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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Sites At Union Station

During my running around today, I went through Union Station in Washington, D.C.  As I did about two years ago, I took a shot of the Liberty Bell replica on the south side of the station.  Unlike then, the bell today is very clean, as seen here.  The station and a "USA 250" banner are behind it.

Saturday, June 20, 2026

Some Nearby Sites

Today I took a hike, like I often do, but this time, I took a few pictures.  I hiked on the southernmost part of the Seneca Creek Greenway Trail and reached the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath, which I thoroughly explored back in the 1990s.  Near the southern end of the SCGT is what's left of Seneca Mill.  Despite a sign warning against vandalism, it was largely covered in graffiti, as seen here.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Stories For Ash Wednesday

On a cloudy and cool Wednesday, on which some people might be walking around with ashes on their foreheads, here are some things going on:

From National Review, TV host Stephen Colbert and senatorial candidate James Tagarico (D-TX) are lying to you.

From FrontpageMag, a left-wing outrage mob comes after congresscritter Randy Fine (R-FL) because he loves dogs.

From Townhall, you won't believe what the Iranian government did to people mourning at a memorial for a 16-year-old girl, whom it killed while she was protesting.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor's 2028 presidential hopes are drowning in a river of bull[bleep].

From the Washington Examiner, a dozen Democratic Senators and congresscritters will boycott President Trump's upcoming State of the Union address and hold a counter rally on the National Mall.

From The Federalist, red states struggle to deliver on their promises to teach pro-American history in their public schools.

From American Thinker, the four horsemen of the Western left-wing apocalypse.

From NewsBusters, Americans agree with fact-checking the news and questioning the media.

From Canada Free Press, actor/director/producer Spike Lee embarrasses himself and the NBA by dressing up as a Palestinian flag.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Cuban leaders mourn the death of U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is it time to change the U.K.'s national anthem?

From Snouts in the Trough, how many doctors in the U.K. from outside the U.K. are actually qualified?

From EuroNews, France leads a backlash against European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica, of Croatia, attending the first meeting of U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace.

From Free West Media, has Trump lost control to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu?

From ReMix, Germany's industrial sector lost 124,000 jobs in 2025.

From Russia Today, the E.U. urges Ukraine to repair the Druzhba oil pipeline, through which Russian oil is sent to Hungary and Slovakia.

From Sputnik International, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, talks about Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland were difficult.

From The Moscow Times, two teenagers are sentenced to prison by a military court in Siberia for setting a military helicopter on fire.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian men's bobsled team registers their country's best results at the Winter Olympics in 34 years.

From Novinite, who's in Bulgaria's new caretaker cabinet.

From The Sofia Globe, more on Bulgaria's caretaker cabinet.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian research vessel Sts. Cyril and Methodius sails northward from Antarctica.

From the Greek Reporter, a former German soldier helps to restore the Agios Dionysios Monastery on Mount Olympus in Greece, which had been destroyed by Nazi German troops during World War II.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's Culture Ministry declares a photographic archive showing the executions of 200 communists during World War II a protected monument.

From Balkan Insight, the French family of a Croatian independence war fighter who died in 1991 in the city of Vukovar urges Serbia to extradite the man whom they believe killed him.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco uses desalinization to combat water shortages.

From The New Arab, some Sunni Muslim countries decide not to follow Saudi Arabia as to when the month of Ramadan begins.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calls the late Jeffrey Epstein's island the outcome of "Western civilization and liberal democracy".

From Arutz Sheva, Hamas supporters target café in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem run by a black Ethiopian Jew.

From Gatestone Institute, right-wingers turn against the Jews.

From The Daily Signal, the shooting at a hockey rink in Rhode Island shows that the FBI should investigate transgender-motivated violence.

From The American Conservative, as shown by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech in Munich, Germany, the Trump administration takes Western civilization seriously.

From The Western Journal, co-host Whoopi Goldberg of The View rushes to explain her appearance in the Epstein files seeking to use his private jet.

From BizPac Review, video shows an avalanche overtaking off-trail skiers in the Italian Alps.

From the Daily Caller, a coalition of right-wing groups wants Trump to step up his deportations of illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, according to his daughter, the Rhode Island hockey rink shooter had "demons" and alienated his family well before becoming trans.

From Breitbart, demand for core capital goods rises for the sixth straight month, reaching a new all-time high.

From Newsmax, billionaire Les Wexner claims to have been "duped" by the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.

And from NPR, a Czechoslovakian wolfdog joins an Olympic cross-country ski race in Lago di Tesero, Italy.  (via the New York Post)

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Tuesday Things For Mardi Gras

On a sunny but cool Fat Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the sex, lies and red tape in Washington.

