Saturday Stories

On a sunny but cool Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the incoherence of musician and Time "Person of the Year" Taylor Swift.

From Townhall, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) angers liberals - again.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a teachers union director is arrested for allegedly shutting down traffic outside a pro-Israel conference in Denver.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is the front-runner to replace New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D).

From The Federalist, U.N. climate scientists want governments to answer to them, not to the people.

From American Thinker, President Biden meets the German Gestapo.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC host Ali Velshi "yawns" at the false accusation that the U.S. has "aided and abetted genocide".

From Canada Free Press, a surveillance computer known as the "Hammer" is "the key to the coup".

From TCW Defending Freedom, a review of the Ridley Scott film Napoleon.

From Gatestone Institute, stopping Iran's mullahs or setting them up?

From The Stream, the LGBTQ movement rewrites history.

From The American Conservative, to fight illegal immigration, "deport and deter".  (This article is about immigration policy in the U.K., not the U.S.  Unfortunately, it's the only article from today by TAC that is not behind a subscription requirement, and thus becomes the only one I could link for today's blog post.  Naturally, I prefer articles from this source that pertain to the U.S. rather than other countries.  But then, its principles might also be appropriate for the U.S.)

From BizPac Review, President Joe Biden gets tight-lipped about his son Hunter's indictment.

From The Daily Wire, police in Stewart County, Tennessee arrest a China national in the U.S. on a green card for allegedly running a marijuana growing operation out of a church.

From the Daily Caller, one Republican presidential candidate easily beats Biden in the latest poll, and it's not former President Trump.

From the New York Post and the "you can't make this up" department, a New York Fire Department paramedic is arrested for alleged drunk driving after hitting a New York Police Department car.  (Hopefully, no NYPD officers will drive any of their cars into a firetruck.)

From Breitbart, how illegal human smuggling kills.  (As I've probably mentioned before, one of the many non-racist non-xenophobic reasons for opposing illegal immigration is the danger, often lethal, to the illegal migrants themselves.  I also believe that while illegal migrants deserve to be faulted for their own lawbreaking, the real villains of illegal migration are the human smugglers and the Western citizens who support and condone such migration.)

From Newsmax, according to a poll by The Wall Street Journal, Biden's approval rating has reached a new low.

And from the Genesius Times, the island once owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein is sold to a wealthy Middle Eastern businessman named Haadid Nahkil Muhssef.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the indefensible and shameless First Son Hunter Biden.

From FrontpageMag, could the U.S. go through a "Weimar" period?

From Townhall, on this Chanukah, we should promise to defeat our oppressors, higher education.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration responds to record illegal immigration by proposing to making entry to the U.S. even easier for migrants.

From the Washington Examiner and the "new math" department, Washington, D.C. has a voter registration rate of 131 percent.

From The Federalist, the charges against the aforementioned Hunter Biden are so straightforward and stale that they could have been made during 2019 or 2020.

From American Thinker, it's time to hold Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable.

From MRCTV, the University of Pennsylvania loses a $100 million donation due to its refusal to condemn calls for genocide of the Jews.

From NewsBusters, the "big three" networks actually spend over 12 minutes on Hunter Biden's new indictment.

From Canada Free Press, "climate model failures".

From TeleSUR, after Venezuela votes to "defend" the region of Essequibo, shares of ExxonMobil stock fall for three straight days.

From TCW Defending Freedom, despite the claims of climate fearmongers, hurricanes are not getting more frequent or powerful.

From Snouts in the Trough, the stupidity of making the wrong measurements.

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin announces that he will run for another term.

From Voice Of Europe, Germany's left-wing government takes in Afghan expelled from Pakistan after living there illegally.  (Apparently, deporting illegal aliens is OK when Pakistan does it.)

From ReMix, Ukrainian truckers find a way to bypass a border blockade imposed by Polish truckers.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo indicts 53 former Serbian police officers and military troops for a massacre in the village of Meja in 1999.

From The North Africa Post, two Emirati firms announce plans to build two desalinization plants in the Moroccan region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, rockets are launched at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.

