Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, "now what?"

From FrontpageMag, neither President Biden nor former President Obama is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

From Townhall, as Biden denies the border crisis, the Border Patrol reveals the death toll at the border.

From The Washington Free Beacon, snow stops federal government workers from staging an anti-Israel "walkout".  (Government employees swear an oath not to strike, which they would have violated had they walked out.)

From the Washington Examiner, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. climate czar John Kerry doesn't like being confronted over his own carbon footprint.

From The Federalist, real Republicans want nothing to do with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R).

From American Thinker, the speech about immigration that former President Trump should deliver.

From MRCTV, two lesbians have a difficult time trying to jumpstart a car.

From NewsBusters, hosts on The View bash Iowans for having the audacity to vote in the Republican caucus in spite of snow.

From Canada Free Press, the FAA pushes to replace competence with diversity.

From TeleSUR, a prison guard is murdered in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios.

From TCW Defending Freedom, longing for the days when competence truly counted.

From Snouts in the Trough, will a dystopian novel write itself?

From VRT NWS, a dog from Veurne, Belgium is hit by a car, dragged for 27 kilometers, and lives.

From The Brussels Times, permission is granted for the construction of a 90-meter-tall skyscraper in Brussels, Belgium.

From the NL Times, a man accused of murdering two people in Weiteveen, Netherlands claims that the victims often threatened his family.

From Dutch News, the pie known as Limburgse vlaai will be added to the E.U.'s list of protected regional products.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at 1Limburg.)

From Deutsche Welle, German arms makers boost their production of weapons to be sent to Ukraine.

From Polskie Radio, some Polish sejmcritters allegedly have mental health issues.  (Since the Polish legislature is called the Sejm, which word is pronounced like "same", a sejmcritter is the Polish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.  If you read Polish, read a related story at Polska Agencja Prasowa.)

From Radio Prague, Czech President Petr Pavel assures Israel of continued support in its war against Hamas.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak Prime Minister Fico goes to Budapest to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán.

From EuroNews, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the E.U. will approve €50 billion Ukraine with or without Hungary's approval.

From Voice Of Europe, France records its lowest number of births since World War II.  (The article cites an article by Reuters, which requires registration in order to read.)

From ReMix, Hungary prepares to take its turn in the E.U. presidency and calls for action on illegal immigration.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From Balkan Insight, the European Court of Human Rights censures Greece because its coast guard fired shots at a migrant boat.

From The North Africa Post, air travel through Moroccan airports shatters previous records.

From The New Arab, the U.S. military strikes in Yemen as Houthi rebels claim to have launched a missile against a Greek-owned cargo ship.

From The Jerusalem Post, a second Israeli soccer player is detained and released in Turkey over support for his country's hostages in Gaza.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF confirms the identity of a hostage killed by Hamas.

From Gatestone Institute, how to end the suffering endured by the Palestinian Arabs.

From The Stream, do Christians and communists really have the same goals, as claimed by Pope Francis?

From The Daily Signal, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduces legislation requiring abortionists to inform women about its risks.

From The American Conservative, the Iowa Republican caucus results show that "optics" are for losers.

From The Western Journal, freezing cold turns EV charging stations into Tesla "graveyards".

From BizPac Review, Egypt builds a "mac daddy" of a wall on its border with the Gaza Strip.  (Unlike the U.S. border wall, no one seems to have a problem with it.)

From The Daily Wire, the White House gets fact-checked by its own officials on the drowning of three migrants at the southern border.

From the Daily Caller, New York Governor Kathie Hochul (D) pledges over $2 billion to assist New York City with its migrant crisis.

From the New York Post, singles in New York City find that it's easier to meet people in real life than on apps.

From Breitbart, in the Iowa Republican caucus, a businessman/pastor outdoes former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R).

From Newsmax, Google lays off hundreds of workers from its advertising sales team.

And from News(dot)com(dot)au and the "great minds think alike" department, the owner of a restaurant in Sydney, Australia finds its "doppelgänger" in Paris, France.  (via the New York Post)

Stories For The King Holiday

As the snow falls on Martin Luther King Day, which this year falls on his actual birthday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why former President Trump is going to "win bigly" in Iowa tonight.  (The term "win bigly" is shamelessly pilfered from Trump himself.)

From FrontpageMag, a man who tried to keep Trump off state ballots faces federal tax charges.

