Monday, July 26, 2021

Monday Mania

On "just another manic Monday", here are some things going on:

From National Review, the opposition to critical race theory in schools doesn't come only from conservative parents.

From FrontpageMag, the truth about the origins of Islam.

From Townhall, the U.S. will keep its coronavirus travel restrictions in place due to the delta variant, even as illegal aliens keep streaming in.  (In other words, people entering the U.S. illegally will be privileged above people who wish to visit legally.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, the campaigns of President Biden and Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) hired the intelligence firm used by Harvey Weinstein's legal to smear one of his accusers.

From the Washington Examiner, the Texas Democrat fleebaggers ask the public for care packages.

From The Federalist, why efforts by Democrats to suppress election concerns is dangerous.

From American Thinker, mind-boggling hypocrisy from the left.

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) and Dr. Fauci start to again favor masking.

From LifeZette, a speech by former Vice President Pence highlights the Republican Party's evolving China policy.

From NewsBusters, ABC devotes only 91 seconds to its own poll showing a surge of pessimism under Biden's presidency.

From Canada Free Press, why did Pelosi allow San Francisco to be ruined by bad policies?

From Global News, prosecutors approve charges against a Canadian suspected ISIS terrorist captured in Syria.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President-elect Pedro Castillo forgoes his presidential salary.  (I vaguely recall a recent U.S. president who did that sort of thing.)

From The Conservative Woman, the truth behind polls in the U.K. that show support for bird choppers.

From Snouts in the Trough, the Sunday Times spews out nonsense about climate catastrophe.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Olympic athletes win three gold medals in less than five hours.

From EuroNews, the number of daily new coronavirus cases in the U.K. drops for the sixth consecutive day.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's HSE warns young people against "intentionally" catching the coronavirus in order to obtain a Covid Digital Certificate.

From The Brussels Times, people in Belgium suffering from severe flood damage are entitled to temporary unemployment benefits.

From Euractiv, Dinant, Belgium is hit with its worst flood in decades.

From Dutch News, Dutch water fortifications are included in UNESCO's World Heritage list.

From Hungary TodayÁron Szilágyi wins Hungary's first gold medal in this year's Olympics, becoming the first man to win three of them in an individual fencing event.

From Sputnik International, Russian planes carrying humanitarian aid arrive in Cuba.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria reports one coronavirus-related death amid a surge of active cases.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek government plans to reduce the corporate tax rate for businesses that merge or undergo overhauls.

From ReMix, residents of Malakasa, Greece demand the closing of a nearby migrant facility after acts of theft, vandalism and arson.  (If you read Greek, read the story at Ethnos.)

From Balkan Insight, a North Macedonian court sentences former Speaker Trajko Veljanoski and several others to jail over the storming of the country's parliament in 2017.

From The Slovenia Times, canoeist Benjamin Savček wins Slovenia's first gold medal in this year's Olympics.

From Malta Today, domestic travel in Malta increased by 52 percent in 2020.

From Italy24News, a 50-year-old man dies from the coronavirus in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, the area's first such death in 38 days.

From RFI, the French parliament adopts a health pass extension despite widespread protests.

From Free West Media, a violent altercation erupts at a French amusement park during the verification of a visitor's health pass.

From International Quran News Agency, the imam of a mosque in Saint-Chamond, France is dismissed for citing verses from the Koran and Hadith that were "contrary" to French values.  (What is this "freedom of religion" you speak of?)

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian President Kais Saied freezes all activities of his country's parliament and dismisses Prime Minister Hichem Machichi.

From Turkish Minute, social media users in Turkey could face up to five years in prison for spreading "misinformation" under a new law proposed by the country's governing party.

From The Times Of Israel, Hamas threatens Israel with more balloon-carried incendiary devices unless it allows aid to Qatar.  (Since when do terrorists get to direct foreign policy?)

From Egypt Today, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities recovers a legless statue of a priest dating to the Old Kingdom.

From The New Arab, the Tunisian parliament reacts to its suspension.

From IranWire, anti-government protests are staged in Tehran.

From The Express Tribune, Sherpas find the bodies of Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara and two others on K2.

From The Afghanistan Times, Afghan security forces send 89 Taliban terrorists to their virgins.

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urged against allowing the state of Karnataka some dam construction.  (As with Ethiopia, India might have a dam controversy.)

From New Age, Bangladesh reports a daily high of 123 new dengue cases.

From the Daily Mirror, pictures from flooded roads in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From The Straits Times, Singapore will review its coronavirus rules in early August.

From the Borneo Post, a primary school in the town of Beluru is one of six localities in the Malaysian state of Sarawak to be placed under an Enhanced Movement Control Order.

From Vietnam Plus, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam administers over 170,000 coronavirus vaccine doses in the fifth phase of its vaccination drive.

From Gatestone Institute, will Lebanon fall under Iranian control?

From The Stream, race hustling by the left is bringing back the bad times from the 1960s.

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Clay Higgins (R-LA) and his wife get the coronavirus (or at least test positive for it) for the second time.

From SmallBizDaily, URL redirects and their effect on Internet search results.

From Space War, China urges the U.S. to stop demonizing it during while hosting a visit from Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

From The American Conservative, President Biden should keep China away from American farmland.

From The Western Journal, Cuban-American protesters flock to the White House.

From BizPac Review, former ICE director Tom Homan slams the Biden administration for releasing illegal aliens into the U.S. without coronavirus testing.

From The Daily Wire, Jeff Bezos offers nearly $2 billion if his Blue Origin spacecraft are allowed to help with the Artemis lunar program.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Veterans Affairs will become the first federal agency to require its healthcare workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From the New York Post, 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya wins the first Olympic gold medal in women's street skateboarding.

From Politico, former gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams (D-GA) admits that Democrats are [bleep]ed if there's no way for them to repeat what happened in 2020.  (via Breitbart)

From Breitbart, the ACLU faces a backlash for claiming that racism is "foundational" to the Second Amendment.

From Newsmax, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) questions the neutrality of the lawyers assigned to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against him.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Cleveland Indians solve their problem by replacing their mascot Chief Wahoo with Apu from The Simpsons.

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