Tuesday Tidbits

On a warm and cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the damning diaries of Dr. Fauci.

From FrontpageMag, the Democratic Socialists of America's opposition to prisons is based in Third World-ism.

From Townhall, you won't believe why officials in Sacramento, California are inspecting people's trash.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Don Leonard (D-OH) claims that he's not a socialist but would lie to people to "get their votes" if he were one.

From the Washington Examiner, the French navy fires live shots in the English Channel near a boat carrying U.K. parliamentcritter Chris Philp.

From The Federalist, 10 questions which Congress should ask the aforementioned Dr. Fauci.

From American Thinker, Poland should be made a member of the G-20.

From NewsBusters, ABC, NBC and PBS go Sergeant Schultz over tapes then-private citizen Joe Biden made in 2017 and over the aforementioned Fauci diaries.

From Canada Free Press, a dean at Penn State's law school resigns and is kept on a member of the general faculty.

From TeleSUR, Keiko Fujimori wins a runoff election and becomes Peru's first female president.

From Snouts in the Trough, are today's wildfires really "the worst ever"?

From EuroNews, how bad could the wildfires in Europe get?

From Free West Media, the "no-whites" letter that reshaped the public image of a South African company.

From ReMix, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš warns that the Czech Republic could become a net payer to the E.U. by 2029.

From Balkan Insight, Skenderaj, Kosovo Mayor Sami Lushtaku is acquitted of obstructing justice in his war crimes trial in 2017.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco starts a financing push for the Africa-Atlantic gas pipeline.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese army retakes a key route between the cities of El-Obeid and Omdurman, but El-Obeid's ordeal continues.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iran publicly executes in the city of Isfahan two protesters arrested during demonstrations in January.

From the Daily Mail, the first halal-only student halls for Muslim men in Britain spark accusations of "segregation".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Salafist influencer in Germany blames the recent attack in Berlin on the party AfD and Israel.  (If you read German, read the story at Apollo News.)

From Gatestone Institute, a "respected" medical journal wages a war against doctors.

From The Daily Signal, U.S. President Trump concludes meetings with Ukrainian President Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

From The American Conservative, America needs courtyards.

From The Western Journal, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed gets crushed in a debate when asked about his foreign sources of money.

From BizPac Review, CNN commentator Scott Jennings warns that Democrats might have a problem with the front page of the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral program.

From the New York Post, a magnitude-7.1 earthquake collapses part of a shopping mall in Kashima Town, Japan.

From Breitbart, for the first time in 20 years, Austria deports more migrants than its number of received asylum applications.

From Newsmax, more on the aforementioned Joe Biden tapes.

And from SFGate, after 18 months, Sonoma State University brings back sports.

Monday Links

On a warm and sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, does Wisconsin want to be the first state with a socialist governor?

From FrontpageMag, the German mainstream appears to be baffled by the right-wing party AfD.

From Townhall, the latest update on Senator Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) health.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Vice President Harris's new mansion in Malibu is in an area that has long been accused of "hostility" toward people who aren't white.

From the Washington Examiner, people fear that Flock cameras will lead to mass surveillance.

From The Federalist, former senatorial candidate Graham Platner's (D-ME) replacement is "still a crazy leftist".

From American Thinker, what would foreign interference in American elections look like?

From NewsBusters, a reporter for The New York Times covers anti-Jewish rhetoric from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From Canada Free Press, total surveillance arrives quietly and never leaves.

From TeleSUR, UNESCO gives two opera houses in the Brazilian Amazon World Heritage status.

From Snouts in the Trough, does England need high-speed trains?

From EuroNews, three people are injured in a knife attack in Paris, after which a suspect is arrested.

From ReMix, around 400 buildings in the Czech Republic are targeted by bomb threats.

From Balkan Insight, child maintenance systems fail single mothers in the Balkans and elsewhere.

From The North Africa Post, why Air Algérie is not a good alternative to Royal Air Maroc for flying to Nigeria.

From The New Arab, Arab states and Israel reportedly step up their security coordination against Iran.

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

From Culture Watch, "Islam and the West cannot peacefully coexist".

From Gatestone Institute, why U.S. President Trump and Congress should reject the proposed nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.

From The Daily Signal, Dr. Anthony Fauci's diaries reveal that he gloated about coronavirus lockdowns and seeking fame.

From The American Conservative, Trump's success against illegal immigration, and people who aren't happy about it.

