Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, the Biden administration is reportedly considering shutting down its new Ministry of Truth.

From FrontpageMag, double standards about religion on Facebook.

From Townhall, the Minister of Truth resigns.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how the son of a Republican senator and a liberal dark money group combined to sink voter ID expansion in Michigan.

From the Washington Examiner, far-left San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin appears to be losing his recall election.

From The Federalist, the real believers in "replacement theory" are the Democrats who think voters are stupid.

From American Thinker, in his speech in Buffalo, New York, President Biden was despicable.  (Thus, this video clip is for him.)

From CNS News, the media tells a "big lie" about the "great replacement theory" and conservatism.

From LifeZette, whoever leaked the draft Supreme Court decision must be found and punished, no matter who it is.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, billionaire Elon Musk declares that he will vote Republican in the next election.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, congresscritter Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) gets primaried.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, South Carolina passes a law to keep transgendered people out of women's sports.

From Canada Free Press, the latest diversion from the Democrats makes them look like space cadets.

From CBC News, according to community volunteers, hundreds of people in the Canadian province of British Columbia still need flood relief.

From Global News, inflation in Canada reached 6.8 percent in April.

From CTV News, Canadian crown prosecutors want Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich returned to jail to await her trial.

From TeleSUR, the U.N. warns of escalating violence between gangs in Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to a new report by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, there's no evidence that the U.K. is undergoing a climate crisis.

From Snouts in the Trough, does the WHO rule the world?

From EuractivEuropean human rights experts urge the U.K. against extraditing Julian Assange to the U.S.

From EssexLive, a 13-year-old boy in London is arrested on suspicion of sharing Islamist terrorist material.

From the Express, the U.K.'s Prince Edward rides the Tube.

From the Evening Standard, according to U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak, easing the cost of living crisis experienced by families won't be easy.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel may have to authorize prosecuting illegal entry via the English Channel under a law from the 1800s.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Russian embassy in Ireland criticizes comments made by Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin about Ukrainian nationalism.

From the Irish Examiner, Martin asks the Cork County Council to allow the Piper's wagon to stay at its traditional spot in Kinsale, Ireland.

From VRT NWS, a beermat is found which shows that American musician Jimi Hendrix conceived the name of his debut album while in a pub in Brussels, Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, the Rue de Moscou in Brussels is unofficially renamed as Rue de Kiev.

Form the NL Times, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has reportedly been deleting text messages from his phone every day for years, but he claims to have "never deliberately" withheld info in doing so.

From Dutch News€15.5 billion in spending by the Dutch government is "not properly accounted for".

From Deutsche Welle, prosecutors in the German state of Brandenburg seek a five-year sentence for a 101-year-old former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

From the CPH Post, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will go to Copenhagen to meet with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and other officials.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish official Paweł Soloch, Poland is one of Ukraine's main arms suppliers.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government approves a request to extend by 30 days an emergency created to help deal with a wave of refugees from Ukraine.

From The Slovak Spectator, a news digest including the Slovak embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine being reopened.

From Daily News Hungary, Justice Minister Judit Varga sets out how Hungary's government sees the country's future in the E.U.

From Hungary Today, Hungary reportedly pays "much more" for Russian natural gas than other E.U. countries do.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at G7.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungary's central bank, fiscal and monetary policies will have to be coordinated in order to bring down inflation.

From EuroNews, five things to know about the E.U.'s plan to become independent of Russian fossil fuels.

From ReMix, according to europarliamentcritter Jorge Buxadé of the Spanish party Vox, "the federalists and globalists in Brussels do not accept diverging opinions".

From Balkan Insight, police in Pristina, Kosovo confirm a false bomb threat at a high school.

From The North Africa Post, the American company Oracle opens an R&D plant in Casablanca, Morocco, its first in Africa.

From The New Arab, by playing in Saudi Arabia, golfers choose cash over human rights.

From Zee News, terrorists lob a grenade into a newly-opened wine store in Barramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

From OpIndia, what you need to know about the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, why Turkish President Erdoğan's threat to veto Sweden's and Finland's attempts to join NATO is subversion.

From The Stream, of aliens, bots, the "great replacement", and new slur "ultra-MAGA".

From The Daily Signal, Alaska should not undo its 16 years (so far) of fiscal responsibility.

From The American Conservative, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson refuses to surrender to left-wing hypocrites.

From The Western Journal, Donald Trump the Younger notices an interesting detail about a dress worn by new White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

From BizPac Review, many Americans can expect an "expensive summer" due to rising energy costs.

From The Daily Wire, Disney launches the "Pride Collection" line of clothing for kids.

Form the Daily Caller, congresscritter Lance Gooden (R-TX) sends a letter to leaders in the House and Senate pointing out his objections to certain provisions of the America COMPETES Act.

From the New York Post, according to economist Mohamed El-Erian, stagflation in the U.S. economy is now "unavoidable".

From Breitbart, the company Target reports increasing sales but decreasing profits.

From Newsmax, the House calls in President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to help alleviate the baby formula shortage.

And from the Genesius Times, Biden announces that he will release baby formula from the National Strategic Baby Food Reserves, and send it to the border.

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