Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Wednesday Whatnot

As the sunny buy cold weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi promises to end the weaponization of the Justice Department.

From FrontpageMag, America's regulatory tyranny.

From Townhall, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) "absolutely wrecks" his Democratic colleagues during Bondi's confirmation hearing.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel and Hamas reportedly reach a deal to release hostages following President-elect Trump's promise to rain "hell" on the terror group.

From the Washington Examiner, Secretary of State nominee Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) warns that China is the U.S.'s "most potent and dangerous adversary".

From The Federalist, former General Counsel Jack Smith's report proves that the media has been lying about the "insurrection" of January 6th, 2021.

From American Thinker, Trump should make an example of President Nicolás Maduro, who just threatened to invade Puerto Rico.

From MRCTV, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) goes "full hood" on fellow congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC) during a House hearing.

From NewsBusters, the aforementioned Jack Smith's final report about Trump gets 22 times the media air time as Special Counsel Davis Weiss's final report about First Son Hunter Biden.

From Canada Free Press, another Democrat wants to steal money from American taxpayers and give it to illegal aliens.

From TeleSUR, the Haitian government appoints a new secretary of public security.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the latest in stupidity from the U.K.'s Labour Party is a proposal to tax tourists who visit London.

From EuroNews, the E.U. considers lifting its oil, gas, transport and banking sanctions on Syria.

From ReMix, according to a leaked internal memo, German police officers involved with the party AfD will be removed from federal police service.  (If you read German, read the story at Junge Freitheit.)

From Polskie Radio, 573 trains in Poland are delayed due to climate change.

From Radio Prague, remembering the life of Eva Kubíková-Bullock, who survived a Nazi massacre of children in Lidice, Czechoslovakia.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks and foreigners hike up the Kľak peak in Slovakia's Malá Fatra mountain range - with an iron and an ironing board.

From Daily News Hungary, if you're in Budapest, Hungary today, don't bother trying to get a ride in a taxi.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Világgazdaság.)

From Hungary Today, the Zsolnay porcelain exhibition opens at the ResoArt Villa in Budapest with over 60 more works.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian E.U. affairs minister János Bóka, Hungary has made some "historic decisions" during its E.U. presidency.

From Russia Today, Russia and Ukraine conduct their first POW swap of this year.

From Sputnik International, a look at the Greater Eurasian Partnership proposed by Russian President Putin in 2015.

From The Moscow Times, damage to a fiberoptic cable slows the internet for almost four million people in Russia.

From Romania-Insider, a new investigation is launched against former Romanian President Ion Iliescu and former Prime Minister Petre Roman over a violent crackdown against protesters in 1990.

From Novinite, two freight trains collide near Sofia, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian caretaker government draft amendments to the country's Foreigners Act.

From Radio Bulgaria, the parties United Left and There Is Such A People sign an agreement outline the priorities of the new Bulgarian government.

From Balkan Insight, the Greek parliament cuts off state funds for the "far-right" Spartans party.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria expels at least 31,404 migrants into Niger in violation of international conventions.

From The New Arab, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani announces the aforementioned ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

From the Daily Mail, Sweden announces tough new requirements for gaining citizenship.

From Arutz Sheva, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif claims that Israel planted explosives in a centrifuge platform.  (Since Israel planted explosive in pagers, doing the same to a centrifuge doesn't seem very far-fetched.)

From Gatestone Institute, jihad should be kept out of the West.

From Radio Free Asia, insurgents in Myanmar claims to have launched rockets at the ruling junta's facilities in the town of Loikaw.

From The Stream, will artificial intelligence regard humans as termites?

From The Daily Signal, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) wants a new chaplain for the House of Representatives.

From The American Conservative, Trump should revive the military attitudes of General/President Andrew Jackson.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned clash between congresscritters Crockett and Mace.

From BizPac Review, Biden gaslights Americans one last time in his farewell letter.

From The Daily Wire, California's sanctuary laws night prevent ICE from taking custody of an illegal alien who was arrested with a blowtorch in the Los Angeles area.

From the Daily Caller, National Security Advisor nominee Mike Waltz hints at "consequences" for the former intelligence officials who signed the letter which wrongly called the Hunter Biden laptop story "Russian disinformation".

From the New York Post, according to a report by Republican congresscritters, the federal government wastes $7 billion on office space even though half of its employees work from home.

From Breitbart, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) calls out the New Yorker for its for its attack on Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.

From Newsmax, the aforementioned Pam Bondi promises that the Department of Justice won't have an "enemies list".

And from SFGate, if you've got $5 million lying around, you can have a home in La Quinta, California which once belonged to golfer Arnold Palmer, who named it Rancho Relaxo.

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