From The Western Journal, if you commit a crime, writing a song about it is not a good idea.

From BizPac Review, Trump may have broken the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

From the Daily Caller, new Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) is willing to stay in Washington, D.C. until the SAVE America Act passes.

From the New York Post and the "what could go wrong?" department, the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani plans 30 percent discounts at city-owned grocery stores, but it comes with questions.

From Breitbart, Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino plans to step down in August.

From Newsmax, according to Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the aforementioned Mitch McConnell is "clear-minded" while recovering the fall he suffered in June.

And from The Babylon Bee, the aforementioned Dr. Fauci is starting to think that keeping a daily perjury diary might have been a bad idea.

Sunday Stuff From A Returning Sasquatch

Yesterday I drove over 600 miles from Hilton Head Island, SC back to my home in Maryland.  I arrived pretty late and didn't feel like blogging anything.  But now I've had some sleep and the Bigfootmobile has been given a well-deserved rest.  So today, on a very warm and partly sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, the man who allegedly stabbed two people in New York City and shouted "Allahu Akbar" a copy of the Koran and a book written by communism founder Karl Marx.

From Townhall, the man who allegedly drove his vehicle into a "Pride" parade in Berlin is identified as an Islamist with prior terror connections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about running for Speaker of the House.

From the Washington Examiner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) "celebrated" Hamas's attack against Israel on October 7th, 2023.

From American Thinker, with the aforementioned man who allegedly attacked a "Pride" parade being no longer with us, it looks like we'll never learn his motive.

From NewsBusters, British singer Mick Jagger and American musician Jonathan Cain tell singer Bruce Springsteen to lay off the politics.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, more on the twice-aforementioned alleged "Pride" parade attacker.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Gatestone Institute, in Iran, it's now okay to think the unthinkable.

From The American Conservative, why is there all this hype for the late President Richard Nixon?

From the Daily Caller, Border Czar Tom Homan insists that ICE will continue stopping vehicles.

From Newsmax, the Israeli military sends a senior Hamas security official to his virgins.

And from the New York Post, two BASE jumpers skydive off the Space Needle in Seattle, resulting in a police manhunt.  (The line between the labels "badass" and "stupid people" is so thin in this case that the story gets both.)

Friday Fuss

As the hot and sunny weather continues here in South Carolina on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, WNBA player Sophie Cunningham dishes out some common sense.

From FrontpageMag, a socialist candidate for the Wisconsin state house who thinks that he's a woman claims to be the "Republican's worst nightmare".

From Townhall, ICE keeps on arresting criminal illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) senatorial candidate "Decoy Dan" Sullivan (R-AK), but his nonprofit group ran an ad staring a Sullivan campaign representative.

From the Washington Examiner, now that socialists are telling us who they are, we should believe them.

From The Federalist, American manufacturers are coming back home, which was helped by the One Big Beautiful Bill.

From American Thinker, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) ignored the New York City neighborhood of Little Italy, to added an imaginary country to the city's map.

From NewsBusters, actress/possible conspiracy theorist Rose O'Donnell recounts fleeing President Trump's America.

From Canada Free Press, an official family portrait of Canada's federal, provincial, and territorial premiers.

From TeleSUR, the legacy of Latin American revolutionary Simón Bolívar inspires anti-colonial resistance in Latin America.  (The last time I checked, there were very few parts of Latin America that are still dependencies of any European colonial powers.  The only such territory on the American mainland is French Guiana.)

From EuroNews, over 30 Polish sejmcritters leave the opposition party Law and Justice.

From ReMix, almost half of the people in prison in Germany are not German.

From Balkan Insight, at least 25 incidents of satnav interference have been reported over Serbia.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan and Malian businessmen agree to boost their partnership.

From The New Arab, which airlines have canceled or suspended their flights to the Middle East?

From the Daily Mail, the Iranian government claims that the U.K. is within its missile range.

From Gatestone Institute, if Iran can't have centrifuges for enriching uranium, why should Saudi Arabia?

From The Daily Signal, how have states responded to the Department of Homeland security revealing the numbers of non-citizens on U.S. voter rolls?

From The American Conservative, Ukrainian President Zelensky's military overhaul explodes Western fantasies.

From The Western Journal, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is quickly rebuked after lying about voter ID in Virginia.

From BizPac Review, Senator Tim Sheehy (R-Mon) gives a powerful speech about Iran.

