Stuff For The End Of May

On a very warm Tuesday at the end of the "merry, merry month of May", here are some things going on:

From National Review, some things that might actually help stop mass shootings.

From FrontpageMag, will he ever be able to put the lie about then-President Trump and Charlottesville, Virginia to rest?

From Townhall, podcaster Joe Rogan's remark on gun control will certainly infuriate liberals.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while President Biden touts a "historic recovery", the U.S. heads toward recession.

From the Washington Examiner, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger (R) wins his primary against an opponent endorsed by Trump with the help of Democrat crossover vote.

From The Federalist, the gun control goals of Democrats can always be discerned based on which tragedies they exploit.

From American Thinker, some people don't know much about guns.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Byron Donald (R-FL), the president has no legal authority to void contracts.

From LifeZette, Dolph Lundgren, who played Rocky's opponent in Rocky IV, honors America.

From NewsBusters, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) declares war on the Ministry of Truth.

From Canada Free Press, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is reminiscent of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.

From CBC News, the Canadian federal government gives the province of British Columbia permission to decriminalize small amounts of certain drugs.

From Global News, the cabinet of Canadian province of Saskatchewan is reshuffled, resulting in its first ever female justice minister.

From CTV News, Canada extends its coronavirus border restrictions for another month.

From TeleSUR, Salvadorans plan to march in protest against President Nayib Bukele.

From TCW Defending Freedom, money and monkeypox.  (Again we see that the "k" in "monkeypox" is silent.)

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson could be facing a no-confidence vote.

From the Evening Standard, a map of London's new Elizabeth line.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the English city of Bradford is crowned the U.K. "City of Culture 2025".

From the (Irish) Independent, Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yuri Filatov accuses Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin of trying to "shift the blame" for energy and food crises onto Russia.  (Sound like the  "Putin's price hike" alleged by U.S. President Biden.)

From the Irish Examiner, according to Martin, new oil sanctions on Russia could mean "rocky territory ahead" for Irish consumers.

From The Brussels Times, a man who allegedly drove his vehicle into a crowd in Strépy-Bracquegnies, Belgium this past March, killing six people, is placed under house arrest.  (Did he get the idea from what happened in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA?  If you read French, read about the incident at 7SUR7 and RTL.)

From the NL Times, a planned strike at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is canceled as airport management and a union reach a deal.

From Dutch News, inflation in the Netherlands decreases to 10.2 percent.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at CBS, which should not be confused with the American company with the same acronym.)

From Deutsche Welle, the German government calls a climate activist's criticism of Chancellor Olaf Scholz "absurd".

From the CPH Post, more men in Denmark are taking paternity leave.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki praises E.U. unity as its leaders agree to a partial ban on imported Russian oil.

From ReMix, Poland has the largest natural gas storage rate in Europe.

From Radio Prague, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala praises the E.U.'s agreement on an embargo of Russian oil.

From The Slovak Spectator, an extension planned for a tram line in Bratislava, Slovakia is stopped by inflation.

From Daily News Hungary, where to find free beaches on Hungary's Lake Balaton.

From Hungary Today, according to foreign press, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban "got a lot" out of the E.U. agreement to embargo Russian oil.

From About Hungary, according to President Katalin Novák, Hungarians stand with the innocent victims of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian parliamentcritters become more skeptical about adopting the euro.

From Free West Media, the fast-food chain McDonald's will offer "rainbow sticks" during the upcoming "Pride Month".  (In my not too humble opinion, when it comes to the seven deadly sins, of which pride is one, Mickey D's should stick to gluttony.)

From EuroNews, more on the E.U. agreement on Russian oil.

From Euractiv, according to an E.U. committee, glyphosate does not cause cancer.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian President Kais Saied expels members of the Venice Commission after it criticized his plans to hold a referendum on a new constitution.

From The New Arab, Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri is reelected for his seventh term, despite opposition.  (This guy is even older than his U.S. counterpart.)

From Jewish News Syndicate, Democrat congresscritters demand that the U.S. investigates Israel's alleged role in the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

From MalayMail, Malaysian celebrity preacher Da'i Syed is acquitted of two "unnatural sex" offenses.

From OpIndia, Islamists fume over a video of students performing a "burqa dance".

From NDTV, terrorists kill a female Hindu teacher in Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India.  (The last four links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, a nuclear-armed Iran is not an "acceptable risk".  (The article's original title emphasizes "not".)

