Thursday Tidbits

On a mild and sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, diversity of opinion about the "Cornell 7" is not welcome at Columbia University.

From FrontpageMag, in defense of voting based on realism.

From Townhall, The Washington Post omits some important facts about a D.C. middle school baseball coach who was detained by ICE.

From The Washington Free Beacon, records show that senatorial candidate Troy Jackson's (D-ME) "logging" company is really a consulting firm.

From the Washington Examiner, the sneaky Democrat strategy in Alaska.

From The Federalist, the U.S. is headed for either mass immigration or mass deportation.

From American Thinker, former President Bush the Younger was and still is wrong about 9/11.

From NewsBusters, The View had no problem earlier this week with the fake Dan Sullivan in Alaska.

From Canada Free Press, a "diagram of a leftist revolution", of which France is merely a preview.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez announces transformations, labor dialogue, and reforms.

From Snouts in the Trough, hey leftists, what about the genocide in Nigeria?

From EuroNews, the foreign policy and governing challenges facing the Student List movement in Serbia.

From Free West Media, an oil spill near the Strait of Hormuz could cause a water crisis.

From ReMix, according to former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, current Prime Minister Donald Tusk could win next year's parliamentary elections but still fail to form a governing majority.  (If you read Polish better than yours truly, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, 11 police officers and two prosecutors are suspended after the latest femicide in Kosovo.

From Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, Athens, Greece has its own "Mount Trashmore".  (FfJE appears to be a subsidiary of Balkan Insight.)

From The North Africa Post, almost 35 percent of Moroccan exports are from its automotive industry.

From The New Arab, Yemeni authorities accuse the Houthis of using banned toxic substances in attacks in the Province of Taiz.

From the Colombo Gazette, 14 university students participate in a training program on hydrography and marine geospatial information at the Sri Lanka National Hydrographic Office.

From the Daily Mirror, shortages of cards prevent Sri Lanka from producing drivers licenses, and national identity cards.

From Raajje, former Maldivian parliamentcritter Yaugoob Abdulla warns that waiting until 2028 to replace the current Maldivian government could be back for the education sector.

From the Bangkok Post, a mishap at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi airport is attributed to ground subsidence.

From The Straits Times and maybe the "what could go wrong?" department, visitors to the Singaporean island of Sentosa can book rides on self-driving shuttles starting in early 2027.

From Tempo(dot)Co, student protesters call for Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to dismiss Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni over his alleged failure to address forest fires.

From Free Malaysia Today, the party Perikatan Nasional announces five of the six candidates it will field in the upcoming election in the Malaysian state of Melaka.

From the Borneo Post, according to Finance Minister Amir Hamzah Azizan, the Malaysian government is increasing the allocation for all of the country's states, with Sabah and Sarawak getting the most.

From Counterview, the challenges faced by women who leave Islam are highlighted at a conference in London.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. needs to learn from its own successes.

From The Daily Signal, before President Trump goes to a rally in South Carolina, his administration highlights five illegal aliens recently arrested in that state.

From The American Conservative, some FBI agents finally face justice over former First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

From The Western Journal, a State Department employee who lost her job after throwing a drink at an NBA game tells her side of the story.

From BizPac Review, a woman wearing a burka tries to turn a Pinellas County, Florida council meeting into an Islamic call to prayer and is escorted out.

From the Daily Wire, the Wisconsin Supreme Court opens a new investigation into a judge who helped an illegal alien evade ICE.

From the Daily Caller, small towns in Texas payed tens of thousands of dollars on performances by Tejano singer and congressional candidate (D-TX) Bobby Pulido.

From the New York Post, former (and very briefly) White House press secretary Katie Zacharia spars with journalist Piers Morgan over her private chats with Trump.

From Breitbart, screenwriter/director Adam Sorkin admits that he's not good as a director after his film The Social Reckoning flops.

From Newsmax, federal investigators found evidence in 2016 that then-private citizen Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage was fraudulent.

And from SFGate, the creepiest street in California has lured weirdos and sci-fi fans for a long time.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, what did congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) father do in Somalia before emigrating to the United States?

