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.

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.

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 Tidbits

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

From National Review, next week's forecast is cloudy, with a chance of an AI apocalypse.  (Will the Cylons arrive?)

From FrontpageMag, the WMDs have been found - in Sudan.

From Townhall, a Michigan man gets probation after shooting a gunman in self-defense.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX), who want the rich to "pay their fare share of taxes", enlists the help of an accountant who helps the rich "escape" taxes.

From the Washington Examiner, Michigan senatorial candidates Mike Rogers (R) and Abdul El-Sayed spar over 9/11.

From The Federalist, left-wing violence is still a major threat within the U.S.

From American Thinker, Canucks should shut the puck up.

From NewsBusters, Senator Jon Husted (R-OH) points out that illegal aliens with "drive-only" driver's licenses killed three Ohioans in 11 days.  (Senator Husted was appointed by Governor Mike DeWine (R) to serve out the term of former Senator and current Vice President J.D. Vance.)

From Canada Free Press, what we should have learned from 9/11, but didn't.

From TeleSUR, the Mexican Ministry of Culture proposes zero VAT for small bookstores.

From Snouts in the Trough, is there any good news?

From EuroNews, asylum requests in the E.U. dropped to a five year low in the first half of 2026.

From ReMix, according to government data, foreigners accounted for 87 percent of thefts and 61 percent of sexual violence on public transport in Paris in 2025.

From Balkan Insight, Croatia buys rocket launchers from South Korea.

From The North Africa Post, the East Terminal of the Nador West Med port complex in Morocco passes its tests and prepares to receive its first ships.

From The New Arab, 27 parties campaign for seats in Morocco's House of Representatives.

From Gatestone Institute, boycotting Jewish businesses will not bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

From The Daily Signal, how right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was murdered a year ago today, influenced current Republican lawmakers.

From The American Conservative, how the electoral victory by the party AfD accelerates the demise of fake German conservatives.

From The Western Journal, Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and others offer tributes to the aforementioned Charlie Kirk.

From Gateway Pundit, another juror from the Lindsay Clancy trial speaks out.

From BizPac Review, the aforementioned James Talarico changes his tune about girls' sports.

From the Daily Caller, a third-party gubernatorial candidate in Wyoming gathers support from conservatives against Republican nominee Eric Barlow.

From the New York Post, a woman files a lawsuit against the estate of the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, claiming that he raped her in 1973.

From Breitbart, the Department of Justice forces six states to end in-state college tuition for illegal aliens.

From Newsmax, speculation mounts that Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) will run for reelection as an independent.

And from SFGate, the Hawaiian island of Kauai starts cleaning up after Hurricane Lowell.

Thursday Tidings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From BizPac Review, well, that was quick.

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

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

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

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

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, American has a 250-year winning streak.

From FrontpageMag, pro-Hamas rioters will soon have their own congresscritters.

From Townhall, two illegal aliens from Romania plead guilty to wire fraud in a plot to defraud SNAP.

From The Washington Free Beacon, preserving America's principles in a world without any.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump tells Second Lady Usha Vance that he has to be "careful" or he'll break President William Howard Taft's weight record.

From The Federalist, the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision is Chief Justice John Roberts's Roe v. Wade.

From American Thinker, the other declaration of 1776, made by General George Washington.

From NewsBusters, the media go the wrong way on the facts when it comes to girls' sports.

From Canada Free Press, the one thing that Christianity and socialism have in common.

From TeleSUR, FIFA decides to donate $500,000 to Venezuelan children affected by the two recent earthquakes.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s King Charles has become the "ditherer of the faith".

From Snouts in the Trough, "there is no economic growth" in the U.K.

From EuroNews, European police hunt for a Ukrainian woman allegedly involved in a bomb attack in Monaco.

From Free West Media, racism against the mixed-race "coloured" people of South Africa.

From ReMix, according to President Zelensky, Ukraine urgently needs more Patriot missiles after a Russian attack on Kyiv.

From Balkan Insight, in a retrial, former Serbian forces leader Ekrem Bajrović, an ethnic Bosniak from Kosovo, is found guilty of war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in May 1999.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian records a sharp increase in suspicious financial transaction reports between 2020 and 2025.

From The New Arab, the Houthis in Yemen threaten Saudi Arabia after an alleged intrusion into Yemeni airspace.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.N.'s human rights "experts" are "biased, bought and paid for".

From The Daily Signal, a review of a book about George Washington.

From Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan activist dies after setting himself on fire outside the U.N. headquarters in New York City.

From The American Conservative, President Washington's Farewell Address is still very relevant.

From The Western Journal, according to an opinion column, to make Colombia free again, it should be brought back to its Judeo-Christian roots.

