First, I must offer a prelude. Late yesterday, the House of Representatives impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. My reaction is basically the same as it was when an earlier House impeached the president whom I like to call Mr. Bill. "They did it. The [bleep]s actually did it."
Meanwhile, on a sunny but cold Wednesday which is both the start of Lent (for Western Christianity) and Valentine's Day, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the Republican pitch to the New York suburbs flops.
From FrontpageMag, the truth about what's going on in Dearborn, Michigan.
From Townhall, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) finds another reason to oppose the foreign aid bill passed by the Senate.
From The Washington Free Beacon, MIT leaders assemble and then ignore a faculty advisory group on antisemitism.
From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Harris is the 2024 Democratic nominee for president, whether she officially tops the ticket or not.
From The Federalist, according to sources, U.S. intelligence agencies illegally used foreign counterparts to target then-private citizen Donald Trump's advisors even before his 2016 presidential campaign.
From American Thinker, America was and should be "the crucible".
From MRCTV, the media desperately try to protect President Biden.
From NewsBusters, the "big three" networks censor former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski's testimony about the Biden family.
From Canada Free Press, left-wingers keep up their attacks on truth.
From TeleSUR, the National Liberation Army lifts a strike in the Colombian department of Choco.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. Army must get rid of its "diversity mania".
From Snouts in the Trough, what do we do now that Russia is winning and Ukraine is losing?
From EuroNews, the Ukrainian military claims to have sunk a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea.
From Voice Of Europe, parking in Koblenz, Germany is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim. (If you read German, you can read the story at Spiegel, for 1€.)
From ReMix, a French and Moroccan dual national is found guilty of raping a woman in her car as she was driving from Toulouse to Clermont-Ferrand in France. (ReMix wouldn't respond yesterday.)
From Balkan Insight, Greek Financial Police help to take down an international that was allegedly trafficking fake medicines and medical devices.
From The North Africa Post, a German fund earmarks €270 million to enhance hydrogen production in Morocco and other countries.
From The New Arab, the Provincial Council in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk is deadlocked over power-sharing.
From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian gas pipelines are hit by two explosions.
From IranWire, two teenage Iranian girls have been missing since January 31st, one of whom is the daughter of an imprisoned activist.
From Iran International, the Iranian parliament's voting system is disrupted by a cyber attack.
From Khaama Press, according to Iranian envoy Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Taliban has set two conditions its participation in a meeting of special representatives in Doha, Qatar.
From Hasht e Subh, non-Pashtun personnel are dismissed from Takhar University in Afghanistan.
From the Afghanistan Times, according to Human Rights Watch, Taliban rule has pushed Afghanistan's health sector to the breaking point.
From The Express Tribune, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl party leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman announces that the party has rejected the results of Pakistan's recent elections.
From Pakistan Today, protests against alleged poll rigging are staged in the Pakistani provinces of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
From BBC News, the U.K.'s Charity Commission opens an inquiry after chants of "death to Israel" are allegedly heard at an Islamic center.
From Gatestone Institute, the judicial reform controversy in Israel emboldens its enemies.
From The Stream, reflections on the shooting at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
From The Daily Signal, the aforementioned Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas personally declined Secret Service protection for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I).
From The American Conservative, President Biden is slowly losing the argument over NATO to former President Trump.
From The Western Journal, Biden throws a fit in response to the aforementioned impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas, in which he makes some irrelevant points.
From BizPac Review, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) calls on Biden to declassify information pertaining to a "serious national security threat".
From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration sends $1 million to studies intending to deny that there are only two biological genders. (For this story, the label "science" includes "or lack thereof".)
From the Daily Caller, several people have reportedly been injured by gunfire near the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Missouri.
From the New York Post, couples married for over 50 years give advice to younger dating couples on Valentine's Day.
From Breitbart, congresscritter Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduces an amendment to FISA, which requires warrants for surveillance of Americans.
From Newsmax, according to the aforementioned Speaker Johnson, the House will not be "jammed" on the aforementioned foreign aid bill.
And from ABC News, the man often credited with inventing the Pop Tart goes to the bakery in the sky. (I must plead guilty to having eaten more than a few of his inventions. The story comes via Newsmax.)
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