Sunday, May 19, 2019

Some Things For Sunday

I've been running around for a while, but now that I'm back, let me point out a few things going on:

From National Review, immigration into the U.S. should serve the interests of the U.S.

From The Washington Times, a rocket is launched at the U.S. embassy in Iraq.

From Townhall, "these people are nuts".

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. can learn from Canada's mistaken "carbon tax".

From American Thinker, a reasonable way to define "pro-choice".

From LifeZette, Bob O'Rourke questions the results of the 2016 presidential election.

From NewsBusters, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) calls abortion "a life or death decision".

From The Conservative Woman, abortion is the best friend of the rapist.

From the Express, Tory politician Boris Johnson rules out an alliance with Brexit leader Nigel Farage.

From the Evening Standard, more than 50 migrants have been in the English Channel this weekend.

From the Independent, UKIP politician Carl Benjamin keeps getting targeted by milkshakes.

From Premier, a church in Durham, England is criticized for covering its crosses and hosting Muslim prayers.

From the Irish Examiner, reports of a dispute over where U.S. President Trump might meet Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have been greatly exaggerated.

From France24, thousands of people protest Monsanto in France and other countries.

From VRT NWS, during a debate, MEP Guy Verhofstadt is targeted with confetti.

From Deutsche Welle, thousands march in pro-E.U. demonstrations in Germany.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland votes for stricter gun control.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian opposition party LMP calls for a climate change state of emergency.

From Total Croatia News, will Croatia make an official request to join the Eurozone?

From the Greek Reporter, ceremonies for the 100th anniversary of the Pontic Genocide conclude in front of the Turkish consulate.

From Novinite, Bulgaria expelled 95 foreigners on secureity grounds.

From Russia Today, Russia says that it's too early to consider extending the OPEC+ deal.

From Sputnik International, according to Turkish President Erdoğan, Turkey and Russia might jointly produce S-500 air defense systems.

From The Moscow Times, the village of Nikolayevka is suspected of being the place where contaminants entered Russia's oil pipeline network.

From Hürriyet Daily NewsErdoğan expects Turkey to receive American F-35 jets "sooner or later".

From Turkish Minute, a journalist is imprisoned for insulting Erdoğan.

From Rûdaw, a Katyusha rocket lands within Baghdad's Green Zone.

From Arutz Sheva, a court rejects a petition against the Jerusalem Day Flag March.

From The Times Of Israel, 35,000 Palestinians reportedly left Gaza via Egypt or Turkey in 2018.

From The Jerusalem Post, police in Hebron, West Bank stop a woman from carrying out a stabbing attack.

From YNetNews, the first part of President Trump's peace plan will be an economic summit in Bahrain.

From the Egypt Independent, an explosion injures twelve people on a tourist bus near the Giza pyramids.

From Radio Farda, Trump tells Iran "don't try it".

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan opens 40 tourist rest houses.

From Khaama Press, Afghanistan appoints its first female deputy defense minister.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to have been reelected.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka marks a decade of peace since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers.

From Albawaba, a U.S.-based Saudi singer draws outrage for a video in which she finishes a dance with by reciting Koranic verses.

From The Yeshiva World, four men in a car reportedly yell "Allahu akbar!" and something else at a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn, New York.

From Gatestone Institute, Burkina Faso has become the new land of jihad against Christians.

From the Borneo Post, 39 of the 65 Malaysians detained in Syria want to come home.

From The Daily Caller, how the U.S. asylum system is being exploited.

From Fox News, according to right-wing journalist Mark Levin, the founders would be "astonished" at today's media.

From the New York Post, a new bill in New York would allow inmates to be incarcerated near their kids.

And from Global NewsKraft Heinz finds that the name of their product "Mayochup" sounds like a vulgar term in Cree.  (This reminds me of the trouble Chevrolet had selling the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries, due to no va being Spanish for "doesn't go".)

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