Saturday Links

On warm Saturday that has gone from sunny to cloudy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter Jamie Raskin (D-MD) calls socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro "right-wing".  (In case you're wondering, I'm not in his district.)

From FrontpageMag, for her presidential campaign, Vice President Harris President replaces Biden's loyalists with veterans from former President Obama's campaigns.

From Townhall, the Biden administration pauses a program to bring illegal aliens into the United States.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how to pass yourself off as a reasonable critic of Israel, with some media help.

From the Washington Examiner, Republican's try to flip the "weird" portrayal of former President Trump and Senator J.D. Vance (D-OH) by Democrats back onto Harris.

From American Thinker, what liberals and others don't appear to understand is that negotiation is an aspect of war, but not a substitute for war.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post has a phony story about Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.

From Canada Free Press, a pig with lipstick is "still a pig".

From TeleSUR, Guatemalan health authorities launch a campaign to vaccinate people against measles and polio in regions populated by indigenous people.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a whole bunch "why?" questions.

From Snouts in the Trough, the British will "defend the mosques" and "kneel to the invaders".

From Politico, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrides the plea bargain under which three defendants connected to 9/11 would have avoided the death penalty.

From the South China Morning Post, a suicide bomber and gunmen from the terror group Al-Shabaab kill 32 people on a beach in Mogadishu, Somalia.

From The Times Of Israel, video footage shows Gazans abusing the body of an Israeli man killed during the October 7th attack.

From The Stream, the conservative majority on the library board of Kootenai County, Idaho prevails against leftists.

From The Daily Signal, according to whistleblowers, acting Secret Service chief Donald Rowe cut security assets.

From The American Conservative, can Pennsylvania Governor and potential vice presidential candidate Josh Shapiro (D) survived being scrutinized by the woke crowd?

From The Western Journal, an op-ed written by the father of an intern who worked for then-Attorney General Harris (D-Cal) resurfaces.

From World Net Daily, car repossessions increase by 23 percent since a year ago.

And from Breitbart, a federal judge rules that some of my state's gun restrictions are unconstitutional.

Friday Fuss

Now that I've returned home, on a hot and sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the dangerous gender experiment in Olympic boxing.

From FrontpageMag, terrorists, Chinese companies, criminal illegal aliens and corrupt government officials have nothing to fear if Vice President Harris becomes president.

From Townhall, why Kyle Rittenhouse will not vote for former President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, who is Harris's national security advisor Phil Gordon?

From the Washington Examiner, an immigration program is halted due to claims of fraud.

From The Federalist, Ohio's elections chief finds 499 more non-citizens registered to vote.

From American Thinker, most Jews wouldn't vote for Trump even if Moses endorsed him.

From MRCTV, another boxer who had failed "her" gender test wins a women's match at the Paris Olympics.

From NewsBusters, an op-ed in the Huffington Post admits an obvious truth about Harris.

From Canada Free Press, will not one, but two countries go from freedom to slavery?

From TeleSUR, Venezuela's Electoral Council publishes a second report of the country's election results.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to a large study done in Canada, the coronavirus vaccines, lockdowns, and other measures killed about 17 million people.

From The Times Of Israel, Turkey blocks the platform Instagram.

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkey declares a day of mourning over the death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, as its embassy in Tel Aviv lowers its flag to half-mast.

From Gatestone Institute, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's program is Europe's "recipe for disaster".

From The Stream, the Paris Olympic opening ceremony mimicked the blasphemous feast of Babylonian Emperor Belshazzar.

From The Daily Signal, of the 1.8 million people who entered working age over the past year, only a net of one in 32 are working.

From The American Conservative, why middle class Americans want Trump to return to the presidency.  (While I am one of those people who want him back in office, I recognize that if he again becomes president, Trump will inherit a worse economic situation and far worse illegal immigration crisis than he did when he started his first term back in January of 2017.  This means it will be more difficult to get positive results this time around than last time.)

