Tuesday Things For The End Of January

As the first month of 2023 comes to an end on a rainy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats do a 180-degree turn on Georgia.

From FrontpageMag, the black Memphis policemen charged in the death of a black motorist may have been affirmative action hires.

From Townhall, congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) recuses himself from his committee assignments.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to congresscritter Michael Waltz (R-FL), Chinese companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party are buying military academies in the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, El Salvador learns that incarcerating violent criminals actually works.

From The Federalist, a climate startup's plan to launch sulfur into the atmosphere shows that carbon indulgences are a scam.

From American Thinker, from where do illegal migrants in New York City get their entitlement mentality?

From CNS News, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) asks if a "declaration of war" or an "authorization for military force" is necessary to keep sending weapons to Ukraine.

From Red Voice Media, Dr. Naomi Wolf discusses the failed clinical trails of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines and their cardiovascular adverse effects.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, left-wing media outlets "drool" over the upcoming Super Bowl matchup between two black quarterbacks.

From Canada Free Press, the globalists wage war on humanity and try to nudge them.

From TeleSUR, the Peruvian Congress postpones its debate on holding early elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Novak Djokovic, the "prince of dissidents", thrashes coronavirus vaccine advocate Bill Gates.

From the NL Times, the Dutch Cabinet considers using Lelystad Airport and vacant church buildings to house asylum seekers and refugee.

From Dutch News, the Netherlands and France agree to take a tougher line on asylum.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany debates whether to toughen its deportation rules.

From the CPH Post, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard takes the first step to criminalize "stealthing" in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, Poland and Baltic states must work together as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.

From Radio Prague, China's foreign ministry reacts with anger after Czech President-elect Petr Fiala and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen have a phone conversation.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak scientists point out that animals other than whales and pandas need to be saved.

From Daily News Hungary, an automatic machine that refills spray deodorants, which was invented by two Hungarians, is installed in Budaörs, Hungary.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at SzeretlekMagyarorszag.)

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Ministry of the Interior official Bence Rétvári, the E.U. border agency Frontex should protect borders, not assist illegal migrants in crossing them.

From About Hungary, Hungary and Austria plan to maintain their strong cooperation in defense and other areas.

From Free West Media, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, "the current political system in Europe will collapse".

From ReMix, the Austrian party FPÖ nearly doubles its share in elections in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

From EuroNews, Russian forces creep toward Bakhmout, Ukraine.

From Euractiv, according to a study, renewables produced more of Europe's electricity than natural gas did in 2022.

From Balkan Insight, the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo holds "constructive" talks on a contested proposal to establish an Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities.

From The North Africa Post, the Renault factory in Oran, Algeria halts its operations after Algerian authorities ban imports of some parts from Spain.

From The New Arab, according to a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, over 1,400 Syrians have been killed by banned cluster bombs used by Russian and Syrian government forces.

From NBC News, the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan rises to at least 100.

From Gatestone Institute, is the Biden administration missing in action on the Russian-Iranian axis?

From The Stream, the world will indeed come to an end, but not just yet.

From The Daily Signal, the Supreme Court grants review on a case involving the religious rights of employees.

From The American Conservative, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has become the "scourge of wokeness".

From The Western Journal, noted billionaire Bill Gates squirms while being asked about his connection to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From BizPac Review, "beating the woke".

From The Daily Wire, basketball player and "wealth gap" advocate Stephen Curry is concerned about a low-income multifamily housing development being built near his $30 million-dollar mansion in Atherton, California.  (His father Dell Curry played for my alma mater Virginia Tech and then for five different NBA teams.)

From the Daily Caller, the mother of a raped and sex-trafficked teenager testifies to the Virginia state legislature as they consider a bill requiring schools to notify parents if a child identifies inconsistently with his or her biological sex.

From the New York Post, Buffalo Bills General Manager Brandon Beane reveals his one concern about quarterback Josh Allen.

From The Grio, Vice President Harris plans to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, Hollywood celebrities face legal action after promoting cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

From Newsmax, the aforementioned Governor DeSantis calls on Congress to investigate AT&T DirecTV's decision to drop Newsmax.  (But, but, it's a private company, we'll be told.)

And from WABC-TV and the "this place is for the birds" department, a pigeon thought to have been intentionally dyed pink is found in New York City's Madison Square Park.  (via the New York Post)

Monday Links

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

From National Review, dozens of illegal migrants refuse to leave the Watson Hotel in Manhattan and move to a new shelter in Brooklyn.

