Monday Links

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

From National Review, political activists vie to set the narrative on the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting.

From FrontpageMag, left-wingers try to remake Christianity in their image.

From Townhall, it seems like the Southern Poverty Law Center engaged in a false flag operation in Wisconsin.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Adam Hamawy (D-NJ) denies the presence and tunnels of Hamas at the hospital in Gaza where he worked.

From the Washington Examiner, First Lady Melania Trump doesn't appreciate late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's monologue which mentions her having "a glow like an expectant widow".

From The Federalist, Vice President Vance should not pause his war against welfare fraud.

From American Thinker, "shipbuilding is national security".  (Emphasis in original)

From NewsBusters, MS NOW is stumped about the alleged White House Correspondents Dinner shooter's "motive" and "ideology", appearing to ignore his manifesto.

From Canada Free Press, despite claims by Fox News, the downfall of Trump's presidency is not inevitable.

From TeleSUR, Argentine Infrastructure Secretary Carlos Frugoni resigns after his alleged financial crimes are revealed.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the aftermath of the murders of three girls in Southport, England.

From Snouts in the Trough, the mainstream European media deserve shame.

From EuroNews, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukraine's bid to join the E.U. might depend on making territorial concessions.

From ReMix, Moroccan human traffickers train migrants from sub-Sahara Africa to paraglide over the border fence with the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

From Balkan Insight, a Kosovo court finds OSCE staffer Jelena Djukanović guilty of spying for Serbia.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria uses al-Qaeda-linked JNIM terrorists and Tuareg separatists to destabilize Mali.

From The New Arab, local elections in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip have a 23 percent turnout.

From Arutz Sheva, IDF soldiers find Hezbollah weapons in a children's bedroom in southern Lebanon.

From The Times Of Israel, candidates backed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's party Fatah win most of the Palestinian local elections, including those in the aforementioned Deir-al-Balah.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump is right in that laws in the Middle East against normalization with Israel "crazy".

From The Daily Signal, Texas takes multiple actions to deter oil theft.

From The American Conservative, is the key to ending the war against Iran found in Lebanon?

From The Western Journal, former President Obama tries to get away with a lie about the aforementioned White House Correspondents Dinner shooting.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) husband's wine company is officially dissolved.  (Did it ever exist in the first place?)

From the Daily Caller, First Granddaughter Kai Trump has a "scary" medical situation while attending the Masters golf tournament.

From the New York Post, according to a study, things that go bump in the night in your house are not caused by ghosts but by old pipes.

From Breitbart, musician Bruce Springsteen sends "prayers of thanks" that Trump wasn't harmed at the White House Correspondents Dinner, after comparing his administration to the Nazis.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Andy Harris (R-MD) says "build the ballroom".  (Harris is the only Republican congresscritter from Maryland.)

And from The Babylon Bee, left-wingers welcome the increasing diversity of Trump's would-be assassins.

A Sasquatch's Wednesday Baker's Dozen

On a warm and sunny Wednesday, now that I'm back from running around, here are 13 things going on:

From National Review, the left-wing group Southern Poverty Law Center is indicted for allegedly paying money to an informant involved in planning the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From FrontpageMag, more on the Southern Poverty Law Center's indictment.

From Townhall, CNN host Scott Jennings points out that the redistricting in Virginia is about power, not fairness.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor's "climate study" is bankrolled by a left-wing fund amid his push to force oil companies to pay for "extreme weather events".

From the Washington Examiner, a circuit court rules that the aforementioned redistricting in Virginia was unconstitutional.

From The Federalist, how Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito assembled the coalition that overturned Roe v. Wade.

From American Thinker, yes, they are eating the cats, and even doing something worse to them.

From NewsBusters, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas makes a "great" speech about the Declaration of Independence.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Equality Act has created institutional racism - against white people.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. parliamentcritter Darren Jones, who once claimed that most of the people in boats approaching England were women and children, announces a leak investigation.

From Gatestone Institute, European "Jew-hate with a vengeance".

From The American Conservative, will the deep state win again on government surveillance?

And from the Genesius Times, under scrutiny from the House Ethics Committee, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) quietly shuts down her "Quality Winary Center".

