Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, when laws restricting gun use don't prevent gun crime.

From FrontpageMag, a Muslim art and culture festival will be held in a cathedral in Manchester, England, even though the city has over 100 mosques.

From Townhall, why my state might see a large increase in gun carry permits.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman (D), now running for Senator, took a vacation at the Jersey Shore while advocating for strict coronavirus lockdowns.  (Maybe the Jersey Shore he vacationed at was the one in Pennsylvania.)

From the Washington Examiner, red states outdo blue states in economic recovery.

From The Federalist, counties in Texas rightly call the border crisis an "invasion".

From American Thinker, President Biden releases oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to (drum roll, please) China.

From CNS News, the unsecured border is a moral and deadly hazard.

From LifeZette, real Americans are rejecting abortion.

From NewsBusters, six climate protesters lay down on an automotive race track.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats are angry, not at the end of Roe v. Wade, but about the loss of their control.

From TeleSUR, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court declares Antigua and Barbuda's anti-homosexual law to be unconstitutional.  (This court has jurisdiction over six independent countries and three U.K. dependencies in the Caribbean.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, by clinging to power, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson imperils Brexit.

From Snouts in the Trough, when it comes to weather or coronavirus vaccines, the floods of lies keep coming.

From Free West Media, the E.U. spends skyrocketing amounts of money on external consultants.

From EuroNews, despite recent resignations, Boris Johnson vows to keep on fighting.

From Euractiv, Germany is urged to fight its labor shortage by hiring IT workers from Russia.

From ReMix, graves of World War II-era Polish resistance fighters are reportedly destroyed in Belarus.

From Balkan Insight, according to Prime Minister Edi Rama, Albania "might" soon discover an important oil field.

From Morocco World News, some europarliamentcritters support Morocco amid the tragedy at its border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

From The North Africa Post, two sub-Saharan nationals are arrested after 17.7 kilos of she-don't-lie are found at the Casablanca, Morocco airport.

From the Libyan Express, Libya's Presidential Council presents a plan to end the country's current political crisis.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Türkiye hopes to create a corridor for shipping Ukrainian grain within the next few days.  (The country known as "Turkey" reportedly wants its name to be spelled "Türkiye", perhaps to avoid confusing with a certain bird.)

From Turkish Minute, the Turkish government forbids Turkish mayors from meeting with foreign diplomats without the permission of the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

From Rûdaw, the U.N. urges Iraq to investigate an IED explosion in the governorate of Nineveh.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan has a phone conversation with Russian President Putin.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian envoy Christian Ter-Stepanyan tells UNESCO that parts of Artsakh were cleansed of Armenians as a result of aggression by Azerbaijan in 2020.

From In-Cyprus, the efficiency of street cameras in Cyprus improves.

From The Syrian Observer, Egypt opposes the return of Syria's government to the Arab League.

From North Press Agency, an ISIS child destroys a solar panel at the Hawl Camp in northeastern Syria.

From The961, ongoing attempts are made to avoid suspending the operation of Lebanon's Al-Zahrani power plant.

From Arutz Sheva, families of victims of the 2003 suicide bombing of a bus in Haifa, Israel demand that one of the terrorists responsible for that attack not be allowed to return to Haifa.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid denounces a protest at the pluralistic part of the Western Wall against mixed-gender prayer services.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF shoots down another drone launched by Hezbollah.

From YNetNews, a Jewish man from Mariupol, Ukraine recovers from his war injuries in Israel.

From Jewish News Syndicate, two europarliamentcritters denounce the inconsistent use of international law against Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian Interior Ministry examines calls for a battle of "Batman Helwan".  (I remember when another Batman fought against a villain with an Egyptian background.)

From Egypt Today, 75 imprisoned debtors in Egypt will soon be pardoned.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the African Union calls for an investigation of deadly attacks against civilians in western Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, Hajj pilgrims in Mecca perform the Tawaf Al-Qudum arrival ceremony.

From The New Arab, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hold a rare meeting in Algeria.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Belgian lawmakers provisionally clear a prisoner-exchange treaty with Iran.

From IranWire, Iranian authorities sue the dairy company Domino over allegedly "promiscuous" ice cream ads.

From Iran International, President Ebrahim Raisi orders the strict enforcement of Iran's hijab laws.  (What is this "my body, my choice" you speak of?)

From Khaama Press, five rockets are launched from Afghanistan into Uzbekistan, but no explosions, damage, or casualties are reported.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, a "cholera-like" disease spreads in the Afghan province of Zabul, killing two people.

From the Afghanistan Times, Afghan businessmen are irked by power outages in Afghanistan's industrial parks.

From OpIndia, a Muslim mob allegedly attacks a Hindu boy for a social media post supporting accused blasphemer Nupur Sharma.

From Gatestone Institute, under President Biden, the U.S. loses ground in Latin America.

From The Stream, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch takes a stand against unaccountable rogue bureaucracy.

From The Daily Signal, why we can no longer have a nice Independence Day.

From ITR Economics, the threat of higher interest rates resulting from inflationary pressure.

From The American Conservative, who made the Highland Park, Illinois shooting suspect?

From The Western Journal, Arizona promises to defend its election security law from a lawsuit from the Department of Justice.

From BizPac Review, a coffee shop in Philadelphia described as a "queer haven" is shut down for not being woke enough.

From The Daily Wire, guitarist Carlos Santana collapses onstage at a concert in Detroit.

From the Daily Caller, NBC News contributor Michael Beschloss compares the Highland Park mass shooting suspect to self-defense shooter Kyle Rittenhouse.

From the New York Post, the Highland Park shooting suspect had an obsession with two numbers.

From Breitbart, the campaign to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gaskón will hand in more signatures than required.

From Newsmax, how the Highland Park shooting suspect was able to get a Firearms Owners Identification Card.

And from Fox 5, an explosion destroys part of the Georgia Guidestones.  (Go to this blog's archives for April 2015 for my post on the Georgia Guidestones.)