Wednesday Wanderings For The End Of September

Now that I'm back from wandering around the southwestern U.S., on a warm and partly sunny Wednesday falling on the last day of September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a pilot flying a FlyDubai jet full of Israeli passengers going to Tel Aviv stabs his co-pilot and attempts to crash the plane, but is thwarted by passengers.

From FrontpageMag, the aforementioned attempt to crash a plane just might be part of a pattern.

From Townhall, gun control advocates want no one of any age to own guns.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) strategy for protecting Jews gets denounced by Jews.

From the Washington Examiner, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signs a law banning ICE from using its shock gloves in California.

From The Federalist, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) is caught in a lie about his position in trans issues.

From American Thinker, the planned Mesabi steel plant in Iowa is President Trump's "tariffs in action".

From NewsBusters, are flock cameras a tool for fighting crime or a tool of mass surveillance?

From Canada Free Press, how to take back America by not outsourcing our minds.

From TeleSUR, millions of Brazilians attend a rally held by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Salvador de Bahia.

From Snouts in the Trough, is there yet more proof that U.K. police and judges are "enemies of the people"?

From EuroNews, the U.K. ends its "one in, one out" migrant return deal with France.

From Free West Media, why conservative politicians are regarded as more attractive.

From ReMix, data from Berlin shows that Europe's housing crisis is really an immigration crisis.

From Balkan Insight, tracing the cigarette smuggling through the mountainous borderlands of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, the African Development Bank Group grants Morocco €270 million to modernize its airports.

From The New Arab, when in Oman, please refrain from riding the turtles.

From Gatestone Institute, the "America first" policy doesn't mean that Israel is last.

From The Daily Signal, gas prices put into perspective.

From The American Conservative, why a potential impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth terrifies Republicans.

From The Western Journal, accused murderer Lindsay Clancy's defense team screams at a black member of the media as they enter a courthouse for a retrial hearing.

From Fox News, Attorney General Todd Blanche announces voter fraud charges against 10 lawful immigrants in Minnesota.

From BizPac Review, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) claims that 100,000 Virginians were kicked off SNAP, but those people might not really be Virginians.

From the Daily Wire, a deadly drug can be found right next to the candy bars.

From the Daily Caller, the Senate votes down an insider stock trading ban.

From the New York Post, a Connecticut man gets 92 months in prison for trying to support ISIS.

From Breitbart, according to a study, fans of musician Taylor Swift aren't all that bothered by her use of a private jet.  (Apparently, producing carbon dioxide is OK when she does it.)

From Newsmax, according to Senator John Husted (R-OH), Democrats are blocking his Ratepayer Protection Act just to deny Republicans a victory on affordability.

And from the Genesius Times, the WNBA bans all of its fans from its game after one of them pointed at Las Vegas Aces player A'ja Wilson.  (Is she named after a certain Steely Dan album?)

Tuesday Tidbits

On a warm and mostly cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what happened at the U.K. air force base?

From FrontpageMag, according to a left-wing judge on the Michigan state Supreme Court, monkeys have rights but unborn human babies don't.

From Townhall, the holdout juror in the trial of accused murderer Lindsay Clancy finally speaks out.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a watchdog, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund sent nearly $32 million to non-profits based in China.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), then-special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed at least 4,782 checks from donors to then-candidate Donald Trump.

From The Federalist, an alleged gang rape at Cornell University could be a hoax, which would not be the first such event.

From American Thinker, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear's (D) new religion.

From NewsBusters, ABC, CBS and NBC spend a total of almost 29 minutes on confrontations with ICE while going Sergeant Schultz on crimes committed by illegal aliens.

From Canada Free Press, it's not heaven, it's just the United States of America.

From TeleSUR, El Salvador records its highest coffee harvest since the 2012-2013 season.

From EuroNews, two Hungarian assemblycritters are detained under Prime Minister Péter Magyar's "Operation Purge".

From ReMix, a Turkish woman living in Germany allegedly commits €11 million in fraud.

From Balkan Insight, Belgrade, Serbia Mayor Aleksandar Šapić denies punching city councillor Tatjana Mićić.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI appoints Fatima El Mansouri as the head of government, the first woman to be designated as such.

From The New Arab, who has committed sabotage against Syria's gas network.

From Digitalshield, the conflict between sacred law and international law in Morocco.

From The Straits Times, the Israeli air force sends a senior Hamas commander to his virgins, and the U.S. finally gets out of Iraq.