From FrontpageMag, the left is indeed coming after your family.

From Townhall, the truth about a deported illegal alien which 60 Minutes called a "Texas father".

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) gets cozy with a Hamas-supporting editor who thinks that Jews should be sent "back to Poland".

From the Washington Examiner, former President Obama is half right about the war against Iran.

From The Federalist, some things which the left has accused President Trump of doing which they claim that no other presidents have done were in fact done by other presidents.

From American Thinker, why the left won't leave everyone else alone.

From NewsBusters, more on the aforementioned 60 Minutes bashing the deportation of an illegal alien.

From Canada Free Press, deceitful Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is caught up in his own words.

From TeleSUR, over 300 American soldiers will participate in military exercises in Colombia.

From Snouts in the Trough, why do economic "experts" know nothing about economics?

From EuroNews, the E.U. plans to give the border agency Frontex new powers to deport migrants to non-E.U. countries.

From Free West Media, according to a U.K. researcher, Ukraine's military losses far exceed those of Russia.

From ReMix, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is reelected as the leader of the Lega party.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Il Giornale.)

From Balkan Insight, the party Student List wins an outright majority in Serbia's parliamentary elections.

From The North Africa Post, starting next year, smoking and vaping in Morocco is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From The New Arab, the terrorist group Hezbollah prepares for a resumption of hostilities against Israel after it receives more money from Iran.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban in Afghanistan signs a $15.5 million deal with the company Paktia Mawj to supply water to the capital city of Kabul.

From Hasht e Subh, according to WHO and UNICEF officials, Taliban personnel are interfering with vaccination efforts in the Afghani province of Helmand.

From the Afghanistan Times, Afghanistan and Iran start round-the-clock operations at the Milak border crossing.

From Dawn, Pakistan seeks investment from the U.S. for projects to upgrade oil refineries.

From The Express Tribune and the "I like turtles" department, what happened to the Olive Ridley sea turtles, which were once common around Karachi, Pakistan?

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif launches a program to distribute 500,000 Chromebooks to and provide internet facilities for talented students.

From Gatestone Institute, while Israel is merely the pretext, the real target of terrorists the entire West.

From The Daily Signal, the dramatic one-year drop in crime during the first year of Trump's second term.

From The American Conservative, at least one Democratic group understands the failings of their party.

From The Western Journal, in a straw poll, Secretary of State Marco Rubio opens a large lead over Vice President J.D. Vance.

From BizPac Review, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci uses George Orwell's Animal Farm to take a swipe at gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH).

From the Daily Wire, 48 foreigners are charged with allegedly illegally voting in U.S. elections.

From the Daily Caller, Americans are paying hundreds of dollars for health insurance that some don't even use.

From the New York Post, hundreds of ballots are found in an open hallway at a homeless shelter in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles.

From Breitbart, writer-director Aaron Sorkin's movie The Social Reckoning fails dismally at the box office.

From Newsmax, the AI company Anthropic is sued for copyright infringement for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs without authorization.

And from The Babylon Bee, after a late-night ballot drop, former U.S. President Biden wins the Brazilian presidency with 81 million votes.

A Bit Of Wednesday Whatnot

Now that I'm back from wandering around on a sunny and unseasonably warm Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, may everyone have a happy election month.

From FrontpageMag, Jews in the New York City borough of Manhattan who want to appease terrorists get a taste of Hamas.

From Townhall, senatorial candidate Roy Cooper (D-NC) threatens to sue a media outlet for asking about his age.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump announces that Taiwan has agreed to purchase 30 percent of natural gas shipped through a new pipeline in Alaska and to invest in the project.

From the Washington Examiner, the Chief Twit claims that Trump and the U.S. military place speed restrictions on Starshield communication systems.

From The Federalist, an op-ed in The New York Times shows why voters concerned about affordability should be wary about Democrats if they regain power.

From American Thinker, why should Virginia enshrine abortion in its constitution?

From NewsBusters, the tale of two inflation rates just got worse for the left-wing media.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s "Miliband magic strikes again".