From the Daily Caller, why attacking the Houthis in Yemen can be a real pain you-know-where.

From the New York Post, the "diarrhea parasite" spreads into four more states.

From Breitbart, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin claims that the SAVE America act would "disenfranchise more Republicans".

From Newsmax, the number of measles cases in the U.S. in 2026 has already exceeded the total for 2025.

And from SFGate, the biggest attraction at the California State Fair was illegal just a few years ago.

Thursday Things

On a hot and sunny Thursday down here in South Carolina, here are some things going on:

From National Review, New Jersey admits that thousands of non-citizens were registered to vote.

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes.

From Townhall, what's going on with Massachusetts having a plan to establish an Islamic Commission?

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator John Ossoff (D-GA) has spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds on "makeup services" so far this year.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump's patience with Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is reportedly "running out" over the SAVE America Act.

From The Federalist, the many times when non-citizens appeared on American voter rolls.

From American Thinker, the problem with left-wing women.

From NewsBusters, NBC host Seth Meyers accuses Trump of announcing war crimes.

From Canada Free Press, political commentator Jon Stewart joins the Democrats in obscuring their socialist agenda.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela launches a unified housing registry for the victims of the two recent earthquakes.

From TCW Defending Freedom, after 12 years, TCW says "goodbye", but archives its contents behind a paywall.  (This article was published on July 18th, which was the site's last day.  I had to acknowledge the end of its regular publishing, with some sadness, and give readers a chance to subscribe to its archived content, for any who wish to do so.)

From Snouts in the Trough, Thames Water is a rip-off.

From EuroNews, Florence opens the first social media addiction center in Italy.

From ReMix, French magistrates add an aggravating racism factor to the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in the commune of Crépol in 2023, thus recognizing the existence of anti-white racism.

From Balkan Insight, a mountainous region shared by Kosovo and Montenegro remains cut off due to closed roads.

From The North Africa Post, a U.S.-based publication spotlights Morocco's planned Hassan II Stadium, which is expected to host the 2030 World Cup.

From The New Arab, the struggle for the province of Suweida is a test for Syria's transition.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas gets a new leader for the same old jihad.

From The Daily Signal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells New Jersey that having non-citizens on the voter rolls is "completely unacceptable".

From The American Conservative, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham sets a collision course with U.S. President Trump.

From The Western Journal, former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is referred to the Department of Justice for possible criminal charges.

From BizPac Review, First Lady Melania Trump seeks sanctions against "journalist" Michael Wolff, who tried and failed to sue her.

From The Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned tensions between Trump and Thune.

From the New York Post, a 16-year-old girl tries subway surfing in New York City, is hit by a beam, and survives.

From Breitbart, the Department of Homeland Security reportedly finds 278,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls.

From Newsmax, the New York City Police Department rescues 43 people from human traffickers during World Cup soccer matches in New Jersey.

And from The Babylon Bee, Greek warrior Odysseus returns to Ithaca after 20 years to find out that his wife Penelope has run out of baking powder and needs him to go out again.

Coligny Beach

Today I got some more exercise by walking from my accommodations to Coligny Beach Park and back.  This is the same beach that I visited during my last day here seven years ago.  As I did then, I walked past a traffic circle full of trees.

Return To Fort Howell And Mitchelville

After getting some exercise in Jarvis Creek Park, I returned to two places I visited back in 2019.  The first was Fort Howell and the other was Mitchelville Freedom Park.  As I noted back then, Fort Howell has several sheet metal figures along the trail leading to the remains of the fort.  This is the first one that I came across.

Jarvis Creek Park

Today I found a place to get some exercise, Jarvis Creek Park in the northern part of Hilton Head Island.  The park includes a fitness trail that goes around a small lake named Lake Liggett.  As expected, it was very warm out, but a rather stiff breeze kept me from overheating.  The park also includes this tree.

Fort Pulaski

Today I ventured out from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, my no-longer-undisclosed location, and visited Fort Pulaski National Monument, located on Cockspur Island, Georgia.  The entrance to the monument is about 10 miles east of Savannah along U.S. route 80.

Construction on Fort Pulaski started in 1829 and was completed in 1847.  In 1833, the fort was named after Polish cavalry officer Kazimierz Pułaski, who fought for the newborn United States in the American Revolution.  He was hit by grapeshot while leading a cavalry charge in the siege of Savannah, and died shortly afterwards.  Later on during the Civil War, Union forces took Fort Pulaski from the Confederacy in 1862.

