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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

A Bit Of Wednesday Whatnot

Now that I'm back from wandering around on a sunny and unseasonably warm Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, may everyone have a happy election month.

From FrontpageMag, Jews in the New York City borough of Manhattan who want to appease terrorists get a taste of Hamas.

From Townhall, senatorial candidate Roy Cooper (D-NC) threatens to sue a media outlet for asking about his age.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump announces that Taiwan has agreed to purchase 30 percent of natural gas shipped through a new pipeline in Alaska and to invest in the project.

From the Washington Examiner, the Chief Twit claims that Trump and the U.S. military place speed restrictions on Starshield communication systems.

From The Federalist, an op-ed in The New York Times shows why voters concerned about affordability should be wary about Democrats if they regain power.

From American Thinker, why should Virginia enshrine abortion in its constitution?

From NewsBusters, the tale of two inflation rates just got worse for the left-wing media.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s "Miliband magic strikes again".

From Deutsche Welle, a Ukrainian citizen goes on trial in Germany for alleged involvement in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

From Polskie Radio, the wreckage of a Polish military drone is found on a beach in the village of Karwia on the Baltic Sea coast.

From Radio Prague, according to the NGO Transparency International, the European Commission has confirmed that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has a conflict of interest.

From The Slovak Spectator, police officers are under investigation for allegedly speeding through Bratislava, Slovakia with their sirens on.

From Daily News Hungary, a Soviet bomb from World War II is found at a construction site in Budapest, Hungary.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian parliament passes a "gender law" in line with demands from the E.U.

From Organiser, Azerbaijan tells Turkey to refrain from interfering with its internal affairs in response to criticism of its ban on hijabs in schools.

From IranWire, the Iranian musical group Pallett cancels its nationwide tour because of restrictions imposed on their female musician.

From The Guardian, an Iranian woman is sentenced to death for "blasphemy" over a social media post.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, Russian President Putin's "ceasefire" trap.

From The American Conservative, against livestreaming an execution.

From BizPac Review, girls in Washington state walk out of a cross-country race to avoid competing against a fake girl, and their parents explain why.

From the Daily Wire, an illegal alien whose sob story of being arrested while shopping "captured the nation" turns out to be a wife-beater.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice issues almost a dozen subpoenas in their investigation of congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min), including some to members of her family.

From the New York Post, former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is now an influencer and shares her opinion of her former boss.

From Breitbart, congressional candidate Melat Kiros claims to come from a longer generation of "proud black socialists".

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Montana is not communist.

And from SFGate, a Jack Russell terrier from California who was lost in Yellowstone National Park for over a month has been found.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

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.

Monday, October 12, 2026

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.

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Rainday Links

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

From FrontpageMag, the Daughters of the American Revolution disbands a chapter for trying to keep fake women out.

From Townhall, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), all 93 years of him, files for re-election in 2028.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about Mary Kay Ash and her cosmetics empire.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump announces an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine.

From American Thinker, former President Obama's Death Star is hopeless.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Audie Cornish faults Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for not joining the Fort Hood shooter's firing squad.

From EuroNews, a man is arrested for allegedly planning to attack Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

From Free West Media, when so-called anti-fascism attacks democracy.

From The Straits Times, the Houthis in Yemen warn everyone to stay away from airports in Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe is not only missing the AI train, but is now banning the tools.

From The American Conservative, China has some "gray-zone options" against Taiwan.

From the Daily Wire, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) likens his past criticism of Obama to second-guessing a parent.

From Breitbart, Hurricane Isaias leaves almost 396,000 people without power in Alabama and Florida.

From Newsmax, Catholic League communications director Michael McDonald discusses a documentary about Americans whose religious freedoms have allegedly been violated.  (Mr. McDonald should not be confused with the musician with the same name.)

And from the New York Post and possibly the "Darwin Award nominee" department, a Siberian tiger who killed an idiot visitor who entered his enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England will not be euthanized.

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Saturday Links For 10/10

On a mild and mostly cloudy Saturday falling on the tenth day of the tenth month, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, senatorial candidate Ken Paxton (R-TX) slams his rival James Talarico's (D-TX) two-week disappearance.

From The Washington Free Beacon, six plausible theories for the aforementioned James Talarico's absence.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a U.N. whistleblower, Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay is "complicit in the Uyghur genocide".

From American Thinker, why data from Venus undermines the consensus on global warming from greenhouse gases.

From NewsBusters, staff writer David Brooks of The Atlantic blasts both Democratic and Republican senatorial candidates.