From Townhall, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Switzerland agrees to host a peace summit for Ukraine at the request of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, every Republican presidential candidate in the Iowa caucus can beat President Biden in the general election.

From The Federalist, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas admits that wind and solar power by themselves can't keep Texans warm during the current Arctic blast.

From American Thinker, a pro-Hamas protester "tries that in a small town", as in Lucas, Texas.

From MRCTV, new Miss America Madison Marsh is in the Air Force, on her way to becoming a pilot, and is a real woman.

From NewsBusters, right-wing commentator Laura Ingraham calls out airlines and the Biden administration for their obsession with DEI.

From Canada Free Press, the Democratic Party really isn't.

From CBC News, heavy snow is expected for the Canadian province of British Columbia.

From Global News, if El Niño winters are supposed to be mild, why is Canada having such extreme cold?

From CTV News, police in British Columbia solve a murder by using DNA taken from tea cups.

From TeleSUR, 36 people have died because of a landslide in Carmen de Atrato, Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, an open letter to the mayor of North Tyneside, England about the national UK-100 network.

From the Express, the U.K.'s Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will have to follow some strict rules, even though they live in the U.S.

From the Evening Standard, Liberal Democrat party leader Sir Ed Davey faces calls to resign over the Post Office Horizon scandal.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Greater Manchester Police warn of a "reckoning" for sexual offenders in the town of Rochdale.

From the (Irish) Independent, gardaí arrest a man after a scuffle with protesters attempting to block asylum seekers from arriving at a hotel in Roscrea, Ireland.  (In Ireland, a cop is a "garda" and two or more cops are "gardaí".)

From the Irish Examiner, Irish broadcaster Dave Fanning sues a Hong Kong website and Microsoft for using his picture with an article about a different broadcaster on trial for alleged sexual misbehavior.

From EuroNews, German farmers protest against the Bundestag's plan to end diesel fuel subsidies.

From Voice Of Europe, an interview with Serbian parliamentcritter Dragan Stanojević.

From ReMix, the "green" government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to buy three luxury VIP helicopters for €200 million.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo observes the 25th anniversary of the massacre that helped bring about NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco chairs an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers to address a memorandum of understanding between Ethiopia and Somaliland.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claims that Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched a cruise missile that struck the Israeli city of Haifa.

From Jewish News Syndicate, an Israeli woman is killed and at least 17 other people are wounded in a ram-and-stab attack in Ra'anana, Israel.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Algerian man incarcerated in France allegedly threatens to slit the throat of another inmate who refused to convert to Islam.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Dauphiné and FDeSouche.)

From Arutz Sheva, a woke West cannot defeat radical Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, how DEI grade inflation hurts Jews, Asians, and others.

From The Stream, on this year's MLK Day, what we can learn from the massacres in Buffalo, Nashville, and Israel.

From The Daily Signal, Hungary offers a "last warning to the West".

From The Western Journal, Trump gets endorsed by former rival Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

From BizPac Review, the FAA seeks to hire people with "severe intellectual disability" and "psychiatric disability" in its new DEI push.

From The Daily Wire, the FBI arrests a man who claims to be a woman for allegedly threatening to kill "trans phobes", suggesting that he has ties to "alt-right extremism".

From the Daily Caller, New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to impose a curfew on several migrant shelters.

From the New York Post, NASA and Lockheed Martin debut the relatively quiet "son of Concorde".

From Breitbart, lava from a recently awakened volcano engulfs homes in Grindavík, Iceland.  (If you read Icelandic, read what appears to be a related live blog at RUV.)

From Newsmax, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) tells Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) to stop sending illegal migrants to his state.

And from the Babylon Bee, the increased precipitation across the U.S. is shown to be tears from fans of the Dallas Cowboys.

Sunday Links

On a sunny but cold Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Socialism (I-VT) urges President Biden to "change course" on Israel to help his reelection bid.

From Townhall, Biden gets delusional about his border crisis.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the IDF.

From the Washington Examiner, what you might not understand about disruptive demonstrations by left-wingers.

From American Thinker, let's talk about the so-called "Christ-killers".

From NewsBusters, when the media covered past Iowa caucuses.

From Canada Free Press, watch how the WEF wants to off you.

From TeleSUR, the Ecuadorian government assures that hostages have been released from prison.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the world ignores the genocide of Christians in Nigeria.