From The Jewish Chronicle, the executive director of CAIR was "happy" so see Hamas's attacks on October 7th.

From Gatestone Institute, what is really behind the later Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people".

From The Stream, no, Eve was not transgendered.

From The Daily Signal, a short history of President Biden's long record of lying about family business.

From The American Conservative, under the old Bowl Championship Series system, Florida State's football team would have been ranked no. 3.

From The Western Journal, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) go at each other live on Fox and Friends.

From BizPac Review, Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin accuses former Fox News reporter Tucker Carlson of lying about statements made by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

From The Daily Wire, more on the three-times-aforementioned Hunter Biden's new criminal charges.

From the Daily Caller, the aforementioned Tucker Carlson reveals what it would take for him to be former President Trump's running mate in 2024.

From the New York Post, an appeals court upholds but narrows the gag order imposed on Trump.

From Breitbart, Border Patrol agents apprehend over 50,000 migrants during the first week of December.

From Newsmax, military personnel will receive a 5.2 percent pay increase in the annual defense bill.

From CBS News, a woman allegedly tries to set fire to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home in Atlanta.  (via Newsmax)

And from Not the Bee, a teenage trans girl, who had competed as a boy, wins the Southern Region girls 14-and-under Irish dancing competition.

Stories For Pearl Harbor Day

On a cool cloudy Thursday falling on the anniversary of the "date which will live in infamy", here are some things going on:

From National Review, the House votes to censure congresscritter Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for pulling a fire alarm.

From FrontpageMag, Hamas still holds children hostage.

From Townhall, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the U.S., which is advising President Biden, celebrates the October 7th attacks by Hamas.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the fourth Republican presidential debate left out the mainstream media, which Republicans regard as a good thing.

From the Washington Examiner, the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT expose the moral rot within their respective institutions.

From The Federalist, yes, you are to blame for inflation - sort of.

From American Thinker, former President Trump promises to be a "dictator" for one day and the left goes nuts.

From MRCTV, according to congresscritter Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the threat of a terror attack increases every day due to our open borders policy.

From NewsBusters, PolitiFact picks a fight with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) because he admires President Calvin Coolidge.

From Canada Free Press, have yourself a merry little Christmas in the style of right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson.

From TeleSUR, the MERCOSUR presidential summit in Brazil gets underway.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the climate zealots set their sights on our cows.

From EuroNews, German train drivers announce a 24-hour strike.

From Voice Of Europe, Denmark outlaws publicly burning the Koran.

From ReMix, Berlin, Germany pays €1.5 million per day to house migrants in 12 buildings.

From Balkan Insight, the Pristina Basic Court sentences three persons to two years in prison each for attacking a Kosovo journalist.

From The North Africa Post, Niger and Mali nullify tax treaties with France.

From The New Arab, security concerns escalate ahead of Iraq's provincial elections, as followers of the Sadrist movement forcibly close the headquarters of the Al-Hikma movement.

From The Jerusalem Post, the German state of Saxony-Anhalt requires applicants for citizenship to recognize Israel's right to exist.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Hamas is reportedly "proud" to "sacrifice" the citizens of the Gaza Strip.

From Gatestone Institute, the organization National Students for Justice in Palestine is "Hamas on campus".

From The Stream, do scientists need to do a better job of lying?

From The Daily Signal, what you missed in the last Republican presidential debate.

From The American Conservative, the recruiting crisis in the military is not a mystery.

From The Western Journal, according to an unnamed source, former First Lady Melania Trump wants her husband to choose the aforementioned Tucker Carlson as his running mate.

From BizPac Review, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) has an interesting time at the fourth Republican presidential debate.

From The Daily Wire, schools across the U.S. push kids into chatrooms where they can discuss transgenderism with LGBTQ adults.

From the Daily Caller, thanks to the Biden administration, employing an au pair girl is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From Breitbart, South Carolina will stop investing in Disney due to its embrace of far-left activism.

From Newsmax, Operation Israel, which was formed in response to Hamas's terror attacks on October 7th, sends over $6.5 million worth of equipment to the front lines.