From FrontpageMag, the real difference between the classified document troves held by President Biden and former President Trump.

From Townhall, Utah bans irreversible transgender medical treatment for minors.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administrations sends $1.6 million to a Chinese green energy company despite objections from Senators.

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) goes after media bias and double standards.

From The Federalist, emboldening the Mexican drug cartels is not humane.

From American Thinker, are the coronavirus yarns starting to slowly unravel?

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Mike Turner (R), the ability of Congress to subpoena classified material "is absolute".

From NewsBusters, CNN's Don Lemon is obsessed with the color of Super Bowl quarterbacks.

From Canada Free Press, can Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre save Canada from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's WEF world?

From CBC News, what you need to know about the decriminalization of certain illicit drugs on the Canadian province of British Columbia.

From Global News, the Quebec provincial government calls for the resignation of the Canadian federal government's anti-Islamophobia representative.

From CTV News, more on British Columbia's decriminalization of small amounts of certain drugs.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian president Lula da Silva orders a halt to illegal mining in lands inhabited by the Yanomami Indians.

From TCW Defending Freedom, extreme trans activists are indeed terrorists.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K. government about to hand control of U.K. citizens' lives to the World Health Organization?

From the Express, London Mayor Sadiq Khan makes a dig at Brexit as he insists that he can ignore residents who oppose his plan to expand the city's Ultra Low Emission Zone.

From the Evening Standard, according to a poll, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's popularity is sinking.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Sunak fires Conservative Party chairperson Nadhim Zahawi.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ireland is a "long way from a Sinn Féin government".  (Varadkar has moved back into the office of Taoiseach, which is equivalent to Prime Minister, after serving as Tánaiste.  This means that he and current Tánaiste Micheál Martin have effectively traded places.  Varadkar is the leader of the Fine Gael party.)

From the Irish Examiner, salmonella has been detected in eight poultry flocks in Ireland.

From VRT NWS, over 12,000 forged were intercepted in Belgium in 2022.

From The Brussels Times, since 2017, two illegal drug operations have been detected and dismantled in Belgium for every month.  (If you read French, read the story at SudInfo.)

From Free West Media, Treasury Secretary Janet Yelen warns that the U.S. is heading for a "financial catastrophe".

From EuroNews, what has Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni done during her first 100 days in office?

From Euractiv, southeastern Europe needs to scale up its energy storage capacity.

From ReMix, immigration into France hits new records, and that might be intentional.

From Balkan Insight, Slovenian authorities arrest two Argentine citizens for allegedly spying for Russia.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government reiterates its support for U.N. efforts to find a solution to the crisis in Libya.

From The New Arab, dozens of Israelis break into the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

From the Orthodox Times, Turkish President Erdoğan makes a speech provocative by celebrating the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

From OpIndia, while their fellow citizens fight over food, Islamists march in Lahore, Pakistan to protest the burning of a Koran in Sweden.

From Reuters, a suicide bomber kills 59 people, including 27 police officials, at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.

From Gatestone Institute, environmentalism impoverishes and kills people.

From The Stream, abortion infiltrates college campuses, with help from Democrat lawmakers.

From The Daily Signal, pro-lifer Mark Houck is acquitted of FACE Act charges.

From The American Conservative, more comparison of the Trump and Biden classified documents cases.

From The Western Journal, the Biden administration quietly retires a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official.

From BizPac Review, New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) requires all city employees to undergo Critical Race(ist) Theory training.

From The Daily Wire, according to Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), thousands of federal employees may have wrongfully gotten coronavirus-related bailouts by claiming to be unemployed.

From the Daily Caller, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission, thieves still thousands of dollar from the campaigns of congresscritters Neal Dunn (R-FL) and Russell Fry (R-SC).

From the New York Post, pickleball is out and padel is in.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Trump leads his potential Republican challengers by double digits in South Carolina.

From Newsmax, the NFL increases its salary cap.

And from The Babylon Bee, a 50-something rookie transwoman chooses the one sport in which ciswomen actually have an advantage.

Sunday Links

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

From National Review, a top advisor to President Biden insists that the election was stolen - in 2016.

From Townhall, Christians have a duty to stand up for life.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of Vivek Ramaswamy's book Nation of Victims.