From Deutsche Welle, a Ukrainian citizen goes on trial in Germany for alleged involvement in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

From Polskie Radio, the wreckage of a Polish military drone is found on a beach in the village of Karwia on the Baltic Sea coast.

From Radio Prague, according to the NGO Transparency International, the European Commission has confirmed that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has a conflict of interest.

From The Slovak Spectator, police officers are under investigation for allegedly speeding through Bratislava, Slovakia with their sirens on.

From Daily News Hungary, a Soviet bomb from World War II is found at a construction site in Budapest, Hungary.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian parliament passes a "gender law" in line with demands from the E.U.

From Organiser, Azerbaijan tells Turkey to refrain from interfering with its internal affairs in response to criticism of its ban on hijabs in schools.

From IranWire, the Iranian musical group Pallett cancels its nationwide tour because of restrictions imposed on their female musician.

From The Guardian, an Iranian woman is sentenced to death for "blasphemy" over a social media post.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, Russian President Putin's "ceasefire" trap.

From The American Conservative, against livestreaming an execution.

From BizPac Review, girls in Washington state walk out of a cross-country race to avoid competing against a fake girl, and their parents explain why.

From the Daily Wire, an illegal alien whose sob story of being arrested while shopping "captured the nation" turns out to be a wife-beater.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice issues almost a dozen subpoenas in their investigation of congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min), including some to members of her family.

From the New York Post, former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is now an influencer and shares her opinion of her former boss.

From Breitbart, congressional candidate Melat Kiros claims to come from a longer generation of "proud black socialists".

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Montana is not communist.

And from SFGate, a Jack Russell terrier from California who was lost in Yellowstone National Park for over a month has been found.

Rainday Links

On a cool and rainy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, the Daughters of the American Revolution disbands a chapter for trying to keep fake women out.

From Townhall, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), all 93 years of him, files for re-election in 2028.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about Mary Kay Ash and her cosmetics empire.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump announces an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine.

From American Thinker, former President Obama's Death Star is hopeless.

From NewsBusters, CNN host Audie Cornish faults Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for not joining the Fort Hood shooter's firing squad.

From EuroNews, a man is arrested for allegedly planning to attack Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

From Free West Media, when so-called anti-fascism attacks democracy.

From The Straits Times, the Houthis in Yemen warn everyone to stay away from airports in Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe is not only missing the AI train, but is now banning the tools.

From The American Conservative, China has some "gray-zone options" against Taiwan.

From the Daily Wire, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) likens his past criticism of Obama to second-guessing a parent.

From Breitbart, Hurricane Isaias leaves almost 396,000 people without power in Alabama and Florida.

From Newsmax, Catholic League communications director Michael McDonald discusses a documentary about Americans whose religious freedoms have allegedly been violated.  (Mr. McDonald should not be confused with the musician with the same name.)

And from the New York Post and possibly the "Darwin Award nominee" department, a Siberian tiger who killed an idiot visitor who entered his enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England will not be euthanized.

Saturday Links For 10/10

On a mild and mostly cloudy Saturday falling on the tenth day of the tenth month, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, senatorial candidate Ken Paxton (R-TX) slams his rival James Talarico's (D-TX) two-week disappearance.

From The Washington Free Beacon, six plausible theories for the aforementioned James Talarico's absence.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a U.N. whistleblower, Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay is "complicit in the Uyghur genocide".

From American Thinker, why data from Venus undermines the consensus on global warming from greenhouse gases.

From NewsBusters, staff writer David Brooks of The Atlantic blasts both Democratic and Republican senatorial candidates.

From Gatestone Institute, some facts which the media and many politicians don't want to admit.

From The American Conservative, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee should resign.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Glenn Beck reveals a strategy for denying the Fort Hood shooter "martyr" status.

From the Daily Wire, the FlyDubai hijacker planned a 9/11 attack on an Israeli airport.

From the Daily Caller, what it will take to keep an American presence on the moon.

From the New York Post, thieves steal about 30,000 bottles of wine worth an estimated $5.8 million from a winery in the Italian region of Tuscany, described as Italy's largest wine theft ever.

From Breitbart, former Vice President Harris's husband reportedly doesn't want her to run for president again.

