Christine McVie 1943-2022

Fleetwood Mac keyboardist/singer/songwriter Christine McVie passed away earlier today at a hospital in the U.K. after a brief illness.  She was 79.  No cause of death has yet been reported.

Christine Anne Perfect was born in the village of Bouth in the English county of Lancashire.  Her parents were Cyril Perfect, a concert violinist and music lecturer and the former Beatrice Reese, a medium and psychic.  She studied classical piano from ages 11 to 15, but started to play rock and roll after her older brother John came home with a book of Fats Domino songs.  She studied sculpture at an art school in Birmingham for five years, during which she met musicians Stan Webb (guitar) and Andy Sylvester (bass).  After moving to London and working as a window-dresser for a department store, she joined their band Chicken Shack as a keyboardist-singer and appeared on their first two albums.

In 1968, Perfect played piano on Fleetwood Mac's second album, Mr. Wonderful as a guest musician.  In 1969, she married their bass player John McVie, left Chicken shack, and played keyboards on a few tracks on their third album Then Play On.  In 1970, she recorded her first solo album Christine Perfect, contributed uncredited backing vocals and keyboards on Fleetwood Mac's fourth album Kiln House, and joined the band for the ensuing tour.  She stayed with Fleetwood Mac through numerous albums and personnel changes until 1998, but rejoined them in 2014.  She recorded two more solo albums, Christine McVie in 1984 and In the Meantime in 2004, and the duet album Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie in 2017, with Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham.

Christine and John McVie divorced in 1976, but stayed friends and musical partners.  She dated drummer/keyboardist/singer Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys from 1979 to 1982.  She married Portuguese keyboardist/songwriter Eddy Quintela in 1986.  They collaborated to write some songs which Fleetwood Mac recorded, and divorced in 2003.

Read more at Variety, The Guardian, the Rolling Stone, BBC News and TMZ.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, just what San Francisco needs, police robots capable of using deadly force.

From FrontpageMag, there are only bad and worse choices regarding Ukraine.

From Townhall, according to a study, there is evidence that offshore bird chopper assemblies have a "substantial impact" on marine environments.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a group founded by gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) purchases million-dollar properties before dismissing half of its leadership staff.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats choose an election denier to replace soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) as their leader in the House.

From The Federalist, the Balenciagas of the world "condemn" child abuse while participating in it.

From American Thinker, a hypothetical open letter from middle America to the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From CNS News, Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) won't say whether a baby has a right to a mother.

From Red Voice Media, President Biden brags about the largest ever depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, TV host Jimmy Kimmel has no problem with homophobic jokes, if they're aimed at conservatives.

From Canada Free Press, the "Respect for Marriage Act" should be called the "Disrespect for Religious Morality Act".

From TeleSUR, Mexico rejects the auctioning of its archaeological artifacts in Paris.

From TCW Defending Freedom, did a cabal of very rich climate zealots persuade U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

From VRT NWS, jurors are selected and the defendants appear briefly to identify themselves at the trial of those accused in the 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German judge tells a defendant from Syria to "leave Allah out of it".  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Radio Prague, according to Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, deciding to help Ukraine was easy.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia announces its most popular names for babies.

From EuroNews, the E.U. recommends freezing €7.5 billion in funds for Hungary.

From ReMix, so far this year, Serbia has registered 109,000 illegal migrants.

From Balkan Insight, the Croatian parliament starts debating military aid to Ukraine.

From The Slovenia Times, inflation in Slovenia persists at a high level.

From Euractiv, the food industry in Europe calls a proposed E.U. packaging law "unworkable".

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and China sign a memorandum of understanding for promoting trade.

From The New Arab, ISIS announces the death of its leader, who was killed in a battle.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, more convoys carrying humanitarian aid arrive in the Ethiopian region of Tigray.

From Khaama Press, 10 people are killed in an explosion at the "Al-Jihadi" seminary in Aybak, Afghanistan.

From The Straits Times, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies at age 96.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterates Bangladesh's anti-terrorism stance while hosting Indian envoy Pranay Verma.

From the Taipei Times, the U.S. identifies four possible actions by China against Taiwan.

From Gatestone Institute, the American federal bureaucracy's Democrat majority has made the U.S. a one-party government.

From The Stream, a question which fools don't ask.

From The Daily Signal, according to a poll, most Americans don't trust delayed election results, but Democrats are more likely to trust them.

From Space War, Ukraine urges NATO to speed up its delivery of weapons.

From The American Conservative, the un-personing of Princeton professor Joshua Katz.