Due to my Polish heritage, I wanted to visit Fort Pulaski when I was in this area in 2019, but there was a partial federal government shutdown, which resulted in the fort being closed.  Today, however, I had no such problem.  To the west side of the fort's main building is a group of mounds surrounded by a triangular moat, seen here from its west end.  Visitors enter via the bridge to the right.

Back To Hilton Head Island

I have returned to the area where I visited in early 2019, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, which is pretty close to the south end of the state.  Earlier today, I found a few things that I did not visit seven years ago.  In an area called Shelter Cove, I found the Veterans Memorial, centered around this flagpole and four pylons.

Back To South Of The Border

Today I continued driving southward to my intended undisclosed location.  As I did in early 2019, I stopped at South Of The Border, a Mexican-themed tourist area.  Unlike my first visit, I arrived too early to eat lunch and had already eaten breakfast, so my stop this time was brief.  I naturally took a pic of Pedro holding his sign, from across the road that is both U.S. 301 and U.S. 501.

Checking In On A Friday

Today I drove down to North Carolina, and have checked in at an intermediate undisclosed location, on my way farther south.  So please excuse me while I take a break and chill out.  There will be more to come in the near future.  Stay tuned.

Thursday Tidings

On a hot and mostly sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, New York Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) "silly" war on data centers.

From FrontpageMag, the fallacy of books that the left calls "banned".

From Townhall, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent schools reporters about left-wing violence.

From the Washington Examiner, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) challenges senatorial candidate Ken Paxton (R-TX) to three televised debates.

From The Federalist, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) doesn't see the difference between the weaponization of the Department of Justice under then-President Biden and President Trump's pursuit of justice.

From American Thinker, some socialists are even more ignorant of others.

From NewsBusters, billionaire and podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya skewers the media for lying about Trump, whom he used to criticize.

From Canada Free Press, there are 25 million communists in the U.S.

From TeleSUR, Guatemala will repatriate the remains of Nobel laureate writer Miguel Angel Asturias.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when the late parliamentcritter Ann Widdecombe, a Catholic, charmed the U.K.'s Protestant hearts.

From EuroNews, 32 people, including a former CEO of Italy's largest motorway operator, are convicted in connection with the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa.

From ReMix, Finnish europarliamentcritter Sebastian Tynkkynen warns that the U.K. has become the "worst example" of the death of free speech.

From Balkan Insight, four Greek parliamentcritters are indicted for allegedly misusing E.U. farm funds.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's mining sector plots its course to 2023.  (TNAP had some technical difficulties during the last two days, but these appear have been worked out.)

From The New Arab, Syrian Christians return to their villages in the province of Idlib that they had to leave behind during the Syrian civil war.

From The Jerusalem Post, U.S. President Trump announces that Iran has released an American woman whom it detained in 2024.

From Gatestone Institute, who decides when childhood ends in Pakistan?

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, if Congress wants a single standard for child online safety, it must earn it.

From Radio Free Asia, according to experts, new buildings in North Korea near the DMZ could be shelters for rocket launchers.

From The American Conservative, Trump should bring American troops home from Europe.

From The Western Journal, while ranting against Trump on the Senate floor, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appears to break wind.

From BizPac Review, well, that was quick.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Randy Fine (R-FL) declares war on Trump ally Alex Bruesewitz.

From Breitbart, Republican congresscritters ask for an investigation of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) administration for possible violations of the Logan Act.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Democrats are against funding the military and making sure that "your vote counts".

And from the New York Post, a deformed raccoon called "Jimothy" becomes a celebrity in Seattle.

Wednesday Wanderings

On a hot and sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, meet senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI), Michigan's answer former candidate Graham Platner (D-ME).

From FrontpageMag, 13 Massachusetts state legislators back a bill calling for a "permanent commission on the status of people who practice Islam".

From Townhall, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) and journalist Nick Shirley blow the lid off a fraud pipeline that sent cash to Somalian terrorists.

From The Washington Free Beacon, more on the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed and his riches.

From the Washington Examiner, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth testosterone testing and treatment for active military personnel at least 30 years old.

From The Federalist, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Democrats weaponized the Department of Justice against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, which proves that he's a good choice for the job.

From American Thinker, some congresscritters really are anti-America.

