Tuesday, May 24, 2022

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.


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