From The Stream, the early Church was not in favor of abortion.

From The Daily Signal, San Francisco schools remove the word "chief" from its job titles due to racism concerns.

From Space War, the Philippine government summons the Chinese ambassador over alleged "harassment" in the South China Sea.

From The American Conservative, of mental hospitals and mass shooters.

From The Western Journal, the investigation of the leaked draft decision from the Supreme Court reaches an unprecedented level.

From BizPac Review, some schools reinstate mask requirements as the number of coronavirus cases rises, but do the masks actually protect the students?

From The Daily Wire, Biden does not support "hardening schools" in order to protect against mass shooters.

From the Daily Caller, according to CBP Chief Raul Ortiz, over the Memorial Day weekend, Border Patrol officers caught over 1,000 illegal migrants, nearly 50 pounds of drugs, and two sex offenders.

From the New York Post, a man dies and a woman is rescued after they tried to climb over a fence between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California.

From Breitbart, the Uvalde, Texas shooter passed a background check, so why do left-wingers think that more background checks would have made a difference?

From Newsmax, the National Hurricane Center advises Floridians to watch out for the remnants of Hurricane Agatha, which recently struck Mexico from its Pacific side.

And from The Babylon Bee, after hearing that her husband was arrested for DUI, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) puts on her angry eyebrows.

Stories For Memorial Day

As we remember those who, according to a certain song, died "to make men free", here are some things going on:

From National Review, the energy "transition" away from fossil fuels is a "leap into the dark".

From FrontpageMag, like it or not, there will always be war.

From Townhall, President Biden hasn't yet "negotiated" with Republicans on gun control legislation.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of the book Victory at Sea.

From the Washington Examiner, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, a climate activist tries to attack the Mona Lisa with a piece of cake.

From The Federalist, Memorial Day connects the past with our efforts to save the future.

From American Thinker, how to stop school shootings.

From LifeZette, on Memorial Day, remember those who put all their chips into the game.

From Red Voice Media, in a restaurant, a nutjob screams at Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for attending the NRA conference in Houston, and gets kicked out.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, believe it or not, The New York Times puts out a balanced story on transgender athletes on its front page.

From Canada Free Press, police are facing their toughest challenge ever.

From TeleSUR, who are the two men still vying to be president of Colombia?

From TCW Defending Freedom, restrain the climate scientists and unleash the engineers.

From Snouts in the Trough, what, if anything, do police in the U.K. actually do?

From Free West Media, Finnish authorities discourage statements against Finland joining NATO.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Euronews, new French Foreign Minister Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff demands a "transparent investigation" into the death of  French journalist killed in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, E.U. leaders plan to consider "all available ways" to bypass Russia's blockade of Ukrainian food exports.

From ReMix, support for Italy's League party, led by former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, crashes after it moves leftward.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo detains two of its citizens after they returned from Syria for allegedly joining or fighting alongside ISIS.

From The North Africa Post, the Mauritanian government and the energy company Chariot complete a pre-feasibility study for a hydrogen production project.

From The New Arab, a drone flying the Palestinian flag over Israel's "Flag March" in Jerusalem gets shot down.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, at a youth soccer match in Berlin, a Turkish-born man chokes a player on the team playing against that of his son.  (Please note the name of the field where the game was played.  If you read German, read the story at Junge Freiheit.)

From NDTV, a four-year-old girl dies after an angry mob sets at least 10 houses on fire in Rohri, Sindh, Pakistan.

From Israel Hayom, the family of a policeman killed by Hamas terrorists seeks $18 million in damages.

From Gatestone Institute, why does the U.N. take on massacre at a mosque more seriously than numerous massacres at churches?

From The Stream, remembering the allies who saved the lives of our soldiers.

From The Daily Signal, according to former HUD Secretary and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, people need to start using "their brains" on the subject of abortion.

From The American Conservative, more on the primary defeat of would-be Texas attorney general George Bush the Third.

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris does not realize that a school shooting took place where assault weapons were already banned.

From BizPac Review, President Biden's agenda doesn't appear to include anything for Americans.

From The Daily Wire, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church cuts its ties with the Moscow Patriarchate over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From the New York Post, congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) sets out what Republicans would investigate if they retake the House in this coming midterm elections.

From Breitbart, Biden claims that a 9 mm bullet "blows the lung out of the body".

