The Year 2021 Reaches Its End

In a few hours, the year 2021 will be over with and 2022 will start.  Of course, in most time zones east of my own (EST) and west of the International Date Line, 2022 is already here.  How shall I generally describe 2021?  Lets just say that after all the interesting times of 2020, 2021 came along and said "hold my beer".

The interesting times got started on January 6th, when a bunch of Trump supporters, possibly along with some people pretending to be Trump supporters, invaded the Capitol building as Congress was getting ready to certify the 2020 presidential election, won (at least officially) by former Vice President Joe Biden.  One of the most noted invaders was an activist known as the "QAnon Shaman", who got 41 months in prison for his role, although I'm still amazed that he was never charged with any dress code violations.

Because of a speech he gave on that day, then-President Trump was impeached for the second time, allegedly for inciting the Capitol Riot, and again was acquitted.  On Inauguration Day, fences were put up around the Capitol, to protect President Biden's inauguration from possible violence, which never came.

Friday Fuss For The End Of 2021

On a Friday which closes out the year 2021, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) accepts former President Trump's endorsement and his condition that Dunleavy can't endorse Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) for reelection.

From FrontpageMag, happy unwoke New Year.

From Townhall, no, liberals, Governor Mike DeSantis (R-FL) is not on vacation amid a rise of coronavirus cases.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration defends its vaccine rule to the Supreme Court, claiming that it's not a mandate.

From the Washington Examiner, due to a surge in crime, elites in Los Angeles County, California start supporting the Second Amendment - at least for themselves.

From The Federalist, the CDC now treats the unvaccinated and the unboosted the same, just as the aforementioned Governor DeSantis had predicted.

From American Thinker, the climate fearmongers find an error.

From CNS News, President Biden, along with us, stares into the abyss.

From LifeZette, fatherless families are America's most pressing social problem.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, media veteran Dan Rather tries to protect Biden, which backfires.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, "1619 Project" founder Nikole Hannah-Jones makes good money speaking.

From Canada Free Press, where do the interests of the West really lie?

From TeleSUR, Central America celebrates New Year's Eve with few coronavirus restrictions.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "here lies the truth".

From Free West Media, coronavirus patients made up three percent of all hospitalizations in Switzerland in 2020.

From EuroNews, Europe clamps down on New Year's Eve celebrations amid record numbers of coronavirus cases.

From Euractiv, Italy receives 240 more migrants, sending its total for the year over 67,000.

From ReMix, the European Court of Justice imposes same-sex marriage and dual motherhood or fatherhood on all E.U, member states.

From Balkan Insight, the stories that mattered most in 2021.

From The North Africa Post, Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah resumes his duties.

From The New Arab, Australian artists boycott next month's Sydney Festival over a sponsorship deal with the Israeli embassy.

From The Jerusalem Post, at a bus stop in the West Bank, the IDF sends a terrorist to his virgins.

From Christianity Daily, a Christian YouTuber in Indonesia faces harassment by Muslims.

From Sahara Reporters, the Taliban ban barbers from saving or trimming beards.

From Gatestone Institute, Germany's new government will continue with business as usual with China.

From The Stream, will the spike in violent crime in 2021 continue into 2022?

From The American Conservative, the truth about abortion in America's deep blue cities.

From Fox News, 10 controversies that the media ignored or downplayed in 2021.

From BizPac Review, New York's Mr. Bill has to move a presser indoors due to signs saying things like "buh-bye [bleep] head".

From The Western Journal, former First Lady/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton savagely criticizes President Biden.

From The Daily Wire, the New York state Department of Health prioritizes non-white people for oral coronavirus therapies.

From Breitbart, California Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) anti-coronavirus policies aren't working.

From Newsmax, former President Trump will hold his first rally of 2022 in Arizona.

From the New York Post, if your house catches fire, your cat might be to blame.

And from The Art Newspaper, McDonald's is blocked from building a drive-through next to the ancient Roman baths in Caracalla, Italy.

Thursday Links

On a Thursday which is the second last day of 2021, here are things going on:

From National Review, 2022 might see a settling of accounts for President Biden and the Democrats.

From FrontpageMag, meet Christine Grady, a.k.a. Mrs. Anthony Fauci.

From Townhall, the left-wing elite have a new narrative on the coronavirus after Biden failed to shut it down.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a nominee for Man of the Year is Biden chief of staff Ron Klain.

From the Washington Examiner, cracks form in the case against the alleged would-be kidnappers of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).

From The Federalist, the top 11 movies of 2021.