From Organiser, why do Sunni Muslims in the Indian state of Keralam support the Shia Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia?

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranian judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei demands a crackdown against women who disobey Iran's hijab law.

From Kabul Now, the Afghanistan Journalists Center calls for support as the Taliban intensifies its crackdown on the media.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Jihad Watch, Turkish President Erdoğan speaks against "the occupying Zionist mindset".

From Resonate, a South Korean college student is sentenced to at least a year in prison for pledging allegiance to ISIS and planning a bomb attack.

From AA, California officially recognizes the Islamic holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.  (My spellchecker doesn't like "Fitr" and "Adha", but has no problem with "Eid".)

From Heartlander News, a Christian journalist sues Dearborn, Michigan for allegedly favoring Muslim holidays over Christian and Jewish ones.  (The last 10 stories, including two from The Straits Times, come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, is selling F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia a gift to China?

From The Daily Signal, a new bill introduced by Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) would prevent welfare agencies from accusing parents who don't "affirm" their children's trans status of child abuse.

From The American Conservative, on some issues, President Trump should be more like congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY).

From The Western Journal, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from a high-profile climate change case.

From BizPac Review, journalist Chris Cuomo predicts that journalist Scott Jennings will leave MAGA.

From the Daily Wire, a look at Trump's crackdown on crime in Memphis, Tennessee a year later.

From the Daily Caller, a woman on death row in Tennessee claims to feel a "kinship" with the aforementioned Lindsay Clancy.

From Breitbart, U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to import more asylum seekers from Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.

From Newsmax, if you have the qualifications, you can join ICE.

And from the New York Post, if you have $4.4 million lying around, you can buy a mansion in Hollywood Hills, California which was once covered in graffiti.

Monday Mania

Now that I'm back from New Mexico, let's see if I can remember how to do my normal blogging.  On a mild and cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, a leftist passes for non-white.

From Townhall, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) creates a scholarship program, but not for her fellow Americans.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Angie Nixon (D-FL) faces a criminal referral about allegedly concealing back taxes and student loans from the body she wishes to join.

From the Washington Examiner, Republican congresscritters demand that a lawyer for ActBlue testify over its foreign donor screening.

From The Federalist, a document on abortions for trans youth should be seen as a preview of California Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) potential presidency.

From American Thinker, middle class wages have risen faster during Trump's presidencies.

From Newsbusters, the MS NOW show Morning Joe tries to revive the Daniel Penny case.

From Canada Free Press, Americans voted for deporting illegal aliens.

From TeleSUR, Peru offers sustainable tourism.

From Snouts in the Trough, if you want a decent government pension in the U.K., don't ever get a job.

From EuroNews, Russian forces strike Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv.

From ReMix, after a 93-year-old woman is found dead in her house in Toulouse, France, police arrest an unclothed illegal migrant from Sudan, also found in the house.  (If you read French, read the story at La Dépêche.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo parliamentcritters express "deep concern" over the war crimes convictions of four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Mauritania agree to upgrade a road between their El Guerguerat border crossing to the latter's capital of Nouakchott.

From The New Arab, Moroccans protest their country's deepening ties with Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian Authority President Mahmood Abbas tells the U.N. that reforms carried out by his government are complete, but the evidence doesn't agree.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, President Trump is transforming the U.N.'s failures into American savings.

From The American Conservative, a quiet change to immigration enforcement is a quite significant.

From The Western Journal, Trump is set to announce the construction of what will be the largest steel production plant in the U.S.

From BizPac Review, singer and Trump supporter Nicki Ninaj tells young Americans to "vote red".

From the Daily Wire, five men are arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb a British air base hosting American forces, and then released on bail.  (The DW is allowing me to read this article without subscribing or registering, so I'm passing it on to you.  I hope that this will be their policy from now on.)

From the Daily Caller, FBI Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey announces his resignation after one year on the job.

From the New York Post, NBA record holder LeBron James joins the Philadelphia 76ers in hopes of extending his records.

From Breitbart, according to a study, politically biased spam filtering by Microsoft and Google obstructed an estimated $117 million in fundraising for Trump and Republicans.

From Newsmax, more on the aforementioned new steel plant.

And from The Babylon Bee, Trump announces a plan to give Iran a yuge wooden horse.

One Last Stop

On my way back from Santa Fe to the Albuquerque airport, I stopped to see the Mormon Battalion Monument near a former trading post called Budaghers.  There's a small parking lot near the monument and a bench you can sit on, but not too much else that's very close.