From Newsmax, according to Ukrainian Intelligence, the Russian military is holding hostage the families of soldiers who refuse to carry out combat missions.

And from the Daily Caller, "why Memorial Day matters".

Sunday Stuff

On a warm Sunday which has mostly lived up to its name, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the NRA keeps limping along.

From Townhall, the one word which the FBI appears to have forgotten.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about conservatism.

From the Washington Examiner, the Justice Department opens an investigation into the police response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting.

From American Thinker, a tale of two shootings in Texas.

From LifeZette, Presidents Biden (U.S.) and Putin (Russia) aren't very far apart on censorship.

From NewsBusters, right-wing writer Steven Gutowski schools CNN hosts about guns.

From TeleSUR, a fire destroys 30 tons of tobacco in a Cuban warehouse.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when in the English countryside, beware the giant hogweed.

From Free West Media, the agency Europol predicts Latin American-style street violence in the E.U.

From EuroNews, Ukraine claims to have destroyed one third of Russia's modern tanks.

From The North Africa Post, a Franco-Moroccan entrepreneur unveils a hydrogen-powered car.  (Whether the car is powered by a fuel cell, with hydrogen as the fuel, or by the direct combustion of hydrogen, is not stated.)

From The New Arab, a U.N. envoy denounces the killing of two Sudanese protesters by security forces.

From Gatestone Institute, in Europe, "demography governs democracy".

From The Stream, a warning from the Uvalde shooting.

From The Daily Signal, the search for answers after the Uvalde shooting is difficult.

From The American Conservative, Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, one of whom allegedly committed sex offenses.

From The Western Journal, the Chinese military command reveals its preparations for war.

From BizPac Review, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) catches the coronavirus after meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Andern.

From The Daily Wire, according to former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R), "institutional breakdown" is the cause of gun violence and mass shootings.

From CBS News, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchison (R) discusses guns and school security.  (via The Daily Wire)

From TMZ, Speaker Pelosi's (D) husband has reportedly been arrested for DUI.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, podcaster Joe Rogan warns against banning guns.

From the New York Post, thieves steal a relic worth $2 million and decapitate statues of angels at a church in Brooklyn, New York.

From Breitbart, German Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron urge the aforementioned Russian President Putin to lift the blockade on Ukrainian grain.

And from Newsmax, over 1,200 flights have been canceled today.

Saturday Links

On a warm and mostly cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the outrage over police actions (or lack thereof) in Uvalde, Texas.

From Townhall, Republicans fight to protect the 2nd Amendment.

From The Washington Free Beacon and the "inconvenient truth" department, an investment fund run by former Vice President Al Gore invests in companies that profit from slave labor in China.  (China also leads the world in manmade carbon dioxide admissions, something that Gore has for a long time claimed to be against.)

From the Washington Examiner, the Uvalde shooter was reportedly carrying more ammunition than most combat soldiers.  (I've heard that he purchased two guns worth a total of about $4,000 and a large amount of ammo.  If so, how does an intermittently employed 18-year-old get that kind of money?  If he made his purchase with a credit card, how does someone that young get that high a credit limit?)

From The Federalist, California imposes tighter water restrictions after nixing a desalinization plant.

From American Thinker, yes, Iraq did have WMDs.

From LifeZette, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Israel about school security.

From NewsBusters, 10 years ago, MSNBC host Chris Hayes admitted being "uncomfortable" when calling fallen military personnel "heroes".

From Canada Free Press, a response to a letter criticizing America.

From TeleSUR, the UN expects no violence in Colombia's elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the green agenda is about gaining wealth and power, not saving the environment.

From Free West Media, according to financial expert Niko Jilch, the ECB's digital euro is not better that Bitcoin.

From EuroNews, French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz ask Russian President Putin to free captured fighters in who surrendered at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is elected to the WHO's executive board.

From The New Arab, Israeli leaders vow that the planned "Flag March" in Jerusalem will take place.

From The Free Press Journal, two boys are chained at a madrassa in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India in an attempt to keep them from running away.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration's policy on Iran's nuclear efforts is "disastrous, misinformed and dangerous".

From The Stream, the U.S. has an open borders crisis.

From The American Conservative, after the coronavirus, the WHO looks to create a new world order.

From The Western Journal, experts warn that markets trashed by President Biden could permanently damage the U.S. economy.

From BizPac Review, Florida gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried (D) throws her principles out the window after a Tweet from gun control advocate David Hogg.

