Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, whatever happened to the establishment Democrats?

From FrontpageMag, Ukraine strikes an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea that was delivering Russian war materiel to Iran.

From Townhall, the tapes made by then-private citizen Joe Biden don't lie, even if he did.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Manny Rutinel (D-Col) sponsored legislation to require health insurers to cover sex changes with no age restrictions.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump considers "temporarily" withdrawing the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for permanent attorney general.

From The Federalist, former President Obama is the father of today's Marxist Democrats.

From American Thinker, Canada provides the illusion of free healthcare.

From NewsBusters, GDP growth slows during the second quarter of 2026, but consumer spending increases.

From Canada Free Press, Minnesota goes from fraud to perversion with "MyGenderDolls".

From TeleSUR, Mexico plans to host the DOQUMENTA International Film and Non-Fiction Narrative Festival.

From Snouts in the Trough, how many council bureaucrats does it take to turn off one water faucet?

From EuroNews, NATO speaks with Polish authorities after an alleged "Russian missile" crashes near Tarnawa-Kolonia, Poland.

From ReMix, a Tunisian man is jailed and banned from France for starting a fire near a Lidl supermarket which did not allow him to enter because he was drunk.  (If you read French, read the story at CNews.)

From Balkan Insight, the Pristina Basic Court detains two Serbs suspected of war crimes committed during the Kosovo War in 1999.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco expands its export of palm dates into Germany.

From The New Arab, Kuwait strips six people of citizenship.

From PIME AsiaNews, a Pakistani court orders that a girl who was kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and coerced into marriage is returned to her kidnapper.

From Gatestone Institute, when words are meant to kill.

From The Daily Signal, what impact will data centers have in Georgia?

From The Western Journal, an "obnoxious" leftist makes a "smug" prediction about Dr. Anthony Fauci, and then deletes it after Fauci starts testifying.

From BizPac Review, podcaster Joe Rogan warns leftists that they could ruin Texas.

From the Daily Caller, Houston, you might have less of a problem.

From Breitbart, the WNBA suspends and fines Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton for cursing at fans of Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham.

From Newsmax, more on Trump "temporarily" pulling the nomination of the aforementioned Todd Blanche.

And from the New York Post, hidden earthen formations and geoglyphs in the Amazon region reveal lost ancient societies.

Wednesday Whatnot

As the warm and cloudy weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, can the Democratic Party's primary schedule slow down the socialists?

From FrontpageMag, Islamic terror attacks in New York City increase by 243 percent under Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From Townhall, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) might as well admit that he doesn't understand economics.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) falsely claims to have "removed" lead from the water in Detroit's elementary schools.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) asks Dr. Anthony Fauci about who the [bleep] he thought he was.

From The Federalist, before refusing to testify to Congress, Fauci gave 10 speeches and interviews in 2026.

From American Thinker, what's the real cause of inflation?

From NewsBusters and the "believe it or not" department, The View actually hosts five conservative guests.

From Canada Free Press, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wis) was right.

From TeleSUR, Chile declares a health alert over deaths from the hantavirus.

From Snouts in the Trough, does the U.K.'s mainstream media support Iran against U.S. President Trump?

From EuroNews, over half of England is declared "officially in drought".

From ReMix, Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner calls for Islamic religious education in state schools in order to counter radicalization.

From Balkan Insight, why Serbia's most successful soccer team and political party both appear to be unchallengeable.

From The North Africa Post, some criticism of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's latest TV interview.

From The New Arab, who is Royal Moroccan Football Federation leader and potential Prime Minister Fouzi Lekjaa?

From The Jerusalem Post, China sells hundreds of shoulder-fired missiles to Iran.

From The Times Of Israel, Jewish legal organizations slam the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani's exclusion of Jews from his judicial appointments panel

From Culture Watch, when will we start believing what the Islamists say?

From Gatestone Institute, Israel is "the world's historic scapegoat".

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. places Iran-related sanctions on insurance companies and oil tankers.

From The American Conservative, three Republican Senators who could complicate any "coronation" of Vice President J.D. Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

From The Western Journal, a breakfast place in Minneapolis tries "no prices" socialism and learns that it doesn't work.

From BizPac Review, after years of feuding, Trump gives Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) an unexpected message.

From the Daily Caller, how a canceled meeting throws a wrench into the confirmation of acting Attorney General and Attorney General-nominee Todd Blanche.

