Time for another roundup.

(1) Caroline Glick has announced she won’t be doing podcasts for a while but has a new job:

Prominent Israeli-American columnist and JNS senior contributing editor Caroline B. Glick is returning to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem to serve as International Affairs Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Glick, who worked with Netanyahu over a quarter century ago before becoming a widely-read columnist, took up her new position on Sunday, almost three years after the first episode of her record-breaking “The Caroline Glick Show” premiered on JNS TV in 2022.

I already miss her podcasts; she’s very very good. But I wish her the best in this new role.

(2) Blue states have more to lose from a federal funding pause:

Democratic states and their economies depend much more on Washington largesse than Republican states do. This year, New York received roughly $4,900 per capita from the feds and California $4,300—two to three times as much as Florida ($1,700) and Texas ($1,500). That’s because Democratic states provide more generous social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to regulatory changes by the Biden administration. …

States have less incentive to help lift people out of poverty since they receive more federal dollars if people stay poor. When you’re spending someone else’s cash, there’s hardly an incentive to spend it prudently. Medicaid, states’ biggest source of federal dollars, encourages inefficient spending.

(3) Trump praised Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas, among others, in honor of Black History month:

President Trump on Friday said he is “honored” to recognize February as Black History Month and that “black Americans have been among our country’s most consequential leaders.”

“American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and countless others represent what is best in America and her citizens,” Trump said in a statement.

When I did a search for the quote, up popped a bunch of articles with headlines pairing the story with the observation that Trump’s been attacking DEI, as though attacking DEI and lauding the contributions of black Americans are contradictory. They are not.

(4) There’s been a report that Jordan may be willing to extradite the Sbarro bombing mastermind to the US to stand trial. This would be wonderful news, if true. Ahlam Tamimi is wanted in the US for the 2001 terrorist attack in a pizza parlor, that killed 16 – seven of whom were children and one of whom was a pregnant woman (and a US citizen). The reason a trial in the US would be necessary is that she was already tried in Israel and sentenced, but was released in the infamous 2011 Shalit prisoner exchange. She’s been living in Jordan, quite comfortably, ever since she left prison.

Interesting:

The report emerged just as the White House announced it would host Jordan’s King Abdullah II for talks with US President Donald Trump on February 11. Amman is thought to be seeking ways to remain in good standing with Trump despite, like Egypt, declining to fall in with his proposal to relocate Gazans there.

To give you an idea of how awful this woman is, read this:

[The suicide bomber] was escorted to the restaurant by Ahlam Tamimi, a 20-year-old female university student and part-time journalist, who had disguised herself as a Jewish tourist for the occasion. She later commented that she was not sorry for what she had done and does not recognize Israel’s existence. “Despite the fact that I’m sentenced to 16 life sentences I know that we will become free from Israeli occupation and then I will also be free from the prison,” she said. When she first learned from a journalist who was interviewing her in jail that she had murdered eight children, not just three as she had initially believed, she just smiled broadly and continued with the interview.

(5) The new head of the DNC is Democrat Ken Martin from Minnesota who once called for Trump to be tried for treason over a report of Trump’s wrongdoing that turned out to be unsubstantiated. The second in command is David Hogg. Sounds as though the far left stance of the party will continue.