Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cool and partly cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, an IRS whistleblower who made allegations against his colleagues in the tax  case of former First Son Hunter Biden and faced retaliation is named Acting Commissioner of the IRS.

From FrontpageMag, the Supreme Court rules twice in favor of President Trump.

From Townhall, Trump skewers former President Biden for allowing illegal alien criminals into the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Trump critic Will Ruger is tapped for a post in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blocks Trump's nominations for U.S. attorney for two districts within New York state.

From The Federalist, New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) is accused of doing exactly what she prosecuted Trump for doing.

From American Thinker, Vice President Vance says what needed to be said about illegal aliens and due process.

From MRCTV, one of my Senators (D-MD) flies to El Salvador in an effort to bring a deported illegal alien back to the U.S.

From NewsBusters, the Trump administration ends $5 million in grants to a group funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations.

From Canada Free Press, California wants to let college students sleep in their cars, so what could go wrong?

From TeleSUR, Brazil grants political asylum to former Peruvian First Lady Nadine Heredia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why millions of people can't see through the global warming hype.

From Snouts in the Trough, inflation is down in the U.K., but somehow the cost of living isn't.

From EuroNews, two bodies, believed to be of migrants, are recovered from the Bug River on the Polish-Belarusian border.

From Free West Media, French historian Emmanuel Todd and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán meet to discuss the decline of the West.

From ReMix, the Syrian migrant who allegedly stabbed a man to death on the Berlin subway had six previous convictions, including a stabbing attack on his own sister, but was never imprisoned.  (If you read German, read the story at BZ.)

From Balkan Insight, after riding their bicycles for 13 days, about 80 Serbian students bring their protest cause to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.  (In 2008, yours truly rode a bike in France, for just six days.)

From The North Africa Post, Morocco agrees to purchase 600 Stinger missiles from the U.S.

From The New Arab, according to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, a government monopoly on weapons can only be secured through dialogue with Hezbollah.

From The Jewish Chronicle, a dog kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th, 2023 is rescued by the IDF in Gaza and reunited with her human Israeli family after a year and a half.  (Yes, the Hamas [bleepity-bleep]s kidnapped a dog.)

From Oneindia, two men from the Indian state of Telangana are killed and one other injured in an attack by a Pakistani national at a bakery in Dubai, UAE.

From Gatestone Institute, Texas recognizes "Pakistan Day", while Pakistan doesn't recognize human rights for non-Muslims.  (I will not hold my breath waiting for any state to recognize "Poland Day" or "Slovakia Day".)

From Radio Free Asia, the story of Sum Sok Ry, who survived Cambodia's killing fields, lived in a refugee camp, emigrated to the U.S., worked as a medic, and is now an editor with RFA.

From The Stream, China's addiction to exporting its goods is even worse than America's addition to imports.

From The Daily Signal, gun control activist David Hogg targets some Democratic incumbents for primary challenges.

From The American Conservative, the whole point of deporting illegal aliens.

From The Western Journal, was co-host Whoopi Goldberg of The View suddenly ripped off the air after agreeing with Trump?

From BizPac Review, three states step up to ban soda and/or candy from SNAP benefits.

From The Daily Wire, a right-wing media watchdog sends letters to Trump and Congress urging them to defund NPR and PBS.

From the Daily Caller, the game show Jeopardy has First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln portrayed by a drag queen.

From the New York Post, Trump slams Harvard University's hiring of former mayors Bill de Blasio (D-NYC) and Lori Lightfoot (D-Chicago) as lecturers.

From Breitbart, a review of the Netflix documentary Oklahoma City Bombing.

From Newsmax, U.S. retail sales increase by 1.4 percent in March.

And from Fox Weather, good dog! (via the New York Post)

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