Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, what the pact between U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin reveals.

From FrontpageMag, a white woman is fired from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society for having a black hairstyle, perhaps an unintended consequence of Maryland's CROWN Act.

From Townhall, hundreds of child marriages take place in Islamic migrant communities in Germany.

From The Washington Free Beacon, in an old video, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) trashed the police. 

From the Washington Examiner, the Nobel Peace Prize given to former South Africa judge Navi Pillay rewards the lie accusing Israel of genocide.

From The Federalist, Democrats decry the search of congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) home after praising the raid of Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago under then-President Biden.

From American Thinker, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) carries water for Hamas.

From NewsBusters, new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia stuns the press corps with her first briefing.

From Canada Free Press, did Presidents Trump and Putin just kill London's oil game?

From TeleSUR, Argentina asks International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to stop an oil project near the Falkland Islands led by an Israeli oil company.  (Argentina and the article call these island the Malvinas Islands.)

From Snouts in the Trough, how the news gets twisted.

From the Irish Independent, according to Irish Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan, about one in every five prisoners in Ireland are not Irish.

From the Irish Examiner, neighbors describe an arson attack in Waterford, Ireland.

From VRT NWS, Belgian Fleming Philippa Jorissen helps in the search for Amelia Earhart's plane.

From The Brussels Times, a flower which Indonesians call the "corpse plant" is blooming in a botanical garden in Meise, Belgium.

From the NL Times, a man who allegedly set two fires at a pride event in Amsterdam went on line to praise ISIS and received money before the event.

From Dutch News, a two-year-old panda cub born in the Netherlands will be moved to China later this month.

From EuroNews, the French National Assembly opens its budget debate amid ongoing student protests.

From ReMix, more on the child marriages in Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev summons Russia's ambassador in response to new drone attacks in the Black Sea.

From The North Africa Post, the Canadian company Inkas Aerospace & Defense is in talks to build armored vehicles and drones for Morocco.

From The New Arab, Iraqi political parties reach an agreement with Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to complete his government.

From NDTV, who are the Yemeni Houthis and why do they attack Saudi Arabia.

From The Japan Times, Iraq has another power vacuum.

From the Abu Ali Express, the outlet Al Jazeera is in a campaign against Azerbaijan in response to its ban on girls wearing hijabs in schools.

From The Times Of India, English cricket player Ollie Pope withdraws from the inaugural draft for the Afghanistan Premier League over concerns of the Taliban's treatment of women.

From Gatestone Institute, China establishes an airbase in Laos.

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Omar seeks funds after the aforementioned search of her home.

From The American Conservative, the late Roy Cohn was a friend and an American.

From The Western Journal, Trump tells Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Ann Coulter sends the twice-aforementioned Ilhan Omar some pointed "well wishes".

From the Daily Wire, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg finds a new cause.

From the Daily Caller, a black man arrested for allegedly killing a police officer reportedly targeted the victim for being white.

From the New York Post, thanks to the aforementioned Mayor Mamdani, you can say goodbye to New York City's horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.

From Breitbart, during Spain's National Day parade in Madrid, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is accused of being a son of a female dog.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Mundo.)

From Newsmax, Pope Leo XIV successfully undergoes surgery to remove a nodule from his lung.

And from the Genesius Times, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) ends his campaign to star in a remake of the movie One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Stories For Columbus Day

On a warm and cloudy Monday on the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in the Bahamas, this year's federal holiday falling on today's date, here are some things going on:

From National Review, my governor has an unfinished bridge to sell you.

From FrontpageMag, celebrating Christopher Columbus - and hating him.

From Townhall, the criminal illegal alien recently shot by ICE was known for terrorizing the New York City apartment building where he lived.

From The Washington Free Beacon, gubernatorial candidate David Crowley (D-Wis) once backed a left-wing group that sought to build housing "for our sex offenders".  (How are these "our" sex offenders, Kemosabe?)

From the Washington Examiner, federal agents search the home of congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min).

From The Federalist, even female bosses can't stand the office environments created by feminism.

From American Thinker, the Cornell seven case is not just about sex, drugs, and accusations, but also about the disappearance of responsibility and due process.

From NewsBusters, CNN hosts clutch their pearls over the aforementioned search of Ilhan Omar's home.

