Friday Fuss For 4/4

On a mild and cloudy Friday on the fourth day of the fourth month, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the first suit against President Trump's authority to impose tariffs comes from a conservative legal group.

From FrontpageMag, California institutes systemic racism in its traffic offense policies.

From Townhall, the Nashville, Tennessee police department concludes its investigation of the "trans"-identified school mass shooter, stating that she did not leave behind any manifesto.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration announces its first offshore lease sale in the Gulf of America.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) hopes that Trump's tariffs are "short-lived".

From The Federalist, how the media are currently lying about Trump's tariffs.

From American Thinker, to cut your own personal tariffs, buy American.

From MRCTV, a pro-abortion advocate beats up a pro-life influencer in New York City.

From NewsBusters, co-host Sunny Hostin of The View claims that people who want immigration laws to be enforced have a "lack of empathy".  (Does she have any empathy for the late Laken Riley or other victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens?)

From TeleSUR, an armed attack on two public transport vehicles in Port-au-Prince, Haiti leaves one person dead and several others injured.

From TCW Defending Freedom, global warming should be blamed on......Christopher Columbus.

From Snouts in the Trough, Trump's tariffs, oh noooooo!

From EuroNews, who are the frontrunners in Romania's new round of presidential elections?

From Radio Free Europe, Trump's tariffs are not reciprocal and amount to a large tax hike on Americans.

From ReMix, a German priest calls an altar boy a "Nazi" and dismisses him after he appears in a photograph with AfD politicians Maximilian Krah.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian students ride their bikes into Hungary on their way to Strasbourg, France.

From The North Africa Post, Libyan politician Samir Shegwara is arrested on national security charges after he publishes documents alleging a connection between Libyan intelligence services and the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

From The New Arab, the Israeli Air Force sends a Hamas commander in Sidon, Lebanon to his virgins.

From The Times Of Israel, Iran starts pulling its forces out of Yemen amid U.S. airstrikes on the Houthis.

From Gatestone Institute, the crisis for Jews in Canada.

From Radio Free Asia, human rights groups protest the visit by Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to Bangkok, Thailand as his military continues to bomb areas affected by the recent earthquake.

From The Stream, the ugly truth behind Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's kafir tattoo.

From The Daily Signal, according to the group Judicial Watch, about 5 million ineligible names have been removed from voter rolls across the U.S. since 2019.

From The American Conservative, what Congress can do to solve the immigration crisis.

From The Western Journal, Trump celebrates a major win as the March jobs report easily surpasses expectation.

From BizPac Review, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announces that he will run for reelection as an independent, and claims that Trump Derangement Syndrome is "real".

From The Daily Wire, the platform Facebook announces the end of its fact-checking program.

From the Daily Caller, why some government officials use the group chat app Signal.

From the New York Post, a doctor shows how to use colors to boost your dopamine levels.

From Breitbart, according to Trump, Vietnam has offered to lower its tariffs on U.S. goods to zero if a trade deal can be reached.

From Newsmax, a transgender college student goes to the Florida state Capitol building in Tallahassee, [bleep]s around and finds out.

And from The Hard Times, Trump gets bored and pardons convicted child molester Jared Fogle just for the [bleep] of it.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, Vice President Vance defends President Trump's tariffs as an escape from the "globalist pathway" while stock markets plunge.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats were in favor of third terms for Presidents before they were against them, and so were Republicans.

From Townhall, how the FBI protected then-candidate Joe Biden when the story of his son Hunter's laptop broke.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an "environmental justice" lecturer at Columbia University endorses Palestinian "resistance" and calls for the end of Zionism.

From the Washington Examiner, how Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs work and whom they will hit.

From The Federalist, a man in Colorado fights to prevent the government from sterilizing his teenage son.

From American Thinker, what's the real target of the vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships?

From MRCTV, the media go Sergeant Schultz about a stabbing at a high school track meet in Texas.

From NewsBusters, PBS cries over the absence of USAID after the earthquake in Myanmar.

From Canada Free Press, a "judicial conspiracy to commit treason".

From TeleSUR, the Central Unitary Workers' Union plans to hold a nationwide strike in Chile.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a woman suffers a stroke 20 minutes after receiving a coronavirus vaccine, but it's ruled a coincidence.

From Snouts in the Trough, is U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer just a "lying liar of a lawyer"?

