Saturday, June 30, 2018

Links For The End Of June

As the last day of the first half of the year has arrived, here are some things going on:

From the New York Post, numerous protesters march on behalf of illegal aliens.

From CBS News, the NSA is deleting 685 million phone call records.

From NewsBusters, Slate doesn't like Ambassador Nikki Haley being seen having fun.

From MomZette, "record-breaking" road travel is expected on July 4th.

From Voice Of Europe, a member of the Polish parliament sets forth the politically incorrect reason why his country is safe.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Merkel presents her immigration plan.

From Sputnik International, President Trump sends warning letters to E.U. leaders ahead of the NATO summit.

From The Malta Independent, yet another battle between Malta and Italy looms as yet another migrant-laden ship approaches.

From Russia Today, Palestinians take down an Israeli surveillance drone.

From the Assyrian International News Agency, Iraq begins a manual vote recount.  (Will there be hanging chads, or ballots found in a car's trunk?)

From Gatestone Institute, why the United Kingdom's deradicalization programs are failing.

From Townhall, some children worth being concerned about.

From National Review, some history about conflicts between the establishment and the people.

From The Daily Signal, "the left's rhetorical tailspin".

From Real Clear Politics, Trump will be reelected in 2020, says.......Michael Moore?  (via HotAir)

And from The Daily Caller, according to Trump, ICE is here to stay.

Perryopolis

Perryopolis is a borough in southwestern Pennsylvania located along state highway 51, and mostly on the east side thereof.  At its center is Washington Square, which includes eight points.  In other words, the square may be approached from the north, south, east, and west, along with all of the diagonal directions.  A few blocks east of the square is Harry Sampey Park, just south of which is a grist mill once owned by George Washington.  The park includes a large pavilion.

Friday, June 29, 2018

Friday Links

I got back home today, so here are some things going on:

From The Daily Caller, at a speech by President Trump, CNN's Jim Acosta runs his mouth.

From Fox News, a comedian pranks Trump by impersonating a senator.

From News Busters, a court upholds a California gun law, even though it is impossible to obey.

From CNS News, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein admits that he doesn't always read the FISA applications that he signs.

From Voice Of Europe, most of eastern and southern Europeans oppose migration and want to preserve Christianity.

From the Express, German Chancellor Merkel admits that the migration crisis isn't over.

From Sputnik International, E.U. leaders agree on a migration deal.

From Agence France Presse, the E.U. migrant deal is showing cracks.

From the NL Times, two men in Rotterdam, Netherlands are arrested in connection with three abductions.

From The Local ES, Morocco refuses to host migrants.

From France24, E.U. leaders deal with watered-down proposals to reform the euro.

From the New Straits Times, the Kota Kinabalu City Mosque management are disappointed because of the lenient penalty given to two tourists who danced in front of the mosque.

From FrontpageMag, "lies, damned lies, and immigration policy".

From National Review, the wall is surely but slowly being built.

From Townhall, naturally, the left blames Trump for the Maryland newspaper shooting.

From Today, a witness describes the "chaos" of the Maryland newspaper shooting.  (via the New York Post)

From Whimn, this is the most dangerous country for women.  (via the New York Post)

And from BBC News, a pervert gets what he deserves.

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Old Hanna's Town

Located north of present-day Greensburg, Hanna's Town was founded by Robert Hanna in 1773 and served as the seat of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  It was the site of the first English court west of the Allegheny Mountains.  In 1782, in one of the last battles of the American Revolution, British troops and Indians burned the place down.  The county seat was subsequently moved to Greensburg.  Today, the reconstructed town sits at the intersection of two roads, each of which leads to U.S. highway 119.  The present site includes Hanna's Tavern, which in its original incarnation was also used as the court.

