In the middle of the first week in September, here are some things going on:
From National Review, white liberal Democrats have moved to the left of most black voters.
From FrontpageMag, do any of former President Obama's contemporaries at Columbia remember him being there?
From Townhall, how Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was corrupted by her quest for power.
From The Washington Free Beacon, "how China covertly operates in the U.S."
From the Washington Examiner, migrants from Central America have concentrated in four U.S. counties.
From The Federalist, Democrats propose the first gun grab since the battle of Lexington and Concord. (The article discusses the term "buy back" for guns. This begs the question, "Since when, you government officials, were the guns yours in the first place?" The mission of the British troops heading to Concord, Massachusetts was to seize an arms cache. In other words, they were trying to impose gun control.)
From American Thinker, for anyone thinking that the creators of the Second Amendment were familiar with only single-shot pistols and muskets, the historical record says otherwise.
From CNS News, San Francisco designates an organization which has never committed terrorism as a "domestic terrorist organization".
From LifeZette, this past May, New York's Mr. Bill was not on the job very often.
From NewsBusters, for the 10th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court, let Justice Sotomayor eat cake.
From Canada Free Press, the U.S. shuts down coal power plants while the developing world builds them.
From CBC News, Canada's Federal Court of Appeal will rule today whether new legal challenges to the Trans Mountain pipeline can proceed.
From Global News, GO trains and buses will have Wi-Fi on board next year.
From CTV News, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre, Hurricane Dorian will eventually reach the Maritime Provinces and Quebec.
From TeleSUR, President Jair Bolsonaro criticizes U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet for "meddling" in Brazilian affairs.
From Morocco World News, the treatment of prisoners in a camp run by Polisario allegedly violates international law.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish troops start training with the new S-400 air defense systems.
From Turkish Minute, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu denies reports that Turkey has increased the flow of migrants to Greece.
From In-Cyprus, police find no grounds for making criminal charges against the bishop of Morphou, Cyprus for his anti-gay comments.
From Rûdaw, archaeologists search for Neanderthal remains in a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan Region.
From Arutz Sheva, the U.S. ambassador to Israel points out that Arab terrorism against Jews started before the creation of the state of Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, while making a rare visit to Hebron, West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pledges that Jews will be in the city "forever".
From The Jerusalem Post, according to Yamina Party leader Ayelet Shaked, Netanyahu should "stop procrastinating and build a new neighborhood in Hebron".
From YNetNews, hundreds of thousands of people in northern Israel have no shelter against missile attacks.
From Egypt Today, according to a military spokesman, border guards stopped 217 people from illegally entering Egypt. (Will the Western "open borders" crowd object, as they sometimes do when U.S. border agents do anything like this? I won't hold my breath.)
From StepFeed, is the Saudi Arabian government finally issuing tourist visas?
From Radio Farda, Iran decides to release seven crewmen from a seized British ship for humanitarian reasons.
From IranWire, a woman arrested while trying to enter a stadium in Tehran to watch a soccer game sets herself on fire in front of a court house.
From Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan is named as one of the world's 10 least livable cities.
From The Express Tribune, Prime Minister Imran Khan orders a reduction in check posts on Pakistan's highways.
From Pakistan Today, the third round of talks over the Kartarpur Corridor are held in a "positive environment".
From Khaama Press, about 150 Taliban and ISIS fighters in the province of Kunar surrender to the Afghan government.
From The Hans India, India rejects a demand by Pakistan to charge pilgrims going to Kartarpur a service fee.
From the Hindustan Times, 23 people are killed in an explosion at a firecracker factory in Batala, Punjab, India.
From ANI, the Indian Army dismisses reports of incursions by Chinese troops into the state of Arunachal Pradesh, and a former Maldivian president claims that ISIS and Al Qaeda are building a "deep state" in that country.
From India Today, according to Prime Minister Modi, Indian astronauts for the space mission Gaganyaan will be trained by Russia.
From The Times Of India, kidnappers of a Sikh girl in Pakistan "withdraw" their "claim" on her.
From the Daily Mirror, Nigeria will reconsider the closing of its embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which occurred in 2017.
From the Colombo Page, Japan will provide money for a school in Sri Lanka for children with learning disabilities.
From Insider, a U.S. nurse divorcing her Saudi Arabian husband shows the "nightmare" that foreign women have dealing with the country's legal system.
From News 18, protests by Pakistanis in London over India's actions in Kashmir get ugly.
From Qantara, the trauma inflicted by Saddam Hussein lives on in Iraq.
From Gatestone Institute, there's no end in sight to the terror from Boko Haram. (The last four links, the story from The Times Of India, and the second story from ANI were all found at The Religion Of Peace.)
From The Jakarta Post, does Indonesia need a more draconian law?
From The Straits Times, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam formally withdraws a proposed extradition bill, but will that satisfy the protesters?
From the Borneo Post, the leader of the Malaysian party PKR condemns a call for a boycott based on race or religion.
From Free Malaysia Today, as the U.S. has a trade row with China, its investment in Malaysia increases "sharply".
From The Mainichi, Japan briefs foreign diplomats on concerns about water stored at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
From The Stream, the slavery about which Western human rights groups and media go Sergeant Schultz. (For those unfamiliar with Sergeant Schultz, he was a character on the sit-com Hogan's Heroes, set in a German POW camp during World War II. He was known for the line "I know nothing".)
From The Hill, the Trump administration rolls back Obama-era regulations affecting light bulbs. (via The Blaze)
From Reason, Bob O'Rourke's "impossible gun ban dreams".
From Fox News, Hurricane Dorian sends 62 mph winds through Kennedy Space Center.
From WPVI-TV, the New Jersey shore prepares for Hurricane Dorian.
From the Daily Caller, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalls how President Clinton seemed comfortable speaking with women.
From the Chicago Sun-Times, actor Jussie Smollett blames Chicago police for spending lots of money to find his alleged attackers. (via Twitchy)
And from The Babylon Bee, experts warn that may already be too late to stop CNN's climate change town hall.
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