From Gatestone Institute, some facts which the media and many politicians don't want to admit.

From The American Conservative, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee should resign.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Glenn Beck reveals a strategy for denying the Fort Hood shooter "martyr" status.

From the Daily Wire, the FlyDubai hijacker planned a 9/11 attack on an Israeli airport.

From the Daily Caller, what it will take to keep an American presence on the moon.

From the New York Post, thieves steal about 30,000 bottles of wine worth an estimated $5.8 million from a winery in the Italian region of Tuscany, described as Italy's largest wine theft ever.

From Breitbart, former Vice President Harris's husband reportedly doesn't want her to run for president again.

From Newsmax, speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York, President Trump rips New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) and promises to help gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman (R-NY).

And from SFGate, the biggest concert held in Berkeley, California is still being heard from 36 years later.

Friday, October 9, 2026

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.

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, the alarming drone plot, possibly by Iran, in the U.K.

From FrontpageMag, a U.K. cabinet member admits that most Muslim migrants are willing to rape.

From Townhall, look whom The Boston Globe wants to blame for the incident at Cornell.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a survey, U.S. college students prefer socialism to capitalism.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump decides against attacking Iran before the midterm elections.

From The Federalist, media hypocrites go Sergeant Schultz on then-Special Counsel Jack Smith's attack on freedom of the press.

From American Thinker, a Lindsay Clancy copycat crime might be even worse.

From NewsBusters, the success of people like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos and the Chief Twit should be celebrated.

From Canada Free Press, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking Canada and the West for a ride.

From TeleSUR, Peru's Ministry of Culture recovers 342 pieces of the country's cultural heritage.

From Snouts in the Trough, "because they hate".

From EuroNews, the E.U. presses Russia for more information on the suspected plague case in Siberia.

From ReMix, a woman raped next to a statue of Karl Marx in Germany says that her attackers spoke Persian.

From Balkan Insight, the Bosnian state court indicts a Catholic priest for allegedly glorifying a Bosnian Croat war criminal.

From The North Africa Post, a subsidiary of the Moroccan company OCP Group will be involved in developing Senegal's national gas pipeline network.

From The New Arab, Syria denies that it will send any troops to Yemen.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran fuels the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, thus preventing the disarming of terrorists.

From The Daily Signal, federal and state authorities in Louisiana a network of Hamas financiers allegedly committing Medicaid fraud.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. should bring its forces home from around the world.

From The Western Journal, one of the men accused in the aforementioned incident at Cornell files a court petition to remove New York state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case.

From Fox News, an armed man tries to enter a federal courthouse in Nashville and thus makes his last mistake.

From BizPac Review, the aforementioned Chief Twit and others go to the White House to receive the U.S.'s greatest scientific honor.

From the Daily Wire, a purity test breaks New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From the Daily Caller, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches an investigation into vaccine injuries.

From the New York Post, Buc-ee's is no longer America's favorite convenience store.

From Breitbart, a pastor stands up against a former city council member who hailed Satan during the opening prayer at a meeting of the Ottumwa, Iowa city council.

From Newsmax, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI claims to be 90 percent certain that China has planted spies in both companies.

And from Page Six, while performing in Paris, Canadian singer Celine Dion falls but keeps on going without missing a beat.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, the world's on fire with drones, the plague and ailing autocrats.

From FrontpageMag, under police protection, more Islamic illegal migrants arrive in the U.K.

From Townhall, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed's (D-Mich) attack on capitalism backfires spectacularly.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a former employee, senatorial candidate Hallie Shoffner (D-Ark) employed three illegal aliens on her farm.

From the Washington Examiner, how the U.S. can defeat Iran's strategy of exhaustion.

From The Federalist, even the accuser's story about the Cornell 7 doesn't look good for her.

From American Thinker, should we again "believe all women"?  (Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Anita Broadrick are women, aren't they?)

From NewsBusters, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum rips the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed over his connections to leftist billionaire George Soros.

From Canada Free Press, college football coach Lane Kiffin's tongue-in-cheek advertisements are a serious problem.

From TeleSUR, in Brazil's runoff presidential election, President Lula da Silva seeks support from people who did not vote in the first round.

From Snouts in the Trough, the next illegal migrant arrival is more important that you if you're a U.K. citizen.

From EuroNews, Russian authorities claim that a lab researcher who died last week did not have the plague, but have quarantined almost 200 people who had contact with her.

From ReMix, a former German intelligence chief is arrested for allegedly spying for another country.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian opposition parliamentcritters criticize Prime Minister Rumen Radev's government over its response to a drone attack on two foreign vessels in the Black Sea.