Another Walk In Santa Fe

Today I've pretty much taken it easy, but I got in another walk, going to downtown Santa Fe.  The first thing I wanted to see was the Palace of the Governors, originally built by Spanish colonists in 1610.  Used during periods of Spanish, Mexican and American governance, it was designated as a museum in 1909.  This is the south side of the palace, seen from its west end, with its name above a window.  The section of the adjacent street, Plaza Avenue, in front of the palace is reserved for pedestrians.

More From The Road In Utah

With my visit to Natural Bridges National Monument complete, I retraced my course back to Utah route 95 and drove eastward to route 261 and went south.  This drive was uneventful until I reached the Moki Dugway, a three-mile section of road that includes a gravel surface, grades of up to 10 percent, and switchbacks; and excludes any painted lines.  Soon after the pavement gave way to gravel, I stopped at a pullout and took this picture of some nearby cliffs.

Natural Bridges National Monument

The farthest west I traveled yesterday was to Natural Bridges National Monument.  I continued westward on Utah route 95 and found route 275, which pretty much exists to connect the monument to the rest of the U.S.A.  The monument features three natural bridges and a set of Puebloan ruins, which all may be visited by following a one-way loop road.  For all three bridges, there are viewing points and trailheads along the road, which may be used depending on how much hiking you want to do.  The first bridge seen from the road is Sipapu Bridge, named after a Hopi word for a small hole or indentation in the floor of a kiva.

Mule Canyon Ruins

Further along Utah route 95, west of the Butler Wash Ruins, is the Mule Canyon Interpretive Site.  This site includes ruins that are much closer to the road than those of Butler Wash, which may be reached via a modern walkway.  The site is not actually in Mule Canyon, but on higher ground above and to the south of it.  A hiking trail about a mile long connects to a side road east of the interpretive site and leads into the canyon and a site called House On Fire.  The largest section of the ruins at the interpretive site are seen here.

Butler Wash Ruins

After I left Blanding, Utah, I continued south on U.S. route 191 and then west on Utah route 95 and found the parking area for the Butler Wash Ruins.  From there, a trail leads to a viewing place to see the ruins.  According to various signs, the relevant authorities want them to be seen from a distance.  Most of the ruins that I saw are in the upper right alcove, as seen here.

Edge Of The Cedars

As expected, I didn't arrive back in Santa Fe until pretty late last evening.  Thus, I processed my pictures earlier this morning, and now they're "submitted for your approval", as a certain TV host used to say.

My explorations yesterday took me around southeastern Utah.  My first stop was the Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in the city of Blanding.  The park includes a museum building and ruins that were inhabited by ancestral Pueblo people from around 825 to around 1225 AD.  While waiting to pay my admission fee, I encountered a bunch of people on a Road Scholar tour, including a couple from my adopted home state.  If you walk out the back of the museum, you see the ruins, modern walkways, and an informational display.

Four Corners

As mentioned in my previous post, I went to the northwest corner of New Mexico.  This is where it meets the northeast corner of Arizona, the southeast corner of Utah, and the southwest corner of Colorado.  The Four Corners Monument is reached by a road that connects to U.S. route 160 in New Mexico, and is run by the Navajo Nation.  As you walk in from the parking lot, which is south of the monument, here is what you might see.  The flags include one from each state.

Salmon Ruins

Today I ventured away from my temporary home base in Santa Fe to the northwest corner of New Mexico - quite literally.  On the way, I stopped at the Salmon Ruins, which I first visited on an archaeological tour in 2005.  This site was built around 1090 AD by people from the Chaco culture, occupied later by San Juan Puebloans, damaged by fire, subsequently abandoned, and later homesteaded by a family named Salmon.  I'm pretty sure that unlike the similar word for a fish, the "l" in their name is not silent.  Part of their homestead is still here, protected by a metal structure.

A Walk In Santa Fe

This morning, I decided to take a walk and get some exercise here in Santa Fe, Mexico, which is now my disclosed location.  I went to a place called Historic Fort Marcy, but it doesn't have anything that looked like a fort, or remnant thereof.  It has a walkway leading up from this street-side entrance.

Salinas Pueblo Missions - Abó

After visiting the Quarai and Gran Quivira units of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, I returned to the town of Mountainair and proceeded west on U.S. route 60 to the Abó unit.  The main structure of the unit is the ruins of a church and adjacent pueblo ruins.  This is a view from the unit's parking lot.

