Monday, September 12, 2022

Stories For Jan Sobieski Day

On the anniversary of Polish King Jan III Sobieski driving the besieging Ottoman Turks away from Vienna, here are some things going on:

From National Review, in making a pro-abortion speech, senatorial candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) calls himself "Fetterwoman".

From FrontpageMag, over 11,000 evacuees from Afghanistan have fake birthdays.

From Townhall, Chief Justice John Roberts breaks his silence about threats to the Supreme Court and defends its legitimacy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, anti-plastics actor Jason Momoa used to drink lots of water out of plastic bottles.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a survey, most Americans want President Biden to "quit blaming MAGA" and fix the economy.

From The Federalist, the DoJ does not want to disclose "classified" documents seized in the FBI raid at former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, except for leaks to the left-wing media.

From American Thinker, the Democrats have become the party of projection.

From CNS News, Vice President Harris claims that the border is secure.

From LifeZette, in Texas, two home invaders run into the 2nd Amendment.

From NewsBusters, Harris's seven least covered blunders.

From Free West Media, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, 4.9 million migrants have illegally entered the U.S. during Biden's term as president.

From Canada Free Press, to paraphrase Neil Young, keep on "rockin'" in "the post-Catholic world".

From CBC News, in his first speech to his party, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre points out that "Canadians are hurting".

From Global News, as Poilievre is "crowned" the new Conservative leader, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticizes "buzzwords" and "dog whistles".

From CTV News, according to economists, Canada's real problem is not job losses but the rush to retire.

From TeleSURArgentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner criticizes "hate speech" in her country's media.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the sinister agenda behind the U.K.'s "Border Farce".

From Snouts in the Trough, which black lives in London matter?

From the Express, mourners line up for hours to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin at St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland.

From the Evening Standard, the route for the queen's coffin from St. Giles' Cathedral to Edinburgh Airport has been revealed.

From the (U.K.) Independent, at the state vigil for the queen, her grandson Prince Harry will not be allowed to wear his military uniform.

From the (Irish) Independent, Dublin Airport expects as many as 40 million air travelers by 2031.

From the Irish Examiner, according to some of its backbenchers, the Irish party Fianna Fáil is "sleepwalking" into an election disaster.

From VRT NWS, the statue Mannekin Pis in Brussels, Belgium is vandalized with yellow paint.

From The Brussels Times, as hundreds of single male migrants sleep on Belgian streets, they may be joined by entire migrant families.

From the NL Times, Dutch police seize a Lamborghini Urus after it is driven at more than 200 kilometers per hour.

From Dutch News, badgers potentially undermine railroads in Molkwerum, Netherlands and in other places.  (Whether mushrooms and/or snakes are also involved is not stated.)

From Deutsche Welle, environmental activists demand an end to the transportation of Russian nuclear fuel through Germany.

From the CPH Post, the leaders of six Blue Bloc parties in Denmark sign a letter urging Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to call for a general election.

From ReMix, a right-wing bloc may have narrowly won Sweden's parliamentary election.

From Polskie Radio, according to a survey, 75 percent of Poles regard Russia's war in Ukraine as a threat to Poland's security.

From Radio Prague, why do the Czechs call the U.K.'s new King Charles "Karel" instead of "Charles"?  (The call him "Král Karel", the Czech word král meaning "king".  In my study of Polish, I learned that the Polish word for "king", król, is derived from name "Charles", referring to the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, whose name means "Charles the Great".  The Polish król and the Czech král appear to be cognates.)

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia will hold a referendum initiated by three opposition parties.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian diplomat Csaba Kőrösi is sworn in as the new president of the U.N. General Assembly.

From Hungary Today, candidate Csilla Fazekas of the Fidesz party wins an election in a district of Budapest.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet and Telex.)

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, E.U. sanctions against Russia have "failed".

From EuroNews, Ukraine claims to have recaptured 500 square kilometers of territory from the invading Russian military.

From Euractiv, Western governments mobilize their weapons producers to step up production as the Ukrainian military burns through its stockpiles.

From Balkan Insight, a Yugoslav naval officer who refused to bomb coastal towns in Croatia in 1991 is honored.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian refugee crashes his vehicle into an Austrian woman's car in an illegal street race in Vienna, after which she dies in a hospital.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From The North Africa Post, according to the Fraser Institute, Morocco is the most economically free country in North Africa.

From The New Arab, a nephew of the late Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi has been detained and held at an unknown location, according to Morsi's oldest son.

From BNE Intellinews, Tajiki authorities intensify their crackdown on Ismaili Muslims.

From Al Arabiya, Iran claims to have developed a drone capable of hitting the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa.

From Gatestone Institute, communist China's eyes in the U.S. are a national security threat.

From The Stream, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims that the 9/11 terror threat has "evolved" as the FBI reportedly raids the homes of 35 Trump supporters.

From The Daily Signal, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) touts Florida's successes and contrasts them with what happened in blue states.

From Sino Daily, a Lithuanian trade delegation arrives in Taiwan ahead of the opening of a de facto embassy in the capital city of Taipei.

From Space War, the war in Ukraine goes from an invasion to a counter-attack.

From The American Conservative, the new U.K. leadership pair of King Charles III and Prime Minister Liz Truss may turn out to be a "surprise winner".

From The Western Journal, Democrats will be disappointed with the reason for Trump's recent arrival in the D.C. area.

From BizPac Review, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) has a five-point plan for the Republicans in the midterm elections.

From The Daily Wire, in GQ, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) talks about marrying a white man, feeling that she is hated, and fearing that could soon be killed.

From the Daily Caller, former CNN host Brian Stelter could do even more damage in his new job.

From the New York Post, students at a high school in Daytona Beach, Florida face felony charges for allegedly staging a fake shooting.

From Breitbart, according to right-wing commentator Mark Levin, left-wing commentators focus on pronouns and use the label "semi-fascist" to "dehumanize us".

From Newsmax, as Russian troops retreat in Ukraine, opposition to President Putin becomes louder.

And from The Babylon Bee, the FBI is concerned that if MAGA people don't soon launch a terror attack, they'll have to fake one.

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