Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, Border Czar Tom Homan announces that the Trump administration is pulling 700 federal agents out of Minnesota due to cooperation by local officials.

From FrontpageMag, the illegal invasion of the U.S. hits its lowest level since 1970.

From Townhall, antisemitic incidents greatly increase in Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) New York City.

From The Washington Free Beacon, my governor claims that the KKK ran his great-grandfather out of South Carolina, but church records tell a different story.

From the Washington Examiner, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touts the keto diet as a cure for schizophrenia.

From The Federalist, Congress could solve the problem of entitlement fraud overnight, but won't.

From American Thinker, climate change zealots scramble to explain why polar bears are fatter and healthier than ever.

From NewsBusters, the White House Briefing Room has a new seating chart.

From Canada Free Press, a left-wing protester calls a black ICE officer a "house-[N-word]".

From TeleSUR, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promotes a "non-military confrontation" strategy for dealing with criminals.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when Islamists say that they're at war with the West, why don't we believe them?

From Snouts in the Trough, is kowtowing to China U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's latest betrayal?  (The post has yesterday's date but is labeled a "Wednesday blog", so I'll let the date slide.)

From EuroNews, E.U. countries loan Ukraine another €90 billion.

From ReMix, a Hungarian court sentences a German transgender ProFa thug to eight years in prison for his involvement with an extremist network called the Hammer Gang.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From Balkan Insight, police in Durres, Albania arrest 20 people in connection with an operation to traffic hazardous waste to Thailand.

From The North Africa Post, Spain's highest criminal court rejects a request from Algeria to extradite former Senator Abdelkader Djedia.

From The New Arab, what we know about the killing of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

From The Jerusalem Post, Saudi media ramp up their rhetoric against Israel.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Syrian journalist Mustafa al-Miqdad claims that some Gazans send their children into harm's way hoping that they will be injured by the IDF and then collect compensation from the Palestinian authority.

From Sky News, Islamist gunmen kill at least 170 people in Woro, Nigeria.

From Arutz Sheva, according to an opinion column, European leftists want to replace the native working class with migrants.

From Gatestone Institute, the Pakistani terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed launches its first-ever women's wing.

From The Daily Signal, actress Billie Eilush's declaration that "no one is illegal on stolen land" shows the incongruity of the left's victimhood worldview.

From The American Conservative, the Epstein files could bury the aforementioned Keir Starmer.

From The Western Journal, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) ran as a "moderate" and promised "affordability", but left-wingers immediately proposed a radical tax-first agenda.

From BizPac Review, an Australian political activist sets up a GiveSendGo account for travel to the U.S. and squat on the aforementioned Billie Eilish's mansion.

From the Daily Caller, prolific online left-winger Will Stancil gets mugged by reality.

From the New York Post, the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani endorses New York Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) bid for reelection.

From Breitbart, an opinion against all gun control.

From Newsmax, The Washington Post cuts its staff by one third.

And from The Babylon Bee, a bill to require voter ID is suspiciously defeated in the Senate by vote of 7 million to 53.

More Of Fort Monroe

Last July, I visited Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton, Virginia.  Today I returned, to see some parts of the fort that I did not see back then.  The area I visited in July was surrounded by a moat, while the places I saw today were outside the moat.  I parked the Bigfootmobile near the visitor center and walked to Continental Park, which includes this gazebo.

Walter Reed's Birthplace

Today I set out from my undisclosed location and found the birthplace of U.S. Army surgeon  Dr. Walter Reed, after whom the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is named.  It's located at the intersection of Gloucester County (Virginia) routes 614 and 616.  In front of the house where he was born is this informational display.

A Few Sunday Links From A Traveling Sasquatch

Today I traveled southward to my latest undisclosed location in eastern Virginia.  Despite the cold weather and a snowstorm last night, driving the interstates was very easy.  Highways like I-95 can inconveniently turn into parking lots, but I had no such trouble this time.  In any event, on a sunny but very cold Sunday at the start of February, here are s few things going on:

From Gatestone Institute, the attack on the principle of national sovereignty.

From The Daily Signal, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. population will start to decrease by 2030.

From The American Conservative, there are huge risks in attacking Iran.