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron blasts Trump's "brutal" tariffs and calls for a pause in European investments in the U.S.

From ReMix, protesters against Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's ban on "pride" displays occupy three bridges in Budapest.  (If you read Hungarian, read related stories at Telex and Magyar Nemzet.)

From Balkan Insight, the brave women who stood against nationalist violence in the Balkans.

From The North Africa Post, Libya shuts down 10 international aid organizations over their alleged support in resettling illegal aliens.

From The New Arab, the Palestinian Authority breaks its silence on "anti-Hamas" protests in Gaza.

From Gatestone Institute, jihad arises in Africa as the West goes Sergeant Schultz.  (Looks like I've given Sergeant Schultz, from the sit-com Hogan's Heroes, a two-fer.)

From Radio Free Asia, the collapse of a Chinese-built office tower in Bangkok, Thailand spurs a wave of anger.

From The Stream, the "queering" of babies is more proof that same-sex marriage is not a good idea.

From The Daily Signal, several poor countries are benefiting economically from oil and gas.  (One of these is Guyana, in South America to the east of Venezuela.  No wonder the Venezuelan government wants to claim the Guyanese region of Essequibo for itself.)

From The American Conservative, revolt on college campuses.

From The Western Journal, a woman who falsely accused a man of rape gets her just desserts.

From BizPac Review, DOGE uncovers a Department of Veterans Affairs contract which payed $380,000 per month for minor website modifications.

From The Daily Wire, a journalist claims that former President Obama was "working against" then-Vice President Harris being the 2024 Democrat nominee for president.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shows his hypocrisy about the filibuster.

From Breitbart, tennis legend Martina Navratilova is "fuming" after USA Fencing punished a female fencer who refused to compete against a transgender athlete at an event in Maryland.

From Newsmax, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) warns the builders of a planned Islamic-centered city to not begin construction because they didn't file the required permits.

And from the New York Post, scientists no longer believe that a "city-killer" asteroid will hit the earth, but now think that it might hit the moon.

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cool and cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republicans win easily in Florida, but run into a wall in Wisconsin.

From FrontpageMag, don't cry for Elmo of Sesame Street, he's rolling in dough.

From Townhall, a federal judge gives New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) some good news.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Energy cancels grants award under then-President Biden to a left-wing climate think tank that has collaborated with the Chinese government.

From the Washington Examiner, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announces his candidacy for California governor.

From The Federalist, President Trump should release the audio from rhen-Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview with Biden.

From American Thinker, will Colorado pass what amounts to a "trans blasphemy" bill?

From MRCTV, according to right-wing commentator Greg Gutfeld, the Democrats and movies are going to pot, for the same reason.

From NewsBusters, TV host Rachel Maddow praises Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) for capturing "the moral imagination of this nation".

From Canada Free Press, there's a pattern with the conviction of French politician Marine Le Pen.

From TeleSUR, left-wing Ecuadorian presidential candidate Luisa Gonzales continues to lead in the polls.

From TCW Defending Freedom, singer/guitarist Eric Clapton should be praised, not demonized for his stand against coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk claims that his party's computer systems were targeted in a cyberattack.

From Free West Media, more on the conviction and sentence of the aforementioned Marine Le Pen.

From ReMix, a migrant from Cameroon allegedly has attacked people with concrete blocks in France, the Netherlands and Switzerland.  (If you read German, read the story at 20 Minuten.)

From Balkan Insight, an armed Afghan gang terrorizes migrants and refugees trying to cross Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, the Sudanese Army reports a major victory over the Rapid Support Forces in the state of North Kordofan.

From The New Arab, hunters from Europe bring death and destruction to migratory birds in Egypt.

From The Times Of Israel, citing its post-Holocaust doctrine, Germany decides to deport pro-HamasPalestinian protesters.

From the Daily Mail, a man allegedly injures three people with an axe at a parade of Assyrian Christians in Dohuk, Iraq.

From The Jerusalem Post, for the second time in a year, congresscritter Rashina Tlaib (D-Mich) is set to appear at the same conference as a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist.

From Sp!ked, the most chilling thing about the stabbing in Southport, England is that it could have been stopped.

From Gatestone Institute, the illegal Palestinian settlements that you might not have heard about.

From Radio Free Asia, the U.S. approves a sale of 20 F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines.