From Canada Free Press, will this year include Canada's last recognizable Thanksgiving?  (Canada's Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October, which is today.)

From CTV News, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to people in the province of Alberta in a Thanksgiving message.

From Global News, early voting starts for a referendum in Alberta.

From CBC News, people are confused about the wording of questions in the Alberta referendum.

From the Express, Prime Minister Andy Burnham provokes Brexiteer anger by ramping up efforts to drag the U.K. closer to the E.U.

From The Standard, according to newly released figures, London is losing a pub every two weeks.

From the Independent, the aforementioned Andy Burnham vows that the U.K. will keep the Falkland Islands despite "sabre-rattling" from Argentina.

From TeleSUR, farmer organizations in Guatemala plan to hold demonstrations.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the "school" riots in France "Le Grand Gaslighting"?

From EuroNews, Citroën puts out an electric version of its 2CV.

From Free West Media, the digital revolution should be written off as a huge mistake.

From ReMix, 63.4 percent of welfare recipients in Germany have a migration background, which will cost German taxpayers about €21.1 billion this year.

From Balkan Insight, Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina elect a new grand mufti.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's Bank Al-Maghrib completes its first tests of a digital dirham.

From The New Arab, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani visits Benghazi, Libya and meets with Saddam Haftar, son of Libyan General Khalifa Haftar.

From the Muddy River News, congresscritter Mary Miller (R-IL) warns that "Islam is inside the gate".

From Organiser, according to a report, al-Qaeda is targeting India using Bangladeshi terror groups to expand its reach.

From IranWire, according to Iranian official Mohseh Rezaei, Iran will target regional digital infrastructure.

From News24, shocking posts by an Islamic center in Melbourne, Australia are exposed amid links to the alleged FlyDubai hijacker.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Houthis in Yemen claim responsibility for the attack on the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia airport.

From Gatestone Institute, the gains in the Middle East that must not be squandered.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, the hidden cost of socialism is the innovation that it prevents from being created.

From The American Conservative, open borders do not provide funding for schools.

From The Western Journal, a bar complaint is filed against New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) due to her comments about the aforementioned Cornell seven.

From BizPac Review, Italy's proposed ban on face coverings in schools ignites a fight over assimilation, and an expert warns that the U.S. could be next.

From the Daily Wire, why Trump administration officials are calling the investigation of the twice-aforementioned Ilhan Omar "World War Eleven".

From the Daily Caller, former Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has been visiting a kindergarten in Shanghai, China for decades.

From the New York Post, a thief tries to steal tools from vans and escape on a skateboard, but crashes and gets busted.

From Breitbart, Democrats congresscritters recognize "Indigenous Peoples' Day".

From Newsmax, President Trump (U.S.) defends his diesel deal with President Putin (Russia).  (Does this mean that Trump has now colluded with Russia?)

And from The Babylon Bee, despite overwhelming evidence, a fringe conspiracy theorist believes that senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) is not insane.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemns the Pentagon's decision to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

From FrontpageMag, anti-Israel Jews learn that the left hates even anti-Israel Jews.

From Townhall, the person offered the job of White House press secretary has been announced.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Harvard University celebrates its anti-Israel Nobel Peace Prize winner.

From the Washington Examiner, the Republican gubernatorial nominee for my state is not seeking President Trump's support.  (Both chambers of Maryland's state legislature are dominated by Democrats.  Seven of our eight congresscritters and both of our Senators are Democrats.  Democrat presidential candidates have carried Maryland for decades.  But somehow we manage to occasionally elect Republican governors such as Bob Ehrlich and Larry Hogan.)

From The Federalist, in France and the U.K., multiculturalism is bringing about authoritarianism.

From American Thinker, the movement started by Trump must continue after he leaves office.

From NewsBusters, more on the new White House press secretary.

From Canada Free Press, "an unanswered question" about Canada and the WEF.

From TeleSUR, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake strikes Panama.

From Snouts in the Trough, how many economists are needed in order to destroy and economy?

From EuroNews, the U.K.'s former Prince Andrew receives £302,000 as compensation for surrendering his lease at the Royal Lodge.