Salinas Pueblo Missions - Gran Quivira

After visiting the Quarai unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, I got onto New Mexico route 55 and proceeded southward back to the town of Mountainair and then continued for about 25 more mile to the Gran Quivira unit of the monument.  A ramp leads from its parking up to a small visitor center and then to the large structure seen here.

Salinas Pueblo Missions - Quarai

Today I ventured out of my undisclosed location and visited all three units of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.  I started by going to the monument's visitor center in Mountainair, New Mexico, near the intersection of U.S. route 60 and New Mexico route 55.  Going north on NM 55 brought me to the small town of Punta de Agua and the Quarai unit.

I know that this post and others from this trip are very late in the day.  It's not just the time zone difference, but I took so many pictures that I had to recharge my camera before I could transfer them to my computer.  So please forgive me, or just go to bed and read these posts in the morning.  Anyway, here's the Quarai church, most likely built by the local natives under the direction of Spanish missionaries.

Greetings From New Mexico

Earlier today I arrived at my latest undisclosed location in New Mexico.  Like I did when I visited Taos 10 years ago, I flew into Albakoykee and then toyned left to reach Interstate 25.  I know this post seems late, but out here it's only a few minutes before 8 p.m.  Naturally, I plan to see the sights and provide reports.  See all youz soon.

Saturday Stories

On a warm and cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, America does not need the Kennedy Center.

From Townhall, liberal media outlets lash out at President Trump's press crackdown.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "that's no moon".

From the Washington Examiner, according to CENTCOM, oil and gas shipments through the strait of Hormuz have hit a six-month high.

From American Thinker, Trump's new agreement with Denmark and Greenland checks all the right boxes.

From NewsBusters, PBS criticizes Trump's changes to the naturalization process, but omits how war criminals were previously allowed through.

From Snouts in the Trough, is Pakistani-educated Dr. Amir Bhatti improving the U.K.'s NHS?

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are trying to stop the takeover of Western civilization.

From The American Conservative, the Trump administration's use of paid influencers is nothing new.

From BizPac Review, why the Chief Twit, a.k.a. the world's richest man, is living in a motor home.

From the Daily Caller, Virginia Democrats want abortion in the state's constitution, but many of the state's Catholics could stand in the way.

From the New York Post, a federal judge temporarily blocks the University of California from enforcing parts of its policy about "misgendering".

From Breitbart, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America resigns after being filmed restraining two PETA protesters.

From Newsmax, Denmark and Greenland are "cautiously optimistic" about the aforementioned agreement with Trump.

And from Fox News, a Virginia beauty queen becomes the first married woman and the first mother to win the Miss USA pageant.  (via Page Six)

Friday Phenomena

On a warm and rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one way or another, change will come to Cuba.

From FrontpageMag, CAIR imposes blasphemy rules on a school board member in my state.

From Townhall, why Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) objects to Fox News buying Roku.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Yale University President Laurie McInnis gets an F.

From the Washington Examiner, the E.U. floats more "associate members" besides Canada, which one of its diplomats calls "bull[bleep]".

From The Federalist, the backlash to actress Sydney Sweeney's ad for the sports trading market Novig exposes the hypocrisy of liberal feminists.

From American History, a long history of doomsday predictions that did not become true, but there's one which will.

From NewsBusters, CNN's inconsistency about women showing skin.

From Canada Free Press, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney a participation trophy.

From TeleSUR, the current El Niño could reduce the Panama Canal's revenue by up to $400 million in 2027.

From Snouts in the Trough, why to some businesses never learn when going woke makes them broke?

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy launches the "Carpathian Eight" alliance, pledging cooperation on security, energy and trade.

From Free West Media, how Morocco became Israel's most important security and defense partner in Africa.

From ReMix, a French military chaplain disparages leftists, to which soldiers applaud.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Indépendant.)

From Balkan Insight, protesters demonstrate in Pristina, Kosovo over the verdicts against four former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is reportedly planning to acquire Israeli LORA missiles.

From The New Arab, is change coming to Tunisia?

From The Jerusalem Post, President Ahmed al-Sharaa is "secretly" building up Syria's military.

From Gatestone Institute, three things about which Israelis are concerned, which are not Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah.

From The Daily Signal, Democrats go to the left coast to seek campaign cash.

From The American Conservative, can President Trump alone fix the upcoming midterm elections?

From The Western Journal, European leaders reportedly panic over U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's plans to withdraw some U.S. troops from the region.