From The Stream, should we pray for Russian President Putin?

From The Daily Signal, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Jim Banks (R-IN) introduce a bill to give school choice to military families.

From The American Conservative, against launching a war with Iran.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned elections in Florida.

From BizPac Review, according to the Chief Twit, the terror "generals" behind the attacks on Teslas, their owners, Tesla dealerships and charging stations have been identified.

From The Daily Wire, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ends the Biden-era practice of offering a third gender option on immigration forms.

From the Daily Caller, one of Biden's former aides finally admits that he was rapidly declining and falling asleep by the pool.

From the New York Post, singer Katy Perry plans to "put the [rear end] in astronaut" when she and five other women go into earth orbit on an all-female Blue Origins mission.

From Breitbart, ICE captures a fugitive illegal alien who allegedly killed a 13-year-old girl in a vehicle crash in 2014.

From Newsmax, a man from California will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

And from SFGate, a weird rule change by the NFL gives the San Francisco 49ers two new league records, from their 1948 team.

Stories For April Fool's Day

On a sunny but cool Tuesday falling on the first of April, here are some things going on, but which might require the proverbial grain of salt:

From National Review, President Trump has a point about U.S. goods being tariffed by other countries.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) and Senator Socialism (I-VT) sing the same old Marxist song.

From Townhall, Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is seen with her boyfriend Nathan Wade after she claimed that their affair was over.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Cornell University graduate student who had his visa revoked after lauding the "armed resistance in Palestine" self-deports and drops his suit against Trump.

From the Washington Examiner, no, the recently deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was not in the U.S. legally.

From The Federalist, the FBI gagged its agents in 2020 to prevent voters from learning about then-First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

From American Thinker, DOGE recovers a terabyte of data deleted by employees of the United States Institute for Peace.

From MRCTV, a "trans" ACLU lawyer claims that Trump is "lying" by claiming that men are participating in women's sports.  (Have you ever noticed that the words "lawyer" and "liar" sound similar to each other?)

From NewsBusters, five networks give ten times more time on the arrest of a Turkish student than on the capture of an MS-13 member.

From Canada Free Press, Jew hatred at Harvard University is not a matter of free speech or academic freedom.

From TeleSUR, the right-wing opposition in Honduras is accused of altering primary election results.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a U.K. submarine gets sunk - by politicians.

From Snouts in the Trough, we must ban democracy in order to save it.

From EuroNews, the body of the fourth U.S. soldier who went missing in Lithuania is found.

From Free West Media, should German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock become the President of the U.N. General Assembly?

From ReMix, the European Parliament lifts the immunities of Polish europarliamentcritters Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik.  (Jeżeli czytasz po polsku, I mean, if you read Polish, read the story at Salon24.)

From Balkan Insight, a court in Niš, Serbia detains a woman for 30 days for allegedly attacking a Niš University dean with a knife.

From The North Africa Post, Libya makes a modest increase in its oil and condensate production.

From The New Arab, Iraq will limit the activity of Houthis in the country to only civilian activities, allegedly due to pressure from the U.S.

From Struggle or Hindu Existence, a Hindu man is shot dead after refusing to convert to Islam in Peshawar, Pakistan.

From Gatestone Institute, does the U.S. government have the right to place conditions on its funding of universities.

From Radio Free Asia, China silences online debate about construction after a Chinese-built office building in Bangkok, Thailand collapses from the earthquake centered in Myanmar.

From The Stream, six Catholic cardinals are accused of covering up clerical sexual abuse, including three who considered as candidates to be the next pope.

From The Daily Signal, the Trump administration has carried out over 100,000 deportations since it began on January 20th.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book about the downside of "body positivity".

From The Western Journal, Nike runs a pro-life ad - from 2008.

From Axios, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) puts on a real filibuster.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, singer/songwriter Kid Rock makes headlines with his flashy outfit in Trump's Oval Office.

From The Daily Wire, Israel drops all of its tariffs on imported U.S. goods.

From the Daily Caller, federal prosecutors decide to seek the death penalty for the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

From the New York Post, according to the makers of the "torpedo" baseball bat, it's "here to stay".

From Breitbart, congresscritter Jamie Raskin (D-MD) demands that Trump brings back deported illegal alien suspected gang members.