And from the New York Post, if you have $55,000 lying around, you can have your own doomsday bunker.

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, then-Vice President or private citizen Joe Biden used several email aliases to correspond with a business partner of his son Hunter.

From FrontpageMag, did any Palestinian Arabs try to save any Jews during Hamas's attack on October 7th?

From Townhall, did former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) just torpedo her presidential campaign?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a foreign aid plan from Democratic Senator could put American tax dollars into the pockets of terrorists.

From the Washington Examiner, most Americans want a smaller government and lower taxes.

From The Federalist, the abortion policy opposed by Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is just the tip of the policies imposed on the U.S. military.

From American Thinker, Democrats are no longer sing the praises of "Bidenomics".

From MRCTV, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) accidentally admits that boys and girls are different.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Jerry Carl (R-AL) sends a letter to Google CEO Sunday Pichai over the censorship of a pro-life pregnancy center.

From Canada Free Press, the West is slowly marching toward suicide.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan government plans to investigate alleged links between ExxonMobil and opposition politicians.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Elgin Marbles, the Benin Bronzes, and brainwashed children.

From EuroNews, the French parliament passes a law protecting the right of roosters to crow.  (If you read French, read a related story at BFMTV.)

From Voice Of Europe, Estonia considers giving its Ministry of Defense the power to stop foreign ships.

From Reuters, Polish truckers block military aid to Ukraine.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From ReMix, Germany starts cutting down parts of the Reinhardwald forest, a setting for some of the Grimm fairy tales, to make room for bird choppers.  (I thought that environmentalists loved trees, but it looks like some trees are more equal than others.  If you read German, read the story at Junge Freiheit.)

From Balkan Insight, a double murder in North Macedonia results in unpleasant consequences on various media.

From The North Africa Post, Malian forces send the leader of an ISIS-related terrorist group to his virgins.

From The New Arab, what can we expect from Egypt's upcoming presidential election?

From The Times Of Israel, according to a doctor, at least 10 released hostages were sexually abused while held by Hamas.

From Gatestone Institute, why do Islamists claim land on which few if any Muslims live?

From The Stream, the #MeToo lawsuit carnival needs to be stopped.

From The Daily Signal, according to a study, gender reassignment surgery is not a solution for mental health issues.

From The American Conservative, former Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) announces his upcoming resignation from congress.

From The Western Journal, more on congresscritter McCarthy's resignation.

From BizPac Review, still more on McCarthy's resignation.

From The Daily Wire, Jeremy's Razors debuts its women's line, because women are not men.

From the Daily Caller, an illegal alien from Romania who committed crimes before coming to the U.S. is released by the government, and goes on to allegedly commit more crimes in the U.S.

From the New York Post, top executives at Sam's Chinese Asian Imports admit being unable to predict the "puzzling" consumer behavior to occur in 2024.

From Breitbart, Pope Francis signs a statement affirming the "global climate crisis".  (Has this statement been translated into Chinese?)

From Newsmax, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) wants to sue the College Football Playoff committee over the exclusion of undefeated Florida State University from the playoffs.  (I, too, don't like FSU being excluded, but I don't think that politicians have jurisdiction over this matter.)

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, would anyone like some fish?  (via the New York Post)

A Few Late Things For Tuesday

Now that I've run around on a cool Tuesday with some light rain, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the angry mob who gathered outside a Jewish-owned store in Philadelphia are nutjobs.

From FrontpageMag, those who claim to fight against Big Brother are the real Big Brother.

From Townhall, to steal a line from Deep Purple, "some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground".

From The Washington Free Beacon, at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, Ivy League schools show their hypocrisy on free speech.

From the Washington Examiner, the Village Board of Manteno, Illinois gives the green light to an electric vehicle factory that will be Chinese-owned.

From The Federalist, don't blame Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for dropping his protest against the Pentagon's abortion policy, but instead blame his feckless Republican colleagues.  (What, exactly, is this "feck" that these GOPers lack?  Too bad that it sounds like another word that begins with "f".)

From American Thinker, President Biden would have been a perfect subject for writer Charles Dickens.

