Monday Mania

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

From National Review, the war against Iran is hitting the American people's wallets.

From FrontpageMag, Texas Democrats choose a white senatorial candidate who called white people a "virus".

From Townhall, how the left will plans to ban dogs in order to appease Muslims.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a left-wing activist groups teaches how to get on juries and vote "not guilty" on cases brought by the Department of Justice.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Kevin Kiley (R-Cal) decides to run for reelection as an independent.

From The Federalist, President Trump still has time to turn things around before the midterm elections.

From American Thinker, a tale of double standards about obituaries.

From NewsBusters, the winner of the worst media quote of the week poll.

From Canada Free Press, does Trump follow the lead of Frankish King Charlemagne?

From TeleSUR, according to Canadian journalist Arnold August, Venezuela's popular consultation is geopolitically significant.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a weakling in thrall to Muslims.

From EuroNews, is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reshaping Italy's system in order to secure her own reelection?

From Free West Media, how does the U.S. government view permanent confrontation?

From ReMix, the aforementioned Giorgia Meloni asks how women can trust the system if judges block the deportation of gang rapists.

From Balkan Insight, Croatia reinstates military conscription after a 20-year hiatus.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria misses out on the global increase in natural gas prices due to its long-term supply contracts.

From The New Arab, Syria opens part of its border with Lebanon to facilitate the return of its own citizens.

From the Daily Mail, NATO air defenses intercept a ballistic missile fired from Iran in Turkish airspace.

From YNetNews, a bomb explodes outside a synagogue in Liège, Belgium.

From Gatestone Institute, to defend the Abraham Accords, U.S. President Trump must first defend the UAE.

From The Daily Signal, Ohio is leading the way on protecting houses of worship.

From The American Conservative, foreign consulates in American sanctuary cities should be closed.

From The Western Journal, the headline for the story about the New York City IED attack in The New York Times will blow your mind.

From BizPac Review, a feminist retelling of Frankenstein bombs at the box office.  (The original Frankenstein novel was written by a woman.)

From the Daily Caller, five members of the Iranian women's soccer team reportedly seek refuge with Australian police.

From the New York Post, Trump urges Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to grant the Iranian women's soccer team asylum.

From Fox News, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) tells Trump to get rid of White House advisor Stephen Miller.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, Iran is the second time when CNN sided with a Middle Eastern dictator against the U.S.

From Newsmax, Ukraine receives 11 requests from countries near Iran for help in intercepting drones.

And from The Babylon Bee, former President Obama's library will include an interactive exhibit where visitors can print out their own birth certificates.

Sunday Stories

Now that I'm back home on a warm and cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, after Muslims throw bombs in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) claims to be the real victim.

From Townhall, the NYPD confirms that a real IED was thrown at protesters.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a memoir written by California Governor Gavin Newson (D).

From the Washington Examiner, a seventh U.S. servicemember dies in the war against Iran.

From American Thinker, the decline of right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW calls President Trump "blasé" about war deaths and claims that former President Biden was "more MAGA than Trump".

From TCW Defending Freedom, ditching Christianity.

From Snouts in the Trough, young unemployed people in the U.K. have gotten what they voted for.  (The article has yesterday's date, but is called a "Sunday-Monday blog".)

From Gatestone Institute, it's make or break time for the remaining allies of the Iranian regime.

From The American Conservative, will Azerbaijan attack Iran?

From the Daily Caller, according to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, the new partnership between the U.S. and Venezuela is already producing benefits.

From the New York Post, Medicaid czar Dr. Oz takes aim at the aforementioned Gavin Newsom and at New York Govenor Kathy Hochul (D).

From Fox Business, Ford CEO Jim Farley and his wife Lia send Pope Leo XIV a new popemobile.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart and the "I sure hope so" department, Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims that the war against Iran will increase gas prices for "weeks", not months.

From Newsmax, an account from an inmate housed near the late Jeffrey Epstein revives questions about his death.

