Friday Phenomena For The End Of June

On a warm cloudy Friday which is the last day of June, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Article I of the Constitution survives.

From FrontpageMag and the "yeah, right!" department, the leader of the Taliban insists that women in Afghanistan have it great.

From Townhall, inflation still remains well above the Federal Reserve's goal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, one aspect of the 1st Amendment survives.

From the Washington Examiner, in striking down President Biden's student loan bailout, the Supreme Court cites former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).

From The Federalist, affirmative action is another nonsensical left-wing position that we've been conditioned into taking serious.

From American Thinker, the dramatic differences between Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

From MRCTV, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood comes out against virginity.

From NewsBusters, the Chinese app TikTok is trying to silence media critics.

From TeleSUR, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is convicted of abuse of power and barred from participating in politics for eight years.

From TCW Defending Freedom, lies, deceit, and everything else that the U.K.'s coronavirus inquiry won't cover.

From EuroNews, Finnish Economic Minister Vilhelm Junnila after making comments about "climate abortions".

From ReMix, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, the E.U. "is on the brink of bankruptcy".

From Balkan Insight, according to an opinion column, young people in the Balkans deserve the truth, not denials.

From The North Africa Post, Burkina Paso bans the French television network LCI for three months.

From The New Arab, Iraq urges Sweden to extradite the man who allegedly burned a Koran, who himself is an Iraqi national.

From The Syrian Observer, according to a Russian website, tens of thousands of Syrians are fighting alongside Russians in Ukraine.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, concerns mount over the health of an imprisoned Iranian activist.

From IranWire, the dangerous lives of the Iranian drivers known as "Shutis".

From Iran International, Iran's government and state TV conduct "purification".

From Khaama Press, in two months, 36 cases of Congo fever have been reported in the Afghan province of Herat.

From Dawn, Pakistan secures a $3 billion "stand-by arrangement" from the International Monetary Fund.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will pay a 4-day visit to Japan starting tomorrow.

From The Hans India, gasoline and diesel prices are stable in the Indian cities of Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai.

From the Hindustan Times, India's aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation tells airline bosses to sensitize pilots and crew members to prevent illegal entry into cockpits.

From ANI, according to Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, ministers should review the allocations given to their departments.

From India Today, the bodies of 29 victims of a train accident in the Indian state of Odisha have been identified.

From the Dhaka Tribune, over 10 million animals were sacrificed in Bangladesh during the Islamic feast of Eid-ul-Azha.

From New Age, Bangladesh will pay tribute to the victims of the attack at the Holey Artisan café, which took place seven years ago.

From Palestinian Media Watch, according to a Palestinian Authority advisor, Arab participation in municipal elections in Jerusalem is a "betrayal of Allah" and "a crime".

From the Daily Mail, French President Emmanuel Macron urges parents to keep their teenagers at home in an effort to quell rioting.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a group of young people shouting "Allahu akbar" attack Jewish visitors to the Holocaust memorial in Frankfurt, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From RAIR Foundation USA, Dutch politician Geert Wilders warns of the threat from Arab and North African migrants.

From Gatestone Institute, genocide in Pakistan.

From The Stream, on the Fourth of July, honoring the defenders of freedom.

From The Daily Signal, according to a former USAID official, the Biden administration is "grossly misusing foreign aid" to push a radical agenda.

From The American Conservative, is Germany returning to its former role as a counterbalance to Russia?  (Hopefully, the two will not return to their former roles as invaders of my ancestral Poland.)

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Bill O'Reilly explains Biden's schedule in 10 seconds.

From BizPac Review, journalist Geraldo Rivera and Fox News part ways.

From The Daily Wire, the left-wing view neatly summed up.

From the Daily Caller, Anheuser-Busch responds to fake female Dylan Mulvaney's criticism of Bud Light.

From the New York Post, congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) is unusually tight-lipped while appearing in court.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned President Macron parties with musician Elton John while France burns.

From Newsmax, while being interviewed on live TV, Biden walks off the set.

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, a listing for an apartment in Melbourne, Australia goes viral after renters spot one hilarious detail.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday Tidings

On a warm cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court rules against race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

From FrontpageMag, the shocking true story of the Barack Obama presidency.

From Townhall, Justice Clarence Thomas writes an amazing concurring opinion in the case striking down Harvard's and UNC's affirmative action.

From The Washington Free Beacon, unions, everyday voters, and even some moderate Democrats oppose President Biden's plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles.

