Trump Runs Again And Other Stories

Yesterday evening, former President Trump announced that he is running to retake his old office.  To put it one way, he's trying to become the next Grover Cleveland.

Read more at CNN, NPR, Politico, CBS News and Reuters.

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

From National Review, President Biden has a pen and a phone.

From FrontpageMag, a federal judge rules against Georgia's ban on abortions after a heartbeat is detected based on a constitutional interpretation which no longer exists.

From Townhall, when it comes to looking for voter disenfranchisement, the DOJ goes Sergeant Schultz on Maricopa County, Arizona.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Republican Senators vote to keep Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as their leader.

From the Washington Examiner, Thanksgiving will cost 20 percent more this year due to inflation.

From The Federalist, Democrats abused Generation Z with coronavirus insanity for years, but Republican leaders refused to campaign on it.

From American Thinker, did former Vice President Pence announce that he's running for president?

From CNS News, Biden does not have any authority to forgive student loans, said Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

From Red Voice Media, according to right-wing commentator Jesse Watters, right-wing commentator Dan Bongino is running out of content for his show because his conspiracy theories all have come true.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, MSNBC host Joy Reid claims that Georgia will not allow early voting in the senatorial runoff in order to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva proposes the Amazon region as the venue to host COP30 in 2025.  (Does the Amazon have airports capable of accommodating all those private jets?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, immigration is creating an internal Islamist enemy in the U.K.

From Free West Media, the German government wants to support the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

From EuroNews, according to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, there is no indication that the missile strike near Przewodów, Poland was a deliberate attack.

From Euractiv, the French left-wing party La France Insoumise proposes a bill to reinstate unvaccinated health workers.

From ReMix, trying to cross part of the Polish-Belarusian border could be a shocking experience.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki tells his fellow sejmcritters that they can't rule out the missile incident being "provocation" by Russia.  (Since the lower house of the Polish legislature is called the Sejm, a sejmcritter is the Polish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From The Moscow Times, Russia blames Ukrainian air defenses for the missile incident in Poland.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia will try four Croatian Air Force officers in absentia for allegedly bombing Serbian refugees in 1995.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is the world's 15th-largest exporter of fruits.

From The New Arab, a suspected ISIS cell leaves its stronghold in southern Syria after an assault by former rebel fighters.

From Firstpost, a Muslim youth throws his Hindu girlfriend off a fourth-floor balcony in Lucknow, India for refusing to convert to Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, Egyptians don't want Islamists to return to power.

From The Stream, the travesty of the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From The American Conservative, the deep state should be blamed for the carnage in Ukraine.

From The Daily Signal, Biden's proposed student loan forgiveness collides with the rule of law.

From The Western Journal, could Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg be considering running for president?

From BizPac Review, Republican officials and operative comes out to bash former President Trump.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit will reportedly find someone else to run Twitter.

From the Daily Caller, Arizona voters approve a measure to give illegal aliens in-state college tuition.

From the New York Post, a federal judge gives the Department of Homeland Security a five-week reprieve before ending Title 42.

From Breitbart, former First Daughter Ivanka Trump announces her plan to stay out of politics.

From Newsmax, a vehicle strikes 22 Los Angeles County sheriff's recruits on a training run in Whittier, California.

And from Huffpost, 500 more words will be allowed for the game Scrabble.

A Few Other Things For Tuesday

On a cool rainy Tuesday, other than Russian missiles reportedly striking in Poland, here are some things going on:

From National Review, are we doomed to forever keep arguing about former President Trump?

From FrontpageMag, only the late President Nixon could go to China, but only President Biden could bow to China.

From Townhall, the Republican establishment wins in the vote for the party's House whip.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a crypto billionaire's donations put Democrats in the hot seat.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) is expected to challenged Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for the Republican Senate leadership.

From The Federalist, now that the midterms are (mostly) over with, the top priority for Republican Senators is helping Democrats redefine marriage.

From American Thinker, two election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona are anything but neutral.