The Johnstown Flood Memorial

Johnstown, Pennsylvania is known for being devastated by a flood that occurred on May 31, 1889.  The flood was caused by the failure of the South Fork Dam, which had previously helped to contain a reservoir named Lake Conemaugh, along the south fork of the Conemaugh River.  The Johnstown Flood Memorial, including a visitor center and the remains of the dam, is located about nine miles east of Johnstown.  In the lower level of the visitor center is this bell, from a church that was destroyed in the flood.

Some Stories While Traveling

I've been doing a bit of sightseeing in Pennsylvania, which cuts into my time for picking up stories and relaying them here.  But even so, here are a few things worth passing along:

From The Baltimore Sun, five people have been killed and five others injured by a gunman at the headquarters of the Capital Gazette in Maryland.


From Reuters, Pakistan takes a radical Sunni leader of the terror watch list just before the country's elections.

From ABC News (the Australian site), an Australian teenager is sentenced in connection with the 2016 Anzac Day terror plot.




From National Review, "good riddance, Justice Kennedy".



And from The Babylon Bee, the ultimate Judge has no plans to retire.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Justice Kennedy To Retire, And Other Stories

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, effective on July 31st.  He has been a member of the court for 30 years, and has 43 years total judicial experience.  He will turn 82 during July, the second oldest of the current nine justices.  Nominated by President Reagan in 1988, Kennedy has been called a "moderate" and a "swing vote".

Naturally, my fellow righties note that this gives President Trump his second SCOTUS nomination.  Read more at The Hill, USA Today, CNN, CBS News and ABC News.
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In other stories:

From The Daily Signal, the Senate farm bill is really a food stamps bill.

From The American Conservative, Saudi Arabia bombs a cholera treatment center in Yemen.

From NewsBusters, two media outlets offer up their red herrings for the Red Hen.

From the Gateway Pundit, how Trump's immigration order could prevent child sex trafficking.

From BizPac Review, five Fox News hosts read their results from 23andMe.

From Voice Of Europe, according to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, French President Macron has no lessons for Italy.

From the Express, according to French politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignon, recent events could spell the end of Schengen.  (If this happens and you get to travel in Europe, get ready to have you passport stamped more than once.)

From Sputnik International, how real is the threat of an armed conflict between Muslims and the French far-right?

From Breitbart London, French butchers ask the government to protect them from militant vegans.  (As I've said before, deport them back to Alpha Lyrae.)

From Total Croatia News, Bosnia will establish a migrant camp near the border with Croatia.

From the Daily Mail, the Libyan Coast Guard intercepts 200 migrants off the coast of Tripoli.

From Russia Today, Hungary's interior minister rebuffs accusations by a BBC reporter.

From ZeroHedge, the E.U. wages war against "what makes the Internet great".

From The Local FR, France will take in some migrants from the ship Lifeline.

From the Evening Standard, fire chiefs call in the army to help fight a wildfire near Manchester, England.

From The Journal, the migration crisis could bring about "the end of the European dream".  (The writer is the president of the European parliament.)

From Ekathimerini, the U.K. has pledged increased support for Greece over the increased flow of refugees and migrants.

From Reuters, the Bavarian party Christian Social Union wants tighter border controls for migrants.

From the NL Times, Russia and Ukraine reportedly spied on Dutch officials investigating the crash of flight MH17.

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a French imam predicts Israel's destruction in a sermon.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli police seize cash from the family of a dead terrorist.

From Anadolu Agency, American Muslim leaders are happy with the Turkish election results.

From The Daily Star, three women's rights groups protest in front of the Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka against two alleged gang rapes.

From ABC News (where "A" means "Australian"), an Australian court lifts the identity suppression order on a student accused of being a member of ISIS.

From Gatestone Institute, the "Batman Syndrome" of terrorism in Europe.

From FrontpageMag, a video from Robert Spencer about the New York truck jihadi.

From National Review, the Supreme Court delivers another rebuke to compelled speech authoritarians in Janus v. AFSCME.

From the New York Post, emails show a "lack of leadership" during the fake missile alert in Hawaii.

From Fox News, the man accused of driving his car into a crowd at Charlottesville faces federal charges.

