Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm sunny Wednesday, with the Brood X cicadas making their noise, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Hollywood's flexible standards on China.

From FrontpageMag, even Newsweek has to acknowledge the immigration crisis at the southern border.

From Townhall, after stopping one investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, President Biden starts another.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) introduces a bill to stop American money from going to dictators.

From the Washington Examiner, the suspects who allegedly targeted a black-owned auto shop with racist graffiti turn out to be black themselves.

From The Federalist, why Biden has declared war on classical beauty in architecture.

From American Thinker, a DACA recipient graduates from San Diego State University and proudly waves the flag - of Mexico.

From CNS News, right-wing commentator Mark Levin warns Democrats about the rising anti-Semitism in their party.

From LifeZette, a restaurant owner in Michigan who was arrested and fined for violated Governor Gretchen Whitmer's (D) coronavirus rules wants her to receive a similar penalty.

From NewsBusters, anchors and reporters on MSNBC wail about states banning critical race theory.

From Canada Free Press, Mr. President, you can stop hiding behind the coronavirus now.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of Alberta moves to the first stage of its three-stage reopening plan.

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian indigenous people and transport workers protest and block highways on President Guillermo Lasso's first day in office.  (And we gringos thought that the feminist protest against the incoming Trump administration on January 21st, 2017 was crazy.)

From The Conservative Woman, the woke "quackademics" who want to cancel Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.  (I realize that calling some people "quackademics" might be unfair to ducks.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, British journalist Piers Morgan apologizes for not being harsher towards the U.K. government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

From Free West Media, more on the death of the first man in the U.K. to receive coronavirus vaccination.

From About Hungary, illegal migration in Europe is on the rise again.

From ReMix, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, the cost of making Europe green should be borne by major polluters, not be the people.

From The Moscow Times, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claims to have acted "legally" in diverting a plane with a dissident onboard to Minsk.

From EuroNews, according to Belarusian politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Lukashenko is turning Belarus into "the North Korea of Europe".

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria extends its coronavirus emergency until July 31st.

From the Greek City Times, archaeological artifacts from the Cycladic island sites of Keros and Daskalio may be seen at the Athens Municipal Gallery.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to President Rumen Radev, Bulgarian has a wonderful opportunity to renew dialogue with North Macedonia.

From Balkan Insight, exhumation work at a mass grave near Raška, Serbia yields "at least nine" bodies.

From Euractiv, Slovenia will hold its first referendum in almost four years.

From The North Africa Post, an Algerian military aircraft makes a "suspicious" trip to Spain.

From The Jerusalem Post, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel opposes any Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem.

From The New Arab, according to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a ceasefire must include a ban on Israeli raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan opens coronavirus vaccination to everyone aged 19 and over as the pandemic's third peak slows down.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan will not host any U.S. military bases.  (To my dismay, every other article on the front page of PAN that appears to be even moderately interesting requires a subscription to be read.  If this continues, my citing this source will not continue.)

From ANI, the Indian Coast Guard's preventive measures save lives as the cyclone Yaas makes landfall in the state of Odisha.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden's Palestinian mission is bound to fail.

From The Stream, opposing critical race theory doesn't make you a racist.

From ITR Economics, don't buy into the economic mania.

From Space Daily, Russia asserts its Arctic presence with a military base on the island of Alexandra Land.

From The Daily Signal, how BLM contributes to the rise of anti-Semitism.

From One News Now, U.S. Catholic bishops will debate over who is eligible to receive Communion.

From The Western Journal, red state attorneys general get ready to fight back against the Biden administration's push for taxpayer funding for abortion.

From The Daily Wire, the hypocrisy of blaming then-President Trump for anti-Semitism in the U.S. but not blaming Biden.

From Breitbart, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees apologizes for praising the accuracy of IDF strikes in Gaza.

From the Daily Caller, according to Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), police reform legislation will have to be accomplished during this coming June or never.

From Newsmax, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Biden's open-border policies are "an economic stimulus package for the cartels".

From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill declines to watch the debate between Republicans vying to succeed him as mayor.

And from the Genesius Times, Biden ends the investigation into whether China leaked the coronavirus from a lab because "they said they didn't".

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