Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, California's regulations drive another business away.

From FrontpageMag, George Orwell's Animal Farm celebrates its 80th birthday.

From Townhall, there's an update on the crash by an illegal alien truck driver in Florida that will [bleep] you off.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a lawsuit filed by a Washington, D.C. police sergeant, D.C. police misclassified some deaths as "accidental" to bring down the number of murders.

From the Washington Examiner, a federal judge rules against a Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools.

From The Federalist, the left gets [bleep]ed as President Trump wants immigrants to be pro-America.

From American Thinker, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) seems to think that some things are OK when Democrats do it.

From NewsBusters, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes the media to the cleaners for their opposition to Trump's actions in D.C. and his peace talks over Russia and Ukraine.

From Canada Free Press, Trump practices pragmatic diplomacy while the U.N. speaks hollow rhetoric.

From TeleSUR, an Argentine judge ends a civil case against former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a film gives a voice to the censored and vilified victims of coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, a Russian drone crashes and explodes in a cornfield in eastern Poland.

From ReMix, Germans invade the Polish city of Wrocław.  (Germans and Russians have both been pestering Poland for a very long time.  If you read Polish, read the story at wPolityce.)

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo parliamentcritters again fail to elect a speaker.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco becomes the U.K.'s top supplier of blueberries.

From The New Arab, Syria arrests a former security officer for alleged war crimes in the province of Hama.

From Arutz Sheva, the grave of the biblical figure Elazar the Priest in Awarta, Samaria (West Bank) is desecrated with Arabic graffiti.  (His name is also spelled "Eleazar".  He was a son of the priest Aaron, the brother of Moses.)

From The Jerusalem Post, a massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows the rising influence of ISIS in central Africa.

From Gatestone Institute, against trying to reach a "deal" with Russia.

From The Stream, on today's date in 636 AD, Islam started to swallow up Christendom.

From The Daily Signal, Vice President Vance encounters anti-Israel protesters at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

From The American Conservative, the sentence given to the man who fatally stabbed four University of Idaho students is worse than death.

From The Western Journal, Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) is accused of betraying Illinois citizens by signing a bill to give illegal aliens financial aid to attend college.

From BizPac Review, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unveils the illegal alien detention center "Cornhusker Clink" in Nebraska, and helps paint a section of the border wall black.  (Will the "Cornhusker Clink" have pictures of this guy?  Perhaps singer Mick Jagger will approve of Noem's painting.)

From The Daily Wire, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard moves to reduce the size of her office by nearly 50 percent.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Min) doesn't appreciate a fake video of her opining on American Eagle's jeans ad with actress Sydney Sweeney.

From the New York Post, former President Obama comes out in favor with the aforementioned Gavin Newsom's redistricting plan for California.

From Breitbart, ICE arrests of illegal aliens in Georgia increase by 367 percent.

From Newsmax, Senator and former football coach Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala) rails against the Minnesota Vikings male cheerleaders.

And from the Genesius Times, London Mayor Sadiq Khan bans "assault bacon".

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Tuesday Tidbits

On a surprisingly cool and cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, three good things came out of yesterday's summit between U.S. President Trump, Ukrainian President Zelensky, and other European leaders.

From FrontpageMag, a Palestinian Authority columnist claims that "Jesus belongs to the Palestinians".

From Townhall, MSNBC anchorwoman Joy Reid claims that white people never invented anything.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the founder of a legal group backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros resigns after her own staff accuses her of racism.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services the measles outbreak in the western part of the state is now over.

From The Federalist, a drop box camera catches alleged ballot stuffing in Hamtramck, Michigan.

From American Thinker, congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal) unleashes his version of "we will bury you".

From NewsBusters, CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane pushes crooked data on crime in Washington, D.C. and hides information about the arrest of a violent illegal alien.

From Canada Free Press, will the recent summit between Trump and Russian President Putin result in reproachment or rapprochement?

From TeleSUR, the governing Honduran party LIBRE calls for a mass rally.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when shoplifting resulted in consequences for the perpetrator.

From Snouts in the Trough, the author of SitT has been banned from YouTube.

From EuroNews, the suspect in a car ramming attack in Magdeburg, Germany is charged with murder, attempted murder, and bodily harm.

From Free West Media, what do we make of the aforementioned summit between Trump and Putin?