From BizPac Review, a Democratic operative shares a "shady as [bleep]" for senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) in an undercover video.

From the Daily Caller, Democratic congresscritters demand a federal investigation into "modern-day lynchings" that really aren't.

From Breitbart, director Greta Gerwig and Netflix get blasted for casting actress Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Chronicles of Narnia movie The Magician's Nephew.

From Newsmax, an ICE officer pleads not guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI about a nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis.

And from the New York Post and the "you're fired!" department, Trump kicks CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters out of the White House press booth.

Thursday Things For Constitution Day

On a warm and cloudy Thursday, on the anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Constitution, here are some things going on:

From National Review, no, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not make your food dangerous.

From FrontpageMag, the collapse of feminism has begun.

From Townhall, the rule of law should not be based on "feelings".

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Palestinian journalist group manipulates Western organizations "to pass off terrorists as journalists".

From the Washington Examiner, the aerospace company Lockheed Martin boasts of faster production of interceptor missiles.

From The Federalist, a law firm files a suit against Dearborn, Michigan alleging religious discrimination in favor of Islam.

From American Thinker, "in praise of constitutions" on Constitution Day.

From NewsBusters, seven new crimes allegedly committed by illegal aliens that ABC, CBS and NBC are ignoring.

From Canada Free Press, the hypocrisy of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's quest for foreign investment.

From TeleSUR, Brazil leads the overall medal count at the Santa Fe 2026 South American Games.

From EuroNews, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that AI could create a "silicon species" that could rival humans.

From ReMix, 74 percent of sex-crime suspects in Spain's Basque Country are not Spanish.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at The Objective, which despite the English name, is in Spanish.)

From Balkan Insight, Romanian President Nicuşor Dan nominates europarliamentcritter Siegfried Mureşan to form a new government.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan company OCP Group and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University honor female farmers at an international gathering in the city of Benguerir.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia plans to mine uranium from a recently discovered deposit.

From Gatestone Institute, why allowing Hamas to participate in upcoming Palestinian elections would be a horrible mistake.

From The Daily Signal, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins responds to concerns about AI from rural Americans.

From The American Conservative, Secretary of State Marco Rubio shores up U.S. allies in South America.

From The Western Journal, headlines like "hottest summer ever" are not science.

From BizPac Review, former Vice President Harris plans to stump for senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich).

From the Daily Caller, the University of Washington reportedly scrubbed a Pentagon-funded professors ties to a Chinese company.

From the New York Post, the top 20 baby names during the 1990s have plummeted in popularity since then.

From Breitbart, as the aforementioned Mark Carney addresses the European Parliament, chants of "USA!" break out.

From Newsmax, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blocks Senator John Kennedy's (R-LA) proposed legislation that would require tech companies to develop a "kill switch" for AI.

And from SFGate, fans at San Francisco Giants games are perturbed about mysteriously shrinking chicken tenders.

Wednesday Whatnot

As the warm and sunny weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why someone like Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) can't be ruled out for the 2028 presidential campaign.  (Since Cruz was born in Canada, he himself might not be eligible.)

From FrontpageMag, online converts to Islam show us what it's all about.

From Townhall, FBI Director Kash Patel confirms that the Biden administration spied on lawful gun owners.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) picks a "gay communist" for a senior government position.

From the Washington Examiner, the Federal Reserve raises its interest rate target in spite of President Trump.

From The Federalist, the sports media are more offended by Texas quarterback Arch Manning laughing at an AI video of something that never happened in real life than they are at male athletes beating women.

From American Thinker, the Houthis in Yemen inadvertently helped both the U.S. and Israel.

From NewsBusters, median household income set a record high in 2025.

From Canada Free Press, September 14th, 2026 will be remembered as the night when the Supreme Court betrayed America.

From TeleSUR, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva demands that the Brazilian Supreme Court investigates its judges so that none of them remain under suspicion.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K. is not having economic growth, but a recession.

From EuroNews, fives takeaways from a speech by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

From ReMix, due to a global shortage of interceptor missiles, Poland plans to transfer some Patriot missiles to Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague sentences former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi to 25 years in prison and three co-defendants to terms ranging from 13 to 25 years for war crimes.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is set to become the U.K.'s third largest foreign supplier of sweet peppers.

From The New Arab, 21 Palestinians are killed and many others are injured or missing in a collapse of a war-damaged building in Gaza City.