From The Daily Wire, did the FBI dig up cache of Civil War-era gold and take it from treasure hunters?

From the Miami Herald, a judge gives preliminary approval for a $1 billion class action settlement over the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, the sheriff of Polk Country, Florida gives a stern warning to any would-be school shooters.

From the New York Post, Biden urges graduating students to take up public service during his commencement speech at the University of Delaware.

From Breitbart, Biden again falsely claims that Trump supporters killed police officers during the Capitol riot.

From Newsmax, a North Carolina man pleads guilty to six charges in connection to the Capitol riot.

And from The U.S. Sun, four ways to prevent teeing a putty tat in your garden.  (via the New York Post)

Friday Fuss

On a warm but rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, abortionists sue Oklahoma over its recently-passed abortion law.

From FrontpageMag, how President Biden and the IRS are committing criminal acts.

From Townhall, did the police in Uvalde, Texas avoid entering the school for fear of being shot?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a radical left-wing group draws up plans to blockade the Supreme Court building.

From the Washington Examiner, a New York state Supreme Court judge gives an activist group a short but important lesson in civics.

From The Federalist, two Republican congresscritters who had nothing to do with the Capitol riot object to being subpoenaed by the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From American Thinker, guess where Biden got the material for his speech on the Uvalde shooting.

From CNS News, while 26 percent of Democrat voters identify as pro-life, only one Democrat congresscritter does.

From LifeZette, an incumbent endorsed by former President Trump beats the third George Bush in Texas.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Facebook's 40,000 safety and security personnel failed miserably at stopping the Uvalde school shooting.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, some late night hosts apparently don't understand how doors work.

From TeleSUR, the president of one Marxist country in Latin America visits another.

From TCW Defending Free, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's mob have gotten away with everything.

From Snouts in the Trough, three issues that have nothing to do with each other.

From Free West Media, German farmers warn about food become more expensive.

From EuroNews, locals and volunteers struggle to contain a fire on the Italian island of Stromboli.

From Euractiv, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine claim to have taken control of the city of Lyman.

From ReMix, Poland and Slovakia finish constructing a gas connector and then start testing it.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Serb Army veteran Duško Suvara is given six years in prison for raping two Bosniak women near the town of Glamoč.

From The North Africa Post, the 2022 Euro-Med Summit will convene in Marrakesh, Morocco on May 31st and June 1st.

From The New Arab, Palestinian leader Mahmoud designates his "successor".

From the Afghanistan Times, according to a U.N. rapporteur, Afghanistan faces a "plethora of critical human rights challenges".

From Dawn, according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, his party ended its Azadi March to avoid bloodshed.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz Sharif calls Imran Khan "half-mad" and tell him to stay away from the media.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani Senate amendments to the country's election and national accountability laws.

From The Hans India, the Fish Prasadam festival in Hyderabad, India is canceled for the third straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Hindustan Times, villagers in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India scavenge from a stranded truck.

From ANI, India so far reports no cases of monkeypox.

From India Today, all you need to know about the visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to the state of Gujarat.

From OpIndia, a Hindu woman in Delhi, India is raped, forced to embrace Islam, and feed beef.

From the Dhaka Tribune, banks in Bangladesh will remain open on Saturdays for Hajj pilgrims.

From New Age, 13 people are arrested in connection with an attack against Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe instructs the agriculture sector to prepare for an expected food shortage.

From the Daily Mirror, stamps and coins are exhibited at the Public Library in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih arrives on the island of Ukulhas for the "Viavathi Raajje" conference.

From the Nation, women and girls in the Middle East and North Africa face gender-based violence.

From The Straits Times, according to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore has been working to secure its food supply.

From Tempo(dot)Co, 3,621 people in Indonesia have been victimized by the illegal trading robot DNA Pro.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's halal exports are expected to exceed pre-coronavirus levels.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia and Thailand agree to boost the security of their mutual border.

From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment holds a workshop on conserving wild migratory birds.

From the Taipei Times, according to Taiwanese environmentalists, a land crab migration route is blocked.

From The Mainichi, Ukrainian refugees in Japan visit the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima and renew their wishes for peace.

From Gatestone Institute, the real purpose of the nuclear deal with Iran.

From The Stream, almost 50 years after coming home, Vietnam veterans will finally be honored.