From NewsBusters, the aforementioned Nick Shirley uncovers $310 million in alleged fraud in just one New York City neighborhood.

From Canada Free Press, living a nightmare on the east coast of communist Canada.

From TeleSUR, acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez meets with state security agencies to assess earthquake relief efforts.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how the Hallett Inquiry closed its ears to evidence of injuries from coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, the French parliament passes a bill to establish a right to assisted dying for some terminally ill patients.

From ReMix, the Czech Supreme Court upholds the suspended sentence given to a dissident who wore a pro-Russian "Z" hoodie.  (In the Czech Republic, expressing support for Russia against Ukraine is apparently not free speech.  If you read Czech, read the story at Echo24.)

From Balkan Insight, a report from rights groups claims that Serbian authorities "targeted Croatians" during a political crisis.

From The New Arab, the Iraqi Ministry of Finance puts Hezbollah on its banking sanctions list.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan man threatens people, including schoolchildren, with a knife at a railroad station in Ruhpolding, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Junge Freiheit.)

From Arutz Sheva, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) baptizes the winners and buries the losers in New York City's demographic war.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump's "Board of Peace", double standards, the U.N., and the Kurds.

From The Daily Signal, the left-wing war against public safety is coming to a town near you.

From The American Conservative, the Trump administration's slow breakup with Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado.

From The Western Journal, the number of Democrats attending a Senate hearing about fraud is a big fat zero.

From BizPac Review, Trump tells ICE to resume making traffic stops.

From the Daily Caller, according to a bill introduced by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), Trump could hire digital "privateers" to combat cyber crime.

From the New York Post, gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman (R-NY) slams the New York state ban on gas stoves as a "green energy scam".

From Breitbart, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) scolds young socialist candidates about running against Democrat incumbents.

From Newsmax, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ICE's operations amid rising attacks against them.

And from the Genesius Times, with France eliminated from the World Cup, there are now no African teams left.

Tuesday Tidbits

As the sunny and very warm weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter Ro Khanna's (D-Cal) Israel stunt.

From FrontpageMag, the return of socialism to the Democratic Party and a golden opportunity for Republicans.

From Townhall, Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) introduces a bill that would codify President Trump's position on illegal immigration into law.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the father-in-law of senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed is among the leaders of a group linked to terror funding.

From the Washington Examiner, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is still intending to run for president in 2028.

From The Federalist, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche can end former President Biden's mail-order abortion scheme.

From American Thinker, Trump returns millions of acres from two national monuments to the American people.

From NewsBusters, consumer prices record their largest monthly decline in over six years in June.

From Canada Free Press, Islam's law of fate.

From TeleSUR, acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez inspects temporary shelters for earthquake victims in the capital city of Caracas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how campaigns of fear are silencing family court professionals in the U.K.

From Snouts in the Trough, will the U.K. be destroyed by its own "suicidal empathy"?

From EuroNews, can Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar remove President Tamás Sulyok from office?

From Free West Media, Hollywood censors comments from people objecting to a black actress portraying Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.

From ReMix, according to senior immigration officials, Spain's amnesty of illegal migrants could result in about 3 million people obtaining legal status and cause immigration checks to "collapse".  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Mundo.)

From Balkan Insight, former Croatian soccer player Dario Šimić is arrested in an anti-corruption operation.

From The New Arab, who wants the fragile peace in Syria to fail?

From Gatestone Institute, the math shows that Europe might not pull through.

From The Daily Signal, was then-President George Bush the Younger treated unfairly?

From The American Conservative, an ethnically Greek writer weighs in on the aforementioned movie The Odyssey.

From The Western Journal, ICE announces the arrests of illegal aliens who are also murderers, sex offenders, or drug traffickers.

From BizPac Review, more on the legislation introduced by the aforementioned Senator Banks.

From The Daily Caller, Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan ask a House subcommittee for more money for security.

From the New York Post, the late Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) sister Darline Graham Nordone is sworn in to complete his term.

From Breitbart, CNBC's survey alleging that 10 red states are the "worst to live in" gets debunked.

From Newsmax, Trump announces that he is replacing a proposed reimbursement fee on shipping in the Persian Gulf for trade and investment agreements with Middle Eastern countries.

And from SFGate, Culver City, Californian decides to ban drive-through restaurants.

Monday Mania

On a sunny and very warm Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham gets the last laugh.

From FrontpageMag, the U.S. has always been involved in war.