And from ABC7, a man under probation learns that he can't hide his gun from the police.  (via the New York Post)

Two More Sites In Virginia

This afternoon, I visited two places pretty close to my undisclosed location.  One was the first place in this area that I stopped at back in December of 2022.  I explored the other one for the first time today.  I went back to the site of the Battle of the Wilderness and took this picture of a cannon and two caissons.

Saturday Links

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

From FrontpageMag, Barcelona, Spain bans music in schools during Ramadan.

From Townhall, anti-government protests break out in Havana, Cuba.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Democratic mayoral candidate in an oil-producing area in Colorado was arrested in 2019 for storming the Yale-Harvard football game during halftime in a protest against fossil fuel.

From the Washington Examiner, at the Shield of the Americas summit, President Trump announces the new "Americas Counter Cartel Coalition".

From American Thinker, reviving America's nuclear energy.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell wants First Children Tiffany and Barron Trump to enlist in the military.  (I vaguely remember similar demands being made about then-First Daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush during the invasion of Iraq.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, why isn't Prime Minister Keir Starmer acting on the Iranian sleeper terrorists in the U.K?

From the Daily Mail, Iran apologizes to neighboring countries for targeting them with missiles and drones.

From The Times Of Israel, pro-mullah protesters and counter-protesters face off in New York City.

From Gatestone Institute, the only brave leaders who stand against the Iranian regime's reign of terror.

From The American Conservative, the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei could entrench Iran's system of government rather than allow it to reform.

And from the New York Post, 16 members of the same family will perform a joint piano concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Jackson's Flank Attack

Today I visited the site of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's flank attack, which took place during the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2nd, 1863.  To my disappointment, the place had very little to see other than these informational displays.

Friday Fuss

On a sunny and mild Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has no one but herself to blame.

From FrontpageMag, the big lie about "Greater Israel".

From Townhall, according to former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, the mainstream media wants the U.S. to lose in Iran.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what victory in Iran would mean.

From the Washington Examiner, it's time to take seriously a 2028 presidential run for Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

From The Federalist, why Islam seeks shelter from the left.

From American Thinker, the fake alchemy of intermittent renewable energy.

From NewsBusters, President Kennedy's grandson proves that the media still bend their knees to his family.

From Canada Free Press, President Trump himself reads CFP.

From TeleSUR, the Brazilian Supreme Court rejects a request for house arrest filed by former President Jair Bolsonaro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, more evidence links coronavirus vaccinations to a worldwide increase in excess deaths.

From Snouts in the Trough, when it comes to U.S. action in Iran, why not look on the bright side?

From EuroNews, Hungarian authorities detain and plan to expel seven Ukrainians after raiding two security vans that were carrying currency and gold.

From Free West Media, the most shocking things in the Epstein files are the least remarkable.

From ReMix, Ukrainian President Zelensky threatens to send soldiers to Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's private residence.

From Balkan Insight, the Croatian parliament adopts the E.U.'s standards for the media and AI content labeling.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan researchers decode the genome of the argan tree.

From The New Arab, the UAE tries to paint a picture of normalcy as Iranian drones and missile fly overhead.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to the U.N., 100,000 people have been displaced due to clashes between Afghani and Pakistani border forces.

From the Daily Mail, police in London arrest four people for allegedly spying on the Jewish community for Iran.

From Arutz Sheva, why Europeans fear standing up to Iran's mullahs.

From Jewish News Syndicate, defeating Iran's wars of aggression.

From Gatestone Institute, the curious case of the "anti-Zionists".

From The Daily Signal, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the action against Iran is not a "dumb, politically correct" forever war.

From The American Conservative, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood takes on the rubber boats used by migrants to enter her country.

From The Western Journal, Trump lays out his demands for Iran.