From American Thinker, what the word "green" in the term "green energy" really means.

From CNS News, the economic record of then-President Trump looks better every day.

From LifeZette, Biden's first year as president has been a disaster.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, the man who joked "Let's go, Brandon" on Biden's Santa-tracker call might run for office.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the top 10 tangles between reporter Peter Doocy and White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

From Canada Free Press, "joker Joe" Biden becomes a "mask-wearing beach boy".  (That term might be unfair to Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and the late Dennis and Carl Wilson.)

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan Congress will debate reform in front of the country's Supreme Court.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "Beneath Doghampton Pier", which will be continued.

From Free West Media, a warming Arctic Ocean could give Europe another "little ice age".

From EuroNews, how bad are the U.K.'s labor shortages?

From Euractiv, Belgium makes a U-turn and allows cinemas and theaters to reopen.

From ReMix, Cyprus calls on the rest of the E.U. to accept illegal migrants from its camps.

From Balkan Insight, the OSCE's mission in Kosovo condemns the desecration of tombstones in a Serbian Orthodox cemetery in the Serb-majority town of Gračanica.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian authorities arrests alleged associates of the terror group Boko Haram.

From The New Arab, Bahrain appoints its first ambassador to Syria in a decade.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel reports almost 4,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day.

From Republic World, Pakistan has reportedly failed in its counter-terror obligations and hosts anti-India groups.  (RW is an Indian site, which in this article reports on Pakistan.  When this happens, or when a Pakistani site reports on India, some amount of NaCl might be justified.)

From Gatestone Institute, some American academics work for China.

From The Stream, why have hundreds of highly trained athletes died unexpectedly in 2021?

From The Daily Signal, how prosecutors who go rouge deny justice.

From Sino Daily, China warns that the U.S. will "face an unbearable price" over its actions toward Taiwan.

From The American Conservative, the new orthodoxy in public schools.

From The Western Journal, Dr. Fauci pulls down the biggest federal paycheck ever.

From BizPac Review, former professor Dr. Carol Swain accuses "1619 Project" founder Nikole Hannah-Jones of making "creative fiction".

From The Daily Wire, days after Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) defends congresscritters being allowed to buy stocks, she and her husband buy millions worth of call options for stocks.

From the Daily Caller, Apple temporarily closes an iphone factory near Chennai, India due to substandard working and living conditions, and worms in food.

From Breitbart, the Border Patrol apprehended about 1.9 millions of people illegally crossing the southern U.S. border in 2021, and estimates about 500,000 "got aways".

From Newsmax, the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges is bad news for the U.K.'s Prince Andrew.

And from the New York Post, an explosion in a coal silo sends shockwaves across Baltimore, Maryland.

A Few More Things For Wednesday

On the last Wednesday of 2021, here are some things going on:

From National Review, despite "credible" sexual misconduct claims, Westchester County, New York prosecutors decide against pursuing charges against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D).  (It seems that for this sort of thing, you're presumed guilty until proven Democrat.)

From FrontpageMag, for the first time ever, the increase in U.S. population is due more to immigration than to birth.

From The Washington Free Beacon, one nominee for Man of the Year isn't even human.

From the Washington Examiner, Florida and the federal government again battle over the supply of monoclonal antibodies.

From The Federalist, John Madden's legacy goes beyond the football field or the press box.

From American Thinker, liberal hypocrisy hits a new low.

From CNS News, the left-wing goal of zero population growth was almost achieved in 2021.

From LifeZette, President Biden skates on the coronavirus.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Vice President Harris is quickly called out for her fake Kwanzaa story.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, former Senator Henry Reid (D-NV) dies of pancreatic cancer.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the platforms Facebook and Instagram censor American founder Thomas Paine.

From Canada Free Press, now that governments have lied themselves into a corner, what horrors await in 2022?

From TeleSUR, the Colombian Constitutional Court condemns the expulsion of migrants from Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, back when doctors were our friends.

From Gatestone Institute, do not let the Palestinians destroy Lebanon.

From The Stream, Democrats reject the work ethic and embrace freeloaders.

From The Daily Signal, government reaction to the coronavirus made 2021 "the year of living unreasonably".

From The American Conservative, some "truth and reconciliation" about the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

From NBC New York, Ghislaine Maxwell is found guilty of five sex trafficking charges.

From Reuters, pilots recount the collapse of the former Afghan air force.

From The Western Journal, an editor for The New York Times dies of a heart attack in Seoul, South Korea a day after receiving a coronavirus vaccine booster shot.