From ReMix, a Somali migrant is arrested after allegedly stabbing two Romanians and headbutting another at a train station in Vienna, Austria.  (If you read German, read the story at OE24.)

From Balkan Insight, young athletes revive the ruined Olympic luge track in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. construction firm Bechtel is interested in modernizing Moroccan airports.

From The New Arab, two members of Syria's Internal Security force are shot dead in the city of Tartus.

From Inside Croydon, a councilor from the London district of Lambeth and two other men are arrested for sexual offenses including exposure.  (The article uses the spelling "councillor", which my spellchecker rejects.  Croydon is a borough in London.)

From Arutz Sheva, 32 Christians per day are killed in Africa, but the West only sees Gaza.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U.'s "elites" - Part 2.

From Radio Free Asia, two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are granted asylum, one by the U.K. and the other by Australia.

From The Stream, the Vatican officially recognizes group pilgrimages by LGBT+ Catholics for the Jubilee Year.

From The Daily Signal, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the Biden administration placed over 11,000 illegal alien children with unvetted sponsors.

From The American Conservative, Hezbollah's support from Iran could snarl U.S. diplomacy with Iran.

From The Western Journal, after 10 years, the Trump National Doral returns to the PGA Tour schedule.

From BizPac Review, Secretary of Health and Human Services Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth face off at pullups and pushups.

From The Daily Wire, the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad is a hollow "victory" for the right.

From the Daily Caller, according to Trump, the U.S. may give Ukraine air support as part of a peace deal.

From Breitbart, the Department of Homeland Security is reaching 40 million Americans via social media, thus bypassing the mainstream media.

From Newsmax, a judge dismisses part of a lawsuit filed over the detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" and transfers the rest to another jurisdiction.

And from the New York Postafter an Alaska man complains that finding spare parts for his Soviet-era Ukrainian-made motorcycle is becoming more difficult, Putin gives him a new ride.

Monday, August 18, 2025

Monday Mania

On a not-too-warm and cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats keep persecuting the Little Sisters of the Poor.

From FrontpageMag, is U.K. activist Tommy Robinson finally on the verge of being uncanceled?

From Townhall, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives LGBTQ people the stupidest advice possible.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon spends U.S. taxpayer money on gender training and yoga.

From the Washington Examiner, Texas Democrat state House legislators return home for a session on redistricting.

From The Federalist, in a rant against President Trump, former FBI Director James Comey unleashes his inner Taylor Swift.

From American Thinker, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth orders the Reconciliation Monument to be returned to Arlington National Cemetery.

From NewsBusters, CBS reporter John Dickinson whines that Trump didn't arrest Russian President Putin during their recent summit in Alaska.

From TeleSUR, according to a poll, 96 percent of Peruvians disapprove of the administration of de facto president Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, everyone in the U.K. are losers in Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeve's blame game.

From Snouts in the Trough, floods of lies about floods in Pakistan?

From EuroNews, Spain deploys 500 more soldiers to help fight wildfires.

From ReMix, thefts from churches in France increase by 24 percent in two years.  (If you read French, read the story at Europe1.)

From Balkan Insight, the Sarajevo Film Festival premieres the story of a Bosnian detention camp survivor.

From The North Africa Post, U.S. President Trump sends a delegation of diplomats and military officials from Rabat, Morocco to the city of Laayoune in the Moroccan region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, the Tunisian General Labour Union challenges President Kais Saied after his supporters allegedly try to "storm" its headquarters.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Moroccan man is arrested for allegedly setting fire to church in Albuñol, Spain.  (If you read French, read the story at Yabiladi.  I don't know of any Spanish language versions of the story.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian Authority has a human "slaughterhouse".

From The Stream, when God goes to Las Vegas, Nevada.

From The Daily Signal, five takeaways from Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

From The American Conservative, Democrats support our new slavery.

From The Western Journal, Trump appears to compliment the aforementioned President Zelensky's all-black suit.  (A suit?  A certain infernal place hasn't had this much snow since President Bush the Younger vetoed a bill.)

From BizPac Review, former Vice President Pence offers Trump advice on dealing with the aforementioned President Putin.

From The Daily Wire, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) tangles with the federal Department of Homeland Security over an illegal alien who allegedly killed three people while making an illegal U-turn in Florida.