From The Daily Signal, the San Diego city council passes a resolution to become the first "safe haven" for abortion.

From The American Conservative, President Biden's proposed trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific countries is a "new boondoggle".

From The Western Journal, Biden's nominee to head the BATFE can't define the type of gun he wants to ban.

From BizPac Review, according to podcaster Jason Whitlock, "when your culture makes George Floyd the hero, real heroes stand down".

From Fox News, according to the father of a victim of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, the focus on gun control instead of solution is why such things happen.  (via BizPac Review)

From The Daily Wire, according to a new report, Americans are drawing from their savings to pay for their summer costs.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, so-called solutions from Democrats for mass shootings would achieve nothing.

From the New York Post, federal authorities reportedly investigate whether a retired agent had advanced notice of the Buffalo shooter's plan.

From Breitbart, Uvalde, Texas police officers reportedly receive death threats.

From Newsmax, gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) apparently flips on whether people should be allowed to own AR-15s.

And from the Genesius Times, "you don't need guns to protect yourself", says a politician protected with guns.

Thursday Tidings

On a cloudy and humid Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, left-wing activists want cities to declare the NRA a terrorist organization.

From FrontpageMag, the doctor will see you now, if you're of the correct race.

From Townhall, the Mayor of Uvalde, Texas responds to criticism of gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke's (D-TX) stunt.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden Justice Department won't say whether it will seek the death penalty for the suspected Buffalo store shooter.

From the Washington Examiner, the Border Patrol agents saw their effort to take down the Uvalde shooter as a "suicide" mission.

From The Federalist, Major League Baseball refuses to apologize for smearing election law supporters as "Jim Crow" after a record voter turnout.

From American Thinker, the left's attempt to rewrite history should be taken seriously.

From CNS News, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) defends the 2nd Amendment.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, anonymous Air Force officers speak out against the Air Force Academy's actions against cadets who refuse the coronavirus vaccine.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood ironically retweets in support of "protecting" kids.

From Canada Free Press, globalist "stakeholders" explain their desire to hold nations hostage to the WEF agenda.

From TeleSUR, 27 international organizations will observe elections in Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in Australia, it's "good riddance to the lefties".

From Free West Media, meat eaters in the U.K. are warned about monkeypox.

From EuroNews, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Russian President Putin will not dictate peace terms in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, Ukrainian President Zelensky lambastes the idea of land-for-peace concessions to end the war, invoking the historical example of Nazi Germany.

From ReMix, Putin's "denazification" excuse for invading for Ukraine has been around for awhile.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Teologia Polityczna.)

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro temporarily removes visa requirements for citizens of Saudi Arabia in hopes of boosting its tourism industry.

From Morocco World News, international experts call for the implementation of Morocco's autonomy plan for the region of Western Sahara.

From The North Africa Post, Libyan Government of National Unity leader Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is warned to hand over power to his rival Fathi Bashagha.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey demands that "concrete steps" are taken to address its objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities in the city of İstanbul reportedly detain the new leader of ISIS.

From Rûdaw, Iraq's Council of Representatives passes a bill to "criminalize" all relations with Israel.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hosts Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Paris, France Mayor Anne Hidalgo arrives in Yerevan, Armenia for an official visit.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's Interior Ministry prepares a plan to "de-ghetto" the capital city of Nicosia.

From The Syrian Observer, according to Syria's Foreign and Expatriates Ministry, Turkey's "safe zone" in northern Syria is a war crime.

From North Press Agency, Syrian Democratic Forces troops capture a local ISIS leader near Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

From The961, protesters in Lebanon set up roadblocks and urge people to hit the streets.

From Arutz Sheva, according to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, "Jews cannot compromise their ability to celebrate Jerusalem Day".

From The Times Of Israel, the U.S. embassy in Israel tells its employees to state out of the Old City of Jerusalem during Jerusalem Day and the previous Friday.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a poll, 70 percent of Israelis don't want an Arab party in any future coalition government.

From YNetNews, according to Palestinian officials, Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces.

From the Egypt Independent, a former president of the Louvre Museum in Paris is suspected of allowing a criminal group to forge certificates of origin for five ancient Egyptian artifacts.

From Egypt Today, Foreign Ministers Sameh Shoukry (Egypt) and Ioannis Kasoulides (Cyprus) discuss enhancing the ties in trade, energy and investments between their two countries.