From BizPac Review and the "interesting how that works" department, ABC announces that that flu is making a comeback after "taking a year off".

From The Daily Wire, according to a medical professor at the University of Oxford, the omicron is "not the same disease" as the previous coronavirus variants.

From the Daily Caller, actor Tom Cruise makes a surprise visit to the Ohio State University marching band.

From New York Post, several women on the University of Pennsylvania swim team considered boycotting their last meet of the season over transgender teammate Lia Thomas.  (via Breitbart)

From Breitbart, a "Person of the Year" poll by the British paper The Guardian is deactivated after author J.K. Rowling takes the lead.

From Newsmax, Dr. Anthony Fauci warns against New Year's Eve parties.

And from The Babylon Bee, according to a poll, 9 out of 10 Americans support throwing Dr. Fauci into a volcano.  (Due to his Italian heritage, I'd say that Mount Etna on the island of Sicily would be appropriate.)

John Madden 1936-2021

John Madden, who was an NFL coach and a broadcaster for four different networks, died yesterday at his home in Pleasanton, California at age 85.

John Earl Madden was born in Austin, Minnesota to Earl Madden and the former Mary Flaherty.  During his childhood, his family moved to Daly City, California.  He graduated from Jefferson High School in Daly City in 1954.  The following fall, he played football at the College of San Mateo, and was given a scholarship by the University of Oregon.  He injured a knee while at Oregon, and was redshirted.  He returned academically to the College of San Mateo, and later transferred to Grays Harbor College, where he resumed playing.  He finally transferred to Cal Poly, where he played football and baseball, and graduated academically.  He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, but injured his other knee.  As a result, he never had to the chance to play professionally.  His main position was offensive tackle.

Madden started his coaching career as an assistant at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, soon afterwards becoming its head football coach.  He became defensive coordinator at San Diego State, and later the linebackers coach for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL.  The Raiders promoted him to head coach in 1969.  He held the job until 1978, compiling a record of 103-32-7.

Madden worked as a TV sports broadcaster for CBS (1979-1993), Fox (1994-2001), ABC (2002-2005) and NBC (2006-2008).  His other work included radio and TV commercials; cameos in music videos; and lending his name, voice, and personality to the Madden NFL series of video games.  Known for his aversion to flying, he became a frequent customer with Amtrak and Greyhound.

Madden is survived by his wife Virginia, and their sons Joseph and Michael.

Read more at Sports Illustrated, CNN, CBS Sports, ESPN and Yahoo Sports.

Tuesday Things

Now that I'm from my family Christmas gathering, here are some things going on:

From National Review, stick it to Russian President Putin, and other matters.

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration and the U.N. give the Taliban a year-end gift.

From Townhall, get ready for some more inflation.

From The Washington Free Beacon, attorney Roberta Kaplan wins the first annual Bill Clinton Award for feminist achievement.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden owes an apology for his false coronavirus promises and shirking his accountability.

From American Thinker, fellow conservatives, Elon Musk is not our friend.

From CNS News, according to the CDC, seasonal flu cases are increasing in the U.S., mainly among the young.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) donates 25 tiny homes to a homeless veterans shelter in Los Angeles.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany warns Biden that he won't be able to hide in the basement if he runs for reelection in 2024.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the networks have no problem with Biden's "winter of death" warning.

From TeleSUR, gangs fire at two minibuses in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing five people and injuring four others.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some heretical thoughts on the U.K.'s National Health Service.

From Snouts in the Trough, lies and more lies from SAGE.

From Free West Media, according to a Greek statistician, the number of coronavirus infections and deaths in the E.U. has been hugely manipulated.

From EuroNews, the Russian Supreme Court orders the closure of the country's oldest human rights organization.

From Euractiv, Poland hopes for progress with the new Czech government in talks over the open-pit coal mine in Turów.  (The article does not place an accent over the "o", but a bit of research shows that it should be there.)

From ReMix, although the Czech Republic's population is mostly atheist, it has a "Christian government".

From Balkan Insight, the Kosovo Supreme Court orders the retrial of an ethnic Serb parliamentcritter convicted of "ethnic hatred".

From The North Africa Post, 2021 was another annus horribilis for Algeria's ruling junta.

From The New Arab, Libya's parliament suspends its session without a vote on any proposals dealing with the country's delayed election.

From Republic World, the UAE issues the first non-Muslim civil marriage contract in the Arab World.

From The Sasiat Daily, a mosque in Beauvais, France is shut down due to "unacceptable" sermons by its imam.