From FrontpageMag, according to a jihadi, ISIS are "real Muslim" because "they make sharia".

From Townhall, an illegal alien tries to drown a woman in Florida.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration official who created the "Disinformation Governance Board" is appointed as an advisor to the FISA court.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, former President Obama is in no position to lecture anyone about decency.

From The Federalist, how Oklahomans can overcome the bureaucracy and require better history teaching in its public schools.  (The article includes a picture of Mount Rushmore, which is in South Dakota.)

From American Thinker, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was a friend of the late Jeffrey Epstein and is an enemy of Trump world.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Abby Phillip asks congresscritter Dan Goldman (D-NY) some tough questions on the claim that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will use ICE to steal elections.

From Canada Free Press, will the Louisiana State Police continue to seize dirt bikes and ATVs in New Orleans after Mardi Gras?

From TeleSUR, Argentine President Javier Milei will participate in the inaugural meeting of U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. police still persist with their hate crime agenda.

From EuroNews, the Ukrainian military goes on a counteroffensive against Russian forces.

From VRT NWS, burglars try to break into the town hall in Ninove, Belgium while the municipal council was conducting a meeting.

From The Brussels Times, "pardon my Dutch".

From the NL Times, the body of a Dutch man who disappeared in 2008 while visiting the U.S. is identified almost 18 years later.

From Dutch News, when in the Netherlands, don't phone and drive.

From Deutsche Welle, a man in charged with the murder of a German nursing student in 1984.

From Polskie Radio, according to a poll, nearly all Poles support restrictions on children's access to social media.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government allows Ukrainian refugees to stay longer.

From The Slovak Spectator, scientists in Slovakia help design a light-sensitive compound that could fight cancer.

From ReMix, Prime Minister Robert Fico that Slovakia in talks with the U.S. about purchasing more F-16 fighter jets.

From Daily News Hungary, one of Central Europe's most modern military bases is being built on the site of a former Hungarian army barracks.

From Hungary Today, Hungary's House of Terror Museum will host programs for the Day of Remembrance for the victims of Communism.

From Balkan Insight, prosecutors in Novi Sad, Serbia launch an investigation after "thugs" attack protesters.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco shares the experience of its Green Energy Park with Côte D'Ivoire.

From The New Arab, is the Palestinian Authority's new constitution a roadmap to statehood?

From The Times Of Israel, Swiss TV accuses Israel's bobsled team captain of being a "supporter of genocide" in Gaza.

From The Jerusalem Post, a New York City Health Department staffer appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) says "one Israeli left is too many".

From Red State, residents of New York City awaken to the Islamic call to prayer.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Turkey inaugurates a mosque in Gaza City in the name of the "father of global jihad".

From Gatestone Institute, have some terrorists in Germany been getting a pass?

From The Daily Signal, according to congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY), the "retirement caucus" will oppose Trump on some key votes.

From The American Conservative, the people of the U.K. have "nothing to fear but Keir himself".

From The Western Journal, the videos of congresscritter AOC (D-NY) speaking in Germany are so bad that The New York Times has officially called her out.

From BizPac Review, with actor James Woods, sometimes one word says everything.

From the Daily Caller, the CEO of DC Water oversaw $520 million in DEI contracts, and the biggest sewage spill in U.S. history in the VA-MD-DC area.

From the New York Post, golfer Tiger Woods refuses to rule out playing in this year's Masters tournament.

From Breitbart, an alleged ProFa leader is expected to testify as one of nine defendants facing trial over an attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center.

From Newsmax, according to the Department of Homeland Security, reports of a strained relationship between the aforementioned Kristi Noem and Coast Guard officials are greatly exaggerated.

And from The Babylon Bee, the aforementioned AOC condemns Spain for stealing its language from Mexico.

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, President Trump withdraws the nomination of congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for Ambassador to the U.N.

From FrontpageMag, the Chinese government wages war on the cross.  (They have managed to repress Christians, Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners.)

From Townhall, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits a high security prison in El Salvador and has a very short message for criminal illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Senate Education Committee launches an investigation of American Muslims for Palestine over its role in anti-Israel demonstrations on U.S. college campuses.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the Secret Service, a third dog owned by then-Vice President Biden attacked security and landscaping staff.

From The Federalist, 10 times when NPR proved that it doesn't deserve one more cent of taxpayer money.

From American Thinker, cameras could be installed at Fort Knox so Americans can see our gold.

From MRCTV, opening day for the Washington Nationals will include a performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.

From NewsBusters, these four minutes of video footage from PBS make a strong case for it being defunded.