From the Daily Caller and the "what could go wrong?" department, Long Beach, California mayoral candidate Rogelio Martinez (D) invites 15 gang leaders to join him in protesting against ICE.

From the New York Post, self-appointed fraud detective Nick Shirley goes from Minnesota to California.

From Breitbart, left-wingers start supporting the 2nd Amendment.

From Newsmax, the aforementioned snowstorm and cold weather causes flights to be canceled and iguanas to fall from trees.

From FrontpageMag, a judge appointed by Mr. Bill orders the government to release an illegal alien "while throwing a tantrum in paper form".

From Townhall, First Lady Trump versus former First Lady Clinton.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about China stealing U.S. technology, which puts some of the blame on the U.S.

From American Thinker, left-wing censors complain about censorship.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Abby Phillip is corrected on her own show about the about charge against recently arrested former CNN host Don Lemon.

And from TCW Defending Freedom, at a synagogue in the London neighborhood of Belgravia, two Israelis taken hostage and released by Hamas recount their ordeal.

Saturday Links For The End Of January

As the sunny but very cold weather continues on a Saturday falling on the last day of January, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a detransitioner is awarded $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit, the first successful suit brought by a detransitioner.

From FrontpageMag, former CNN host Don Lemon and the abundance of "independent journalists".

From Townhall, a judge refuses to stop immigration officials from deporting illegal aliens in Minnesota.

From The Washington Free Beacon, NPR interviews the son of a former Iranian foreign minister who served under then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, while omitting that detail.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump endorses Texas state senatorial candidate Leigh Wamsganss (R), who is currently the COO of Patriot Mobile.

From The Federalist, the 10 greatest quotes from Justice Samuel Alito to mark his 20 years on the Supreme Court.

From American Thinker, what to the residents of New York City get for the high taxes that they pay?

From NewsBusters, as snowstorms and cold weather blow in, the media don't say much about global warming.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to U.K. and U.S. security chiefs, handing the Chagos Islands, which include a U.S. military base, over to Mauritius would be a "historic mistake".

From Gatestone Institute, a call for U.S. President Trump to not leave Iran's regime in place.

From The American Conservative, attacking Iran could result in a "Shiite jihad".

And from TMZ, actor Demond Wilson Jr., of Sanford and Son and The New Odd Couple, goes to the soundstage in the sky.  (via The Hollywood Reporter)

Friday Phenomena

As the sunny but very cold weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the government can do better than President Trump's eponymous Trump Accounts.

From FrontpageMag, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raises money for the rioters in Minneapolis.

From Townhall, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasts Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) when she asks if Trump will follow the Geneva Convention when dealing with drug traffickers.

From The Washington Free Beacon, emails show that the late Jeffrey Epstein showered former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler with gifts.

From the Washington Examiner, the Department of Justice plans to release 3.5 million pages of material related to Epstein, including about 2,000 videos.

From The Federalist, the truth about what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is even scarier than the conspiracy theories.

From American Thinker, former CNN host Don Lemon has finally been arrested for allegedly disrupting a church service in Minneapolis, but it's not yet time to count chickens.

From Newsmax, MS NOW compares the U.S. to Russia, China and Turkey after Lemon's arrest.

From Canada Free Press, still more on Lemon's arrest.

From TeleSUR, Colombia resumes taking deportation flights from the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's 20-year war on the U.K.'s military veterans.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.S. President Trump's "diplomatic genius".

From EuroNews, Denmark plans to deport non-Danish citizens who commit crimes resulting in a year or more in prison.

From Free West Media, the U.K. bans Dutch right-wing commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek from entering.

From ReMix, Polish President Karol Nawrocki pushes for nuclear energy instead of liquefied natural gas to replace coal.  (If you read Polish, read the story at the Polish version of Business Insider.)

From Balkan Insight, a former Montenegrin presidential adviser allegedly threatens a government lawyer with the release sexually explicit material.

From The North Africa Post, the British mining company Aterial plc finds copper and silver in Morocco.

From The New Arab, the Syrian Democrats Forces agrees to integrate into the Syrian army.

From Gatestone Institute, is the West committing suicidal empathy?

