Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, New York City's new housing official is crazy.

From FrontpageMag, yes, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is a communist, but will the media outlets which claimed that he wasn't admit their error?

From Townhall, the operation to remove President Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela is a win for the U.S. and a loss for Canada.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Brown University selects a DEI official to restore its "sense of physical security" on campus.

From the Washington Examiner, a woman is shot dead after allegedly trying to run over ICE agents in Minneapolis.

From The Federalist, seven pro-life protections that the Republican-led Congress should demand besides the Hyde Amendment.

From American Thinker, why the Republican isolationist wing is wrong about President Trump's takedown of the aforementioned President Maduro.

From NewsBusters, CBS Evening News is the only broadcast reporting on the pro-Madura Colectivo thugs now terrorizing Venezuelans.

From Canada Free Press, it's worth remembering the words of Sundance, a contributor to The Last Refuge.

From TeleSUR, a look back at the 1983 U.S. intervention in Grenada.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Christianity should be in the U.K.'s public square.

From Snouts in the Trough, it's time for SitT to pack it in.

From EuroNews, according to Ukrainian President Zelensky, the Ukrainian and U.S. teams are discussing the "most difficult issues" at the peace talks in Paris.

From ReMix, A Swiss court confirms that an Afghan man who allegedly stabbed a man with a knife in a park in Zürich, Switzerland was an adult at the time.

From Balkan Insight, Greece presents new measures to deal with its farming crisis as protests by farmers escalate.

From The North Africa Post, a meeting between Morocco, Mauretania and the U.S. irks the government of Algeria.

From The New Arab, why do some Middle Eastern Christians celebrate Christmas in January?

From Arutz Sheva, a protester in Tehran, Iran hangs a sign reading "President Trump Street".

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. should reassess its alliance with Pakistan and its possible role in Gaza.

From The Daily Signal, Venezuela could be a model for ending temporary immigration into the U.S.

From The American Conservative, will the second Trump administration be defined by its actions in Venezuela?

From The Western Journal, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) gives CNN a rambling response when asked if the troops who captured the twice-aforementioned President Maduro should have disobeyed their orders.

From BizPac Review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gets a salute from the aforementioned CBS Evening News, for which the left is aghast.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice admits that only one percent of the files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein have been released to the public.

From the New York Post, FTA Administrator and former congresscritter Marc Molinaro (R-NY) is considering a run for the soon-to-be vacated seat of congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY).

From Breitbart, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) promises to "do everything" to stop a U.S. military takeover of Greenland.

From Newsmax, according to the aforementioned Secretary Rubio, Venezuela's interim leaders "understand" that their oil goes through the U.S.

And from the Genesius Times, following an attack by the U.S. military, the aforementioned Mayor Mamdani is captured and flown out of New York City.