Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, five more problems that the U.S. has largely solved.

From FrontpageMag, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed defends former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who harbored Osama bin Laden.

From Townhall, here what we know about a government shutdown possibly being averted.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Hollywood talent agency stands behind actor Mark Ruffalo after he makes an "antisemitic" rant.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump signs and executive order renaming Lake Ontario.

From The Federalist, the recently departed Dolly Parton proved that artists can be successful without vulgarity.

From American Thinker, what the defenders of accused murderer Lindsey Clancy have shown about American women.

From NewsBusters, Fox News highlights ICE arresting 1,300 illegal aliens while MS NOW goes Sergeant Schultz.

From Canada Free Press, when it comes to our taxes and votes, we should never trust and always verify.

From TeleSUR, Uruguay officially mourns musician Ruben Rada.

From Snouts in the Trough, nobody has any responsibility anymore.

From EuroNews, according to local media, two people are killed in a "violent incident" in Gosen-Neu Zittau, Germany.

From Free West Media, can the world survive Russian President Putin's mistake.

From ReMix, police in Rzeszów, Poland investigate graffiti saying "white lives matter".  (The graffiti said "white lives matter" in English, not the equivalent in Polish.  If you read Polish, read the story at toRzeszów and a related story at wPolsce24.  ReMix gave me some technical difficulties when I clicked there on Tuesday and did not publish anything yesterday, but now appears to be back to normal.)

From Balkan Insight, former Bosnian Serb Army leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić is no longer with us.  (On Tuesday, I linked a BI article indicating that Serbia made a request for his release from prison on "humanitarian" grounds.)

From The North Africa Post, a Moroccan company works on producing an AI-powered drone that would monitor water quality in reservoirs and behind dams.

From The New Arab, the death of a Syrian detainee sparks fears that Syria's prisons could become like those under former President Bashar al-Assad.

From the Daily Mail, the Berlin police department struggles to find recruits who can speak German.

From Tasnim News, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian calls for greater unity among Muslim countries.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas running in Gazan elections by another name would still be Hamas.  (To my surprise, GI did not publish anything yesterday, but is back today.)

From The Daily Signal, according to a report, the housing affordability crisis was caused by "too much socialism", not too little.

From The American Conservative, how to Russia and China from supporting Iran's war efforts.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Will Chamberlain exposes left-wing commentator Mehdi Hasan inconsistency about group responsibility for historical injustice.

From BizPac Review, congressional candidate Eric Hafner (D-AK) advances in the Democrat primary for Alaska's one House seat, even though he's in a federal prison in New York.

From the Daily Caller, Trump weighs in on Senator Ted Cruz's (R-TX) 2028 presidential ambitions.

From the New York Post, as part of a project to build 20 nuclear "micro-reactors" in the U.S., New York state will get its first nuclear reactor built since 1988.

From Breitbart, Bangladeshi Muslims living in Venice, Italy threaten action after a permit for a mosque is denied.

From Newsmax, more on Trump changing the name of Lake Ontario.

And from SFGate, after ignoring Las Vegas for 17 years, the Michelin Guide gives out some stars to the city's restaurants.

A Bit Of Wandering For Wednesday

On a warm and partly cloudy Wednesday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, five problems that the U.S. has largely solved.

From FrontpageMag, "woke 2" is even worse than "woke 1".

From Townhall, what jobs are created by data centers?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a news site funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros identifies senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) as a "veteran" in mailers sent to Michigan voters.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) rejoins the Democratic Socialist of America after an almost seven-year hiatus.  (Yes, the DSA was around seven years ago.)

From The Federalist, America can't make national treasures like the recently departed Dolly Parton anymore.

From American Thinker, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten tells people to avoid shopping at Target because they don't actively oppose ICE.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell claims that U.S. President Trump is "trying to restrict the use of the French language in Canada".

From Balkan Insight, a plea deal reveals the logistics of smuggling marijuana from Macedonia into Serbia.

From Jewish News Syndicate, London police are looking for a man seen wearing invoking a 7th-century battle against Jews.

From Organiser, a study by the World Bank shows how "conservative Islamic norms" return to Muslim countries with migrants.  (Is this "conservative" Islam one which advocates for individual rights such as freedom of speech and religion, free market economics, and limited small-r-republican government?)

