Saturday Stories

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

From National Review, does President Biden know what the Department of Energy is doing?

From Townhall, the U.S. military shoots down the Chinese balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden's weakness on the Chinese balloon assures that China will be aggressive.  (The article's writer is former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.)

From the Washington Examiner, the six Republicans most likely to challenge former President Trump for their party's presidential nomination in 2024.

From The Federalist, a mother turns her holistic life into an educational comedy.

From American Thinker, Biden fails to protect the U.S. from either balloons or illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, columnist Jonathan Capeheart of The Washington Post implies that his mother picked cotton....in New Jersey.  (He claimed that his generation was the first in his family to not pick cotton.  I can point out that Papa Bigfoot was in the first generation of my family to not work in or for a coal mine, thus implying that his father did such work.  Since he was originally from Pennsylvania, at least my claim makes sense geographically.)

From Canada Free Press, "what we're up against".

From TeleSUR, Peruvian social organizations and indigenous peoples call for a national strike against President Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some stories that you might have missed.

From Snouts in the Trough, the latest power-grab by globalists.

From Free West Media, students at the Free University of Berlin are told to not call police when sexually harassed by migrants.

From EuroNews, a look at Monaco's political system.

From The North Africa Post, Rwanda and the Chinese company Alibaba agree to set up the first Electronic World Trade Platform hub in Africa.

From The New Arab, 14 people are killed by landmines in Yemen in 48 hours.

From Gulf News, an imam in Saudi Arabia is sentenced to five years in prison for fraud.

From TimesNow, a banned PFI worker makes a video in which he vows to replace the Rama temple in Ayodhya, India with a mosque.  (via OpIndia)

From RepublicWorld, Taliban officials beat and arrest a professor who tares his degrees on TV in to protest Afghanistan's ban on women attending universities.

From Gatestone Institute, Biden's weakness is the biggest gift to Russia, China, and the Iranian mullahs.

From The Stream, a mechanic gives his life to save a female commuter in Washington, D.C., and the role of men to protect women.

From The American Conservative, the controversy over a proposed battery plant, which would be built by a company backed by Bill Gates in Weirton, West Virginia.

From The Western Journal, the Chinese balloon showed a trait which no one expected.  (The article appears to have been published before the balloon was shot down.)

From BizPac Review, according to cable TV host Bill Maher, China doesn't a balloon to spy on Americans, because it has TikTok.

From the Daily Caller, more on the Chinese balloon getting shot down.

From the New York Post, a dog does not eat anyone's homework, but swallows a battery.

From Breitbart, still more on the Chinese balloon getting shot down, including video footage.

And from Newsmax, the Chief Twit decides to "sunset" Twitter's Blue Verified program.