From CNS News, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) criticizes "Washington Republicanism".

From Red Voice Media, the Republicans had a red wave in the overall popular vote, but a red splash in the midterm elections.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, after co-host Whoopi Goldberg catches the coronavirus for the second time, The View goes into a panic.

From Canada Free Press, shove off, Senator Schumer.  (I can think of a harsher way to put it, but I'll refrain.)

From TeleSUR, human rights defenders condemn mass deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the BBC makes a featherbed for eco-terrorists.

From Snouts in the Trough, did Stanley Johnson, father of former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, spill the beans?

From The Jerusalem Post, Georgia stops an Iranian attempt to kill an Israeli national.  (That's the Georgia of Stalin, not the Georgia of Gingrich.)

From RepublicWorld, Maldivian authorities arrest 14 people for allegedly working with Islamic extremists to carry out a bombing.

From the Midland Daily News, the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls are found at an ISIS camp in Syria.

From Gatestone Institute, socialized medicine is no cure for the U.K.'s broken benefit system.

From The Stream, how do you know which side it not telling the truth?

From The Daily Signal, a growing list of counties pass non-binding resolutions to secede from Illinois and form a new state.

From Space War, President Macron (France) urges President Xi (China) to urge Russia to come to the negotiating table.

From The American Conservative, "puberty blockers and medical lies".

From The Western Journal, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) will reportedly not concede the election to her rival Katie Hobbs (D).

From BizPac Review, NBC suspends Today show correspondent Miguel Almaguer after yanking his story about the attack on Paul Pelosi.

From The Daily Wire, a theoretical physicist gets slammed for promoting the widely-debunked representation that sex is a "spectrum".  (Perhaps sticking to physics and leaving biology to the biologists might be a good idea.)

From the Daily Caller, Venezuelan migrants build tent cities in Mexico near the U.S. border as the Biden administration imposes requirements to enter the U.S.

From the New York Post, the New York Yankees are reportedly ready to pay top dollar to keep outfielder Aaron Judge.

From Breitbart, Republican congresscritters nominate Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) to be the next Speaker of the House.  (This would mean that the speakership would change parties, but stay in the same state.)

From Newsmax, according to court documents, the FBI had informants inside the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the events leading up to the Capitol riot.

And from Sky News, physicists describe the structure of neutron stars as being similar to that of chocolate pralines.

Russian Missile Allegedly Kills Two People In Poland

According to various reports, several missiles launched by Russia strayed from Ukrainian airspace into Poland, one of them striking a grain-drying area near the Polish village of Przewodów, where two people were killed.  This information comes from a U.S. intelligence official.  Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller has indicated that top leaders were holding an emergency meeting in response to a "crisis situation".  Other Russian missiles hit electrical facilities, including one delivering power to Moldova.

Read more at AP News, USA Today, Sky News, CNBC and CBS News.

Shooting At UVA And Other Stories

Late yesterday, three members of the University of Virginia football team were shot and killed near a parking lot at the school's main campus in Charlottesville.  Two other people were injured.  The suspect, a former UVA football player, was apprehended this morning about 80 miles east of Charlottesville.

Read more at CNN, Fox 5, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, CBS 19 and WDBJ.

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In other news and views on a sunny but cool Monday:

From National Review, the Republican path to retaking the House goes through some blue states.

From FrontpageMag, how the war against nitrous oxide threatens the world's food supply.

From Townhall, according to projections, congresscritter David Schweikert (R-AZ) will hold on to his House seat.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Republicans turned Florida red.

From the Washington Examiner, the obsession with former President Trump clouds analysis of the midterm results.

From The Federalist, Republican leadership faces a choice.

From American Thinker, the Republican leadership is "worse than worthless".

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) has no intentions of leaving Congress.

From Red Voice Media, right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh predicted woke mob behavior in 1993.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, during the fall campaign, liberals greatly outnumbered conservatives on late night TV.