Point Lookout Confederate War Memorial

While driving back from Point Lookout State Park, I made a brief stop at the Point Lookout Prisoners of War Memorial, dedicated to Confederates who were held prisoner at the Point Lookout POW camp.  The memorial includes a statue and a model of a wooden fort, both on top of a brick structure and surrounded by flagpoles.

Point Lookout State Park

After my visit to Historic St. Mary's City, I continued on to Point Lookout State Park, which is the southernmost point in Maryland west of the Chesapeake Bay.  Within the park are the remains and reconstructed buildings of a fort built during the Civil War.  Here are some of its earthworks.

St. Mary's City, Maryland

Although my undisclosed location is in Virginia, I was able to drive to some places in Maryland today.  I first went to Historic St. Mary's City, which was the capital of the British colony of Maryland from 1634 to 1695.  This is the reconstructed State House, behind some trees.

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, President Trump smacks the Supreme Court ahead of his State of the Union address.

From FrontpageMag, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) frees the worst sex offenders in the U.S.

From Townhall, a CNN contributor shows how the media have absolute contempt for families who have lost loved ones killed by illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a billionaire-funder super PAC does the dirty work for senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX).

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. men's hockey Olympic gold medal has become a political football.

From The Federalist, Republican politicians pretend that the courts will save us.

From American Thinker, why Democrats fight so hard on behalf of illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld nukes the "shut-in bloggers" at the HuffPost for their screed against the aforementioned U.S. men's Olympic hockey team.

From Canada Free Press, the collapse of marriage and childbirth in the U.S. won't recover without one change.

From TeleSUR, 16 former Salvadorian police officers and military personnel are sentenced for the extrajudicial killings of alleged gang members in 2019 and 2020.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a FOI request reveals that children in the U.K. died after receiving a coronavirus vaccination.

From EuroNews, Italy investigates the disappearance of military aircraft parts worth €17 million.

From ReMix, beef from Brazil contaminated with a banned growth hormone arrives in the E.U., thus proving opponents of the trade deal Mercosur right.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo upholds a former intelligence chief's jail sentence for deporting six alleged "Gulenists" to Turkey in 2018.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco produces more steel than it needs.

From The New Arab, Lebanese government workers strike as increases in fuel prices and VAT exceed their pay hikes.

From Khaama Press, according to the World Food Programme, millions of people in Afghanistan face hunger as Ramadan begins.

From Hasht e Subh, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, almost five million people returned to Afghanistan during the past two years.

From AMU, the Afghanistan Cricket Board appoints British coach Richard Pybus as head coach of Afghanistan's national cricket team.

From Dawn, two policemen are killed in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

From The Express Tribune, a court in Islamabad, Pakistan grants bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former First Lady Bushra Bibi.

From Pakistan Today, an international coalition of scholars and human rights advocates speaks out for the aforementioned Imran Khan's health and demands that he has medical access.

From The Hans India, 104 alleged fraudsters are arrested in 16 Indian states.

From the Hindustan Times, how will the name of the Indian state of Kerala be changed?

From ANI, police in Hyderabad, India arrest a driver of a cash delivery vehicle for allegedly stealing some of the cash, which was bound for ATMs.

From India Today, two sisters in Bhopal, India are arrested for allegedly running a sex and religious conversion racket.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a kidnapped schoolboy is rescued due to an intervention by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

From New Age, Bangladesh Railway will start selling intercity train tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr on March 3rd.

From Gatestone Institute, China runs biological weapons labs in the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, the Border Patrol Union blames the Biden administration for a Mexican drug cartel having "military-grade weapons".

From The American Conservative, neocons worry that Trump will not attack Iran.

From The Western Journal, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is filmed praising a group of Muslims glorifying the killing of Christians and Jews.

From BizPac Review, Bastrop County, Texas drops its proposal to rename part of a highway after slain rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.

From the Daily Caller, country singer Charley Crockett cancels the Canadian part of his tour because Canada denies him entry due to a past drug conviction.

From the New York Post, otters at an aquarium in Baltimore enjoy the snow.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, voters in swing states are less likely to vote for any Democratic Senator who voted to shut down the Department of Homeland Security.

From Newsmax, a Serbian security expert calls on U.S. President Trump to intervene in tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

And from the Genesius Times, the aforementioned Gavin Newsom carries out a drive-by shooting in Compton, California to prove that he's "just like them".