From BizPac Review, did Trump, at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, make "one of the best persuasion plays in political history"?

From The Daily Wire, how then-Attorney General Kamala Harris (D-Cal) protected Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood.

From the Daily Caller, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker (D) may have just leaked Harris's choice of vice presidential running mate.  (According to Wiki, she is the 100th mayor of Philadelphia and the first woman to hold that office.)

From the New York Post, New York's oldest person celebrates her 112th birthday and shares the secret to her longevity.

From Breitbart, CNN shuts down its "opinion" site that nobody read.

From Newsmax, the Trump campaign tries to tie Harris to "Bidenomics".

And from SFGate, a businesswoman in San Jose, California is sentenced for importing fruit from Vietnam, which was infested with (you guessed it) fruit flies.

Thursday Tidings For The Start Of August

On a hot and sunny Thursday falling on the 1st of August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Vice President Harris flips and former President Trump fumbles in a campaign reset.

From FrontpageMag, the media mourn a "moderate" Hamas leader who wanted to exterminate the Jews.

From Townhall, what is Harris's biggest accomplishment as our vice president?

From The Washington Free Beacon, how then-District Attorney Harris of San Francisco was lenient toward murderers and domestic abusers.

From the Washington Examiner, according to national security advisor Jake Sullivan, a "core member" of Harris's "team" was behind the recent prisoner exchange with Russia.

From The Federalist, the Biden administration agrees to a plea bargain that allows three members of al Qaeda allegedly involved in 9/11 to avoid the death penalty.

From American Thinker, Trump calls out Harris's racial chameleon act.

From MRCTV, a female Olympic boxer forfeits her match to an opponent who previously failed a gender test.

From NewsBusters, the media pounce on Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, but what did they leave out or downplay?

From Canada Free Press, could Harris become the first pro-Palestine U.S. president?

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian race walker Daniel Pintado wins the Olympic 20-kilometer walk.

From TCW Defending Freedom, are statins good for anything?

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper can spare us their crocodile tears.

From EuroNews, more on the prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia.

From ReMix, once regarded as "conservative", the German party CDU now seeks an alliance with the far left against the right-wing AfD.

From Balkan Insight, miners in Kosovo enter the fourth week of their strike over unpaid wages.

From The North Africa Post, Ukraine's military intelligence agency claims to have provided information to Tuareg separatists to aid their attack against Malian government forces and Wagner Group mercenaries.

From The New Arab, the Israeli military claims to have killed Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif.

From The Jerusalem Post, for the second time in two months, a synagogue in Los Angeles is vandalized.

From Gatestone Institute, the horror of Iran having a nuclear weapon.

From The Stream, when choosing between Borat and Hamas, vote for Borat.

From The Daily Signal, the organization CatholicVote urges the Department of Justice to investigate pro-abortion attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers.

From The American Conservative, Trump is right about President William McKinley.

From The Western Journal, families of 9/11 victims are furious over the aforementioned plea bargain.

From BizPac Review, the New York City Fire Department are "disgusted and disappointed" at the aforementioned plea bargain.

From The Daily Wire, Harris made a damning video about Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood disappear, but now it's public.

From the Daily Caller, two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist Claressa Shields reacts to the aforementioned match between a female and gender-test-failing opponent.

From Breitbart, according to Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Harris has had success in the "northern triangle", but we don't have "operational control" over our southern border.

From Newsmax, a New York state appeals court keeps Trump's gag order in place.

And from the New York Post, a makeup trend which leaves the wearer looking sunburned goes viral.

Wednesday Whatnot For The End Of July

On a warm and sunny Wednesday falling on the last day of July, here are some things going on:

From National Review, are the Olympics being queered?

From FrontpageMag, Vice President and presidential candidate Harris is a climate alarmist and an "energy luddite".

From Townhall, former President Trump has some fun at the National Association of Black Journalists conference.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) and congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) open an investigation into Harris's national security advisor for alleged ties to an influence network influenced by the Iranian government.