And from TMZ, Joe Jackson, the father of nine musical siblings, has passed away at age 89.  (via People)

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Trump's Travel Ban Upheld By SCOTUS, And Other Stories

President Trump's travel ban, which was supposed to be a 3-month moratorium, has been upheld by the Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion.  The ban, which has been mischaracterized as a "Muslim ban", applies to Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Venezuela, and had been previously applied to Chad.

Read more at CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News and Politico.

For some commentary, go to National Review and Hot Air.
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In other news and views:

From HotAir, SCOTUS strikes down California's law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to provide referrals to abortion centers.

From LifeNews, think again if you think Americans support abortion.

From The American Conservative, although separate from each other, religion helps preserve the state.

From CNS News, Republicans demand that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) condemn Representative Maxine Waters (D-Cal) on the House floor.

From MomZette, liberals go to the border to launch a hunger strike over detained children.

From Voice Of Europe, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accuses Brussels of conducting a "show trial" against Hungary.

From Breitbart's National Security, in Nigeria, Fulani Muslims massacre 120 Christians travelling from a funeral.

From EuroNews, Amnesty International denies any migration crisis in Europe.

From the NL Times, a van crashes into the front door of a building that houses De Telegraaf.  (If you read Dutch, read more at LaurensBosch.)

From Dutch News, another story on the van crashing into the De Telegraaf building.

From Reuters, according to President Trump, the U.S. government is completing a study on import tariffs on cars from the E.U.

From The Tablet, French President Macron meets with the pope.

From France24, French President Macron meets with Italian PM Conte.

From Russia Today, according to some MP's, the U.K. military is "very weak" and "depleted".

From the Express, Brussels tells U.K. Prime Minister May to soften her stance for a better Brexit deal.

From The Local IT, Italy's Interior Minister Salvini visits Libya.

From Deutsche Welle, Austria holds border protection exercises.

From The Northern Echo, a member of the For Britain party runs for office in Darlington, England.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, Canada welcomes back ISIS terrorists.

From Digital Journal, French police remove migrants from a university in Paris.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkey's election is "Stockholm syndrome at its worst".

From FrontpageMag, has moderate Islam prevailed since Saudi Arabian women can now drive?

From National Review, what went wrong with Mexico?

From Townhall, enough with the references to Hitler, Nazis and the Holocaust, already.

From The Sun, a Russian World Cup fan denies having been in a shady industry.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, drug kingpin "El Chapo", who once tunneled out of prison, wants a tunnel leading into the courthouse where he is on trial.

From The Guardian, a "well intentioned restorer" strikes at a second Spanish church.

And from The Babylon Bee, the radical far-right Supreme Court recognizes that pro-lifers have free speech rights.

Monday, June 25, 2018

Monday Links

I've gotten back to my normal area here in Maryland after some housecleaning in Virginia, so here are some things going on out there:





From the Hungary Journal, the new U.S. ambassador to Hungary presents his credentials to Hungarian President Janos Ader.




From Asian Image, contrary to the advice given her, a Muslim woman finds that praying will not cure bipolar.

From Radio Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urges a "new Marshall plan" for Africa.  (via Voice Of Europe)


From the Independent, a car runs into pedestrians outside a church in Dublin.  (This is the Irish Independent.)



From the Daily Mail, a Muslim leader who once tried to sue Donald Trump goes to jail for scamming migrants.

From the Jewish News Syndicate, an Egyptian cleric denies the Armenian genocide.











From Page Six, new princess Meghan Markle is nominated for a Teen Choice Award.  (Isn't she in her mid-thirties?)

From ABC News, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, MS-13 uses migrant children to smuggle drugs.  (The story comes via the New York Post, and shows another reason to build the wall.)

From the New York Post, an Australian philanthropist offers a reward if anyone can solve one of the largest mysteries ever.  (The article links to The Australian, which requires a subscription.)

And from Yahoo News, French chefs warn about violence from vegans.  (Deport them back to Alpha Lyrae.)