From Canada Free Press, Republican turncoats get played again.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva goes to Egypt to attend COP27.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Welsh government destroys childhood innocence.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the problems with the U.K.'s NHS self-inflicted?

From Free West Media, the company FTX, while declaring bankruptcy, appears to have held billions of dollars worth of American "military aid" to Ukraine.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the city of Kherson for the first time it was recaptured from the invading Russian forces.

From Euractiv, Serbia is not yet ready for a proposal from Germany and France that would recognize Kosovo's independence.

From ReMix, Polish europarliamentcritter Dominik Tarczyński asks Belgian politician Guy Verhofstadt to point out the fascists whom he alleges to have attended Poland's 2017 Independence Day march.

From Balkan Insight, Turkish police arrest a person who allegedly planted the bomb in Istanbul which killed six people.

From The North Africa Post, the British company SDX discovers two gas wells in the Moroccan region of Gharb.

From The New Arab, can the new Iraqi government survive?

From India Today, an Iranian Sunni cleric supports anti-government protests.

From OpIndia, Pakistan bans the movie Joyland.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Iranian media outlet claims that Iran has a hypersonic missile that can reach Israel in 400 seconds.

From Barron's, Afghan Supreme Leader Zabihullah Mujahid orders the full implementation of Islamic law.  (The last four links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the time for TikTok is running out.

From The Stream, how to turn the tide against support for abortion.

From Space War, Iran attacks Kurdish groups in Iraqi with missiles and drone strikes.

From The Daily Signal, how Florida became red state America's new capital.

From The American Conservative, "don't blame Trump" for the disappointing midterm results.  (The article is written by Senator-elect J.D. Vance (R-OH).)

From The Western Journal, 24 Arizona voters discuss the technical difficulties they experienced while voting.

From BizPac Review, according to Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), it's time to bury the old Republican Party and build something new.

From The Daily Wire, a biological male wins a women's cycling race in Northampton, Massachusetts.

From the Daily Caller, tougher-on-crime candidates are poised to win local elections in San Francisco.

From the New York Post, another court rules against President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.

From Breitbart, Florida starts repairing state highway A1A, which was battered by Hurricane Nicole.

From Newsmax, according to CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp, it's "silly" to blame Trump for the disappointing midterm results.

And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is projected to retain his control of the Senate.

A Sasquatch's One-And-A-Half Dozen For Sunday

On a cool cloudy Sunday, here are 18 things going on:

From National Review, former Vice President Gore tries and fails to defend ESG.

From Townhall, in an op-ed, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) tells her fellow Democrats to get "aggressive" against Republicans.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a novel set in the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Washington Examiner, missing ballots from four districts in New Jersey are found.

From American Thinker, former President Trump continues to live rent-free in the heads of Democrats.

From Red Voice Media, it's time for justice, not forgiveness.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, will the anti-Trump media stumble into getting him reelected?

From Canada Free Press, a military weakened by the left.

From TeleSUR, President Luis Arce approves a decree on Bolivia's census.

From TCW Defending Freedom, going to church is for spiritual guidance, not woke hectoring.

From EuroNews, six people are killed when a bomb goes off in a shopping street in Istanbul, Turkey.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria is lambasted for allegedly prosecuting people for terror offenses without "valid proof".

From The New Arab, according to a U.S. intelligence report, the UAE "meddled in American politics".

From News18, students at a private college in Hyderabad, India beat a fellow student and force him to chant "Allahu akbar".

From Breitbart, Albanians in London protesting against a crackdown on migrants cover a statue of Winston Churchill with their flag.

From Gatestone Institute, there's "a big difference between Israel and the Palestinians".

From The Stream, eight investigations related to President Biden that Republicans could undertake if they take the House.

And from the New York Post, a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, which once hosted the Beatles and President Kennedy, is imploded.