From The Daily Signal, journalist Nick Shirley and Republican California lawmakers rally in Sacramento against the law intended to oppose him.

From The Western Journal, according to Israeli officials, a naturalized U.S. citizen who attempted to truck-bomb a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan was the brother of a Hezbollah commander.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Jessica Tarlov offers a "curious" defense of the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed?

From the Daily Caller, the aforementioned Dolly Parton recalled defending herself with the 2nd Amendment.

From the New York Post, the NFL's Pro Bowl has been played for the last time.

From Breitbart, the original anthem kneeler receives a humanitarian award.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter John James (R-Mich), the Democrats bear responsibility for the increasing visibility of the aforementioned Democratic Socialists of America.

And from Page Six, the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spend six figures to fly from Los Angeles to Birmingham, England on a private jet.

Dolly Parton 1946-2026

Singer/songwriter/actress Dolly Parton, one of the most successful artists in country music, has died at the age of 80 in Nashville, Tennessee.  Her nephew and longtime security chief Bryan Seaver revealed the news.  She had been admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with kidney and autoimmune issues.

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in a one-room cabin in Pittman Center, Tennessee, the fourth of the 12 children of Robert Lee Parton Sr. and the former Avie Lee Caroline Owens.  Her father was a sharecropper and later a tobacco farmer.  She started singing and eventually writing songs as a child.  After graduating from Sevier County High School in Sevierville, she moved to Nashville.  Her first success was a songwriter, sometimes in collaboration with her uncle Bill Owens.

In 1967, country music entertainer Porter Wagoner invited Parton to join his TV show The Porter Wagoner Show and his road show, staying on the former until 1974.  She then started a successful solo career, with songs such as Jolene, I'll Always Love You, Here You Come Again, and Two Doors Down.  In 1980, she starred in the movie 9 to 5, for which she wrote and sang its title song.  She later collaborated with many other artists, including Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on their album Trio.  Although Parton was known musically mainly for singing and writing, she also played instruments such as the guitar, piano, banjo, dulcimer, fiddle, recorder, autoharp and saxophone.  She also starred in more movies, including as Rhinestone, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk.  She created her own amusement park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Soon after arriving in Nashville in 1964, she met asphalt paving businessman and Nashville native Carl Dean outside a laundromat.  They were married two years later in Ringgold, Georgia.  It was the only marriage for both.  They had no children.  Dean passed away in 2025.

Read more at TMZ, Variety, People, ABC News and USA Today.

Tuesday Things

As the warm and mostly sunny weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the trade war with Canada is pointless.

From FrontpageMag, how two white liberal women in New York became Muslim terrorists.

From Townhall, ICE lodges a detainer in a Florida murder case.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Palestinian Authority schools glorify Hamas's attack on October 7th, 2023 as the West Bank government tries to gain power in Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, Governor Ron DeSantis (R) cuts tattoos, tanning beds and tobacco from Florida's welfare benefits.

From The Federalist, Department of Agriculture bureaucrats bemoan having to work at the office or in red states.

From American Thinker, the myth of Minnesota criminal George Floyd's overdose.

From NewsBusters, CBS calls out left-wing commentator Hasan Piker's antisemitism, but skips some of his other smears.

From Canada Free Press, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) knows nothing about politics and even less about finance.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela's oil production exceeds 1.23 million barrels per day.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K. leads the world in disabilities.

From EuroNews, Spain plans to reform its asylum laws to align with the E.U.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia again requests a "humanitarian release" of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian citizens lead the E.U. in removal orders in 2025 and early 2026.

From The New Arab, Egyptian soccer player Omar Marmoush is set to join the Manchester City club.

From the Daily Mail, a migrant boat hits a girl swimming in the sea near a Sardinian beach, and keeps going.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF and Shin Bet destroy five Hamas weapons storage sites inside mosques.

From Gatestone Institute, "the Islamization of Europe", as seen in Belgium.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, "the housing shortage isn't just about supply", but also about market access.

From The American Conservative, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) "is an opportunistic chameleon".

From The Western Journal, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed likens transgender surgery to circumcision.

From BizPac Review, senatorial candidate Angie Nixon (D-FL) changes her tune, but her opponent Ashly Moody (R-FL) gets fact-checked.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed's comments about circumcision.

From the New York Post, the son of the Iranian propagandist known as "Screaming Mary" tries his darnedest to stay in the U.S.