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court sides with a Christian former mailman who sought to not work on Sundays.

From The Federalist, it's only natural that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson supports affirmative action.

From American Thinker, yes, there is a hill to die on.

From MRCTV, a cancer fund suggests a new word for the female private part.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) rips the "attack" on free speech coming from the Biden administration and Big Tech.

From Canada Free Press, travel while you're still allowed to.

From TeleSUR, El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announces his campaign for reelection.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how family life affects success at math.

From Snouts in the Trough, neither Russian President Putin nor the U.K.'s media deserve to be trusted.

From EuroNews, protesters march in Nanterre, France over the police shooting of a teenager.

From ReMix, the German state of Thuringia may reverse the democratic election of an AfD candidate.  (Apparently, some people's definition of "democracy" is a victory by a left-wing candidate.  If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, the Macedonian Orthodox Church protests North Macedonia's gender-related laws.

From FENA, over 117,000 tourists visit the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May, an increase of 40.9 percent from April.  (FENA did not publish any stories in English yesterday, so I've gone back to this source for today.)

From Morocco World News, Moroccans spend $1.8 billion on livestock so far this year.

From The North Africa Post, King Mohammed VI performs the Eid Al-Adha prayer at a mosque in Tetouan, Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, informal settlements are on the rise in the Turkish province of Antalya.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan slams Sweden for allowing a protest in which a man burned pages from the Koran.

From Rûdaw, protesters angry at the Koran-burning protest in Sweden storm the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan welcomes a resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) about the rights of ethnic Armenians in the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno Karabakh.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, the central committee of the World Council of Churches calls on Azerbaijan to reopen the Lachin corridor between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

From Azərbaycan24, an organization representing Azerbaijanis who have been expelled from Armenia condemns the aforementioned resolution from the PACE.

From AzerNews, eight vehicles carrying Armenians living in Nagorno Karabakh pass through the Lachin checkpoint.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot authorities recapture a man who escaped from a police station in Limassol, Cyprus two years ago.

From North Press Agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense announces that it will continue airstrikes in northern Syria.

From The961, where to swim in Lebanon, and how much it will cost ya, pilgrim.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad abducts a terrorist leader of Iran in order to prevent an attack.

From The Times Of Israel, judges in the trial of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu suggest that the prosecution should drop a bribery charge.

From The Jerusalem Post, ultra-Orthodox Israelis riot in the cities of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh.

From YNetNews, Mossad reveals a taped confession of an Iranian sent to target Israelis in Cyprus.

From the Egypt Independent, at the Cairo International Airport, an Egyptian man is arrested for allegedly having snakes on a plane.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian Sunni Islamic institute of Al-Azhar calls for a boycott of Swedish products in response to the aforementioned burning of Koran pages in Sweden.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia asks to join the BRICS economic bloc.

From the Saudi Gazette, 215,000 Hajj pilgrims are provided with health care.

From DohaNews, what makes meat halal?

From The New Arab, after three days, search and rescue efforts end after the collapse of a 14-story building in Alexandria, Egypt.

From RAIR Foundation USA, riots erupt in France over the aforementioned police shooting of a teenager.

From Gatestone Institute, Chinese saboteurs are illegally entering the U.S.

From The Stream, Uganda's new law the Western response.

From The Daily Signal, "pride" messaging by businesses is down 40 percent from 2022.

From The American Conservative, both sides are wrong when responding to new data on religiosity.

From The Western Journal, more on the Supreme Court decision against affirmative action.

From BizPac Review, the Obamas are slammed over their "mournful" take on the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

From The Daily Wire, TV host Whoopi Goldberg blows up over the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

From the Daily Caller, the Biden administration sides with communist China against the state of Florida.

From the New York Post, here comes the world's largest cruise ship, in January 2024.

From Breitbart, more on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in the affirmative action case.

From Newsmax, Virgin Galactic completes its first commercial space flight, in New Mexico with a three-man Italian crew.

And from the Genesius Times, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) bans several classic children's books.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to an IRS whistleblower, the Department of Justice blocked the execution of a warrant to search Biden properties before the 2020 election.

From FrontpageMag, what is the definition of leftism?

From Townhall, President Biden had an amazing exchange with reporters on the White House lawn today.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration's anti-Semitism strategy does not mention Israel.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden misleads on jobs created on his watch.

From The Federalist, Reuters digs up the slaveholding ancestors of today's politicians and demand that you give a rat's rear end.

From American Thinker, the world's oldest anti-Semitic word.