From the Express, a pro-HamasPalestine mob plots to inflict economic damage by "shutting down" the London Stock Exchange.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a pro-HamasPalestine mob tries to breach a fence near a White House gate.  (Thus, the administration which claims that border fences don't work protects itself with a fence.)

From The Jerusalem Post, a former member of a terrorist organization is among the South African delegation to the ICJ.

From Gatestone Institute, Taiwanese voters just cut Chinese President Xi down to size.

From The Stream, "woke won't work".

From The Daily Signal, a Hamas leader urges Muslims to "build on" the "victory" of October 7th and engage in "financial jihad".

From The Western Journal, according to a poll, former President Trump is headed for a big win in the Iowa caucus.  (Or as Trump might put it, a "yuge" win.)

From BizPac Review, fake female Dylan Mulvaney calls an "emergency meeting" on TikTok.

From The Daily Wire, Republican congresscritters offer new subpoenas to First Son Hunter Biden.

From the Daily Caller, a former governor of my state endorses former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) for president.

From the New York Post, according to critics, New York Governor Kathie Hochul (D) has made getting an abortion easier than adopting a baby.

From Breitbart, according to a California sheriff, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) gun control efforts target the law-abiding and give criminals a pass.

From Newsmax, according to its CEO, FedEx has not seen much of a shift to air freight from disruptions in the Red Sea.

And from Page Six, Kansas City Chiefs fans Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes go "twinning and winning".

Saturday Stuff

Now that I'm back home on a cool cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, First Son Hunter Biden uses Republican missteps to buy some time.

From Townhall, the Biden administrations shells out another $700,000 for another woke transgender program.

From The Washington Free Beacon and the "you've got to be kidding" department, speaking in South Carolina, President Biden claims to have started the civil rights movement.  (Perhaps he started the civil rights movement in the same sense that Al Gore started the Internet.)

From the Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C. gets the crime and disorder that it voted for.

From American Thinker, the larger left-wing context of Harvard's then-President Claudine Gay's plagiarism.

From NewsBusters, according to MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, the inflation report, worse than expected, was "good-ish".

From Canada Free Press, the FBI is "the deepest part of the swamp".

From TCW Defending Freedom, the man who, in the early 1900s, proved that humans and nature could work together.

From EuroNews, pro-HamasPalestinian activists in Switzerland protest against the country's "neutrality" in the war between Hamas and Israel.  (I thought that Swiss neutrality was a longstanding tradition.)

From Voice Of Europe, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz uses pneumatic mail, scheduled to be discontinued in 2025, due to the threat of Russian hacking.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From The North Africa Post, Human Rights Watch warns against Tunisia's movement toward authoritarianism under President Kais Saied.

From The New Arab, a court in the UAE adjourns the trial of "several Muslim Brotherhood members" on terrorism-related charges.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a 17-year-old girl is beaten and confined to her house in Vandœvre-lès-Nancy, France for allegedly being a lesbian.  (If you read French, read the story at Actu and FDeSouche.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's ballistic missile threat is growing.

From The Daily Signal, Republican Senators blast the Biden administration for using the SPLC for advice on "domestic terrorism".

From The Western Journal, the NFL wild-card playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers is postponed by one day due to an impending winter storm.  (The storm was probably caused by manmade global warming, of course.)

From BizPac Review, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) faces a backlash over her indifference to the migrant crisis in New York City.

From The Daily Wire, an illegal alien who killed an 8-year-old boy while driving drunk in 2019 is released from prison and later arrested again for alleged DUI.

From the Daily Caller, what could happen if the federal government partially shuts down on January 19th?

From the New York Post, a Houthi rocket-launching site on the outskirts of Hodeida, Yemen reportedly gets hit, but not by the U.S. military.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Seth Moulton (D-MA) claims that he would fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "in about five minutes".

From Newsmax, climate czar John Kerry plans to leave the Biden administration and help his reelection campaign.

And from SFGate, San Francisco Bay Area musician Sly Stone publishes a new autobiography.

One Last Look

Before I leave Key West, here's one last pic.  It's basically the same as the last photo in yesterday's post, but in morning sunlight.

See youz soon.

Twelve Thursday Things

On a warm cloudy Thursday in Key West, here are 12 things going on in various places:

From National Review, Florida gets tough on "lewd or lascivious grooming".

From FrontpageMag, an Al Jazeera "journalist" killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza was really an Islamic Jihad terrorist.

From Townhall, a House Judiciary subcommittee learns about how illegal immigration costs American taxpayers.

