Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, the Democrat "#Resistance" playbook is not working against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).

From FrontpageMag, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is feted in Berlin.

From Townhall, how the fiasco involving the FBI's raid at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home could be affected by former President Clinton's sock drawer.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Braddock, PA Mayor John Fetterman (D), now running for Senator, allegedly ordered a police officer to dig up dirt on a political appointment.

From the Washington Examiner, climate change hypocrites talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

From The Federalist, Republicans should treat soon-to-retire Dr. Fauci the way in which Democrats treat Republicans.

From American Thinker, President Biden and the Ides of August.

From CNS News, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), people probably don't move to Florida if they like the way things are in San Francisco.

From LifeZette, military veterans continue to extract U.S. allies out of Afghanistan as the Biden administration forgets about them.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, contrary to some media rumors, former First Lady Melania Trump has no qualms about she and her husband returning to the White House.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post is upset that the aforementioned Governor DeSantis wants to keep murderers and sex offenders from voting.

From Canada Free Press, Twitter unpersons an activist who criticized people who encouraged children to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

From TeleSUR, Argentina's Prosecutor's Office recommends requests that Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner be sentenced to 12 years in prison.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the vital questions about coronavirus policy which should be asked of U.K. prime ministerial candidates Sunak and Truss.

From Snouts in the Trough, does World Economic Forum leader Charles Schwab want everyone to have microchip implants?

From EuroNews, a record-breaking 1,295 illegal migrants enter the U.K. in one day.

From Free West Media, a Eritrean cultural festival in Gießen, Germany turns into a civil war.

From Euractiv, according to Lithuania's foreign minister, the Baltic states, Finland and Poland might ban Russian tourists from entering their respective countries.

From Russia Today, Ukraine disconnects from Russia's power grid.

From Sputnik International, according to an investigative committee, people besides Ukrainian woman Natalia Vovk may have been involved in the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina.

From The Moscow Times, hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin may have been the intended target of her murder.

From Romania-Insider, Romania plans to upgrade 162 kilometers of its railroad lines.

Form Novinite, public transport in Bulgaria will soon no longer require masks.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Bulgarian caretaker Energy Minister Rossen Hristov, talks with the Russian gas company Gazprom are "inevitable".

From Radio Bulgaria, at a meeting of defense ministers, Bulgarian interim Deputy Defense Minister Teodora Genchovska condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece plans to extend its border fence along its entire land border with Turkey.

From Ekathimerini, North Macedonian police detain 26 migrants suspected of having illegally entered from Greece and arrest the van driver who was allegedly smuggling them.

From the Greek City Times, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson rents a car and visits the Greek island of Evia.

From Balkan Insight, a former Bosnian Croat policeman is charged war crimes against civilians allegedly committed in 1992 in Bosanski Brod, Bosnia.

From Total Croatia News, a look at the city of Split, now in Croatia, when it was ruled by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia observes Black Ribbon Day, to commemorate the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

From The Malta Independent, 10 people are arrested in drug raids in the Maltese Cities of Valletta and Marsa.

From Malta Today, how an electoral victory in Italy by the party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) could worsen Malta's immigration problem.

From ANSA, the Roman temple of Cupra shows colors similar to those found in the archaeological site of Pompeii.

From SwissInfo, the Zurich, Switzerland airport becomes profitable again after the coronavirus pandemic.  (Yours truly has both changed planes there and has flown there as a final destination.  For my most recent visit, go to this blog's archives for June 2015.)

From France24, a hospital in Corbeil-Essonnes, France is targeted by a cyberattack.

From RFI, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, the E.U. is ready to support Ukraine "for the long term".

From El País, large amounts of rainbow fentanyl are seized at the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The Portugal News, unemployment benefits in Portugal are at an all-time low.

From ReMix, bird choppers emit the most powerful known greenhouse gas.  (If you read German, read a related story at TagesSchau.)

From The North Africa Post, the Libyan Armed Forces, led by warlord Khalifa Haftar, claim to have downed a drone armed with two missiles near the city of Benghazi.

From The New Arab, Iraq's Supreme Judiciary Council suspends its activities and closes down all of the country's courts.

From OpIndia, the High Court of Delhi, India upholds the marriage of a 15-year-old Muslim girl.

From Union of Catholic Asian News, a Munda man dies from injuries suffered when hundreds of Muslims attacked his village of Dhumghat in Bangladesh.

From Gatestone Institute, China is weaponizing overseas Chinese to support the Chinese Communist Party.

From The Stream, "fed up to the eyeballs".

From The American Conservative, don't trust the D.C. swamp on election integrity.

From Sino Daily, according to President Tsai Ing-wen, no threat could shake the Taiwanese resolve to defend their island.

From Space War, supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stage a sit-in outside the aforementioned Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.

From The Daily Signal, Texas shows how America's elections can be fixed.

From The Western Journal, if the Biden administration extends the moratorium on student loan payments, its would negate the revenue expected from the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From Fox News, the widow of slain retired police officer David Dorn gives us a piece of her mind.

From BizPac Review, podcaster Joe Rogan accuses actor Alec Baldwin of lying about the shooting on the set of Rust, and rants about Hollywood hypocrisy on guns.

From The Daily Wire, Chinese censors change the ending of the American film Minions: The Rise of Gru.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) demands that the NIH preserve all documents and communications in Dr. Fauci's possession.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, 73 percent of college Democrats don't want President Biden to run for reelection in 2024.

From Newsmax, the Air Force and Space Force consider a pilot program under which enlisted men will be allowed to grow beards.

And from the New York Post, a Starbucks barista gives some tips on how to save money on your coffee.

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