Monday, May 16, 2022

Monday Links

On an intermittently rainy and sunny Monday, here are some thing going on:

From National Review, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) wins a campaign finance case at the Supreme Court on free speech grounds.

From FrontpageMag, "the abortion insurrection" is not about bodies.

From Townhall, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is missing in action as the baby formula crisis gets worse.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the shape-shifting dark money group behind liberal campaigns across the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court rules against a man facing deportation due to a documentation error.  (When will the people who entered the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws face the same fate?  I won't hold my breath.)

From The Federalist, five lies pro-abortionists spread about Roe v. Wade and how to counter them.

From American Thinker, Democrats blame the current inflation on "greed" instead of their own policies.  (The current inflation is reported at a 40-year-high.  If greed is the cause, does this mean that people suppressed their greed for 40 years, only to suddenly become more greedy after President Biden took office?)

From CNS News, why did Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delay the federal government's $40 billion giveaway to Ukraine?

From LifeZette, a judge is expected to rule against President Biden's plan to end Title 42.  (If judges can rule against then-President Trump's plan to end DACA, they can rule against Biden's actions, too.)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, if former President Trump runs in 2024, who could be his vice presidential running mate?  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, celebrities, billionaires and politicians react to Netflix's defense of comedian Dave Chappelle.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, White House press secretary Jen Psaki's last day on the job was full of platitudes that you don't want to hear.

From Canada Free Press, experts need to tell us the difference between hate crimes and other murders.

From TeleSUR, Chile's constitutional convention finishes drafting its new Magna Carta.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson should stop spending what he doesn't have.  (The same would naturally apply to U.S. congresscritters.)

From Snouts in the Trough, is intelligence and ethnicity a "minefield"?

From Free West Media, the G7 condemns India's ban on exporting wheat.

From EuroNews, what are the U.S.-made "kamikaze" Switchblade 600 drones that are being sent to Ukraine?

From Euractiv, E.U. foreign ministers urge Hungary to join the plan to embargo Russian oil.

From ReMix, demand for Polish-made "Piorun" anti-aircraft missiles skyrockets.  (The Polish word piorun means "lightning" or "thunderbolt".)

From Balkan Insight, who's who in Hungary's new government?

From Morocco World News, Morocco reopens its border with the Spanish exclave of Melilla, requiring passport stamping and a coronavirus pass.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco seeks to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Society.

From Hürriyet Daily News, ferry service between Turkish coastal cities and nearby Greek islands gains momentum.

From Turkish Minute, according to an opinion column, courtrooms are battlefields for Turkish President Erdoğan.

From ThemaNews, Muslim students recite passages from the Koran at the Hagia Sophia in İstanbul, Turkey.  (While TN regards this as a "provocation", I don't regard this as surprising, because the Hagia Sophia has recently been re-designated as a mosque.  Just as Christians recite biblical passages at our church services, Muslims would recite koranic passages in their services.)

From Rûdaw, an Iraqi airstrike in the province of Erbil sends seven alleged ISIS terrorists to their virgins.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participates in a meeting of leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Moscow.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to Pashinyan, members of the CSTO sold weapons to Azerbaijan.

From In-Cyprus, a man in Limassol, Cyprus literally lets his residence go to the dogs.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian Democratic Forces welcomes the U.S. decision to lift sanctions on foreign investments in areas of Syria not under control of the Assad government.

From North Press Agency, Turkey keeps on shelling several villages in the Syrian governorate of Aleppo.

From The691, if you throw rocks at a Lebanese Christian priest, he might throw them back.

From Arutz Sheva, passengers flying into Israel's Ben Gurion Airport will no longer be subject to coronavirus testing.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett kicks former whip Idit Silman out of a meeting.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to clergy in Jerusalem, Israeli police "violently intruded" the funeral of recently slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

From YNetNews, Israel increases its natural gas output, hoping to help supply Europe.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt leads African countries in foreign investment for the fifth straight year.

From Egypt Today, Egypt plans to extend its high-speed train to the Toshki area in its Western Desert.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, according to the World Food Program, 130 trucks carrying humanitarian relief are on their way to the Ethiopian region of Tigray.

From the Saudi Gazette, 100 Islamic religious leaders gather in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a "ground-breaking" conference.

From The New Arab, the five biggest surprises so far in Lebanon's parliamentary elections.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, an Iranian convicted of a 1992 murder of political dissidents calls for President Ebrahim Raisi to urge Sweden to release former official Hamid Nouri.

From IranWire, Iranians in protest areas are prevented from getting online.

From Iran International, Iranian exports of hand-made carpets have greatly decreased.

From Khaama Press, Taliban forces clash with Tajik border guards near Sher Khan Bandar, Afghanistan.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, parking your car on roadsides in Kabul, Afghanistan is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.

From Gatestone Institute, the inside deals, conflicts of interest, and Chinese connections of the U.S. Commerce Department.

From The Stream, the program of our elites is "invade the world, invite the world".

From The Daily Signal, five pro-life strategies for America after Roe v. Wade.

From The American Conservative, America's coronavirus failure.

From The Western Journal, President Biden offers a lame excuse for not acting sooner on the baby formula shortage.

From BizPac Review, the organization Families Against Fentanyl ask Biden and the CDC to track fentanyl-related deaths like they track coronavirus-related deaths.

From The Daily Wire, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas draws laughter with one statement about the media.

From the Daily Caller, Biden plans to visit Buffalo, New York after the mass shooting there, but has so far avoided Waukesha, Wisconsin.

From the New York Post, Biden hails the store security guard who died trying to stop the mass shooting.

From Breitbart, Senator John Thune (R-SD) calls the Biden administration "not a competent government".

From Newsmax, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, some rules can be waived for truck drivers to deliver baby formula.

And from The Babylon Bee, a complete (but short) list of differences between abortion and murder.

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