From BizPac Review, White House advisor Stephen Miller gives an inspirational and timely speech to National Guard troops.

From the New York Post, in a road rage incident, a "Karen" in Santa Clarita, California hurls racist insults at her neighbor.

From Breitbart, singer Lauren Mascitti pays a musical homage to her great-grandfather's journey to Ellis Island.

From Newsmax, according to a survey, nearly half of Americans don't know what tomorrow's milestone commemorates.

And from SFGate, a resident of San Francisco goes from sushi in Mission, California to Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City.

A Few Wednesday Links To Start July

On a hot and sunny Wednesday on the start of July, now that I'm back from my usual running around, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, socialism should not have a home in the U.S.

From FrontpageMag, an Iranian court sentences singer Parastoo Ahmani 74 lashes for performing without wearing a hijab.

From Townhall, ProFa threatens to kill the judges who gave some of its members long prison sentences.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump should ban the "food truck pirates" from the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

From the Washington Examiner, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) confirms that he has been "in touch" with former Vice President Harris.

From The Federalist, birthplace citizenship and mass migration are incompatible.

From American Thinker, the "very Christian" founding of the United States.

From NewsBusters, experts and Politico get it wrong about gas prices.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the Labiour Party's "new safe and legal" refugee routes will flood the U.K. with more migrants.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Iranian government threatens to confiscate the Qavam church in Tehran and evict the 20 families living near it.

From The Times Of Israel, an anti-Israel candidate wins a Democratic congressional primary in Colorado.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. "handed Iran the paper and kept the war".

From The American Conservative, the new "Mamdani wave" looks like Republican agitation from about 15 years ago.

And from the Genesius Times, the British are horrified to learn that rape gangs in the U.K. use air conditioning.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, angry whining people from both sides of the aisle get together.

From FrontpageMag, South Africa has had enough of illegal immigration.

From Townhall, Border Czar Tom Homan demolishes President Trump's critics in one emphatic speech.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a media watchdog launches an AI chatbot which suggests there are at least 72 genders.

From the Washington Examiner, former National Security Advisor John Bolton pleads guilty to a count of mishandling classified information.

From The Federalist, lies from the media and the Democrats about pro-life laws are not only false but also deadly.

From American Thinker, the West fails to understand that the Iranian regime's motivations are religious, not pragmatic.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post injects babble about climate change into stories about algae put into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From Canada Free Press, socialists, communist and con men gather to tell us who our new enemies are.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela reports an expanded relief effort as the combined death toll from its two earthquakes reaches 920.

From TCW Defending Freedom, former U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's parting gift is government surveillance at an unprecedented level.

From Snouts in the Trough, will the BBC ask U.K. political leaders any tough questions?

From EuroNews, the E.U. will exclude military-age Ukrainian men from temporary protected status.

From ReMix, what does Ukraine have planned for its operations against Russia in the next 40 days?

From Balkan Insight, a fire at a nearby landfill leaves the Bosnian city of Mostar "gasping for breath".

From The North Africa Post, the U.N. Security Council passes a resolution ending impunity for crimes committed by the militia Polisario against U.N. peacekeeping forces.

From The New Arab, an Israeli company might soon enter Egypt's oil industry.

From the Daily Mail, Shia Muslims observe the holy day of Ashura by leaving themselves drenched in blood.  (Due to the pictures, reader discretion is advised.)

From Gatestone Institute, did former German Chancellor Angela Merkel once work for the East German Stasi?

From The Daily Signal, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, stacked with allies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), passes a rent freeze.

From The American Conservative, muddling through on the memorandum of understanding with Iran.

From The Western Journal, why ProFa resembles Nazi Germany's stormtroopers.

From BizPac Review, moderate Democrat congresscritters prepare "for war" over the surge of socialists in their party.

From The Daily Caller, congresscritter Brandon Gill (R-TX) presses a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program advocate about why taxpayers should pay for sugary drinks.  (Gill's father-in-law is my second favorite convicted felon.)

From the New York Post, World Cup fans visiting the U.S. get a "redneck crash course" in Texas, including a trip to a Buc-ee's.

From Breitbart, a 250th anniversary tribute to America from the aforementioned Brandon Gill.

From Newsmax, over 700 rabbis demand an apology from the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani over his remarks calling AIPAC "monsters".

And from the Genesius Times, the twice-aforementioned Zohran Mamdani oversees New York City's first public stoning of a rape victim.

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, the "Freedom 250" UFC fight can't distract from President Trump's woes.

From FrontpageMag, the real scam by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

From Townhall, you'll get a good laugh at how Trump will keep the media from lying about the deal with Iran.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City has a riot celebrating the Knicks winning the NBA championship, and no one seemed to care.

