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.

Fort Pulaski

Today I ventured out from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, my no-longer-undisclosed location, and visited Fort Pulaski National Monument, located on Cockspur Island, Georgia.  The entrance to the monument is about 10 miles east of Savannah along U.S. route 80.

Construction on Fort Pulaski started in 1829 and was completed in 1847.  In 1833, the fort was named after Polish cavalry officer Kazimierz Pułaski, who fought for the newborn United States in the American Revolution.  He was hit by grapeshot while leading a cavalry charge in the siege of Savannah, and died shortly afterwards.  Later on during the Civil War, Union forces took Fort Pulaski from the Confederacy in 1862.

Due to my Polish heritage, I wanted to visit Fort Pulaski when I was in this area in 2019, but there was a partial federal government shutdown, which resulted in the fort being closed.  Today, however, I had no such problem.  To the west side of the fort's main building is a group of mounds surrounded by a triangular moat, seen here from its west end.  Visitors enter via the bridge to the right.

Back To Hilton Head Island

I have returned to the area where I visited in early 2019, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, which is pretty close to the south end of the state.  Earlier today, I found a few things that I did not visit seven years ago.  In an area called Shelter Cove, I found the Veterans Memorial, centered around this flagpole and four pylons.

Back To South Of The Border

Today I continued driving southward to my intended undisclosed location.  As I did in early 2019, I stopped at South Of The Border, a Mexican-themed tourist area.  Unlike my first visit, I arrived too early to eat lunch and had already eaten breakfast, so my stop this time was brief.  I naturally took a pic of Pedro holding his sign, from across the road that is both U.S. 301 and U.S. 501.

Checking In On A Friday

Today I drove down to North Carolina, and have checked in at an intermediate undisclosed location, on my way farther south.  So please excuse me while I take a break and chill out.  There will be more to come in the near future.  Stay tuned.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, New York Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) "silly" war on data centers.

From FrontpageMag, the fallacy of books that the left calls "banned".

From Townhall, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent schools reporters about left-wing violence.

From the Washington Examiner, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) challenges senatorial candidate Ken Paxton (R-TX) to three televised debates.

From The Federalist, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) doesn't see the difference between the weaponization of the Department of Justice under then-President Biden and President Trump's pursuit of justice.

From American Thinker, some socialists are even more ignorant of others.

From NewsBusters, billionaire and podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya skewers the media for lying about Trump, whom he used to criticize.

From Canada Free Press, there are 25 million communists in the U.S.

From TeleSUR, Guatemala will repatriate the remains of Nobel laureate writer Miguel Angel Asturias.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when the late parliamentcritter Ann Widdecombe, a Catholic, charmed the U.K.'s Protestant hearts.

From EuroNews, 32 people, including a former CEO of Italy's largest motorway operator, are convicted in connection with the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa.

From ReMix, Finnish europarliamentcritter Sebastian Tynkkynen warns that the U.K. has become the "worst example" of the death of free speech.

From Balkan Insight, four Greek parliamentcritters are indicted for allegedly misusing E.U. farm funds.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's mining sector plots its course to 2023.  (TNAP had some technical difficulties during the last two days, but these appear have been worked out.)

From The New Arab, Syrian Christians return to their villages in the province of Idlib that they had to leave behind during the Syrian civil war.

From The Jerusalem Post, U.S. President Trump announces that Iran has released an American woman whom it detained in 2024.

From Gatestone Institute, who decides when childhood ends in Pakistan?

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, if Congress wants a single standard for child online safety, it must earn it.

From Radio Free Asia, according to experts, new buildings in North Korea near the DMZ could be shelters for rocket launchers.

From The American Conservative, Trump should bring American troops home from Europe.

From The Western Journal, while ranting against Trump on the Senate floor, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appears to break wind.

From BizPac Review, well, that was quick.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Randy Fine (R-FL) declares war on Trump ally Alex Bruesewitz.

From Breitbart, Republican congresscritters ask for an investigation of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) administration for possible violations of the Logan Act.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Democrats are against funding the military and making sure that "your vote counts".

And from the New York Post, a deformed raccoon called "Jimothy" becomes a celebrity in Seattle.