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla) could be expelled if congresscritter Greg Steube (R-Fla) has his way.

From The American Conservative, will Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) run as an anti-Trumper in 2028?

From The Western Journal, the pastor of the church whose service was allegedly disrupted by the aforementioned Don Lemon speaks out.

From BizPac Review, the Los Angeles Metro reroutes buses having ads for First Lady Melania Trump's movie Melania in order to deter left-wing vandals.

From the Daily Caller, according to Malaysian Minister for Religious Affairs Zulkifli Hasan, working too hard can turn people gay.

From the New York Post, emails show that the Chief Twit was scheduled to visit the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein's island, but whether he actually visited the place is unconfirmed.

From Breitbart, according to Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, if the right shows up to the aforementioned movie Melania, it will be "a massive middle finger to the Hollywood left".

From Newsmax, a federal judge refuses to order pretrial release for the man who allegedly placed pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic party headquarters on January 5th, 2021.

And from KSAT, Bexar County, Texas Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez is indicted for allegedly handcuffing a defense attorney in her courtroom.  (She should not be confused with "the fastest mouse in all Mexico".)

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner pledges to hunt down the "wannabe Nazis" of ICE after President Trump leaves office.

From FrontpageMag, Trump betrays the Kurds in Syria.

From Townhall, Minnesota agrees to a major concession to the Trump administration on the enforcement of immigration law.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Kennedy Center was an object of politics long before Trump got involved.

From the Washington Examiner, how demands by Democrats for judicial warrants instead of administrative warrants could decimate the deportation agenda.

From The Federalist, without deportations, the border cannot be secured.

From American Thinker, a truth inconvenient to the left about agitator Alex Pretti's gun.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace displays an AI-edited photo of Alex Pretti.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian provincial premiers are working to take down the U.S.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan oil workers march in defense of their industry.

From TCW Defending Freedom, under new Archbishop Sarah Mullally, the Church of England will welcome all minorities, except for traditional Anglicans.

From EuroNews, according to E.U. High Representative Kaja Kallas, Russian President Putin should make some concession before talking with European leaders.

From ReMix, Muslim leaders in Padua, Italy demand the removal of a plastic pig from deli shop's window.  (If you read Italian, read the story at il Giornale.)

From Balkan Insight, what would Russia do if Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić lost power?

From The North Africa Post, Renault Group Morocco confirmed its leadership in the automotive sector in 2025.

From The New Arab, what now for the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria?

From The Jerusalem Post, a year after being arrested by the Taliban, an American citizen in still held in Kabul, Afghanistan without so far being charged.

From the Daily Mail, a woman collapses from being caned 140 times in the Indonesian province of Aceh for sex outside of marriage and drinking alcohol.  (What is this "ban on cruel and unusual punishment" speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump should stop Saudi Arabia's campaign against Jews and the Abraham Accords.

From The Daily Signal, parents are back in charge of their children, and the voters approve.

From The American Conservative, who's next for some regime change?

From The Western Journal, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) uses the aforementioned edited picture of Alex Pretti on the Senate floor, having previously pushed for anti-deep fake legislation.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld gives Democrat commentator Jessica Tarlov a piece of his mind over her allegedly selective outrage.

From the Daily Caller, states rush to get their lights back on as another winter storm looms ahead.

From the New York Post, former NFL player Tyrann Mathieu using bleach in an attempt to pass a drug test during his college days at LSU, which did not go well.

From Breitbart, left-wing haters try to tank First Lady Melania Trump's movie Melania.

From Newsmax, the man who allegedly sprayed congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) with apple cider vinegar is charged with several offenses related to the incident.

And from Kidspot, quack!  (via the New York Post)

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, today is the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

From FrontpageMag, it took the U.S. 25 years to deport a pedophile illegal alien from Somalia.

From Townhall, the FBI executes a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia reportedly related to the 2020 election.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Palestinian Authority promised to end its "pay-to-slay" payments to terrorists, but still gave them over $200 million during 2025.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, "no one knows" who would govern Iran if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei were removed.

From The Federalist, why Democrats want to keep illegal aliens in the U.S.

From American Thinker, left-wingers love institutions and hate people.