From MRCTV, a gymnast tells us her pronouns.

From NewsBusters, ABC hides a whistleblower speaking out on the investigation of First Son Hunter Biden.

From Canada Free Press, Attorney General Merrick Garland is the tovarisch of our modern Potemkin village.

From TeleSUR, a group of Brazilians urge President Lula da Silva to offer asylum to journalist Julian Assange.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a review of a book by bassist Noel Redding about his time with the Jimi Hendrix experience.

From ReMix, Poland extends its policy of zero VAT on food through the current year.

From EuroNews, Finnish Economic Minister survives a confidence vote after making a "Nazi joke".

From the Greek Reporter, the Greek tradition of siesta, which at one time was sacred.  (I experienced the siesta in Greece when I visited the country in 1999.)

From Ekathimerini, recently reelected Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveils his government's roadmap for the next four years.

From the Greek City Times, strange lights seen above Athens were not put there by aliens, but by the Chief Twit.

From Balkan Insight, mobile phone users in the Balkans may roam freely, except in Kosovo.

From Total Croatia News, sounds of the Croatian island of Obonjan.

From The Slovenia Times, all primary schoolchildren in Slovenia will be given taxpayer-funded lunches starting in 2027.

From The Malta Independent, the Maltese parliament votes unanimously to allow exceptions into Malta's abortion law.

From Malta Today, six more beaches in Malta will become dog-friendly this summer.

From ANSA, police dismantle an international migrant smuggling network in Trieste, Italy.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss government rejects a proposal to resell old tanks to Ukraine.

From France24, France braces for protests as President Emmanuel Macron slams the police shooting of a teenage driver.

From RFI, at least 31 people are arrested in a night of violence caused by outrage over the police shooting of a teenage driver.

From El País, the identity of the "anarchist Madonna" shown in the picture from the Spanish Civil War is finally revealed.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government removes the requirement for cars to have insurance stickers on their windshields.

From The North Africa Post, the Chinese company Tinci plans to invest $280 million in a new electric vehicle battery plant in Morocco.

From The New Arab, Muslims aged 65 and over perform the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca for the first time in several years due to the lifting of coronavirus-related restrictions.

From OpIndia, an accused terrorist is given a hero's welcome in the Indian state of Kerala.

From Gatestone Institute, a conference held in Sweden has a connection to Hamas.

From The Stream, the truth about transgenderism, from someone who lived it.

From The Daily Signal, a former abortionist has plans to change hearts about the unborn.

From The American Conservative, "Biden's border disaster".

From The Western Journal, more Americans are turning right, which Biden regards as a threat.

From BizPac Review, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel runs face-first into a fact check when he tries to mock presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D).

From The Daily Wire, the CEO of Anheuser-Busch refuses to say whether he would again send a can of Bud Light to fake female Dylan Mulvaney.

From the Daily Caller, the U.S. attorney who allegedly covered for the aforementioned Hunter Biden also worked for a liberal law firm.

From the New York Post, a woman who threw a Molotov cocktail after getting tired of waiting in line at a bank is given a two-year prison sentence.

From Breitbart, eco-nutjobs from Just Stop Oil try to protest at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, but the players don't let them.

From Newsmax, according to a survey, two thirds of Americans say that the economy is getting worse.

And from SFGate, a chef opens a restaurant "dedicated to affordable pasta" in San Francisco.

Tuesday Things

On a warm and partly sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former President Obama gets populism wrong.

From FrontpageMag, how a white man became rich by denouncing "rich white men".

From Townhall, Miami Mayor and presidential candidate Francis Suarez (R) doesn't know who the Uyghurs are.  (The article misspells his first name as "Frances", which is the feminine equivalent of "Francis".  But now that we no longer can precisely define the term "woman", the genders of names might also cause some degree of confusion.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden claims ignorance of his son Hunter's foreign business dealings as evidence to the contrary mounts.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump blasts prosecutor Jack Smith for a leaked audio recording.

From The Federalist, a House subcommittee shows how the Biden administration colluded with Big Tech companies to censor "true but inconvenient" information.

From American Thinker, two videos perfectly explain the climate change scam.

From MRCTV, at a "Pride" event in Seattle, Washington, a game had kids throwing bricks at Republicans and Supreme Court justices.

From NewsBusters, news networks spend five minutes on Hunter Biden's text messages to a Chinese businessman.