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)

Presidents Day Links

On a cold and cloudy Monday, falling on Presidents Day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the affordability problem in California that Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) fans don't want to talk about.

From FrontpageMag, who is the real "tyrant", "fascist", or "xenophobe"?

From Townhall, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied about deportations under her husband Mr. Bill and then-President Obama while speaking in Munich, Germany.

From the Washington Examiner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio boasts of a "golden era of relations" between the U.S. and Hungary.

From The Federalist, five things to know about the school transgender bathroom policy in New Richmond, Wisconsin.

From American Thinker, the real greenhouse gas is not carbon dioxide.

From NewsBusters, CBS host Norah O'Donnell lets my governor scoot around questions about his honesty.

From Canada Free Press, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is "the last moderate Democrat".

From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney taps former Privy Council clerk Janice Charette as Canada's chief negotiator for a review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.

From Global News, what we know about the investigation of the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.

From CTV News, a woman is found dead inside a garbage bin in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

From TeleSUR, Colombia turns over the remains of Catholic "guerilla priest" Camilo Torres, who was killed by the Colombian army 60 years ago today.

From the Express, the party Reform UK humiliates Prime Minister Keir Starmer as his Labour Party reverses its decision to postpone 30 local elections.

From The Standard, two people are dead and one other critically wounded in stabbings in the city where (so I've thought) knives are illegal.

From the Independent, an Amazon delivery van gets trapped on the Essex mudflats due to a GPS error.

From the Irish Independent, gardaí in County Wicklow, Ireland investigating the disappearance of missing women Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob bring in an excavator.

From the Irish Examiner, the increasing cost of making pancakes doesn't stop Cork, Ireland from holding its annual pancake flipping race.

From TCW Defending Freedom, smart meters are merely a way for the elites to control everyone else.

From Snouts in the Trough, the aforementioned Labour Party's great idea is to shackle the U.K.'s people to the E.U.

From EuroNews, French police raid the Arab World Institute in Paris in connection with its former president Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline, over suspected financial links to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From ReMix, the German party Berlin Greens calls for taking in climate refugees and ending deportations despite Berlin's housing and fiscal crises.

From Balkan Insight, the Albanian governing Socialist Party that would grant immunity to senior government officials.  (In other words, one set of rules for senior officials, another for everyone else.)

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. appoints a chargé d'affaires to succeed Ambassador to Algeria Elizabeth Aubin, instead of a new ambassador.

From The New Arab, the Syrian government turns its attention to the province of Suweida.

From Organiser, a "white collar" terror cell planned to carry out attacks in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From Sp!ked, where is the anger over the plot to attack Jews in Manchester, England?

From Gatestone Institute, the new Palestinian "constitution" is about destroying Israel.

From The Daily Signal, some facts about George Washington that you might not know.

From The American Conservative, according to congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY), the Department of Justice is still withholding some documents related to the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Western Journal, an anti-ICE agitator protester gets arrested and then calls for her "mommy".

From BizPac Review, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Democrat extortionists won't budge on Homeland Security funding until ICE personnel take off their masks.

From the Daily Caller, the Chief Twit endorses the pro-deportation "Restore Britain" party.

From Alpha News, an anti-ICE group in Minneapolis "jury nullification training".  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, a man in San Diego, California impersonates an ICE officer and tackles a McDonald's employee.

From Fox News, Berlin Film Festival Director Tricia Tuttle defends the right of American actor not answering political questions "their right of free speech".  (She's correct because the right to free speech includes the right to not speak.  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From Newsmax, under President Trump, agreements between ICE and local law enforcement have increased by 950 percent.

And from Breitbart, Oscar winner Robert Duvall, known for movies such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, goes to the soundstage in the sky.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, Border Czar Tom Homan announces that the Trump administration is pulling 700 federal agents out of Minnesota due to cooperation by local officials.

From FrontpageMag, the illegal invasion of the U.S. hits its lowest level since 1970.

From Townhall, antisemitic incidents greatly increase in Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) New York City.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor claims that the KKK ran his great-grandfather out of South Carolina, but church records tell a different story.

From the Washington Examiner, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touts the keto diet as a cure for schizophrenia.

From The Federalist, Congress could solve the problem of entitlement fraud overnight, but won't.

From American Thinker, climate change zealots scramble to explain why polar bears are fatter and healthier than ever.

