Friday, June 28, 2019

Another Debate, And Other Stories

Last night, there was a second debate from some Democratic presidential candidates.  Naturally, when you have a total of 25 of them, presenting more than, say, ten at a time can be difficult.  Thus, we've now had two nights of debate from the candidates.  In reaction to the debate and other matters, here are some things going on:

From National Review, for two nights, the freak flags fly.

From FrontpageMag, the second debate was a circus.

From Townhall, on the second night of the debates, "darkness falls".

From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Biden and "the great awokening".

From the Washington Examiner, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) has some harsh advice for Bob O'Rourke.

From The Federalist, even the "moderate" Democrat candidates "are still wildly extreme".

From American Thinker, the debates are a farce.

From CNS News, President Trump weighs in.

From LifeZette, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) pummels Biden about his opposition to busing.

From NewsBusters, the embarrassing questions that were not asked.

From The Daily Caller, "all the fighting from the Democratic debate".

(OK, enough about the debates.  Let's see what else is going on.)

From The Conservative Woman, the Swiss are independent, patriotic and rich, which is why the E.U. is angry at them.

From Snouts in the Trough, Chinese President Xi Xinping has a very good reason to laugh.  (This blogpost doesn't even mention China's lead in carbon dioxide emissions, its huge contribution to the plastic in the oceans, and the detention camps for Muslim Uighurs, for all of which it largely gets a free pass from the same people who blame my SUV for climate change, blame American plastic straws for the deaths of marine life, and call any Westerner who doesn't regard Islam the best thing since sliced bread an "Islamophobe".)

From the Express, voter fraud allegedly comes to Peterborough, England.

From the Evening Standard, 12 members of a British family who allegedly joined ISIS are all dead.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the sand dunes at Trump's golf course in Scotland are set to lose their protected status.

From the (Irish) Independent, a Nigerian soccer player can't stop his deportation from Ireland, but joins a team from Vietnam.

From the Irish Examiner, a man admits stealing an 800-year-old mummified head of a "Crusader" from a church in Dublin.

From France24, is Paris still the world's fashion capital?

From RFI, France's oldest Holocaust survivor dies at age 101.

From El País, the rainbow flag is taken down from Madrid's city hall.

From The Portugal News, Portugal wants into space.

From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to purchase a $250 million support package from the U.S. for its F-16s.

From the Malta Independent, Malta's National Museum of Archaeology exhibits the finds at the ancient Ta' Ġawhar Tower.

From ANSA, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 is investigated for allegedly aiding illegal immigration.

From EuroNews, an Italian mayor's migrant rescue fleet never materializes.

From Total Croatia News, Israel's ambassador to Croatia comments on a controversial Holocaust monument.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the foreign ministers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia urge historians to speed up their work on the common history of the two countries.

From Ekathimerini, unidentified thieves blow up an ATM in Koufalia, Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, the U.S. Senate votes to lift the arms embargo on Cyprus.

From Novinite, according to Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, Bulgaria has invited North Macedonia to join the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.

From the Sofia Globe, if you're in Sofia on July 1st, you can see the U.S. Army Europe Band in Sofia.

From Romania-Insider, Romanians living outside Romania have three days to vote in this year's presidential election.

From Russia Today, lions and crocs and bears, oh my, may no longer be legally owned as pets in Russia.

From Sputnik International, Presidents Putin and Trump meet on the sidelines at G20.

From The Moscow Times, Russian animal rights activists slam the release of captive whales.

From Euractiv, as Russia is readmitted to the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, Latvia considers quitting.

From Daily News Hungary, according to President János Áder, Hungary will meet its 2030 climate goals.

From Hungary Today, 105 years ago today, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

From Radio Praha, the oldest cave paintings in the Czech Republic are discovered near Brno.

From Radio Poland, the Polish-lead V4 E.U. Battlegroup will go on standby next month.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany toughens its citizenship laws.

From the NL Times, environmentalists are already dissatisfied with the Dutch climate plan.

From Dutch News, Dutch ministers claim that their climate plan is both workable and affordable.

From VRT NWS, climate activists demonstrate at the Brussels airport.

From CBC News, SNC-Lavalin chooses to have a judge-only trial.

From Global News, two provincial courts side with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's carbon tax.

From CTV News, a Canadian resident is prevented from flying back home because she does not have the right kind of card.  (On the other hand, if she were illegally in the U.S. trying to illegally enter Canada via Roxham Road, she'd probably have no problem.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, Istanbul's new mayor, who had to get elected twice, takes office.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish prosecutors order the detention of 27 sailors for alleged Gülen links.

From Rûdaw, according to a former Sunni official, there's no Shiite property in Nineveh, Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, on the Gaza-Israel border, it's truce, what truce?

From The Times Of Israel, balloons from Gaza start 14 more fires.

From The Jerusalem Post, a 2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road is found in Jerusalem's City of David.

From YNetNews, Trump's Palestinian police has "many sticks, few carrots".

From Egypt Today, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities inaugurates a Middle Kingdom cemetery.

From StepFeed, a Nigerian man gets seven years in prison for smuggling clothes soaked in crystal meth.  (One way to get yourself into serious trouble is to smuggle drugs into a Muslim country.)

From Radio Farda, President Trump's sanctions against Iranian leader Khamenei are "significant for human rights".

From IranWire, three Baha'is from Semnan, Iran have been detained for two months, their health and alleged offenses not publicly revealed.

From Dawn, five more polio cases are found in the Pakistani region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

From The Express Tribune, a madrassa teacher is arrested for hanging a child upside down.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan allows refugees from Afghanistan to stay for another year.

From Khaama Press, an airstrike sends a Taliban commander and his two deputies to their virgins.

From The Hans India, a temple in Kancheepuram, India re-opens after 40 years.

From the Hindustan Times, according to India's law and justice minister, the triple talaq bill is "not about religion".

From ANI, a group of boys remove the skull cap of a Muslim boy on an Indian train.

From India Today, prohibit Islamic polygamy, says a Hindu cleric.

From the Daily Mirror, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Sri Lanka's death penalty for drug offenses may impede international cooperation against drug trafficking.

From the Colombo Page, a petition seeking a moratorium on the death penalty is filed in Sri Lanka's Court of Appeals.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a youth in Debhata, Bangladesh is arrested for "hurting religious sentiments".

From Gatestone Institute, what's next for the U.N. Global Compact on Migration?

From The Jakarta PostPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to jail critics who try to impeach him.

From The Straits Times, Singapore's prime minister calls on world leaders to strengthen the global trade system.

From Free Malaysia Today, did the government of the Malaysian state of Sabah issue local IDs to foreigners?

From China Daily, the main tower of the world's largest joint road-rail cable stayed bridge is built.

From WPVI-TV, an avowed white supremacist gets a life sentence for driving his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From Reason, "a brief history" of Senator Kamala Harris's position on abolishing private health insurance.

From LifeNews, a hospitalized disabled French man is being starved to death against his parent's wishes.

From the New York Post, New York's mayor faces more controversy for his Che Guevara quote.

And from The Babylon Bee and the "don't give them any ideas" department, California mandates field trips to gay bars for second graders.

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