From MRCTV, the left throws tantrums over "misgendering".

From NewsBusters, journalist Michael Shellenberger claims that left-wing billionaires George Soros and Michael Bloomberg want energy to be scarce.

From Canada Free Press, civilization needs fossil fuels.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the climate mob's bad science needs to be addressed.

From The Daily Sceptic, can't the U.K.'s politicians see the damage they are doing by pursuing Net Zero?  (This article comes via Snouts in the Trough, because this article and SitT have the same author.)

From The Jerusalem Post, British police investigate a claim that Jewish children were not allowed to board a bus.

From Gatestone Institute, can the Palestinian Authority be "revitalized"?

From The Stream, happy talk from the West is dangerous.

From BizPac Review, a former member of the Mexican mafia "kind of laughed" at the supposed motive of the prisoner who allegedly tried to stab former officer Derek Chauvin to death.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Patrick McHenry (R-NC) announces his retirement, to the delight of some of his right-wing colleagues.

And from the Rolling Stone, musician Denny Laine, of the Moody Blues and Wings, goes to Rock 'n' Roll Heaven.

Monday Mania

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

From National Review, calls for an "Intifada revolution" break out in Philadelphia.

From FrontpageMag, pistols, AK-47s, grenades and uniforms are found in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, but The New York Times doesn't say anything.

From Townhall, bank records show money going directly from Hunter Biden to the "Big Guy".

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Derek Tran (D-Cal) doesn't want anyone to know that he used to be a personal injury lawyer.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump responds to an accusation by former congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) by admitting its opposite.

From The Federalist, if Republicans want to win, they need to be smarter and tougher than Senator James Lankford (R-OK).

From American Thinker, for the West to survive, it must get rid of "immigrationism".

From MRCTV, a Menorah lighting ceremony in Williamsburg, Virginia is canceled because it might offend people who hate Jews.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC defends President Biden from impeachment, claiming that there's "no hard evidence" that he did anything wrong.

From Canada Free Press, the Cult of Climate Change will soon convene in Dubai, UAE.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelans vote in favor of regarding the region of Essequibo as part of their own country.

From TCW Defending Freedom, your questions about pilots and vaccines answered.

From Snouts in the Trough, will Dubai's ladies of the evening have a busy week?

From EuroNews, a Spaniard saves migrants who were thrown off a boat near the Spanish coast.

From Voice Of Europe, over half of the Polish people haven't started their Christmas shopping.  (Even yours truly, an American with some Polish ancestry, has already started shopping for Christmas.  If you read Polish, read the story at Rzeczpospolita.)

From ReMix, according to Polish sejmcritter Robert Telus, Prime Minister Donald Tusk's new majority has proposed legislation to allow Germans to buy Polish land in order to build bird choppers.  (A sejmcritter is the Polish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.  In fairness, Telus does not call them "bird choppers", but I use this term because that's what wind turbines sometimes do.)

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia sets dates for its upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

From The North Africa Post, according to Emirati official Razan Al Mubarak, Morocco leads the way in the MENA region and Africa in climate action.

From The New Arab, according to Human Rights Watch, the UAE is "choking" on its own air pollution.

From Jewish News Syndicate, antisemitism breaks out in Morocco.

From The Steyn Online, the "diversity stabbing of the day".

From Arutz Sheva, celebrating Hamas's barbarity is only of an institutionalized nihilistic worldview in Western academia.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.N. and Hamas are partners in crime.

From The Stream, talking with transgender people.

From The Daily Signal, Democrats should not be surprised by the radicalism on their left flank, including some in my neck of the woods.

From The Western Journal, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) ends his presidential campaign.

From Fox News, the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government learns that the FBI interviewed a priest and a choir director before characterizing certain Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.

From BizPac Review, Snopes fact-checks an alleged statement made by Trump, and draws (figurative) fire from the left.

From The Daily Wire, a teacher in my neck of the woods is investigated by her school system for allegedly making social media posts including a list of wealthy Jews in her area.

From the Daily Caller, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) demands answers about cabinet officials traveling to the UAE for the latest climate conference, and the resulting expenses.