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Sunday Links

On a sunny Sunday in Virginia, here are some things going on:

From Breitbart California, Californians have less than a week to register their guns which have "bullet buttons".

From The Texas Tribune, illegal aliens from Central America are offered deportation along with their children.  (via The Hill)

From NewsBusters, Time defends their dishonest cover.

From The Salt Lake Tribune, Senatorial candidate Mitt Romney (R-UT) writes an opinion column.  (via Legal Insurrection)

From the Sunday Express, French President Macron tells Italian Deputy PM Salvini that France has no lessons to learn on immigration.

From Voice Of Europe, tensions rise within German Chancellor Merkel's governing coalition.

From Sputnik International, Merkel says that immigrants can't choose where to seek asylum.

From the Daily Mail, NATO is prepared to help Italy in Libya.

From Politico, at the E.U. migration summit, Italy presents its plan.

From Ekathimerini, at the E.U. migration summit, Greece reiterates its standing positions.

From ITV, according to a Spanish group, Italy seeks to take 1,000 migrants back to Africa.

From the Evening Standard, President Trump will tour Britain for three days.

From Deutsche Welle, Russia bombs southwestern Syria.

From The Malta Independent, Malta will "not move an inch" on migration policy.

From the New Straits Times, a mosque in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia bans tourists after a group of them stage a K-pop dance on its wall.

From Struggle for Hindu Existence, a Hindu envoy from India is denied entry to a Sikh shrine in Pakistan.

From the Nyasa Times, a regional governor in Malawi apologizes for "anti-Muslim remarks".

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President ErdoÄŸan wins reelection.  (via Fox News)

From NTK Network, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) shows how the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border jumped after President Obama created DACA.  (via Breitbart Video)

From Townhall, according to a CBS poll, most Americans want those who enter illegally to be detained or deported.

From Decider, Alec Baldwin invites Melania Trump to appear on Saturday Night Live.

From the New York Post, New York Mayor de Blasio wants speed cameras back up around schools.

And from HistoryNeta New Zealander builds a de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber, known as a "mossie".

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Saturday Stuff

Now that I've helped do a bit of the housecleaning where my parents lived, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, in Ottobrun, Germany, two migrants attack an ambulance.  (If you read German, read the story at Abendzeitung.)


From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez make statements before the E.U. migration summit.

From the Daily Mail, Bavarian state premier Markus Söder sharply criticizes Chancellor Angela Merkel's migration policy.




From the Independent, Ireland promises to take in more refugees.  (This site is Irish, and should not be confused with the British site of the same name.)

From The Daily Star, two Islamist groups demand the removal of a bust of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.  (It seems that American leftists aren't the only people who have a problem with statues.)

From The Times Of India, an imam declares hugging someone of the opposite gender forbidden in Islam.  (I can only wonder what he thinks of the 58 or however-many genders some sites, such as Facebook, recognize.)



From Twitchy, a look at why the Time cover of Trump is powerful (although thoroughly exposed as fake).


From Philly(dot)com, Vice President Mike Pence stops in Moon Township, PA to stump for Representative Keith Rothfus (R-PA).

From The Washington Times, in Meridian, Idaho, cops 1, bad guy 0.


From Breitbart's National Security, the U.S. sends 100 gaskets to the Korean DMZ to receive the remains of military personnel who died in the Korean War.


Friday, June 22, 2018

Links For A Rainy Travel Day

I've spent much of today driving down to Virginia to the house which had belonged to my parents, to join my siblings for a bit of cleaning.  On the way down here, I endured lots of wet weather, and an interstate highway turning into a parking lot about 10 miles from my destination.  Fortunately, the almost parked traffic crept along to an exit which allowed me to escape.  Unfortunately, there were a few stoplights to deal with, but at least those lived up to the old saying "good things come to those who wait".  But while my day was different from the normal routine, the world, as noted by not one, but two Fleetwood Mac songs, kept on turning.  Here are some of the things that went on:

From Voice Of Europe, a German "refugees welcome" activist, after boarding a truck with Moroccan license plates, is found dead in Spain.  (If you read German, read the story at the Bild.)