From the Washington Examiner, a federal judge rules that New Jersey's ban on the AR-15 rifle is unconstitutional.

From The Federalist, Olympic athletes in Paris rebel against the vegan diet promoted by the event's organizers.

From American Thinker, some historical facts about racism and the Democrats.

From MRCTV, an illegal alien is arrested for allegedly killing a woman from Maryland while stealing her car in Sterling, Virginia.

From NewsBusters, two AI bots shatter the media's attempt to hide Harris's role as "border czar".

From Canada Free Press, will Harris be our first female president or a wolf set to destroy the U.S.'s future?

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan workers unite to support President Nicolás Maduro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the tyrannical suppression of people who told the truth about the coronavirus.

From Gatestone Institute, why has the Biden administration donated almost $900 million in aid to Hamas?

From The Daily Signal, Harris is a "candidate of myth".

From The American Conservative, Trump has a narrow window through which he can spread the truth about Harris.

From The Western Journal, a rally for Harris starts with a rap number that was so vulgar that most of it had to be censored.

From BizPac Review, the commentator known as "Catturd" predicts that the Democrats will revive a campaign tactic for Harris that they used for then-candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

From The Daily Wire, look what Democrats regard as weird.

From the Daily Caller, the Democrats plan to spend the first night of their convention focusing on President Biden's accomplishments.  (Whether his 40-year high inflation, record high gas prices, or record high illegal immigration will be saluted remains doubtful.)

From the New York Post, the United Auto Workers endorses Harris.

From Breitbart, heavy rain in Paris turns the women's Olympic triathlon into a "demolition derby".

From Newsmax, Prime Minister Netanyahu promises a "heavy price" for "any aggression against" Israel.

And from the Genesius Times, the would-be Trump assassin headlines a "white dudes for Harris" zoom call from his room in a very warm place.

Another Civil War Memorial

Between Mount Jackson and New Market in Virginia, along U.S. Route 11, is a memorial to Confederate Captain George Summers and Sergeant Isaac Koontz, who were executed on that spot without being given trials.  They and several others had seized horses from some Union troops, but later returned them.  At first, they were forgiven, but a subsequent Union commander decided to have them arrested and executed.  This all happened in May and June of 1865, after General Robert E. Lee surrendered.

The memorial is a short walk slightly uphill away from Route 11.  A fence separates it and the walkway from the surrounding farmland.

A Traveling Sasquatch's Late Dozen

As I hang out in my undisclosed location, here are 12 things going on:

From FrontpageMag, for over 20 years, District Attorney/state Attorney General/Senator (D-Cal)/Vice President Harris has stood with criminals, not with their victims.

From Townhall, why does Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) want former President Trump to have a running mate other than Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH)?

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to an audit done by the Department of Justice in 2010, then-San Francisco District Attorney Harris misappropriated $5 million in federal grants to deal with border crimes.

From The Federalist, yes, Harris ran President Biden's efforts to increase illegal mass immigration.

From American Thinker, what's this about being "weird"?

From NewsBusters, according to MSNBC, Senator Vance wants people to have only "more white children".  (His wife Usha, the daughter of immigrants from India, and their three children might find this allegation a little bit strange.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, what the Hallett Inquiry into the U.K. government's handling of the coronavirus gets right, and what it gets wrong.

From Snouts in the Trough, things that the author of SitT used to believe, before he got a brain.

From The Times Of Israel, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA is vandalized with pro-Hamas graffiti.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, almost one in every 20 Syrians now lives in Germany, where they receive government benefits.  (If you read German, read the story at Jung Freiheit.)

From Gatestone Institute, Harris sees Palestinian statehood as the "only path" to solve the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, but Palestinians see statehood as a step in destroying Israel.

And from The Stream, Trump and conservative faith communities form "an unlikely alliance".