From The Friday Times, 70,000 new Arabic teachers are hired in the Pakistani province of Punjab to teach the Koran.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a 15-year-old French girl is allegedly held captive and raped.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche and La Voix Du Nord.  The last four stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, should the recently departed Bishop Desmond Tutu get a statue?

From The Stream, we should pray for Brandon.

From Space War, the U.S. and Russia will hold talks in January over security and the situation in Ukraine.

From The American Conservative, preparing for a world after Roe v. Wade.

From The Western Journal, a U.S. naval warship is stuck as coronavirus cases are found among its fully vaccinated crew.

From BizPac Review, the group "Patriots for America" help local authorities in Texas arrest illegal border crossers.

From The Daily Wire, President Biden's approval rating falls below that of Vice President Harris.

From the Daily Caller, the CDC admits overestimating the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant.

From the New York Post, at a Dallas Cowboys game, Santa Claus gets ejected for fighting.

From Breitbart, New York City is on pace to record its second-highest number of gun sales in a single year.

From Newsmax, Republicans point out Biden's coronavirus hypocrisy.

And from BBC News, the voice assistant Alexa gives out some dangerous advice.

Links For The Feast Of Stephen

The day after Christmas is celebrated as the feast day of Saint Stephen, known as the first Christian martyr for being stoned to death after giving a speech, as recorded in the New Testament book of Acts, chapter 7.  On today's Feast of Stephen, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to "1619 Project" founder Nikole Hannah Jones, parents shouldn't decide what's being taught in schools.

From Townhall, basketball star LeBron James posts a meme suggesting that the flu, the common cold, and the coronavirus are the same thing.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Yale law administrator Yaseen Eldik gets a nomination for Man of the Year.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, Americans think that President Biden has done a lousy job fighting the coronavirus.

From American Thinker, wokeness captures a statue of Teddy Roosevelt in New York City.

From LifeZette, a woke military won't be good for defending America.

From NewsBusters, the panel on ABC's This Week accuses Senator Joe Manchin of representing "plutocrats".

From Canada Free Press, "in defense of conservatism" as the Republican Party experiences infighting.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr, but certainly not the last.

From Free West Media, coronavirus the vaccination rate in the U.K. appears to be much lower than what is being officially reported.

From EuroNews, the omicron coronavirus variant leads to more restrictions across Europe.

From The North Africa Post, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi receives the emissary of Moroccan King Mohammed VI.

From The New Arab, there is reportedly no place in Iraq where journalists are safe.

From the Greek City Times, on Christmas Eve, Turkey turns another church into a mosque.

From Gatestone Institute, hate for the cross.

From The Stream, the gender tyranny of the left.

From The Western Journal, a tree so poisonous that Christopher Columbus called its fruit "death apples".

From BizPac Review, the father who said "Let's go Brandon" on President Biden's Santa Tracker now claims to be under attack.

From The Daily Wire, Vice President Harris is asked if she feels any "personal responsibility" for what happened in Afghanistan.

From the Daily Caller, the Military Bowl is cancelled due to coronavirus-related issues with one of the teams.

From Breitbart, the UAE's first astronaut admits taking an Israeli flag with him into space two years ago.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH), Biden and the Democrats have messed it up on all of their policies.

And from the New York Post, V.P. Harris calls democracy America's biggest security threat.

Stories For Christmas Eve

Now that I have completed my shopping, packing and driving to my undisclosed location in Virginia to celebrate Christmas with family members, I finally have a bit of time to do some blogging.  Yesterday was especially fun, because it showed the ability of an interstate highway to become a parking lot.  Fortunately, I was able to navigate around it, but those back roads can take their time.  But in any event, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Biden administration decides to lift travel restrictions which had been placed on some African countries due to the omicron coronavirus variant.

From FrontpageMag, shall there be "Christmas" lights or "Holiday" lights?

From Townhall, illegal aliens break into a Border Patrol agent's home and attempt to steal his uniforms.

From The Washington Free Beacon, for Man of the Year, basketball player and new American citizen Enes Kanter Freedom.

From the Washington Examiner, a U.S. swimming official resigns in protest of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

From The Federalist, 30 years ago, the USSR came to an end.

From American Thinker, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) lists his Festivus grievances against the Biden administration's waste.

From LifeZette, "Christmas in the city" is not without fear.

From Red Voice Media, Senator Paul takes down Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra's coronavirus vaccine narrative in two minutes.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, how Charles Schulz got the Gospel past CBS executives in A Charlie Brown Christmas.