From Canada Free Press, how fake science steals land and other things.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian oil workers protest against the privatization of a refinery the state of Ceará.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Glastonbury, climate doomsayers, and a "festival of hypocrisy".

From Snouts in the Trough, is Russian President Putin weaker or stronger?

From ReMix, a Dutch father and daughter are arrested for allegedly sending about €5.5 million to Hamas.

From Polskie Radio, according to Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, Poland is stepping up its efforts to modernize its army.

From Radio Prague, Czech President Petr Pavel regrets his former ignorance of the failures of the Czechoslovak communist government before 1989.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová does not aspire to become the chief of NATO.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's Castle of Sümeg is close to Lake Balaton and awaits tourists.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, you can't negotiate peace with someone while calling them a "war criminal".  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From About Hungary, also according to Orban, there is a clear solution to illegal immigration, but the E.U. is "reluctant to take that course".

From Russia Today, according to the aforementioned President Putin, the Wagner Group was fully funded by Russia.

From Sputnik International, Putin tells the Russian military that they prevented civil war.

From The Moscow Times, according to jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin's regime is the biggest threat to Russia.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov condemns the pro-Russian party "Vazrazhdane" and calls for violence by its leader.

From The Sofia Globe, Defense Minister Todor Tagarev unveils more details of Bulgaria's latest package of military aid to Ukraine.

From Radio Bulgaria, the leader of the "Vazrazhdane" party is under investigation for alleged hate speech.

From EuroNews, the Ukrainian army makes some gains, and Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly arrives in Belarus.

From Balkan Insight, ethnic Serbs in Gracanica, Kosovo rally to demand the release of a man charged with war crimes allegedly committed in 1999.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's plans to produce green hydrogen attracts investors from European countries such as Germany and the Netherlands.

From The New Arab, a student walks from his home town of Okara, Pakistan to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in order to attend the Hajj.  (The article uses the spelling "Okra", but there is no place in Pakistan with that name.  Instead, there is a city named Okara.)

From Mothership, wearing shorts in Malaysia might cost ya, pilgrim, but the minister of housing might disagree with your fine.

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinians about whom everyone goes Sgt. Schultz.  (In other words, they claim to know nothing.)

From The Stream, will artificial intelligence bring about "a perfect unified religion"?

From The Daily Signal, an explanation of the revolt in Russia.

From The American Conservative, the world undergoes Ukrainification.

From The Western Journal, former coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci finds a new job.

From Reuters, over 100 American political leaders descend from slaveholders.  (via The Western Journal.)

From BizPac Review, while meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Biden jokes that he "sold a lot of state secrets".

From The Daily Wire, Walt Disney reportedly lost almost $900 million on its last eight films.

From the Daily Caller, Bud Light is giving away free beer ahead of July 4th.

From Breitbart, according to the Chief Twit's father, a cage match between the Chief Twit and Mark Zuckerberg would be a lose-lose situation for him.

From Newsmax, values voters support Trump bigly - for the time being.

And from the New York Post, an old video from the TV show MythBusters shows what happens to a human body in a deep sea implosion.

Monday Links

Now that I've taken a day off to drive back from my undisclosed location and unpack, here on a warm and cloudy Monday are some things going on:

From National Review, Fox News finds a successor for right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson.

From FrontpageMag, we were warned about the elites 55 years ago.

From Townhall, six ways in which the Biden presidency is exposing the myth of former President Obama.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how schools spent coronavirus stimulus money.

From the Washington Examiner, the alleged actions for which First Son Hunter Biden did not get indicted.

From The Federalist, the pride flag represents a regime change.

From American Thinker, the selective curiosity of the media.

From MRCTV, in Toronto, Bud Light digs to a new low.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From NewsBusters, a CBS host presses congresscritter Veronica Escobar (D-TX) on abortion - from the left.

From Canada Free Press, a review of a book by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

From CBC News, some Petro-Canada gas stations are only able to accept cash payments due to a "cybersecurity incident".

From Global News, is Canada "embarrassingly behind" on semiconductors?

From CTV News, Sikhs rally at the Indian consulate in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to allege that the killing of the president of the Metro Vancouver Sikh temple was foreign interference.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas hosts a meeting of CELAC science and technology ministers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, should there be a "Climate Awareness Month"?

From the Express, according to an official report, U.K. taxpayers will save up to £165,000 for every illegal migrant prevented from crossing the English Channel.