From the Washington Examiner, three former Twitter employees will testify before the House Oversight Committee about First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

From American Thinker, blame America's racial division on a 1964 Supreme Court decision.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) educates Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd about FBI targeting parents who attend school board meetings.

From Canada Free Press, as powerful as Google is, it couldn't hide Pfizer's shenanigans.

From TeleSUR, according to a poll, most Peruvians favor holding elections this year.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Net Zero is a "never-ending nightmare".

From Free West Media, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock "accidentally" declares war on Russia and riles Africa.

From EuroNews, is the electoral defeat of soon-to-be-former President Andrej Babiš the end of populism in the Czech Republic?

From The North Africa Post, three more African countries sign the "Tangier Appeal" to expel the "pseudo-SADR" from the African Union.

From The New Arab, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Egypt after an eruption of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

From Jewish News Syndicate, CNN runs a cartoon depicting a Passover Seder meal surrounded by a sea of blood.

From NDTV, authorities in Rawalpindi, Pakistan demolish the houses of Hindus, Christians, and Shia Muslims.

From Gatestone Institute, is President Putin destroying Russia?

From The Stream, could this be the main cause of the rash of mass shootings?

From The American Conservative, is anyone telling their fellow Americans about the war in Ukraine?

From BizPac Review, Finland's transgender skater is called a "cow on ice".

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claims that she "wasn't aware" of age-old antisemitic stereotypes.

From the New York Post, the New York City Council is set to rename a street in Harlem after black separatist Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad.

From Breitbart, Israel's security cabinet approves measures to expedite civilian gun licenses in response to terror attacks in Jerusalem.

From Newsmax, a military factory near Isfahan, Iran is hit by a drone attack.

From The Hill, House Intelligence Committee members look for a "reset" without congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) and former congresscritter Devin Nunes (R-Cal).  (via Newsmax)

And from WFAA, Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Stetson Bennett is arrested in Dallas for public intoxication.  (via Breitbart)

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, once again, we have "mostly peaceful protests".

From Townhall, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has reportedly smuggled about 100,000 illegal migrants into the U.S. through a "hidden parole pathway".

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Alzheimer's Association hides its new partnership with a group that lobbies for assisted suicide.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump starts his 2024 campaign by looking back at his time in the White House.

From The Federalist, recently released video and audio of the attack on Paul Pelosi at his house raises many questions.

From American Thinker, the Biden family loves to live large.

From NewsBusters, the media lovefest at the start of former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

From Canada Free Press, the two-tiered justice system under which some people are untouchable.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some things about which the MSM might not have told you.

From Free West Media, the Hungarian opposition allegedly received more illegal funds from the U.S. during the last parliamentary election than previously thought.

From EuroNews, former General Petr Pavel is elected as the Czech Republic's new president.

From ReMix, more on Petr Pavel being elected the new Czech president.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisia's parliamentary elections are haunted by low turnout and an economic crisis.

From The New Arab, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims responsibility for a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem in which seven people were killed.  (ABC News has more on the story.)

From RAIR Foundation USA, the Swedish man who burned a Koran promises to keep doing so.

From OpIndia, Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar promises that Allah will bring prosperity and development back to Pakistan.

From Sky News, a 13-year-old boy allegedly shoots two men in Jerusalem, hours after the attack near a synagogue.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration totally disregards the nuclear threat from Iran and the country's protesters.

From The Stream, as a man sings a worship song to his prematurely-born son, the baby lifts his hand during the word "hallelujah", and other stories.

From The American Conservative, what is called "Buchananism" is really just common sense and American sensibility.

From BizPac Review, the man who allegedly attacked the aforementioned Paul Pelosi apologizes - for not attacking more people.

From the Daily Caller, a group which received millions of "Zuck Bucks" in 2020 is at it again.

From the New York Post, the U.N. condemns Russia for forcing Ukrainian children into adoption and making them Russian citizens.

From Breitbart, since the bombing of a train in Madrid, Spain has convicted over 200 terrorists.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Mundo.)

From Newsmax, two Shelby County sheriff's deputies are relieved from duty while their roles in the death of motorist Tyre Nichols, for which five Memphis cops are charged with murder, are investigated.

And from Fox Weather, a surface feature on Mars looks like a bear....or maybe a wolf....or maybe a Doge Coin.  (via the New York Post)

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) mobilizes National Guard troops in response to left-wing violence.

From FrontpageMag, charging black policemen in the death of a black motorist is racist.

