On the last Monday in August, here are some things going on:
From National Review, why the case for the Democrats' latest spending binge doesn't hold up.
From FrontpageMag, why Turkey celebrates the Battle of Manzikert every August 26th.
From Townhall, President Biden meets with the pregnant widow of a Marine killed in Kabul, which does not go well.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) seek an investigation into why Americans were denied entry into the Kabul airport.
From the Washington Examiner, Hurricane Ida leaves a million people in Louisiana and Mississippi without power.
From The Federalist, pretending that the coronavirus is an emergency is killing America.
From American Thinker, why the blame for the fiasco in Afghanistan belongs solely on Biden.
From CNS News, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calls the withdrawal from Afghanistan under Biden "one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history".
From LifeZette, "woke masochism is killing America", which is what the left loves.
From NewsBusters, what kind of school will out children go back to?
From Canada Free Press, is Biden's debacle in Afghanistan the result of incompetence or of intent?
From CBC News, Bullwinkle is saved from a muddy fate in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro believes that he will not go to jail, but might have a worse fate.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the British should speak out against the coronavirus control freaks.
From Snouts in the Trough, Biden goes to sleep, and a truthful ad from the Australian government.
From the Express, a new report tears to shreds economic warnings from Project Fear.
From the (Irish) Independent, what we know about the Irish government's plans to further ease is coronavirus restrictions.
From VRT NWS, the sacked mayor of De Panne, Belgium refuses to give back the keys to its town hall.
From the NL Times, 11 stowaways are arrested at the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands with the help of a "migration dog".
From Deutsche Welle, according to an opinion column, the race to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel is "wide open".
From AP News, German authorities arrest a women for allegedly transferring money to an ISIS-linked group.
From the CPH Post, an island thought to be the world's most northerly holds that title for only a short time.
From Polskie Radio, according to President Andrzej Duda, schools in Poland are set for a "normal" return.
From Radio Prague, economists expect a sharp rise in salaries in the Czech Republic for the second quarter.
From The Slovak Spectator, a special military plane will evacuate people from Afghanistan to Slovakia. (If you read Slovak, read the story at Denník.)
From Daily News Hungary, has the coronavirus decreased life expectancy in Hungary? (If you read Hungarian, read the story at G7.)
From Russia Today, Alexey Navalny's situation shows that anti-Russia sanctions achieve nothing.
From Romania-Insider, the IMF predicts a good year for Romania's economy.
From Novinite and the "I'll drink to that" department, alcohol prices in Bulgaria are among the lowest in the E.U.
From the Greek Reporter, a protest against mandatory coronavirus vaccination in Greece turns violent.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, opposition party leaders in Republika Srpska oppose changes to the Dayton peace agreement.
From Balkan Insight, Kosovo leaders welcome the first group of refugees from Afghanistan.
From Total Croatia News, the Gorski Kotar tourist board creates the largest virtual walk in Croatia.
Form Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's Financial Administration proposes a 10 percent tax on transactions involving cryptocurrency.
From The Malta Independent, Infrastructure Malta points out that it does not merely "buy" trees but also takes care of them.
From ANSA, six men are cited for a brawl at a hotel on the Italian island of Capri. (I visited Capri during my trip to Italy in 2001, but did not get into trouble.)
From EuroNews, firefighters tackle a blaze at an apartment tower in Milan, Italy.
From Free West Media, Austrian soldiers risk their lives in Kabul for 76 "asylum seeker vacationers".
From SwissInfo, despite research on the coronavirus, animal testing decreased in Switzerland during 2020.
From France24, France makes its coronavirus health pass mandatory for 2 million workers.
From Euractiv, could Olympic athletes at the 2024 Olympics in Paris swim in the Seine? (If you read French, read the story at Euractiv France.)
From El País, about 70,000 people form a human chain to protest the environmental crisis at Spain's Mar Menor.
From The Portugal News, Americans of Portuguese descent connect to their roots.
From Morocco World News, Morocco has fully vaccinated 14.6 million people against the coronavirus.
From The North Africa Post, Tunisian politician Nabil Karoui is arrested in Algeria.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey celebrates its Independence War victory.
From Rûdaw, two ISIS leaders are killed and another arrested in the Iraqi province of Diyala.
From Armenpress, Russian peacekeepers are trained on preventing the use of drones in the region of Nagorno Karabakh.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus responds to the European Commission's request to accommodate refugees from Afghanistan.
From The Syrian Observer, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian arrives in Syria to discuss economic terrorism.
From The961, mothers of victims of the Beirut port explosion protest political interference with the investigation of the blast.
From Arutz Sheva, IDF soldiers protest, asking to be allowed to defend themselves.
From the Egypt Independent, a court in Cairo acquits four civil society entities accused of receiving foreign funds.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing agree to use Ethiopia as a hub for aviation in Africa.
From The New Arab, Lebanon's only school for autistic children will close.
From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appoints a new atomic agency head who has no experience in that field.
From Khaama Press, a rocket launched from an unknown location lands in a residential neighborhood near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, killing seven civilians.
From the Dhaka Tribune, experts in Bangaldesh expect another coronavirus wave in three weeks.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan army veteran Dinesh Priyantha Herath wins a historic gold medal in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
From Samaa, Pakistani actress Sanam Chaudhry deletes all her photos on Instragram.
From Free Malaysia Today, new Malaysian ministers and deputy ministers are sworn in before their king.
From The Mainichi, according to Japan's health ministry, contamination to coronavirus vaccines in the prefecture of Okinawa was caused by rubber stoppers.
From Gatestone Institute, Lebanon will combat "normalization" with Israel.
From The Stream, the U.S. State Department turns Americans back at the Kabul airport.
From The Daily Signal, how the search for identity spurred the sexual revolution and gender ideology.
From Space War, according to the U.N. atomic agency, North Korea appears to have restarted its nuclear program.
From The American Conservative, the U.S. Special Immigrant Visas program was and is poorly defined and executed.
From The Western Journal, 8 percent of all Humvees ever made have been left behind in Afghanistan.
From BizPac Review, citizens in Palm Beach County, Florida are fed up with school board members acting like petty tyrants.
From FDD's Long War Journal, a man who once served as Osama bin Laden's security chief makes a triumphant return to his hometown in Afghanistan. (via The Daily Wire)
From The Daily Wire, according to the Biden administration, about 300 Americans are still in Afghanistan, and it has "considerable" leverage over the Taliban.
From the Daily Caller, childhood obesity has skyrocketed during the coronavirus lockdowns.
From the New York Post, according to billionaire John Paulson, cryptocurrencies will "go to zero". (The article cites a story in Bloomberg, which is behind a paywall.)
From Breitbart, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, thousands call on the Cajun Navy.
From Newsmax, according to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D), the death toll from Ida could climb "considerably".
And from The Babylon Bee, the campaign of California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) finds Republican candidate Larry Elder's high school yearbook, which shows him in blackface.
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