From The North Africa Post, archaeologists in Morocco discover the oldest defensive structure in North Africa outside of the Nile Valley.

From The New Arab, why Morocco's first female prime minister can't fix its flawed democracy by herself.

From The Times Of India, the Houthis in Yemen claim to have targeted an Aramco refinery and an airport as the Mecca defense pact is activated.

From The Japan Times, Yemeni government forces drive the Houthis out of a coastal area around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

From NDTV, India moves 150 Bangladeshi illegal aliens from the territory of Jammu and Kashmir to the state of West Bengal as part of their deportation process.

From Gatestone Institute, ballot box jihad could be a non-violent way of conquering the West.

From The Daily Signal, the pro-life advocacy group March for Life announces its theme for its 2027 march, which will be "the truth is pro-life".

From The American Conservative, French politician Marine Le Pen outclasses her country's mainstream on foreign policy.

From The Western Journal, President Trump okays the execution by firing squad of the Fort Hood shooter.

From BizPac Review and the "believe it or not" department, a CNN fact-checker defends Trump.

From the Daily Wire, a man who claimed to be a woman reveals the sick reason why he killed a real woman.

From the Daily Caller, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) declares a "state of emergency" as over 100 cases of the measles are reported.

From the New York Post, a boat smuggling 14 illegal aliens is intercepted by federal agents off the coast of Newport Harbor, California.

From Breitbart, according to CEO Andrew Cathy, Chick-fil-A will keep using humans to take orders at its drive-thru lanes instead of AI.

From Newsmax, nearly a dozen Republicans are considering running for president in 2028.

And from The Babylon Bee, archaeologists think that they find evidence of the Nephilim, but it's just a giant yard skeleton.

Monday, October 5, 2026

Monday Links

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

From National Review, a plague researcher in Russia suddenly gets sick and dies.

From FrontpageMag, according to some on the left, fitness is now fascist.

From Townhall, the failure of socialism can be seen right here in the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) wrote an opinion column for The Guardian in 2010 calling U.K. democracy superior to that of the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, the Department of Justice charges 16 illegal aliens with voting illegally.

From The Federalist, under then-President Biden, the White House drove Department of Justice targeting of parents who protested Critical Racist Theory and coronavirus mandates.

From American Thinker, killing babies and killing grandmothers are two sides of the of the socialist coin.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Jake Tapper lectures on the "cocoon of tribalism".

From Canada Free Press, don't expect arsonists to put fires out.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez leads the handover of rebuilt homes in the state of La Guaira.

From Snouts in the Trough, a quiz about police in England and Wales.

From EuroNews, what's driving the student violence in France?

From Free West Media, France has its own Soweto.

From ReMix, masked rioters set fire to the entrance of a high school in Paris.  (If you read French, read the story at BFM.)

From Balkan Insight, the election in Bosnia and Herzegovina see a record low turnout as former Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik's looks triumphant.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan and American armies start planning for the Africa Lion 2027 military exercises.

From The New Arab, can the divided coalition in Yemen turn the tied against the Houthi rebels?

From Gatestone Institute, when "journalists" are really jihadists.

From The Daily Signal, Senate Democrats kill the Stop Insider Trading Act.

From The American Conservative, there's nothing conservative about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's love of war.

From The Western Journal, the FBI secretly tracked the phone activity of White House Chief of Staff and then-former President Trump's lawyers.

From BizPac Review, Border Czar Tom Homan explains that people in the U.S. illegally are deportable even if they haven't committed other crimes.

From the Daily Wire, former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt finds a new gig.

From the Daily Caller, President Trump taps a slush fund to send checks to 20 million Americans.

From the New York Post, former President Obama plans to campaign in Detroit for the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed.

From Breitbart, right-wing parties secure a majority in the Brazilian Senate.

From Newsmax, the FBI arrests a Chinese woman for allegedly spying on the family of Taiwan's president.

And from NBC News, former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), who went to prison for covering up allegations of sexual abuse, is no longer with us.

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Sunday Stories

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

From National Review, stupid anti-innovation job saving laws arise in blue cities and states.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, the Democrats are coming after you.  (You're not paranoid if someone really is out to get you.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito's book about originalism.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) teases at running for President in 2028 if a "bunch of goobers" do the same.  (Imagine some future history lesson pointing out that the two presidents named John Kennedy were not related to each other.)

From American Thinker, the blatant double standards in the case of alleged "rape" at Cornell University.

