Monday, September 2, 2019

Labor Day Links - Part 1

As American workers take a well-deserved day off, here are some things going on:

From National Review, cruising with two saints.

From FrontpageMag, how The New York Times lies about the history of slavery.

From Townhall, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro insinuates that gun owners who think that the government can become tyrannical are paranoid.  (I'm pretty sure that another Castro, who was in charge of an island just south the U.S., didn't want citizens in general to own guns.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Minnesotan left-wingers come out against a replacement oil pipeline.

From the Washington Examiner, a man with a cooler full of fireworks causes South Plainfield, New Jersey to cancel its Labor Day parade.  (Dude, fireworks are for the Fourth of July.  You're very late.)

From American Thinker, we're now in "hurricane hysteria season".

From LifeZette, the feud between President Trump and actress Debra Messing gets even messier.

From NewsBusters, a former CNN reporter "begs" the media to ignore former Vice President Biden's gaffes.  (And the left wonders why we on the right talk about "media bias".)

From CBC News, a derailed train leaking octane forces the evacuation of several villages in Alberta.

From Global News, under new case law, a divorcing couple's children belong in Canada, not Germany.

From CTV News, a Sikh is applauded for his response to an anti-Muslim heckler.  (If you're going to be obnoxious enough to heckle Muslims, please make sure that whoever you're heckling really is a Muslim.)

From TeleSUR, Hurricane Dorian pounds the Bahamas and threatens the southeastern coast of the U.S.

From Morocco World News, families of Sahrawis detained by Polisario condemn the group's silence.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Vice Presidents Oktay (Turkey) and Pence (U.S.) talk while in Warsaw.

From Turkish Minute, in August, Turkey detained 15 journalists and banned 700 news articles.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From In-Cyprus, in Nicosia, Cyprus, beware of the traffic cameras.

From Rûdaw, ISIS terrorists attack Shiite militia checkpoint north of Baghdad.

From Arutz Sheva, according to the leader of Hezbollah, its attack on an Israeli base yesterday is "the start of a new phase".

From The Times Of Israel, Hezbollah publicizes a video of yesterday's attack.

From The Jerusalem Post, Palestinians protest the alleged honor killing of a woman in Bethlehem.

From YNetNews, according to an IDF legal expert, sexual harassment is not widespread in the Israeli army.

From Egypt Today, according to Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the pharaoh Tutankhamen was not murdered, but Ramses III was brutally stabbed.

From StepFeed, western productions still fall short in representing Muslims.

From Radio Farda, Iran confirms that an explosion occurred at a satellite launch site.

From IranWire, an Iranian woman who tries to help her imprisoned sister is also arrested.  (Yes, there is a "war on women".)

From Dawn, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, helping pilgrims is a duty, not a favor.

From The Express Tribune, special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad shares a draft of the U.S. peace plan with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani government's to grant consular access to a convicted Indian spy won't affect his conviction or sentence.

From Khaama Press, Taliban terrorists detonate a large VBIED in Kabul.

From The Hans India, according to Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, India is committed to defense ties with Japan.

From the Hindustan Times, according to India's government, the man convicted of spying in Pakistan is under "extreme pressure to parrot a false narrative".

From ANI, Apache helicopters from the U.S. will be inducted into the Indian Army tomorrow.  (Thus, Asian Indians will soon be flying aircraft named after a tribe of American Indians.)

From India Today, India backs a peace deal in Afghanistan that would not "leave space for terrorists".

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka seeks to bolster its ties with the Indian state of Odisha.

From the Colombo Page, a group of people are arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a garbage truck.

From Asia One, a Christian funeral is held in the courtyard of a mosque in Jakarta.

From Malay Mail, Islamic preacher Zakir Naik gets permission to conduct Melaka prayers.

From Youth Ki Awaaz, a conversation with an atheist who escaped from Egypt.

From Gatestone Institute, in Turkey's elections, heads President Erdoğan wins, tails you lose.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia will ban nickel exports starting in 2020.

From The Straits Times, thousands of people in Hong Kong gather for rallies while students boycott their classes.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government will study a proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 65.

From Free Malaysia Today, Chinese tourists allegedly attack two Malaysian immigration officers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

From The Mainichi, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike declines to pay tribute to Koreans who were massacred after a large earthquake in 1923.

From The Stream, four Christians in Nepal are arrested for "preaching Christianity".

From the New York Post, President Trump's re-election campaign flies banners thanking workers on Labor Day.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Devin Nunes (R-Cal), there is sufficient evidence to charge former FBI Director James Comey with conspiracy.

From The Blaze, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has the perfect response to criticism from Bette Midler.

From Twitchy, according to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Hurricane Dorian proves that the U.S. must pass the Green New Deal.

And from Fox News, Bindi Irwin shares a tribute video of her late father the Crocodile Hunter.

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