From Newsmax, speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York, President Trump rips New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) and promises to help gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman (R-NY).

And from SFGate, the biggest concert held in Berkeley, California is still being heard from 36 years later.

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, the alarming drone plot, possibly by Iran, in the U.K.

From FrontpageMag, a U.K. cabinet member admits that most Muslim migrants are willing to rape.

From Townhall, look whom The Boston Globe wants to blame for the incident at Cornell.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a survey, U.S. college students prefer socialism to capitalism.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump decides against attacking Iran before the midterm elections.

From The Federalist, media hypocrites go Sergeant Schultz on then-Special Counsel Jack Smith's attack on freedom of the press.

From American Thinker, a Lindsay Clancy copycat crime might be even worse.

From NewsBusters, the success of people like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos and the Chief Twit should be celebrated.

From Canada Free Press, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking Canada and the West for a ride.

From TeleSUR, Peru's Ministry of Culture recovers 342 pieces of the country's cultural heritage.

From Snouts in the Trough, "because they hate".

From EuroNews, the E.U. presses Russia for more information on the suspected plague case in Siberia.

From ReMix, a woman raped next to a statue of Karl Marx in Germany says that her attackers spoke Persian.

From Balkan Insight, the Bosnian state court indicts a Catholic priest for allegedly glorifying a Bosnian Croat war criminal.

From The North Africa Post, a subsidiary of the Moroccan company OCP Group will be involved in developing Senegal's national gas pipeline network.

From The New Arab, Syria denies that it will send any troops to Yemen.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran fuels the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, thus preventing the disarming of terrorists.

From The Daily Signal, federal and state authorities in Louisiana a network of Hamas financiers allegedly committing Medicaid fraud.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. should bring its forces home from around the world.

From The Western Journal, one of the men accused in the aforementioned incident at Cornell files a court petition to remove New York state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case.

From Fox News, an armed man tries to enter a federal courthouse in Nashville and thus makes his last mistake.

From BizPac Review, the aforementioned Chief Twit and others go to the White House to receive the U.S.'s greatest scientific honor.

From the Daily Wire, a purity test breaks New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From the Daily Caller, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches an investigation into vaccine injuries.

From the New York Post, Buc-ee's is no longer America's favorite convenience store.

From Breitbart, a pastor stands up against a former city council member who hailed Satan during the opening prayer at a meeting of the Ottumwa, Iowa city council.

From Newsmax, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI claims to be 90 percent certain that China has planted spies in both companies.

And from Page Six, while performing in Paris, Canadian singer Celine Dion falls but keeps on going without missing a beat.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, actor Tom Cruise's film Digger is a climate hoax satire.

From FrontpageMag, the cover model for the men's issue of New York magazine is.....(You'll have to click on the link to find out, but I'll call this person "Dylan Mulvaney in reverse".)

From Townhall, what senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) gets wrong about having 1,000 millionaires instead of one billionaire.

From The Washington Free Beacon, The New York Times gets hypocritical about tax breaks.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican is renewing an "alliance" with "artists and cultural institutions" against AI.

From The Federalist, climate activists want the Supreme Court to impose the Green New Deal, which voters rejected, onto American industries.

From American Thinker, three classes that all college students should be required to take.

From NewsBusters, ABC, CBS and NBC upward revisions of GDP data.

From Canada Free Press, when Chicago made a Rosary of balloons.

From TeleSUR, Paraguay hosts over 8,000 competitors from 91 countries at the World Skate Games.

From EuroNews, Hungary and Ukraine edge closer to a deal on the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine, which could unblock Ukraine's efforts to join the E.U.

From ReMix, one French woman is burned with a makeshift flamethrower and another is beaten by a mob in rioting by students.  (If you read French, read the story at BMF.)

From Balkan Insight, the late Bosnian Serb politician Biljana Plavšić was a "war criminal who withdrew her remorse".

From The North Africa Post, Morocco exports 75 percent more blueberries to Switzerland during the year ending this past June than it did one year earlier.