From The Washington Free Beacon, hit the Houthi rebels in Yemen hard.

From The Federalist, President Biden calls his political opponents "Nazis" while voters from his own party riot to support terrorists intending to kill Jews.

From American Thinker, an explanation of the electric vehicle con game.

From NewsBusters, Biden continues his cynical use of race.

From TCW Defending Freedom, blame feminists for the U.K.'s falling birth rate.

From Gatestone Institute, is Qatar really an honest broker, having helped build Hamas's terror empire?

From The Stream, the "other" meaning of January 6th.

From Breitbart, fewer white people join the U.S. military.  (It looks like the "be less white" chickens have found a place to roost.)

And from the Genesius Times, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban makes a "groundbreaking move toward diversity and inclusion" by hiring a 4'3" center from Asia.

Another Walk In Key West

Today I took another walk in downtown Key West.  Again, I rode the shuttle bus from the place where I'm staying.  I walked over to Clinton Square, which is really a triangle between Front, Greene, and Whitehead Streets.  It includes this obelisk, a memorial to Union soldiers who lost their lives in Key West during the Civil War.

Wednesday Wanderings

Apart from my own recent wanderings in and around Key West, Florida, here are some things going on:

From National Review, teachers working for the UNRWA cheered Hamas as its terrorists attacked Israeli civilians.

From FrontpageMag, California loves illegal aliens and hates guns, but what will happen if and when illegal aliens on the LAPD are allowed to carry guns?

From Townhall, in closed-door testimony, Dr. Fauci admits that "six-foot social distancing" was based on nothing.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's refusal to designate the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization causes tension among military leaders.

From the Washington Examiner, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) suspends his presidential campaign after pressure from allies of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R).

From The Federalist, schools are being used to house illegal aliens, resulting in American children receiving remote instruction.

From American Thinker, the left's fabricated memory of the Capitol riot.

From MRCTV, First Son Hunter Biden shows up to a House Oversight Committee hearing about being held in contempt for defying a subpoena and is told by congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC) that he lacks certain male equipment.

From NewsBusters, according to a guest on The Tucker Carlson Encounter, climate officials are "misleading people" about carbon dioxide emissions.

From Canada Free Press, the left is, to pilfer a song title, "King Midas in reverse".

From TeleSUR, 70 people are arrested after two days of violence in Ecuador.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s NHS cares more about diversity than about patient care.

From Gatestone Institute, Biden promised that aid to Gaza would not go to Hamas, but he lied.

From The Stream, the global ruling class should realize that trashing the movie The Sound of Freedom looks bad.

From The Daily Signal, some states have improved when it comes to election integrity.

From The American Conservative, former President Obama would be the perfect choice to succeed Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University.  (But can he pronounce the school's name in a Kennedyesque manner, as in "HAH-vudd"?)

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned congresscritter Mace telling off the aforementioned Hunter Biden.

From BizPac Review, one of Mr. Bill's accusers reports a health condition that he allegedly suffered from.

From The Daily Wire, during a hot mic moment, the aforementioned Chris Christie slams the aforementioned Nikki Haley.

From the Daily Caller, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appears overwhelmed by questions about Hunter Biden from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy.

From the New York Post, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) reverses planned cuts to the NYPD and NYFD after overestimating the city's budget deficit.

From Breitbart, according to former President Trump, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco is really pulling the strings at the Department of Justice.

From Newsmax, Republican congresscritters on two House committees press ahead for holding Hunter Biden in contempt.

From The Virginian-Pilot, North Carolina's Outer Banks experience a 102 mph gust of wind.  (This gust of wind, as far as I can tell, was not caused by anyone previously mentioned above, although all of them can certainly emit their own hot air.)

From ESPN, Alabama football coach Nick Saban says "enough for one lifetime".

And from The Babylon Bee, the reason why Chris Christie suspended his presidential campaign has been revealed.

Fort Zachary Taylor State Park

Earlier today, I visited yet another former military outpost, Fort Zachary Taylor, which is now a state park.  The park is at the western end of Key West, and includes not only the fort, but also some nearby beaches.  The trail from where I parked to the fort starts with this cannon, which you shouldn't sit on.

Knight Pier

After visiting the African Cemetery and Fort West Martello, I walked over to the Key West AIDS Memorial, located about 200 feet from the cemetery.  This panel is part of it.