From Townhall, in "an inconvenient truth for environmentalists", bird choppers also endanger whales.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how former President Trump's 2024 campaign bounced back.

From the Washington Examiner, San Francisco police release body camera footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi.

From The Federalist, climate radicals want to put bird choppers in your back yard, but not their own.

From American Thinker, fentanyl tells its own story.

From CNS News, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) points out that the Constitution does not want D.C. to be a state.  (It should be painfully obvious that if most residents of Washington, D.C. voted for Republicans, the Democrats would vehemently oppose any attempt to make D.C. into a state.)

From NewsBusters, body camera footage of the aforementioned attack on Paul Pelosi vindicates a reporter suspended by NBC.

From Canada Free Press, federal government agencies don't agree about what constitutes a federal government program.

From TeleSUR, Colombian President Gustavo Petro will promote pension, labor and health reforms.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon's "Gender Recognition Reform" bill grubby politics or an act of genuine principle?

From Snouts in the Trough, do have one or two spare rooms to house incoming migrants?

From Free West Media, the World Health Organization introduces a global patient file.

From EuroNews, the E.U. becomes more worried about the increase in asylum requests by migrants from safe countries.

From Euractiv, according to a judge, a Spanish man arrested for allegedly sending letter bombs wanted to end Spain's support for Ukraine.

From ReMix, Germany starts sending Patriot missiles to Poland.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian police find more surveillance cameras illegally erected by criminals.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Qatar negotiate on a free trade agreement.

From The New Arab, the Syrian Democratic Forces arrest about 200 suspected ISIS terrorists in a crackdown against sleeper cells.

From Gatestone Institute, a courageous Pakistani Christian woman stands up to blasphemy accusers.

From The Straits Times, the Singaporean retailer Mustafa's will open its first store in Malaysia.

From Tempo(dot)Co, according to Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani, incentives for electric vehicle ownership at the government level are being finalized.

From Free Malaysia Today, about 100 people march toward the Swedish embassy in Malaysia to protest the Swedish government's inaction after a Swedish politician burns a Koran.

From Borneo Post, the Malaysia state of Sarawak's Forestry Department plans to use drones to detect illegal activities in the state's denser forest regions.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese hospitals perform 19,435 surgeries during the seven-day Tet holiday.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-win appoints former Vice President Chen Chein-jen to be the Taiwan's next prime minister.

From The Korea Herald, South Korea's public pension reserve is estimated to run out in 2055, two years than previously estimated.

From The Mainichi, Japan comes closer to approving an abortion pill.

From The Stream, to remember the Holocaust, work to prevent the next one from happening.

From The Daily Signal, it's time to reign in the Federal Reserve for punishing Americans for the problems it created.

From The American Conservative, President Biden proposes that the federal government takes over rental markets.

From The Western Journal, author J.K. Rowling infuriates transgenders with a simple piece of advice.

From BizPac Review, The New York Times gets upset when a judge throws the hammer at two former attorneys convicted of torching a New York city police car.

From the Daily Caller, Ronna McDaniel wins her fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee.

From Breitbart, the Treasury Department denies the House Oversight Committee's request to disclose 150 suspicious reports about Biden business transactions.

From Newsmax, charges are dropped against the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed in the Capitol riot, who was arrested for allegedly blocking traffic near the Capitol.

And from the New York Post, the Toms River, New Jersey home where the movie Amityville Horror was filmed sells for $1.46 million.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For Thursday

On a cool cloudy Thursday, here are just a few things going on:

From National Review, has Florida created "Jim Crow 3.0"?

From FrontpageMag, former President Trump was right on border security.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, who worked under then-President Obama, admits that the "immigration problem" is bigger now than it was on his watch.

From The Federalist, Colorado again condemns Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips for being a devout Christian.

From American Thinker, do eggs and weather cause blood clots?

From NewsBusters, Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins points out that the pro-life movement needs free speech.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why "net zero" carbon dioxide emissions is nonsensical.

From ReMix, a Palestinian asylum seeker is arrested after allegedly stabbing two people to death on train traveling from Kiel to Hamburg in Germany.

From Jewish News Syndicate, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) places a Palestinian flag in her office and accuses Israel of being an "apartheid" state.

From RAIR Foundation USA, a Moroccan migrant allegedly stabs a worker to death at one church and injures a priest at another church in Algeciras, Spain.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at Los Replicantes.)