From the Washington Examiner, a woman's call to police about her son's stockpile of weapons helps to unravel an alleged plot to attack the aforementioned "Freedom 250" UFC fight.

From The Federalist, miserable old fogeys hold an anti-Trump cringefest on his birthday.

From American Thinker, what happened to the elderly white people "left behind" during the era of white flight from cities to their suburbs?

From NewsBusters, actor Rainn Wilson calls out left-wing hypocrisy over senatorial candidate Graham Platner's (D-ME) tattoo.

From Canada Free Press, a review of the upcoming movie Young Washington.

From TeleSUR, Bolivia bars the entry of an international human rights delegation.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Labour Party succeeds where Napoleon and Hitler both failed - by sinking the Royal Navy.

From Snouts in the Trough, the true horror of the Sikh murder of Anglo-Polish student Henry Nowak.

From EuroNews, a Russian artist critical of President Putin is shot dead in Biała Podlaska, Poland.

From ReMix, in a new poll, the German party AfD jumps to a record nine percent lead over the CDU, its main rival.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian President Iliana Yotova condemns the arson attack on two cars belonging to the Bulgarian embassy in Skopje, North Macedonia.

From The North Africa Post, Libya adopts an ambitious marine fisheries strategy for 2027 through 2037.

From The New Arab, Kuwait revokes the citizenship of two brothers who have been highly influential in shaping the music of the Gulf region.

From AMU, the Taliban bans smartphones for government employees in the Afghani province of Kandahar.

From Jewish News Syndicate, experts warn that the Palestinian Authority's cash payments to terrorists and the families of slain terrorists remains active amid international funding.

From Culture Watch, "on migration and culture".

From Gatestone Institute, China builds up its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

From The Daily Signal, 15 ProFa members are indicted for allegedly conspiring to injure federal officers.

From The American Conservative, Trump changes the conversation about Iran.

From The Western Journal, Vice President Vance explains how the current deal with Iran is different from the one made under then-President Obama.

From BizPac Review, Fox News panelist Dana Perino slams the Trump administration over a lack of transparency over the aforementioned deal with Iran.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned indictment of 15 ProFa members.

From the New York Post, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Cal) drops a truth bomb about California's high gas prices.

From Breitbart, a left-wing pastor at a "No Kings" concert offers thanks to "every God".

From Newsmax, President Trump and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) support the same gubernatorial candidate but different senatorial candidates in the state's Republican runoff primary.

And from SFGate, a drag queen shut down Lombard Street for four hours to film a movie in San Francisco.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, a review of the new Steven Spielberg movie Disclosure Day.  (If the word "review" is in your name, it might be appropriate to, you know, review something.)

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) finds a new way to fight diseases.

From Townhall, gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton (R-Cal) reveals who's responsible for thousands of missing underage migrants.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the playbook of senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME).

From the Washington Examiner, a federal court declines stop the UFC fight in front of the White House.

From the Federalist, the aforementioned Graham Platner is a far-leftist's idea of a far-rightist.

From American Thinker, meet the Democratic Socialists of America's Red Rabbits.

From NewsBusters, a judge foils an attempt by Democrats to allow people who have never lived in North Carolina to vote there.

From Canada Free Press, if you're on a high school sports team, don't smoke, and don't even pretend to smoke.

From TeleSUR, Chilean scientists confirm the validity of legally required warning labels and restrictions on advertising for food.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the #BeKind advocates who turned their backs on Anglo-Polish student Henry Nowak.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer resorts to shooting the messenger....again.

From EuroNews, F-35 fighter jets, nicknamed "Husarz", fly over Polish cities.  (The title has the spelling "Hussarz", but it's spelled "Husarz" in the article.  The name refers to cavalry troops in the Polish army from the 1500s to the 1700s.)

From ReMix, almost 50 percent of the people in Belgian prisons are not Belgian.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgaria's governing party declares its support for the "March of the Family" on the same day as the Sofia Pride march.

From The North Africa Post, the automotive wiring company LEONI Group starts construction for a new plant in Bouskoura, Morocco.

From The New Arab, in 2025, about 1.3 million Syrian refugees went back to Syria.

From Gatestone Institute, a "good deal" cannot be made with the Iranian regime.

From The Daily Signal, right-wing commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how California's electoral system keeps Democrats in power.

From The American Conservative, U.S. President Trump, not Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, holds the cards and should play them.

From The Western Journal, the father of murdered high school athlete Austin Metcalf blast the parents of the convicted murderer.

From BizPac Review, former Chicago Bears player Brian Urlacher blames Democrats for the team leaving Chicago.