From Canada Free Press, it's Christmas 2021 and Christ is still King.

From TeleSUR, Honduras's Presidential Transfer Commission prepares for the inauguration of President-elect Xiomara Castro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "the myths and magic of Christmas".

From Free West Media, are coronavirus lockdowns a money grab by the rich?

From EuroNews, the U.K., France and Italy see record daily numbers of coronavirus cases.

From Euractiv, migrants camped in a warehouse in Belarus still hope to enter the E.U.

From ReMix, Ukraine plans to buy natural gas from Hungary next year.

From The North Africa Post, the head of Morocco's government calls for speeding up the implementation of the country's projects.

From The New Arab, the many Christmases of Palestine.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a 16-year-old girl in Kassel, Germany is harassed because of her skin color - by an Arab migrant.  (If you read German, read the story at PressePortal.)

From NDTV, over 6,400 journalists have reportedly lost their jobs since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden's global challenges.

From The Stream, Christmas in the newborn U.S. in 1776.

From The American Conservative, Mark Zuckerberg's "Wisconsin purchase".

From The Western Journal, the dark truth about Biden's dancing nurses.

From BizPac Review, golfer Phil Mickelson asks a reasonable question about the omicron coronavirus variant.

From The Daily Wire, while Biden takes a Santa tracker call from a child, the kid's father lets out a "Let's go, Brandon".

From the Daily Caller, who would benefit from student loan forgiveness?

From the New York Post, the White House touts a small drop in gasoline prices, but they are still much higher than a year earlier.

From Breitbart, Border Patrol agents near Del Rio, Texas find a six-year-old migrant protecting her one-year-old cousin.

And from Newsmax, a TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport saves an infant who had stopped breathing.

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Since I'll be celebrating Christmas with family members tomorrow and thus won't be around this blog, may everyone who reads it have a merry Christmas.  See you soon.

Links For The Solstice

Here on the day when the sun stands still and starts gradually moving northward, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) tells a "big whopper" about the grocery business.

From FrontpageMag, what it really means to be pro-Palestinian.

From Townhall, President Biden makes a speech about new coronavirus tactics, coughing his way through it.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Americans keep moving from blue states to red states.

From the Washington Examiner, the Biden White House adopts a coronavirus testing plan that press secretary Jen Psaki once laughed off.

From The Federalist, videos show Pennsylvania officials hiding evidence of alleged election fraud.

From American Thinker, America's crime problem won't be solved by social workers.

From CNS News, border officials encounter 10 times more Nicaraguans in the first two months of fiscal 2022 than in all of fiscal 2020.  (A fiscal year starts on October 1st and ends the following September 30th.)

From LifeZette, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) bans citywide coronavirus vaccine mandates.

From NewsBusters, CNN tries to blame "boomers" for America's labor shortage.

From Canada Free Press, neither the government nor the courts are equipped to require medical treatment.

From TeleSUR, the Argentinian province of Chubut repeals a mining law and calls a plebiscite.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wanted the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but only got My Little Pony.

From Free West Media, in Denmark, evidence shows the failure of coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, Germany and Portugal impose new coronavirus measures.

From Euractiv, E.U. coronavirus vaccination certificates will expire nine months after the last primary dose of vaccine.

From ReMix, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, national and cultural identity is a human right.

From The North Africa Post, coast guard units of the Moroccan navy rescue 352 illegal migrants in four days.

From The New Arab, a group of Tunisians announce a hunger strike to protest actions by President Kais Saied.

From the Daily Mail, Qatar seizes children's toys because they have rainbow patterns.

From Gatestone Institute, as China plans genocide, U.S. President Biden responds with empty words.

From The Stream, businessman Elon Musk is estimated to pay the largest federal tax bill in history.

From Space Daily, could ramjet propulsion in space become possible?

From The Daily Signal, how a pilot fought his airline's coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. military's "new toy" that will prevent war with China.

From BizPac Review, Dr. Fauci thinks he has the right to tell a TV network to fire an anchorman.

From The Western Journal, General Michael Flynn files a restraining order against Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll by CNN, Biden's economic ratings are worse than those of Jimmy Carter.

From the Daily Caller, Kellogg's employees end a 10-week strike and vote to accept a new contract.

From the New York Post, the game show Jeopardy wants comedian/actor/banjo player Steve Martin to appear, after a successful run by his look-alike.

From Breitbart, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin comes out against Mayor London Breed's (D) efforts to crack down on crime.