From MediaITE, congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC) calls for an investigation of the aforementioned Kristi Noem.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, an illegal alien arrested and charged with over 50 alleged felonies is listed as "white" at his booking.

From the Daily Caller, U.K. counter-terrorism police threaten to throw teenagers in jail for social media posts. (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From the New York Post, former New York Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito shows that even being a third-stringer can be lucrative.

From Breitbart, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduces the National Constitutional Carry Act.

From Newsmax, the Florida Bar admits an "oopsie".

And from SFGate, another species in the San Francisco Bay Area is ravaged by the bird flu.

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, "Iran is losing its planes, ships, drones, and missiles" because of the U.S. military.

From FrontpageMag, the Israeli military strikes the headquarters of Iranian authorities who attacked anti-regime protesters.

From Townhall, President Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

From The Washington Free Beacon, after senatorial candidate James Talarico (D) wins the Democratic primary in Texas, some of his old Tweets resurface.

From the Washington Examiner, a "third-party" auditor investigating fraud in Minnesota received millions of dollars from the state's Medicaid agency.

From The Federalist, 10 times when Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) betrayed Trump and the MAGA movement.

From American Thinker, 47 years of Iran's economic war against the U.S.

From NewsBusters, the IDF debunks a left-wing media myth that Israel dragged the U.S. into a war against Iran.

From Canada Free Press, why attack Iran now?

From TeleSUR, Venezuelans observe the 13th anniversary of the passing of dictator Hugo Chávez.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's call for racial integration in the U.K. comes way too late.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is "the Muslim pander-man".

From EuroNews, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands sends naval ships to Cyprus.

From ReMix, Sweden's highest prosecutor decides against seeking the deportation of a teenage migrant who killed a man outside a restaurant in the city of Uppsala.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Upsala Nya Tidning and a related story at SVT.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatia responds sarcastically to being labeled "orange" on Serbia's list of "unsafe" destinations.

From The North Africa Post, the Canadian mining company Trigon Metals starts drilling in the Moroccan province of Tata.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah terrorists return to southern Lebanon to fight against Israeli troops.

From the Daily Mail, Iranian drones strike an airport in the Azerbaijani region of Nakhchivan.

From Arutz Sheva, the recently eliminated Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei bragged in 2025 that the U.S. couldn't do anything against Iran.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel and Somaliland show that size and location both matter.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) decides to call it a career.

From The American Conservative, boomer foreign policy produces lots of small fires.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Brandon Gill (R-TX) grills Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) over Somali fraud in his state.  (Let's go, Brandon!)

From BizPac Review, CNN gins up some new outrage as the approval nears for Trump's East Wing ballroom to be built.

From the Daily Caller, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduces a bill to eradicate fraud from unemployment programs.

From the New York Post, meet Trump's proposed replacement for the aforementioned Kirsti Noem.

From Breitbart, after U.S. forces sink an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, a second one is sent to Sri Lanka.

From Newsmax, Trump backs former federal prosecutor Kurt Alme to succeed the aforementioned Senator Daines.

And from the Genesius Times, watch the new movie Fat Gun: Doughboy.

Point Lookout Confederate War Memorial

While driving back from Point Lookout State Park, I made a brief stop at the Point Lookout Prisoners of War Memorial, dedicated to Confederates who were held prisoner at the Point Lookout POW camp.  The memorial includes a statue and a model of a wooden fort, both on top of a brick structure and surrounded by flagpoles.

Point Lookout State Park

After my visit to Historic St. Mary's City, I continued on to Point Lookout State Park, which is the southernmost point in Maryland west of the Chesapeake Bay.  Within the park are the remains and reconstructed buildings of a fort built during the Civil War.  Here are some of its earthworks.

St. Mary's City, Maryland

Although my undisclosed location is in Virginia, I was able to drive to some places in Maryland today.  I first went to Historic St. Mary's City, which was the capital of the British colony of Maryland from 1634 to 1695.  This is the reconstructed State House, behind some trees.