Wednesday, May 25, 2022

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.

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