From Sputnik International, Swedish farmers are accused of racism for supporting the Swedish World Cup soccer team by arranging blue and yellow hay bails to resemble the Swedish flag.  (The story comes via Voice Of Europe.  As far as I'm concerned, the accusers deserve the "stupid people" label.)

From the Express, German Chancellor Merkel is "humiliated" as Italy blocks a proposal ahead of the "mini-summit" to discuss migration.

From France24, Italy and Malta refuse to allow a Dutch-flagged ship to dock in their ports.

From UPI, Italy will seize a migrant ship for "illegally" flying the Dutch flag.  (Turn it away or seize it?  Which is it, Italy?)

From the Macedonia Information Agency, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis says that his country will turn away migrants if Germany and Austria do the same.

From the NL Times, an anti-tank weapon is fired at an office building in Amsterdam.

From Russia Today, a summit between Presidents Trump (USA) and Putin (Russia) should not be feared.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia will attend the E.U. summit on migration.

From The Local FR, some U.K. citizens living in France will travel to Britain to march for a second Brexit referendum.

From VRT, a teenage boy is detained for allegedly assaulting a bus driver.

From the Evening Standard, Airbus threatens to pull out of the U.K. if there is a "no-deal" Brexit.

From Today, a party leader in Malaysia calls "fake news" a signal that the end times are near.  (Like Christians, Muslims have beliefs about when the end of the world is near.)

From Yahoo News, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn promises that a government led by himself would recognize a Palestinian state.

From Reuters, Indonesia sentences an ISIS-linked cleric to death for masterminding terror attacks.

From The Jerusalem Post, a German Islamic center reportedly "raises money for Hezbollah".

From Middle East Monitor, Tunisian clerics say that Hajj money pays for Saudi Arabia's wars.

From Jamie Glazov Productions, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation celebrates the hijab.  (I'm a bit dismayed by this, since I've occasionally cited their articles.)

From the New York Post, more emotional support animals are attending college.

From Breitbart California, Representative Jackie Speier (D-Cal) compares Border Patrol procedure to Auschwitz, using BP pictures from 2014.  (Hint:  The Donald was not president back then.)

From The Daily Caller, Time gets blasted for its magazine cover - by CNN.

From The Baltimore Sun, three universities in Maryland revoke Bill Cosby's honorary degrees.  (via The Washington Times)

From CBC News, a French woman jogs from Canada into the United States and gets detained for two weeks.

From Business Insider, a look at Melania Trump's jacket.

And from The Kentucky Standard, a horrible tragedy occurs in Barton, Kentucky.  (via Fox News)

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Charles Krauthammer 1950-2018

Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist and commentator, has died of cancer at age 68.  Earlier this month, he indicated that he had weeks to live.  He had undergone an operation to remove a tumor from his abdomen in August 2017.

Charles Krauthammer was born in New York City to a father who came from Bolekhiv, Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine) and a mother who came from Belgium, both of whom were Orthodox Jews.  The family moved to Montreal, where he would graduate from McGill University in 1970.  After studying as a Commonwealth Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, he attended medical school at Harvard.  During his first year at Harvard, he was injured in a diving board accident, which resulted in 14 months of hospitalization and a wheelchair for the rest of his life.  He was still able to graduate in 1975, after which he became a resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.  In 1978, he moved to Washington, D.C. where he became a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale and a contributor to The New Republic.  He was board certified in psychiatry in 1984.

Krauthammer joined The New Republic in 1981, and would later write for The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, Time and Inside Washington.  He won a Pulitzer Prize for a column written for The Washington Post in 1985.  He served as a contributor to Fox News, but discontinued his service to Fox and his Post column due to his battle with cancer in 2017.  Although often called conservative, he realized during his time at McGill that he didn't like political extremism from either side.  His Post columns were called "hard to peg politically" by editorial page editor Meg Greenfield.