From the Daily Caller, Columbia University reinstates mandatory admissions tests.

From the New York Post, a $300 million mansion in the London section of Knightsbridge has 24 jewel-encrusted bathrooms and just one resident, a homeless Swedish man who lives on its front porch.

From Breitbart, left-wing actress Jane Fonda will headline an event in New York City to counter the aforementioned UFC fight in front of the White House.

From Newsmax, the plane carrying Pope Leo XIV home from Spain has some technical difficulties.

And from SFGate, San Francisco novelist Dave Eggers doesn't need a smartphone, the interwebz, or your Flock camera.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, why senatorial candidate Graham Platner's (D-ME) supporters don't care about his alleged past misconduct.

From FrontpageMag, the needless death of Anglo-Polish student Henry Nowak and the U.K.'s resulting shame.

From Townhall, why are so many male-identifying Democrat candidates so weird?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a U.S. probe reveals that 101 more UNWRA staffers are also Hamas personnel, and that some teachers and principals are terrorists.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Border Czar Tom Homan, most of the anti-ICE protesters engaging in violence at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark are not from New Jersey.

From The Federalist, the media shrug at the abortion of a baby with Down Syndrome after crying "eugenics" about actress Sydney Sweeney's genes jeans.  (Ironically, the founder of the organization which became Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood was a eugenicist.)

From American Thinker, Republicans have won the redistricting war, but will they secure the results?

From NewsBusters, the Supreme Court vacates a lower court's decision to uphold Biden-era Department of Energy regulations that would outlaw gas stoves and water heaters.

From Canada Free Press, California suffers "the invasion of the ballot snatchers".

From TeleSUR, the U.N. demands that El Salvador releases former San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt from detention.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the woke left has taken over the Oxford Union Society, and the world.

From EuroNews, according to Latvian Foreign Affairs Minister Baiba Braže, French fighter jets shot down a drone over eastern Latvia.

From ReMix, a Polish model is beaten and almost gang raped in Milan before being rescued by an Italian man.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Corriere Della Sera.)

From Balkan Insight, the E.U. congratulates Prime Minister Albin Kurti on his party winning Kosovo's parliamentary elections, but urges "compromise".

From The North Africa Post, social media video shows that the Gara Djebilet mine project in Algeria is not as large as the Algerian government claimed.

From The New Arab, Israel releases Palestinian women's soccer player Rand Halawani.

From Gatestone Institute, Lebanon finally says that it does not belong to Iran.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) is warring with her fellow Virginia Democrats.

From Radio Free Asia, China's maritime outposts reportedly could distract Taiwan's allies if the former attacks the latter.

From The American Conservative, the ongoing fiasco involving child immigration.

From The Western Journal, the distorted Christianity of senatorial candidate James Talarico's (D-TX) pastor.

From BizPac Review, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) erupts at Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for leaving out Mormons from Christian categories.

From The Daily Caller, the Department of War updates its religious categories.

From the New York Post, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes west of Cuba, and is felt in parts of Florida.

From Breitbart, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa starts cracking down on illegal migration.

From Newsmax, according to a House committee report, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) "turned a blind eye" to fraud.

And from The Babylon Bee, California election officials remind voters that there are only 30 days left to vote in the election held last Tuesday.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte should not become the director of national intelligence.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats wage war against mothers and fathers, and even the terms "mother" and "father".

From Townhall, President Trump gets the last laugh on illegal immigration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to an ex-girlfriend of his, The New York Times omitted "accusations of sexual assault" from its story about senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME).

From the Washington Examiner, the Chicago Bears move one step closer to jumping the border into Indiana.  (According to NWI(dot)com and Da Windy City, the Chicago Bears are indeed heading to Indiana.  Will they still be called "Da Bears" with an unvoiced "s"?)

From The Federalist, what the CBS show 60 Minutes and the anti-ICE riots in New Jersey have in common.

From American Thinker, the West does not have a debt to Islam.

From NewsBusters, ABC and NBC ignore disturbing new allegations against the aforementioned Graham Platner.

From TeleSUR, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's brother Santiago is sentenced to 28 years in prison for creating and financing a paramilitary group.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. energy minister Ed Miliband "is about to cause irreversible energy damage.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the U.K.'s leaders leading the country to disaster?

From EuroNews, according to the Ukrainian navy, the drone that exploded in Constanţa, Romania was sent off course by Russian electronic interference.

From ReMix, a German man whose daughter was murdered by a Palestinian migrant asks if mourning the victims of illegal immigration is now "right-wing extremist".

From Balkan Insight, Pristina, Kosovo holds its 10th annual Pride Parade.