From KXXV, according to a prosecution statement, a man on trial in New York for killing eight riders on a bike path was happy and proud afterwards when he afterwards met with FBI agents.

And from Sky News, a Spanish woman originally from California, who recently became the world's oldest person, advises to stay away from "toxic people".

Wednesday Whatnot

On a cold rainy Wednesday, with some wintry mix, here are some things going on:

From National Review, is new congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) acting as a lightning rod for his fellow House Republicans?

From FrontpageMag, the FBI makes its first arrests in relation to attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers.

From Townhall, a Connecticut Democrat state lawmaker proposes a bill to allow illegal aliens to vote.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Texas politician Bob O'Rourke (D) is holding on to $100,000 of tainted cash from disgraced crypto kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried.

From the Washington Examiner, Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) weigh in on classified documents as representatives of former Presidents Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger, and Obama claim that their documents have been given to the National Archives.

From The Federalist, according to congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY), ridding the federal government of corruption is a top priority for House Republicans.

From American Thinker, could Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have a reason for defending President Biden?

From CNS News, there have reportedly been 278 attacks on Catholic churches since May 2020.

From NewsBusters, Big Tech blocked information over 275 million times in 2022.

From Canada Free Press, the truth about government panic over the coronavirus is finally laid bare.

From TeleSUR, Colombia refuses to send old Russian weapons to Ukraine.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. puts out a "welcome mat for a multiple murderer".

From Snouts in the Trough, is U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak just another multicultural self-enricher?

From Free West Media, will the German government's "Bundeswehr special fund" be increased to €300 billion?  (My spellchecker has no problem with the German word Bundeswehr.)

From EuroNews, human rights groups claim that the Poland-Belarus border is littered with the bodies of migrants.  (Were any trampled by the Białowieża bison?)

From Euractiv, freelance interpreters in Belgium unionize to get better pay and working conditions.

From ReMix, Germany and the U.S. decide to send tanks to Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia and Herzegovina finally completes the formation of a national government.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Saudi Arabia sign a deal to terrorism and its financing.

From The New Arab, at least eight people are killed and 58 others go missing after a migrant boat capsizes off the Libyan coast.

From Gatestone Institute, a comparison of the free world and the World Economic Forum.

From Dawn, a district court in Islamabad, Pakistan gives police permission to detain politician Fawad Chaudhry for two days.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani President Dr. Arif Alvi approves the creation of the "Pakistan Diamond Jubilee Award 2022".

From Pakistan Today, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan regards the detention of Fawad Chaudhry as "a part of a plan to rig elections".

From The Hans India, the railway station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India receives the "Green Railway Station Certification".  (My spellchecker has no problem with the name "Visakhapatnam".)

From the Hindustan Times, Indian President Droupadi Murmu gives a speech on the eve of India's Republic Day.  (My spellchecker objects to both her first and last names.  Looks like places are OK, but people are not.)

From ANI, India's National Investigation Agency arrests a man who allegedly fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Punjab Police Intelligence HQ in the city of Mohali.

From India Today, police in Ahmedabad, India detain four people in connection with a bomb threat ahead of Republic Day events.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offers to correct her government's course if opposition parties can point out any failure.  (Unlike with the aforementioned Indian president, my spellchecker has no problem with the PM's names.)

From New Age, the Bangladeshi government bans the suckermouth catfish.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's Constitutional Council meets for the first time.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan police have yet to receive a statement from former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa regarding money found at his house despite a court order that he gives one.  (Well, at least nobody found any classified documents.)

From Raajje, the Maldive Islands appoints a new high commissioner to Sri Lanka.

From The Stream, Biden gets a "new brain".

From The Daily Signal, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduces a bill prohibiting legislators and their spouses from using privileged information to trade stocks, and names it after former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).

From The American Conservative, right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan announces that he is retiring from writing his syndicated column.

From The Western Journal, Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) figuratively "annihilates" a reporter who questioned his decision to remove congresscritters Adam Schiff (D-Cal) and Eric Swalwell (D-Cal) from the House Intelligence Committee.

From BizPac Review, the National Archives clams up as its disparate treatment of President Biden and former President Trump becomes obvious.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduces a bill to prevent non-citizens from voting in local elections in Washington, D.C.

From the Daily Caller, congressional Republicans led by Senator James Lankford (R-OK) urge the Department of Justice to enforce the law against mail-order abortion drugs.

From the New York Post, countries which foodies visit for their cuisine.