From The Western Journal, Biden infuriates railroad unions with a controversial move.

From BizPac Review, senatorial candidate Herschel Walker (R-GA) reveals why former President Trump isn't rallying for him.

From The Daily Wire, according to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), Disney brought its problems upon itself.

From the Daily Caller, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asks press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre when the White House plans to delete its account on Twitter.

From the New York Post, to cut costs, Meta decides to leave the offices which it rented at Hudson Yards in New York City.

From Breitbart, the Chief Twit admits that Twitter has "interfered in elections".

From Newsmax, according to Chairman Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve will push interest rates higher and keep them there in order to fight inflation.

And from SFGate, a New Hampshire man recovers his wife's wedding rings which he had accidentally thrown away.

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, Democrats get ready to ride or die with President Biden.

From FrontpageMag, how Christians became a minority in England and Wales, and how it can happen in the U.S.

From Townhall, a new front is opened in the fight against woke ESG standards.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Uyghur activists demand that the Biden administration gets answers from China about a fire that trapped people in a building.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and congresscritter Hank Johnson (D-GA) accuse the Supreme Court's counsel of dodging questions about an alleged 2014 leak.  (Would I be correct in assuming that they have similar concerns about the leak of the draft decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson case?  Yeah, I know.  Whom am I trying to kid?)

From The Federalist, Republican Senators, you have one last chance to stop the Roe v. Wade of marriage.

From American Thinker, why a new voting system which gave Democrats a traditionally Republican congressional seat is dangerous.

From CNS News, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) explains why Democrats hate senatorial candidate Herschel Walker (R-GA).

From Red Voice Media, the Chief Twit comes out with actual evidence of bias on Twitter against conservatives.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the Chief Twit calls free speech a "battle for the future of civilization".

From Canada Free Press, a serial killed leaves in his death note a claim that he was led by Satan.

From CBC News, according to a report, over 2,000 wild species in Canada face a high risk of being wiped out.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva calls for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how the U.K. could get its own people back to work (if it wanted to).

From the (Irish) Independent, a man in an Irish prison accused of murder claims that the prison is "better than some hotels".

From the NL Times, a man is arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after telling police that he had dangerous substances.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Telegraaf.)

From ReMix, changes to German citizenship and immigration laws could turn 2 million migrants into German citizens overnight.

From Polskie Radio, the Three Seas Initiative is discussed at a conference in Warsaw, Poland.

From Free West Media, Poland hires two American PR companies for a pro-Ukraine campaign in the West.

From Hungary Today, Hungary shows the E.U. how to protect borders.

From Romania-Insider, Romania observes its National Day.

From Total Croatia News, ETF becomes the first Croatian airline to obtain permission to fly to the U.S.

From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian she-don't-lie "kingpin" is arrested in the UAE as part of an operation against a "super cartel".

From SwissInfo, meet Switzerland's elite army soldiers.

From RFI, France restarts a coal-fired power plant due to expected electricity demand during the coming winter.

From EuroNews, three African migrants travel to Spain's Canary Islands by sitting on a ship's rudder.  (I'm no fan of illegal migration, but I have to give these guys the "badass" label for doing this and living to tell about it.)

From Euractiv, E.U. member states struggle to agree on a price cap for Russian oil.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan phosphate and fertilizer company OCP reports a record quarterly revenue.

From the Libyan Express, five Western countries issue warrants for the arrests of suspects allegedly involved in the deaths of migrants in Libya.

From North Press Agency, according to the Education Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, shelling from Turkey has prevented 22,000 Syrian students from attending school.

From In-Cyprus, the first construction phase for the new hemodialysis ward of the Famagusta General Hospital is expected to be complete by the end of 2022.

From The New Arab, migrant workers in Lebanon demand protection from sexual harassment.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi technicians in the ski village of TROJENA successful make artificial snow in the Sarawat Mountains.

From Dawn, in the province of Balochistan, Pakistani security forces send 10 terrorists to their virgins.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe approves a bill that gives the Maha Sangha the power to discipline wayward Buddhist monks.  (For more on Sri Lanka's Maha Sangha, go here.)

From AsiaNews, Muslims damage tents offered by Christians to earthquake victims in Cianjur, East Java, Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, three Malaysian states are warned to brace for floods.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh gives in a speech in which he states "Buddhism upholds fine values".

From 5 Pillars, according the U.K. census, there are 3.9 million Muslims in England and Wales.

From Gatestone Institute, protesters in China call for an end to rule by the Chinese Communist Party.