From ReMix, Germany suspends naturalizing descendants of alleged Nazi victims, most of them Chinese citizens, due to suspected fraud.

From Balkan Insight, Montenegrin police arrest the two co-founders of a pro-Russia Telegram channel.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The North Africa Post, the NGO Human Rights Watch decries the Tunisian government's failure to supply adequate amounts of water and electricity.

From The New Arab, commuters in Cairo, Egypt wonder if its new monorail is worth it.

From NDTV, a party leader in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir calls a terrorist leader a "martyr".

From Gatestone Institute, confronting the lie of the alleged "genocide" in Gaza.

From The Daily Signal, the truth, the media, and a visit to Israel.

From The American Conservative, is U.K. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch reviving an old class war?

From The Western Journal, an illegal alien is arrested for allegedly exposing himself while canvassing for a Democrat congressional candidate in Pennsylvania.

From BizPac Review, CNN is shocked - shocked - that ICE agents are told to arrest illegal aliens.

From the Daily Wire, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) shows support for an criminal illegal alien as anti-ICE rioters attack police officers.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Homeland Security redacts its deportation data.

From the New York Post, the highest-earning college degree in the U.S. is math at Duke University.

From Breitbart, Hollywood celebrities denounce the aforementioned plan to televise the execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

From Newsmax, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, China represents the greatest economic and military threat to the U.S.

And from ESPN, former NFL player and coach Mike Ditka goes to the gridiron in the sky.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, one way or another, change will come to Cuba.

From FrontpageMag, CAIR imposes blasphemy rules on a school board member in my state.

From Townhall, why Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) objects to Fox News buying Roku.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Yale University President Laurie McInnis gets an F.

From the Washington Examiner, the E.U. floats more "associate members" besides Canada, which one of its diplomats calls "bull[bleep]".

From The Federalist, the backlash to actress Sydney Sweeney's ad for the sports trading market Novig exposes the hypocrisy of liberal feminists.

From American History, a long history of doomsday predictions that did not become true, but there's one which will.

From NewsBusters, CNN's inconsistency about women showing skin.

From Canada Free Press, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney a participation trophy.

From TeleSUR, the current El Niño could reduce the Panama Canal's revenue by up to $400 million in 2027.

From Snouts in the Trough, why to some businesses never learn when going woke makes them broke?

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy launches the "Carpathian Eight" alliance, pledging cooperation on security, energy and trade.

From Free West Media, how Morocco became Israel's most important security and defense partner in Africa.

From ReMix, a French military chaplain disparages leftists, to which soldiers applaud.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Indépendant.)

From Balkan Insight, protesters demonstrate in Pristina, Kosovo over the verdicts against four former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is reportedly planning to acquire Israeli LORA missiles.

From The New Arab, is change coming to Tunisia?

From The Jerusalem Post, President Ahmed al-Sharaa is "secretly" building up Syria's military.

From Gatestone Institute, three things about which Israelis are concerned, which are not Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah.

From The Daily Signal, Democrats go to the left coast to seek campaign cash.

From The American Conservative, can President Trump alone fix the upcoming midterm elections?

From The Western Journal, European leaders reportedly panic over U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's plans to withdraw some U.S. troops from the region.

From BizPac Review, a Democratic operative shares a "shady as [bleep]" for senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) in an undercover video.

From the Daily Caller, Democratic congresscritters demand a federal investigation into "modern-day lynchings" that really aren't.

From Breitbart, director Greta Gerwig and Netflix get blasted for casting actress Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Chronicles of Narnia movie The Magician's Nephew.

From Newsmax, an ICE officer pleads not guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI about a nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis.

And from the New York Post and the "you're fired!" department, Trump kicks CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters out of the White House press booth.

Hiking In Three States

Today I resumed my exploration of Pennsylvania, and also went into Delaware and the northeast corner of Maryland.  I started my hike in White Clay Creek Preserve in Pennsylvania, took a trail that leads to the tri-point marker where the three states come together, and returned via another part of the trail that swung into White Clay Creek State Park in Delaware.  I also was able to reach the Arc Corner monument, where the boundary between Pennsylvania and Delaware goes from an east-west straight line to a circular arc that reaches the Delaware River.  My picture of the Maryland side of the tri-point marker was poorly focused, but you can still see the "M" for Maryland.