From NewsBusters, Politico publishes a Trump-obsessed analysis of the upcoming election - in Brazil.

From Snouts in the Trough, is SouthWestern Railways another sign that the U.K. is useless, incompetent and broken?

From Organiser, how Islamists have vandalizes pandals from 2017 to 2026.

From The Times Of India, a magazine linked to al-Qaeda calls for more attacks like the attempted FlyDubai hijacking.

From Gatestone Institute, our strategy against the terrorist threat must change with it.

From The American Conservative, lessons from the botch execution in Tennessee of convicted murderer Christa Pike.

And from the New York Post, dogs and even a few cats are blessed at the Malate Church in Manila on the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Saturday Stuff

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

From FrontpageMag, a pilot explains the motive for the attempted attack on a FlyDubai airliner to an Australian media outlet, who were looking for a different answer.

From Townhall, what more can President Trump do in his remaining 28 months in office.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel has more allies on the ground - and in the sky.

From the Washington Examiner, a federal judge rules that a sheriff in Tulsa County, Oklahoma violated the 4th Amendment by using Flock camera data to learn about a driver's travel history.

From American Thinker, solving the death penalty conundrum without abolishing the death penalty.

From NewsBusters, writer David Brooks of The Atlantic gets two basic facts wrong when commenting on Republican chances in the upcoming midterm elections.

From Gatestone Institute, "they hate America".

From The American Conservative, for the left, Big Tech is the new Big Oil.

From BizPac Review, Trump points out the absurdity of the "Gays for Palestine" movement.

From the Daily Wire, a Marine veteran shot and paralyzed by an illegal alien speaks out as the convicted shooter faces life in prison.

From the New York Post, how a real-life New York City prosecutor landed a role in the crime movie Goodfellas.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA), some Democratic congressional candidates "are crazy".

From Newsmax, Trump calls on Congress to impose mandatory prison sentences on people convicted of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

And from Gateway Pundit, the NBA hire's WNBA player Caitlin Clark's agent to search for the next WNBA commissioner.

Friday, October 2, 2026

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, actor Tom Cruise's film Digger is a climate hoax satire.

From FrontpageMag, the cover model for the men's issue of New York magazine is.....(You'll have to click on the link to find out, but I'll call this person "Dylan Mulvaney in reverse".)

From Townhall, what senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) gets wrong about having 1,000 millionaires instead of one billionaire.

From The Washington Free Beacon, The New York Times gets hypocritical about tax breaks.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican is renewing an "alliance" with "artists and cultural institutions" against AI.

From The Federalist, climate activists want the Supreme Court to impose the Green New Deal, which voters rejected, onto American industries.

From American Thinker, three classes that all college students should be required to take.

From NewsBusters, ABC, CBS and NBC upward revisions of GDP data.

From Canada Free Press, when Chicago made a Rosary of balloons.

From TeleSUR, Paraguay hosts over 8,000 competitors from 91 countries at the World Skate Games.

From EuroNews, Hungary and Ukraine edge closer to a deal on the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine, which could unblock Ukraine's efforts to join the E.U.

From ReMix, one French woman is burned with a makeshift flamethrower and another is beaten by a mob in rioting by students.  (If you read French, read the story at BMF.)

From Balkan Insight, the late Bosnian Serb politician Biljana Plavšić was a "war criminal who withdrew her remorse".

From The North Africa Post, Morocco exports 75 percent more blueberries to Switzerland during the year ending this past June than it did one year earlier.

From The New Arab, Egypt starts building a railway to the town of Taba in the Sinai region, raising concern in Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, Congress has the means to provide fusion power to the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, a look at the Democratic Socialists of America's policy to end the nuclear family

From The American Conservative, is Russia planning to attack a NATO country, as alleged by Ukrainian President Zelensky?

From The Western Journal, leftists don't approve as rapper Eminem makes a guest appearance on Kid Rock's upcoming Christmas album.

From BizPac Review and the "no good deed goes unpunished" department, the manager of a Kroger food store is fired for trying to protect an elderly co-worker from shoplifters.

From the Daily Wire, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) wants an "independent" investigation into the "Cornell 7".

From the Daily Caller, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy exchange some words.  (Language warning)

From the New York Post, four astronauts set a U.S. speed record going to the International Space Station.

From Breitbart, migrants contaminate a beach in Ceuta, Spain with their [bleep].  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Faro Ceuta.)

From Newsmax, due to various complications, the Kennedy Center Honors will be held at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

And from the eponymous site of Douglas V. Gibbs, how understanding Thomas Jefferson requires considering the context.