From Axios, President Trump claims that mines have been removed from the Strait of Hormuz.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, immigrant grocery store owners in New York City sue Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) over his plans to establish government-run grocery stores.

From Newsmax, the Secret Service is aware of Iran's threat against First Son Barron Trump.

From The Atlantic, is Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei no longer with us?  (via Newsmax)

And from the Genesius Times and maybe the "don't give them any ideas" department, Massachusetts passes a law requiring woman to have at least two abortions before giving birth to live babies.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, five problems ignored by the U.S. government other than the national debt.

From FrontpageMag, King Charles III and the demise of the U.K.

From Townhall, how would a scandal like that of the recently deceased professor Jason Arday play out here in the U.S.?

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Education proposes a rule that would require accreditors to take academic freedom into account when assessing universities.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump opens his "economic D-Day against Iran.

From The Federalist, 142 state legislators call on Trump to appoint a Census Bureau director to insure an "accurate" count of citizens in 2030.

From American Thinker, California abolishes the "free press" portion of the 1st Amendment.

From NewsBusters, former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom did more than wear a shirt before being ejected from a WNBA game.

From Canada Free Press, U.S. President Trump and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer respond to Canada's claims about trade issues.

From TeleSUR, Argentine professors call for a 48-hour strike over a university funding law.

From Snouts in the Trough, is it good riddance when "10 worthless scrotes" are unalived?

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron confirms the ban on mobile phones in high schools.

From Free West Media, tensions between Israel and Turkey raise fears of a wider regional conflict.

From ReMix, 80.5 percent of North African migrants in Switzerland are accused of at least one crime.

From Balkan Insight, a Ukrainian soldier recalls his captivity at the hands of a Bosnian Serb.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan company OCP bets on low-cadmium fertilizers, which would improve its access to European markets.

From The New Arab, Syria sentences former Grand Mufti Ahmed Hassoun to life imprisonment.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian clan leader has 32 children and receives €100,000 per year in child benefits.  (If you read German, read the story at Apollo News.)

From The Straits Times, arson and bombings occur in over 70 places in southern Thailand.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a senior official from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Hamas is impeding humanitarian operations in Gaza.

From Al Jazeera, more on the aforementioned Ahmed Hassoun.

From The Daily Mail, an 18-year-old Afghan woman begs a Taliban official for a divorce from her allegedly violent husband.  (The last five stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian terrorist groups are reborn as political parties.

From The Daily Signal, Vice President Vance gives a rousing speech in Middletown, Ohio about manufacturing investments.

From The American Conservative, Trump has good reason to reduce the defense ties between the U.S. and South Korea.

From The Western Journal, more about the aforementioned Enes Kanter Freedom being ejected from a WNBA game.

From Sp!ked, the myth of the aforementioned Jason Arday.  (I found this story linked to a post on YouTube.)

From BizPac Review, a Chinese humanoid robot runs the 100-meter dash even faster than Usain Bolt did.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) threatens to hold up Trump's nominations over a rule put in place under then-President Biden, which farmers claim violates their property rights.

From the New York Post, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas tears into the left-wing notion that black people can't be conservative.

From Breitbart, Iran reportedly puts a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump.

From Newsmax, more on the aforementioned "economic D-Day" against Iran.

And from The Babylon Bee, Canada promises to retaliate against Trump's tariffs by imposing a crippling moose tariff.

Sunday Stories

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

From FrontpageMag, an Australian judge rules that a Muslim with a tattoo supporting Hezbollah is not a threat.

From Townhall and the "you can't make this up" department, former Anchorage, Alaska Mayor Dan Sullivan endorses Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) over challenger Dan Sullivan (R-AK).

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book by a former Democratic Party operative.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump takes a ride in his presidential limousine around the Freedom 250 Grand Prix racetrack in Washington, D.C.

From American Thinker, the climate change grift might finally be on its way out.

From NewsBusters, CNN coverage of White House aide Natalie Harp omits some important medical information.

From the Daily Mail, 90 of the students at Germany's "most dangerous" school are migrants.

From Arutz Sheva, a Jewish woman claims that a taxi driver in Warsaw, Poland told her to leave his cab because she wore a Star of David.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe is in a free fall.

From The American Conservative, the poor record of the Latin American right.