From the Evening Standard, Prince William launches an initiative intended to end homelessness in the U.K.  (The more migrants are prevented from illegally entering the U.K., as in the previous story, the more money will be available to help the U.K.'s homeless population, and thus the better the chance of ending homelessness.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, not being cautious when driving into sunlight in the U.K. during the summer can cost ya, pilgrim.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ireland's flag is being weaponized "by a small minority".

From VRT NWS, a jeweler in Oostakker, Belgium is given a suspended 10-month prison sentence for killing an armed man trying to rob his store.

From The Brussels Times, sex workers in Belgium will be able to sign employment contracts.

From the NL Times, Dutch customs officials seize 3,587 kilos of she-don't-lie worth €269 million at the Port of Rotterdam, while the Dutch navy find 2,000 kilos more in the Caribbean.

From Dutch News, some Dutch people are still in Russia as the Wagner Group rebellion is defused.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany plans to station 4,000 military personnel in Lithuania.

From the CPH Post, why women camp on the Danish island of Femø every year.

From EuroNews, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Progozhin claims that its march to Moscow was a protest, not a coup.

From ReMix, Germany's Free Democratic Party takes out advertisements on rickshaws in India for people to migrate to Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sworn in for his second consecutive term.

From The North Africa Post, as the Polisario movement falls apart, its crumbling is called a serious "concern".

From The New Arab, due to its increasing population, Egypt is set to become the world's largest importer of wheat.  (This is a historical irony because Egypt was once the "bread basket" of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.)

From Gatestone Institute, if President Biden runs for reelection in 2024, who will his supporters really be voting for?

From The Stream, two Republican candidates for U.S. Senator from Virginia pledge to investigate the ties between the SPLC and the federal government.

From The Daily Signal, how a crime novel became reality for eight American cities with "rogue prosecutors".

From The American Conservative, Senator (and former NCAA football coach) Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) hold on military promotions is working as designed.

From The Western Journal, one major roadblock stands in Biden's way.

From BizPac Review, more on Fox News's choice to succeed the aforementioned Tucker Carlson.

From The Daily Wire, the woke CEO of BlackRock admits that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis hurt the company when he pulled $2 billion in assets out of it.

From the Daily Caller, DeSantis promises to support the Keystone XL pipeline.

From the New York Post, a trans activist convicted of murdering a lesbian couple and their adopted on will serve "her" life sentence in a women's prison.

From Breitbart, Admiral Rachel Levine wants a whole "Summer of Pride".

From Newsmax, the Colorado Springs mass shooter pleads guilty.

From The Hill, despite a negative recommendation from Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal), congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) intends to run for reelection in 2024.  (via Newsmax)

And from The Babylon Bee, a pedophile jailed for flashing kids at a local playground kicks himself for not doing it at a "pride" parade instead.

Back To Shenandoah National Park

After visiting the Blue Ridge Tunnel, I proceeded to the south entrance of Shenandoah National Park, where I had entered the park this past Tuesday.  This time, the weather was much better.  I drove on Skyline Drive past the places from which I had taken pictures on Tuesday and proceeded to the Crimora Lake overlook.  My focus wasn't very good, but the picture still shows the Shenandoah Valley west of the Blue Ridge, and the Alleghany Mountains on the other side.

Back To The Blue Ridge Tunnel

Last December, I visited the Blue Ridge Tunnel near Afton, Virginia.  I only walked from a parking lot to its east end.  Today, I hiked to its west end, which is reached from the trail connecting the tunnel to a parking lot off U.S. highway 250.  Actually, it's the same trail as before, just the part on the west side of the tunnel.  Here's the sign just next to the parking lot.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, don't give the left one inch.

From FrontpageMag, the left can have either Islam or LGBTQ+, but not both.

From Townhall, there's a problem with whom First Son Hunter Biden was with at a state dinner.

From The Washington Free Beacon, CEO Patricia Stonesifer of The Washington Post funnels hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates.

From the Washington Examiner, up the creek with congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) with the truth thrown overboard.

From The Federalist, allegedly "extreme" weather have never threatened America less.

From American Thinker, former President Trump did what presidential candidate Ross Perot couldn't do.  (Both Trump and Perot were businessmen before running for president.  Whereas Perot ran as an independent, before later founding the Reform Party, Trump went through the Republican Party.)

From MRCTV, criminals control American cities, which is entirely the fault of left-wing policies.

From NewsBusters, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) claims that section 230 of the Communications Decency act protects controversial speech, but ignores rampant media censorship.

From Canada Free Press, President Biden drowns the truth about what happened to the Titan submersible in the Atlantic Ocean.