From the New York Post, congresscritter, "Squad" member, and fire alarm puller Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) draws a primary challenge from a staunch supporter of Israel.

From Breitbart, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) blocks Senator Marsha Blackburn's (R-TN) request for the flight logs from the late Jeffrey Epstein's plane.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Bryan Steil (R-Wis), election interference is "a real issue".

And from The Babylon Bee, in order to get feminists to stop accusing him of rape, former comedian Bill Cosby joins Hamas.

Sunday Stuff

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

From National Review, a U.S. warship and multiple commercial ships reportedly came under attack in the Red Sea.

From Townhall, a whistleblower calls attention to "undisguised calls for the murder of Jews" at Harvard University.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the book Tyranny of the Minority.

From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter James Comer (R-KY), Republican congresscritters have the votes necessary to start an impeachment inquiry against President Biden.

From American Thinker, what was the biggest problem with then-Senator Barack Obama's (D-IL) presidential candidate.

From NewsBusters, actresses apologize for their outrageous comments on the Israel-Hamas war.

From Canada Free Press, when it comes to money, "Qatar is Hamas and Hamas is Qatar".

From TeleSUR, the Yanomami people vote in Venezuela's referendum over the region of Essequibo.  (I learned about the Yanomami during a college course in cultural anthropology.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, Christians must unequivocally support the Jews.  (The article mentions the districts of Podgórze and Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland.  My 2000 trip to Hungary, Slovakia and Poland included a visit to Kazimierz.)

From India Today, a secondary school principal in Sheikhpura, Bihar, India receives death threats after female students are asked to remove their hijabs in classrooms.  (via OpIndia)

From CNN, four people are killed and dozens of others wounded in an explosion at a Sunday Mass held in a university gymnasium in Marawi, Philippines.

From Arutz Sheva, an op-ed about "Nazis, Muslims and the Jews".

From Gatestone Institute, Russia and Ukraine have both reach the "decimation point".

From The Stream, a question for the critics of the New Apostolic Reformation.

From The Daily Signal, the recently departed retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor shattered glass ceilings and became an inspiration.

From The Western Journal, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announces that he's on the Colorado presidential primary ballot with a message targeting his own party.

From BizPac Review, a man is arrested for allegedly killing three homeless people in Los Angeles was already in custody over a fourth victim.

From The Daily Wire, Governor DeSantis refuses to "play the media's game".

From the Daily Caller, how well is former President Trump doing in the polls?

From the New York Post, former congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) is gonna be in the movies.  (He appears to have a talent for making up stories, so it looks like he'll fit right into show business.)

From the Daily Mail, according to a new book, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) became a "pariah" and clashed with then-Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, according to Director of Research Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute, a Biden impeachment for bribery is an "open and shut case".

From Newsmax, according to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the aforementioned bombing was the work of "foreign terrorists".

And from Fox News, Washington Commanders (and former Virginia Tech) cornerback Kendall Fuller is criticized for supporting the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the NFL's "My Cause My Cleats" program.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For Saturday

On a cloudy and mild Saturday, here are 12 things going on:

From the Daily Caller, the U.N. took 56 days to condemn Hamas's rapes of female Israelis.

From Newsmax, during a speech in Iowa, former President Trump claims that the Biden administration's economy is "running on fumes".

From the New York Post, according to former White House advisor Steve Bannon, the expulsion of former congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) could lead to a "civil war" among Republicans.

From Breitbart, a father and son are arrested near Thessaloniki, Greece for allegedly passing off adulterated sunflower oil as olive oil.

From American Thinker, a teenage Israeli girl kidnapped and later released by Hamas is able to keep her dog with her throughout the ordeal.

From the Daily Mail, a trans refugee from Saudi Arabia waves a sign telling Israel to "burn in hell" at a pro-HamasPalestinian rally in London and afterwards claims to have not understood it.

From RAIR Foundation USA, a "brewing Islamic storm" in India.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran will soon have nuclear weapons, which it could share with its proxies.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why does the West ignore the persecution of Christians?

From NewsBusters, will the media do their job in 2024?

