Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, not even pro-abortion Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is spared from pro-abortion protests.

From FrontpageMag, who's paying pro-abortion protesters to demonstrate in front of the houses of Supreme Court justices and churches?

From Townhall, a "staggering" number of officers have left Chicago's police force.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Border Patrol officers, although cleared of the wrong accusation that they were whipping illegal migrants, have been prohibited from riding horses.

From the Washington Examiner, the Biden administration runs ads in Guatemala and Honduras urging people to refrain from migrating to the U.S.

From The Federalist, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. reached a record high in 2021 in part due to fentanyl, which is mostly trafficked across the Mexican border.

From American Thinker, why is questioning the 2020 election forbidden?  (On the other hand, it's still OK to question the presidential elections of 2000 and 2016 and the Georgia gubernatorial election of 2018.)

From CNS News, according to Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears (R), the Commonwealth Attorney has the power to prosecute people protesting outside the homes of SCOTUS justices.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, actor James Cromwall demands that Starbucks ends its surcharge for plant-based milk by gluing himself to a Starbucks counter in New York City.  (Musician Paul McCartney recently raised the same concern, but didn't do anything so stupid about it.  The story comes via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) exposes the abortion narrative as a distraction from what's really going on.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the Washington, D.C. office of Concerned Women for America is vandalized allegedly by a pro-choice activist.

From Canada Free Press, how the mules greatly aided the donkeys.

From TeleSUR, Bolivian President Luis Arce will not attend the Summit of the Americas if the U.S. does not invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

From TCW Defending Freedom, would the "woman's right to choose" people support the right to choose against being jabbed?

From Snouts in the Trough, are black Americans who murder their fellow black Americans "racists"?

From Free West Media, in the Australian state of Queensland, farmers dump tons of avocados despite large price increases.

From EuroNews, Prime Minister Boris Johnson (U.K.) and Magdalena Andersson (Sweden) sign a security assurance deal.

From Euractiv, the coronavirus and adenovirus are examined as possible causes for a mysterious wave of hepatitis.

From ReMix, the U.K.'s government shocks observers by offering some bills that really are conservative.

From Balkan Insight, a Russian oil tanker stuck off the Greek island of Evia switches flags in order "to avoid sanctions".

From The North Africa Post, Morocco warns of a connection between separatism and terrorism in Africa.

From The New Arab, Tunisian opposition groups call for protests against President Kais Saied.

From Chron, Jews in Dubai, UAE struggle to have a public synagogue.

From Dawn, according to Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz, it will take two to three years to clean up the mess left by former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

From The Express Tribune, according to former President Asif Ali Zardari, there will be no snap elections in Pakistan before electoral reforms.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Amir Khan and two others are acquitted of charges of harboring terrorists.

From The Hans India, the skeletons of 282 soldiers who fought in the 1857 Revolt against British rule are found in Amritsar, India.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian Supreme Court puts a hold on the country's 152-year-old sedition law, which was first established under British colonial rule.

From ANI, following an attack on police intelligence headquarters in the Indian state of Punjab, the state of Haryana decides to establish an anti-terrorism squad.

From India Today, after the Delhi High Court reaches a split verdict on a marital rape case, the case will go to the Indian Supreme Court.

From the Dhaka Tribune, will Bangladesh's Data Protection Act protect the privacy of citizens or surveille them?

From New Age, donors and investors dictate fossil fuel policy in Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa urges Sri Lankans to remain calm and avoid violence.

From the Daily Mirror, Rajapaksa promises to appoint a new prime minister and cabinet for Sri Lanka this week.

From Raajje, three Maldivian men are arrested in connection with a drug bust.

From The Street Journal, according to Nigerian Senator Sani Yerima, his country has no law how and when people get married.  (Yerima was the governor of the state of Zamfara and currently aspires to be Nigeria's president.)

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong police reportedly arrest Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen for alleged collusion with foreign forces.

From Tempo(dot)Co, according to Economy Minister Airlangga Hartarto, Indonesia needs a "red army" to deal with forest fires and the coronavirus pandemic.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian police warn that the holders of "mule bank accounts" will be blacklisted.

From the Borneo Post, the state of Sarawak asks the Malaysian federal government's permission to recruit plantation workers from countries other than Indonesia.

From Vietnam Plus, according to Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, China's ban on fishing in Vietnamese waters is "valueless".

From the Taipei Times, according to Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang, Taiwan will become a world capital for Hakka culture.  (The Hakka are a subgroup of the Han Chinese who are thought to have originated in north central China and migrated southward, including to Taiwan.  Their language is one of Taiwan's official languages.)

From The Mainichi, what's up, Doc?

From Gatestone Institute, more Islamic death threats are seen in Europe, including Dutch parliamentcritter Geert Wilders being targeted twice.

From The Stream, the leaked draft Supreme Court decision brings hope and a warning.

From The Daily Signal, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is wrong in claiming that overturning Roe v. Wade would damage the economy.

From The American Conservative, the war against smoking cigarettes is a war on you.

From The Western Journal, billionaire Bill Gates announces that he has the coronavirus and claims to be fortunate because he is vaccinated and boosted.  (He doesn't seem to be concerned that he caught the virus despite being vaccinated and boosted.)

From BizPac Review, according to the Minister of Truth, "trustworthy" people should be able to "edit" their Tweets in order to provide "fuller" context.

From The Daily Wire, TV host Whoopi Goldberg becomes an unlikely supporter of former President Trump's possible return to Twitter.  (To me, she will always be Guinan.)

From the Daily Caller, new Twitter owner Elon Musk goes viral with a Tweet blasting fake news.

From Breitbart, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) asks Fairfax County police to establish security perimeters around the homes of three Supreme Court justices who live there.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA) promises that the Republicans will take up a bill to protect babies who survive abortions on "day one" of they retake the House.

And from the New York Post, Mattel's new line of Barbie dolls includes one who wears hearing aids.

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