From the Daily Caller, gun rights activists oppose a Department of Justice Proposal to merge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

From the New York Post, more on the aforementioned meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

From Fox News, a researcher uncovers what may be the oldest references to the biblical prophet Moses.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, MSNBC splits from NBC News and gets a new name.

From Newsmax, the D.C. Police Union reports an 8 percent decrease in crime in D.C. since Trump's announcement of a federal takeover.

And from The Babylon Bee, the city of Metropolis sues Superman for being too effective at reducing crime.

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Sunday Stories

On a hot and sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's "European" legacy.

From FrontpageMag, the number of terrorist supporters allowed into the U.S. should be a big fat zero.

From Townhall, the Trump administration suspends visitor visas for Gazans.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the Russian Revolution - of 1825.

From American Thinker, the Western media have become Pravda.

From NewsBusters, the recently defunded NPR plays up the "hundreds" of alleged "anti-fascists" protesting against President Trump in Washington, D.C.  (Did any self-described "anti-fascists" ever protest against the Disinformation Governance Board, Big Tech censorship, or the labeling of people as "domestic terrorists" for questioning school curricula or wanting to attend a Latin Catholic mass?  In other words, did they ever protest against the real fascism?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, be careful, Russia, because the U.K. Army could come out with guns blazing, all 14 of them.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a 13-year-old female suspected Islamist allegedly stabs a nurse at a psychiatric clinic in Paderborn, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Gatestone Institute, Russia is "Europe's prodigal son".

From The Daily Wire, according to Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), critics of Trump's plan for Russia and Ukraine have been "wrong" for decades.

From the Daily CallerU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joe Edlow reveals what his agency inherited from the Biden administration.

From the New York Post, meet the youngsters who break a sweat running around tennis courts, but don't even use rackets.

From Breitbart, according to President Zelensky, Ukraine will not cede territory to Russia.

From Newsmax, in Qavriyak, Afghanistan, women use jerry cans and donkeys to transport scarce water.

And from SFGate, a ship drifts into northern California waters with no one on board.

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Saturday Stuff

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

From National Review, the "no deal" summit between U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin.

From FrontpageMag, "high-crime red states" are really the result of high-crime blue cities.

From Townhall, Democrats get angry at Trump for trying to end a war.

From The Washington Free Beacon, what the U.S. can learn from Hamas's propaganda war.

From the Washington Examiner, European leaders celebrate the aforementioned summit between Trump and Putin.

From The Federalist, according to the mother of a D.C. crime victim, the district needs intervention.

From American Thinker, the manufacturing boom under Trump "has China on its heels".

From NewsBusters, CBS is the only network indicted New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell as a Democrat.

From TCW Defending Freedom, YouTube bans a user for daring to mock U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and company.

From Snouts in the Trough, some U.K. economists just "haven't got a clue".

From The Jerusalem Post, Qatar imprisons the leader of its Baha'i community for casting "doubt on the origins of the Islamic religion".

From ABC News, suspect Islamists kill 30 people in the Congolese province of North Kivu.

From The Times Of Israel, the "dangerous but modern" nature of Muslim antisemitism.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran wants to negotiate only to survive and attack later.

From The Stream, the civilizational struggle that doesn't get talked about.

From The Daily Signal, who has been trying to destroy democracy?

From The American Conservative, a tribute to police officer David Rose, who was killed in an attack on the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

And from The Western Journal, what's up, doc?

Friday, August 15, 2025

Friday Fuss

On a very warm and mostly cloudy (with some rain) Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst from the upcoming summit between Presidents Trump (U.S.) and Putin (Russia).

From FrontpageMag, journalist Rachel Maddow imagines a dictatorship.

From Townhall, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against California's "one-gun-per-month" law.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how big companies bankrolled a Qatari influence operation.

From the Washington Examiner, Border Czar Tom Homan explains the degree of cooperation between ICE and the Washington, D.C. police.

From The Federalist, emails released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard expose the fraud that sabotaged the 2018 meeting between the aforementioned Trump and Putin.

From American Thinker, election fraud and maintaining clean voter rolls.

From NewsBusters, CNN loses a pro-2nd Amendment contributor.

From Canada Free Press, Trump's actions in Washington, D.C. are not "weaponized anti-blackness".  (Criminals who commit violent crime generally attack victims of their own race.  This means that getting black criminals off the streets of D.C. would benefit the law-abiding black people there.)

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorians rally in the capital city of Quito to defend the judges on the country's Constitutional Court.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when a Tweet results in a harsher sentence than a rape does, free speech is strangled.