From The Stream, The New York Times twists the Dobbs v. Jackson draft decision leak to undermine the Supreme Court, but goes Sgt. Schultz on the pro-abortion violence which it ignited.

From The Daily Signal, how someone turned her left-leaning college experience into a benefit.

From ITR Economics, what you need to know in order to plan for the next business cycle.

From Space War, the company Airbus Defence and Space produces its 2,000th target drone.

From The American Conservative, "listen to your elders, not the experts".

From The Western Journal, the chairman of the Mohave County, AZ Board of Supervisors claims that he was told that he would be arrested if he didn't vote to certify the results of the recent election.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) warns his fellow Republicans that if they "play games", the House Democrats could pick the next speaker.

From The Daily Wire, protesters in China destroy a coronavirus testing site.

From the Daily Caller, after meeting with President Biden, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) agree to stop the possible rail strike.

From Breitbart, according to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Apple's threat to remove Twitter from its app store could "merit a response" from Congress.

From Newsmax, several vehicles rented by Biden's Secret Service detail burn after being returned to the Nantucket, Massachusetts airport.

And from the New York Post, the U.S. defeats Iran in their World Cup match.

Monday Links

On a cool cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the World Health Organization finds a new name for the monkeypox virus.

From FrontpageMag, a ban on a banner saying "all lives matter" is ruled unconstitutional.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, the new Twitter won't really be free until the coronavirus dissidents are.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Atlantic Council helps the oil-rich United Arab Emirates peddle its influence in Washington, D.C.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump gets played while hosting a dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Federalist, 12 Republican Senators ditch their constituents to support the wrongly named Respect for Marriage Act.

From American Thinker, why the midterm election results were not a surprise.

From CNS News, Dr. Fauci advises to keep getting boosters.

From Red Voice Media, according to congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee, words can break your bones.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, former Trump staffer Len Khodorkovsky, who is Jewish, lets CNN host Don Lemon have it when it comes to anti-Semitism.

From Canada Free Press, did Canadians know that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to stop the Truckers Freedom Convoy resulted from a suggestion by U.S. President Biden?

From TeleSUR, municipal elections in Cuba have a 68 percent voter turnout.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the out-of-touch U.K. Tories bow to the network BBC.

From Snouts in the Trough, a video shows "the true state of the Russian military".  (Due to the difficulty Russia is having in Ukraine, I have to wonder.  Is this the army that the U.S. trained to fight for 45 years during the Cold War, hoping that we would never have to?  Is this the enemy of whom we were so afraid?)

From the Evening Standard, a bomb is left in a hijacked vehicle outside a police station in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany decides to stop deportations to Iran due to the protests there.

From ReMix, Germany will send Patriot missile systems to Poland, but they will be operated by German troops.

From Russia Today, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticizes Pope Francis for alleging that Chechens, Buryats and members of other minorities in Russia are are acting more cruelly in Ukraine than Russians are.

From Free West Media, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto won't be "lectured" by the U.S. ambassador on foreign and energy policies.

From The Sofia Globe, more foreigners are attending universities in Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, ruins of an ancient Greek city are found in Turkey.

From Balkan Insight, Slovenians vote to restore editorial independence to Radio Television of Slovenia.

From ANSA, the death toll from the mudslides on the Italian island of Ischia rises to eight.

From Euractiv, France and Ireland confirm that the Celtic Interconnector, an underwater electricity able, will be operational by 2027.  (Considering that modern France takes up most of the ancient region of Gaul, whose inhabitants were Celts, as are the modern Irish, the name "Celtic" is quite appropriate.)

From EuroNews, Europol helps to take down a "super cartel" distributing she-don't-lie.

From Morocco World News, French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Morocco this coming January.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI announces plans to establish a national center for intangible cultural heritage.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Türkiye supports a deal to ship grain to Africa.

From Arutz Sheva, a secret Ukrainian military delegation reportedly visits Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, according to Petroleum Minister Tareq al-Molla, Egypt is ready to supply some natural gas to Europe.

From The New Arab, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani announces the recovery of over 180 billion dinars of "stolen" tax funds.

From IranWire, a Baha'i member jailed in Iran describes his ordeal in an open letter.

From India Today, a man travels 65 kilometers to a hospital in Kolkata, India to have a 150-year-old trident removed from his throat.

From the Deccan Herald, a group of Muslim clerics ban dancing, music and fireworks at weddings in the district of Dhanbad in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Cianjur, West Java, India experiences almost 300 aftershocks after its recent earthquake.

From The Mainichi, the "youngest victim" of the Hiroshima atomic bomb sets out some history with AI-colorized photos and 3D maps.