From Newsmax, Trump urges Wisconsin citizens to vote for Judge Brad Schimel for the state's Supreme Court.

And from the Genesius Times, the aforementioned Senator Booker's filibuster ends in an April Fool's joke.

Monday Mania For The End Of March

As the warm and sunny weather continues on a Monday, the last day of March, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump goes after collective bargaining in the federal work force.

From FrontpageMag, how the deep state overrules your vote.

From Townhall, Attorney General Pam Bondi dismisses a Biden-era lawsuit against Georgia's voter integrity law, which then-President Biden and other Democrats called "Jim Crow 2.0".

From The Washington Free Beacon, NBC and MSNBC double down on their DEI and quotas.

From the Washington Examiner, the bodies of three U.S. soldiers who went missing on a training mission in Lithuania are recovered.

From The Federalist, editor David French of The Dispatch and other never-Trumpers don't really care about free speech.

From American Thinker, the Helen Reddy song I Am Woman couldn't be made today.

From MRCTV, a left-wing protester is charged with hitting a pro-Trump activist with his car during a Tesla protest in Idaho.

From NewsBusters, an editor of The Atlantic drives a Tesla cybertruck and learns about left-wing derangement syndrome.  (When I was in Ohio last August, I saw a cybertruck in the parking lot of the place where I was staying and wondered, "what the [bleep] is that?"  It seems that now I know.)

From Canada Free Press, Trump supporters should not "get too comfortable".

From TeleSUR, international companies keep producing oil in Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the sound that you're hearing is the crashing of civilization around us.

From EuroNews, French politician Marine Le Pen is convicted of embezzling E.U. funds and sentenced to four years in prison (with two being commuted to wearing an electronic monitor), a fine of €100,000 and a five-year ban on running for office.

From ReMix, European political leaders slam the sentence given to Le Pen.

From Balkan Insight, the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece puts the spotlight on Greeks of African origin.

From The North Africa Post, an E.U. delegation to Libya welcomes the release of detainees and calls for action against arbitrary disappearances.

From The New Arab, Damascus might be relatively safe, but other Syrian cities such as Homs are becoming microcosms of lawlessness.

From the Daily Mail, residents of Nelson, England are angry about a proposed Muslim cemetery behind their homes.

From The Jerusalem Post, Hamas told Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas, after they killed his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir, that he would get a "better wife" and "better kids".

From Jewish News Syndicate, New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital fires a physician and a nurse for allegedly celebrating Hamas terrorists.

From the Orissa Post, about 700 Muslims were killed when their mosques collapsed during the earthquake centered in Myanmar.  (The Indian state of Odisha was formerly officially known as Orissa.)

From Gatestone Institute, don't be fooled by "anti-Hamas" protests in the Gaza strip.

From The Stream, the silver lining of the articles in The Atlantic.

From The Daily Signal, the Food and Drug Administration must deal with the influx of illicit Chinese electronic cigarettes.

From The American Conservative, Ukraine should join the West, and so should Russia.

From The Western Journal, at an NBA basketball game, a hockey game breaks out.

From BizPac Review, if Trump can somehow run for a third term, so could former President Obama.  (Be careful what you ask for, Mr. President.)

From The Daily Wire, three men from Uzbekistan are sentenced to death by a court in the UAE for murdering Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at WAM.)

From the Daily Caller, researchers claiming that the infant mortality rate is higher for black babies with white doctors omit an important data point.

From the New York Post, if you can spare $5,000 per month, you can rent Jackie Robinson's former home in the New York borough of Queens.

From Breitbart, according to the Chief Twit, 2.1 million "non-citizens" obtained Social Security Numbers during 2024.

From Newsmax, Senator Socialism (I-VT) agrees with podcaster Joe Rogan's position on socialized health care.

And from The Babylon Bee, researchers make a startling discovery that under the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt there's sand.

Sunday Stories

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

From National Review, a Suffolk County, New York chapter of the NAACP sues a local school district over its "Spartans" mascot, claiming that the name is a "symbol of white supremacy".  (What would Michigan State University think of this lawsuit?)

From FrontpageMag, President Trump secured the border for only 0.2 percent of the cost of the border crisis.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, early Americans recognized that occupational licensing was a racket.

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

From the Washington Examiner, a pro-Trump lawyer fights to retake her job at the Food and Drug Administration after Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) drove her out.