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Thursday Things To Start October

On a warm and sunny Thursday at the start of October, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the thwarted FlyDubai hijacker underwent "Islamist radical indoctrination".

From FrontpageMag, white paint on your walls is racist.

From Townhall, a fundraiser for senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) has an "interesting" take on the thwarted FlyDubai hijacking.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the aforementioned Adbul El-Sayed exaggerates claims about erasing medical debt.

From the Washington Examiner, what to know about the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike in Tennessee.

From The Federalist, the Department of Justice files a judicial misconduct complaint against several Minnesota judges for allegedly "pandering" to The New York Times about deportations.

From American Thinker, the enemies of the West have realized that the way to defeat us is to turn us against ourselves.

From NewsBusters, Comedy Central podcaster Jon Stewart doesn't like being called a socialist for wanting health care to be.....(wait for it).....socialized.

From Canada Free Press, California builds a fortress to protect fraud.

From TeleSUR, former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presents his new book.

From Snouts in the Trough, do charities lie to get our money?

From EuroNews, Russia tells Hungarian embassy and consulate staff to go home.

From Free West Media, the geopolitical battle behind the war between the U.S. and Iran.

From ReMix, the principal of a school in Rouen, France is hit in the face with a firework mortar, and the entrance to the school is set on fire.  (If you read French, read the story at Paris Normandie and a related story at Ici.)

From Balkan Insight, thousands of people in Pristina, Kosovo again protest against the war crimes convictions of four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco has secured enough fuel to last through the end of 2026, but has to import electricity.

From The New Arab, the Houthis in Yemen mass their forces near the border with Saudi Arabia.

From Le Figaro in English, inside France's standoff against fundamentalist Islam.

From the Express, fury erupts in response to a Muslim preacher in the U.K. telling Muslim men to discipling their wives.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas and Iran will not voluntarily give up their fight.

From The Daily Signal, the Senate confirms Secretary of Labor nominee Keith Sonderling.

From The American Conservative, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham takes a risky gamble on pension reform.

From The Western Journal, President Trump takes away the only argument from the Democrats against the SAVE America Act.

From BizPac Review, former congresscritter Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) is investigated for allegedly placing bets on his pardon from then-President Biden.

From the Daily Wire, the aforementioned FlyDubai hijacker had a "bizarre" practice dealing with women.

From the Daily Caller, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) halts executions for the rest of this year after the aforementioned botched execution of Christa Pike.

From the New York Post, at the playoff baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, a hockey game breaks out - in the upper deck stands.

From Breitbart, according to the aforementioned Andy Burnham, there is a "strong indication" that the Iranian government was involved in the alleged terror plot against a U.K. air force base.

From Newsmax, a D.C. Superior Court judge permanently dismisses a criminal case against a former Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

And from SFGate, a restaurant in Escondido, California really belongs to a bunch of elephants.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Wednesday Wanderings For The End Of September

Now that I'm back from wandering around the southwestern U.S., on a warm and partly sunny Wednesday falling on the last day of September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a pilot flying a FlyDubai jet full of Israeli passengers going to Tel Aviv stabs his co-pilot and attempts to crash the plane, but is thwarted by passengers.

From FrontpageMag, the aforementioned attempt to crash a plane just might be part of a pattern.

From Townhall, gun control advocates want no one of any age to own guns.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) strategy for protecting Jews gets denounced by Jews.

From the Washington Examiner, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signs a law banning ICE from using its shock gloves in California.

From The Federalist, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) is caught in a lie about his position in trans issues.

From American Thinker, the planned Mesabi steel plant in Iowa is President Trump's "tariffs in action".

From NewsBusters, are flock cameras a tool for fighting crime or a tool of mass surveillance?

From Canada Free Press, how to take back America by not outsourcing our minds.

From TeleSUR, millions of Brazilians attend a rally held by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Salvador de Bahia.

From Snouts in the Trough, is there yet more proof that U.K. police and judges are "enemies of the people"?

From EuroNews, the U.K. ends its "one in, one out" migrant return deal with France.

From Free West Media, why conservative politicians are regarded as more attractive.

From ReMix, data from Berlin shows that Europe's housing crisis is really an immigration crisis.

From Balkan Insight, tracing the cigarette smuggling through the mountainous borderlands of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, the African Development Bank Group grants Morocco €270 million to modernize its airports.

From The New Arab, when in Oman, please refrain from riding the turtles.

From Gatestone Institute, the "America first" policy doesn't mean that Israel is last.