From Gatestone Institute, was a San Francisco election official not rehired for not being "diverse" enough?

From The Stream, what's missing from the conversation about abortion.

From The American Conservative, the questions which Special Prosecutor John Durham didn't ask.

From Space War, China moves to censor news about nationwide protests against its latest coronavirus lockdowns.

From The Daily Signal, 16 photos showing the protests in China.

From The Western Journal, a self-identified "gender fluid" official in the Biden administration is charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing luggage at an airport.  (I once learned about gender fluidity by reading a science fiction novel.)

From BizPac Review, after its latest "woke" box office bomb, Disney it told to "stop making everything sexual".

From The Daily Wire, the White House releases a "tepid" statement in response to the aforementioned protests in China.

From the Daily Caller, no, madam physicist, the universe is not gay.  (On the other hand, according to a certain quote, the universe is "queerer than we can imagine", although at the time the quote was made, the term "queer" might not yet have been a synonym for "homosexual" or "gay".)

From the New York Post, Republican officials in Cochise County, Arizona refuse to certify the 2022 election results due to claims that its voting machines weren't properly accredited.

From Newsmax, rapper Kanye West claims that the U.S. is run by "300 Zionists", which term he does not define.

From Newsmax, the Buffalo, New York supermarket mass shooter pleads guilty.

And from The Babylon Bee, a bystander to a mass shooting is arrested for allegedly misgendering the shooter.

Rainday Links

On a rainy Sunday after I drove back from Virginia, here are some things going on:

From National Review and the "believe it or not" department, Democrats give former President Trump credit for being right on some things.

From Townhall, an admission from Senator Chris Murphy (D-Con) throws cold water on President Biden's gun control agenda.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about President Reagan.

From the Washington Examiner, early voting in the Georgia senatorial runoff is off to a robust start.

From American Thinker, Biden allows for increased oil drilling - in Venezuela.

From Red Voice Media, according to Dr. Fauci, we're "certainly" still in the coronavirus pandemic.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to journalist Jonathan Swan, Republican "still fear" criticizing Trump.

From Canada Free Press, farm grain silos can be used as homes.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a four-legged illegal alien turns up on the British island of Jersey.

From Free West Media, pro-migrant black Italian parliamentcritter Aboubakar Soumahoro is suspended while being investigated for allegedly mistreating migrants.

From EuroNews, the Italian government declares a state of emergency due to mudslides on the island of Ischia.

From The North Africa Post, Equatorial Guinean President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo wins reelection for his sixth term.

From The New Arab, the Arab Monetary Fund reportedly signs a $1 billion agreement to support governmental reforms in Yemen.

From WION, a bank manager in Iran is fired for serving a woman who was not covering her head.

From Firstpost, a day after the Taliban claim to have killed nine "rebels", three of their victims turn out to be children.

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in October 2022.

From The Stream, "the spirit of gratitude".

From The Daily Signal, the incoming Republican-majority House will have a chance to drain the swamp by banning earmarks.

From The American Conservative, whether schoolmaster Thomas Achord is a closet racist and anti-Semite matters.

From The Western Journal, actress Alyssa Milano gets rid of her Tesla electric vehicle and replaces it with one made by a company with literal Nazi roots.

From BizPac Review, Christmas trees get more expensive while Santas become more scarce.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter Jim Clyburn (D-SC) explains why it's "necessary" for him to "stay in power".

From the Daily Caller, money isn't the only important factor in winning elections.

From the New York Post, Republicans slam Trump's judgment after he has dinner with rapper Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

From Breitbart, Border Patrol agents arrest two convicted and deported child sex offenders trying to reenter the U.S.

And from Newsmax, according to the Chief Twit, new user signups at Twitter are at all-time high.

Friday Fuss

On a mild but windy (here in my temporary undisclosed location) Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a strategic roadmap for investigations by the incoming Republican House majority.

From FrontpageMag, the Nigerian Christian black lives which don't matter.

From Townhall, even some members of the January 6th Inquisition Committee have had it with lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY).

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about "good" and "bad" American Jews.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump reportedly dines with a white nationalist.

From The Federalist, how newbies can embrace the season of Advent.

From American Thinker, what the Chief Twit gets wrong about free speech.

From CNS News, soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) sends a Thanksgiving letter to her fellow Democrats.

From Red Voice Media, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson reports on a woman who suffered complications from a coronavirus vaccine.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post buries the non-binary self-identification of the Colorado Springs nightclub shooting suspect.