From NewsBusters, the White House Briefing Room has a new seating chart.

From Canada Free Press, a left-wing protester calls a black ICE officer a "house-[N-word]".

From TeleSUR, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promotes a "non-military confrontation" strategy for dealing with criminals.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when Islamists say that they're at war with the West, why don't we believe them?

From Snouts in the Trough, is kowtowing to China U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's latest betrayal?  (The post has yesterday's date but is labeled a "Wednesday blog", so I'll let the date slide.)

From EuroNews, E.U. countries loan Ukraine another €90 billion.

From ReMix, a Hungarian court sentences a German transgender ProFa thug to eight years in prison for his involvement with an extremist network called the Hammer Gang.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From Balkan Insight, police in Durres, Albania arrest 20 people in connection with an operation to traffic hazardous waste to Thailand.

From The North Africa Post, Spain's highest criminal court rejects a request from Algeria to extradite former Senator Abdelkader Djedia.

From The New Arab, what we know about the killing of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

From The Jerusalem Post, Saudi media ramp up their rhetoric against Israel.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Syrian journalist Mustafa al-Miqdad claims that some Gazans send their children into harm's way hoping that they will be injured by the IDF and then collect compensation from the Palestinian authority.

From Sky News, Islamist gunmen kill at least 170 people in Woro, Nigeria.

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, European leftists want to replace the native working class with migrants.

From Gatestone Institute, the Pakistani terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed launches its first-ever women's wing.

From The Daily Signal, actress Billie Eilush's declaration that "no one is illegal on stolen land" shows the incongruity of the left's victimhood worldview.

From The American Conservative, the Epstein files could bury the aforementioned Keir Starmer.

From The Western Journal, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) ran as a "moderate" and promised "affordability", but left-wingers immediately proposed a radical tax-first agenda.

From BizPac Review, an Australian political activist sets up a GiveSendGo account for travel to the U.S. and squat on the aforementioned Billie Eilish's mansion.

From the Daily Caller, prolific online left-winger Will Stancil gets mugged by reality.

From the New York Post, the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani endorses New York Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) bid for reelection.

From Breitbart, an opinion against all gun control.

From Newsmax, The Washington Post cuts its staff by one third.

And from The Babylon Bee, a bill to require voter ID is suspiciously defeated in the Senate by vote of 7 million to 53.

Snowday Links

The anticipated winter storm is now upon yours truly's part of the world.  On a cold and snowy Sunday, here are some things (brrrr) going on:

From FrontpageMag, as New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) turns town federal aid to protest ICE, three people in New York City freeze to death.

From Townhall, three cousins in my part of the world are charged with tax fraud and conspiracy to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about how DEI and identity politics are infecting the American healthcare industry.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino, the agents who took down activist Alex Pretti did a "good job".

From American Thinker, how the Democratic Party really isn't.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post puts the anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis on page 1 but says nothing about the March for Life.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Online Safety Act has become the West's worst system of mass censorship.

From the Daily Mail, Sudan's child soldiers head to certain death.

From The Jerusalem Post, police officers at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport arrest a Lebanese man accused of supplying weapons and ammunition for a Hamas-linked terror plot.

From Arutz Sheva, the death toll in Iran's crackdown on protests reportedly exceeds 36,000.

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in November 2025.

From The Daily Signal, "why young Americans march for life".

From The Western Journal, President Trump's desire to have Somali-American criminals denaturalized is easier said than done.

From the New York Post, preparing for wintry weather, New Yorkers stock up on bread, milk, eggs - and weed.

From Breitbart, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara puts feelings over facts.  (Could this guy be related to another Chief O'Hara?)

And from Newsmax, American rock climber Alex Honnold climbs the Taipei 101 tower with neither ropes nor protective equipment.  (This shows the thin line between "badass" and "Darwin Award qualifier".)

Tuesday Things

On the sunny and cold weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump takes on the world.

From FrontpageMag, New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) criminalizes a Jewish group for speaking against Islamic terrorism.

From Townhall, dairy farmers in Pennsylvania celebrate the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Minnesota state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) defends the left-wing activists who disrupted a church service.

From the Washington Examiner, my most recent former governor declines to challenge the current one.

From The Federalist, Christians, including pastors, are allowed to work for ICE as they enforce immigration laws.