From The Daily Signal, gas prices put into perspective.

From The American Conservative, why a potential impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth terrifies Republicans.

From The Western Journal, accused murderer Lindsay Clancy's defense team screams at a black member of the media as they enter a courthouse for a retrial hearing.

From Fox News, Attorney General Todd Blanche announces voter fraud charges against 10 lawful immigrants in Minnesota.

From BizPac Review, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) claims that 100,000 Virginians were kicked off SNAP, but those people might not really be Virginians.

From the Daily Wire, a deadly drug can be found right next to the candy bars.

From the Daily Caller, the Senate votes down an insider stock trading ban.

From the New York Post, a Connecticut man gets 92 months in prison for trying to support ISIS.

From Breitbart, according to a study, fans of musician Taylor Swift aren't all that bothered by her use of a private jet.  (Apparently, producing carbon dioxide is OK when she does it.)

From Newsmax, according to Senator John Husted (R-OH), Democrats are blocking his Ratepayer Protection Act just to deny Republicans a victory on affordability.

And from the Genesius Times, the WNBA bans all of its fans from its game after one of them pointed at Las Vegas Aces player A'ja Wilson.  (Is she named after a certain Steely Dan album?)

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Tuesday Tidbits

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

From National Review, what happened at the U.K. air force base?

From FrontpageMag, according to a left-wing judge on the Michigan state Supreme Court, monkeys have rights but unborn human babies don't.

From Townhall, the holdout juror in the trial of accused murderer Lindsay Clancy finally speaks out.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a watchdog, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund sent nearly $32 million to non-profits based in China.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), then-special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed at least 4,782 checks from donors to then-candidate Donald Trump.

From The Federalist, an alleged gang rape at Cornell University could be a hoax, which would not be the first such event.

From American Thinker, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear's (D) new religion.

From NewsBusters, ABC, CBS and NBC spend a total of almost 29 minutes on confrontations with ICE while going Sergeant Schultz on crimes committed by illegal aliens.

From Canada Free Press, it's not heaven, it's just the United States of America.

From TeleSUR, El Salvador records its highest coffee harvest since the 2012-2013 season.

From EuroNews, two Hungarian assemblycritters are detained under Prime Minister Péter Magyar's "Operation Purge".

From ReMix, a Turkish woman living in Germany allegedly commits €11 million in fraud.

From Balkan Insight, Belgrade, Serbia Mayor Aleksandar Šapić denies punching city councillor Tatjana Mićić.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI appoints Fatima El Mansouri as the head of government, the first woman to be designated as such.

From The New Arab, who has committed sabotage against Syria's gas network.

From Digitalshield, the conflict between sacred law and international law in Morocco.

From The Straits Times, the Israeli air force sends a senior Hamas commander to his virgins, and the U.S. finally gets out of Iraq.

From Organiser, why do Sunni Muslims in the Indian state of Keralam support the Shia Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia?

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranian judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei demands a crackdown against women who disobey Iran's hijab law.

From Kabul Now, the Afghanistan Journalists Center calls for support as the Taliban intensifies its crackdown on the media.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Jihad Watch, Turkish President Erdoğan speaks against "the occupying Zionist mindset".

From Resonate, a South Korean college student is sentenced to at least a year in prison for pledging allegiance to ISIS and planning a bomb attack.

From AA, California officially recognizes the Islamic holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.  (My spellchecker doesn't like "Fitr" and "Adha", but has no problem with "Eid".)

From Heartlander News, a Christian journalist sues Dearborn, Michigan for allegedly favoring Muslim holidays over Christian and Jewish ones.  (The last 10 stories, including two from The Straits Times, come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, is selling F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia a gift to China?

From The Daily Signal, a new bill introduced by Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) would prevent welfare agencies from accusing parents who don't "affirm" their children's trans status of child abuse.

From The American Conservative, on some issues, President Trump should be more like congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY).

From The Western Journal, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from a high-profile climate change case.

From BizPac Review, journalist Chris Cuomo predicts that journalist Scott Jennings will leave MAGA.

From the Daily Wire, a look at Trump's crackdown on crime in Memphis, Tennessee a year later.

From the Daily Caller, a woman on death row in Tennessee claims to feel a "kinship" with the aforementioned Lindsay Clancy.

From Breitbart, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to import more asylum seekers from Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.

From Newsmax, if you have the qualifications, you can join ICE.

And from the New York Post, if you have $4.4 million lying around, you can buy a mansion in Hollywood Hills, California which was once covered in graffiti.