Here on the first Thursday of 2020 are some things going on:
From National Review, the danger of groupthink by the elite.
From FrontpageMag, the heroes of 2019, of the left and the right.
From Politico, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro drops out of the presidential race. (via Townhall)
From Townhall, recently-elected Democrats let their moderate masks slip.
From The Washington Free Beacon, the Manhattan DA decides against prosecuting an attack against a Jewish subway rider as a hate crime.
From the Washington Examiner, during the last decade, the "Swamp" imposed 20 regulations for every law passed by Congress.
From The Federalist, for all of the FBI's Spygate errors to be innocent mistakes is statistically impossible.
From American Thinker, despite past failures, climate predictors double down on stupidity.
From CNS News, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) claims to "work really, really hard" to tear down walls.
From LifeZette, Obama-era holdovers are finally being removed from the Trump White House. (If it had been up to me, every single executive branch political appointee put in place by President Obama would have been removed from office no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 20th, 2017.)
From NewsBusters, an MSNBC host calls the Kata'ib Hezbollah terrorists who attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad "war heroes".
From Canada Free Press, was the impeachment inquiry on President Trump retaliation by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) for his limiting which airplane she could use?
From CBC News, could drones be used to help with Canada's shortage of construction workers?
From Global News, Gander International Airport, which welcomed passengers stranded as a result of the 9/11 attacks, considers reopening its long-closed lounge.
From CTV News, Yukon Territory opens caribou hunting season without the support of the local Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.
From TeleSUR, the mayor of Santiago, Chile is accused of violating the rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of movement.
From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to connect the Casablanca Airport with a high-speed rail line.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish President Erdoğan, up to 250,000 are heading to Turkey from the Syrian region of Idlib.
From Turkish Minute, Turkey's parliament passes a motion to allow Turkish troops to be deployed in Libya.
From Rûdaw, coalition forces foil an attack by ISIS and capture 16 ISIS terrorists.
From In-Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus launches two parallel competitions for the construction of bike lanes.
From The Syrian Observer, due to a "horrific" bombing by Russian forces, the Syrian town of Kafrnabl has "more cats than people".
From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli party Blue and White threatens to vote out Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel's High Court of Justice rejects a petition to bar Prime Minister Netanyahu from forming a government after the upcoming election.
From The Jerusalem Post, some questions and answers about the immunity which Netanyahu seeks.
From YNetNews, the leaders of Israel, Cyprus and Greece sign a deal to create an undersea gas pipeline.
From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian governate of Alexandria proposes to create a database for online services.
From Egypt Today, Egypt condemns the Turkish parliament's motion to approve troop deployments in Libya.
From StepFeed, could President Trump eventually have a Lebanese son-in-law?
From The New Arab, Israel starts pumping natural gas to Jordan.
From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities tell their parliament that 170 protesters were killed in November.
From Dawn, three Chinese nationals are acquitted in Karachi, Pakistan of ATM-skimming for lack of evidence.
From The Express Tribune, the UAE grants Pakistan $200 million in economic aid.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan amends its rules concerning its National Accountability Bureau.
From Khaama Press, Taliban terrorists destroy three telecom towers in the Afghan province of Jawzjan.
From The Hans India, an anti-Citizenship Act protester is suspected of having links to Pakistan.
From the Hindustan Times, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks the Congress party and people protesting against the Citizenship Act why they are "silent on Pakistan's atrocities".
From ANI, 300 girls are appointed as special police officers in the Indian state of Odisha.
From India Today, the Indian opposition party Congress asks the governing BJP to adopt seven New Year's resolutions.
From the Dhaka Tribune, according to its director general, Border Guard Bangladesh is not worried about India's Citizenship Act.
From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan Navy strengthens is surveillance operations in order to catch illegal migrants.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants no military salutes when he opens the new session of parliament tomorrow.
From the Daily Mail, according to a psychologist, there is no evidence that the U.K.'s deradicalization scheme works.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, two men vandalize a high school in Germany while shouting "Allah".
From Pink News, a teacher in Birmingham, England who was fired for calling gays "animals" is reinstated as a "parenting coach".
From Gatestone Institute, Iran can no longer depend on Shiite militias to fight its wars.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's National Archives offers free family archive restoration to victims of the recent floods in Jakarta.
From The Straits Times, police in Hong Kong arrested about 400 people during New Year's Day protests.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government will implement 421 new programs for special needs students.
From Free Malaysia Today, a consumer group asks Malaysian authorities to see if local importers are hoarding Indian onions.
From The Mainichi, a new site will allow people to buy tickets for Japan's bullet trains outside the country.
From The Stream, a few of the "most heinous" criminal aliens deported by ICE in 2019.
From Fox News, former First Lady/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary gets a new job - in Northern Ireland.
From the Daily Caller, the Golden Globes award show goes meatless.
From Twitchy, according to congresscritter Al Green (D-TX), the "genesis" of Trump's impeachment was when he was running for president.
From the New York Post, a boy in Scotland with a metal detector finds a World War II-era grenade.
And from The Babylon Bee, Julián Castro's campaign fails when his fellow Democrats learn that his first name isn't Fidel.
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