From American Thinker, civil rights belong to all Americans, not just to blacks and leftists.

From NewsBusters, actress Pam Grier claims to have seen lynched bodies hanging from trees in Ohio, but the last lynching in the state was in 1911.

From Canada Free Press, equal protection should be based on biological reality, including in sports.

From TeleSUR, Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast will present his cabinet ministers in a ceremony that will be overshadowed by wildfires.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the defection of U.K. parliamentcritter Robert Jenrick from the Tories to Reform matters.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K. turning into another California?

From EuroNews, according to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Danish sovereignty over Greenland is not negotiable.

From ReMix, 72 percent of welfare recipients in St. Pölten, Austria are foreigners.  (If you read German, read the story at Freilich.)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accepts U.S. President Trump's invitation to join the Peace Board for Gaza.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI accepts Trump's invitation to join the Peace Board for Gaza.

From The New Arab, the oldest Catholic church in Kuwait is elevated to Minor Basilica status.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Swiss Jews welcome the removal of Al Jazeera from two media platforms in Switzerland.

From the Daily Mail, 1,500 inmates escape from Shaddadi prison in Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, an Israeli comedian arrives at the airport in Toronto, Canada, is detained and interrogated for six hours, and later assaulted.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U.'s "woke Stasi commissars" are turning Europeans into "second class" citizens.

From the Daily Signal, congress reaches a deal on funding ICE.

From The American Conservative, neocons are in sorrow because the U.S. is not attacking Iran.

From The Western Journal, Trump publishes text messages about Greenland from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

From BizPac Review, after Indiana defeats Miami in the college football championship game, Indiana quarterback and Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza celebrates with his MS-stricken mother.

From the Daily Caller, where did media star Jennifer Welch come from?

From the New York Post, protesters in Zurich, Switzerland burn an American flag and vandalize American businesses ahead of Trump's trip to the city of Davos.

From Breitbart, a book by Peter Schweizer exposes the radical foreign groups that, according to him, helped elect President Obama.

From Newsmax, the Trump administration has deported or turned back 540,000 illegal aliens over the past year.

And from SFGate, myths about earthquakes that even Californians wrongly believe.

Sunday Stuff

While I was in Pennsylvania, I learned that the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and brought them back here.  Thus, my expectation that 2026 would tell 2025 to "hold my beer" was fulfilled very quickly.  Now that I'm back on a cold and partly sunny Sunday, here are some (other) things going on:

From FrontpageMag, Democrats have been hypocritical about Venezuela.

From Townhall, a year ago, one of my Senators sang a different tune about Maduro than he is now.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump warns Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez against resisting the U.S.

From American Thinker, an amazing start to 2026.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Abby Phillip accuses YouTube user Nick Shirley of being racist and making an inaccurate video.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how migrants dominate the U.K.'s social housing debate.

From The Times Of Israel, a Palestinian from Tulkarem, West Bank is given a life sentence for fatally stabbing a Holocaust survivor.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Israel's Foreign Ministry presents evidence alleging that two staffers of the NGO Doctors Without Borders are also members of terrorist organizations.

From The Cable, terrorists kill 42 people and kidnap children in the Nigerian state of Niger.

From Arutz Sheva, when freedom is more valued in dictatorial Eastern countries than in the West.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, there already is a Palestinian state.  (The last five stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, if Trump really wants Hamas to disarm, he must forget about its supporters, and the Palestinian Authority.

From The American Conservative, knocking over the Venezuelan government will be the easy part.

From the Daily Caller, Maduro gets his perp walk.

And from the New York Post, Maduro appeared to taunt the U.S., invoking John Lennon.

Wednesday Wanderings For The End Of 2025

On a cold and cloudy Wednesday on the last day of the year, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the things in 2025 that were overrated and underrated.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump's comments on recently murdered actor/director Rob Reiner.

From Townhall, the Trump administration sues Virginia over granting in-state college tuition to illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, sharing a nomination for TWFB Men of the Year are the Minnesota motorists who called Governor Tim Walz (D) the R-word.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Lauren Boebert (R-Col) suggests that Trump vetoed a bill to build a water pipeline in Colorado in "retaliation" to a petition to release the Epstein files.

From The Federalist, the top ten media hoaxes for 2025, including one about a "Maryland man".

From American Thinker, actor George Clooney gets slammed on social media for his string of hypocrisies.