From Breitbart, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) considers her options after a state judge strikes down the state's coronavirus vaccination rule for healthcare workers.

From Newsmax, the long-awaited expansion of New York City's Grand Central Terminal to serve Long Island Rail Road trains opens.

And from the Genesius Times, Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin is spotted on the front lines in Ukraine.

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, classified documents are found at the home of former Vice President Pence in Indiana.

From FrontpageMag, the emerging American politburo.

From Townhall, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has some big news for Fox News host Tucker Carlson about ProFa.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden-related think tank and the University of Pennsylvania which housed classified documents also promoted closer engagement with China.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden's pick for the next White House chief of staff reportedly met with his son Hunter at least three times in 2016.

From The Federalist, Biden and the FDA push chemical abortion pills that endanger women.

From American Thinker, how the U.S. is becoming more like a Muslim country, without even becoming more Muslim.

From CNS News, according to a poll, almost 900 million people wanted to migrate in 2021.

From Red Voice Media, two more verdicts in the Capitol riot come out today.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN host Don Lemon wrongly claims that Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has forbidden Florida's schools from teaching about slavery.

From Canada Free Press, the U.S. Postal Service denies a religious accommodation for one of its workers.

From TeleSUR, Bolivian President Luis Arce shows his dismay at the political crisis in Peru.

From TCW Defending Freedom, for the first time since records were started in 1845, over 50 percent of live births in England and Wales during 2021 were out of wedlock.

From Free West Media, the German government wants to incinerate 800 million expired coronavirus face masks.

From EuroNews, no, a Ukrainian soldier did not pose next to the dead body of a Russian soldier.

From Euractiv, Finland could lose its patience waiting for Sweden to join NATO.

From ReMix, former Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski provokes outrage by claiming that Poland considered partitioning Ukraine after Russia started its invasion.  (In its history, Poland has been partitioned four times, most recently between Germany and the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, although there are different opinions as to what constituted the "fourth partition of Poland".)

From Balkan Insight, drug smuggling networks exploit ports in the Balkans, which requires a regional response.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian President Tebboune manipulates economic statistics.

From Turkish Minute, two people are dead and two others injured in a fire that broke out in an Armenian church in İstanbul, Turkey.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan tells the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs that Azerbaijan needs to understand that there are international rules that everyone should obey.

From North Press Agency, the Syrian Democratic Forces captures three ISIS terrorists near Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah meet amid tensions over the Temple Mount.

From YNetNews, Israeli citizens might soon be able to visit the Saudi Arabian (and formerly Egyptian) islands of Tiran and Sanafir, in the Red Sea.

From The New Arab, more on the meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and King Abdullah.

From Egypt Today, the ship known as the "world's largest floating library" arrives at the Suez Canal in Egypt.

From IranWire, an Iranian soccer player is kicked off his team after criticizing the Iranian government's violent response to nationwide protests.

From Iran International, according to new data, more people died during protests in Iran than what was previously estimated.

From Hasht e Subh, the Afghanistan Journalists Center calls for the release of journalists from Taliban custody.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From the Afghanistan Times, Afghanistan extends its electricity supply agreement with Turkmenistan.

From Gatestone Institute, the line between civil and criminal wrongdoing is getting blurred.

From The Stream, a writer explains why she might again eat "(a few)" peanut M&Ms.

From The Daily Signal, the U.K.'s "single-payer" health program is cratering, which should be a wake-up call for U.S. liberals.

From The American Conservative, some credit for sanity about Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, according to an opinion column by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R), things are getting insane at the FBI.

From BizPac Review, as with the first mass shooting in California, an elderly Asian man is the suspect in the second.

From The Daily Wire, the woke cartoon show Velma makes history for its bad reviews.

From the Daily Caller, predictions of the 2024 elections results are bad news for Democrats.  (Wasn't the same thing said about the 2022 elections?)

From Breitbart, former President Trump will visit New Hampshire and South Carolina as he starts laying the groundwork for his 2024 campaign.

From Newsmax, the aforementioned Florida Governor DeSantis explains why he rejected an Advanced Placement course on African American studies.

And from the New York Post, just before you go to bed, say "cheese".

Monday Mania

As the cool cloudy weather continues on a Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Vice President Harris makes a glaring omission while quoting the Declaration of Independence.

From FrontpageMag, the real threat from ProFa and Black Criminal Lives Matter is "riot tourism".

From Townhall, where things stand in the race for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to filings, the largest left-wing non-profits sent $39 million to China in 2021.