From Newsmax, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, there are no plans for an in-person meeting between Presidents Biden (U.S.) and Putin (Russia) amid tensions involving Ukraine.

And from The Babylon Bee, Speaker Pelosi is disappointed that since the "Build Back Better" bill won't be passed, we'll never find out what's in it.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For Sunday

With Christmas approaching, the blogging will be light for a while.  So on this Sunday during the 12th month, here are 12 things going on:

From National Review, heresies during the time of (the West's) climate conformity cult.

From Townhall, Democrats bring back segregation.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the book Laptop from Hell.

From the Washington Examiner, my governor doesn't want former President Trump to run again in 2024.

From American Thinker, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) pleads ignorance pleads ignorance about his attending the CPUSA's 102nd anniversary celebration.

From LifeZette, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) is ready to run for president in 2024.

From Newsbusters, CNN host Fareed Zakaria is "puzzled" by President Biden's lack of popularity.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the rats take over the U.K.'s sinking ship.

From Gatestone Institute, "the West and its old illusion".

From The Western Journal, some photos from the first section of the new border wall in Texas.

From BizPac Review, TV host Mike Rowe has some harsh words for Biden on the economy.

And from the New York Post, if you're already in prison, please don't harass the female correction officers.

Saturday Stories

On the last Saturday before Christmas, here are some things going on:

From National Review, how the federal government does science.

From Townhall, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) recalls trying to get a straight answer out of a Biden nominee.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a new think tank unmasks the left.

From the Washington Examiner, Texas starts building a border wall that former President Trump would appreciate.

From American Thinker, will Poland again have to defend Europe from Islam?

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, schools go on high alert as calls for violence against schools spread on TikTok.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, journalists blame President Biden's problems on Trump.

From Canada Free Press, what do Democrats gain from having far-left judges on the federal bench?

From TCW Defending Freedom, yes, Archbishop Justin Portal Welby needs to acknowledge where things have gone wrong.

From Free West Media, the German government ignores a court ruling against the 2G rule.

From EuroNews, violence by fans stops a French Cup soccer game.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan authorities arrest a suspected ISIS supporter.

From The New Arab, a one-year-old boy reportedly crosses the Mediterranean without any family members and arrives safely on the Italian island of Lampedusa.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration has nothing to say about the terror threat from Iran's mullahs.

From The Stream, can we stand for the truth without offending anyone?

From The American Conservative, the right should become "the party of parents".

From RedState, Dr. Fauci considers replacing "mandate" with a different term.

From The Western Journal, actor Nick Searcy's film exposes media lies about January 6th.

From BizPac Review, the founder of Barstool Sports asks questions about the coronavirus pandemic that public health "experts" won't.

From The Daily Wire, the Senate adjourns for this year, thus putting Biden's domestic agenda on hold.

From the Daily Caller, comedian Tim Dillon rips the media for distorting the Waukesha, Wisconsin massacre.

From Breitbart, a federal court allows Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate for businesses to resume.

From Newsmax, a real-life Grinch steals a van full of toys in New Mexico.

And from the New York Post, New York City reporters fewer UFO sightings in 2021 than a year earlier.

Friday Phenomena

As the mild weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the U.S. has reached coronavirus burnout.

From FrontpageMag, some left-wing "journalists" float the idea that criticizing President Biden endangers democracy.

From Townhall, Biden makes a false claim about desegregation and then says something even more bizarre.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of Hillary Clinton's Master Class on "the power of resilience".

From the Washington Examiner, the current inflation is the result of deliberate Democrat policy choices.

From The Federalist, the right builds its own infrastructure in response to cancel culture, and the left can't stand it.

From American Thinker, Biden has no one to blame for the oil crisis except himself.

From CNS News, Biden decides against taking any questions today.

From LifeZette, CNN abandons Biden.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquest, the U.S. Navy will start using a new laser gun.  (via LifeZette.)

From NewsBusters, networks go Sgt. Schulz on Biden's border crisis.

From Canada Free Press, governments wish the masses a coronavirus Christmas.

From TeleSUR, Haitian consulate staffers are arrested in the Dominican Republics.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the omicron variant con game.

From Snouts in the Trough, what did you want to know about "gain of function"?

From Free West Media, Pfizer and Microsoft sponsored the party of Germany's new health minister.  (According to an old joke about American congresscritters, they should wear jackets similar to those worn by racecar drivers, so that we can identify their corporate sponsors.  It appears that for German politicians of a certain party, the corporate sponsors have been identified.)

From EuroNews, a giant straw goat in Gävle, Sweden is burned down.