From AA, according to a senior Iranian nuclear official, Iran does not trust the International Atomic Energy Agency.

From Middle East Forum, what Turkish National Intelligence Organization head İbrahim Kalın's visit to Athens means as Turkey prepares for war.

From Afghanistan International, according to the Pakistani army, dozens of terrorist groups are operating in Afghanistan.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, the hijab debate in central Asia heats up as girls go back to school.

From The Straits Times, the German government proposes new security measures after an attack on a Pride parade.

From i24, a Pennsylvania man is arrested over an alleged ISIS-inspired plot.

From Gatestone Institute, American scholar Robert Spencer discusses stealth jihad in the West.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, the EPA has removed a billion-dollar barrier to reliable electric power.

From The American Conservative, will right-wingers constrain AI?

From The Western Journal, an illegal alien from Haiti who shouted "Biden forever!" while being arrested is deported by ICE.

From BizPac Review, CodePink picks the wrong congressional hearing to disrupt.

From the Daily Caller, the House goes on leave without addressing AI, the debt, or mass surveillance.

From the New York Post, how then-Vice President Harris's presidential campaign lied about entertainers Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny.

From Breitbart, a nonprofit cofounded by Muslim activist Linda Sarsour urges Muslims to register to vote.

From Newsmax, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approves legislation to prevent government officials from pressuring private companies to censor speech.

And from Page Six, the U.K.'s King Charles III issues a "blistering" response to claims made in Charles Spencer's book about the death of his sister Princess Diana.

Tuesday Tidings

As the warm and sunny weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, imagining what a normal president (you know, not like Trump) might say about AI.

From FrontpageMag, there are valid concerns about AI, and stupid ones, too.

From Townhall, why do Democrats despise the requirement that immigrants wishing to obtain American citizenship should be self-supporting?

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed's (D-Mich) imam delivered an "absentee funeral prayer for a slain Hamas leader.

From the Washington Examiner, AI leaders have a new message for President Trump.

From The Federalist, California police are using Flock cameras to spy on a small village - in Wisconsin.

From American Thinker, leftists don't and never did understand the market economy.

From NewsBusters, Massachusetts steals a teenager from her Catholic parents to transition her.

From Canada Free Press, the TV series The Prisoner showed the difference between the community and the collective.

From TeleSUR, on their Independence Day, Hondurans in the capital city of Tegucigalpa mark against President Nasry Asfura.

From Snouts in the Trough, does anybody do hate like leftists?

From EuroNews, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys, NATO is "committed and ready" after a drone is shot down over Lithuania.

From Free West Media, after inaction by authorities, locals in Ceuta, Spain take action to clear the enclave's beaches.

From ReMix, a Ukrainian company "that puts children on sale" is not allowed to operate in Warsaw, Poland.

From Balkan Insight, europarliamentcritters slam Serbia for its "disturbing" funeral for the late Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić.

From The North Africa Post, the group Polisario's welcoming of an offer of Spanish citizenship to Sahwaris born under Spanish colonial rule exposes its hypocrisy.

From The New Arab, Syria plans to reinstate about 14,000 teachers who were dismissed from their jobs under then-President Bashar al-Assad.

From ABC News,  rapper Macklemore is dropped from musician Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour after his "free Palestine" remarks.  ("A" stands for "Australian".)

From Organiser, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim meets with Indian Grand Mufti Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliyar despite his comments about women.

From Punch, Nigerian authorities arrest six kidnappers in the state of Adamawa, and a Boko Haram terrorist surrenders in the state of Borno.

From The Straits Times, the Houthis in Yemen strike targets in Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, due to China's proxy conflicts, is World War III upon us?

From The Daily Signal, a new way to teach about the West.

From The American Conservative, illegal immigration has turned Europe into a crime-ridden mess.

From The Western Journal, while leaving his home to return to work, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appears to be in even worse shape than former President Biden.

From BizPac Review, journalist Sue O'Connell went after the holdout on the Lindsay Clancy jury, and now has to defend herself.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) announces that he will force a vote on impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

From the New York Post, the aforementioned holdout juror's brother reveals some details about why he voted guilty.

From Breitbart, authorities in Ceuta, Spain report 35 alleged sexual assaults in 45 days.

From Newsmax, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise its short-term interest rate.

And from the Genesius Times, climate advocates pray to Saint Greta to bring hurricanes and to fulfill the prophecy of former Vice President Al Gore.

Monday Links

On a warm and sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, against President Trump's proposed "dividend".

