Thursday, November 11, 2021

Stories For Veterans Day

As we honor those who have made blogging and other forms of free speech possible, here are some things going on:

From National Review and the "Captain Obvious" department, President Biden notices that gasoline prices are high.

From FrontpageMag, Biden seeks to make crime pay.

From Townhall, a statement from Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) doesn't bode well for Democrat socialist spending legislation.

From The Washington Free Beacon, climate czar John Kerry lobbies against legislation that would ban the import of Chinese goods made by slave labor.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden is "tearing our country apart", says......former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).

From The Federalist, classical liberal Kmele Foster is right in that banning critical race theory in schools won't stop it.

From American Thinker, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse highlights leftist tyrannical prosecutors.

From CNS News, according to former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore, what's happening now is a "carbon copy" of what happened in the 1970s.

From LifeZette, former President Trump minces no words tearing into the 13 Republican congresscritters who voted for the "infrastructure" bill.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, special prosecutor John Durham's investigation gets close to Mr. Bill and Ms. Hill.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, with the Democrats in charge, we no longer have any pencils.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) comes up with a "deliciously sinister" to make Biden change course on flying illegal migrants to Florida.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN offers a Chinese communist a chance to write an "editor's note" for a story about atrocities committed against the Uyghurs.

From Canada Free Press, to honor veterans is to honor freedom.

From Global News, Canada observers Remembrance Day with in-person ceremonies.  (Remembrance Day is celebrated every 11/11 in Canada and other British Commonwealth countries.  Like Veterans Day in the U.S., it evolved out of Armistice Day.)

From TeleSUR, Mexico, the U.S., and Canada plan to hold the first "Three Friends" summit in five years.

From TCW Defending Freedom, do any U.K. Tory leaders really want to stop migrants from illegally crossing the English Channel?

From the Evening Standard, protesters show up at the climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.  (Unlike the conference participants, they most likely did not travel to Glasgow on private jets, which makes them far less hypocritical than the participants.)

From the Irish Examiner, newlywed couples and photographers are asked to leave their favorite backdrops in Ireland's Killarney National Park.

From The Brussels Times, a cyclist who was filmed knocking over a five-year-old girl in Belgium sues the cameraman.  (If you read French, read the story at RTL.)

From Dutch News, the Dutch government considers new "lockdown type measures" due to a rise in coronavirus infections.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian doctor practicing in Germany is put on trial for alleged torture and murder committed in Syria.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt-Sichten.)

From ReMix, according to an opinion column, Poles should be proud of their national and religious tradition and heritage.  (I certainly agree with this, but due to my own Polish ancestry, I can't claim to be unbiased.  Today is also Poland's National Independence Day.)

From Free West Media, Polish police stop a bus full of "refugee activists" from Germany who were headed toward the Poland-Belarus border.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian President János Áder comes under fire for traveling to the U.N. climate change conference on a private jet.

From EuroNews, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko considers cutting off gas supplies to the E.U. if it levies more sanctions over the migrants seeking to enter Poland.

From Euractiv, countries near Belarus warn that the migrant crisis could lead to a military confrontation.

From Sputnik International, according to European parliamentcritter Thierry Mariani (France), the U.S. naval presence in the Black Sea near Russia's coast is "clearly a provocation".

From The Sofia Globe, according to a poll, incumbent President Rumen Radev is set for a run-off against Anastas Gerdzhikov in Bulgaria's presidential election.  (The article spells Radev's first name "Roumen", but most of the articles I've read which mention him spell it "Rumen".)

From Ekathimerini, according to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, reconstruction on the fire-stricken island of Evia will be a "model for holistic development".

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia's government hangs on as a no-confidence vote stalls.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian President Borus Pahor starts a visit to Paris.

From Malta Today, a man from Żejtun, Malta is charged with possessing two kilos of she-don't-lie and laundering €84,000 in drug money.

From Italy24News, three out of 10 trains arrive late in Milan.

From RFI, France says goodbye to Hubert Germain, the last surviving member of the Order of the Liberation.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan capital city of Rabat will host a headquarters of the Pan-African Youth Union.

From Turkish Minute, the wife of a jailed Kurdish leader is sentenced to prison for obtaining a "counterfactual" health report.

From The Times Of Israel, speaking from a nuclear-safe bunker, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calls on parents to vaccinate their children against the coronavirus.

From Egypt Today, if you want to get some dates, go to Egypt's Bahariya Oasis.

From The New Arab, a Palestinian man detained by Israel ends his hunger strike.

From IranWire, Lebanon's interior minister orders an investigation into the Iranian soccer team's oversized suitcases.

From The Express Tribune, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan will provide "all possible humanitarian aid" to Afghanistan's government.

From India Today, Delhi, India records 40 new coronavirus cases and zero coronavirus-related deaths for today.

From New Age, an Indian national is arrested for allegedly trespassing into Bangladesh.  (Apparently, some countries are allowed to defend their borders and punish those who violate them.)

From the Daily Mirror, for five decades, a Sri Lankan man has given dignified burials for unclaimed bodies.

From Hype, a Malaysian Muslim actor is criticized for eating with chopsticks.

From Ladun Liadi, a woman collapses while being caned for having sex outside marriage in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

From The Straits Times, according to the Singapore Prison Service, 169 inmates are coronavirus-positive.

From the Borneo Post, a new travel corridor between Malaysia and Indonesia promises a new beginning for aviation workers.

From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese province of Binh Duong asks industrial parks to support coronavirus testing and vaccination.

From Gatestone Institute, in President Biden's America, illegal aliens are worth more than U.S. military personnel.

From The Stream, how America has failed out military personnel.

From Space War, Chinese President Xi Jinping warns of "Cold War-era" tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.

From Sino Daily, Chinese Communist Party leaders meet to seal Xi's legacy.

From The American Conservative, don't ask E.U. countries to playact in Asia.

From The Daily Signal, today, we should honor those who served and those who stood by them.

From The Western Journal, basketball player LeBron James's attack on Kyle Rittenhouse for crying while testifying at his trial quickly backfires.

From BizPac Review, during Rittenhouse's trial, the judges cell phone rings and the musical ringtone triggers some people.

From The Daily Wire, one organization raises awareness about the elevated rate of suicide among veterans.

From the Daily Caller, thousands of DHS workers won't be vaccinated against the coronavirus before the federal deadline.

From Breitbart, according to a defense witness, Rittenhouse tried to "deescalate" a conflict between rioters and armed guards.

From Newsmax, New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams (D) promises to reinstate a plainclothes police gun unit in spite of threats from a local BLM leader.

And from the New York Post, fans of actress Debra Messing are angry that Nicole Kidman will portray Lucille Ball in the biopic Being the Ricardos.

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