From TeleSUR, five keys to understanding Guatemala's upcoming elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, would the climate fearmongers please tells us what a normal climate is supposed to be?

From EuroNews, a British man becomes the mayor of a town on one of Spain's Balearic Islands, without ever becoming a Spanish citizen.

From ReMix, rival people smugglers in Serbia near the Hungarian border get into a gun battle and almost shoot a group of Serbian fishermen.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From Balkan Insight, police in Kosovo arrest another suspect for alleged attacks against KFOR soldiers.

From The North Africa Post, Niger's legislators adopt a new national anthem.

From The New Arab, a drama film about abortion is set in Yemen.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Religion gives instructions for preachers at mosques.

From Gatestone Institute, nuclear-armed communists go on the warpath.

From The Stream, overnight summer camps for transgender kids are popping up all over the U.S., and other stories.

From The Daily Signal, don't let Hunter Biden's plea deal distract you from the real Biden problem, which is Ukraine.

From The American Conservative, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the right thing when he was in Beijing, China.

From The Western Journal, an IRS whistleblower reveals what Hunter Biden did to threaten foreign officials.

From BizPac Review, Bud Light comes out with a new ad, which results in a field day on Twitter.

From The Daily Wire, what were those "banging" noises heard by rescuers days after the Titan submersible imploded?

From the Daily Caller, North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R) endorses Trump.

From the New York Post, residents of Washington state are fed up with drug overdoses after the state decriminalized drugs.

From Breitbart, 22 stores are closed in downtown San Francisco in 18 months.

From Newsmax, recently indicted congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) is placed under travel restrictions.

And from the Genesius Times, after hearing about the implosion of the Titan submersible, Biden promises to send $100 billion more to Ukraine.

Trains In The Rain

Earlier today, I drove almost 100 miles away from my undisclosed location to another part of Virginia, hoping that the weather was different.  Boy, was I wrong.  Despite some heavy downpours along two interstate highways, I was able to reach the town of Clifton Forge and visit the C&O Railway Heritage Center.  The place exhibits rolling stock from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which later evolved into the Chessie System and eventually into CSX.  As the rain kept coming down, I took a shot of this C&O caboose, near a small building where you buy tickets (which is not the wooden shack to the left).

Thursday Tidbits

On a Thursday that has been cool and rainy, in my undisclosed location and elsewhere, here are some things going on:

From National Review, some women are "unwilling members of the cis-terhood".

From FrontpageMag, victims of the Nashville school shooting testify.

From Townhall, a gay man in San Diego who was set on fire claimed it was done by two homophobic men, but the real story was very different.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to whistleblowers, the IRS recommended felony tax charges against First Son Hunter Biden, but the DOJ wouldn't go through with it.

From the Washington Examiner, also according to the whistleblowers, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss was denied bringing charges against Hunter Biden in D.C. and California.

From The Federalist, the FBI knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was real a year before pressuring Big Tech to censor information about it.

From American Thinker, someone finally resists the left's control over the language of sexuality.

From MRCTV, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stumps the head of the Human Rights Campaign with just one question.

From NewsBusters, let's compare CNN's coverage of the aforementioned Hunter Biden and former First Son Donald Trump the Younger.

From TeleSUR, Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for a "Marshall Plan" against climate change.  (How much would China, which by far leads the world in carbon dioxide emissions, be required to contribute?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, and former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney talk a "net zero" amount of sense.

From Snouts in the Trough, did woke diversity destroy the Titan submersible?

From Gatestone Institute, according to a poll, some Palestinians prefer terrorism to peace with Israel.

From The Stream, according to the U.S. military, a piece of debris found near the sunken Titanic was the tail cone of the Titan submersible.

From The Daily Signal, the theater chain AMC cancels a film showing the dangers of transgender surgeries.

From The American Conservative, a resolution returning war powers to Congress is a step toward reclaiming (small "r") republicanism.

From The Western Journal, President Biden starts to place his hand on his heart, until he realizes that the anthem being played wasn't that of the U.S.  (I never thought that I'd use the labels "Biden" and "music" for the same story.)

From BizPac Review, a leftist rag stoops lower than ever with its take on the aforementioned Titan submersible.

From The Daily Wire, to mark the first anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson, singer Demi Lovato releases the pro-abortion song "swine".  (It's sad to use the labels "abortion" and "music" for the same story.)

From the Daily Caller, Democrats seem to like dictators if they have ideologies with which the Democrats agree.