From the Sudan Tribune, Sudan and South Sudan agree to reestablish a joint committee to deal with security issues in a disputed region.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the U.N. posthumously honors three peacekeepers from Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian expats will need a permit in order to enter the city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage.

From The New Arab, what is Israel's Flag March, held on Jerusalem Day, and why is it controversial?

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, residents of Abadan, Iran protest after the collapse of a building.

From IranWire, what Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei didn't say during his hour-long speech.

From Iran International, an engineer is killed at Iran's Parchin military complex.

From Khaama Press, Taliban forces suppress a group of women protesting in front of the Maryam High School in Kabul, Afghanistan over its banning of female students.  (Ironically, the high school's name "Maryam" is female, and appears to be the equivalent of the Western name "Mary".  So what then, are these "women's rights" you speak of?)

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to political analysts, Afghanistan's planned grand assembly should represent all Afghans.

From Firstpost, a man in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is arrested for allegedly trying to kill his wife after forcing her to convert to Islam.

From PinkVilla, terrorists kill actress Amreen Bhat and injure her 10-year-old nephew in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From Gatestone Institute, how the Biden administration is getting Turkish President Erdoğan's moves all wrong.

From The Stream, "don't let Big Brother silence scientific debate".

From The Daily Signal, to President Biden, some mass killings are more significant than others.

From The American Conservative, the decline of filmmaker Michael Moore.

From The Western Journal, a man in Norway allegedly kills five people with a bow-and-arrow and a knife.

From BizPac Review, according to a CBS reporter on the scene of the aforementioned stunt by Bob O'Rourke, it was "very clearly staged".

From The Daily Wire, Theologian Carl Trueman explains why public high schools keep on hosting shows by drag queens.

From the Daily Caller, why did law enforcement wait so long before engaging the Uvalde school shooter?

From the New York Post, the disk jockey from Long Island who recorded himself smoking marijuana during the Capitol riot gets three years in prison.

From Breitbart, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) defends his signing of the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S.

From Newsmax, the Uvalde shooter was able to enter the school without facing any obstacles.

And from the Rolling Stone, Yes drummer Alan White, who also played on solo albums by John Lennon and George Harrison, passes away at age 72 after a brief illness.

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cool cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the truth about "tougher background checks".

From FrontpageMag, the former Minister of Truth inadvertently reveals what her ministry was going to do.

From Townhall, millions from President Biden's coronavirus relief bill went to the left-wing agenda for racial and gender equality.

From The Washington Free Beacon, pro-life Democrat congresscritter Henry Cuellar (TX) appears set to defeat his "Squad"-backed rival in a primary runoff.

From the Washington Examiner, record turnout in Georgia belies the Democrat accusation that its new voting law amounted to voter suppression.

From The Federalist, the Biden administration requires K-12 schools to allow boys into girls' bathrooms if they want to receive federal lunch money.

From American Thinker, Biden's response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas is "appalling".

From CNS News, according to congresscritter John Katko (R-NY), the Biden administration can't account for the 44 on the terror watch list who crossed the southern border into the U.S.

From LifeZette, former President Trump wins bigly in Tuesday's Republican primaries.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, under a new law in California, parents are no longer responsible for their children.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) responds to being banned from Holy Communion.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Never-Trump commentator George Will slams the Ministry of Truth and warns of its return.

From TeleSUR, the next president of Colombia will face some policy challenges.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why won't the media expose how the U.K.'s NHS is neglecting child cancer patients?

From Snouts in the Trough, you can't do anything to stop the Great Replacement.

From Allah's Willing Executioner, a suspected shooter who opened fire at a funfair in Lüdenscheid, Germany is arrested, and turns out to be a 16-year-old asylum seeker from Syria.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Russia Today, Russia simplifies its path to citizenship for Ukrainians in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

From Sputnik International, Ukrainian flags are hung upside down at a meeting of the "Ukraine Defence Contract Group", thus evoking the colors of the "Minions" in the film Despicable Me.  (The Canadian flag suffered that sort of indignity during the 1992 World Series.)

From The Moscow Times, the Russian village of Tyotkino, near the Ukrainian border, asks President Putin for "protection".

From Romania-Insider, the European Commission recommends that Romania is incorporated into the Schengen area.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Economica.)

From Novinite, by the end of May, 7,000 Ukrainian refugees will be moved from Varna to other cities in Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, the number of Ukrainian refugees staying in Bulgaria keeps decreasing.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov is nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.

