Monday, May 23, 2022

Monday Mania

On a cooler Monday after the recent heat wave, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the insurance company State Farm launches a program to give LGBT books to kindergartners.

From FrontpageMag, Hollywood's 20 stupidest hatemongers.

From Townhall, the White House goes into damage control after President Biden's latest speech.

From The Washington Free Beacon, more on the White House walking back Biden's Taiwan gaffe.

From the Washington Examiner, the first shipment of baby formula from outside the U.S. won't go directly to store shelves.

From The Federalist, the baby formula shortage is just one more crisis that Biden ignored until things got bad.

From American Thinker, Biden seems to want a monkeypox pandemic.

From CNS News, according to Biden economic advisor Brian Deese, "our economy is in a period of transition".

From LifeZette, Democrats keep playing the race card to cover up their own failures.

From NewsBusters, the media loves to blame conservatives whenever a slaughter occurs.

From Canada Free Press, "why do Democrats hate white people?"

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo swears in four new ministers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, an audience with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

From Snouts in the Trough, like it nor not, you WILL take the medicine.

From Free West Media, the E.U. finances "drag queen" courses.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian children hide in basements hoping to not be bombed.

From Euractiv, the E.U. suspends its fiscal rules for another year.

From ReMix, some anti-Brexit campaigners regard Queen Elizabeth's jubilee celebrations are being reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is at odds with President Rumen Radev and and his own coalition partners over North Macedonia.

From The North Africa Post, is France supporting a partition of Libya?

From The New Arab, Kuwaiti fencer Kholoud al-Mutairi withdraws from the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation World Cup due to having to face an Israeli opponent.

From the Afghanistan Times, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan forms a commission to prepare for the convening of the Loya Jirga.  (My spell checker objects to "Loya" but has no problem with "Jirga".)

From Dawn, the State Bank of Pakistan raises its benchmark interest rate.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government rejects a call for snap elections.

From Pakistan Today, the party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf asks Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja to stop Hamza Shehbaz from being the chief minister of the province of Punjab.

From The Hans India, speaking in Tokyo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invites Indians living in Japan to "come to India, join India".

From the Hindustan Times, who is the new lieutenant governor of India's National Capital Territory of Delhi?

From ANI, 24 people have been killed by floods in the Indian state of Assam.

From India Today, why a cut in the VAT on fuel by the Indian state of Maharashtra will not bring relief.

From HW News, Assam state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma warns that madrassas do not educate children into becoming doctors or engineers.

From the Dhaka Tribune, wheat flour prices in Bangladesh reach a 15-year high.

From New Age, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina proposes five measures to strengthen regional cooperation.

From the Colombo Page, inflation in Sri Lanka hit 33.8 percent in April.

From the Daily Mirror, the proposed 21th Amendment to Sri Lanka's Constitution is presented to the Sri Lankan cabinet.

From RaajjeMinister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Khaleel delivers the statement of the Maldives at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

From NewsMeter, no, a Catholic priest did not convert to Islam after waking up from a one-year coma.  (The article indicates that the story of his alleged conversion was posted on World News Daily Report, which is satirical.  I ran across this site a few years back, and after some browsing, realized that it's satire.)

From the International Business Times, a man shouting "Allahu akbar" kills a security guard at the Qatari embassy in Paris.

From Israel Hayom, a Muslim man is arrested after allegedly pushing his 90-year-old Jewish neighbor to death from his 17th-story window in Lyon, France.

From The Straits Times, an Indonesian preacher who was denied entry into Singapore had radicalized people there.

From Tempo(dot)Co, arsonists burns dozens of houses in the Indonesian province of Papua.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia bans the export of chickens, but allows the import of chickens and wheat.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian territory of Labuan records a sharp increase in cases of hand, foot and mouth disease.  (I'm pretty sure that I've occasionally suffered from foot in mouth disease.)

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam and Cambodia strengthen their defense ties.

From the Taipei Times, Taipower unveils its fees and charges for electric vehicles.  (If you can't afford gas, buy an electric vehicle, they said.)

From The Mainichi, an owl chick at a shrine in Nogi, Japan draws the attention of photographers.

From Gatestone Institute, the latest power grab by China threatens all Pacific island nations.

From The Stream, American religious liberty can be traced to a 17th-century civil war in England.

From The Daily Signal, the Department of Homeland Security's new disinformation plan is no better than the first one.

From Sino Daily, China warns U.S. President Biden against underestimating its resolve on Taiwan.

From The Western Journal, according to right-wing commentator Mark Levin, thanks to Biden, the U.S. is an advanced country that can't make enough baby formula.

From BizPac Review, illegal migrants released into the U.S. under Biden are not tested for the coronavirus before boarding commercial flights.

From The Daily Wire, according to NASA, "something weird is going on" in the universe.

From the Daily Caller, allegations that Georgia's voting law is "Jim Crow 2.0" turn out to be the real big lie.

From the New York Post, Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) fires back after gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams (D-GA) calls Georgia "the worst state in the country to live".

From Fox News, a hunting guide in Utah faces a felony charge for allegedly baiting a bear that was shot and killed by Donald Trump the Younger in 2918.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, according to a poll, 69 percent of Americans say that the current economy is bad.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, about 34 percent of Americans believe that the coronavirus pandemic is over.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Church of Satan reaches out to Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) and invites her to receive the Satanic Eucharist.

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