From Canada Free Press, the rise of Canada's "banking queen".

From TeleSUR, the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army invite the U.S. to accompany their peace talks.

From TCW Defending Freedom, spare us sports fans from the sickening wokery.

From Snouts in the Trough, management madness in the U.K.'s National Health Service.

From Free West Media, the culinary hypocrisy at the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali.

From EuroNews, Germany will recognize the Holomodor in Soviet-era Ukraine as a "genocide".

From Euractiv, NATO and the E.U. plan to step up their non-lethal aid to Ukraine ahead of the coming winter.

From ReMix, a Jordanian accused of rape at a hospital in Paris has used 13 different identities and has disobeyed three orders to leave France.

From Balkan Insight, in a joint operation, Albanian and Montenegrin authorities seize 430 kilos of she-don't-lie.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Saudi Arabia agree to cooperate on tourism projects.

From The New Arab, Qataris attending World Cup matches wear pro-Palestinian armbands.

From OpIndia, a Deobandi Muslim cleric calls birthday celebrations "haram".

From Gatestone Institute, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood calls for worldwide jihadist terrorism.

From The Stream, neither you nor your local election precinct really owns their respective computers.

From The Daily Signal, cultural Marxism and how to fight back against it.

From Space War, the U.S. Space Force presents its forces to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

From The American Conservative, Protestant scholar Carl Trueman discusses Christianity for a post-Christian America.

From The Western Journal, senatorial challenger Herschel Walker (R-GA) exposes a "sick" vote made by incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock.

From BizPac Review, Twitter suspends a left-wing troll who threatened conservatives.

From The Daily Wire, according to the Chief Twit, releasing information on Twitter's "internal discussions" on First Son Hunter Biden's laptop are "necessary to restore public trust".

From the Daily Caller, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid agrees to debate Herschel Walker, but only on her terms.

From the New York Post, members of the Black Hebrew Israelites march in Brooklyn in support of NBA player Kyrie Irving and chant "we are the real Jews".  (Members of this group were involved in a confrontation with students from Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School who were waiting for a bus near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.)

From Breitbart, deportations of illegal aliens by the U.K. are down 55 percent from 2019.

From Newsmax, Black Friday arrives, but with fewer shoppers.

And from the Genesius Times, according to President Biden, African Americans should be allowed to shop on more days than just Black Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving

May all who read this blog have a happy Thanksgiving as you give thanks for all you have, including turkey and whatever else you're stuffing yourself with.  If you have some time, please watch a video from right-wing commentator Michael Knowles about the story of the Pilgrims, which is more complicated than both traditional notions and left-wing revisionism might say.

A Traveling Sasquatch's Dozen

Now that I've driven to an undisclosed location in Virginia to celebrate Thanksgiving with various family members, I present 12 things going on:

From BizPac Review, the suspected Colorado Springs nightclub shooter claims to be non-binary and asks to be addressed by the title "Mx.".

From The Daily Signal, some lessons from the people who made Thanksgiving possible.

From The American Conservative, the Colorado Springs shooting inspires blood libel on the left.

From ReMix, a man heckles American Soldiers and makes some unpleasant accusations against them in a Polish mall.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Palestinian gunmen storm into a hospital in Jenin, West Bank to seize the body of an Israeli teenager.

From The Stream, how former President Trump could help to unite the American people.

From NewsBusters, PBS blames Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and "right-wing influencers" for the Colorado Springs shooting.

From American Thinker, three men rob a bank in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, which is on Martha's Vineyard.

From The Federalist, in thanksgiving for everyone fighting against the trangendering of children.

From FrontpageMag, what the Republicans can do in the upcoming divided government.

From National Review, gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) insists that her race is not over.

And from the New York Post, an airplane carrying General Daniel Hokanson, the highest-ranking member of the National Guard, finds that its airspace is for the birds.

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, according to Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), his fellow Democrats are "not even close" to understanding the crisis at the southern border.

From Frontpage, how to abuse the atrocity in Colorado.

From Townhall, the latest left-wing offensive against the Supreme Court is very hypocritical.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to an ethics watchdog group, the Biden administration is not enforcing conflict-of-interest rules.

From the Washington Examiner, leftists go after the series The Santa Clause.

From The Federalist, the "Respect for Marriage Act" is an exercise in tyranny, and everybody knows it.

From American Thinker, President Biden tells a young boy that he can "go steal a pumpkin".

From CNS News, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) hints at a 2024 presidential campaign.

From Red Voice Media, if you run onto the field during a football game, you might get tackled, and not even by one of the players.  (The story comes via LifeZette, which is still running nothing by reprints from RVM.)

