Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

As we reach the middle of a so far very warm week, here are some things going on:

From National Review, is patriotism even possible anymore?

From FrontpageMag, what's really behind the recent spate of mass shootings?

From Townhall, Detroit's police department invites congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) to learn about its facial recognition technology.

From The Washington Free Beacon, illegal drugs are a $150 billion dollar per year business.

From the Washington Examiner, March For Our Lives presents their gun control proposals.

From The Federalist, American was not built on slavery, but the idea that all are created equal.

From American Thinker, former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) tries to warn his fellow Democrats about Medicare for all and open borders.

From CNS News, President Trump offends liberals by asking why Jews vote for Democrats.

From LifeZette, Trump realizes that his detractors in the media would love to see a recession.

From NewsBusters, the poll numbers for Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) "tumble like a soufflé".

From CBC News, parents in Ontario will be able to exempt their children from the province's new sex education curriculum.

From Global News, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada will not back down from China.

From CTV News, the number of Americans visiting Canada hits a 12-year high.

From TeleSUR, a Brazilian congressional committee votes to allow the U.S. to use a military base at Alcântara.

From The Portugal News, 16 refugees from Turkey arrive in Portugal.

From El País, the rescue ship Open Arms, which is based in Spain, docks in Lampedusa, Italy.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss government approves more spending to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

From ANSA, Italy deports the wife of a kickboxer having links to ISIS.

From Free West Media, an Italian judge rebels against Interior Minister Salvini.

From EuroNew, Italian President Sergio Mattarella starts holding talks to find a new government.

From the Malta Independent, migrants leave the ship Open Arms in Lampedusa, Italy.

From Euractiv, the Ocean Viking, with 356 migrants on board, is still stranded at sea.

From Total Croatia News, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić admits asking Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to not use the term "greater Serbia aggression".

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Iranian tanker formerly seized by Gibraltar is now sailing in the Mediterranean.

From Ekathimerini, Albania rescues 36 Afghans trying to enter Greece by ship.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece decides against assisting the Iranian tanker.

From Novinite, Bulgarian authorities investigate bomb threats against media and airports.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria will start to pay compensation to farmers whose pigs were culled starting on September 1st.

From Romania-Insider, Presidents Donald Trump (U.S.) and Klaus Iohannis (Romania) make a joint statement.

From Russia Today, a heroic Russian policeman stops a drunk man from dropping his child out a window.

From The Moscow Times, Russian officials speak against police violence in Moscow.

From the Hungary Journal, according to prime ministerial chief of staff Gergely Gulyas, Hungary has a change to rebuild its alliances.  (Gulyas is called the "head of the Hungarian Prime Minister's Office".  My term "chief of staff" is an educated guess as to what that might mean.)

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian musician composed the national anthems of Uruguay and Paraguay.

From Hungary Today, Hungary sends police units to help patrol borders in North Macedonia and Serbia.

From About Hungary, items left at this year's Sziget Festival are given to charity.

From The Slovak Spectator, four candidates run for Slovakia's Supreme Court president.

From Radio Praha, a protest planned by Million Moments for Democracy gets underway in Prague.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz calls for U.N. action to help civilians in the Middle East.

From the CPH Post, Trump cancels his visit to Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister Johnson agree on a Brexit goal, but not on how to reach it.

From the NL Times, the Dutch people are invited to suggest names for an exoplanet.

From Dutch News, nearly 10,000 people sign up for a Brexit beach party in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.  (They can face the North Sea and wave "bye bye" to the United Kingdom.)

From VRT NWS, over €10 million is allocated to restore historic sites in Flanders.

From France24, the French government reconvenes to consider reforms that have at times been unpopular.

From RFI, anti-capitalist campaigners gather for an "alternative G-7".

From Voice Of Europe, MEP Janice Atkinson points out the inconsistency of the "eco nutters".

From the Express, Johnson mocks Merkel with a phrase that she herself had said.

From the Evening Standard, scientists find one theory about the Loch Ness monster to be "plausible".

From the (U.K.) Independent, a gunman opens fire on a busy street in London.

From the (Irish) Independent, a sea bin installed in Howth Harbor collects plastic waste.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Ireland will not be dragged out of the E.U.

From The Conservative Woman, Boris the Spider should "zap" the "Brexit mutineers".  (This suggestion is tongue-in-cheek, I hope.)

And from Snouts in the Trough, those horribly mistreated and oppressed Palestinians just got a new shopping mall.