From Townhall, why America's Founding Fathers were right.

And from Fox News, retired Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten coaches a Texas high school football team to a state championship.

More Friday Fuss To Start December

On a cool rainy Friday which is December 1st, other than the previously noted expulsion of now-former congresscritter George Santos (R-NY), here are some things going on:

From National Review, Governors Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gavin Newsom (D-Cal) give Americans a real debate.

From FrontpageMag, American Jews have not learned how to fight against left-wing antisemitism.  (I've realized that antisemitism comes and has come from multiple directions, both right and left, both white and black, and both Christian and Muslim.)

From Townhall, look who put a stop to the aforementioned DeSantis-Newsom debate.

From The Washington Free Beacon, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre keeps violating a federal ethics rule.

From the Washington Examiner, Republican congresscritters put one major condition on First Son Hunter Biden's offer to testify.

From The Federalist, the "felonies, feces and failure" in California should end Governor Newsom's political career, but they won't.

From American Thinker, were the tapes from January 6th edited?

From Politico, Argentina says "no thanks" to the BRICS.  (via American Thinker)

From MRCTV, recording artist Lizzo shows that the laws of physics don't care about your feelings.

From NewsBusters, hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin of The View defend Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), but their guest Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) disagrees.

From Canada Free Press, the WHO sets its sights on what Americans eat.

From TeleSUR, the International Court of Justice sides with Venezuela after a request from Guyana to suspend a referendum over the region of Essequibo.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a show about climate change on the U.K.'s Channel 4 makes some false claims.

From Snouts in the Trough, how long before the native British are a minority in their own country?

From EuroNews, winter comes to the war in Ukraine, bringing along some impressive rats.

From Voice Of Europe, Poland allows 600 tons of agrichemical waste from Belarus to pass through, on its way to France.  (My spellchecker has no problems with "agrichemical".  If you read Polish better than I do, read the story at RMF 24.)

From ReMix, the Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences inaugurates an observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.  (Mikołaj Kopernik, a.k.a. Nicholas Copernicus, would be proud.)

From Balkan Insight, an opposition candidate for a seat on the Belgrade, Serbia city assembly withdraws due to a leaked private video.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. State Department praises Morocco's strategy against terrorism.

From The New Arab, Egyptian authorities detain four foreign activists who were protesting against Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.

From Arutz Sheva, an 85-year-old man who had co-founded a kibbutz was reportedly killed by Hamas terrorists, who are still holding his body.

From the Hungarian Conservative, "the ongoing Islamic dilemma".

From Gatestone Institute, the hate and corruption behind the curtain of Human Rights Watch.

From The Stream, Angel Studios releases The Shift, which combines faith and science fiction.

From The Daily Signal, Israel must finish the job against Hamas.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Karine Jean-Pierre ends a press briefing after an African reporter tries to ask a question.

From BizPac Review, a fiery exchange takes place between Republican congresscritters Max Miller (OH) and George Santos (NY) just before the latter gets expelled.

From The Daily Wire, Hamas terrorists violate the ceasefire with Israel with rocket attacks, to which Israel responds.

From the Daily Caller, after soon-to-be-former congresscritter Bill Johnson (R-OH) is hired as the new president of Youngstown State University, actor and Youngstown native Ed O'Neill promises to call it "Trump-U".

From Breitbart, congresscritter Brandon Williams (R-NY) goes on a tirade against a former staffer, with plenty of foul language.

From Newsmax, an Illinois appeals court upholds the convictions and sentence of hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett.

And from the New York Post, what it's like to ride the Beam at the Rockefeller Center's Top of the Rocks.

Congresscritter Santos Gets Expelled

Congresscritter George Santos (R-NY) is now former congresscritter Santos.  He has become the sixth representative to be expelled from the House, the first three getting the boot during the Civil War.  He also becomes the first Republican to be expelled.  The vote was 311-114 in favor of expulsion, well above the two-thirds supermajority requirement.

May the proverbial door not hit him in the dupa on the way out.

Read more at the New York Post, Politico, The Hill, ABC News and NBC News.