From Townhall, the U.S. reestablishes its blockade of Iran.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) wants "Medicare for all", but his psychiatrist wife Sarah Jukaku doesn't accept any form of medical insurance.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump calls for the late Lindsey Graham to be succeeded in the Senate by his sister Darline Graham Nordone.

From The Federalist, how Trump can stop the export of American babies to China.

From American Thinker, open borders is a death sentence for Western countries.

From NewsBusters, hypocritical liberals cheer Senator Graham's death online.

From Canada Free Press, "a republic, if you can keep it", as Benjamin Franklin said.

From TeleSUR, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wins his party's nomination for presidential reelection.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the think tank Migration Watch has never taken its eye off the ball.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the mayor of Seattle, Washington "the high priestess of economic illiteracy"?

From EuroNews, France temporarily shuts down three nuclear reactors to comply with environmental regulations.

From ReMix, Hungarian parliamentcritter Gergely Gulyás resigns as parliamentary leader of the Fidesz party.

From Balkan Insight, according to Dutch europarliamentcritter Tineke Strik, Albanian environmental protesters are "defending E.U. values".

From The North Africa Post, a Sudanese court sentences Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and 15 others to death in absentia for war crimes committed in the region of Darfur.

From The New Arab, archaeologists discover a 3,000-year-old tomb near the Egyptian city of Luxor.

From The Times Of Israel, weapons are found in a car near a synagogue Sarcelles, France, which has a large Jewish population.

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas terrorists storm a World Food Programme food distribution site in Jabaliya, Gaza.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian elections are a scam.

From The Daily Signal, in Virginia, Big Brother is watching you.

From The American Conservative, the "northern kingdom" of soon-to-be U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

From The Western Journal, according to British rock singer Mick Jagger, musicians and athletes should not "lecture" their fans about politics.

From BizPac Review, a fatal shooting by ICE in Maine sparks a major investigation.

From the Daily Caller, multiple Republicans in South Carolina vie for the chance to fill the late Senator Graham's seat.

From the New York Post, the surprising health benefit from going bald.

From Breitbart, the Red Cross withdraws its workers from the main asylum seeker registration in the Netherlands because their "safety can no longer be guaranteed".

From Newsmax, banks are given new guidance on the risk of lending to illegal aliens.

And from The Babylon Bee, furniture made by IKEA now includes instructions on how to cuss in Swedish.

Lindsey Graham 1955-2006

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has died after a "brief and sudden illness" at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.  He reportedly had chest pains and had gone into cardiac arrest at his home in the Capital Hill section of the city.

Lindsey Olin Graham was born in Central, South Carolina to Florence James Graham (who was known by his initials "F.J.") and the former Millie Walters.  After graduating high school, he attended the University of South Carolina, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts while participating in ROTC, and later getting a law degree.  He entered the Air Force and was commissioned as a member of its Judge Advocate General's Corps, serving on active duty from 1982 to 1989.  He was later in the Air National Guard from 1989 to 1995 and in the Air Force Reserve from 1995 to 2015.

Graham was elected to the South Carolina state House of Representative in November 1992, serving from later that month until November 1994.  He was in the U.S. House from January 1995 to January 2003.  He was elected Senator in November of 2002 and took office in January 2003, succeeding Strom Thurmond.  He as reelected in 2008, 2014 and 2020, and won the Republican nomination for 2026.

Graham never married or had children.

Read more at AP News, NBC News, PBS, CBS News and Politico.

Saturday Stuff

On a warm and rainy day, as I prepare to go home, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) is "classy to the last".  (I'm pretty sure that the quoted phrase should be understood sarcastically.)

From Townhall, actor Randolph Mantooth, famous for the show Emergency!, is not longer with us, but his show contributed to countless lives being saved.

From The Washington Free Beacon, strengthening NATO as Russian President Putin considers an attack.

From American Thinker, about 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle perfectly described modern left-wing tyrants.

From NewsBusters, why are the media blind to the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America?

From TCW Defending Freedom, a tribute to right-wing British politician Ann Widdecombe, whose recent death is the subject of a murder investigation.

From Snouts in the Trough, will apparent new Prime Minister Andrew Burnham do to the U.K. what new Mayor Katie Wilson is starting to do to Seattle, Washington, U.S.?

From Gatestone Institute, why the U.S. must integrate Israel in every move against Iran.