Music Break

Once again, one of these has become way overdue.  This post's quintet consists of songs that I have recently found on YouTube, even though some are decades old.  First up is the newest number, Simple Man by Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit, whose last name does not include a "d".  According to Grateful Web, Fleetwood Mac alumnus Lindsey Buckingham plays lead guitar and Beach Boys alumni Chris Farmer and Matt Jardine contribute harmony vocals.  It appears that Schmit himself plays acoustic guitar.

Stories For Veterans Day

On a rainy Friday which is Veterans Day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Twitter executive who censored the Hunter Biden laptop story resigns after the new Chief Twit takes over.

From FrontpageMag, the one demographic group who prevented a real red wave.

From Townhall, the Biden administration's politicized Justice Department appears to have found its next target.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a beleaguered crypto billionaire facing federal investigation for allegedly mishandling customer funds was hobnobbing at the White House six months ago.

From the Washington Examiner, some key midterm races are still unresolved.

From The Federalist, the delayed midterm results are killing the American people's trust in elections.

From American Thinker, "today, thank a veteran for your freedoms".

From CNS News, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) says that he won't vote for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for Senate Republican leader.

From Red Voice Media, gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) breaks down why she's winning (or so she claims) with late ballot drops.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, talking heads tell everyone that "counting takes time".

From Canada Free Press, the truth about the big delay in vote counting.

From TeleSUR, the Central Bank of Mexico raises a key interest rate due to inflation risks.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the problem isn't climate change but lazy journalism.

From Free West Media, Jordan Bardella replaces Marine Le Pen as the leader of the French party Rassemblement National.

From EuroNews, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls France "aggressive" as the row over a ship carrying migrants escalates.

From Euractiv, Ukrainian troops retake dozens of Ukrainian towns.

From ReMix, Czech and Slovak police cooperate and check every truck for illegal migrants.

From Balkan Insight, a Kosovo court finds an ethnic Serb ex-policeman guilty of rape and the wrongful expulsion of ethnic Albanians from the city of Vushtrri.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria asks to join the BRICS group.

From The New Arab, Fatah supporters in Hamas-ruled Gaza observe the 18th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat.

From Sky News, a police officer is stabbed to death in a "terror attack" near a railroad station in Brussels, Belgium.

From Gatestone Institute, the dangerous nexus between Russia and the Iranian mullahs.

From The Stream, the purpose of Veterans Day.

From Space War, Chinese incursions into Indian territory are increasing and are strategically planned.

From The Daily Signal, six takeaways from the House Freedom Caucus's coronavirus hearing.

From Space Daily, private jets at COP27 create a controversy over how many there are.

From The American Conservative, five states choose to protect abortion.

From The Western Journal, while many blame former President Trump for the disappointing Republican performance in the midterms, the real reason may be more ominous.

From BizPac Review, Fox News hosts figurately pummel congresscritter AOC (D-NY).

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit's new verification process dissolves into confusion.

From the Daily Caller, 17 Republican attorneys general file an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against a school in Iowa at allegedly obscures gender transitions from parents.

From the New York Post, climate activists try to glue themselves to the painting The Scream.

From Breitbart, Trump finds that the name of Virginia's governor sounds Chinese.

From Newsmax, according to a report, 55 percent of Americans consider Veterans Day to be one of the nation's most important holidays.

And from The Sydney Morning Herald, a contraceptive implant for males that amounts to a "temporary vasectomy" is given a trial in Melbourne, Australia.  (via the New York Post)

A Few Late Things For Thursday

As I return home from a relatively busy day, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, we don't yet know about whether former President Trump is done.

From FrontpageMag, we won't have free and fair elections unless we bring back "Election Day".

From Townhall, election results in Arizona are delayed again.

From The Washington Free Beacon, in the midterms, white Democrats defeat non-white Republicans.

From the Washington Examiner, Republicans score some unexpected wins in California.

From The Federalist, the case against Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remaining the Senate Republican leader.

From American Thinker, following disappointment for the Republicans in the midterms, a defense of Trump.

From CNS News, federal tax collections reach a record high in October.  (Now if the [bleepity-bleep]s in Congress and the administration could reign in their [bleepity-bleep]ing spending.)