From the Washington Examiner, the grifting and selective outrage of former congresscritter Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

From The Federalist, how the "Twitter Files" undermine the report from the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From American Thinker, bird choppers have had some bad days.

From CNS News, President Biden's storage of classified documents is "just unacceptable", says Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL).

From Red Voice Media, naysayers owe the congressional Freedom Caucus an apology.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, TV host Whoopi Goldberg claims that Biden declassified all the documents in his house.  (As I might have said before, I liked her better as Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation.)

From Canada Free Press, will Biden's presidency come to an end due to his hypocrisy about classified documents?

From TeleSUR, Peruvian unions refuse to stop protesting against President Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the BBC ignores the rally on its doorstep made on behalf of vaccine-injured people.

From Snouts in the Trough, another "scorcher" from journalist Neil Oliver.

From Free West Media, about 150,000 students demonstrate in Paris against pension reform.

From EuroNews, a picture showing an incorrect map of Poland on a Polish TV channel was a photoshop.  (If you read Polish, read the story at TVP1.)

From Euractiv, how E.U. countries use firewood to inflate their renewable energy statistics.

From ReMix, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, "Ukraine and Europe will win this war", with or without help from Germany.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a former terrorist who led a cell in Verviers, Belgium becomes a youth soccer coach in Liège, Belgium.  (If you read French, read the story at SudInfo and FDeSouche.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo police confirm shooting at a car driven by Serbs, claiming that it had struck a police vehicle.

From Morocco World News, former Arizona state Attorney General Mark Brnovich labels the Polisario Front as a terror group.

From The North Africa Post, the Algerian government dissolves the human rights group LADDH.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan announces that he will call for elections on March 10th, to be scheduled for May 14th.

From Rûdaw, Turkish-backed fighters reportedly cut olive trees in the Syrian region of Afrin.

From Armenpress, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo expresses her support of the people of Artsakh in a phone conversation with the region's President Arayik Harutyunyan.  (Artsakh, a.k.a. Nagorno-Karabakh, is a region in Azerbaijan which has an ethnic Armenian majority population.)

From In-Cyprus, Russians demonstrate against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Limassol, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, two members of the Assad militia commit suicide.

From Arutz Sheva, according to (former and current) Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli government will not allow illegal construction by either Israelis or Arabs.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel and the U.S. start massive joint war games, in an "apparent message to Iran".

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt extends its high-speed electric train from Giza to Aswan to the ancient site of Abu Simbel.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Africa ministers plan to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss economic and social development.

From the Saudi Gazette, residents of Mecca, Saudi Arabia can now rent out their housing units to Hajj pilgrims.

From The New Arab, the Lebanese judge who was investigating the 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon resumes the investigation after a 13-month hiatus.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iran charges 16 people, including some teenagers with planning demonstrations and spying, amid reports of forced confessions.

From Khaama Press, acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi calls on Uzbekistan to restore the electricity sent to Afghanistan under an agreement signed by the two countries.

From RAIR Foundation USA, Turkey rejects Sweden's bid for NATO membership unless it submits to Islamic blasphemy laws.

From Gatestone Institute, the latest from Iran.

From The Stream, the U.S. was founded by conspiracy realists.

From The Daily Signal, the National Archives goes Sergeant Schultz on Biden's classified documents.

From The American Conservative, what was the tipping point for wokeness?

From The Western Journal, left-wingers don't like Biden's choice for the new White House chief of staff.

From BizPac Review, Biden's immigration disaster is leading border cities to the brink of collapse.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter Michael McCaul (R-TX) points out that Watergate started out as a small burglary.

From the Daily Caller, a former BFI agent is charged with illegally working for a Russian oligarch.

From the New York Post, four illegal migrants who were bussed from Texas to New York City are arrested for allegedly shoplifting from a Macy's store on Long Island.

From Newsmax, the Peruvian government shuts down the ancient site of Machu Picchu and evacuates tourists after left-wing rioters shut down highways and burn government buildings.

And from The Babylon Bee, a box containing classified documents is found on a Walmart clearing shelf.

Rainday Links

On a rainy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a local reporter in Atlanta, Georgia calls a protest "largely peaceful", despite its violence, arson and six arrests.

From Townhall, President Biden's new White House chief of staff will reportedly be his former coronavirus czar.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about a cruise during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter Mike Turner (R-OH), the probe into Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents "looks more like a cover-up than an investigation".