From EuroNews, a man is killed and other is injured in a shooting outside a mosque in Örebro, Sweden.

From ReMix, refugees in Austria are accused of deliberately failing German language courses in order to avoid low-paying jobs.  (If you, allegedly unlike these refugees, read German, read the story at Kosmo.)

From Balkan Insight, clashes escalate between protesters and members of the governing Serbian Progressive Party, the latter protected by police.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is close to acquiring 32 American F-35 fighter jets.

From The New Arab, according to Syria's interior ministry, remnants of the former government of President Bashar al-Assad attacked a Syrian army vehicle in the province of Latakia.

From The Jewish Chronicle, according to a report, Gazans could be resettled in Ethiopia, Libya, or South Sudan.

From Arutz Sheva, some questions about the "Palestinian state" that Europe wants to create.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas has left Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no choice but to occupy the Gaza Strip.

From The Stream, when Muslims tried and failed to take Constantinople, about 380 years before the Crusades started.  (See this blog's archives from August 2013 for a related story.)

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Jerry Nadler (D-NY) faces a young primary challenger.

From The American Conservative, what could go wrong in the aforementioned summit between Trump and Putin.

From The Western Journal, CNN anchor Abby Phillip's attempt to insult Trump as "Batman" instead makes him sound "cool".

From BizPac Review, a woman tells her story of being sexually assaulted in Washington, D.C. five years ago and the attack reportedly being covered up by the police.

From The Daily Wire and the "believe it or not" department, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that she'll nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he ends the war between Russia and Ukraine.

From the Daily Caller, Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) files a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration's takeover of the D.C. police force.

From the New York Post, the IDF sends another Hamas terrorist commander to his virgins.

From Breitbart, under the Trump administration's takeover of D.C., times for permitting and registering guns is reduced from months to days.

From Newsmax, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, 120 arrests have been made since the Trump administration's takeover of D.C.

And from Mediaite, ooops!

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, the Smithsonian museums should stick to history and get rid of ideology.

From FrontpageMag, according to the Freedom Center, 1,000 people were murdered in New York state while Attorney General Letitia James (D) went after then-former President Trump.

From Townhall, terrorists in Gaza disguise themselves as aid workers for a food kitchen.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the District of Columbia settles a lawsuit by a police sergeant who exposed her superiors for misclassifying crimes.

From the Washington Examiner, when in the District of Columbia, please do not throw food at the police.

From The Federalist, the Department of Homeland Security debunks lies about the illegal alien detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz".

From American Thinker, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has its own lies, [bleep]ed lies and statistics.

From NewsBusters, former CNN host Jim Acosta claims that Trump will send ICE to polling places to discourage Hispanic Americans from voting.

From Canada Free Press, the politics, history and geography of the upcoming meeting between U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin.

From TeleSUR, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court receives the final defense brief from former President Jair Bolsonaro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, are you a plastic British patriot?

From EuroNews, what we know about the upcoming aforementioned meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin.

From Free West Media, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, "Russia has won" in Ukraine.  (The article misidentifies him as "President Orbán".)

From ReMix, London's Metropolitan Police face a backlash after failing to arrest an asylum seeker who entered a woman's home without permission.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian officials and protesters blame each other for a night of violence in cities such as Belgrade and Novi Sad.

From The North Africa Post, wildfires devastate 500 hectares of forest and farmland in northern Morocco.  (A hectare is 10,000 square meters, and also about 2.47 acres.)

From The New Arab, will Syria's minorities face federalism or fragmentation?

From the Daily Mail, according to a report, human smuggling might be causing food poisoning in the U.K.

From Organiser, three people die from celebratory gunfire in the Pakistani province of Karachi.

From Jewish News Syndicate, several Palestinian drivers of aid trucks are arrested on suspicion of belonging to Hamas or other terror groups.

From BBC News, rare footage shows the plight of civilians in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, the Palestinian Authority is not a secular organization.

From Arutz Sheva, weaponizing both the truth and lies.  (The last six links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the network Al-Jazeera should be designated a foreign terrorist organization.

From The Stream, the 800 martyrs from the Italian city of Otranto who were beheaded by Ottoman fighters for refusing to convert to Islam, and the continuity from there to ISIS.

From The Daily Signal, former President Obama calls New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D), who thus might get more backing from establishment Democrats.