From Euractiv, the new Dutch coalition government wants Prime Minister Mark Rutte to spend more money.

From ReMix, according to Italian politician Matteo Salvini, the Italian government wants to double current immigration.

From The North Africa Post, Marrakech, Morocco is chosen to host the 10th International Conference on UNESCO Global Geoparks.  (This might mean that the Marrakech Express will get some use.)

From The New Arab, two Saudi female drivers will drive in the Dakar Rally in 2022.

From Gatestone Institute, a lesson in persistence from President Calvin Coolidge.

From The Stream, Democrat congresscritters favor Islam over the U.S. Constitution.

From The Daily Signal, the pro-life maternity home that shelters pregnant women in crisis.

From The American Conservative, the architecture of prisons.

From The Western Journal, according to former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the only reason we're talking about overturning Roe v. Wade is her old boss.

From BizPac Review, the mother of a woman who died from fentanyl writes to Presidents Trump and Biden, each of whom answers her.

From The Daily Wire, defense witnesses for Ghislaine Maxwell don't show up.

From the Daily Caller, after an ice cream man dies, his fellow ice cream men drives their trucks in his funeral parade.

From Breitbart, six men are arrested in Santa Clara County, California in connection with over 70 crimes against Asian women.

From Newsmax, when flying, please use a mask, not a thong.

And from the New York Post, a woman claims to have been "groped" in the metaverse.

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, President Biden's numerous wrong assumptions.

From FrontpageMag, CNN offers 11 possible Democrat replacements for Biden in 2024.

From Townhall, inflation is devastation for the Democrats.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) endorses expanding the Supreme Court.

From the Washington Examiner, the Salvation Army's "anti-racism" guide backfires.

From The Federalist, 12 times when Biden lied, made up stuff, or just said something crazy.

From American Thinker, what if Vice President Harris becomes president?

From CNS News, according to former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, the definition of "fully vaccinated" against the coronavirus might require three shots.

From LifeZette, NBC punishes a sports analyst criticizes the original anthem kneeler.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is shocked about crime and can't understand its cause.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the 12 worst cases of Big Tech censorship so far this year.

From Canada Free Press, how Democrats benefit from illegal immigration.

From TeleSUR, Bolivia creates a trust for victims of violence under the Añez regime.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what if Jeremy Corbyn had become U.K. prime minister?

From Free West Media, fake news gets spread about Austria's coronavirus vaccination rate.

From EuroNews, a German man is given a life sentence for driving his vehicle into a crowded Carnival celebration.

From Euractiv, Estonia's wood pellet industry pits supporters against environmentalists.

From ReMix, Islamists attack a Catholic procession in Nanterre, France.  (If you read French, read the story at Faits Divers.)

From The North Africa Post, a militia group seizes power in Libya, which cancels elections scheduled for December 24th.

From The New Arab, according to parliament speaker Nabih Berri, Lebanon is under a diplomatic siege by Arab countries.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, three cases of polio are found in the Afghan province of Kunduz.

From Gatestone Institute, Lithuania stands up to communist China.

From The Stream, how inflation will cost the average American household this year.

From The Daily Signal, Democrats get softball questions from the networks for the holidays.

From Space War, the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan gets blanketed by snow.

From The American Conservative, "the Trojan car".

From The Western Journal, according to a poll, 64 percent of Americans believe that President Biden's handling of inflation would receive the approval of the Grinch.

From BizPac Review, actor Tom Arnold proves that former President Trump still lives rent-free in his head.

From The Daily Wire, at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Biden's coronavirus vaccination mandate for private companies runs into a Karen.

From the Daily Caller, Republican congresscritters have some questions for new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.

From Breitbart, France closes its border with the U.K., but the Channel migrant crisis continues on.

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice stops negotiating with lawyers representing migrant families separated after illegally crossing the border.

And from the New York Post, Los Angeles County, California searchers for the heirs of a black couple whose beach resort was wrongly taken from them in 1924.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, the Biden administration releases almost 1,500 documents relating to the JFK assassination.

From FrontpageMag, thousands die after Democrats legalize crime.

From Townhall, Senator Tom Scott (R-SC) recall a previous episode of inflation and his own hairstyle at the time.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Elaine Luria (D-VA), who railed against school choice while campaigning, failed to disclose that she was a private school president.

From the Washington Free Beacon, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is outraged by the lawlessness going on right under her nose.

From The Federalist, the left isn't going to stop fighting for abortion.

From American Thinker, Uncle Joe starts to sound like another Uncle Joe.