From Canada Free Press, did left-wing supporters of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney repeat a satanic chant back to him?

From TeleSUR, Venezuela rejects threats from the U.S. and promises to defend the region of Essequibo as its sovereign territory.  (Essequibo currently makes up most of neighboring Guyana.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, is there any difference between the U.K.'s Labour and Conservative parties?

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron announces a plan for a "reassurance force" in Ukraine.

From Free West Media, ending the scapegoating of South Africa's Afrikaners amid the ANC's corruption.

From ReMix, French customs authorities find she-don't-lie in some amazing places.

From Balkan Insight, a court in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina finds a Serb former policeman guilty of raping a Bosniak woman in 1992.

From The North Africa Post, almost 1,000 athletes from 52 countries are expected to participate in Morocco's Marathon Des Sables in April.

From The New Arab, Syrians returning to their homes confront the threat of explosive devices left from the country's civil war.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, an Iranian journalist trades his microphone for a rifle and fights for Ukraine.

From Hasht e Subh, under Taliban rule, girls in several provinces of Afghanistan turn to drugs amid depression.

From The Hans India, Indian Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy points out the producing a billion tonnes of coal is a collective effort.

From the Hindustan Times, police in Delhi, India bust a vehicle theft ring connected to a kingpin based in Dubai, UAE.

From ANI, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, Bangladeshis and Rohingyas enter India through the state of West Bengal.

From India Today, the Indian Army plans to permanently deploy the new "72 Infantry Division" in the eastern part of the territory of Ladakh to guard the border with China.

From The Dhaka Tribune, travel during Eid in Bangladesh could face some major disruptions.  (Although the article doesn't specify which Islamic festival of Eid is meant, I believe that it's Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month Ramadan.  The other festival is Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.)

From New Age, observers of Eid-ul-fitr in Bangladesh face extortionists.  (The article uses a spelling different from "Eid al-Fitr" above.  This might be due to Arabic words being adopted into Bengali.)

From the Daily Mirror, an Indian couple returning from Thailand via Sri Lanka with their young child are arrested cannabis of the "Kush" variety is found in their luggage.

From the Colombo Gazette, 11 Indian fisherman are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan waters.

From the Bangkok Post, Thailand's cabinet approves a bill for casinos and entertainment complexes.

From Jewish News Syndicate, French Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls admits that hatred of the Jews "comes essentially from the Arab-Muslim world".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a migrant from Bulgaria allegedly attacks and rapes his ex-girlfriend in Frankfurt am Mein, Germany because she would not swear on the Koran.  (Muslims constitute 9.8 percent of Bulgaria's population.  If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From BBC News, according to police, five people were injured in a stabbing spree in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

From Gatestone Institute, the Alien Enemies Act, separation of powers, "public safety", and the word "or".

From Radio Free Asia, the Arakan Army, which controls most of the Myanmar state of Rakhine, plans to start conscripting both men and women.

From The Stream, how far did Trump go acting against election fraud, and what threats are still around?

From The Daily Signal, the real oligarchs who run the U.S.

From The American Conservative, if judges can obstruct the will of the people, then we no longer have a democracy.

From The Western Journal, after a group of Republican Senators blast Vice President Vance, they are blasted by Donald Trump the Younger.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tells a U.K. reporter to go back home, which has a significant migrant problem.

From The Daily Wire, Vance looks back and pays it forward while visiting the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia.

From the Daily Caller, former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza predicts a "really bad" two months for former President Biden.

From the New York Post, why students who get accepted into Ivy League schools are rejected elsewhere.

From Breitbart, a former Freddie Mac employee is arrested for allegedly making bomb threats against its headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

From Newsmax, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) jokingly predicts that pop singer Taylor Swift will write a song about the "terrible breakup" between the Chief Twit and the Democrats.

And from The Betoota Advocate, the original version of "brain rot" was playing Minesweeper without knowing its rules.

Friday, March 21, 2025

Friday Fuss

On a sunny but cool Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, get rid of the Department of Education, with legislation.

From FrontpageMag, former President Biden wants his fellow Democrats to put him back in the action.

From Townhall, USAID is allegedly implicated in a government-backed censorship scheme.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration revokes the visa of a graduate student at Cornell University allegedly called for the U.S. to be destroyed.  (If you visit any country other than your own, calling for its destruction is probably not a good idea.)

From the Washington Examiner, authorities arrest 15 suspected members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 in Washington, D.C.

From The Federalist, left-wing lawfare attempts to keep accused murderers and rapists in the U.S.

From American Thinker, what should we expect from the recently released Kennedy assassination documents?