From The American Conservative, immigration, censorship, and the U.K.'s deep state.

From The Western Journal, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) tells the Democratic leadership to "buy some" male parts when dealing with the party's far-left wing.

From BizPac Review, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) takes a "sick shot" at a man who got beaten up trying to protect a woman from carjackers in Washington, D.C.

From The Daily Wire, police in Washington, D.C. break with sanctuary policies and will cooperate with ICE.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter and senatorial candidate Barry Moore (R-Ala) suggests that his Republican rivals are "secret Democrats".

From the New York Post, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) sells his penthouse in the borough of Manhattan for $4.95 million, thus no longer having property in the city.

From Breitbart, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) claims to not remember helping Democrats to pass then-President Biden's gun control law.

From Newsmax, Trump believes that the aforementioned President Putin will make a deal.

And from Human Events, the rise of the new right "Citycon".

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, what an acceptable deal between Russia and Ukraine would look like.

From FrontpageMag, the left is becoming more accepting of violence against their political opponents.

From Townhall, a whistleblower is fired for exposing a Kentucky state agency's alleged scheme to sell drivers licenses to illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Washington, D.C. police leaders are accused of manipulating data to make the city's violent crime appear lower than it is.

From the Washington Examiner, an appeals court rules that President Trump can cut $2 billion in previously approved foreign aid.

From The Federalist, yes, Washington, D.C. is as bad as Trump claims.

From American Thinker, whether in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or the U.S., government-run grocery stores don't work.

From MRCTV, New York City plans to shut down its last taxpayer-funded hotel for illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, five facts about crime in Washington, D.C. that don't fit the legacy media narrative.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why do U.K. politicians regard marriage as a dirty word.

From Snouts in the Trough, how to not stop the migrant boats heading for the U.K.

From EuroNews, Estonia expels a Russian diplomat for alleged interference and "crimes against the state".

From ReMix, Greece will require rejected asylum seekers to weak electronic ankle monitors.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian police blame protesters for violence near headquarters of the governing Serbian Progressive Party in various towns.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's economic integration strategy in the region of Sahara is paying off.

From The New Arab, Morocco's new ban on feeding stray animals draws outrage.

From Arutz Sheva, a man who fired a gun outside a synagogue in Albany, New York is sentenced to ten years in prison.

From Jewish News Syndicate, an American Jewish couple is harassed and threatened in Venice, Italy.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.K., France, Canada and Australia undermine Israel as it protects the West.

From Radio Free Asia, a look at pro-democracy Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, currently jailed and standing trial for alleged "collusion with foreign forces".

From The Stream, more about Trump and crime in D.C.

From The Daily Signal, some "I told you so" on high school-assisted abortions, the Capitol riot, and more.

From The American Conservative, U.S. President Trump's upcoming summit in Alaska with Russian President Putin is "necessary, but not sufficient".

From The Western Journal, Trump's tariffs raise almost four times as much revenue as then-President Biden's did in 2024.

From BizPac Review, former congresscritter Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) responds to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) threat to lock him up with some F-bombs.

From The Daily Wire and the "put your money where your mouth is" department, after mocking Trump about crime in Washington, D.C., a reporter for The New York Times is challenged to take a walk in the city unarmed at night.

From the Daily Caller, according to a watchdog, "Senior U.N. officials" colluded with the Taliban.

From Breitbart, Trump invites the media to ride along with the Washington, D.C. police.

From Newsmax, Trump nominates actor Sylvester Stallone and singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait for the first batch of Kennedy Center Honors.

And from the New York Post, if you've got $15 million lying around, you can have the 33rd-story penthouse in Brooklyn, New York that appears in the new Spike Lee movie Highest 2 Lowest.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Some Late Tuesday Tidings

Now that I'm back from running around on a hot and sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump's crackdown on crime in D.C.

From FrontpageMag, former Vice President Harris's unrequited love for former President Obama.

From Townhall, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) targets former congresscritter Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) for allegedly violating a court order.  (O'Rourke, as far as I know, is no more Hispanic than I am, so I will not use his nickname "Beto".)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a watchdog group backed by the U.N. changed its standards to make it easier to declare a famine in Gaza.

From the Washington Examiner, one ward of Washington, D.C. is as dangerous as Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

From The Federalist, transgenderism can't be moderated, and should instead be destroyed.

