Friday, June 10, 2022

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the prime-time hearing from the January 6th Inquisition Committee basically told us what we already knew.

From FrontpageMag, the attempt to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a leftist inside job.

From Townhall, Napa Valley, California police refuse to release bodycam footage of the DUI arrest of Paul Pelosi, husband of the Speaker.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden should abandon his quest for a nuclear deal with Iran.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden's ratings keep going down.  (You could say that his ratings are inversely proportional to gas prices.)

From The Federalist, the J6 Committee is obviously a Soviet-style show trial.

From American Thinker, leave the SCOTUS justices alone.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Kevin Hern (R-OK), Americans think that inflation is worse than the officially reported figures.  (I remember hearing about 10 years ago that if inflation were calculated then the way it was calculated back in the 1970s, it would have then been in double digits.  Mark Twain, or whoever he stole the idea from, was correct in calling statistics a type of lie.)

From LifeZette, and speaking of lies, the media are lying about January 6th, 2021.

From NewsBusters, Meet the Press NOW host Chuck Todd invites congresscritter Don Young (R-AK) onto his show, but there's just one problem.

From Canada Free Press, the Schumers and Pelosis will keep calling for violence.

From CBC News, how Canadians are surviving inflation.

From Global News, Toronto, Ontario, Canada is needs lifeguards and swim instructors.

From CTV News, a man convicted of using a sword to murder and wound people in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada gets 25 years in prison.

From TeleSUR, the Dominican Republic agrees to regularize migrants from Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the whole system is rotten, not just U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From the Express, U.K. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer promises to reverse Johnson's Brexit laws if he becomes prime minister.

From the Express Tribune, attempts to stop the U.K.'s first deportation flight to Rwanda are stopped in court.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. Home Office cancels deportation to Rwanda for three migrants.

From the (Irish) Independent, former Irish President Mary Robinson receives an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow.

From the Irish Examiner, the most welcoming towns in Ireland for Ukrainian refugees are revealed.

From VRT NWS, the price of gasoline reaches a new record in Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke admits making major blunders relating to a supply of coronavirus-related materials.  (What's this?  A government official admitting mistakes?  I would advise the Belgian people to watch out for flying pigs.)

From the NL Times, the Netherlands plans to cut nitrogen levels by 70 percent in some areas, and a tractor protest is scheduled for June 22nd.

From Dutch News, according to some Dutch ministers, farms will have to close down in order for nitrogen goals to be met.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany plans to make its background checks for gun ownership even tighter.

From ReMix, Germany's left-wing government pushes amnesty for 100,000 illegal aliens.

From the CPH Post, coronavirus cases are increasing again in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, according to President Andrzej Duda, Poland wants more NATO troops on the bloc's east flank.

From Radio Prague, Czechs commemorate the destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in 1942.

From The Slovak Spectator, a Ukrainian confesses to killing a fellow Ukrainian in Bratislava, Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, four campsites on Hungary's Lake Balaton have their own free private beaches.  (When I was in Hungary in 2000, my tour group visited Lake Balaton, but we didn't go camping.  Instead, we visited a winery.)

From Hungary Today, President Katalin Novák represents Hungary at the Bucharest-9 summit.

From About Hungary, according to State Secretary Péter Benő Banai, the government's draft budget protects Hungarians from increases in gas and electricity prices.

From Free West Media, Hungary's borders get another stress test.

From EuroNews, Russia's invasion of Ukraine results in a brain drain.

From Euractiv, Kosovo plans to apply for E.U. membership by the end of this year.

From Balkan Insight, the Montenegrin Supreme Court orders another retrial for a journalist convicted of drug trafficking.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and the UAE plan to bolster their cooperation on trade and logistics.

From The New Arab, an Egyptian court sentences a preacher to 15 years in prison for joining the Free Syrian Army.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkey is targeting Syria, Iraq, Cyprus and Greece.  (I'm pretty sure that all of them were once parts of the Ottoman Empire.)

From The Stream, the officers we should have heard from at the January 6th hearing.

From The Daily Signal, reparations for slavery from California?

From The American Conservative, college is not for everybody.

From The Western Journal, inflation hits another 40-year high in May.

From BizPac Review, according to right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, the facts of January 6th have been distorted.

From The Daily Wire, the FBI warns that it will not tolerate violence, destruction or interference, in D.C. or at homes of Supreme Court justices.

From the Daily Caller, where inflation is taking its biggest bite.

From the New York Post, President Biden blames everyone else for inflation.

From Newsmax, a U.S. appeals court in Manhattan appears unlikely to revive former Alabama Judge Roy Moore's lawsuit against actor Sacha Baron Cohen.

And from ABC News, where "A" stands for "Australia", Thailand launches a campaign to give away cannabis plants but discourages people from getting high.

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