From MRCTV, CNN calls out California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) for lying that his office never used the term "Latinx".

From NewsBusters, how can the left ignore scientist Freeman Dyson and the Chief Twit?

From Canada Free Press, Democrats are busted for not burning their own Teslas.

From TeleSUR, Panamanian police repress a protest against the privatization of social security in the province of Colon.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the renewable energy scam is costing £100 billion and counting.

From Snouts in the Trough, what is really driving energy security secretary Ed Miliband's Net Zero crusade?

From EuroNews, the German upper house, the Bundesrat, passes a large increase in military spending.

From ReMix, mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor promises a referendum on the E.U.'s migration pact if he is elected president of Ireland.

From Balkan Insight, the Albanian government's controversial ban on the platform TikTok is still only partially working.

From the Sarajevo Times, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina extends the detention of former Minister of Security Nenad Nešić.

From Total Croatia News, a large renovation finally starts at Croatia's Zadar Airport.  (In 2007, I arrived in Croatia at Zagreb Airport and was bused with my tour group to Zadar.)

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian Railways signs a contract to buy 30 new electric freight engines.

From The Malta Independent, a nurse from India is allegedly stabbed by a colleague at Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta.

From Malta Today, a fisherman is seen selling catsharks in the Maltese village of Xlendi.

From ANSA, at a march in the volcanic Campi Flegrei caldera west of Naples, Italy, policemen are pelted with eggs.

From SwissInfo, according to the Swiss government, Switzerland must participate in the aforementioned E.U. migration pact.

From France24, could French cheeses go extinct?

From RFI, France is accused of failing teenage migrants who are trapped in a legal limbo.

From The Portugal News, a tax exemption for first-time home buyers in Portugal becomes popular.

From Morocco World News, Morocco revamps its transportation system ahead of World Cup 2030.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is chosen to host the 2026 Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor.

From The New Arab, reports that Egypt will temporarily host 500,000 Palestinians in the governorate of North Sinai have been greatly exaggerated.

From Arutz Sheva, the report alleging that Egypt would temporarily take in 500,000 Palestinians.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Malmö FF soccer player Taha Ali wants giant mosques to be built all over Sweden.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Samnytt.  If you read French, read the story at Résistance Républicaine.)

From 9News, a woman in the Australian state of Victoria who forced her daughter to marry the man who eventually killed her loses an appeal of her sentence.

From AMU, the Taliban's Ministry of Education opens 43 new religious schools in six months.

From Gatestone, could Bangladesh become the next terror hub in southern Asia?

From Radio Free Asia, Myanmar's ruling junta admits misconduct in its conscription scheme.  (A government body has actually admitted doing something wrong.  That's not a UFO you've just seen, but a flying pig.)

From The Stream, a resolution against same-sex marriage fails in the North Dakota state Senate after some Senators receive death threats.  (What is this "tolerance" you speak of?)

From The Daily Signal, instead of learning from former Presidents Clinton and Obama, the Democrats keep on moving leftward.

From The American Conservative, are the deportations of criminal illegal aliens to El Salvador justifiable?

From The Western Journal, Trump says something about teachers that the establishment media wishes he didn't.

From BizPac Review, Trump suggests that people who vandalize Teslas could serve their resulting sentences in El Salvador.

From The Daily Wire, Trump offers to pay the overtime for the two stranded and recently rescued astronauts out of his own pocket, if necessary.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, swatting should be regarded as attempted murder, and maybe even terrorism.

From the New York Post, the U.S. military unveils its sixth generation fighter jet, whose name Trump understandably likes.

From Breitbart, former congresscritter Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) calls the aforementioned Chief Twit "incompetent", a "thief", and a "Nazi".  (Considering how rich and successful the Chief Twit has been, I'd love to be as incompetent as he is.)

And from Newsmax, according to Trump, Canada would be "cherished" as the 51st state of the U.S.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Saturday Stuff For The Ides Of March

On a cool and cloudy Saturday falling on the Ides of March, here are some things going on:

From National Review, U.S. and Iraqi forces team up to send a high-profile ISIS leader and another terrorist to their virgins.

From FrontpageMag, an Indian graduate student at Columbia University whose visa was revoked for advocating for violence self-deports.

From Townhall, President Biden's daughter Ashley faces scrutiny from the IRS over an unreported donation from inactive U.K. royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel has some powerful friends in the U.S., and a few enemies, too.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump orders strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and demands that Iran stops funding terrorists.

From American Thinker, Senator Mark Kelly (R-AZ) exposes the Democrats' hypocrisy about electric vehicles.