Meems Bottom Covered Bridge

About a mile and a half south of Mount Jackson, Virginia on a side road that connects to U.S. Route 11 is the Meems Bottom covered bridge, which spans the north fork of the Shenandoah River.  A small parking area and a picnic area are just east of the bridge along the side road.  Here's the east end of the bridge.

Monday Mania

On a warm and cloudy Monday, besides my recent visits to obscure places, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one of Vice President Harris's possible running mates comes with some baggage.

From FrontpageMag, author J.K. Rowling is right in that transgender politics is everyone's business.

From Townhall, why President Biden is attacking the Supreme Court.

From The Washington Free Beacon, meet Harris's pastor, whom she calls "an inspiration to me always".

From the Washington Examiner, Biden lays out his plans for reforming the Supreme Court.

From The Federalist, the left is trying to send the attempt to assassinate former President Trump down the memory hole.

From American Thinker, yes, Harris was given the assignment of "border czar".  (The article points out that "czar" is the Polish spelling of the title of the Russian emperor.  This means that instead of being pronounced "zar", "czar" should be pronounced something like "char".)

From MRCTV, residents of the New York City neighborhood of Clinton Hill are "fuming" over a 4,000-bed shelter for illegal aliens that has virtually taken over the area.

From Life News, pro-abortion activists who were part of "Jane's Revenge" and who vandalized pro-life pregnancy centers face up to 10 years in prison.  (via MRCTV)

From NewsBusters, it's "back to basics" after the attempt to assassinate Trump.

From Canada Free Press, here's what Biden and Harris have done.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro officially wins reelection.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the anatomy of the U.K.'s catastrophic coronavirus lockdown.

From Snouts in the Trough, energy secretary Ed Miliband's devious plan - to bankrupt the U.K.

From EuroNews, training for the Olympic triathlon is halted due to pollution in the Seine.

From Voice Of Europe, climate activists protest on airport runways all around Europe.  (China has airport runways, doesn't it?)

From ReMix, Polish sports commentator Przemysław Babiarz is suspended for criticizing the John Lennon song Imagine during the opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympics.

From Balkan Insight, how photographer Ron Haviv captured the breakup of Yugoslavia on camera.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI champions intra-African solidarity.

From The New Arab, Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal loses in the preliminary round of the Olympics but already has his eye set on the 2028 games.

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkish President Erdoğan threatens to invade Israel.

From Jewish News Syndicate, what happened in Washington, D.C. last week was sickening.

From Gatestone Institute, then-President Trump's tariffs on China were "extraordinarily good for America".

From The Daily Signal, Thailand bribes its voters into accepting a central bank digital currency.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book about medical experiments and bioethics.

From The Western Journal, former First Lady Michelle Obama puts out an election ad packed with celebrities for Vice President Harris.

From BizPac Review, an "ultra-left activist" is arrested after allegedly breaking into a railway site in Rouen, France.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Figaro.)

From The Daily Wire and the "irony" department, according to an audit, IRS employees owe $50 million in back taxes.

From the Daily Caller, weather goes nuts across the U.S.

From the New York Post, tractor maker John Deere is under fire for laying off American workers while shifting its manufacturing operations to Mexico.

From Breitbart, the "barely-conservatives" running to lead the U.K.'s Conservative Party after its historic defeat in the last round of elections.

From Newsmax, according to Speaker Johnson (R-LA), Biden's proposals for the Supreme Court are a "dangerous gambit".

And from The Babylon Bee, Americans are thankful that election rigging by socialists only happens in Venezuela.

Tomahawk Pond

This morning I went out for a bit of exercise at Tomahawk Pond, a small body of water located about three miles south of Orkney Springs, Virginia.  The place had no facilities and required no fees, but had an easy walking trail around the pond.  As a result, it was a great place to chill out and enjoy nature.  Part of the scenery on the west side of the pond is seen here.

A Bit Of Mount Jackson, Virginia

Today I made a brief visit to Mount Jackson, Virginia along its Main Street, which is also U.S. Route 11.  Next to the street is this Veterans Memorial, seen from its north side.