From American Thinker, the stealth Islamist takeover in Texas that we can't ignore.

From NewsBusters, according to cable TV host Bill Maher, NPR has gone "crazy far left", and both NPR and PBS should be privatized.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a "chilling echo of totalitarian control".

From Snouts in the Trough, "why are so many people so angry and bitter" about and article that the author of SitT wrote for The Daily Sceptic?

From The Jerusalem Post, a man in Toronto, Canada allegedly threatens "to plant a bomb in every synagogue" in the city.

From The Times Of Israel, Hamas murders a Gazan man who protested against them.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a group of adolescents beats up two gay men in Augsburg, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Arutz Sheva, the new Jewish ear in Europe and the possible exile from there.

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians during February 2025.

From The Stream, "hear and obey".

From The Daily Signal, Trump is tearing apart the left's massive government-funded patronage network.

From The American Conservative, U.S. President Trump pushes Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum away from the cartel policies of her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

From The Western Journal, 250 years ago, American founder Alexander Hamilton would have told us how to deal with the anti-Trump judges.

From The Daily Wire, Trump has no plans to fire anyone over the Signal incident.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Michael Bennet (D-Col) throws California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) under the bus and blames California for their party's "toxic" brand.

From the New York Post, according to a poll, Trump may be losing support on one key issue.

From Breitbart, the Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau will investigate alleged "DEI discrimination" at Disney and ABC.

From Newsmax, according to Senator James Lankford (R-OK), calls for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign are "way overkill".

And from Slay, the World Health Organization admits that "monkeypox" is a side effect of coronavirus vaccines.

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, Poland is projected to surpass Japan in per capita GDP.

From FrontpageMag, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in no position to lecture President Trump about foreign policy.

From Townhall, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert has a new ploy for Trump to deal with the Democrats and the media.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Europe needs to spend more on defense, the sooner the better.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump is winning with Americans, but not with the swamp.

From The Federalist, the Democrats' last-resort attack on Wisconsin Republican Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel amounts to "[bleep] you".

From American Thinker, New York state's highest court greenlights quarantine camps.

From NewsBusters, CNN mischaracterizes Trump's order that the Smithsonian remove "improper ideology" from is museums as "banning history".

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Chief Twit takes on censorship in Australia.

From The Jerusalem Post, a column about why, in the columnist's opinion, Islam and the West will never be able to really coexist.

From Gatestone Institute, China and Russia are making sure that Iran gets nuclear weapons before the end of U.S. President Trump's deadline.

From Radio Free Asia, over 1,600 people have been killed in the earthquake centered in Myanmar.

From The Stream, 10 reasons why open borders is not a biblically sound policy.

From The Daily Signal, according to a poll, Americans aren't buying the climate alarmist propaganda.  (When was the last time that climate alarmists protested in front of any Chinese embassy or consulate?)

From The American Conservative, Michaelangelo and his paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  (I was on a tour that visited the Sistine Chapel in 2004.)

From The Western Journal, former Fox News host Steve Hilton says that he's "seriously considering running" for governor of California.

From BizPac Review, a "Karen" who tried to snatch the MAGA hat off another passenger on the New York City subway turns out to be "extremely liberal".

From The Daily Wire, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth goes to Japan to honor the military personnel who died on Iwo Jima during World War II.

From the Daily Caller, the Supreme Court is set to consider whether states may restrict Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.

From the New York Post, the Taliban release an American woman whom they had detained in February in Afghanistan.

From Breitbart, Dutch police reveal that the suspect in a mass stabbing in Amsterdam is a man from the Ukrainian region of Donetsk.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Telegraaf.)

From Newsmax, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly plans to visit areas of St. Louis affected by illegally dumped nuclear waste.

And from PJ Media, some of the stuff that the Department of Health and Human Services was funding is hard to believe.

Friday Phenomena

On a warm and cloudy Friday, after I've been running around a bit, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Vice President Vance claims that Denmark has "underinvested" in Greenland's security.

From FrontpageMag, The New York Times finds its presidential candidate for 2028.

From Townhall, a law firm gives in after running afoul of President Trump's pen and phone.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what the Trump administration should do with the $430 million not given to Columbia University.

From the Washington Examiner, according to State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, the department is revoking the visas of pro-Hamas foreign students involved in on-campus riots "every day".