From NewsBusters, the media's selective coverage of political violence.

From TCW Defending Freedom, there's no cure in sight for coronavirus derangement syndrome.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian mullahs can never change or be our "friends".

From Radio Free Asia, North Korean soldiers allegedly sell their equipment in order to buy food.

From The Daily Signal, driving in Washington, D.C. has become hell, and Congress should do something about it.  (When I go into or through D.C., I usually take the Metro or a MARC commuter train.  I can't even remember the last time I was brave enough to drive in that place.)

From The American Conservative, the Ukrainian military offensive into the Russian oblast of Kursk was a miserable failure.

From The Western Journal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio designates South African Ambassador Ebrabhim Rasool persona non grata.

From BizPac Review, former Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D, I-AZ) exposes the Democrats' hypocrisy about the filibuster.

From The Daily Wire, is the U.S. washing DEI and BLM off its hands?

From the Daily Caller, the emerging Democrat field for 2028 might not be too good for liberals.

From the New York Post, the ice cream seller Mister Softee opens its first ever brick-and-mortar store on Long Island.  (Mister Softee has operated out of trucks for a very long time.  Some of them came through my neighborhood in western New York state when I was a Littlefoot.)

From Breitbart, Vice President Vance gets booed by left-wing crybabies at the Kennedy Center.

And from Newsmax, the Chief Twit might have his own version of Russian collusion.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, Director of National Intelligence nominee and former congresscritter (D-HI) Tulsi Gabbard is grilled during her confirmation hearing.

From FrontpageMag, a tale of pardons from Presidents Biden and Trump.

From Townhall, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Con) makes a fool of himself trying to trip up FBI Director nominee Kash Patel.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a CNN analyst blames President Trump for last night's deadly crash between a military helicopter and a civilian airline near Ronald Reagan National Airport.  (He thus shows that you can't spell "analyst" without "anal".)

From the Washington Examiner, the aforementioned Tulsi Gabbard refuses to call Edward Snowden a "traitor".

From The Federalist, a dozen programs for which the U.S. taxpayers are getting ripped off.

From American Thinker, how disgusting were Democratic Senators at the confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

From MRCTV, a man pretending to be a woman is arrested for allegedly bringing Molotov cocktails and knives to the Capitol building.

From NewsBusters, NPR called the two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station "stranded" until Trump returned to office.

From Canada Free Press, no matter what you call them, spending $50 million on condoms is a waste of money.

From TeleSUR, former Bolivian President Evo Morales will run to retake his former office, but with the support of a new political party.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a shameful Holocaust Memorial Day prayer minimizes the genocide of Jews by not mentioning them.  (As I said yesterday, and I must say again, discussing the Holocaust without mentioning "Jews" is like discussing American slavery without mentioning "blacks" or "Africans".)

From EuroNews, a plane carrying Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to a meeting with E.U. officials in Brussels, Belgium is forced to turn back due to air traffic control technical difficulties.

From ReMix, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes out against Christian Democratic Union party leader Friedrich Merz after he passes an immigration reform bill with the support of the party Alternative for Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Croatians boycott three retail chains and products such as Coca-Cola is response to rising prices.  (Boycotting sodas will probably improve their health.)

From The North Africa Post, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso leave the economic bloc ECOWAS.

From The New Arab, Syria faces a long road ahead now that former President Bashar al-Assad has been ousted.

From RAIR Foundation USA, Swedish Islam critic Salwan Momika, who once burned a Koran, is assassinated during a live broadcast.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at SVT.)

From Gatestone Institute, Islamist terror is alive and well in Africa.

From Radio Free Asia, a lawyer seeks the release of 42 Uyghurs from China who have been detained in Thailand for over 10 years.

From The Stream, Argentine President Javier Milei rips woke elites in Davos, Switzerland for their LGBT ideology and support for abortion.

From The Daily Signal, the aforementioned Kash Patel is the right person to fix the FBI.

From The American Conservative, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demands that the U.S. provide troops to Ukraine, which Trump should refuse.

From The Western Journal, the first victims of the aforementioned crash between a helicopter and an airliner are identified.

From BizPac Review, the Chief Twit considers suing recent vice presidential candidate Governor Tim Walz (D-Min) for making an allegedly defamatory claim.

From The Daily Wire, the twice-aforementioned Tulsi Gabbard promises a "laser-like focus" on "safety, security, and freedom".

From the Daily Caller, the twice-aforementioned Kash Patel tells Senator Dick Durban (D-Ill) that pardons go both ways.

From Breitbart, some employees of Meta protest the removal of tampons from men's bathrooms by bringing in their own.