From CNS News, according to Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb, the number of illegal aliens sneaking across the border is the worst that he's ever seen.

From LifeZette, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) charges the Biden administration with human trafficking.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, parents are in for a rude awakening this coming tax time.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, YouTube reportedly allows the spread of Chinese communist propaganda.

From Canada Free Press, why Democrats want inflation.

From TeleSUR, Chilean presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast is a fan of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the death toll from the omicron coronavirus variant is zero.

From Snouts in the Trough, with a little help from their friends?

From Free West Media, unvaccinated mountain rescuers in Austria are forced to stay home.

From EuroNews, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the omicron variant is expected to be the dominant form of the coronavirus in the E/U. in by mid-January.

From Euractiv, the E.U. will allow joint gas buying.

From ReMix, the Dutch government forces four cities to take in migrants.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan equestrian art of Tbourida is added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

From The New Arab, the Tunisian navy rescues 78 migrants after their boat sinks in the Mediterranean, and the dead body of one other.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Islamic "guardians of public morals" attack women and children - in Vienna.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Gatestone Institute, can a former president claim privilege about communications made while in office?

From The Stream, on the January 6th committee, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) is the new Adam Schiff (D-Cal).  (You could thus say that "Schiff still happens".)

From The Daily Signal, Google plans to fire all of its unvaccinated employees.

From Space War, India might become the first in line to buy the Russian S-500 air defense system.

From The American Conservative, the meaning sex offender Harvey Weinstein.

From BizPac Review, BLM gets blasted over its hypocritical "Black Xmas" campaign.

From The Western Journal, according to a prominent cardiologist, a study shows that coronavirus vaccines are more dangerous than the virus itself.

From The Daily Wire, the Senate reportedly gives up on passing the "Build Back Better" bill until next year.

From the Daily Caller, a group of Republican congresscritters demand answers from the TSA about illegal aliens flying without IDs.

From the New York Post, NBA player Steph Curry parties in New York City after becoming the league's all-time leader in 3-pointers.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA), Democrats ignore natural coronavirus immunity and therapeutics because those don't enable them to control people's lives.

From Newsmax, according to a survey, Americans are increasingly worried about violent crime.

And from AP News, two zebras running around my neck of the woods have finally been caught.  (via the Daily Caller)

Tuesday Tidings

On a cool sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) will propose a bill to limit participation in female sports to actual females.

From FrontpageMag, according to First Lady Jill Biden, President Joe is as smart as a tack.

From Townhall, political correctness keeps on ruining things.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Catholics send thousands of roses to Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) to protest her pro-abortion stance.

From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Harris struggles to charge an electric vehicle.

From The Federalist, forcing people to be vaccinated against the coronavirus ignores important scientific information.

From American Thinker, Donald Trump was the right president at the right time.

From CNS News, congresscritter Jim Banks (R-IN) points out that Pelosi is really old.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband whines about having to pay off his student loan.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, leftist kingpin George Soros's dark money influences many political races.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the Producer Price Index increases at the right rate ever.

From Canada Free Press, coronavirus-related problems in U.S. hospitals.

From TeleSUR, two policemen and a civilian are killed by IED explosions at an airport in Cucuta City, Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how do you solve a problem like U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson?

From Free West Media, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin behaves as if coronavirus measures are for the little people.

From EuroNews, the European Court of Human Rights urges Russia to deal with domestic violence.

From Euractiv, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg applies to become the governor of Norway's central bank.

From ReMix, human traffickers seek to transport illegal migrants across the Russia-Finland border.

From The North Africa Post, Germany's new government reaches out to Morocco.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia brings the hajj to the metaverse.

From Gatestone Institute, poverty and economic problems shake Turkish President Erdoğan's throne.

From The Stream, why the good life feels so bad.

From The American Conservative, the grief of Newtown, Connecticut.

From The Daily Signal, some medals to be given out for jumping to conclusions about Jussie Smollett.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) releases texts by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and thus undermines the entire purpose of the January 6th committee.

From BizPac Review, Denver public schools resurrect racially segregated family play nights.

From The Daily Wire, according to the IMF, the U.S. is tied for having the highest inflation among the world's developed nations.

From the Daily Caller, the House and Senate come to an agreement about a bill dealing with forced labor by the Uyghurs in China.

From Breitbart, a Bahamian national allegedly voted illegally in the U.S.  (But, but, significant voter fraud never really occurs.....)

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Democrat policies are behind the rise in crime in the U.S.

And from the New York Post, O.J. Simpson is now "completely free".