A Few Late Thursday Tidbits

Now that I'm done from running around on a cold and cloudy Thursday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, the Senate confirms nominee Kash Patel as the new FBI director.

From FrontpageMag, pity the Democrats - on second thought, don't.

From Townhall, the Associated Press can't get themselves to call the Hamas terrorists "terrorists".  (I remember one host on the now-defunct BlogTalkRadio say the name "Associated Press" by accenting the first syllable.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, NPR does not seem to appreciate that Gazans were really celebrating the deaths of four Israeli hostages.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump's ban on federal funds for illegal aliens could save U.S. taxpayers a lot of money.

From The Federalist, the recent success at the border under Trump proves that Republicans never had to negotiate U.S. sovereignty.

From American Thinker, some FAQs (or maybe facts) about DOGE.

From MRCTV, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will reportedly not seek reelection in 2026.

From NewsBusters, left-wing media falsely blame Trump for the economic slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2024 - when he was not in office.  (What is this "chronology" that you speak of?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and "the strongarm of the law".

From RAIR Foundation USA, the Canadian military uploads an image of a soldier wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh.

From Elder Of Zion, Hamas makes a grotesque stage two dead Israeli children, their dead mother, and another dead hostage.

From IranWire, the Metro system of Tehran, Iran and "repentance rooms".

From Gatestone Institute, despite receiving over $3 billion from the U.S., the Lebanese Armed Forces has not disarm Hezbollah.

From Radio Free Asia, according to a report, China's homegrown technology enables the Chinese Communist Party to monitor its citizens at home and abroad, and boosts its overseas operations.

From The Stream, it's time for American education to make a major course correction.

From The Daily Signal, don't cry over the aforementioned Associated Press getting kicked out of White House press conferences.

From The American Conservative, how Pentagon Undersecretary of Policy nominee Elbridge Colby could prevail over the America-lasters.

And from SFGate, biologists will monitor wildlife on San Francisco's Farallon will leave them for the first time in almost 60 years.