Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Wednesday Whatnot

On the first Wednesday in August, which happens to be the birthday of a certain former president, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden evicts the Constitution.

From FrontpageMag, happy 60th birthday, Mr. President.

From Townhall, the Texas Democrat fleebaggers flee to yet another location.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation gave $170,000 to an anti-Israel group run by one of its own board members.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden admits that his administration is illegally extending the CDC's moratorium on evictions, but doesn't care.

From The Federalist, seven ways for conservatives to fight critical race theory.

From American Thinker, a writer explains why he refuses to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From CNS News, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) will not read all 2,702 pages of the infrastructure bill, and neither will Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), nor will Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).  (Since that's two Dems and a 'Pub, I can call the non-effort to read the bill "bipartisan".)

From LifeZette, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany calls upon Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) to resign, but thinks that he won't.

From NewsBusters, my governor tells Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson to get vaccinated.

From Canada Free Press, some light on what really happened at Canada's residential schools.

From CTV News, Canadian Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller worries that lifting coronavirus restrictions could bring about a fourth wave.

From TeleSUR, Colombia unleashes its Truth Commission.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a letter to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From Snouts in the Trough, why won't journalists question the nonsense from climate catastrophists?

From the (U.K.) Independent, dozens of Jamaicans who came to the U.K. as children face deportation.

From Free West Media, four reasons why some Germans are refusing coronavirus vaccination.

From ReMix, by offering Belarusian Olympic sprinter Kryscina Tsimanouskaya a humanitarian visa, "Poland shows how to defend human rights".

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga, the E.U. has attacked Hungary for not letting the LGBTQ lobby into schools.

From EuroNews, Lithuania is warned against pushing back migrants at its border with Belarus.

From The Moscow Times, wildfires continue blazing in Siberia.

From Radio Bulgaria, if the Bulgarian Socialist Party is handed a mandate to form a cabinet, it will allow the current caretaker government to stay in place in the meantime.

From the Greek City Timesa fire on the Greek island of Evia approaches the Monastery of Saint David the Elder.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the E.U. is unsatisfied with the migrant situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Balkan Insight, according to the E.U.'s high Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is "no acceptable reason for glorifying convicted war criminals".

From Euractiv, Tsimanouskaya goes to Austria.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Libyan preacher Abu Ramadan is charged with discrimination and fraud in Switzerland.

From The North Africa PostTunisian President Kais Saied continues with his purge.

From The Jerusalem Post, rockets are fired from Lebanon toward Israel, to which the IDF responds.

From The New Arab, most Lebanese insurance companies still refuse to compensate people affected by the Beirut port explosion.

From Argus, five or six Iranians boarded a tanker in the Gulf of Oman.  (via Iran International)

From Iran International, according to exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi, the West is not showing any support for the Iranian people.  (Pahlavi is the eldest son of the last Iranian shah.)

From Pakistan Today, according to an opinion column, the party Pakistan Muslim League is a "disaster".

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Foreign Minister Hanif Atmar briefs envoys from neighboring countries about the political and security developments in Afghanistan.

From India Today, Indian authorities bust an ISIS-inspired terror module including suspects from the state of Karnataka and the territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From XinhuaNet, the Maldivian Prosecutor General's Office files charges against four suspects allegedly involved in a terror attack against Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration "surrenders" to Germany on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia.  (The Keystone XL oil pipeline in the U.S. and Canada was another matter.)

From The Stream, readers of The New York Times explain what is ripping American families apart.

From Space War, China uses drones and bananas to coax wayward elephants back home.

From The American Conservative, why senatorial candidate J.D. Vance (R-OH) will not back down in the culture war.

From The Daily Signal, Nigeria and other countries in western Africa are increasingly beset by kidnappings and terrorism.

From BizPac Review, the media get a skeptical response after moving on to the "delta-plus" and other "doomsday" coronavirus variants.

From The Western Journal, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) cracks a socialist joke after watching Senator Socialism (I-VT) sprinting to catch an elevator.

From The Daily Wire, the White House and the CDC insist that "lawyers" and the "White House Counsel" signed off on the extension of the eviction moratorium.

From Newsweek, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) is accused of "antisemitic dog whistling" during a speech she made in Detroit.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Devin Nunes (R-Cal) sues MSNBC for defamation, citing comments made by TV host Rachel Maddow.

From Breitbart, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) will introduce an amendment to the infrastructure bill to allocate $1 billion for border wall completion.

From Newsmax, the Senate rejects an amendment to the infrastructure bill that would have prevented the Biden administration from canceling border wall contracts awarded by the Trump administration.

And from the New York Post, having a beer at New York's LaGuardia airport is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.  (I've known about what I call the "airport surcharge" for a long time, but this one appears to be far worse than normal.)

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