Saturday Stuff For The Start Of August

On a warm and cloudy Saturday on the first day of August, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, the Democrats keep nominating freaks for political office.

From The Washington Free Beacon, China makes a gambit in the Persian Gulf.

From the Washington Examiner, a battle emerges for the seat of former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).

From American Thinker, the spiritual connection between the left and Islam.

From NewsBusters, NBC mourns that Spain's border crisis has "been seized on by President Trump".

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. and the U.N. appease Iran's tyrannical government and betray the Iranian people.

From The American Conservative, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger's "coalition of nothing".

From BizPac Review, former First Son Hunter Biden reveals a new reason why his father, then the president, lost the debate to then-candidate Trump.

From the Daily Caller, gubernatorial candidate James Fishback (R-FL) claims that a whistleblower approached him with evidence that his rival, congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL), has committed a "felony crime".

From the New York Post, marine scientists warn that El Niño will push sharks, sea snakes, and other "oddities" into unusual places.

From Breitbart, the Trump administration helps to cancel over 28,000 commercial drivers licenses given to illegal aliens.

From Newsmax, my governor is worried that Trump will interfere with the upcoming midterm elections.

And from People, a woman spends $17,000 to transform her basement into a sanctuary for her nine special-needs rescue cats.

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.

Tuesday Tidings

On an unseasonably cool and rainy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump's face gets posted all over Washington, D.C.

From FrontpageMag, among the guests at the opening of former President Obama's center are his old friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn.

From Townhall, an illegal alien working illegally as an Uber driver is arrested after allegedly kidnapping, drugging and raping a passenger in Miami.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) scrubs his website of statements supporting "trans kids" and "bold, progressive ideas".

From the Washington Examiner, an appeals court rules that ICE may deport illegal aliens without the approval of a judge.

From The Federalist, senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) and Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood have some things in common.

From American Thinker, my state wrongly sends out over 500,000 replacement mail-in ballots.

From NewsBusters, according to a study, TV news networks waste almost seven hours discussing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From Canada Free Press, U.S. energy dominance can defund terrorism.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez denounces what he believes is fraud and refuses to recognize rival Keiko Fujimori if she becomes president.

From TCW Defending Freedom, if U.K. parliamentcritter Andy Burnham becomes prime minister, he won't fix the country.

From Snouts in the Trough, according to U.K. fictional character Amelia, replacing former Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Burnham won't do much good.

From EuroNews, the E.U. warns that tensions between Poland and Ukraine will play into Russian President Putin's hands.

From ReMix, according to a right-wing Hungarian politician, it's "understandable" that someone threw LGBTQ Pride flags off a bridge in Budapest.

From Balkan Insight, 14 Serbian NGOs urge the U.N. to investigate if a "sonic weapon" was used to break up a protest in the capital city of Belgrade.

From The North Africa Post, Djibouti asks Morocco for help in developing solar energy.

From The New Arab, Algeria beats Jordan 2-1 at the World Cup.

From The Jerusalem Post, a middle school principal in Boston apologizes to Arab and Muslim students who felt "unsafe" after a lesson about the Holocaust.  (Imagine apologizing to non-black students after a lesson about slavery.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran and Hamas have no intention of meeting U.S. President Trump's peace demands.

From The Daily Signal, the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration under then-President Biden allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into the U.S. to gather intelligence.

From The American Conservative, Vice President Vance angers the neocons.

From The Western Journal, more on the Biden administration allowing large numbers of fentanyl pills into the U.S.

From BizPac Review, Dr. Anthony Fauci gets a subpoena.

From the Daily Caller, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson ditches the Republican Party.

From the New York Post, the IDF claims that an Al Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza and mourned by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) was a sniper for Hamas.

From Breitbart, shipping in the Strait of Hormuz increases slightly, defying Iran's claim that it was closed.

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice sues New York state over its law restricting federal immigration officers and ending cooperation with ICE.

And from SFGate, El Niño hits California.

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.

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, former First Lady Jill Biden's unbelievable story that she thought that her husband then-President Biden had a stroke during his 2024 debate with then-former President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) starts implementing communism.