From NewsBusters, FBI Director Christopher Wray admits that 70 percent of post-Roe v. Wade violence is done against pro-lifers.

From Canada Free Press, coal is going on a rampage, except in the U.S.

From TeleSUR, Russia unveils a statue of the late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why some people deserve to be locked up.

From Free West Media, are drones a threat to large sporting events.

From EuroNews, Saudi Arabia pulls a huge upset by beating Argentina in the World Cup.

From Euractiv, the E.U. proposes a long-awaited cap on natural gas prices.

From ReMix, according to Law and Justice Party leader Jarosław Kaczyński, "Poland can't take in what is wrong and harmful from the West".

From Balkan Insight, under pressure from the West, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti postpones fines for Serbian-issued automotive license plates.

From The North Africa Post, Mali bans the activities of all French-based NGOs.

From The New Arab, more on Saudi Arabia's win over Argentina in the World Cup.

From The Times Of Israel, the 3,000th Palestinian child receives open-heart surgery in Israel.

From News(dot)com(sot)au, Qatar appears to be overreporting the number of fans at the World Cup.

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkey's strikes in Syria reportedly kill civilians.

From Gatestone Institute, Latin America becomes "China's backyard".

From The Stream, "home for the holidays".

From The Daily Signal, Republicans who supported Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) to be their leader expect retaliation from Senator minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

From Space War, Russia urges Turkey to show "restraint" in Syria.

From The American Conservative, the "Respect for Marriage Act" is an "imprudent compromise".

From The Western Journal, Mr. Bill gets some bad news as the Chief Twit unbans the one account of which he should be scared.

From BizPac Review, a pediatrician argues that a child can get transgender surgery and puberty blockers, but not a tattoo.

From The Daily Wire, the Supreme Court clears the way for Democrat congresscritters to obtain former President Trump's tax returns.

From the Daily Caller, in the next Indiana Jones movie, 80-year-old actor Harrison Ford will be "de-aged".  (Does this mean that he'll look like Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy?)

From New York Post, mistaken reports that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was planning to resign sends the companies stock higher.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock (D) and challenger Herschel Walker (R) are within the margin of error from each other.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Republican voters want their party to have new leadership in Congress.

And from CBS Sports, the football game between Virginia and Virginia Tech is canceled, as Virginia mourns its three slain players.

Monday Mania

On a sunny but (not quite as) cold (as recent days) Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, with Title 42 about to expire, the consequences of President Biden's unwillingness to protect the border will soon get worse.

From FrontpageMag, America is already dealing with fascism.

From Townhall, former President Trump hasn't started reusing his reinstated Twitter account, and there's a possible reason why.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden agrees to pay climate reparations, but the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter, China, could benefit from them.

From the Washington Examiner, Colorado's red flag law failed to stop the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting suspect from getting a gun.

From The Federalist, Bidenflation will make your Thanksgiving dinner 20 percent more expensive than last year.

From American Thinker, Senator Schumer (D-NY) tells "lies, damned lies" about immigration.

From CNS News, the Walt Disney Company's shakeup is guided by money, not ethics.

From Red Voice Media, according to congresscritter Brian Babin (R-TX), the Biden administration is illegally granting de facto amnesty to illegal aliens.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Twitter users accuse right-wing commentator Matt Walsh of wanting more LGBTQ shootings.

From Canada Free Press, the Democratic Party devolves into an anti-Trump cult attempting to destroy him.

From TeleSUR, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel lays a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soviet Soldier near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.  (In other words, one communist pays tribute to another.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, migrants are let in, working families are pushed out, and the "fat cats purr".

From Free West Media, the goalkeeper on France's soccer team explains why he will not wear a rainbow armband at the World Cup in Qatar.

From EuroNews, Belgium struggles to incinerate and thus dispose of its record amount of she-don't-lie seized this year.

From Euractiv, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denies plans for a Swiss-style agreement with the E.U.

From ReMix, several national soccer teams at the World Cup in Qatar back down from wearing pro-LGBT armbands.

From Balkan Insight, six people die due to floods in Serbia, Albania and Montenegro.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan authorities arrest a suspected ISIS supporter for allegedly being involved in a terror plot.

From The New Arab, according to Turkey's interior minister, rockets fired from Syria killed three civilians in Karkamis, Turkey.

From the Hindustan Times, Saudi Arabia executes 12 people in 10 days.

