Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Various And Sundry

Some various and sundry things going on out there:

From the Chicago Tribune, in a federal lawsuit, the organizers of the Obama Presidential Center are accused of pulling an "institutional bait and switch".  (via Breitbart's Big Government)

From Philly(dot)com, Senate Democrats ask President Trump to reconsider helping the Chinese firm ZTE get back into business.

From The Verge, Google Wifi will soon be able to identify which device is having difficulty connecting to it.

From the Express, Hungary and Poland tell the E.U. "We will decide who enters our countries!"  (Niech żyją Polska i Węgry!)

From Voice Of Europe, George Soros's Open Society Foundation leaves Hungary.  (How do you say "good riddance" in Hungarian?)

From Reuters, Bosnia struggles to deal with incoming migrants.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands is no longer in the top ten countries for LGBTI rights.

From UAWire, the E.U. Council sanctions against five election organizers in Crimea.

From Sputnik International, the Sweden Democrats (who unlike their American namesakes, are a right-wing party) call on their government to move their Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

From International Organization For Migration, the latest stats on migrant arrivals via and deaths on the Mediterranean Sea.

From Breitbart London, German economic growth is the lowest since 2016.

From the Daily Mail, an ISIS leader who brutally executed a Jordanian pilot has been captured.

From FrontpageMag, Hamas-supporting "protesters" are well-payed for their efforts.

From National Review, Israel has the right and the duty to defend its borders.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Merkel "hints at" more spending on defense.

From AP News, Seattle passes new taxes on businesses to help the homeless.  (As other right-wingers have pointed out, in order for government to give you something, it must first take it from someone else.  The story comes via Townhall.)

From Townhall, a Palestinian on crutches nevertheless displays some impressive mobility.

From the New York Post, President Trump salutes Muslims at the start of Ramadan.

From The Roanoke Times, a look at DeAngelo Hall's career at Virginia Tech and in the NFL.

From ESPN, baseball player Robinson Cano receives an 80-game suspension.

From CNN, you can now eat gold-coated chicken wings.

And from Science, a weird new kind of matter might be "just beyond" scientists' reach.

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