Thursday, September 7, 2023
Fredericksburg Battlefield - Part 2
Fredericksburg Battlefield - Part 1
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Spotsylvania Battlefield
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Tuesday Things
On a sunny and very warm Tuesday somewhere in Virginia, here are some things going on:
From National Review, according to emails, Dr. Anthony Fauci knew by January 2020 knew that his agency was funding gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in China.
From FrontpageMag, the Department of Homeland Security fights heatstroke instead of illegal immigration.
From Townhall, what Republicans are focusing on as the congressional August recess ends.
From The Washington Free Beacon, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy seeks a meeting with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, the pause in the confirmation of military promotions is the fault of "lazy" Democrats, not Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).
From The Federalist, left-wing activists who were once about "fighting the man" are now "the man" himself.
From American Thinker, masks are back, and so are the neocons.
From MRCTV, Hurricane Idalia causes electric cars to catch fire.
From NewsBusters, right-wing journalist Brett Bozell points out that lack of media coverage of allegations of Biden family crime.
From Canada Free Press, was Obama a real-life Manchurian president?
From TeleSUR, Nicaragua announces that it intends to join the BRICS.
From TCW Defending Freedom, math lessons in the U.K. must prepare students for the real world of filing taxes and paying mortgages.
From Free West Media, the earth's climate is driven by the sun, not carbon dioxide.
From EuroNews, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could soon meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
From Voice Of Europe, Poland cuts its tax for first-time home buyers and raises taxes on people buying multiple properties.
From Al Arabiya, Austrian authorities break up a suspected terror cell allegedly linked to ISIS. (via Voice Of Europe)
From ReMix, among people in the E.U., Serbians and Hungarians are the most satisfied with their governments.
From Balkan Insight, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama reorganizes his ministerial lineup, but critics say that the changes are cosmetic.
From The North Africa Post, Nigerien Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine announces ongoing talks to facilitate the withdrawal of French military personnel from Niger.
From The New Arab, a new influx of Syrian refugees enters Lebanon.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, a couple from Tunisia alert police in Athis-Mons, France to graffiti on a town hall. (If you read French, read the story at Valeurs Actuelles.)
From Gatestone Institute, how Iranian-backed terrorist leaders exploit the Palestinians.
From The Stream, presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) "has the right idea".
From The Daily Signal, the FBI greatly undercounts shooting incidents which are stopped by armed citizens.
From The American Conservative, Canada has committed anti-Catholic blood libel.
From The Western Journal, President Biden is fact-checked after claiming that Trump "didn't build a [bleep] thing" when he was a real estate developer.
From BizPac Review, a video of a knife-wielding migrant trying to break into an apartment in Sweden shows the problem when law-abiding people are kept unarmed.
From The Daily Wire, six co-defendants in the Georgia racketeering case plead not guilty and waive their in-person arraignments.
From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) suggests that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas may have committed perjury.
From the New York Post, due to heavy rains, people at the Burning Man festival find three-eyed "dinosaur shrimp" in the mud below their feet.
From Breitbart, the Chief Twit threatens to sue the Anti-Defamation League for its alleged effort to cut off ad revenue for the platform formerly known as Twitter.
From Newsmax, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the male work force is "not doing well".
And from The Babylon Bee, no one notices as Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is replaced by a lifelike cardboard cutout.
Monday, September 4, 2023
Wilderness Battlefield
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Sunday Stories
On a warm sunny Sunday in Virginia, here are some things going on:
From National Review, authorities investigate a death at the Burning Man festival, which has been pelted with rain.
From Townhall, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) rightfully snubs President Biden.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the memoirs of New Republic editor Martin Peretz.
From the Washington Examiner, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) claims that he would have handled the Capitol riot differently than then-President Trump did.
From American Thinker, modern globalists resurrect the Roman censor.
From NewsBusters, Ramaswamy denounces the media's "deranged mental cultural state".
From Canada Free Press, it sure looks like treason.
From TCW Defending Freedom, a pernicious bill would silence Christians in Australia.
From EuroNews, 872 migrants arrive in the U.K. on small boats in one day, the most for the year 2023.
From Voice Of Europe, Hungarian official Gergely Gulyás raises concerns about centralization in the E.U.
From The North Africa Post, Moroccan police and customs authorities foil an attempt to smuggle ecstasy and boufa into the country.
From The New Arab, three protesters are killed in clashes between ethnic groups in Kirkuk, Iraq.
From Barron's, Ugandan police foil an attempted bomb attack on a church.
From Gatestone Institute, starvation is "the invisible genocide weapon".
From The Stream, let's get "motivated".
From The Western Journal, leave it to "alleged college football fan" Jemele Hill to ruin Colorado's upset of TCU. (Colorado's football team is coached by former NFL star Deion Sanders.)
From BizPac Review, employees at a jewelry store in El Monte, California fight back against a thief.
From The Daily Wire, more on events at the Burning Man festival.
From the Daily Caller, Americans keep getting crushed by debt, which could get even worse.
From Newsmax, Jimmy Buffett died from skin cancer.
And from the New York Post, a Labor Day ode to the worker.
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Chancellorsville Battlefield - Part 2
Chancellorsville Battlefield - Part 1
Jimmy Buffett 1946-2023
Friday, September 1, 2023
A Sasquatch Travels On The Start Of September
Once again, this time on a Friday that starts September, I have traveled to an undisclosed location. This one is fortunately a lot closer to home, being in Virginia and requiring just one day of driving. It's in an area that I passed through last December, so I decided to return and stay here a while, to smell the proverbial roses. Of course, various travelogues and other posts will be made in due time.
Now that I've bought some groceries and done a bit of unpacking, it's time to chill out for a bit. See ya soon.