From Townhall, the chaos in Newark, New Jersey shows that leftists care more about illegal aliens than about working-class American citizens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Muslim New York City councilwoman condemns a fellow Muslim New York City councilwoman for daring to criticize the aforementioned Mayor Mamdani's treatment of Jews.

From the Washington Examiner, the FBI arrests a former CIA official for allegedly stealing $40 million worth of gold bars.

From The Federalist, President Trump's fund for Biden-era lawfare is just, but more needs to be done.

From American Thinker, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) lost and MAGA won - bigly.

From NewsBusters, networks hide the antisemitism from a Texas congressional candidate and the pro-illegal alien mob in New Jersey.  (I realized a long time ago that the left-wing bias in the media is not in what they say, but in what they don't say.)

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will go down in history as the WEF supporter who made Canada the hill on which communism died.

From TeleSUR, according to President Claudia Sheinbaum, foreign interference might threaten Mexico's elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why surrogacy is not much better than slavery.

From EuroNews, according to High Representative Kaja Kallas, the E.U. cannot be a neutral mediator between Ukraine and Russia.

From ReMix, a Polish soldier on trial for firing warning shots at illegal migrants at the border with Belarus is acquitted of wrongdoing.  (If you read Polish read the story at WP Wiadomości.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatian Finance Minister Tomislav Ćorić proposes new taxes on "excessive" profits and changes taxes on short-term rentals.  (How does his proposal define "excessive"?)

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan and Finnish business confederations launch a business council in Helsinki, Finland.

From The New Arab, according to U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, negotiations with Hamas over an interim government for Gaza are expected within a week.

From the Daily Mail, the U.N. accuses Israel of committing sexual violence in war zones, along with Hamas and ISIS.

From The Standard, councillors in the London borough of Tower Hamlets vote to increase their pay.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the Austrian National Union of Students at the University of Vienna invites an Islamist who earlier pledge allegiance to al-Qaeda.  (If you read German, read the story at ZurZeit- if the page will load.)

From The Jerusalem Post, an "Allahu Akbar" breaks out at a railroad station in Winterthur, Switzerland.

From Quadrant, the burka is a "slap in the face".

From Gatestone Institute, "why any deal with Iran is a mistake" for the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, former congresscritter T.J. Fox (D-Cal) goes to prison.

From The American Conservative, how Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva might help Trump end the war with Iran.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned Jill Biden thinking that her husband Joe had a stroke during a debate.

From BizPac Review, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not afraid of snakes, or of those who criticize his snake-handling.

From the Daily Caller, my state decides to lessen the penalties for youth crime.

From the New York Post, a new wearable ultrasound patch can monitor high-risk pregnancies.

From Breitbart, a Sikh man in the U.K. is convicted of murder for stabbing an Anglo-Polish man after lying about racist abuse from the victim.

From Newsmax, the aforementioned Prime Minister Carney seeks a new Canadian partnership with the U.S.

And from the Genesius Times, to prove that he's a real Texan, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) goes on a deer hunt.

Saturday Stories

As the cool and rainy weather continues on a Saturday, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, someone in my neck of the woods is sentenced for defrauding SNAP, allegedly using 30 different identities.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a source used by The New York Times is caught removing the names of terrorists from a list of slain "Palestinian journalists".

From the Washington Examiner, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praises West Point cadets as "not an army of woke" during their commencement speech.

From The Federalist, racing fans will never forget recently departed NASCAR driver Kyle Busch.

From American Thinker, the Iranians are "the new barbary pirates".

From NewsBusters, reporting on the judge who dismissed human smuggling charges against illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, NBC omits that before his appointment, he was a Democratic donor.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the left-wing elite should be labeled "patraphobic".

From the Daily Mail, selling daughters as brides to older men has unfortunately become normalized in Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump should not let the Iranian government remain in place.

And from The American Conservative, congresscritter Thomas Massie's (R-KY) career was not destroyed by Zionists, but by himself.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, CBS has a Stephen Colbert apocalypse.

From FrontpageMag, the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz was not built in one night.

From Townhall, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services closes a major immigration loophole.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Graham Platner's (D-ME) "grassroots" campaign sends money to influencers to fawn over him.

From the Washington Examiner, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announces her resignation due to her husband being diagnosed with bone cancer.

