Monday Mania

On a cold and cloudy first Monday of 2026, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the future of Venezuela depends on Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, a loyalist to captured President Nicolás Maduro.

From FrontpageMag, the capture of Maduro is a big blow to the Iranian mullahs.

From Townhall, it's hard to believe what a guy was caught doing in a women's restroom in Concord, California.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, ending the Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota will require reinforcements.

From the Washington Examiner, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) decides against running for reelection.

From The Federalist, 10 reasons why Republican congresscritters should not extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies.

From American Thinker, your race card is no longer good.

From NewsBusters, 10 items of good news that the media doesn't want you to know about.

From Canada Free Press, could President Trump be another Persian King Cyrus the Great?

From TeleSUR, Brazil's representative to the U.N. calls the aforementioned capture of Maduro a "dangerous precedent".

From TCW Defending Freedom, Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg, who helped rescue thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War II, remains "a hero without a grave".

From EuroNews, Ukrainian security chief Vasyl Maliuk resigns as President Zelensky(y) reshuffles his government.  (Whether it has one "y" or two, my spellchecker rejects Zelensky's last name.)

From Free West Media, "the peace president goes to war".

From ReMix, according to a poll, 58 percent of French people want President Emmanuel Macron to resign, and 90 percent say that France is in decline.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.  I don't see any French sources for this story.)

From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian producer of military drones loses its license due to legal violations.

From The North Africa Post, Libya starts preparing to host the fourth Turkey–Africa Partnership Summit.

From The New Arab, what lies ahead for the civil war in Yemen?

From the NL Times, a Dutch court is set to rule on the case of a father and his two sons accused of honor killing his daughter.

From AMU, the Taliban ban criticism of themselves, claiming that Islamic law justifies it.

From The Jerusalem Post, a shed on the property of the antisemitism commissioner of the German state of Brandenburg is set on fire.

From Gatestone Institute, the Middle East comes to a moment of strategic choice.

From The Daily Signal, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth takes action against Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ).

From The American Conservative, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's road to Cuba goes through Venezuela.

From The Western Journal, the Chief Twit's company Starlink provides free broadband to the people of Venezuela.

From BizPac Review, independent journalist Nick Shirley has to protect himself.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned Tim Walz dropping out of the Minnesota gubernatorial race.

From the New York Post, Grok has been naughty.

From Breitbart, according to the Department of Homeland Security, Hilton Hotels are denying rooms to its personnel in the Minneapolis area.

From Newsmax, Colombian President Gustavo Petro warns Trump against coming after him.

And from The Babylon Bee, left-wingers quickly change their "no kings" signs to say "yes kings" in support of the aforementioned President Maduro.