From The New Arab, Egypt starts building a railway to the town of Taba in the Sinai region, raising concern in Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, Congress has the means to provide fusion power to the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, a look at the Democratic Socialists of America's policy to end the nuclear family

From The American Conservative, is Russia planning to attack a NATO country, as alleged by Ukrainian President Zelensky?

From The Western Journal, leftists don't approve as rapper Eminem makes a guest appearance on Kid Rock's upcoming Christmas album.

From BizPac Review and the "no good deed goes unpunished" department, the manager of a Kroger food store is fired for trying to protect an elderly co-worker from shoplifters.

From the Daily Wire, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) wants an "independent" investigation into the "Cornell 7".

From the Daily Caller, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy exchange some words.  (Language warning)

From the New York Post, four astronauts set a U.S. speed record going to the International Space Station.

From Breitbart, migrants contaminate a beach in Ceuta, Spain with their [bleep].  (If you read Spanish, read the story at El Faro Ceuta.)

From Newsmax, due to various complications, the Kennedy Center Honors will be held at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

And from the eponymous site of Douglas V. Gibbs, how understanding Thomas Jefferson requires considering the context.

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 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.

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.

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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)

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial declares a mistrial.

From FrontpageMag, a "practicing Muslim" migrant allegedly kills two people outside a gay bar in Tucson, Arizona.

From Townhall, some "totally insane" reactions to the aforementioned Lindsay Clancy mistrial.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Success Academy charter school network sues New York state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa for allegedly blocking the release of AP test scores.

From The Federalist, why Hollywood has no successors for the recently departed Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen.

From American Thinker, illegal aliens migrants in Ceuta, Spain catch and kill a baby dolphin, just for the fun of it.

From NewsBusters, the U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, which is much better than predicted.

From Canada Free Press, the real destroyer of Canadian sovereignty is Prime Minister Mark Carney.

From TeleSUR, the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego endorses President Javier Milei's proposal to establish a naval base within its territory.

From Snouts in the Trough, more fun in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

From EuroNews, five countries in the E.U. agree to set up deportation centers for illegal irregular migrants.

From ReMix, a Moroccan soccer player allegedly sexually assaults an Italian volleyball player on a cruise ship docked at Taranto, Italy.  (If you read Italian, read the story at La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo indicts 35 suspects for alleged involvement in the murder of 26 civilians at a compound run by Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari in the village of Prekaz.

From The North Africa Post, the Central Bank of Libya will host the fifth Arab Conference on Savings and Financial Literacy in the city of Tripoli.

From The New Arab, Lebanon abolishes the death penalty, but its new amnesty law divides the country and raises new questions.

From the Daily Mail, more on the aforementioned killing of a young dolphin in Ceuta.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran was losing, but the U.S. then gave it time.

From The Daily Signal, journalist Nick Shirley sues California over the law that's (unofficially) named after him.

From Radio Free Asia, North Korea prepares to open bridges to Russia and China.

From The American Conservative, President Trump gets "Bushy".

From The Western Journal, a fake Republican midterm convention link seen on Google sends interwebz users to a Department of Justice page related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

From BizPac Review, an Oregon teenager who wanted to attack ICE is sentenced to probation.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds (R-FL) unveils his immigration plan to help American workers.

And from the New York Post, in Berkeley, California, beware of rabid bats.

Thursday Tidbits

On a very warm and mostly sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, five more problems that the U.S. has largely solved.

From FrontpageMag, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed defends former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who harbored Osama bin Laden.

From Townhall, here what we know about a government shutdown possibly being averted.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Hollywood talent agency stands behind actor Mark Ruffalo after he makes an "antisemitic" rant.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump signs and executive order renaming Lake Ontario.

From The Federalist, the recently departed Dolly Parton proved that artists can be successful without vulgarity.

From American Thinker, what the defenders of accused murderer Lindsey Clancy have shown about American women.

From NewsBusters, Fox News highlights ICE arresting 1,300 illegal aliens while MS NOW goes Sergeant Schultz.

From Canada Free Press, when it comes to our taxes and votes, we should never trust and always verify.

From TeleSUR, Uruguay officially mourns musician Ruben Rada.

From Snouts in the Trough, nobody has any responsibility anymore.

