Monday, January 20, 2025

Stories For Inauguration Day

On a sunny but cold Monday, on which President Trump has returned to office, and which is also the King Holiday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, during his final minutes in office, President Biden pardons his brothers James and Francis, and his sister Valerie.

From FrontpageMag, Biden again shows how leftists live in a fantasy world.

From Townhall, Trump returns as people claiming to be women voice their lamentations.

From The Washington Free Beacon, more pardons from Biden.

From the Washington Examiner, at Trump's inauguration, Big Tech moguls get better seats than his Cabinet nominees.

From The Federalist, Trump orders the federal government to recognize one basic scientific fact.

From American Thinker, how two Southern Methodists helped make Dr. Martin Luther King's dream come true.

From MRCTV, in his second inaugural address, Trump promises a "revolution of common sense".

From NewsBusters, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow calls Biden a victim of the "worst kind of partisan politics".  (I'd say that politics is "partisan" when you don't agree with it.)

From Canada Free Press, once again, America is the admired leader of the free West.

From TeleSUR, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the relationship between Mexico and the U.S. "must be one of equals".  (In principle, I agree.  When U.S. citizens enter or visit Mexico, we must do so in obedience to Mexican laws.  When Mexicans enter or visit the U.S., they should so to in obedience to U.S. laws.  When people of both countries respect the laws of the other, that's a relationship of equals.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, coronavirus censorship and the shame of doctors who kept silent.

From Snouts in the Trough, you cannot make peace with people who hate you.

From EuroNews, former europarliamentcritter Maria Arena (Belgium) is charged with being a member of a criminal organization.

From ReMix, German teachers allegedly discriminate in favor of children with a migration background when it comes to grades.  (If you read German and are willing to go through a paywall, read the story at Spiegel.)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha plans to ask Trump to reconsider the "persona non grata" status imposed on him in May of 2021 under Biden.

From The North Africa Post, the Algerian government orders the closing of a publishing house after it publishes a book about Jews in Algeria.

From The New Arab, the Iraqi parliament "secretly" passes a law concerning its National Intelligence Agency.

From Doha News, Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani will lead Qatar's delegation at this year's meeting of the World Economic Forum.

From The Hans India, the Indian state of Odisha revises the enrollment ages for grades 1 through 6.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian transport minister Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate India's first cable-stayed bridge built on a curve.

From ANI, the Indian Supreme Court laments the dismissal by the High Court in the state of Chhattisgarh of a Christian man's request to be allowed to bury his father in their native village.

From India Today, when in Tirumana, Tamil Nadu, India, please be sure that everything you eat comes from plants.

From OpIndia, Bangladeshis cross the border into the Indian state of West Bengal and try to steal crops from Indian farmers.  (via the Hindu Post)

From the Dhaka TribuneBangladeshi astronomer Syed Ashraf Uddin lectures about the Hubble Tension.  (If you're wondering what the Hubble Tension, go here for an explanation.)

From New Age, Bangladesh observes Shaheed Asad Day.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan Transport Minister Bimal Rathnayake takes a train ride and talks with his fellow passengers.

From the Colombo Gazette, U.K. tea experts visit Sri Lanka.

From Raajje, the Maldivian People's Majlis greenlights a cabinet shuffle.

From the Bangkok Post, the Thai government plans a six-month campaign to crack down on drugs, phone center scams and human trafficking.

From MedyaNews, Democratic Union Party co-chair Menice Haydar is one of six Syrians killed in Turkish airstrikes targeting a sit-in at the Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River.

From BBC News, accused Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana admits to all charges against him.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a picture of the late terrorist Osama bin Laden is displayed on a highway near Munich, Germany for three weeks.  (If you read German, read the story at PINews.)

From Alt News, videos claiming that a mosque and a copy of the Koran were unharmed in the Los Angeles fires should not be believed.

From PressTV, according to Iranian General Mohammad Baqeri, events in Gaza devastated Zionists and elevated Islam and the Resistance Front.

From The Times Of Israel, an Iranian court sentences singer Hossein Maghsoudloo to death for blasphemy.  (The last six stories and the link from the Hindu Post above come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, under Trump, the U.S. "urgently" needs to develop a nuclear fusion reactor better than the Tokamak built by China.

From Radio Free Asia, China military drills in the South China Sea as the U.S. and the Philippines conduct joint drills in the same general area.

From The Stream, some notes for Inauguration Day.

From The Daily Signal, the lies about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth aren't even skin-deep.

From The American Conservative, how bureaucrats loyal to Biden are working to obstruct Trump in his new term in office.

From The Western Journal, singer Carrie Underwood performs a great rendition of America the Beautiful despite technical difficulties.

From BizPac Review, some leftists melt down over the custom inauguration gowns worn by First Daughter Ivanka Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance.

From The Daily Wire, Trump issues an executive order to end and investigate the weaponization of the federal government.

Form the Daily Caller, on his way out the door, Biden commutes the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents.

From the New York Post, during a routine check, a New York City subway conductor finds a dead woman.

From Breitbart, CNN contributor Van Jones is "mad at everybody".  (I'd get out a tiny violin and play something for him, but I can't play a violin worth [bleep], not even a normal-sized one.)

From Newsmax, former and current First Lady Melania Trump launches her own meme coin.

And from the Babylon Bee, an elderly dementia sufferer is cruelly evicted from his home.

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