From Breitbart, the Chief Twit decides that "cis" and "cisgender" are slurs if they appear on Twitter.  (Does this include the use of "cis" to describe organic compounds?)

From Newsmax, rumors of Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) running for president have been greatly exaggerated.

And from the New York Post, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) explains why he's not an anti-vaxxer.

Stories For The Summer Solstice

On a cool and rainy Wednesday which is also the first day of summer, here are some things going on:

From National Review, help Caroline Downey's work of exposing the truth about gender transition.

From FrontpageMag, First Son Hunter Biden's sweet plea bargain.

From Townhall, how Special Counsel John Durham kicked off his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

From The Washington Free Beacon, terrorists aren't illegally coming across the border, are they?

From the Washington Examiner, Durham clashes with congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal).  (I've said it before and I'll say it again.  Schiff happens!)

From The Federalist, President Biden's claims about guns aren't just false, but don't even make sense.

From American Thinker, Greta Thunberg becomes the latest climate activist to have a failed doomsday prediction.

From MRCTV, left-wingers blast actress Jameela Jamil for questioning "gender-neutral" academy awards.

From NewsBusters, a year of insanity from pro-aborts.

From Canada Free Press, wokeness replaces medical science.

From TeleSUR, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial for alleged abuses of power.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Scottish National Party and a problem with bird choppers.

From Snouts in the Trough, be vewy vewy quiet and don't quiticize the Chinaman or the Ethiopian.

From EuroNews, a medicine shortage results in 120 pharmacies closing in Germany.

From ReMix, the German "anti-immigration" party AfD hits a new polling high of 20 percent.  (I suspect that the party is called "anti-immigration" because it wants immigration to be controlled by the German government on behalf of German citizens rather than by the E.U.  In other words, the term does not mean that this party literally wants to abolish all immigration.)

From Balkan Insight, the energy companies OMV Petrom and Romgaz unveil a plan to produce natural gas from Romania's part of the Black Sea.

From The North Africa Post, 36 countries reaffirm their support for Morocco's sovereignty over the region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, over 30 migrants are feared dead after their dinghy bound for Spain's Canary Islands sinks.  (This shows how one of the many perfectly non-racist reason to oppose illegal immigration is the danger to the migrants themselves.)

From Jewish News Syndicate, several Arab and Druze soldiers in the IDF are arrested for allegedly praising terrorists based in Jenin, West Bank.

From Palestinian Watch, Fatah praises two Hamas terrorists who killed four Israelis before being killed.

From Gatestone Institute, it's time to abolish the federal "disinformation" bureaus.

From The Stream, some things to celebrate during the current "Pride Month".

From The Daily Signal, the "Pride" police go against free speech.

From The American Conservative, ancient Rome and modern violence.

From The Western Journal, what the aforementioned Hunter Biden would have been charged with in a fair justice system, according to right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson.

From BizPac Review, former President Trump addresses former First Lady Melania's absence.

From The Daily Wire, red flags have surrounded the missing Titanic submersible for years.

From the Daily Caller, the CEO of the company that operates the Titanic submersible previously indicated that he would never hire "50 year old white guys".

From the New York Post, an explosion injures 16 people and causes a building's façade to collapse in Paris.  (My spellchecker insists that I spell "façade" with a "c" that has a cedilla.)

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Special Counsel John Durham testifies that several FBI agents "apologized" to him for how the Russia hoax investigation "was undertaken".

From Newsmax, the Federal Trade Commission sues Amazon for allegedly enrolling customers to its Prime program without their consent.

And from SFGate, an ESPN analyst falls for a joke claiming that Jonathan Kuminga of the Golden State Warriors has grown seven inches taller since joining the NBA.

Tuesday Tidings

I now interrupt my travelogue with some ordinary blogging.  On a cloudy and rainy Tuesday somewhere in Virginia, here are some things going on:

From National Review, First Son Hunter Biden gets a plea deal.

From FrontpageMag, Jews against left-wing billionaire George Soros.

From Townhall, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson reacts to Hunter Biden's "sweetheart" plea deal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a federal prosecutor on the Hunter Biden case worked a few years ago for a Biden family friend.

From the Washington Examiner, what environmentalists need to understand about people and electric cars.

From The Federalist, then-Vice President Biden once recommended more prosecutions of people who lie on their background checks for gun purchases.

From American Thinker, the Pentagon admits not knowing where U.S. weapons being sent to Ukraine are actually going.