From EuroNews, according to local media, two people are killed in a "violent incident" in Gosen-Neu Zittau, Germany.

From Free West Media, can the world survive Russian President Putin's mistake.

From ReMix, police in Rzeszów, Poland investigate graffiti saying "white lives matter".  (The graffiti said "white lives matter" in English, not the equivalent in Polish.  If you read Polish, read the story at toRzeszów and a related story at wPolsce24.  ReMix gave me some technical difficulties when I clicked there on Tuesday and did not publish anything yesterday, but now appears to be back to normal.)

From Balkan Insight, former Bosnian Serb Army leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić is no longer with us.  (On Tuesday, I linked a BI article indicating that Serbia made a request for his release from prison on "humanitarian" grounds.)

From The North Africa Post, a Moroccan company works on producing an AI-powered drone that would monitor water quality in reservoirs and behind dams.

From The New Arab, the death of a Syrian detainee sparks fears that Syria's prisons could become like those under former President Bashar al-Assad.

From the Daily Mail, the Berlin police department struggles to find recruits who can speak German.

From Tasnim News, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian calls for greater unity among Muslim countries.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas running in Gazan elections by another name would still be Hamas.  (To my surprise, GI did not publish anything yesterday, but is back today.)

From The Daily Signal, according to a report, the housing affordability crisis was caused by "too much socialism", not too little.

From The American Conservative, how to Russia and China from supporting Iran's war efforts.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Will Chamberlain exposes left-wing commentator Mehdi Hasan inconsistency about group responsibility for historical injustice.

From BizPac Review, congressional candidate Eric Hafner (D-AK) advances in the Democrat primary for Alaska's one House seat, even though he's in a federal prison in New York.

From the Daily Caller, Trump weighs in on Senator Ted Cruz's (R-TX) 2028 presidential ambitions.

From the New York Post, as part of a project to build 20 nuclear "micro-reactors" in the U.S., New York state will get its first nuclear reactor built since 1988.

From Breitbart, Bangladeshi Muslims living in Venice, Italy threaten action after a permit for a mosque is denied.

From Newsmax, more on Trump changing the name of Lake Ontario.

And from SFGate, after ignoring Las Vegas for 17 years, the Michelin Guide gives out some stars to the city's restaurants.

A Bit Of Wandering For Wednesday

On a warm and partly cloudy Wednesday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, five problems that the U.S. has largely solved.

From FrontpageMag, "woke 2" is even worse than "woke 1".

From Townhall, what jobs are created by data centers?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a news site funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros identifies senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) as a "veteran" in mailers sent to Michigan voters.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) rejoins the Democratic Socialists of America after an almost seven-year hiatus.  (Yes, the DSA was around seven years ago.)

From The Federalist, America can't make national treasures like the recently departed Dolly Parton anymore.

From American Thinker, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten tells people to avoid shopping at Target because they don't actively oppose ICE.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell claims that U.S. President Trump is "trying to restrict the use of the French language in Canada".

From Balkan Insight, a plea deal reveals the logistics of smuggling marijuana from Macedonia into Serbia.

From Jewish News Syndicate, London police are looking for a man seen wearing invoking a 7th-century battle against Jews.

From Organiser, a study by the World Bank shows how "conservative Islamic norms" return to Muslim countries with migrants.  (Is this "conservative" Islam one which advocates for individual rights such as freedom of speech and religion, free market economics, and limited small-r-republican government?)

From The Daily Signal, journalist Nick Shirley and Republican California lawmakers rally in Sacramento against the law intended to oppose him.

From The Western Journal, according to Israeli officials, a naturalized U.S. citizen who attempted to truck-bomb a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan was the brother of a Hezbollah commander.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Jessica Tarlov offers a "curious" defense of the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed?

From the Daily Caller, the aforementioned Dolly Parton recalled defending herself with the 2nd Amendment.

From the New York Post, the NFL's Pro Bowl has been played for the last time.

From Breitbart, the original anthem kneeler receives a humanitarian award.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter John James (R-Mich), the Democrats bear responsibility for the increasing visibility of the aforementioned Democratic Socialists of America.