From Newsmax, according to ranking member Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee will boycott the vote on Office of Management and Budget Director nominee Russell Vought.

And from the New York Post, if you try to shoplift at the store Happy Piranha in Truro, England, you might get arrested - by the store's owner himself.  (The article links to the source SWNS, to which you'll have to subscribe in order to read.)

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Sunday Stories

On a mostly sunny but cold (although a bit milder) Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump (U.S.) gets President Petro (Colombia) to accept illegal aliens deported from the U.S.

From FrontpageMag, Trump suggests moving the Gazan Palestinians to Egypt.  (The only problem with this idea is that Egypt doesn't want them.)

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, Democrats should be held to their own standards.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the Roman orator Cicero.

From the Washington Free Beacon, the last three times when the U.S. tried to acquire Greenland.

From American Thinker, the communist who convinced President Carter to give the Panama Canal to Panama.

From NewsBusters, Border Czar Tom Homan schools ABC's Martha Raddatz about illegal immigration.

From TCW Defending Freedom, beware the secular left's expedient Christianity.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Palestinian held in Israel, who is reportedly a Fatah official, refuses to return to Gaza in a ceasefire prisoner exchange.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas congratulates a terrorist released under the ceasefire, who killed Israeli civilians including a nine-month-old child.  (In other words, Abbas is congratulating a genuine baby-killer.)

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in December 2024.

From Radio Free Asia, musicians exiled from Myanmar find their voices elsewhere, including yours truly's neck of the woods.

From The Stream, the best argument for the existence of God might come from a medieval Muslim thinker known as Avicenna.

From the Daily Signal, the ludicrous reason why the film Reagan was disqualified for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

From The American Conservative, if federal employees have to show up to work in person, there will be a traffic nightmare in Washington, D.C.

From The Western Journal, First Lady Melania Trump exposes the Obamas for the frauds that they are.

And from The Poke, a bunch of Americans are upset that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not attend President Trump's inauguration.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Saturday Links

On a mild and sunny Saturday, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, a small village in Ohio near Cincinnati is being invaded by illegal aliens from Mauritania.  (If poverty is a "root cause" of illegal immigration, how did these Mauritanians have the means to travel from their home country in Africa to here?)

From The Washington Free Beacon, saying goodbye to President Biden's foreign policy.

From the Washington Examiner, happy birthday (tomorrow), Madame Vice President.

From American Thinker, someone is building migrant shelters in southern Mexico for moving migrants northward.

From NewsBusters, NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander gives presidential candidate Vice President Harris softball questions and plots strategy with her.

From Canada Free Press, most Americans want a return to normalcy.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "the oceans are boiling" and other tall tales.

From Snouts in the Trough, an Iraqi immigrant who has lived in Sweden for 20 years decides to go back, because it's safer there.

From The Jerusalem Post, social media personality Andrew Tate wants to die like the recently departed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar did.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel fights on alone, carrying a suicidal West by itself.

From The Stream, tens of thousands of Christians gather at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., some of them smashing an altar with the name "Ishtar" inscribed on it.

From The Daily Signal, here's why this year's presidential election really is the most important in our lives.

From The American Conservative, will Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confront her country's drug cartels?

From The Western Journal, Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits making a mistake while interviewing Harris.

From Breitbart, the Biden administration races to dole out billions of dollars for clean energy and bird choppers.

From Newsmax, gubernatorial candidate Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R-NC) calls his opponent Josh Stein (D) a "dyed in the wool, far left radical".

And from ABC7, Tompkins Square Park in New York City goes to the dogs.

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Vandalism In Front Of Union Station

Earlier today during my wandering around, I got to pass through Union Station in Washington, D.C., where a bunch of anti-Israel protesters had defaced some nearby structures.  Although a cleaning crew had removed most of the damage, some of the vandalism could still be seen.  If you look closely, you can see it on this replica of the Liberty Bell.  One entrance of Union Station is in the background.

Thursday, July 4, 2024

A Few Things For July 4th

Now that I've returned from a bit of exercise, as you're celebrating American independence, here are some things going on:

From National Review, happy 248th birthday, America.

From FrontpageMag, a tale of two revolutions, each with a significant date in July.

From Townhall, the sentence from President Biden that should terrify his fellow Democrats.

From the Washington Examiner, some tips for watching the Fourth of July fireworks on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

From The Federalist, why you should read The Federalist Papers, and where you could start.

From American Thinker, what the Preamble to the Constitution would look like if it were written by modern woke leftists.

From NewsBusters, the networks surely but slowly continue to turn on Biden.

From Canada Free Press, the Democrats are fixing to replace Biden with another dangerous-to-America candidate, who would get the approval of former President Obama.