From Fox News, congresscritter Donald Beyer (D-VA) admits a systemic "failure" after an illegal alien accused of killing his landlord escapes to Tajikistan.

From ZeroHedge, did Canada just commit economic suicide?

From the New York Post, SNAP enrollment declines by 13 percent in 12 months due to the "big beautiful bill".

And from Breitbart, more on Freedom 250 and Trump's ceremonial lap on its course.

Saturday Links

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

From FrontpageMag, Amnesty International calls for government censorship for media reporting about black people.

From Townhall, the eternal quest by left-wingers for "free stuff".

From The Washington Free Beacon, "the defense never rests".

From the Washington Examiner, a proposed trade deal between the U.S. and Canada collapses at the last minute.

From The Federalist, if President Trump wants to reduce the price of beef, he should help farmers to increase their herds.

From American Thinker, an American professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium is suspended, and might get fired, for exposing fraud by Cambridge University professor Jason Arday, to which the U.S. State Department responds.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart denounces efforts to tie DSA senatorial candidate Angie Nixon (D-FL) to the DSA.

From Snouts in the Trough, are U.K. bus riders getting a "sleight of hand" about fares?

From the Daily Sabah, terrorists kill and kidnap worshipers during Friday prayer services in two villages in the Nigerian state of Niger.

From PJ Media, does anyone need Islam?

From Gatestone Institute, what's next for Iran?

From The American Conservative, barbarity starts at home.

From BizPac Review, women supporting alleged killer mom Lindsay Clancy find their own relationships impacted.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned collapse of a proposed trade deal between the U.S. and Canada.

From the New York Post, an admittedly privileged DSA woman who calls herself "Lulu Lenin" defends her wealth and noblesse oblige.

From Breitbart, more on the aforementioned Angie Dixon and the DSA.

From Newsmax, Trump's White House Rose Garden is growing statues.

And from the Post Millennial, at a WNBA game in Chicago, foreign objects are thrown onto the floor.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the U.S. national debt reaches $40 trillion.

From FrontpageMag, what the U.K. elites still don't understand.

From Townhall, as convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony's lawyers push for a new trial, some new details about his case come out.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Committee to Protect Journalists still includes the names of at least a 120 terrorists on its list of "journalists" killed in Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, Ceuta is in chaos as human traffickers move illegal migrants to mainland Spain.

From The Federalist, according to congresscritter Harriet Hageman (R-WY), President Trump has a way to close the birth tourism loophole.

From American Thinker, how Russia, from the Soviet era, has tried to divide America by race.

From NewsBusters, the Department of Homeland Security promises to arrest and deport an illegal alien convicted of sexual assault, even if Virginia Governor Gail Spanberger (D) protects him.

From Canada Free Press, beware of the "DINOs".

From TeleSUR, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announces new studies on 179 artifacts found in a cave used by the Zoque culture in the modern state of Chiapas.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the cooler temperatures in this past July as compared to a year earlier evidence of global warming, global cooling, or just weather?

From EuroNews, Latvia stops 28 illegal irregular migrants trying to enter from Belarus after finding a tunnel.

From Free West Media, a public pool in Berlin sets up hours exclusively for "Black communities".  (How do you say "Jim Crow" in German?)

From ReMix, when in Portugal, please keep your face visible.

From Balkan Insight, Saudi dissident Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, held in Bulgaria since 2021, is released.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian state and private media dump almost 4,000 Morocco-focused pieces in just 21 days.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese army starts taking in defectors from the Rapid Support Forces.

From New Age, authorities in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh cancel a music concert due to opposition from Islamists, who also target a boat race.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a "good question" from senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

From Gatestone Institute, the Democratic Socialists of America are "the secret stooges".

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, there's a way to end welfare as we know it.

From The American Conservative, President Trump has been successful against DEI.

From The Western Journal, the Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump's ballroom construction.

From BizPac Review, more on the aforementioned Karmelo Anthony's chances of getting a new trial.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritters bemoan the aforementioned $40 trillion debt that they helped to create.

From Breitbart, in two years, Chicago threw almost $640 million at illegal aliens.

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice seeks to question FBI officials on the search of Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

And from the New York Post, a town voted California's hottest Labor Day getaway was once a place for The Birds.

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, punishing South Korea makes no sense.

From FrontpageMag, the U.K. issues a poster telling migrants "do not rape kids".