From The Federalist, deporting anti-American foreigners is not about free speech rights, since they have no "right" to be here in the first place.

From American Thinker, where the Chief Twit's chainsaw is needed the most.

From MRCTV, the media distort "Signalgate".

From NewsBusters, broadcast networks go Sergeant Schultz on congresscritter Jasmine Crockett's (D-TX) allegedly assaulting a reporter.

From Canada Free Press, say not au revoir but adieu to Canada.

From TeleSUR, Cuba awards its 2025 National Film Prize to actress/screenwriter/ documentarian Mirta Ibarra.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what U.K. Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch should be saying about Net Zero.

From Snouts in the Trough, there has been a miracle.

From EuroNews, a French court ruling could spell trouble for the 2027 presidential campaign of National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen.

From ReMix, will Poland cancel its elections if the "wrong" candidate wins, which appears to have happened in Romania?  (If you read Polish, read the story at wPolityce.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatian radio and television employees protest against layoffs proposed by the government.

From The North Africa Post, a tourist submarine sinks on its way to Hurghada, Egypt, resulting in six passengers being killed.

From The New Arab, according to sources, chemical weapons inspectors have been granted access to production and storage locations used by the outed regime of former President Bashar al-Assad.

From The Jerusalem Post, lawmakers in the U.K. and Australia try to restrict protests outside of synagogues.

From Jewish News Syndicate, sectarian violence in Syria reaches the capital city of Damascus and target Alawites.

From NDTV, a protester in Turkey dresses as the cartoon character Pikachu, but flees when the police show up.

From Raajje, the Maldivian government starts work to make student loans shariah-compliant.

From The Straits Times, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake strikes near Sagaing, Myanmar, causes damage in Thailand, and is felt in Vietnam.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto signs legislation to protect children in digital space.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia is ready to provide earthquake relief to Myanmar and Thailand.

From the Borneo Post, two men are arrested in Miri, Malaysia for allegedly smuggling drugs.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh welcomes visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwanese President William Lai oversees the first civil defense drills under his newly created Social Resilience Committee.

From China News, according to President Xi Jinping, China is still an "ideal, secure and promising" place for foreign investors.

From The Korea Herald, South Korean acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo slams North Korea's "illegal arms trade" with Russia.  (I wonder what he thinks of Russia using North Korean soldiers in Ukraine.  I also wonder how one person simultaneously acts as the holder of two offices.)

From The Mainichi, the Japanese royal family will soon have their own YouTube channel.

From Japan Today, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba finds U.S. President Trump's view on tariffs "difficult to understand".  (Even Trump supporters such as yours truly can't entirely figure them out.)

From Gatestone Institute, China is taking war to earth orbits, which could lead to a "space Pearl Harbor".

From Radio Free Asia, more on the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand.

From The Stream, why the confirmation of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) for U.S. Ambassador to Israel is a battle for Christian values in American foreign policy.

From The Stream, Trump tries to stop the left's war on history.

From The American Conservative, what would right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan do about Iran?  (The article notes that Buchanan co-founded TAC.)

From The Western Journal, prosecutors question the timing of drug maker Pfizer's announcement that its coronavirus vaccine proved to be effective.

From BizPac Review, a junior high school teacher in Bedford, Texas makes a half-hearted "attempt" to stop a student beatdown, but wouldn't even put down his coffee.

From The Daily Wire, USAID will lay off 4,600 employees and merge with the State Department by this coming fall.

From the Daily Caller, according to former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA), Vice President Harris becoming president in 2023 would have made things even worse for Democrats in 2024.

From Breitbart, after Hezbollah launches rockets into Israel, the IDF strikes back.

From Newsmax, the Federal Aviation Administration moves to protect the private information of aircraft owners.

And from the New York Post, actor Tom Hanks, who starred in the movie Forrest Gump, makes a cameo appearance in his son's Gump-themed music video.

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, President Trump withdraws the nomination of congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for Ambassador to the U.N.

From FrontpageMag, the Chinese government wages war on the cross.  (They have managed to repress Christians, Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners.)

From Townhall, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits a high security prison in El Salvador and has a very short message for criminal illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Senate Education Committee launches an investigation of American Muslims for Palestine over its role in anti-Israel demonstrations on U.S. college campuses.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the Secret Service, a third dog owned by then-Vice President Biden attacked security and landscaping staff.