From the New York Post, the five most shocking moments from the Senate testimony of the twice-aforementioned Dr. Fauci.

From Breitbart, the Salamanca, New York school district pauses using a robot teaching assistant after parents learn of its manufacturer's connection to another sort of robot.

From Newsmax, the late Senator Lindsey Graham is taken home to South Carolina.

And from the Genesius Times, Trump proposes replacing Congress with an AI chatbot that performs the same function, which is accomplishing nothing.

Tuesday Tidbits

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

From National Review, the damning diaries of Dr. Fauci.

From FrontpageMag, the Democratic Socialists of America's opposition to prisons is based in Third World-ism.

From Townhall, you won't believe why officials in Sacramento, California are inspecting people's trash.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Don Leonard (D-OH) claims that he's not a socialist but would lie to people to "get their votes" if he were one.

From the Washington Examiner, the French navy fires live shots in the English Channel near a boat carrying U.K. parliamentcritter Chris Philp.

From The Federalist, 10 questions which Congress should ask the aforementioned Dr. Fauci.

From American Thinker, Poland should be made a member of the G-20.

From NewsBusters, ABC, NBC and PBS go Sergeant Schultz over tapes then-private citizen Joe Biden made in 2017 and over the aforementioned Fauci diaries.

From Canada Free Press, a dean at Penn State's law school resigns and is kept on a member of the general faculty.

From TeleSUR, Keiko Fujimori wins a runoff election and becomes Peru's first female president.

From Snouts in the Trough, are today's wildfires really "the worst ever"?

From EuroNews, how bad could the wildfires in Europe get?

From Free West Media, the "no-whites" letter that reshaped the public image of a South African company.

From ReMix, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš warns that the Czech Republic could become a net payer to the E.U. by 2029.

From Balkan Insight, Skenderaj, Kosovo Mayor Sami Lushtaku is acquitted of obstructing justice in his war crimes trial in 2017.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco starts a financing push for the Africa-Atlantic gas pipeline.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese army retakes a key route between the cities of El-Obeid and Omdurman, but El-Obeid's ordeal continues.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iran publicly executes in the city of Isfahan two protesters arrested during demonstrations in January.

From the Daily Mail, the first halal-only student halls for Muslim men in Britain spark accusations of "segregation".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Salafist influencer in Germany blames the recent attack in Berlin on the party AfD and Israel.  (If you read German, read the story at Apollo News.)

From Gatestone Institute, a "respected" medical journal wages a war against doctors.

From The Daily Signal, U.S. President Trump concludes meetings with Ukrainian President Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

From The American Conservative, America needs courtyards.

From The Western Journal, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed gets crushed in a debate when asked about his foreign sources of money.

From BizPac Review, CNN commentator Scott Jennings warns that Democrats might have a problem with the front page of the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral program.

From the New York Post, a magnitude-7.1 earthquake collapses part of a shopping mall in Kashima Town, Japan.

From Breitbart, for the first time in 20 years, Austria deports more migrants than its number of received asylum applications.

From Newsmax, more on the aforementioned Joe Biden tapes.

And from SFGate, after 18 months, Sonoma State University brings back sports.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, does Wisconsin want to be the first state with a socialist governor?

From FrontpageMag, the German mainstream appears to be baffled by the right-wing party AfD.

From Townhall, the latest update on Senator Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) health.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Vice President Harris's new mansion in Malibu is in an area that has long been accused of "hostility" toward people who aren't white.

From the Washington Examiner, people fear that Flock cameras will lead to mass surveillance.

From The Federalist, former senatorial candidate Graham Platner's (D-ME) replacement is "still a crazy leftist".

From American Thinker, what would foreign interference in American elections look like?

From NewsBusters, a reporter for The New York Times covers anti-Jewish rhetoric from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From Canada Free Press, total surveillance arrives quietly and never leaves.

From TeleSUR, UNESCO gives two opera houses in the Brazilian Amazon World Heritage status.

From Snouts in the Trough, does England need high-speed trains?

From EuroNews, three people are injured in a knife attack in Paris, after which a suspect is arrested.

From ReMix, around 400 buildings in the Czech Republic are targeted by bomb threats.

From Balkan Insight, child maintenance systems fail single mothers in the Balkans and elsewhere.

From The North Africa Post, why Air Algérie is not a good alternative to Royal Air Maroc for flying to Nigeria.

