Thursday, December 26, 2019

Stories For The Feast Of Stephen - Part 1

On the anniversary of the day when, according to a certain Christmas carol, Good King Wenceslas looked out his window at the snow, here are some things going on:

From National Review, most of the people seeking asylum on the southern border are Mexican instead of Central American.

From FrontpageMag, meet two policemen killed by illegal aliens.  (One of the cops, if I remember his story correctly, was an immigrant.  Thus, we have an example of an illegal alien killing an immigrant.)

From Townhall, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN) is blasted for a Tweet saying that Jesus was a refugee.  (In all fairness, while Jesus was not born a refugee, as the mayor implies, He later became one when He, Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt to escape from King Herod.  After Herod died, the family returned to Mary's home town of Nazareth.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, the writers at TWFB nominate their Man Of The Year, including the newest member of the Bush family.

From the Washington Examiner, how our immigration system encourages migrants to "recycle" children.

From The Federalist, how Paul Krugman's prediction that the markets would "never" recover from the election of President Trump turned out to be spectacularly wrong.

From American Thinker, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) makes up another story.

From CNS News, the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia is recalled for criticizing its anti-gay laws.

From LifeZette, the family photo from former Vice President Biden left out two of their well-known members.

From NewsBusters, a CNN piece refers to all illegal aliens as "Latinos".

From Canada Free Press, Hannukah celebrates a victory in a guerrilla war.

From CBC News, how earthworm feces could possibly influence climate change.

From Global News, British Columbia's best animal stories in 2019.

From CTV News, a stolen century-old cross has been returned to a church in Digby, Nova Scotia.

From TeleSUR, Mexico reiterates its demand that Bolivian police officers stop harassing and intimidating its embassy staff in La Paz.

From Morocco World News, a video shows testimonies from Moroccans expelled from Algeria in 1975.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt plans to start a competition to become its first astronaut.

From Egypt Today, Presidents al-Sisi (Egypt) and Trump (U.S) discuss the situation in Libya and the Ethiopian dam talks.

From Arutz Sheva, thousand of poor Israeli children will receive free winter coats.

From The Times Of Israel, the Likud polling station in Tel Aviv, Israel is a "calm amid the raging storm".

From The Jerusalem Post, Gazans decide to take a three-month break from their weekly protests.

From YNetNews, an 87-year-old man remembers the first Nazi death march.

From Rûdaw, Arab tribal leaders demand that the Syrian Democratic Forces release women and children held in their camps.

From Hürriyet Daily News, 9-million-year-old fossils are discovered in southeastern Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, seven illegal irregular migrants die when their boat capsizes in Lake Van in eastern Turkey.

From StepFeed, for the first time in 172 years, a "ring of fire" solar eclipse is seen in the UAE.  (There was no UAE 172 years ago, but this was the first time such an eclipse was seen in that area.)

From Radio Farda, police presence and arrests prevent new protests in Iran.

From Dawn, pictures of the "ring of fire" eclipse.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani provinces refuse to give up their "right of first use" of natural gas.

From Pakistan Today, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan's army is ready for any Indian "misadventure" in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.  (Pakistan refers to the part of Jammu and Kashmir it controls as azad, which means "free".)

From Khaama Press, the Taliban releases 27 peace marchers whom they had previously abducted.

From The Hans India, junior college students in Mahabubnagar, India observe the solar eclipse.

From the Hindustan Times, scientists bust five myths about solar eclipses.

From ANI, the Indian Air Force will retire its fleet of MiG-27 fighter jets.

From India Today, due to expected protests against the Citizenship Act, Internet will be suspended in 14 districts in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

From the Daily Mirror, video of the annual solar eclipse from northern Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan embassy in Kuwait facilitates the return of 33 migrant workers to Sri Lanka.

From NDTV, a Muslim British boxer of Pakistani origin is shocked by the "all the hate" he received for celebrating Christmas.

From Gatestone Institute, the German Bundestag's resolution to ban Hezbollah is a "legal charade".  (This article is part 2.  Read part 1 here.)

From The Jakarta Post, according to Indonesia's Security Affairs Minister, this Christmas has been the "best" and "safest" in decades.

From The Straits Times, the Christmas season doesn't prevent police and protesters from clashing in Hong Kong.

From the Borneo Post, a Malaysian all-women team enters Antarctica.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian government decides against allowing vigilantes to go after illegal aliens.

From The Mainichi, spent mixed oxide fuel will be removed from a Japanese nuclear power plant in January.

From The Stream, the ten biggest satirical stories from 2019 that you didn't hear about.

From the Los Angeles Times, more on the Mexicans heading for the U.S. border.

From Reuters, for Christmas, a caravan of migrants in Mexico heads southward.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, congresscritter AOC (D-NY), who has criticized other Democrats for taking campaign contributions from billionaires, takes a donation from billionaire Tom Steyer.  (via The Blaze)

From the Daily Caller, pop singer Madonna cancels concerts due to "indescribable" pain.

And from ArchyW, for a decent standard of living and inexpensive medical care, Americans are retiring to Vietnam.

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