From The Federalist, 10 times when NPR proved that it doesn't deserve one more cent of taxpayer money.

From American Thinker, cameras could be installed at Fort Knox so Americans can see our gold.

From MRCTV, opening day for the Washington Nationals will include a performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.

From NewsBusters, these four minutes of video footage from PBS make a strong case for it being defunded.

From Canada Free Press, did left-wing supporters of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney repeat a satanic chant back to him?

From TeleSUR, Venezuela rejects threats from the U.S. and promises to defend the region of Essequibo as its sovereign territory.  (Essequibo currently makes up most of neighboring Guyana.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, is there any difference between the U.K.'s Labour and Conservative parties?

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron announces a plan for a "reassurance force" in Ukraine.

From Free West Media, ending the scapegoating of South Africa's Afrikaners amid the ANC's corruption.

From ReMix, French customs authorities find she-don't-lie in some amazing places.

From Balkan Insight, a court in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina finds a Serb former policeman guilty of raping a Bosniak woman in 1992.

From The North Africa Post, almost 1,000 athletes from 52 countries are expected to participate in Morocco's Marathon Des Sables in April.

From The New Arab, Syrians returning to their homes confront the threat of explosive devices left from the country's civil war.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, an Iranian journalist trades his microphone for a rifle and fights for Ukraine.

From Hasht e Subh, under Taliban rule, girls in several provinces of Afghanistan turn to drugs amid depression.

From The Hans India, Indian Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy points out the producing a billion tonnes of coal is a collective effort.

From the Hindustan Times, police in Delhi, India bust a vehicle theft ring connected to a kingpin based in Dubai, UAE.

From ANI, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, Bangladeshis and Rohingyas enter India through the state of West Bengal.

From India Today, the Indian Army plans to permanently deploy the new "72 Infantry Division" in the eastern part of the territory of Ladakh to guard the border with China.

From The Dhaka Tribune, travel during Eid in Bangladesh could face some major disruptions.  (Although the article doesn't specify which Islamic festival of Eid is meant, I believe that it's Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month Ramadan.  The other festival is Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.)

From New Age, observers of Eid-ul-fitr in Bangladesh face extortionists.  (The article uses a spelling different from "Eid al-Fitr" above.  This might be due to Arabic words being adopted into Bengali.)

From the Daily Mirror, an Indian couple returning from Thailand via Sri Lanka with their young child are arrested cannabis of the "Kush" variety is found in their luggage.

From the Colombo Gazette, 11 Indian fisherman are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan waters.

From the Bangkok Post, Thailand's cabinet approves a bill for casinos and entertainment complexes.

From Jewish News Syndicate, French Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls admits that hatred of the Jews "comes essentially from the Arab-Muslim world".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a migrant from Bulgaria allegedly attacks and rapes his ex-girlfriend in Frankfurt am Mein, Germany because she would not swear on the Koran.  (Muslims constitute 9.8 percent of Bulgaria's population.  If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From BBC News, according to police, five people were injured in a stabbing spree in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

From Gatestone Institute, the Alien Enemies Act, separation of powers, "public safety", and the word "or".

From Radio Free Asia, the Arakan Army, which controls most of the Myanmar state of Rakhine, plans to start conscripting both men and women.

From The Stream, how far did Trump go acting against election fraud, and what threats are still around?

From The Daily Signal, the real oligarchs who run the U.S.

From The American Conservative, if judges can obstruct the will of the people, then we no longer have a democracy.

From The Western Journal, after a group of Republican Senators blast Vice President Vance, they are blasted by Donald Trump the Younger.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tells a U.K. reporter to go back home, which has a significant migrant problem.

From The Daily Wire, Vance looks back and pays it forward while visiting the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia.

From the Daily Caller, former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza predicts a "really bad" two months for former President Biden.

From the New York Post, why students who get accepted into Ivy League schools are rejected elsewhere.

From Breitbart, a former Freddie Mac employee is arrested for allegedly making bomb threats against its headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

From Newsmax, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) jokingly predicts that pop singer Taylor Swift will write a song about the "terrible breakup" between the Chief Twit and the Democrats.

