Sunday, August 14, 2022

Sunday Stuff

On a cloudy and warm Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a man drives into a Capitol barricade and then shoots himself dead.

From Townhall, if you support Texas Governor Greg Abbott's (R) busing of illegal migrants to New York City and Washington, D.C., you can put your money where your mouth is.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about statesmen by Henry Kissinger.

From the Washington Examiner, unvaccinated Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic hopes to possibly play in the upcoming U.S. Open.

From American Thinker, if you wonder how Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) keeps getting reelected, do the math.

From Red Voice Media, a child sex abuser is found guilty, drinks a liquid in court, and then dies.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, TV host Andrea Mitchell tells Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) that we're not yet in a recession.

From Canada Free Press, Canada's Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeks to disappear inventor Alexander Graham Bell.  (Don't all those parliamentcritters have telephones?  And what do they think of this song?)

From TeleSUR, Cuban authorities assess damage and search for the missing after the first at the port city of Matanzas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Haywards Heath, England leads Europe on the alleged climate emergency.  (During my first visit to the U.K. in 1991, I stayed in the south coastal city of Eastbourne.  On the railroad line between there and London, Haywards Heath was a major stop.)

From Free West Media, the international consulting firm McKinsey wins contracts in the Netherlands without any call for tenders.

From EuroNews, due to climate change, the U.K. could produce more wine than the French regions of Champagne and Burgundy.

From ReMix, according to German law enforcement official Stephan Kramer, high energy prices could make coronavirus-related protests look like "a kid's birthday party".

From The North Africa Post, according to a report from the World Bank, natural disasters cost Morocco $575 million every year.

From The New Arab, a fire at Abi Sefein Orthodox Church in the Egyptian governorate of Giza leaves 55 people dead and dozens of others injured.

From Israel Hayom, a pro-Palestinian student group at Ohio State University holds a vigil for a dead terrorist.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man allegedly decapitates his father in Saint-Priest, France, and yells "Allah Akbar" while being arrested.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Progrès, La Provence, and FDeSouche.)

From The Japan Times, the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie recalls the murder of the man who translated his book The Satanic Verses into Japanese.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Twitter owes Rushdie an apology.

From Gatestone Institute, "a dangerous triple fantasy".

From The Stream, Islam's centuries-long war against critics of its prophet Mohammed.

From Space War, a region in Iraq known as the Garden of Eden is now "like a desert".

From The American Conservative, the aforementioned Salman Rushdie and our permanent fatwa culture.

From The Western Journal, shortly before the raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump sent Attorney General Garland a short message and a question.

From BizPac Review, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) will lead a second delegation to Taiwan.

From The Daily Wire, a fireworks explosion destroys a building and kills several people in Yerevan, Armenia.

From the Daily Caller, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tries to explain the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From the New York Post, the Overture will bring back supersonic travel.

From Breitbart, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) blasts Governor Kathy Hochul for criticizing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at a Holocaust education event.

From Newsmax, former congresscritter Ron Nunes (R-Cal) calls the raid on Mar-a-Lago "an investigation in search of a crime".

And to end on a sad note, from CNN, the Norwegian government euthanizes Freya the walrus, who attracted crowds and climbed onto boats.

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