From TeleSUR, Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum presents her incoming Cabinet.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "a tale of two elections".

From The Standard, according to exit polls, the U.K.'s Labour Party has won 410 seats in the House of Commons, a majority of 170 seats.  (On America's Independence Day, the country from which we became independent has held a parliamentary election.  The Standard appears to be the new name of what was called the Evening Standard.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, some top Tory parliamentcritters appear set to lose their seats.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Canadian parliamentcritter Anthony Housefather (Liberal-Montreal) condemns a flyer calling him a neo-Nazi and telling him to leave Canada.

From Gatestone Institute, what democracy really looks like.

From The Stream, the forgotten Founding Father whose steady hand wrote the Declaration of Independence and made it legible.

From The Daily Signal, Virginia decouples from California's electric vehicle mandate.

From The American Conservative, an examination of Biden's life and inner circle.

And from BizPac Review, actor and comedian Rob Schneider offers some good advice.

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Some Sunday Stuff

Now that I've been back home for over a whole, it's about time that I made a somewhat regular post.  On a warm sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From The Times Of Israel, Iranian state media tries to pass off video footage of a fire in Chile as destruction in Israel inflicted by Iranian rockets.

From Arutz Sheva, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman points out that one Iranian rocket was targeted at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

From The Jerusalem Post, pro-HamasPalestinian activists in Chicago applaud Iran's attack on Israel, and so do similar activists in Toronto, Canada.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel was completely justified in destroying Iran's terror facilities in Damascus, Syria.

From The Stream, after Israel successfully defends itself against Iran's attack, U.S. President Biden urges Israel to not respond.

From The American Conservative, a former fare hopper on the D.C. Metro makes his confessions.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Britain of the thatchers.  (These thatchers should not be confused with the family of a certain late U.K. prime minister.)

From Canada Free Press, the choice faced by the U.S. this coming November.

From National Review, the Biden doctrine of "don't" isn't working.

From FrontpageMag, former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) claims to support Israel after calling for an arms embargo against it.

From Townhall, unlike Biden, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) will support Israel if it retaliates against Iran.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about Republican foreign policy showing parallels between Presidents Reagan and Trump.

From the Washington Examiner, Fetterman advises Trump to "focus on his time in court" instead of on Pennsylvania.  (It's interesting that the man whose brain some of us were wondering about has apparently become the most reasonable Democrat in the U.S.)

From American Thinker, leftists push for gun control after every mass shooting, but miss their real cause.

From NewsBusters, when the media went after the Tea Party movement.

And from SFGATE, at this year's Coachella music festival, the band No Doubt had the best set, which only took them 30 years.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, the march for Israel in Washington, D.C. proves how broad the pro-Israel consensus is in the U.S.

From FrontpageMag, the media downplays the pro-Israel march.

From Townhall, well what do you know, the IDF finds another hospital in Gaza full of Hamas weapons.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Loudoun County, Virginia prosecutor Buta Biberaj (D) concedes to prosecutor-elect Bob Anderson (R).

From the Washington Examiner, why President Biden's attacks against Republicans on the issue of immigration won't work.

From The Federalist, a government-backed censorship tool is billed as an arbiter of truth.

From American Thinker, November 2024 isn't here yet.

From MRCTV, a group of woke astronomers demand that the Magellanic Clouds be renamed.  (My spellchecker objects to "Magellanic".  Have these scientists already gotten Blogspot to agree with them?)

From NewsBusters, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell claims that Israeli troops are shooting civilians trying to run away from the fighting.

From Canada Free Press, it's time for former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama to leave Washington, D.C.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela rejects any attempt by Guyana to drill for oil in the disputed maritime area of Essequibo.

From TCW Defending Freedom, who is your least favorite actor?

From Snouts in the Trough, the nightmare of "15-minute cities" is coming for you.

From EuroNews, Germany gets serious about planning to make its military "fit for war".

From Voice Of Europe, according to a survey, most Germans want to scale back their country's welfare system.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From ReMix, the U.K. Supreme Court strikes down the government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

From Balkan Insight, Greece is urged to drop its investigation of journalists summoned as suspects due to their investigation of the government's public procurements during the coronavirus pandemic.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The North Africa Post, Morocco considers establishing military industry zones.

From The New Arab, what is the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza?  (To learn the answer, read the article below from The Daily Wire.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, five Syrians beat up passengers on a train in Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Soester-Anzeiger.)

From The Times Of Israel, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accuses Israel of doing what Hamas has done.