And from The Betoota Advocate, the original version of "brain rot" was playing Minesweeper without knowing its rules.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a sunny, cool and windy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, sometimes, admitting a mistake is the best thing to do.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump has the power to drive his enemies insane.

From Townhall, did you notice what disappeared from the story by The Atlantic about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Signal chat?

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) once attacked fellow congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL) for being married to a white woman.

From the Washington Examiner, Hegseth performs "rhetorical gymnastics" over what information was shared in the aforementioned Signal chat.

From The Federalist, Democratic Senators claim that there was no censorship industrial complex, and it would have been good if one did exist.

From American Thinker, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's snap election, which Trump saw coming.

From MRCTV, why did Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic wait 13 days before informing National Security Advisor Michael Waltz of the "massive security breach" when he was mistakenly including in the aforementioned Signal chat?

From NewsBusters, how then-President Biden's team mistreated a pliant press corps.

From Canada free Press, Illinois legislators attack the rights of parents to choose how their children are educated.

From TeleSUR, an environmental disaster from an oil spill in Ecuador gets worse.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a cunning plan to make everyone in the U.K. use smart meters.

From Snouts in the Trough, do you really believe that U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will cut public spending.

From EuroNews, the E.U. wants all of its member states to develop a 72-hour survival kit for its citizens in case of a crisis.

From ReMix, Germany's new government prepares to implement a stricter immigration policy in order to head off the growing popularity of the party AfD.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.  Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any German language version of the story.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti gets pranked by Russians pretending to be the president of Latvia.

From The North Africa Post, a Tunisian student is arrested for allegedly storming Radès Stadium, where a World Cup qualifying match was being played, and waving the Palestinian flag.  (Radès is a suburb of Tunis.)

From The New Arab, meet the female preachers appointed by Egypt's Al-Azhar University.

From IranWire, Iran reveals another underground "missile city".

From Iran International, Iran reportedly uses forged documents to sell oil and liquefied petroleum gas in Asian markets as coming from other countries.

From Khaama Press, the U.N. calls for female Afghan soccer players to be included in international competitions.

From AMU, according to Afghan official Khan Jan Alokozai, Afghanistan exported $500 million worth of goods to India over the past year, despite Pakistan closing some key trade routes.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif commends his team and nation for unlocking a new $1.3 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan Railways announces the resumption of operations in the province of Balochistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani YouTube user Rajab Butt apologizes while on an Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca for his perfume named "295", the number apparently referring to a section of the Pakistan Penal Code dealing with blasphemy.  (Whether his last name really is "Butt", I have no idea.)

From OpIndia, an Islamist mob throws stones at a Mangla procession in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India.  (If you read Hindi, read the story at Aaj Tak.)

From the Daily Mail, a British-Israeli man successfully sues the Palestinian Authority for £10.5 million after a terrorist killed his wife and two daughters.

From RAIR Foundation USA, the Tablighi Jamaat, known as a recruitment gateway for Al Qaeda, establishes a headquarters in Garland, Texas.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, the Palestinian Authority's antisemitism resembles the ideology of Nazi Germany.  (The last four stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is apparently planning to outwit or outwait U.S. President Trump rather than relinquishing its nuclear program.

From Radio Free Asia, Laos investigates executives who oversaw a long dam delay.

From The Stream, the Bible is clear that Christians should pray for Israel and act accordingly.

From The Daily Signal, did Biden make the fires in California and the Carolina worse by giving in to an environmentalist group?

From The American Conservative, what "Signalgate" really means.

From The Western Journal, a alleged Tesla vandal pays a price for his actions - twice.

From BizPac Review, NPR and PBS are set to have their government funding cut off, as their CEOs are expected to testify before the congressional DOGE subcommittee.

From The Daily Wire, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza are proof that Israel's policies are working.

From the Daily Caller, a judge who blocked the Trump administration's deportation of illegal alien gang members is assigned to a lawsuit involving Signal chat.

From the New York Post, NPR CEO Katherine Maher admits that the outlet did not cover the Hunter Biden laptop story "more aggressively or sooner".

From Breitbart, the Kennedy Center is reportedly dismantling its "social impact" initiative and laying off employees affiliated with it.

From Newsmax, Tesla is expected to launch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia next month.

And from SFGate, a mysterious "fireball" is seen flying over San Francisco, Las Vegas, and the Lake Tahoe area.