Friday, October 8, 2021

Friday Phenomena

On a cloudy and mild Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, believe it or not, President Biden does indeed control the White House.

From FrontpageMag, some leftist billionaires are behind the bathroom harassment of Senator Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ).

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, Republicans need to realize that Democrats hate them and don't want to be friends.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Senate approves legislation to temporarily raise the federal debt limit.

From the Washington Examiner, anger from the Democrats over the debt ceiling standoff exposes their hypocrisy.  (In my opinion, the real question is which congresscritter is not a hypocrite.)

From The Federalist, the left really doesn't care about "democracy", but about getting their way.

From American Thinker, some disparate policies on bail.

From CNS News, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) admit messing up on the debt ceiling vote.

From LifeZette, according to TV host Joy Behar, black people should get vaccinated against the coronavirus because "the experiment has been done on white people".

From NewsBusters and the "good luck with that" department, according to right-wing journalist Brent Bozell, the media must "tell the [bleep] truth" about the radical left.

From Canada Free Press, life under figureheads at the top of their governments.

From Global News, according to health officials, Canada's fourth coronavirus wave is no longer growing.

From TeleSUR, the Catholic organization Opus Dei allegedly allegedly held 43 women in slavery between 1974 and 2015 in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the BBC interviewer who told U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson to "shut up".

From the Evening Standard, London bans Insulate Britain protesters from blocking streets.

From the Irish Examiner, three men are sent to cells at the courthouse in Ennis, Ireland for failure to pay maintenance for their children.  (I stayed in Ennis when I was in Ireland in 1997, but did not get to see its courthouse.)

From The Brussels Times, a T-Rex exhibition will open at Belgium's National Science Museum in Brussels.

From Free West Media, German authorities conduct a major raid Muslim hawala banking.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Muezzins in Cologne, Germany will be allowed to call worshippers to Friday prayers.  (If you read German, read the story at Junge Freiheit.)

From EuroNews, Norwegian political parties agree to form a center-left minority government.

From ReMix, according to Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, the crisis on the border with Belarus is Poland's "most serious crisis" since the end of the Cold War.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto calls for stopping illegal immigration on land and by sea.

From Sputnik International, could Russia help alleviate the U.K.'s natural gas shortage?

From Euractiv, according to Russia President Putin, gas pipelines in Ukraine can "burst" at any time.

From The Sofia Globe, prosecutors press charges against the captain and second mate of the cargo ship Vera Su, which was stranded on the coast near Kamen Bryag, Bulgaria.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek government plans to double its subsidies on gas and electricity due to increasing prices.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović will be questioned over the "Pandora Papers".

From Balkan Insight, Albania issues an international arrest warrant for former General Prosecutor Adriatik Llalla.

From Malta Today, a neolithic structure is unearthed in the Maltese archaeological site of Tas-Silġ.

From Italy24News, Italy reports 3,023 new coronavirus cases and 30 deaths.

From RFI, Marseilles, France says goodbye to business tycoon Bernard Tapie.

From The North Africa Post, who are Morocco's seven new female cabinet ministers?

From Turkish Minute, a court in İstanbul orders the continued detention of rights activist Osman Kavala.

From The Time Of Israel, as Jewish prayer provokes Muslims, Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Barlev warns of a Temple Mount "flare-up".

From Egypt Today, villagers in Upper Egypt find about 122,300 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine in a wastewater canal.

From The New Arab, security forces vote in Iraq's parliamentary elections, two days before the general populace.

From IranWire, the Iranian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan hawks black-market visas to Afghans.

From The Express Tribune, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, food prices in Pakistan are competitive.

From the Afghanistan Times, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemns the suicide bombing at a mosque in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

From India Today, in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, security forces send a terrorist to his virgins.

From New Age, a cargo ship carrying fertilizer sinks in the Pashur River near the Bangladeshi port of Mongla.

From the Daily Mirror, the body of a 29-year-old Sri Lankan is found on the border between Belarus and Lithuania.

From The Straits Times, Singapore and South Korea will allow travel between them for people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From the Borneo Post, cinemas in the Malaysian state of Sarawak will be allowed to reopen on October 10th, subject to standard operating procedures.

From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese province of Binh Phuoc will give 10,000 smart phones to poor students.  (How do you say "Obama phone" in Vietnamese?)

From Gatestone Institute, Turkey carries out airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.

From The Stream, the Democrats lose their minds in their last-minute bullying of the aforementioned Senator Kirsten Sinema.

From The Daily Signal, a mother with concerns about how children are being educated dares Attorney General Merrick Garland to have her arrested.

From The American Conservative, putting Chinese flights in Taiwanese airspace into context.

From The Western Journal, Brooklyn Democratic Party chairwoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn would rather walk into traffic than answer a tough question.

From BizPac Review, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, California announces that he will not enforce a coronavirus vaccine mandate, and will allow his deputies to wear cowboy hats.

From The Daily Wire, President Biden reportedly lifts sanctions on Iranian missile producers.

From the Daily Caller, Biden dismisses September's disappointing jobs report, claiming that "real progress" is being made.

From Breitbart, the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Connecticut strikes an unidentified underwater object in the South China Sea.

From Newsmax, Biden loses support among independents.

From The Center Square, my state is expected to have a balanced budget for the first time in almost 20 years.

And from the New York Post, a man in the New York borough of Queens climbs a tree to evade police two days ago, and is still there.

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