From NewsBusters, the ten most-read NB stories of 2025.

From Canada Free Press, 2026 will be "a walk into the great unknown".

From TeleSUR, Chile goes on red alert due to the risk of forest fires.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is the Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, the U.K.'s last hope?

From EuroNews, Helsinki police investigate damage to undersea cables extending between Finland and Estonia.

From Balkan Insight, tributes to notable people in the Balkans who passed away in 2025.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccans saved 29.7 percent of their GDP in the third quarter of 2025.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia says that it needs to know that the UAE is "serious" about pulling its troops out of Yemen.

From the Daily Mail, the U.K.'s Labour Party rules out deporting an Egyptian dissident over his Tweets calling for Jews to be killed, because they don't regard this as sufficiently bad.

From Gatestone Institute, why Israel and U.S. President Trump should be cautious about allowing Pakistani troops into Gaza.

From The Daily Signal, as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani gets ready to take over New York City, private property owners take cover.

From The American Conservative, are American suburbs the cause of our social problems?

From The Western Journal, Trump issues his first two vetoes of his second term in office.

From BizPac Review, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) calls for visa revocation, deportation, and denaturalization due to the fraud in Minnesota.

From the Daily Caller, a convicted Somali fraudster in Minnesota used his ill-gotten money to buy land in Kentucky.

From Breitbart, actor Michael Rapaport announces his run for New York City mayor in 2029.

From Newsmax, Trump calls the aforementioned Tim Walz a "crooked governor".

And from the New York Post, if you have squatters on your property, a samurai-inspired company can remove them.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, the DNC cannot reveal why it lost the 2024 elections.

From FrontpageMag, polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct.

From Townhall, an illegal alien from El Salvador is released from jail in Reston, Virginia after a district attorney refuses to prosecute him, and a day later allegedly kills someone.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor made a campaign ad in 2022, praising Maryland public schools, which was filmed inside the elite private school attended by his kids.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will step up its efforts to denaturalize immigrants who got their citizenship fraudulently.

From The Federalist, the real target of the left's attack on Confederate General Robert E. Lee is America itself.

From American Thinker, President Trump's speech yesterday was bombastic but accurate.

From NewsBusters, ABC rages over Trump's speech.

From Canada Free Press, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) opens the door for legalizing assisted suicide.

From TeleSUR, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum offers to promote a peaceful solution between the U.S. and Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, let's be honest about the terror attack at Australia's Bondi Beach.

From EuroNews, according to the Estonian foreign ministry, three Russian border guards briefly entered Estonian territory.

From Euractiv, Brussels, Belgium gets inundated with tractors.  (It's been a while since I've used this source.  I don't even remember why I dropped it.  So let me give it another chance for the time being.)

From ReMix, a right-wing activist in Berlin successfully defends himself against two ProFa thugs.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian parliamentcritters throw bottles and clash with guards.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government allocates 121,000 hectares of state-owned agricultural land for projects by young people.  (A hectare is about 2.47 acres.)

From The New Arab, Egypt hints at possibly intervening in Sudan's civil war.

From The Jerusalem Post, over 1,000 civilians have reportedly been killed, about one third by summary execution, by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan after they took over a displacement camp.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas calls the October 7th, 2023 massacre as "the greatest day in Palestinian history".

From The Times Of Israel, the U.K. makes its first arrests for chants of "globalize the intifada".

From Gatestone Institute, the lament of foreign journalists and why Hamas suddenly wants them in Gaza.

From The Daily Signal and the "believe it or not" department, the acting head of the EEOC urges white males to promptly report discrimination.

From The American Conservative, few magazine editors have had the talent or influence that the recently departed Norman Podhoretz did.

From The Western Journal, in his Presidential Walk of Fame, Trump trolls Mr. Bill.  (Oh, noooooo!)

From BizPac Review, the NEA keeps on shoveling out the woke garbage.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter and gubernatorial candidate Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has gone full MAGA, but Trump still hasn't endorsed her.

From the New York Post, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. adds Trump to its name.  (This is sure to drive some people bonkers, as Trump tends to do.)

From Breitbart, a former mayor of Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico hides in a bathroom to avoid attending an anti-corruption hearing.

From Newsmax, for some 'holiday cheer", the Department of Homeland Security rolls out their latest "worst of the worst" list.

