Friday, October 25, 2019

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

As the latest work week approaches its end, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the two theories about what President Trump did with Ukraine.

From FrontpageMag, how the media are a threat to America.

From Townhall, an IG report will help explain why the review into the origins of the Russia investigation has become a criminal probe.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the political contradictions of leftism.

From the Washington Examiner, why conservatives shouldn't get too comfortable with congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).

From The Federalist, a court in Texas gives a seven-year-old boy a reprieve from undergoing gender transition treatments.  (The author is a former transgender.)

From American Thinker, congresscritter Katie Hill (D-Cal), champion of #MeToo and opponent of Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation, looks like a real hypocrite.

From CNS News, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Obama invited Russia to intervene in Syria, with their troops pretending to be chemical weapons inspectors.

From LifeZette, why "red flag" laws are so dangerous.

From NewsBusters, CNN's double standard on the lack of credentials.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau will have to keep pace with what CFP calls the "Buffalo Run".

From CBC News, a man is found guilty of attempting to murder a policeman and four others by striking them with his van in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  (What the CBC article doesn't mention is that the man is originally from Somalia, made his way to Mexico, entered the U.S. without documents, was detained by the U.S., ordered deported back to Somalia, did not report for his deportation, and later entered Canada from the U.S.  All that and more is detailed in a report in the Edmonton Journal.)

From Global News, she's coming your way, Vancouver.

From CTV News, the Canadian Supreme Court rules that courts in Quebec don't have to pause divorce proceedings when a foreign court also examines the case.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities arrest six ISIS-connected suspected terrorists.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan wants the U.S. to hand YPG leader Ferhat Abdi Şahin over to Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish police detain a niece of cleric Fethullah Gülen, accused of being behind the 2016 coup attempt.

From Rûdaw, 10,000 Syrians reportedly cross into Iraqi Kurdistan, fleeing Turkey's operation.

From In-Cyprus, the "Act for Heritage" conference gets underway in Nicosia, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, the chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces thanks Russia for saving Kurdish people from the "scourge" of war.

From Arutz Sheva, Ukraine announces that it will open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel and Jordan ignore the 25th anniversary of their peace treaty.

From The Jerusalem Post, vehicles in a Palestinian village are vandalized, apparently by Jewish extremists.

From YNetNews, archaeologists uncover a Byzantine-era church near Jerusalem.

From Egypt Today, an exhibition of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun will go to London.

From StepFeed, answers to legal questions about the protests in Lebanon.

From Radio Farda, according to Iranian labor right activist Sepideh Qolyan, she and other women have suffered in prison.

From IranWire, refugees in Belgium desperately want to reach Britain.

From Dawn, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, facing criminal proceedings, is granted bail on medical grounds.

From The Express Tribune, a special court has the power to announce a verdict in the treason trial of former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

From Pakistan Today, talks between the Pakistani government and people who want to put on an "Azadi March" remain deadlocked.

From Khaama Press, a suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan kills at least 18 people.

From The Hans India, the Indian city of Mancherial will ban plastic starting in November.

From the Hindustan Times, a Muslim League worker is hacked to death in Kerala, India.

From ANI, according to India's Army Chief, the country's troops will get American Sig Mauer rifles.

From India Today, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, plastic waste kills cows and prevents rainwater from being absorbed by the ground.

From the Daily Mirror, according to the director of Sri Lanka's archaeology department, no harm was done during the renovations to the the Ruwanwelisaya stupa.  (A stupa is a type of Buddhist shrine.)

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapakse releases his election manifesto.

From India TV, a policeman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is arrested for allegedly giving his wife the triple talaq after making a rape accusation.

From BESA, "Turkey's nuisance value".

From Gatestone Institute, the debate in France about headscarves is not really about headscarves.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian athletes train in Jakarta after a tornado.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong's High Court bans the public disclosure of personal information about police and their families.

From the Borneo Post, a restaurant worker in Ipoh, Malaysia is charged with possessing terrorism-related publications.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia plans to open an embassy "accredited to Palestine", located in Jordan.

From The Mainichi, Mount Fiji is now open for skiing.

From The Stream, as Halloween approaches, the witches are again after President Trump.

From the New York Post, a man who snubbed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at Congressman Elijah Cumming's funeral is a businessman who was once accused of forgery.

From Reason, according to a federal judge, police need "qualified immunity" to "stop mass shootings".

From Fox News, California's blackouts and energy problems could come to other parts of America.

From the Daily Caller, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack "flirts with" a third-party presidential campaign.

And from Twitchy, Sebastian Gorka notices something interesting about former CIA director John Brennan's Twitter account.

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