Friday, August 19, 2022

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the remarkable apathy about corruption in the Biden family.

From FrontpageMag, bird choppers are bad for the environment.

From Townhall, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch torches alleged law violations cited by the FBI cited to justify the raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Harvard professor was convicted in the press of sexual misconduct, but not not in court.

From the Washington Examiner, a member of the ISIS "Beatles" gets a life sentence for killing four Americans.  (The ISIS "Beatles" are four British-born terrorists.  Whether any of them can carry a tune, even in a suitcase, is not commonly known.)

From The Federalist, a laundry list of FBI corruption.

From American Thinker, lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) could still get her revenge.

From CNS News, according to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, 98 percent of monkeypox cases in the U.S. are occurring in men.

From LifeZette, the left now openly approves of media and Big Tech misinformation if it helps their narrative.

From NewsBusters, pro-abortion vandals attack a pro-life pregnancy center in Massachusetts.

From Canada Free Press, a parent in California sues her local school district over transgender indoctrination.

From TeleSUR, over 100,000 Brazilians attend a rally by former President Lula da Silva in the city of Belo Horizonte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Great Barrier Reef refuses to play the climate fearmongering game.

From Free West Media, aid from European countries to Ukraine fell to almost zero in July.

From EuroNews, the Russian company Gazprom suspends its gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for three days for "maintenance".

From Euractiv, Serbia and Kosovo fail to resolve their dispute over car license plate numbers.

From ReMix, the completion of the Vistula Spit canal deals a heavy blow to the "impossibilism" of the Polish opposition.  (Although I would like to learn more Polish vocabulary, I don't particularly want to learn the Polish word for "impossibilism".)

From Balkan Insight, an Albanian police officer is investigated for allegedly insulting journalists.  (If insulting journalists were a crime in the U.S., 99.99 percent of us would be in jail.)

From The North Africa Post, Libyan Public Prosecutor Siddiq Al-Sur announces the discovery of 3,329 forged voter registration cards.  (But, but, voter fraud never happens....)

From The New Arab, 14 people are killed and 35 others injured when a rocket hits a marketplace in al-Bab, Syria.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Somali man stabs a German retiree to death, and authorities prevent the victim from being commemorated.  (If you read German, read the story at Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung.)

From Gatestone Institute, China's interest in U.S. agriculture is a security threat.

From The Stream, three ways in which an article in The Atlantic is wrong about the rosary.

From Space War, North Korea rejects South Korea's offer of economic aid as the "height of absurdity".

From The Daily Signal, how younger Americans are dealing with rising prices.

From The American Conservative, America could learn something from the U.K.'s Citizens Advice Bureaux.

From The Western Journal, for his remarks at the signing ceremony for the CHIPS act, President Biden gets four Pinocchios from The Washington Post.

From BizPac Review, TV host Don Lemon still can't believe the support which former President Trump has.

From The Daily Wire, a military base in Virginia housing Afghan refugees becomes covered in solid waste.

From the Daily Caller, three men are charged in the beating death of mob boss James "Whitey" Bolger in the Hazelton Penitentiary in West Virginia.

From the New York Post, backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor (from Virginia Tech) keeps proving his value to the New York Giants.

From Breitbart, Texas authorities crowd the bank of the Rio Grande near the city of Eagle Pass to block illegal migrants.

From Newsmax, the Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin school district upholds a ban on displaying political and religious materials.

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, in Maaroom, Queensland, Australia, the kangaroos come home to roost big time.  (via the New York Post)

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