From American Thinker, was there option 80 years ago other than dropping atomic bombs on Japan?

From MRCTV, MRCTV contributor Justine Brooke Murray talks about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) and ABC's The View on Fox & Friends First.

From Newsbusters, CNN and MSNBC combine to cite false statistics 73 times in 24 hours.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the hidden truth about crime committed by asylum seekers in the U.K.

From AMU, a man in the Afghan province of Kapisa is killed allegedly "by the Taliban" for playing a video game.

From Arutz Sheva, how Hamas built their story about alleged starvation in Gaza.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the "journalist" who waged war for Hamas.

From Gatestone Institute, the CEO of Intel should be fired.

From The Stream, since the media lies so much, why should we believe what it says about Israel?

From The Daily Signal, New York City mayoral candidate (I) and former Governor (D-NY) Mario Cuomo denies an accusation from the aforementioned Zohran Mamdani of being tied to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From The American Conservative, make a deal to advance U.S. interests and shared concerns in Greenland.

From The Western Journal, a former Capitol police chief hits former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) with three "damning memories" after she criticizes Trump for deploying the National Guard in D.C.

And from the Genesius Times, to really "clean up" Washington, D.C., Trump orders a nuclear strike on the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

Monday, August 11, 2025

Monday Links

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

From National Review, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects allegations of famine in the Gaza Strip as a "global campaign of lies".

From FrontpageMag, who's to blame for the "starvation" in Gaza?

From Townhall, U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro gives criminals in the city a "blistering" warning.

From The Washington Free Beacon, inside the convention of the Democratic Socialists of America.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump federalized the D.C. police and sends in the National Guard.

From The Federalist, finally, a president stands up to banks that practice wokeness.

From American Thinker, the first female Major League Baseball umpire gets her first call "horribly wrong".

From MRCTV, according to the D.C. Police Union, if you think that crime is down in D.C., you're wrong.

From NewsBusters, podcaster Bill Maher tells actress Drew Barrymore that The View is not "the best advertisement for women".

From Canada Free Press, the Islamist-leftist information campaign against Israel must stop.

From TeleSURVenezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announces that her country will not recognize any decision from the International Court of Justice in the dispute with Guyana over the region of Essquibo.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. Labour Party's civil service "job jiggery" further classifies the working class.

From Snouts in the Trough, the Labour Party will do anything for its "race replacers".

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy tries to warn U.S. President Trump not to trust Russian President Putin before their meeting in Alaska.

From ReMix, the birth rate for refugee women in Austria is almost three times that of native Austrian women.

From Balkan Insight, women in Bosnia and Herzegovina still feel fear from a murder of woman that was livestreamed two years ago.

From The North Africa Post, the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for a Libyan militia member who allegedly committed war crimes in Benghazi.

From The New Arab, Syria's interior ministry vows to hold accountable the people who allegedly killed an unarmed man at a hospital in the province of Suweida.

From The Jerusalem Post, a dissident Iranian journalist is assaulted at a march in London calling for Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages.

From EverythingGP, an Islamic court in the Indonesian province of Aceh sentences two men to public caning for what it deemed were "sexual acts".

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas's plan to undermine the Arab allies of the U.S.

From Radio Free Asia, two Chinese ships collide while chasing a Philippine patrol boat in the South China Sea.

From The Stream, the forgotten Christians of Yemen and the increasing aggression from the Houthis.

From The Daily Signal, according to a report, there were 415 attacks on churches in 2024.

From The American Conservative, Trump makes a "full-court press" on immigration.

From The Western Journal, wokesters find another attractive blonde to lambaste over her jeans.

From BizPac Review, Trump plans to send FBI agents out on night patrol in D.C.

From The Daily Wire, more about Trump's plans for D.C.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Don Beyer (D-VA) "personally requested" to meet with an illegal alien gang member and several other detained illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, a two-year-old English-French bulldog mix is crowned the world's ugliest dog for 2025.

From BBC News, the bones of a British man who died after falling into a crevasse in Antarctica in 1959 are found in a melting glacier.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, the U.K. government loses track of 150,000 migrants admitted into the country on social care visas.

From Newsmax, FBI Director Kash Patel says that he's working with law enforcement agencies to help Trump's aforementioned plans for D.C.

And from The Babylon Bee, Trump promises to greatly reduce the number of criminals in Washington, D.C. by sending Congress home.