From American Thinker, wasn't the overturning of Roe v. Wade supposed to cause women to "die"?

From NewsBusters, co-moderator Martha Raddatz on ABC's This Week slams Biden on his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

From Canada Free Press, if guys want to track their periods, there's an app for that.

From TeleSUR, human rights organizations demand the release of students detained in Lima, Peru.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Church of England's "ham-fisted" liturgical blessing is actually an affront to same-sex couples.

From Free West Media, according to Swiss researchers, despite sanctions and talk of a "vast exodus", many Western businesses are still operating in Russia.

From EuroNews, France and Germany renew their strained alliance.

From ReMix, in response to a wave of shootings and bombings, Sweden redeploys 100 police officers to the capital city of Stockholm.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco condemns the burning of a copy of the Koran in Stockholm, Sweden.  (But will they also condemn the aforementioned wave of shootings and bombings?)

From The New Arab, 10 people are killed when a building collapses in Aleppo, Syria.

From the Daily Mail, according to filmmaker Andrew Drury, who met ISIS bride Shamina Begum, "she has no remorse".

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in December 2022, notably in Nigeria, Armenia and Syria.

From The Stream, the weird new era of debate about abortion.

From The American Conservative, no tank you.

From The Western Journal, Silk of "Diamond and Silk" recounts Diamond's final moments.

From BizPac Review, a belligerent leftist is mocked as police escort her from an airplane.

From The Daily Wire, then-Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) reportedly had priests perform an "exorcism" on her house after her husband Paul was attacked by an alleged intruder.

From the Daily Caller, here's how long it will take for the U.S. to replace its weapons stocks that were sent to Ukraine.

From the New York Post, police surround a van tied to the suspect in a mass shooting at dance club in Torrance, California.

From Breitbart, the Burmese army burns a Catholic church and a nearby convent in the village of Chan Thar.

From Newsmax, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's (D) bid for a second term is in question due to concerns about rising crime.

And from the Post Millennial, the son of congresscritter Katherine M. Clark (D-MA) is reportedly arrested during a ProFa riot in Boston.

Saturday Links

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

From National Review, Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) support an investigation into President Biden's handling of classified documents.

From Townhall, an Illinois judge issues a temporary restraining order on the state's new law banning many assault weapons.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a documentary about Al Sharpton.

From the Washington Examiner, White House chief of staff Ron Klain is reportedly planning to resign.

From American Thinker, a disturbing precedent from history behind today's coronavirus shots.

From NewsBusters, just as recently overturned Roe v. Wade is 50 years old, so is the media's abortion zealotry.

From Canada Free Press, the 2023 meeting of the WEF in Davos, Switzerland will be called "progressive".

From TeleSUR, President Lula da Silva visits Yanomami in the Brazilian state of Roraima.  (I learned about the Yanomamo as part of a cultural anthropology course at Virginia Tech.  Much of the material for that segment was based on the book Yanomamo: The Fierce People by Napoleon Chagnon.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, the scam involving the R-word.

From Free West Media and the hypocrisy department, the E.U.'s new carbon dioxide tax will not apply to large yachts owned by very wealthy Europeans.

From EuroNews, the Drina River in Bosnia and Herzegovina becomes a floating garbage dump.

From The North Africa Post, a multidimensional crisis looms in Tunisia.

From The New Arab, Iraq calls on Turkish authorities to conduct an "urgent investigation" into the killing of five Iraqi Kurds, who were members of one family, in Mardin, Turkey.

From BBC News, security forces in Burkina Faso rescue 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by alleged jihadists.

From OpIndia, at least 70 students in the Indian state of Kerala are hospitalized for food poisoning after eating Arabic food.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. has a double standard on human rights.

From The Stream, reflections on this year's March for Life, and on the post-Roe generation.

From The American Conservative, incompetence at the Supreme Court.

From BizPac Review, pictures of a box marked "important docs" are found on Hunter Biden's laptop.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit claims to have had "major side effects" from his second coronavirus booster shot.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Homeland Security wants to pay a non-governmental group to write the rules for tracking illegal aliens inside the U.S.

From Breitbart, according to new polling, most Americans believe that Congress should repeal funding for the new 87,000 IRS agents.

From Newsmax, five Memphis police offers involved in the traffic stop death of a black man have been fired.

And from the New York Post, at their hotel in Philadelphia, the New York Giants have some technical difficulties.