From The New Arab, Arab states and Israel reportedly step up their security coordination against Iran.

From the Daily Mail, more on the aforementioned knife attack in Paris.

From Culture Watch, "Islam and the West cannot peacefully coexist".

From Gatestone Institute, why U.S. President Trump and Congress should reject the proposed nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.

From The Daily Signal, Dr. Anthony Fauci's diaries reveal that he gloated about coronavirus lockdowns and seeking fame.

From The American Conservative, Trump's success against illegal immigration, and people who aren't happy about it.

From The Western Journal, if you commit a crime, writing a song about it is not a good idea.

From BizPac Review, Trump may have broken the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

From the Daily Caller, new Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) is willing to stay in Washington, D.C. until the SAVE America Act passes.

From the New York Post and the "what could go wrong?" department, the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani plans 30 percent discounts at city-owned grocery stores, but it comes with questions.

From Breitbart, Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino plans to step down in August.

From Newsmax, according to Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the aforementioned Mitch McConnell is "clear-minded" while recovering the fall he suffered in June.

And from The Babylon Bee, the aforementioned Dr. Fauci is starting to think that keeping a daily perjury diary might have been a bad idea.

Sunday Stuff From A Returning Sasquatch

Yesterday I drove over 600 miles from Hilton Head Island, SC back to my home in Maryland.  I arrived pretty late and didn't feel like blogging anything.  But now I've had some sleep and the Bigfootmobile has been given a well-deserved rest.  So today, on a very warm and partly sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, the man who allegedly stabbed two people in New York City and shouted "Allahu Akbar" a copy of the Koran and a book written by communism founder Karl Marx.

From Townhall, the man who allegedly drove his vehicle into a "Pride" parade in Berlin is identified as an Islamist with prior terror connections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about running for Speaker of the House.

From the Washington Examiner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) "celebrated" Hamas's attack against Israel on October 7th, 2023.

From American Thinker, with the aforementioned man who allegedly attacked a "Pride" parade being no longer with us, it looks like we'll never learn his motive.

From NewsBusters, British singer Mick Jagger and American musician Jonathan Cain tell singer Bruce Springsteen to lay off the politics.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, more on the twice-aforementioned alleged "Pride" parade attacker.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Gatestone Institute, in Iran, it's now okay to think the unthinkable.

From The American Conservative, why is there all this hype for the late President Richard Nixon?

From the Daily Caller, Border Czar Tom Homan insists that ICE will continue stopping vehicles.

From Newsmax, the Israeli military sends a senior Hamas security official to his virgins.

And from the New York Post, two BASE jumpers skydive off the Space Needle in Seattle, resulting in a police manhunt.  (The line between the labels "badass" and "stupid people" is so thin in this case that the story gets both.)

Friday Fuss

As the hot and sunny weather continues here in South Carolina on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, WNBA player Sophie Cunningham dishes out some common sense.

From FrontpageMag, a socialist candidate for the Wisconsin state house who thinks that he's a woman claims to be the "Republican's worst nightmare".

From Townhall, ICE keeps on arresting criminal illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) senatorial candidate "Decoy Dan" Sullivan (R-AK), but his nonprofit group ran an ad staring a Sullivan campaign representative.

From the Washington Examiner, now that socialists are telling us who they are, we should believe them.

From The Federalist, American manufacturers are coming back home, which was helped by the One Big Beautiful Bill.

From American Thinker, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) ignored the New York City neighborhood of Little Italy, to added an imaginary country to the city's map.

From NewsBusters, actress/possible conspiracy theorist Rose O'Donnell recounts fleeing President Trump's America.

From Canada Free Press, an official family portrait of Canada's federal, provincial, and territorial premiers.

From TeleSUR, the legacy of Latin American revolutionary Simón Bolívar inspires anti-colonial resistance in Latin America.  (The last time I checked, there were very few parts of Latin America that are still dependencies of any European colonial powers.  The only such territory on the American mainland is French Guiana.)

From EuroNews, over 30 Polish sejmcritters leave the opposition party Law and Justice.

From ReMix, almost half of the people in prison in Germany are not German.

From Balkan Insight, at least 25 incidents of satnav interference have been reported over Serbia.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan and Malian businessmen agree to boost their partnership.

From The New Arab, which airlines have canceled or suspended their flights to the Middle East?

From the Daily Mail, the Iranian government claims that the U.K. is within its missile range.