From the Greek Reporter, the diet of the ancient Minoans included spices from Asia.

From Ekathimerini, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis vows to defend Greek sovereignty in the face of Turkey's revisionism.

From the Greek City Times, Mitsotakis meets with executives from Google, Meta and Microsoft at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian police stop a journalist from taking pictures of soccer fans clashing with them in order to prevent him from "damaging" the "country's image".  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Total Croatia News, two Black Hawk helicopters donated by the U.S. are presented at Croatia's Pleso airbase.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian composer Damijan Močnik wins the 2022 Kozina Award.

From The Slovenia Times, the Celje Higher Court upholds a three-month suspended prison sentence and a year of probation for outgoing Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša for an insulting Tweet.

From The Malta Independent, Air Malta has planes that mainly fly to Spain.  (Apologies to Lerner and Loewe.)

From Malta Today, Gozitan tourism operators overwhelmingly employ non-Maltese workers.

From ANSA, have you seen the little piggies foraging in Rome?  (Apologies to George Harrison.)

From SwissInfo, Switzerland refuses to ban gay conversion therapy.

From France24, members of a far-left South African party demonstrate in front of the French embassy in Pretoria, telling France to "get out of Africa".

From RFI, over 100 environmental activists block the annual meeting of the oil company TotalEnergies to protest its climate policies.

From Euractiv, new French Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau is not well-know to the public, but is respected in the food industry.

From El País, according to Venezuelan thinker Moisés Naím, "democracy was destroyed in the last decade and we didn't realize it".

From The Portugal News, Spanish tourists flock to Portugal.

From Free West Media, according to the CEO of Moderna, nobody wants its coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, what is liquefied natural gas and why does the E.U. want so much of it?

From ReMix, former Finnish Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen, whose free speech case acquittal is being appealed, considers it "an honor to defend freedom of speech".

From News18, ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Nigeria kill more than 70 people in 72 hours.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Turkey has become "NATO's problem child".

From Gatestone Institute, Russian President Putin's war on Ukraine may be less about imperialism than about profits.

From The Stream, get ready for abortion sanctuary cities.

From The Daily Signal, four steps all schools can take to help prevent shootings.

From The American Conservative, Putin needed a Brent Snowcroft.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Candace Owens takes part congresscritter AOC's (D-NY) reaction to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting.

From BizPac Review, San Francisco Mayor London Breed boycotts the city's Pride Parade over its ban on police officers appearing in uniform.

From The Daily Wire, gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke is slammed for a political stunt during a press conference.

From the Daily Caller, social media accounts tied to the Uvalde, Texas shooter reportedly shared chilling screenshots and pictures of his rifles.

From Breitbart, durable goods orders rose more slowly than expected in April.

From Newsmax, the Congressional Budget Office predicts that inflation will last into 2023.

And from the New York Post, an off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent killed the Uvalde school shooter.

Tuesday Things

On a cool rainy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the insurance company State Farm abandons its plan to distribute LGBTQ-themed books targeting young children.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden takes the Blind Sheikh's group off the terrorism list.

From Townhall, here's what to expect in primary runoffs in Texas, and in primary races in Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas.

From The Washington Free Beacon, who's afraid of congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY)?

From the Washington Examiner, according to an examination conducted by a former Secret Service agent, the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop are 100 percent authentic.

From The Federalist, Biden's "transition" on energy would bring us back to the 1870s.

From American Thinker, angry migrants protest for their alleged "right" to enter and be present in the U.S. illegally.

From CNS News, according to the CDC, a disproportionate number of black babies are aborted.  (From what I understand, this is pretty much what Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted.)

From LifeZette, high gas prices are hurting ordinary Americans.  (The article includes the subtitle "But Joe don't care", with which I disagree.  I believe that Joe Biden, instead of being apathetic about gas prices, actually wants us to feel pain.)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, in Democratland, boys can be girls and elephants can be persons.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, former President Trump reveals what the film 2000 Mules uncovered that was given to Georgia officials, and what they did with the information.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, ABC hides gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams's (GA) campaign gaffe.

From Canada Free Press, the founder and mascot of CFP safely travel to the province of Nova Scotia.

From CBC News, Canada sends almost $100 million in military aid to Ukraine.  (This, or course, is much smaller than the $40 billion in various types of aid sent by the U.S.)

From Global News, a privacy watchdog examines information collected by Toronto, Ontario, Canada on homeless people.