From The American Conservative, the aforementioned Graham Platner's fatal dependence on Democratic Party elites.

From BizPac Review, actor Robert Davi goes scorched earth on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and talks about running against him.

From the New York Post, a supermarket in Los Angeles faces backlash for allegedly staying open after a shopper is found dead inside.

From Breitbart, the double standards imposed on food vendors in Los Angeles.

From Newsmax, Meta pulls the plug on an AI program that accessed photos on its platform Instagram.

And from SFGate, United Airlines argues in a San Francisco court about the definition of "window seat".

Friday Phenomena

On a warm and rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, against exempting seniors from property taxes.

From FrontpageMag, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) joins forces with U.C. Berkeley.

From Townhall, guess why Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just pardoned a refugee from Albania convicted of murder in the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the movie Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.

From The Federalist, the real "Citizen Vigilantes" are Muslims in Europe imposing sharia.

From American Thinker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tries to protect an illegal alien pedophile, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio gets him deported.

From NewsBusters, CNN downplays the illegal status of a man killed by ICE and his attempt to run over an ICE agent.

From Canada Free Press, is the "bunny hop" performed by singer Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an attempt to keep current Prime Minister Mark Carney in office?

From TeleSUR, the Peruvian government will try to determine how many visitors the archaeological site of Machu Picchu can receive.

From TCW Defending Freedom, carbon dioxide emissions rose yet again in 2025.

From Snouts in the Trough, has the U.K. been beaten by its blundering bureaucracy?

From EuroNews, rules for visiting beaches in Europe this summer include, depending where you go, bans on music, tents, umbrellas, dogs, horses and elephants.

From ReMix, Moroccans riot in Düsseldorf, Germany after the Moroccan national soccer team is eliminated from the 2026 World Cup.

From Balkan Insight, Greek police arrest three people for allegedly planting incendiary bombs outside the home of a politician in Thessaloniki, Greece.

From The North Africa Post, the World Bank warns that the economic recovery in Tunisia will be fragile.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sets this coming November 28th as the date of legislative elections.

From Red State, Moroccans riot in London after the Moroccan national soccer team is eliminated from the 2026 World Cup.

From the Daily Mail, an American woman is found bludgeoned to death in her home in Killarney, Ireland, possibly by her "asylum seeker partner" whom she met "at a pro-Palestine march".

From Arutz Sheva, U.S. President Trump makes a risky bet on "reformed" Islamism in Syria.

From Gatestone Institute, while China launches an ICBM, U.S. Senator Socialism (I-VT) proposes American disarmament.

From The Daily Signal, why strengthened defense ties between Japan and South Korea are good for the U.S.

From The American Conservative, delusional leaders are dangerous ones.

From The Western Journal, Trump tells Iran that the "ceasefire is OVER".  (Emphasis in original)

From BizPac Review, Democratic socialists tout their plan "to end America as we know it".

From the Daily Caller, an ICE officers saves a 14-year-old who jumped out of a moving vehicle.

From Breitbart, France spends about €1.85 billion on its asylum system.

From Newsmax, Trump's pledge to give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air-defense systems could take a long time to come to fruition.

And from the New York Post, a mysterious new symbol starts appearing in Las Vegas, resulting in online conspiracy theories.

A Sasquatch's Thursday Dozen

On a warm Thursday that went from sunny to rainy, here are 12 things going on:

From LBC, a man is arrested in Moygashel, Northern Ireland for allegedly burning a replica of a mosque.

From BNO News, a man in my part of the world is sentenced to 15 years for trying to join ISIS and plotting an attack against Jews and people who support Israel.

From IranWire, an Iranian official claims that U.S. President Trump was "spared" while he was in Turkey.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas's latest trick is leaving the government of Gaza while keeping its weapons.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what would Winston Churchill think of the modern U.K. of Lucy Connolly, imprisoned for a post on X, and murdered Anglo-Polish student Henry Nowak?

From FrontpageMag, Iran puts up an illusion.

From Townhall, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) presents another doctrine of his fake Christianity.

From The Federalist, Democrats in Maine convince former senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D) to step aside only because they realized that he would not win.

From American Thinker, the U.S. can attack "birthright citizens" living in China with the IRS.

From The American Conservative, Trump should veto the 21st Century Road to Housing Act.

From the Daily Caller, for the third straight year, the most common name for baby boys in England and Wales is Mohammad.

And from Reuters, Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler goes to the soundstage in the sky.