Friday, December 6, 2019

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

Here on the first Friday of December are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) attacks freedom of the press.

From FrontpageMag, where "the truth is no defense".

From Townhall, the latest jobs report looks bad - for Democrats.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "medicare for all" has become a campaign killer for the left.

From the Washington Examiner, a gunman kills three people and wounds others before being killed at Naval Air Station Pensacola, and the gunman was a Saudi aviation student.

From The Federalist, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) writes an "essential primer" on dealing with communist China.

From American Thinker, the real reason why elites hate President Trump.

From CNS News, the diversity which Democrats love to preach is "only in the back of the bus".

From LifeZette, why Christians should be involved in politics and culture.

From NewsBusters, according to a blog on ESPN, the addition of a black coach makes the NFL "whiter".

From Canada Free Press, the "despicable sanctimony" of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal).

From CBC News, Canadian residents living along Lake Erie deal with worsening shoreline erosion.

From Global News, part of a Canadian site where uranium rods were produced for the Manhattan Project collapses into the Detroit River.

From CTV News, a Canadian man faces terror-related charges after returning from Turkey.

From TeleSUR, citizens of Dominica go to the polls.

From Morocco World News, Israel urges the U.N. to recognize Moroccan Jews as refugees.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey inaugurates its first space radiation testing station.

From Turkish Minute, five Kurdish co-mayors in the Turkish province of Van are detained on accusations of terrorism.

From Rûdaw, Turkey appoints mayors in two towns in northern Syria.

From In-Cyprus, a new bill would limit the president of Cyprus to two consecutive terms.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian government plans a new series of summary executions the Sednaya military prison.

From Arutz Sheva, thousands of Gazans protest along the border with Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, as another election looms in Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Gantz promise to defeat each other.

From The Jerusalem Post, Nazareth is a "hi-tech haven" and Israel's largest Arab city.

From YNetNews, Israel's defense ministry announces that a rocket motor system was tested today.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt has sold almost half of the land intended for the first phase of constructing its new capital.

From Egypt TodayEgyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte discuss regional issues such as the situation in Libya.

From StepFeed, there are still some things that Saudi Arabian women aren't allowed to do.

From The New Arab, Israeli police detain five Palestinian journalists live on air.

From Radio Farda, according to a U.N. official, the picture from inside Iran is "extremely disturbing".

From Dawn, for the second time this week, the Islamabad office of Dawn is besieged.

From The Express Tribune, 113 mosques in Pakistan are reportedly under government supervision.  (What is this "separation of church and state" you speak of?)

From Pakistan Today, according to former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's lawyer, a verdict is unlikely in his client's treason trial.

From The Hans India, according to Indian President Ram Kovind, there will be no mercy for rapists.

From the Hindustan Times, a U.S. collector puts a transcript of Mohatma Gandhi's "last" speech up for sale.

From ANI, the Indian army issues guidelines for its personnel who wish to visit Kartarpur in Pakistan.

From India Today, "how can India prevent illegal immigration?"

From the Daily Mirror, according to the Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka's Security Council should not take serious matters as a joke.

From the Colombo Page, the Seychelles Coast Guard intercepts two Sri Lankan vessels suspected to be fishing illegally.

From Israel Islam & End Times, the tenth most popular name for babies boys in the U.S. is..... (You'll have to read the story to find out,)

From Gatestone Institute, the West ignores or jeers a sanctuary for gays.

From The Jakarta Post, 10 sea turtles have been found dead near Bengkulu, Indonesia in two months.

From The Straits Times, after six months, protesters in Hong Kong "have few regrets".

From Borneo Post, police in Kuala Lumpur start investigating students for singing the song Negara Ku in Mandarin.  (This song, whose title is sometimes rendered as the single word Negaraku, is the national anthem of Malaysia.  The title translates to English as "My Country".)

From Free Malaysia Today, police arrest a suspect for allegedly spray-painting statues in a church in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, when driving in Japan, please do not tailgate.

From The Stream, "the myth of white privilege".

From Reason, Chinese scientists are trying to edit the genes of pigs to make them disease resistance.

From Space War, the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch a satellite capable of sending images in cloudy conditions.

From The Washington Times, moderate House Republicans propose a bill to give LGBTQ Americans certain protections.

From the New York Post, at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, you can ski all year round.

From the Daily Caller, President Trump jokes about banning light bulbs that make him look orange.

And from Twitchy, Joe Biden is told that someone was laid off twice when he was vice president.

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