From FrontpageMag, animal rights activists have no problem when Muslim migrants kill animals.

From Townhall, a juror from the Lindsay Clancy trial pretty much admits that they had a political agenda instead of justice in mind.

From The Washington Free Beacon, despite warnings from police, current senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) promoted a hate crime hoax in 2012.

From the Washington Examiner, former CIA director David Petraeus and former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly escape a Russian drone attack on at a Ukrainian railroad station.

From The Federalist, four women's colleges fleece the federal government by admitting men who claim to be women.

From American Thinker, just over a year has gone by, but right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's absence still hurts.

From NewsBusters, almost half of young American voters are still undecided.

From Canada Free Press, if the U.S., the West, and the free world are to survive, Marxist, socialist, communist and progressive candidates must be rejected.

From TeleSUR, acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez appoints new officials for the Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

From EuroNews, vetoes from France and Slovakia deepen the E.U. deadlock on renewed sanctions against Russia.

From Free West Media, behind mass media manipulation.

From ReMix, a Palestinian migrant who raped five women in Denmark gets his original life sentence greatly reduced.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian presidential elections will test Prime Minister Rumen Radev's hold on power.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria severs ties with Morocco and the UEA and moves closer to Iran.

From The New Arab, now that the Syrian Democratic Forces have been dissolved, what's next for Syria's Kurds?

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinians have a "dead-end" choice of either Fatah or Hamas.

From The Daily Signal, Trump and Republican victories give voters plenty to be lured by.

From The American Conservative, it's time for restoration, not conservation.

From The Western Journal, 60 Minutes tries to prove that pardons can be bought from Trump, but beclown themselves instead.

From TMZ, actress Hayden Panettiere died from taking oxycodone laced with fentanyl.  (via The Western Journal)

From Fox News, the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed reportedly protested against "ex-terrorists" who converted to Christianity.

From BizPac Review, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) challenges Republicans to condemn Texas Railroad Commissioner Bo French and they answered the challenge.

From the New York Post, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) still doesn't have a federal security clearance.

From Breitbart, former President Obama reemerges to lead efforts by Democrats to focus on AI.

From Newsmax, White House deputy press secretary Lauren Bis reports the large decrease in violent crime during Trump's second term.

And from The Babylon Bee, climate activists warn that the lack of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean this year is due to global warming.

A Sasquatch's Sunday Dozen

On a very warm and sunny Sunday, here are 12 things going on:

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, here are some promises that the Republicans can make which will help them win in this coming midterms.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about al-Qaeda's plans after 9/11.

From the Washington Examiner, the never-ending terror against Israeli border communities.

From American Thinker, for the media and AI, there's no such thing as left-wing extremism.

From NewsBusters, a claim that gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton (D-OH) was assaulted isn't holding up.

From Snouts in the Trough, a guide to which masks are legal in the U.K. and which are not.

From ABC News, a man in Melbourne, Australia goes on trial for allegedly possessing violent extremist content.  (In this case, "A" stands for "Australian".)

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. 25 years after 9/11.

From The American Conservative, President Trump's relations with China are his quiet foreign policy success.

From Brain Flushings, the children of the late Somali dictator Siad Barre have been living in Ohio for decades.

From Fox News, Trump tells Ukrainian President Zelensky to stop doing one thing against Russia.

And from Gateway Pundit, a woman who was told that she was carrying the baby of a single father finds out that the baby's father is really a Chinese billionaire who also reportedly has at least 100 other children.

Saturday Stuff For Jan Sobieski Day

On a warm and cloudy Saturday falling on the anniversary of the day when Polish King Jan Sobieski drove the Ottoman Turks from Vienna, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, watching Harry Potter movies is "trans genocide".

From Townhall, a pro-Palestinian "streaker" runs onto the field during the Mets-Yankees baseball game, at 9:11 p.m.

From the Washington Examiner, why conspiracy theories about 9/11 persist after 25 years.

From The Federalist, schools and corporate media write the Islamic terrorists out of 9/11.

From American Thinker, meet congressional candidate Shelly Headon (D-NC).

From NewsBusters, some media outlets make the 9/11 anniversary about bashing President Trump.

From Snouts in the Trough, does "NHS" now stand for "Non-British Health Service"?

From The Straits Times, how useful have proxies such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis been to Iran?

From Gatestone Institute, how to finish the wounded regime of Iran.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book about the War in Terror.