From Townhall, what will happen to the illegal alien who groped high school girls when he soon leaves prison?

From The Washington Free Beacon, Washington, D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George (D) runs on energy affordability, but her plan to "make polluters pay" could make energy more expensive.

From the Washington Examiner, why did three Republican Senators back a Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate who supports late-term abortions?

From The Federalist, "solidly MAGA" congresscritter Harriet Hageman (R-WY) looks like she will soon be a Senator.

From American Thinker, the U.K. goes "all in for Islam" and forgets Christianity.

From NewsBusters, the media's double standard about calling people "Nazis" and "communists".

From Canada Free Press, the "land back" movement in the Canadian province of British Columbia is now at full speed.

From TeleSUR, a landslide kills at least 13 people at an open-pit gold mine in the Colombian department of Nariño.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K.'s "inflation tax" making its people poorer?

From EuroNews, a Romanian F-16 fighter jet destroys an explosive-laden maritime drone near a natural gas project in the Black Sea.

From ReMix, a Tunisian migrant is arrested after allegedly killing his Polish wife in Colleferro, Italy.  (If you read Italian, read the story at il Fatto Quotidiano.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo authorities unearth the remains of 23 wartime victims from three mass graves.  (One reason given for the bombing of Serbia in 1999 was mass graves of Kosovo Albanians.  Some have been found.)

From The North Africa Post, how AI can threaten election integrity in Morocco.

From The New Arab, 2,700 years of burial, ritual, and tomb reuse in ancient Egypt.

From Sky News, more on the aforementioned "don't rape" warnings for migrants in the U.K.

From Gatestone Institute, the preferred leaders of the Palestinians are Hamas or a convicted Fatah terrorist.

From The Daily Signal, according to a "source", the FBI has raided a home belonging to former congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal).

From The American Conservative, it's time to apologize to the Ukrainian people.

From The Western Journal, women in Ceuta, Spain are desperate to flee due to sexual abuse by some of the invaders.

From BizPac Review, podcaster Joe Rogan has a "brutal" prediction for what happens if socialists get their way.

From the Daily Caller, the FBI seizes the aforementioned Eric Swalwell's electronic devices at San Francisco International Airport.

From the New York Post, In-N-Out burger plans to open a new location in Ontario, California that will have "Double-Double" drive-through lanes.

From ABC News, a woman who allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS is arrested for allegedly plotting an attack on the New York State Capitol building in Albany.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to enact a temporary emergency fuel waiver that will increase the supply of gasoline and thus reduce its price.

From Newsmax, the U.S. Navy quietly escorts oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

And from the Genesius Times, the U.K.'s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decide to return to being oppressed in a British royal palace.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) can't even pretend to moderate his stances toward the center.

From FrontpageMag, we need "social merit, not social justice".

From Townhall, is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) really targeting businesses and property owners that have helped ICE?

From The Washington Free Beacon, left-wing commentator Hasan Piker's brother is practically a rocket scientist.

From the Washington Examiner, NASA calls off its mission to rescue the Swift space telescope.

From The Federalist, the "NeverTrumpers", who attacked then-candidate Trump in 2016 are now targeting Vice President Vance.

From American Thinker, senatorial candidate Alexander Vindman (D-FL) learns that carpetbagging doesn't work.  (In my opinion, he should have realized that only former Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has been allowed to do that sort of thing.)

From NewsBusters, a former aid to Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads guilty to coronavirus coverup charges.

From the Daily Mail, Portugal bans full-face coverings.

From The Jerusalem Post, a suspect indicted over an alleged plot to carry out an act of terrorism near a night club in Beersheba, Israel admits "wanting to blow up" dancers.

From Gatestone Institute, why fusion is the answer to America's challenge over AI.

From The American Conservative, here comes the permanent Democratic majority.

From BizPac Review, a caller on C-SPAN rants about former President Biden.

From the Daily Caller, sitting congresscritters are losing their primaries not seen in over 50 years.

From the New York Post, a burglar spends the night in a Macy's store in Chicago.

From Breitbart, a German security export warns of a "civil war" from illegal migrants and left-wingers who resist their deportation.

From Newsmax, a corruption investigation reaches Ukrainian President Zelensky's inner circle.

And from SFGate, a bystander rescues a man who fell 120 feet from an overlook in Glacier National Park.