From Gatestone Institute, if Iran can't have centrifuges for enriching uranium, why should Saudi Arabia?

From The Daily Signal, how have states responded to the Department of Homeland security revealing the numbers of non-citizens on U.S. voter rolls?

From The American Conservative, Ukrainian President Zelensky's military overhaul explodes Western fantasies.

From The Western Journal, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is quickly rebuked after lying about voter ID in Virginia.

From BizPac Review, Senator Tim Sheehy (R-Mon) gives a powerful speech about Iran.

From the Daily Caller, why attacking the Houthis in Yemen can be a real pain you-know-where.

From the New York Post, the "diarrhea parasite" spreads into four more states.

From Breitbart, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin claims that the SAVE America act would "disenfranchise more Republicans".

From Newsmax, the number of measles cases in the U.S. in 2026 has already exceeded the total for 2025.

And from SFGate, the biggest attraction at the California State Fair was illegal just a few years ago.

Thursday Things

On a hot and sunny Thursday down here in South Carolina, here are some things going on:

From National Review, New Jersey admits that thousands of non-citizens were registered to vote.

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes.

From Townhall, what's going on with Massachusetts having a plan to establish an Islamic Commission?

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator John Ossoff (D-GA) has spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds on "makeup services" so far this year.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump's patience with Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is reportedly "running out" over the SAVE America Act.

From The Federalist, the many times when non-citizens appeared on American voter rolls.

From American Thinker, the problem with left-wing women.

From NewsBusters, NBC host Seth Meyers accuses Trump of announcing war crimes.

From Canada Free Press, political commentator Jon Stewart joins the Democrats in obscuring their socialist agenda.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela launches a unified housing registry for the victims of the two recent earthquakes.

From TCW Defending Freedom, after 12 years, TCW says "goodbye", but archives its contents behind a paywall.  (This article was published on July 18th, which was the site's last day.  I had to acknowledge the end of its regular publishing, with some sadness, and give readers a chance to subscribe to its archived content, for any who wish to do so.)

From Snouts in the Trough, Thames Water is a rip-off.

From EuroNews, Florence opens the first social media addiction center in Italy.

From ReMix, French magistrates add an aggravating racism factor to the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in the commune of Crépol in 2023, thus recognizing the existence of anti-white racism.

From Balkan Insight, a mountainous region shared by Kosovo and Montenegro remains cut off due to closed roads.

From The North Africa Post, a U.S.-based publication spotlights Morocco's planned Hassan II Stadium, which is expected to host the 2030 World Cup.

From The New Arab, the struggle for the province of Suweida is a test for Syria's transition.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas gets a new leader for the same old jihad.

From The Daily Signal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells New Jersey that having non-citizens on the voter rolls is "completely unacceptable".

From The American Conservative, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham sets a collision course with U.S. President Trump.

From The Western Journal, former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is referred to the Department of Justice for possible criminal charges.

From BizPac Review, First Lady Melania Trump seeks sanctions against "journalist" Michael Wolff, who tried and failed to sue her.

From The Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned tensions between Trump and Thune.

From the New York Post, a 16-year-old girl tries subway surfing in New York City, is hit by a beam, and survives.

From Breitbart, the Department of Homeland Security reportedly finds 278,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls.

From Newsmax, the New York City Police Department rescues 43 people from human traffickers during World Cup soccer matches in New Jersey.

And from The Babylon Bee, Greek warrior Odysseus returns to Ithaca after 20 years to find out that his wife Penelope has run out of baking powder and needs him to go out again.

Coligny Beach

Today I got some more exercise by walking from my accommodations to Coligny Beach Park and back.  This is the same beach that I visited during my last day here seven years ago.  As I did then, I walked past a traffic circle full of trees.

Return To Fort Howell And Mitchelville

After getting some exercise in Jarvis Creek Park, I returned to two places I visited back in 2019.  The first was Fort Howell and the other was Mitchelville Freedom Park.  As I noted back then, Fort Howell has several sheet metal figures along the trail leading to the remains of the fort.  This is the first one that I came across.

Jarvis Creek Park

Today I found a place to get some exercise, Jarvis Creek Park in the northern part of Hilton Head Island.  The park includes a fitness trail that goes around a small lake named Lake Liggett.  As expected, it was very warm out, but a rather stiff breeze kept me from overheating.  The park also includes this tree.