Krauthammer is survived by his wife Robyn, who has been a lawyer and an artist, and by their son Daniel.

Read more at CNN, Fox News, Politico, USA Today and The Hill.

Stories For The Solstice

Today is the first day of summer, on which we have the longest period of daylight during the entire year.  As the sun shines, between intermittent rain and clouds, here are some things going on:

From AP News, according to a lawsuit, numerous detained teenage illegal aliens allege abuse at a detention center in Virginia.  (The story comes via HotAir.  According to the article, the teens were sometimes fed American fast food, which could I could see as being a form of abuse.  The alleged abuse goes back to 2015.)

From Philly(dot)com, Melania Trump visits migrant children in Texas.

From The Daily Signal, the Canadian Supreme Court allows discrimination against the attendees of Trinity Western.

From Twitchy, CNN host Brooke Baldwin has the nerve to ask Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) if she had spoken up about detention practices in 2014.  (As far as I know, the two are not related.)

From BizPac Review, an NBC journalist shows his partisanship.

From ReutersCzech Prime Minister Andrej Babis wants Frontex to be stronger.

From the Express, Italy withdraws its threat to boycott the E.U. migration summit, after a draft document is scrapped.

From The Guardian, the migration summit is unlikely to heal any rifts.

From Russia Today, the leaders of the four Visegrad countries won't attend the migration summit.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says that Europe must be able to protect its borders.

From Voice Of Europe, Orban inaugurates a memorial to the victims of the Soviet occupation of Budapest.

From Deutsche Welle, E.U. firms are worried about the business environment in China.  (In case anyone hasn't checked, it's still a communist country.)

From Sputnik International, Chancellor Merkel, after talking with Jordanian King Abdullah, calls for measures against Iran's "aggressive tendencies".

From WalesOnline, a mosque in Adamstown, Cardiff wants to quadruple in size.

From the Daily Mail, the E.U. wants to screen migrants in Africa and stop boat crossings.

From Breitbart London, French leftists object to the term "Islamist terrorism" on a memorial to a police officer killed by an Islamist terrorist.

From The Local SE, lock your doors and hide your children, here come the rats.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Digital Journal, Albania has become the newest migrant gateway into Europe.

From Arutz Sheva, a British Muslim cleric calls for Israel to be destroyed.

From Euractive, the Turkish opposition mobilizes to ensure that their election's are not marred by fraud.

From The Herald, in a four-year period, Sub-Saharan Africa suffers a five-fold increase in Islamist terror attacks.

From The Jerusalem Post, a South African model is intimidated for supporting Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, how Palestinians can achieve a better life.

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak water management expert will visit the U.K. House of Lords.

From McClatchy, illegal alien children were detained and separated from adults under Trump's predecessor, too.  (via Townhall)

From Townhall, a conservative immigration bill fails in the House, and a somewhat related cartoon.

From the New York Post, an MTA supervisor is suspended for wearing blackface.

And from The Roanoke Times, a "mailbag" about Virginia Tech football.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Wednesday Links

Some things in the news and otherwise:





From The American Conservative, some history on the regulation of foods.







From the NL Times, many Dutch farmers have been approached by criminals seeking to build drug labs.



From Sputnik International, the E.U. responds to U.S. tariffs.

From Georgia Today, 4970 Georgians asked for asylum in the E.U. during the first quarter of 2018.  (Whether Jimmy Carter or Newt Gingrich is among them....oh, wait, not that Georgia.)

From World Watch Monitor, in Tajikistan, a Christian convert's burial is delayed by relatives calling for her husband to convert back to Islam.



From Townhall, Melania Trump calls the Secret Service after Peter Fonda Tweets that her son should be kidnapped.

From American Thinker, a stay in the Facebook jail.






Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Family Separation And Other Tuesday Things

As the border gets jumped and kids get separated from adults who may or may not be their parents, here are some things going on:





From The Washington Times, Donald Trump (not the president) cancels his appearance at a fundraiser for George Bush (not the former president).