And from the New York Post, a movie depicts a Nazi death camp guard who lived undetected for years - in New York City.

Remembering 9/11, And Today's Stories

Today is the 25th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11/2001, against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, by airplane hijackers from the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda.  Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center and another flown into the Pentagon.  A fourth plane was possibly intended for the Capitol building or White House in Washington, D.C., but due to the actions of the passengers, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Back then, I was working in Arlington, about a mile away from the Pentagon.  Along with my coworkers, I could see smoke rising from the Pentagon.  We heard reports of a nearby gas station being on fire, and of a fire on the Mall in D.C., but these turned out to be wrong.  Commercial air travel was grounded for several days just to make sure that no more planes would be used as suicide projectiles.

Memorials were eventually built in New York, in Arlington next to the Pentagon, and in the field near Shanksville.  I visited the Shanksville memorial in 2006, 2008 and 2012, and blogged my latest visit in September of that last year.  Have we learned anything from 9/11?  The answer is probably a matter of opinion.

****
Today, as the warm and cloudy weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, how the U.S. has changed in the 25 years since 9/11.

From FrontpageMag, the miniseries about 9/11 that the left didn't and still doesn't want you to see.

From Townhall, what a reporter saw while going undercover at the Chicago Socialists Conference.

From The Washington Free Beacon, why the terrorists hate us.

From the Washington Examiner, speaking at the Pentagon, President Trump honors the victims of the 9/11 attacks.

From The Federalist, after 9/11, we needed a closed border but instead got spied upon and forced-fed halal food.

From American Thinker, revisiting then-private citizen Donald Trump's role as a champion for New York City after the 9/11 attacks.

From NewsBusters, when left-wingers attacked the unity of 9/11.

From Canada Free Press, "shadows from 9/11".

From TeleSUR, Chile observes the 53rd anniversary of the coup d'état that overthrew President Salvador Allende and installed dictator Augusto Pinochet.

From Snouts in the Trough, if you want to get rich, join the RNLI.  (The organization's full name is Royal National Lifeboat Institution.)

From EuroNews, the U.K. House of Commons rejects an assisted suicide bill for England and Wales.

From ReMix, a gay German man recalls his Muslim classmates beating him for being German and gay, in Wuppertal, Germany.

From Balkan Insight, authorities in the Bosnian canton of Tuzla indict seven people over a fire in a nursing home.  (Tuzla is the place where then-First Lady Hillary Clinton claimed to have been under fire, which she later retracted as being "exaggerated".)

From The North Africa Post, Royal Moroccan Football Federation president Fouzi Lekjaa declares the the 2030 World Cup final soccer match will be held in the province of Benslimane.

From The New Arab, after a diplomatic break, Algeria bans the UAE from its airspace.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the president of the International Freedom Coalition recalls traveling on a plane to Washington, D.C. on 9/11.

From Deutsche Welle, German authorities indict seven suspected Hamas members for allegedly plotting an attack on Israeli or Jewish targets.

From Organiser, six minor Hindu girls are kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to Muslim men.

From Middle East Forum, what's next for U.S. counter-Islamism policy?

From The Jewish Chronicle, according to an opinion column, 25 years after 9/11, we still haven't learned anything and allow Islamist hate to flourish.

From Culture Watch, 25 years after 9/11.

From The Jerusalem Post, the attacks by Hamas on October 7th, 2023 show that agreements can mask the next attack.  (The last seven links come via The Religion Of Peace, which is now part of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International.)

From Gatestone Institute, the U.K. "no longer belongs to its own people".

From The Daily Signal, has American forgotten 9/11?

From The American Conservative, the generation made by 9/11.

From The Western Journal, newly declassified documents show the repeated warnings received by Presidents Clinton and Bush the Younger.

From LifeNews, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood killed a Colorado woman in a botched abortion and was never held accountable.

From BizPac Review, a Nigerian chieftain allegedly defrauds California of $34 million.  (He's not a Nigerian prince, just a chieftain.)

From the Daily Caller, declassified CIA documents show warnings about a terror plot that preceded 9/11.

From the New York Post, a former CIA agent allegedly stashes $40 million in gold bars in his home.

From Breitbart, CBS Mornings host Gayle King is shocked to learn that the holdout in Lindsay Clancy jury is a black man.

From Newsmax, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tells everyone to stay vigilant.

And from ABC News, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority votes unanimously to rename Nashville International Airport after recently departed musician Dolly Parton.  (via Newsmax)