From The Jerusalem Post, Qatar bans cooked kosher foods and Jewish prayer during the World Cup.  (via OpIndia)

From Gatestone Institute, Qatar plays a double game by funding Islamists while pretending to be an ally of the U.S.

From The Stream, the wave that America needs.

From The Daily Signal, why the current lame duck Congress should not pass the omnibus spending bill.

From The American Conservative, against Thanksgiving being secular.

From The Western Journal, congressional candidate Josh Barnett (R-AZ) claims that voting machines were not approved for use.

From BizPac Review, a man causes outrage by videoing himself getting relief on Hawaii's Mauna Kea and then giving the one-finger salute.

From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration tells applicants that they are approved for student loan "forgiveness" even while the program is still moving through the federal court system.

From the Daily Caller, according to former Speaker New Gingrich (R-GA), would-be Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) would be right in removing congresscritters from committees, since soon-to-be-former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) set the precedent.

From the New York Post, you can stay in hip-hop mogul DJ Khaleed's shoe closes for $11 per night.

From Breitbart, Republican state treasurers plan a strategy against ESG scores.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account on Twitter is reinstated.

And from The Babylon Bee, a turkey's presidential pardon is rescinded after photos show that it was at the Capitol on January 6th.

Sunday Links

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

From National Review, when former President Trump attacks.

From Townhall, happy 80th birthday, President Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the alleged racism of white women.

From the Washington Examiner, veterans of the Trump White House and his campaigns are hesitant to reenlist for 2024.

From American Thinker, on Twitter, he's baaaack!

From Red Voice Media, illegal aliens keep streaming through Eagle Pass, Texas.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the Chief Twit outlines the new policy on Twitter.

From Canada Free Press, a message for "conservatives" who sit out elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "the biggest public policy disaster in a lifetime".

From Firstpost, Qatar invites Islamist preacher and Indian fugitive Zakir Naik to preach at the World Cup.

From Business Today, a political affairs expert claims that Qatar bribed eight Ecuadorian soccer players to lose their World Cup opener against Qatar.

From Gatestone Institute, are multiculturalism, globalism and open borders destroying Western national identities?

From Space War, Turkey launches an operation against outlawed Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq.

From The Western Journal, Biden gets an unpleasant birthday present.

From BizPac Review, journalist Geraldo Rivera's statement that Biden should pardon Trump causes both left and right to go nuts.

From The Daily Wire, the Arizona attorney general's office orders Maricopa County to issue a report on its handling of the midterm elections.

From the Daily Caller, will Nevada stop itself from adopting Alaska-style rank-choice voting?

From the New York Post, the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine gets shelled again.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) promises to keep congresscritters Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Eric Swalwell (D-Cal) and Adam Schiff (D-Cal) off of committees if he is elected Speaker.

From Newsmax, Iran reportedly agrees to help Russia build drones for its war in Ukraine.

And from the Genesius Times, Americans are advised to call their doctors if they have an election which is painful or which lasts more than four days.

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, my governor (who will soon be stepping down) is not sure if Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) wants to take on former President Trump.

From Townhall, some (more) inconvenient facts about electric cars.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how the media boosted senatorial candidate Tim Ryan (D-OH) and hurt other Democrats.

From the Washington Examiner, ESG scores are not an asset.

From The Federalist, Attorney General Merrick Garland moves to make the January 5th Inquisition Committee into a permanent prosecution.  (While I cross out "Inquisition", the article doesn't.)

From American Thinker, the Republicans win a House majority, if they can keep it.

From Red Voice Media, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre leaves herself stammering in response to a question about First Son Hunter Biden's business dealings.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, MSNBC show Velshi guest host Maria Teresa Kumar claims that DeSantis won reelection as governor because of gerrymandering.  (The gubernatorial race is decided by statewide popular vote and has nothing to do with any sort of legislative districting.)

From Canada Free Press, the American left keeps marching for cultural Marxism.

From TeleSUR, the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army will resume talks in Caracas, Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the British business Waitrose is watching you at the self-checkout.

From Snouts in the Trough, beware of getting put on the Christmas charity "suckers list".

From Free West Media, clashes break out in Thessaloniki, Greece on the anniversary of the 1973 uprising.

From EuroNews, new U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

From The North Africa Post, Egypt unveils a $40.7 million fund to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

From The New Arab, ISIS terrorists kill seven Egyptian troops in the city of East Qantara near the Suez Canal.

From RepublicWorld, the Taliban publicly flog a couple for having a pre-marital affair in the Afghan province of Bamyan.

From Gatestone Institute, inaction by the Biden administration legitimizes brutality by the Iranian government.