From NewsBusters, The Daily Show doubles down on comparing the Border Patrol to Nazis.

From Canada Free Press, largely under Western management, Ukraine is a sacrifice.

From TeleSUR, according to a poll, right-wing candidate Laura Fernandez, of the governing Pueblo Soberano Party, is leading Costa Rica's presidential race.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will unleash two-tiered terror with her plan to police AI.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s Labour-led government claims to be "putting more money into people's pockets".

From EuroNews, according to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Croatia will not join U.S. President Trump's "Board of Peace".

From ReMix, Poland unnerves Germany by expanding its businesses on the Baltic Sea coast.  (Due to my Polish heritage, I'm obviously biased toward Poland.  If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, former Montenegrin Supreme Court president Vesna Medenica is convicted of corruption.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI chairs a meeting about the new port and industrial complex at Nador West End.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issues a decree that would effectively bar Hamas from participating in municipal elections.

From The Jerusalem Post, a rabbi is attacked in the New York City borough of Queens.

From The Times Of Israel, a memo written before the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023 calls Gazans killed by misfired rockets a "price of war".

From Sky News, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison responds to a demand from the Australian National Imams Council to end terms like "radical Islam".  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Jewish News Syndicate, Europeans make an obscene comparison of the war in Gaza to the Holocaust.

From Gatestone Institute, China is embedded in Canada's Arctic region.

From The Stream, according to the aforementioned Marco Rubio, the Venezuelan government is helping the U.S. to identify drug-trafficking boats.

From The American Conservative, Trump's ability to adapt is a good thing.

From The Western Journal, as chants calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be hanged ring out, some protesters realize whom they're in bed with.

From BizPac Review, a simulation shared by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the minutes leading up to the fatal collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter.

From the Daily Caller, the Church of England appoints Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.

From the New York Post, Amtrak plans to restore its service between New York City and Albany, New York.

From Breitbart, the BBC apologizes for ignoring the Jewish victims in its coverage of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

From Newsmax, Stephen Colbert announces the end of his hosting CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

And from SFGate, visitors at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park run for cover as Kilauea erupts.

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, President Trump is not the only one changing course in Minneapolis.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) sudden increase in wealth is now being investigated.

From Townhall, anti-ICE agitators are doing the opposite of what the Democrats hoped that they would do.

From The Washington Free Beacon, three Illinois Democrat senatorial candidates decline to support Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

From the Washington Examiner, Trump shifts his tactics and optics hoping to calm the situation in Minnesota.

From The Federalist, Trump should talk with the parents of people killed by illegal aliens before withdrawing ICE from Minneapolis.

From American Thinker, former President Obama makes a dangerous return to the megaphone.

From NewsBusters, CBS host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central host Jon Stewart bring back the smear of liking ICE to the Gestapo.

From Canada Free Press, the climate cult is dissolving under the weight of reality.

From TeleSUR, former Panamanian Vice President Jose Gabriel Carrizo is arrested for alleged unlawful enrichment.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the people of the U.K. are paying billions of pounds for the invasion of their country.

From EuroNews, at least three people are killed and 23 others wounded in a Russian strike on Odesa, Ukraine.

From Free West Media, the Mercosur trade agreement between the E.U. and six South American countries is signed in Asunción, Paraguay.

From ReMix, Ukrainian authorities ask Interpol to issue arrest warrants for Ukrainian-Israeli businessman Timur Mindics and his associate Alexander Zuckerman for suspected fraud worth €100 million.  (If the charge is true, all those alleged Somali fraudsters in Minnesota are pikers compared to these guys.  If you read Ukrainian, read the story at Strana.)

From Balkan Insight, Romania considers lowering its age of criminal responsibility after two teenagers kill a child.

From The North Africa Post, the Chinese company Jiangsu Aishelun Medical Technology Group invests €20 million in a factory for producing medical devices in Morocco.

From The New Arab, will the Syrian government's capture of land from the Syrian Democratic Forces result in a resurgence of ISIS?

From BirminghamLive, a judge in Birmingham, England calls letters defending a drunk driver who killed another motorist "nauseating".