From MRCTV, my governor makes a bizarre claim about keeping adult books away from children.

From NewsBusters, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) explains the purpose of left-wing censorship.

From Canada Free Press, rules and tactics for woke radical activists.

From TeleSUR, high-level Venezuelan and Brazilian officials meet to promote binational trade agreements.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when it comes to politicians, the U.K. has never had it so bad.

From EuroNews, Romania indicts U.S.-U.K. influencer and former boxer Andrew Tate for alleged rape and human trafficking.

From ReMix, an Iraqi man is arrested for allegedly attacking a woman with a knife at a bus stop - in Lienzingen, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Badische Neueste Nachrichten.)

From The North Africa Post, an Algerian journalist appeals his sentence for "foreign financing", and gets even more time in prison.

From The New Arab, Syrian Druze residents of the Golan Heights and Israeli forces clash over the proposed construction of bird choppers.

From Garowe Online, four people are killing in fighting in Garowe, Puntland, Somalia over proposed constitutional amendments.  (Garowe is the capital of the Somali province of Puntland.)

From Gatestone Institute, the environmentalist agenda will bring about the suicide of Europe.

From The Stream, how the movie The Life of Brian explains left-wing Christianity.

From The Daily Signal, 13 questions for "Russiagate" Special Counsel John Durham.

From The American Conservative, the West tells Poland that we can have democracy, but you can't.

From The Western Journal, look who was watching when congresscritter Anna Eshoo (D-Cal) pulls President Biden across a stage.

From BizPac Review, former President Trump appears to have predicted lenient treatment for the aforementioned Hunter Biden.

From The Daily Wire, according to artificial intelligence, conservative women are prettier and happier than left-wing women.  (But then, how does AI define "women"?)

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, over 70 percent of Americans think that played a roll in Trump's second indictment.

From the New York Post, on the other hand, a poll shows that Republican support for Trump has decreased since his second indictment.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Biden's favorability has dropped to the lowest of his presidency.

From Newsmax, according to the U.S. attorney for the district of Delaware, Hunter Biden's case is not yet closed.

And from The Babylon Bee, Taiwan is kicking itself for, unlike China and Ukraine, not trying to bribe anyone in the Biden family.

A Little Bit Of Shenandoah National Park

Earlier today, I decided to take a drive on Skyline Drive, which is the main road in Shenandoah National Park, which is not far from my undisclosed location in Virginia.  Unfortunately, I could only go so far before the area got rained on, and quite heavily.  Still, I managed to get a few pictures in the southern part of the park.  This one is from the McCormick Gap overlook, which looks westward.

New Market Battlefield - Part 2

Across the road from the Bushong farm seen in Part 1 is a tunnel that goes under I-81.  On the other side, a trail leads to other areas of the New Market battlefield.  I walked through the tunnel but there wasn't anything worth seeing close to the other side.

New Market Battlefield - Part 1

Today I visited the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and the adjacent New Market Battlefield, about a mile north of New Market, Virginia.  On May 15th, 1864, Confederate troops including cadets from Virginia Military Academy under the command of Major General (and former Vice President) John Breckinridge defeated a Union force led by Major General Franz Sigel.  (General Sigel was originally from the duchy of Baden in Germany.)  Inside the museum is a statue of three men apparently engaged in some kind of tussel.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For Fathers Day

Once again I have traveled to an undisclosed location, this time in Virginia.  The weather all the way from Maryland to here has been warm and sunny.  Now that I've settled in, here are 12 things going on:

From Townhall, President Biden emerges from his cubby hole to hold his first 2024 campaign rally.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about "inspirational women" co-written by former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) is proud of being on former President Trump's enemies list.  (Alternate summary: Trump keeps finding out that Schiff happens.)

From American Thinker, Jeffrey Epstein wasn't the first federal prisoner with an unlikely "suicide".

From NewsBusters, former Vice President Pence triggers NBC host Chuck Todd by mentioning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails and First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

From TCW Defending Freedom, 24 reasons why plans to reach "Net Zero" should be abandoned.

From The North Africa Post, four more African countries agree to join the project to construct a gas pipeline between Nigeria and Morocco.

From The New Arab, rival generals in Sudan agree to a 72-hour ceasefire.

From Gatestone Institute, "happy Founding Fathers' day".

From The Stream, fathers should know that their families would rather "see" a sermon than to hear one.

From BizPac Review, Biden makes a "bizarre" claim about what pistol braces do for guns.

And from SFGate, if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, beware low-flying military aircraft.