And from Page Six, the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spend six figures to fly from Los Angeles to Birmingham, England on a private jet.

Dolly Parton 1946-2026

Singer/songwriter/actress Dolly Parton, one of the most successful artists in country music, has died at the age of 80 in Nashville, Tennessee.  Her nephew and longtime security chief Bryan Seaver revealed the news.  She had been admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with kidney and autoimmune issues.

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in a one-room cabin in Pittman Center, Tennessee, the fourth of the 12 children of Robert Lee Parton Sr. and the former Avie Lee Caroline Owens.  Her father was a sharecropper and later a tobacco farmer.  She started singing and eventually writing songs as a child.  After graduating from Sevier County High School in Sevierville, she moved to Nashville.  Her first success was a songwriter, sometimes in collaboration with her uncle Bill Owens.

In 1967, country music entertainer Porter Wagoner invited Parton to join his TV show The Porter Wagoner Show and his road show, staying on the former until 1974.  She then started a successful solo career, with songs such as Jolene, I'll Always Love You, Here You Come Again, and Two Doors Down.  In 1980, she starred in the movie 9 to 5, for which she wrote and sang its title song.  She later collaborated with many other artists, including Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on their album Trio.  Although Parton was known musically mainly for singing and writing, she also played instruments such as the guitar, piano, banjo, dulcimer, fiddle, recorder, autoharp and saxophone.  She also starred in more movies, including as Rhinestone, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk.  She created her own amusement park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Soon after arriving in Nashville in 1964, she met asphalt paving businessman and Nashville native Carl Dean outside a laundromat.  They were married two years later in Ringgold, Georgia.  It was the only marriage for both.  They had no children.  Dean passed away in 2025.

Read more at TMZ, Variety, People, ABC News and USA Today.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the U.S. national debt reaches $40 trillion.

From FrontpageMag, what the U.K. elites still don't understand.

From Townhall, as convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony's lawyers push for a new trial, some new details about his case come out.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Committee to Protect Journalists still includes the names of at least a 120 terrorists on its list of "journalists" killed in Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, Ceuta is in chaos as human traffickers move illegal migrants to mainland Spain.

From The Federalist, according to congresscritter Harriet Hageman (R-WY), President Trump has a way to close the birth tourism loophole.

From American Thinker, how Russia, from the Soviet era, has tried to divide America by race.

From NewsBusters, the Department of Homeland Security promises to arrest and deport an illegal alien convicted of sexual assault, even if Virginia Governor Gail Spanberger (D) protects him.

From Canada Free Press, beware of the "DINOs".

From TeleSUR, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announces new studies on 179 artifacts found in a cave used by the Zoque culture in the modern state of Chiapas.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the cooler temperatures in this past July as compared to a year earlier evidence of global warming, global cooling, or just weather?

From EuroNews, Latvia stops 28 illegal irregular migrants trying to enter from Belarus after finding a tunnel.

From Free West Media, a public pool in Berlin sets up hours exclusively for "Black communities".  (How do you say "Jim Crow" in German?)

From ReMix, when in Portugal, please keep your face visible.

From Balkan Insight, Saudi dissident Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, held in Bulgaria since 2021, is released.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian state and private media dump almost 4,000 Morocco-focused pieces in just 21 days.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese army starts taking in defectors from the Rapid Support Forces.

From New Age, authorities in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh cancel a music concert due to opposition from Islamists, who also target a boat race.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a "good question" from senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

From Gatestone Institute, the Democratic Socialists of America are "the secret stooges".

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, there's a way to end welfare as we know it.

From The American Conservative, President Trump has been successful against DEI.

From The Western Journal, the Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump's ballroom construction.

From BizPac Review, more on the aforementioned Karmelo Anthony's chances of getting a new trial.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritters bemoan the aforementioned $40 trillion debt that they helped to create.

From Breitbart, in two years, Chicago threw almost $640 million at illegal aliens.

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice seeks to question FBI officials on the search of Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

And from the New York Post, a town voted California's hottest Labor Day getaway was once a place for The Birds.