From Red Voice Media, the Chief Twit has a journalist freaking out and the Biden administration running scared.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a comparison of the tally by The Washington Post of alleged lies by Presidents Trump and Biden.

From Canada Free Press, "circumstantial evidence of voter fraud?"

From TCW Defending Freedom, ID cards are a "globalist dream that never goes away".

From Snouts in the Trough, get ready for weeks or even months of climate change drivel and lies.

From Stuff, a man in Auckland, New Zealand goes on trial for allegedly planning a terror attack.

From Gatestone Institute, what the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank now need.

From The Stream, if the Republicans take the House, it would be a victory for free speech.

From The Daily Signal, the Washington State Building Code Council's ban on natural gas for newly constructed homes and office buildings is all cost and no benefit.

From ITR Economics, American GDP has made an encouraging change in direction.

From The American Conservative, abortion did not hold Republicans back in the midterms.

From The Western Journal, Montana votes to let babies die if they survive abortion.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) gets some payback as the Democrat congresscritter across the hall from her loses her seat.

From The Daily Wire, self-proclaimed "original" Trump-backer Michael Savage now calls Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) "the future".

From the Daily Caller, an editorial wonders about where all the good men have gone.

From Breitbart, the conservative group American Principles Project backs congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for House Republican Conference Chair.

From Newsmax, stocks rise in response to news that inflation went down in October.

And from the New York Post, near Salipada, India, elephants drink themselves under the table.

Wednesday Whatnot And Election Stuff

As the sunny but cool weather continues on the Wednesday after the midterm elections, here are some things going on:

From National Review, we just had a "red splish-splash".

From FrontpageMag, some missions for the upcoming 118th Congress.

From Townhall, the Georgia senatorial race between incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock (D) and challenger Hershel Walker (R) heads to a runoff.

From The Washington Free Beacon, understanding the underwhelming Republican performance.

From the Washington Examiner, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) defeats challenger Mandela Barnes (D).

From The Federalist, congresscritter Elaine Luria (D-VA) becomes the fourth member of the January 6th Inquisition Committee to become a lame duck.

From American Thinker, some conditions which must be met before any sort of coronavirus amnesty is given.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL), the Democrats ran on fearmongering, not on their agenda.

From Red Voice Media, businesses in Portland, Oregon start boarding up their windows fearing violence in response to election results.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, former WNBA star Britney Griner, convicted in Russia of drug smuggling, is transferred to a penal colony.

From Canada Free Press, we must now wait while the votes are counted.

From TeleSUR, a technical table in Bolivia meets to plan the country's 2024 census.

From TCW Defending Freedom, COP27 should realize that there is no climate emergency.

From Free West Media, the Ukrainian government puts German parliamentcritter Rolf Mützenich on its "terrorist list" for calling for a cease-fire.

From EuroNews, Russia orders its troops to leave Kherson, Ukraine.

From Euractiv, the European Commission proposes €18 billion more for Ukraine.

From ReMix, an NGO ship carrying 234 migrants who were not allowed to disembark in Italy, is given permission to dock in Marseilles, France.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria is denounced at a symposium held at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

From The New Arab, Egyptian parliamentcritter Amr Darwish is thrown out of COP27 for defending the detention of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.

From The Telegraph, Saudi Arabia detains an American involved in a battle over custody of her daughter with her Saudi ex-husband.

From Republic World, Qatar denounces a cartoon depicting Qatari soccer players are terrorists.  (via OpIndia.)

From Gatestone Institute, how Iran has been trying to suppress the anti-hijab rebellion.

From The Stream, the FBI allegedly sabotaged its "search" for the January 6th pipe bomber.

From The Daily Signal, the senatorial and gubernatorial races in Arizona are still too close to call.

From Military History Matters, five battles that shaped the USSR.

From The American Conservative, we're going through an election week.

From The Western Journal, what really happened when then-Vice President Biden's helicopter "went down" in Afghanistan.