From CTV News, according to Defence Minister Anita Anand, the Canadian federal government needs to do more to help struggling military personnel to find housing.  (The minister's last name appears to be a variant of the Sanskrit word ananda, which means "bliss".)

From TeleSur, Ecuador celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha, fought on a mountain within sight of the then-colonial city of Quito.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the war in Ukraine is a handy scapegoat for governmental failures.

From the Express, it's illegal in Britain to grow these nine plants.

From the Evening Standard, London Mayor Sadiq Khan asks the Metropolitan Police why U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has not been fined for drinking at a second party while under coronavirus restrictions.  (Johnson is also a former mayor of London.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, after waiting aboard an easyJet flight for two hours, passengers are told that it's canceled.

From the (Irish) Independent, an American of Irish ethnicity is told that renting a car in Ireland for three weeks would cost him €10,000.

From the Irish Examiner, the City Council of Cork, Ireland signs a deal to buy the city-center quays at the Port of Cork.  (For reasons unknown to yours truly, "quay" is pronounced just like "key".)

From VRT NWS, a family of four is attacked after the Belgian Pride event in Molenbeek, Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, a jogger in Theux, Belgium learns that the place is for the birds.  (If you read French, read the story at RTBF.)

From the NL Times, over 63,000 Ukrainians have been registered in the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, due to staff shortages and a possible strike, passengers going through Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport are told to "bring comfy shoes".  (And I thought that my experience there 5 years ago was a hassle.)

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz decries Russian President Putin's "imperialistic" war in Ukraine.

From ReMix, Ukraine accuses Germany of blocking the delivery of 100 armored infantry vehicles.

From the CPH Post, young Danish tennis player Holger Rune defeats 15th-ranked Denis Shapovalov at the French Open.

From Polskie Radio, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urges the international community to do everything it can to stop the war in Ukraine.

From Radio Prague, the massive stained glass windows of the Industrial Palace at the Exhibition Grounds in Prague, Czech Republic are undergoing a major restoration.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia expects sporadic monkeypox outbreaks even though so far no cases have been reported there.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian government declares a state of emergency due to the war in neighboring Ukraine.

From Hungary Today, speaking in parliament, Prime Minister Orban says that Hungary needs a government that is responsible and "feisty".  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 24HU.)

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary has done its part in the worldwide defense against the coronavirus.

From Free West Media, are the allegations of sexual misconduct against Elon Musk, just after he indicates the he would start voting Republican, a mere coincidence?

From EuroNews, if Finland and Sweden join NATO, only four E.U. countries will still be outside of it.

From Euractiv, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Russia is weaponizing food and hunger as a way to wield power.

From Balkan Insight, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church announces that his church has granted ecclesiastical independence to the Macedonian Orthodox Church.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco hosts counter-terrorism training for African countries.

From The New Arab, Israel increases its surveillance flights over the Gaza Strip due to increasing tensions with Hamas.

From Samaa, Pakistani women "married to the Quran" are allowed neither to leave their homes nor wear new clothes.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the Palestinian "Nakba Day" mythologizes a catastrophe that in reality was self-inflicted.

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinians vote to destroy Israel.

From The Stream, the left has become a cult of coercion for its own sake.

From The Daily Signal, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) has embraced the world's teachings on abortion, not God's.

From Military History Matters, Hitler's airborne elite fighters and the battle for the Greek island of Crete.

From Space War, the Quad nations warm about "change by force", while keeping their eyes on China.

From The American Conservative, the "green" left has deep pockets.

From The Western Journal, blackouts could be coming this summer.

From WESH, a 69-year-old woman in Azalea Park, Florida shoots and kills an intruder who did not heed her warning shot.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, according to Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan), the U.S.-Mexico border is a "war zone" that is "much worse" than what he saw at the Poland-Ukraine border.

From The Daily Wire, the Texas Association of School Boards leaves the National School Boards Association after it sent a letter to the Department of Justice about "domestic terrorism".

From the Daily Caller, the Biden administration suggests that Americans include "sustainably sourced" utensils in their blackout emergency kits.

From the New York Post, 14 students and a teacher are killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
[UPDATE:  18 students, a teacher and another adult were killed.]

From Breitbart, California investigates its first possible case of monkeypox.

And from Newsmax, police in New York City arrest a suspect in a fatal shooting on the city's subway.