From The Federalist, trans activists don't like some facts presented by The Atlantic in their story about transgender children.


From Voice Of Europe, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto points out how migration is a security risk.

From Russia Today, President Trump states his case.


From The Local SE, Swedish fans celebrating a World Cup victory cause Nizjnij Novgorod, Russia to run out of beer.  (I think "Nizjnij" is pronounced something like "NIZH-nee".  The story comes via Voice Of Europe)




From Dutch News, Dutch authorities arrest three suspects after their DNA was found on guns in an ISIS hideout in France.





From the Irish Mirror, while riding her bike in Dublin, a woman is verbally abused and thrown down.

From Gatestone Institute, "post-Ramadan reflections on the Muslim world".

From National Review, what the DOJ IG report doesn't say.





Monday, June 18, 2018

Monday Mania

Another work week starts with another round of things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, according to Hungary, the E.U. should follow Italy's example on migrant ships.

From ANSA, Italy refuses to be "the doormats of Europe".  (via Voice Of Europe)

From the Express, Poland and the E.U. could be headed for a showdown.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From New Europe, the E.U. commission's First Vice-President goes to Poland.

From Politico, the E.U. extends their sanctions on Russia to 2019.

From Reuters, Bavaria’s Christian Social Union wants a ban on migrants already registered in other countries.

From Sputnik International, the German CDU and CSU are likely to settle their differences over migration for fear of losing seats in upcoming elections.

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Bosnian border police keep dozens of migrants out of Croatia.

From Total Croatia News, Bosnian border police keep about 100 migrants out of Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at the Index.)

From WorldCrunch, a "new Calais" forms on the Bosnia-Croatia border.

From the NL Times, the Dutch government is under fire involving Shell and British shareholders.

From the Daily Mail, according to the Spanish government, about half the migrants from the Aquarius want asylum in France.

From the Independent, a Muslim rapper turns down an invitation to perform at an Eid festival in London.

From World Bulletin, a Muslim goalkeeper declines a trophy sponsored by a beer company.  (If Muslims can legitimately decline to participate in things which are contrary to their religion, so can Christians avoid things contrary to theirs, right?)

From the Evening Standard, the Uber driver armed with a samurai sword who tried to attack police last summer called Queen Elizabeth "an enemy of Allah".  (Shouldn't he have known that using a samurai sword is cultural appropriation, better left up to "the sheriff and his buddies" in China Grove, Texas?)

From AP News, Jewish artifacts in Damascus go missing.

From The Times Of India, Muslim men help a Hindu conduct last rites for his sister.  (via Gulf News)

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians are victims of apartheid - from other Arabs.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak police bust the largest illegal cigarette production racket in the country's history.

From The Daily Caller, former FBI Director James Comey is under investigation for allegedly mishandling classified information.

From Philly(dot)com, according to Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), the separation of families at the U.S. border has been "greatly exaggerated".  (To avoid such separation, please make sure that everyone in your family has a passport, and go to a designated port of entry.)

From FaithZette, a 1,000-year-old clay amulet with Arabic writing has been found in the City of David.

From The Washington Times, Connecticut swears in their first black Supreme Court chief justice.

From Twitchy, actor Ron Perlman looks at an American military tattoo, but sees a German one.

From FrontpageMag, immigration doesn't mitigate domestic violence, but often exacerbates it.

From Townhall, DHS Secretary Nielsen says that there will be no apologies for enforcing immigration law.

From the New York Post, an elephant once belonging to Michael Jackson escapes from the Jacksonville (no pun intended) Zoo.

From The Tribune, Mount Everest has become the world's highest dump.

From The Hill, among Republicans, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a higher approval rating than Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal).  (But then, that's not really saying much.)

From Space(dot)com, President Trump has apparently unleashed his inner sci-fi geek.

And from Heavy, in reaction to the president's inner sci-fi geek, here come the memes.