From MustShareNews, an imam in Melaka, Malaysia resigns after a secretary for his mosque is caught watching adult material at work.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a festival in Berlin celebrating Palestinian culture is canceled after the Israeli Embassy raises concerns that its organizers displayed a Hamas-like symbol.

From Arutz Sheva, a Muslim Brotherhood official flees Egypt after allegedly sexually harassing and blackmailing wives and daughters of other Muslim Brotherhood officials.

From the Daily Mail, U.K. terror police reveal that they have stopped 19 "late stage" attack plots in five years.  (The last fives stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. refuses to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

From The Daily Signal, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the international policy consensus on coronavirus vaccines.

From The American Conservative, the MAGA movement needs less moralism on immigration.

From The Western Journal, MSNBC is caught photoshopping the face of the late anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti.

From BizPac Review, a woman is arrested after a toddler falls out of her SUV.

From the Daily Caller, according to former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem can't come back from her response to the killing of the aforementioned Alex Pretti.

From the New York Post, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 10 people have been found dead in New York City since the start of last weekend's snowstorm.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Chuck Schumer rages against the aforementioned Kristi Noem.

From Newsmax, First Lady Melania Trump calls for unity.

And from the Genesius Times, how many activists need to die from back-alley deportations just because local officials want to ban the procedure?

Monday Mania

On a sunny but cold Monday, as many of us dig out from yesterday's snowstorm, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Minnesota is reeling.

From FrontpageMag, how could so many people have been wrong for so long about food?

From Townhall, horrifying details come out about the church invasion in St. Paul, Minnesota.  (Fun fact: St. Paul is the only U.S. state capital named after a Jew.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, solar companies rush to hide their connections to China as President Trump prepares rules that bar Chinese companies from receiving American taxpayer money.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump sends Border Czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis.

From The Federalist, a former 911 dispatched shares horror stories about mail-order abortions.

From American Thinker, three times when then-Special Counsel Jack Smit lost.

From NewsBusters, NPR host Scott Simon compares Trump's America to the Soviet satellite countries of the 1970s.  (Wait a minute.  Isn't Trump a fascist, not a communist?)

From Canada Free Press, in opposing Trump, the globalists reveal themselves.

From TeleSUR, the Association of Caribbean States plans to address the lack of funding for Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, research jobs are available in the U.K. - except for the native white British.

From Snouts in the Trough, have the people who run California ever heard of the "Laffer curve"?

From EuroNews, U.K. parliamentcritter Suella Braverman defects from the Conservative Party to Reform UK.

From ReMix, too many people trying to join Berlin's police department fail basic German language tests.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, truckers in four Balkan countries block border crossings to protest new E.U. rules limiting their travel in the Schengen zone.

From The North Africa Post, Libya signs a deal with the French firm TotalEnergies and the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips to increase it oil production.

From The New Arab, the Akhdam community in Yemen face poverty, marginalization, and denial of aid.

From the Daily Mail, how an idealistic project to house refugees and students together in East Amsterdam, Netherlands devolved into sexual assaults and violence.

From The Jerusalem Post, Pakistan's Generation Z faces inflation, unemployment, and censorship.

From AMU, the Taliban publicly flog 36 in the Afghan province of Khost.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the Australian government cancels the visa of a British-Israeli activist critical of Islam.

From The Sun, the U.K. is allegedly bringing ISIS brides back home.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas views U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace as "Gaza's Colonization Council".

From The Daily Signal, New York Attorney General Letitia James fires an assistant attorney general apparently for warning against gender transitions for children.

From The American Conservative, Shakespeare gets short shrift.

From The Western Journal, according to an opinion column, if you carry a gun, you should also carry some common sense.

From BizPac Review, soap opera actress Nancy Lee Grahn refuses to even look at Trump-supporting singer Carrie Underwood.

From the Daily Caller, local and state police allow lawless rioters to take over several block in Minneapolis.

From the New York Post, according to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the return of democracy in Venezuela could be Trump's "Berlin Wall" moment.

From Breitbart, in 2024, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) argued that no one has a right to carry a gun at "political rallies and protests".

From Newsmax, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, the funders of the protests in Minnesota have been identified.

And from The Babylon Bee, WNBA players vow to continue missing layups until ICE gets out of Minnesota.