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.)