From The North Africa Post, construction on Morocco's Dakhla Atlantique port passes 60 percent.

From The New Arab, can the Iraqi government monopolize the use of guns under state control?

From the Daily Mail, 49 people die of thirst after the truck transporting them from Mali to Niger breaks down.

From Sky News, a former student at Surrey University is charged with attempted murder after a staff member is shot with a crossbow.

From Kurdistan24, according to prosecutors, an Australian woman accused of enslaving a Yazidi girl has not renounced her allegiance to ISIS.

From The Jerusalem Post, activists attempt to erect a statue of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti in London's Parliament Square.

From Gatestone Institute, the only way to end Iran's nuclear ambitions is to resume military strikes against it.

From The Daily Signal, according to a poll, Ohio voters support a voter ID amendment to their state's constitution.

From The American Conservative, mobile phone unlocking would be an affordability win for the FCC.

From The Western Journal, Democrats despite masculine men, which is why they elevate people like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and the twice-aforementioned Graham Platner.

From BizPac Review, Hollywood actor James Hardy is stabbed to death, and the alleged killer leaves a bizarre message in a 911 call.

From the Daily Caller, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli announces multiple investigations as vote counts in the state face major delays.

From Breitbart, blue collar wages increase in the Trump economy.

From Newsmax, Russian President Putin rejects Ukrainian President Zelensky's offer to meet.

And from the New York Post, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump are indeed "die hard" fans of the New York Knicks.

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt's (R) first big test.

From FrontpageMag, everyone starts walking back their 2030 "emissions" pledges.

From Townhall, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) slams senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) over explicit text messages.

From The Washington Examiner, Platner's top campaign strategist admits sharing explicit pictures of himself and is accused to threatening women who exposed Platner's texting past.  (I'm sure that lots of feminists, especially the "believe all women" crowd, will soon start denouncing Platner.  Yes, I know.  When Democrats do such things, the real evil is when a non-Democrat points it out.  Never mind.)

From the Washington Examiner, WE columnist Joe Concha blasts The View for its "blue no matter who" mentality.  (Concha is not the author of the article.)

From The Federalist, "Pride Month" is proof that institutions are not neutral.  (When are the months for the other six deadly sins?)

From American Thinker, President Trump's crackdown on fraud is "America First" for the upcoming midterms.

From NewsBusters, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) mocks Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's (D) claims that her city is the world's "gayest" and will become the "51st state".

From Canada Free Press, violence from the left is "par for the course".

From TeleSUR, Bolivians gather in the city of El Alto to demand the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the sickening footage of Polish-British student Henry Nowak as he was dying shows how twisted the U.K. police have become.

From Snouts in the Trough, an urgent appeal for money by Unicef UK.

From EuroNews, how drone incursions in Europe went from rare to all too common.

From ReMix, exposing the U.K.'s migrant grooming gang scandal.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From Balkan Insight, seven Greek parliamentcritters from the left-wing party Nea Aristera quit, leaving it without a parliamentary group.

From The North Africa Post, the separatist group Polisario is excluded from the Korea-Africa ministerial meeting in Seoul, South Korea.

From The New Arab, which countries in the Middle East and North Africa have nuclear programs?

From Arutz Sheva, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) claims to be "offended" by the participation of several Israeli government officials in New York City's Israel Day Parade.  (Genuine Israelis should not participate is a parade that honors Israel?)

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hezbollah's ceasefire against Israel lasts about three hours.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian Authority TV broadcasts a call to kill the Jews.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. sanctions Israel and welcomes the Taliban.

From The Daily Signal, Congress investigates the effects of California's sanctuary policies.

From Radio Free Asia, the Chinese government bans families of the victims of the Tianenmen Square massacre from visiting their graves.  (If you read Mandarin, read the Mandarin version of the story here.)

From The American Conservative, some disturbing links between the wars in Ukraine and Iran.

From The Western Journal, Trump chooses an acting Director of National Intelligence to succeed Tulsi Gabbard.

From BizPac Review, left-wing comedian Bill Maher can't stop praising the aforementioned Spencer Pratt.

From the Daily Caller, although Trump claims that congresscritter Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) has been "working tirelessly", he has missed 100 floor votes since March.

From the New York Post, a fake store in San Diego had an entrance to a tunnel to Tijuana, Mexico.

From Breitbart, the Spanish government claims that migrants are "healthier" than Spanish citizens.

From Newsmax, the explosion of a Blue Origin rocket during a test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station did not destroy a bunch of tanks and a support tower.

And from the Genesius Times, a statue of former President Obama performing an abortion on the Statue of Liberty is unveiled at his presidential library.