From The Federalist, the U.S. is nation of settlers, not immigrants.

From American Thinker, illegal aliens are killing America.

From NewsBusters, according to a study, the aforementioned Stephen Colbert turned The Late Show into "The DNC Show".

From Canada Free Press, a school in Jefferson County, Colorado discriminates against a 13-year-old student over a slam poem she wrote about abortion.

From TeleSUR, Mexico's National Museum of Art plans to present a tourist exhibit for the 2026 World Cup.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what gives the U.K. government agency Ofcom the right to censor true facts about weather?

From Snouts in the Trough, how should "fair" be defined?  (I've long believed that if you put four politicians in a room and ask them what "fairness" means, you'll get at least five definitions.)

From EuroNews, what Poland has to say about hosting 5,000 more American troops.

From Free West Media, the U.K. starts buying oil from Russia again.

From ReMix, Poland extradites three of its citizens to the Czech Republic for alleged involvement in an arson attack on a weapons factory in the city of Pardubice.  (If you read Czech, read the story at Seznam Zprávy.)

From Balkan Insight, right-wing politician Janez Janša is elected Slovenia's Prime Minister for the fourth time.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and France sign a financial intelligence cooperation agreement at the fifth "No Money For Terror" conference.

From The New Arab, Iraq considers creating a new ministry to bring militias under government control.

From The Jerusalem Post, a 15-year-old boy is re-arrested in Florence, Italy for alleged terrorist recruitment after being arrested for the same type of crime and then released.

From the Daily Mail, a knife-wielding Afghan asylum seeker goes on a rampage in a Morrisons store in Bradford, England.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Muslims in Vienna chase away people barbequing pork.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Gatestone Institute, sell arms to Taiwan, because China is bluffing.

From The Daily Signal, my state rushes to reprint and resend 500,000 mail-in ballots.

From The American Conservative, soon-to-be-former congresscritter Thomas Massie's (R-KY) dilemma, and ours.

From The Western Journal, President Trump celebrates the twice-aforementioned Stephen Colbert's exit from television.

From BizPac Review, the BBC is slammed for "sympathizing" with Afghan men who are "forced" into selling their young daughters.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats object to legislation to advance construction on the Smithsonian's American Women's History Museum because it would prevent the museum from presenting as women those who really aren't women.

From Breitbart, according to a study, one out of every three people in France are either foreign born or descend from immigrants.

From Newsmax, a Long Island woman is arrested for allegedly decapitating a statue of Jesus outside a Catholic church.  (A few years back when people were pulling down or vandalizing statues because of some sin that the person thus portrayed had allegedly committed, I realized that if only sinless people could be portrayed with a statue, only one human in history could legitimately qualify.  But sadly, even statues of Jesus Himself are getting attacked.)

And from the New York Post, read the aforementioned Tulsi Gabbard's resignation letter sent to Trump.

A Sasquatch's Thursday Dozen

On a cool and cloudy Thursday, here are 12 things going on:

From the Daily Mail, a woman passes out after she and her boyfriend are each lashed 100 times for sex outside of marriage in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the IDF posts a video showing what appear to be Hamas terrorist letting children "play" with weapons.

From Gatestone Institute, "reform" from the Palestinian Authority is a fraud.

From The American Conservative, the one convicted criminal involved in the murder trial of retired football player and actor O.J. Simpson has recently left us.  (I once had the idea that a jury of Simpson's peers should consist of professional athletes worthy of the Halls of Fame in their respective sports, and/or mediocre actors.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, a Nigerian Christian asks a man who tried to kill him why he did so.

From National Review, a lesson about soon-to-be-former congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY).

From FrontpageMag and the "well, what do you know?" department, the San Diego mosque shooters left behind a manifesto.

From Townhall, a man from my part of the world is sentenced to six years in prison for involvement in a unemployment insurance fraud conspiracy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) payed multiple visits to a Holocaust-denying Muslim sheikh.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats in Colorado censure Governor Jared Polis (D) for commuting the sentence of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted of election interference charges in the 2020 election.  (How petty can people get?)

From The Federalist, conservatives should not be blamed because left-wingers are having fewer babies.

And from American Thinker, why men and women both flourish when they accept reality.

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".