From BizPac Review, according to Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, the lack of vote-counting transparency "fosters distrust in the system".

From The Daily Wire, former President Trump celebrates a Republican loss in the Colorado senatorial race.

From the Daily Caller, Trump otherwise congratulates Republican candidates.

From the New York Post, Pennsylvania state legislator Tony DeLuca (D) wins reelection despite dying a month earlier.

From Breitbart, Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon (R) concedes to Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).

From Newsmax, Missouri voters pass a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend a larger portion of its revenue on its police department.

And from Barstool Sports, at a Venezuelan League baseball game, a hockey game breaks out, and even some fans join in.  (via the New York Post)

Stories For Election Day

On a sunny but cool Tuesday after the first Monday in November, now that I've watched a lunar eclipse and voted within an eight-hour period, here are some things going on:

From National Review, 20 percent of voting centers in Maricopa County, Arizona are having technical difficulties.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats protect the alleged Pelosi home attacker from being deported.

From Townhall, on election day, President Biden calls a lid.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what the polls are really saying so far.

From the Washington Examiner, when government and Big Tech collude to censor Americans.

From The Federalist, the "red mirage" narrative from the left is just a cover for election-rigging.

From American Thinker, the real "deniers" are Democrats.

From CNS News, Biden takes a while, but finally congratulates former and reelected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

From Red Voice Media, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) says "no" to coronavirus amnesty and "yes" to accountability.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a CBS panel flips out after former Trump acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney points out election denial by Democrats.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats won't be able to hide tonight's expected defeat forever.

From TeleSUR, Presidents Nicolas Maduro (Venezuela), Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Chan Santoki (Suriname) commit to protecting the Amazon rainforest.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Brexit never stood a chance because of the spineless U.K. Tories.

From Free West Media, Turkish President Erdoğan bemoans the "failure of international security institutions".

From EuroNews, Ukrainian military forces continue to move slowly toward the city of Kherson.

From Euractiv, europarliamentcritters learn that some E.U. governments use spyware.

From ReMix, according to Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan, taking migrants across the border with Slovakia wasn't right, but it happened only once.

From Balkan Insight, the mass resignation of ethnic Serb parliamentcritters causes a constitutional dilemma in Kosovo.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco makes some major diplomatic wins at the Arab summit.

From The New Arab, dozens of Egyptians are detained ahead of protests planned for this coming Friday.

From the Star Tribune, an American aid worker is shot dead in Baghdad, Iraq.

From Gatestone Institute, France slides toward chaos.

From The Stream, a prediction that democracy will still exist tomorrow.

From ITR Economics, what's the difference between recession and depression?

From The Daily Signal, uncovering the true origin of the coronavirus is just one question about the pandemic that Congress needs to answer.

From Space War, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson tries to win Turkey over on Sweden's bid to join NATO.

From The American Conservative, when you vote, "remember what the Democrats did".

From The Western Journal, more on the technical difficulties in Maricopa Country, Arizona.

From BizPac Review, a Pennsylvania court rules against Republicans by allowing ballots with incorrect dates to be counted.

From The Daily Wire, the DeSantis administration rebuffs the Biden administration's attempt to send election monitors to Florida.

From the Daily Caller, Guam elects its first Republican congressional delegate since 1990.  (Guam is one of several U.S. areas which send a delegate to Congress, who can vote as committee members but not on the House floor as a whole.)

From the New York Post, Florida braces for Tropical Storm Nicole, which could strengthen into a hurricane.

From Breitbart, left-wing personalities on Twitter "lose their minds" as the Chief Twit calls for Americans to vote for Republicans to take Congress.

From Newsmax, according to a Rasmussen report, an endorsement from former President Obama carries more weight than one from either Biden or Trump.

From CBS12, former President Trump votes to reelect Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).  (via Newsmax)

And from Huffpost, a Tyrannosaurus rex skull found in South Dakota is expected to sell for at least $15 million at auction in New York next month.