From The Stream, the talk about "Abrahamic religions" is an "ecumenical farce".

From Space War, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees an ICBM launch, along with his daughter.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) urges the 12 Senators who voted Respect for Marriage Act to protect the right to freely exercise religion.

From The American Conservative, "study the permanent things".

From The Western Journal, contests on Jeopardy! have no clue whom President Biden nominated to the Supreme Court.

From The Daily Wire, former Attorney General Bill Barr admits that the Deep State exists.

From CNN, First Granddaughter Naomi Biden gets married at the White House.  (via the Daily Caller)

From Breitbart, the AP falsely claims that the Republicans have no evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden spoke about the family's foreign business dealings.

From Newsmax, Ticketmaster apologizes to Taylor Swift's fans over the technical difficulties they experienced trying to buy tickets to her shows.

And from the New York Post, what the buck happened at a Johnstown, New York nursing home?

Friday Phenomena

On a cool cloudy Friday, after I gave myself a day off, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Biden administration asks the Supreme Court to allow his student loan "forgiveness" program to take effect.

From FrontpageMag, the Democrats hail congresscritter Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) as the greatest House Speaker ever.

From Townhall, ICE apprehends over 130 illegal alien sex offenders.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Republican Senators press social media companies to take steps to stop allowing users to organize illegal immigration and human smuggling schemes.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Lauren Boebert (R-CO) narrowly wins reelection.

From The Federalist, conservatives can no longer hide from liberals but need to fight back.  (That's figuratively "fight back", neither yours truly nor the article are advocating violence.)

From American Thinker, what's going on in Arizona?

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Jamie Raskin (D-MD), marijuana should be decriminalized at the federal level.  (The article's title wrongly uses the abbreviation "Sen." before his last name.  This is incorrect because my Maryland Senators are Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D).  I agree with Raskin because there is no constitutional authority for Congress banning or regulating drugs.  On the other hand, when alcohol was banned, a constitutional amendment was passed giving Congress that particular power.  If someone can explain why an amendment was required to give Congress the power to ban alcohol, but none is required to give them the power to ban other drugs, please leave a comment.)

From Red Voice Media, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson recounts soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) greatest hits in under two minutes.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, Pelosi is "the most important" speaker in history because she helped pass left-wing legislation such as Obamacare.

From Canada Free Press, political corruption in the U.S. leads to money laundering in Ukraine.

From TeleSUR, Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador emits a plume of steam extending 1,800 meters above its crater.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are "civil servants for a Davos government".

From Free West Media, Austrian FPÖ politicians meet with French politician Marine Le Pen.

From EuroNews, according to Swedish prosecutors, the Nord Stream pipeline explosions were caused by "gross sabotage".

From Euractiv, Russia warms to a prison exchange with the U.S. which would likely include basketball player Britney Griner.

From ReMix, according to Czech europarliamentcritter Tomáš Zdechovský, Afghans trying to cross the border between Slovakia and the Czech Republic are pretending to be Syrians.

From Balkan Insight, according to press freedom advocates, the media climate in Albania is getting worse.

From The North Africa Post, France suspends its development aid to Mali, which irks some NGOs.

From The New Arab, is the West ignoring Qatar's labor reforms?

From OpIndia, Taliban judges in Afghanistan are asked to implement sharia and its punishments.

From Israel Hayom, Israel offers "life-saving aid" to victims of a fire in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

From Gatestone Institute, the bond between Russia and Turkey will harm the West.

From The Stream, investigations ahead for the big guy and a big decision for Pelosi.

From Space War, Russia claims to be "fortifying" Crimea.

From The Daily Signal, the director of The Chosen shares the biggest challenges for its third season.

From The American Conservative, the freakout over the Chief Twit.

From The Western Journal, President Biden gets inconsistent on "no one" being "above the law".

From BizPac Review, North Korea fires its second intercontinental ballistic missile this month, to which South Korea and the U.S. respond.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit restores right-wing commentator Jordan Petersen to Twitter.

From the Daily Caller, according to a Border Patrol union leader, the media and the Department of Homeland Security are burying the story of an agent killed in a shootout with suspected smugglers.

From the New York Post, New York's Education Department tells high schools to get rid of their Native American mascots or risk losing state funding.

From Breitbart, Attorney General Merrick Garland reportedly plans to name a special counsel to investigate former President Trump, but not for First Son Hunter Biden.

From Newsmax, actress Charlize Theron claims that Afrikaans is dying, even though it's South Africa's third most commonly spoken language.

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, an 11-year-old girl in Australia is allergic to the sun.  (via the New York Post)