From Jewish News Syndicate, 59 U.S. troops have been injured in attacks in Syria and Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, video footage shows an IDF soldier throwing back grenades at Hamas during its attack on a music festival.

From The Jerusalem Post, a reporter for Al Jazeera turns away from a Gazan who starts to criticize Hamas.

From Gatestone Institute, secularism versus theocracy in Bangladesh - and elsewhere.

From The Stream, it's time for the woke Church to wake up.

From The Daily Signal, with the electoral defeat of the aforementioned prosecutor Buta Biberaj, every leader involved in the botched response to the rape of a teenage girl is now gone from office.

From BizPac Review, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) threatens to deport Vice President Harris back to her "liberal homeland" of California.

From The Daily Wire, the IDF raids the aforementioned Al-Shifa hospital, sends at least five Hamas terrorists to their virgins, and delivers important medical supplies.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and congresscritter Mary Miller (R-IL) introduce legislation to protect kids from inappropriate online material.

From the New York Post, New Hampshire defies Biden and sets next January 23rd as the date for the first primary in the U.S.

From Breitbart, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal tries to charge her electric vehicle in Los Angeles County, California, and finds that 40 percent of them don't work.

From Newsmax, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announces that she will run for reelection.

And from the Genesius Times, the singer known as Pink threatens to force conservatives to listen to her music if they don't start to support gay adult material in schools.

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Sunday Stuff

On a cool and clear Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan shares the U.S. vision for the Gaza Strip.

From Townhall, the liberal media keeps going after Speaker Johnson (R-LA).

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the Chief Twit.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Brian Higgins (D-NY) decides to get out while the gettin' is good.

From American Thinker, setting straight the Catholic Church's record on slavery.

From NewsBusters, NPR and Nina Jankowicz (of the Disinformation Governance Board) whine that it's "open season" on social media censors ahead of the 2024 election.

From TCW Defending Freedom, King Charles III should call a national day of prayer in the U.K.

From Sky News, a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia has to be evacuated after a pro-HamasPalestine protest is staged in front of it.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas terrorists fire on IDF soldiers trying to evacuate Gazan civilians.

From Middle East Eye, at least 1,300 people, mostly Massalit civilians, are killed in the Sudanese region of West Darfur.

From Gatestone Institute, a look at a demonstration in Paris.

From The Stream, the blame always goes to Israel.

From BizPac Review, President Biden appears lost and confused during a wreath laying ceremony on Veterans day.

From The Daily Wire, IDF soldiers find an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf in a child's room in Gaza that was used as a terror base.

From the Daily Caller, the U.S. military strikes Iranian-backed targets in Syria.

From the New York Post, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) tells current Governor Kathy Hochul (D) to deploy the National Guard due to the recent rise in antisemitism.

From Breitbart, Jewish families leaving a synagogue in London are harassed by pro-HamasPalestinian protesters.

From Newsmax, according to former President Trump's lawyer Alina Habba, a motion for mistrial is coming "very soon".

And from The Mount Airy News, the Baltimore Orioles promote a resident of Mount Airy, Maryland to director of draft operations.

Thursday, May 18, 2023

A Few Things For Thursday

On a sunny and reasonable warm Thursday, here are a few things going on:

From the Daily Caller, Palo Alto grants a celebrity chef an exception from its rule against gas stoves.  (As you may have heard, rules are for the little people.)

From Fox News, a teenage boy in Michigan who used a slingshot to save his sister from being kidnapped claims that he "was just lucky".

From Politico, Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) sees a "path" toward finding a debt ceiling deal.  (via Newsmax)

From the New York Post, New York City police confirm that a body pulled from the Harlem River is one of two boys who went missing.

From The Daily Wire, former Biden administration official Sam Brinton, previously suspected of stealing clothes, is arrested in my neck of the woods for being an alleged "fugitive from justice".  (via National Review)

From FrontpageMag, when it comes to illegal immigration, President Biden is the Coyote-in-Chief.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Kentucky's poet laureate deletes Tweets calling Trump voters homophobic bigots.

From The Federalist, Republican congresscritters on the House Natural Resources Committee demand that the BLM extend its comment period for new rules on managing public land.  (No, not the BLM who riot and vandalize businesses, but the one which decides how public land is used.)

From American Thinker, Starbucks promotes transgenderism - in India.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the battle for real conservatives to take back the U.K.'s Conservative Party.

From Gatestone Institute, Biden's dithering is harming Ukraine's prospects for victory against Russia's invasion.

From The Stream, the geese aren't silly, we are.

From The American Conservative, the end of Title 42 is aiming at our cities.

And from Sky News, according to clay tablets found in Mesopotamia, people were kissing as early as 4,500 years ago.