Saturday, September 1, 2018

Stories To Start September

It's now Labor Day weekend, the first day of September, and the start of NCAA football season.  Besides all that, here are some things going on:

From BizPac Review, at Senator McCain's funeral, the vindictive apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

From Politico Magazine, President Trump's absence from funerals isn't all that surprising.  (via HotAir)

From American Thinker, did CNN prove President Trump's point about fake news?

From AP News, the Afghani man who stabbed two American tourists in Amsterdam yesterday had a "terrorist motive".  (via HotAir)

From the Express, U.K. fishermen rescue four migrants from a dinghy a few miles away from Dover.

From the Independent, a balloon depicting London Mayor Sadiq Khan in a bikini flies over parliament.  (It was an itsy-bitsy teeny-weenie yellow Sadiq Khan bikini.....)

From BBC News, last year, the U.K. saw a record demand for sexual health services.

From the Daily Mail, color-coded maps show where people of different religions live in major U.K. cities.

From the Metro, in Cardiff, Wales, a man is charged with terror offenses after police find explosives in his home.

From France24, Mauritania holds elections, in which 98 political parties are participating.

From Deutsche Welle, in Chemnitz, Germany, police tell right-wing protesters to leave.

From Dutch News, former Dutch defense minister Jeanine Hennis will lead a U.N. mission to Iraq.

From VRT NWS, the Belgian airline VLM discontinues its remaining two flights.

From Radio Poland, Poland observes the 79th anniversary of the German invasion which started World War II.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban supports the migration plan of Czech President Babiš.

From Ekathimerini, Turkey's foreign minister calls for a "new chapter" in relations with Greece.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a man is accused of taking 201 photos of Turkish soldiers in northern Cyprus.

From Russia Today, the Russian Defense Ministry claims that the U.S. trained militants to carry out terror attacks in Palmyra, Syria.

From Sputnik International, Iran denies sending missiles to Shiites in Iraq.

From International Quran News Agency, a German man gets 10 years for bombing a mosque.

From Gatestone Institute, Hungary's Orban and Italy's Salvini create an "anti-immigration axis".

From Townhall, Brandon Presley wonders where the other pro-life Democrats are.  (Yes, he is related to the man from Tupelo, Mississippi.)

From The New York Times, the sonic attacks suffered by Americans in Cuba could be the product of microwave weapons.  (via the New York Post)

From U.S. News & World Report, a bishop apologizes for getting too friendly with Ariana Grande at Aretha Franklin's funeral.  (via Breitbart's Big Hollywood)

From CNS News, in an interview on Fox News, Raymond Arroyo decries Al Sharpton's Trump-bashing during Aretha Franklin's funeral.  (In my not very humble opinion, making political points at a funeral desecrates the service.  Criticize the president and every other politician all you want, but not when you're paying respects to the recently departed.)

From Fox News, despite what Hollywood might say, Neil Armstrong saw the moon landing as an American achievement.

From Yahoo News, Pope Francis addresses the problem of plastic in the oceans.  (via Twitchy)

And from Breaking Burgh, Pope Francis orders clergymen to give up sexual abuse for Lent.

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