Sunday, June 16, 2019

Stories For Fathers Day

As we salute all the fathers out there, here are some things going on:

From National Review, will the Democrats figure things out before 2020?

From Townhall, is there anything that the Democrats won't promise voters?

From The Washington Free Beacon, today, be sure to thank your dad for his work.

From the Washington Examiner, the police department of Topeka, Kansas has their own way of observing Fathers Day.

From The Federalist, why America needs the show Law and Order: Hate Crimes Unit.

From American Thinker, contrary to what one leftist might have thought, President Trump did not create border checkpoints.

From LifeZette, the best fathers don't need a solution for every problem.

From NewsBusters, ABC calls congresscritter AOC (D-NY) a possible "kingmaker" in the 2020 Democrat primaries.

From CBC News, Quebec passes immigration reform.

From Global News, eight men are wanted for smashing police cars during celebrations of the Toronto Raptors winning the NBA championship.

From CTV News, the Canadian cabinet is due to render a decision on the Trans Mountain pipeline this coming Tuesday.

From The Conservative Woman, a brief history of U.K. conservatism, before the Tories messed it up.

From the Express, some Tory candidates for prime minister go head-to-head in a debate.

From BBC News, Greenpeace activists try to board an oil rig in the North Sea.

From the Evening Standard, Extinction Rebellion calls off plans to protest at Heathrow Airport.

From the (U.K.) Independent, one would-be prime minister puts forth an analogy about Brexit promises.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's taoiseach won't clarify statements he made in 2010 about his own drug use.

From the Irish Examiner, for €75,000, these two Irish lighthouse cottages, but not the lighthouse itself, can be yours.

From France24, France starts trials of a compulsory civic service program for teenagers.

From RFI, as planned, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris hosts a mass for the first time since the fire.

From VRT NWS, a Flemish nationalist calls the repatriation of ISIS children a "PR stunt".

From Dutch News, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte tells corporations to pay higher wages if they want to get tax cuts.

From Deutsche Welle, in the Görlitz, Germany mayoral race, a CDU candidate leads his rival from AfD.

From Radio Poland, Polish President Andrzej Duda visits California.  (I hope he doesn't trip over the homeless people, the illegal aliens, or the gówno in the streets of San Francisco.)

From the Hungary Journal, Hungary's prime minister meets Estonian conservatives.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian opposition parties hope for a large turnout at mayoral preselections.

From Sputnik International, about 1,600 protesters march in Moscow in solidarity with freed journalist Ivan Golunov.

From The Moscow Times, Russia "dismisses" allegations of interference in the recent E.U. elections.

From TeleSUR, Guatemalans vote to elect a new president.

From AP News, tens of millions in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay are left without electricity.

From Morocco World News, Morocco and Brazil sign seven agreements.

From The Portugal News, Portugal approves additions checks at slaughterhouses to combat swine fever.

From the Malta Independent, U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D) wants to start a family with his husband, which he hopes could happen in the White House.  (Buttigieg's father was an immigrant from Malta.)

From Total Croatia News, ethnic Croats and Serbs in each other's countries meet for talks and soccer.

From Ekathimerini, according to Greece's prime minister, Turkey's actions around Cyprus are a sign of weakness.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's oldest active mosque is now open to visitors.

From the Sofia Globe, the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party withdraws her resignation.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's Siamese twins take the university entrance exam.

From Rûdaw, crop fires kill at least seven people in northeastern Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, U.S. President Trump thanks Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for "Trump Heights" in Golan.

From The Times Of Israel, more on the inauguration of Trump Heights.

From The Jerusalem Post, an Islamic law judge warns that the world will pay if Muslims don't save the Al-Aqsa mosque.

From YNetNews, when Palestinian Arabs and Jews fought against the Nazis.

From Egypt Today, President al-SISI affirms Egypt's support for the UAE.

From Radio Farda, as more countries blame Iran for attacks on oil tankers, Iran blames the U.S.

From the Qatar Tribune, Qatar becomes an observer of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament.

From Dawn, the first case of polio in Shangla, Pakistan in over 20 years is reported.

From The Express Tribune, the construction of the Kartarpur Corridor hits a snag.

From Pakistan Today, is the Islamic concept of God a "god-of-the-gaps"?

From Khaama Press, Afghan forces repel two Taliban attacks in Kandahar province.

From The Hans India, in cricket, India beats Pakistan by 89 runs.

From the Hindustan Times, the armies of India and Myanmar target terror camps along their common border.

From ANI, the Indian Navy benefits from agreements with the U.S. and France.

From India Today, the Indian city of Lucknow gets a road made from plastic waste.

From the Daily Mirror, a burglar in Horana Town, Sri Lanka finds out the hard way that a toy pistol is no match for the real thing.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Sirisena and Russian President Putin meet in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.  (I once worked with an Iranian man who told me that dushanbe means "Monday" in Persian, which language is related to Tajik.)

From StepFeed, eight skills that are not taught in Arab schools, but should be.

From Gatestone Institute, how we cover up our culture to avoid giving offense.

From The Jakarta Post, in Indonesia, social media is linked to poor mental health.

From The Straits Times, after dealing with a huge demonstration on Sunday, Hong Kong braces for strikes on Monday.

From the New York Post, a noted fake black person admits swinging both ways.

From Fox News, he's baaaaack, and on social media.

From Twitchy, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper tries to be a non-socialist Democrat.

And from The Daily Caller, the funniest fails for Fathers Day.

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