Glenn Youngkin's (R) executive order mandating that state law enforcement officials assist ICE.

And from the New York Post, a ranch in Wyoming has a larger area than the entire state of Rhode Island.

Dusty Hill Road

I'm back home now.  Earlier today, I found this road in North Carolina, intersecting with state route 305 a few miles east of the town of Jackson.  Its name appears either to be an interesting coincidence, or a tribute to the late bass player of ZZ Top.

One Last Bear

I went back into New Bern for lunch today, and took a pic of this bear statue, which looks like a polar bear.  It also includes an ad for a natural gas company.

Like some other statues, this one is near Union Point Park.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, President Trump suddenly reverses course on Iran.

From FrontpageMag, did a daycare fraudster in Minneapolis become a Senator - in Somalia?  (Yes, Somalia has a Senate, which is the upper house of its bicameral legislature.)

From Townhall, here's what we know about the ambush of an ICE officer in Minneapolis.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an appeals court rules that Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of antisemitic protests at Columbia University, can be rearrested.

From the Washington Examiner, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan resigns to run for congresscritter (R-OH).

From The Federalist, the goal of anti-ICE activists is not to reduce violence but to end all enforcement of immigration laws.

From American Thinker, how sanctuary cities protecting illegal aliens endanger Americans.

From NewsBusters, seven shows into the current year, TV host Jimmy Kimmel finally tells a joke about liberals.

From Canada Free Press, the Birthright Citizenship case pending before the Supreme Court.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan First Son and assemblycritter Nicolás Maduro Guerra launches the "bring them back" campaign on behalf of his parents, now in U.S. custody.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic versus the totalitarians.

From EuroNews, European military troops arrives in Greenland as the U.S. and Denmark fail to resolve their disagreement over the island.

From ReMix, a Somali migrant goes on trial for allegedly raping and beating a Dutch woman.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at AT5.)

From Balkan Insight, the top court in Bosnia and Herzegovina indicts four former Bosnian soldiers for war crimes committed by allegedly detaining civilians in the basement of a music school.

From The North Africa Post, Spain protests Morocco's suspension of sardine exports to the E.U. while allowing Russian ships to fish in its waters.

From The New Arab, Syrian government forces prepare to go on an offensive against Syrian Democratic Forces personnel in the province of Aleppo.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a leaked internal survey, 92 percent of Iranians "hate the regime".

From Gatestone Institute, why the Gaza Strip should be put under the control of the U.S. and Israel.

From The Daily Signal, according to congresscritter Don Bacon (R-Neb), some Republicans will support impeaching Trump if he invades Greenland.

From The American Conservative, is it time to get paranoid about robots?

From The Western Journal, the Department of Homeland Security and Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) call out Democrats after an illegal alien tries to run over an ICE agent and injures him.

From BizPac Review, "why Greenland suddenly matters".

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned Madison Sheahan leaving ICE and running for congresscritter.

From the New York Post, a bar in La Cañada Flintridge, Californian creates a new drink in honor of a bear that squatted in the crawlspace of a nearby house.

From Breitbart, U.K. parliamentcritter Robert Jenrick defects from the Conservative Party to Reform UK.

From Newsmax, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, ICE will not back down from operating in Minneapolis.

And from the Genesius Times, France is eager to join the dispute between the U.S. and Denmark so they can surrender to someone.