And from SFGate, a new martini at the Marea restaurant in Beverly Hills, California is gonna cost ya quite a bit, pilgrim.

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, more Department of Justice hijinks is the story of illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

From FrontpageMag, one of the largest mosques in the U.S. calls President Trump "garbage".

From Townhall, a 13-year-old boy is arrested at his school while allegedly in possession of about 1,500 suspected fentanyl pills.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "media darling" Hasan Piker as defined by 10 of his statements.

From the Washington Examiner, an ISIS-affiliated terrorist kills two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter near Palmyra, Syria.  (Yesterday, the WE required subscription in order to read its stories.  This requirement was not present today when I clicked on this one.  I hope that anyone clicking on this link also may freely read the story.)

From American Thinker, is my governor "another Democrat serial fabulist"?

From NewsBusters, David Frum of The Atlantic puts on his tinfoil hat and claims that Trump might arrest people to stop them from voting.

From TCW Defending Freedom, most countries don't care about greenhouse gas emissions.

From Gatestone Institute, Trump's policy toward Venezuela, which is Iran's "second home" in the Americas, is farsighted.

From The Daily Signal, a new "hate speech" bill under consideration by Canadian lawmakers targets freedom of speech and religion.

From The American Conservative, the inglorious final chapter of the Civil War.  (The article is about the Siege of Petersburg.  Go to this blog's archives from this past June to see Petersburg National Battlefield.)

And from Political Pistachio, today's Army-Navy football game is a reminder that the military supports our liberty.  (I met the blog's author, who is a Navy veteran, during a trip to California in 2009.)

Jerusalem Mill Village

Today I travelled west from my undisclosed location and visited Jerusalem Mill Village, located around the intersection of Jerusalem and Jericho Roads in Harford County, Maryland.  This large building was the original Jerusalem Mill, and is now the headquarters of Gunpowder Falls State Park.  You can see from the sign on the right that it was established in 1772.

Back To The Massey Air Museum

Today I returned to the Massey Air Museum near Massey, Maryland.  Due to my previous visit in February, I was informed of a pot luck open house on today's date.  Since I was again staying in the area, it was easy for me to get some food and drop in.  Once again, I walked past this DC-3, with picnic tables under its right wing.  No one was eating there due to the cold, but plenty of guests eventually ate in two large indoor rooms.

Checking In On Saturday

Hello from my latest undisclosed location in northeastern Maryland.  Today was partly sunny and a bit warmer than yesterday.  All the snow appears to have melted.  Before I start exploring, I'd like to present a few things going on:

From The Jerusalem Post, soon-to-be-former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (formerly D, now I) issues an executive order barring city officials from taking action against Israel.  (If anyone thinks that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) is going to leave Adams's order in place, I've got a bridge to sell you.)

From The Times Of Israel, Iranian authorities open a criminal case against the organizers of a marathon after female runners are seen running without wearing a hijab.

From Gatestone Institute, why should the Iranian government, now on its knees, be revived.

From The Stream, six myths about slavery.

From The American Conservative, let's make a bet on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's professional future.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the modern bureaucrat turns gold into [bleep].

From ReMix, Polish Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek files charges against former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, former Agriculture Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, and former Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak.

From National Review, the U.S. should not make the job of censors any easier.

From Townhall, a naval lawyer destroys the left's complaints about President Trump's airstrikes against narco-terrorists.

From American Thinker, if you run into a "404 Not Found", it might be censorship.

And from The Indian Express, a driver rams his car into a Christmas event on the French Caribbean island of Guadalupe, killing 10 people and injuring 9 others.

Down To The Ocean

Today I took a walk from my undisclosed location just a few blocks eastward to the beach and the Atlantic Ocean.  Or as we say in the Merlin dialect, I went "danny ayshun".  Unlike where I stayed in Virginia Beach this past July, my accommodations are not right on the beach.  Here are some waves coming at me.

Stephen Decatur Park

Earlier today I went to Stephen Decatur Park in Berlin, Maryland, to see what's there and get a bit of exercise.  The park is named after U.S. naval officer Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr., known for commanding ships during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.  The plaque on this monument refers to his birthplace, but he was born in Sinepuxent, Maryland, not in Berlin.  In front of the monument is a ship's anchor, or maybe a crude replica of one.