Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

On a mild, cloudy and sometimes rainy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the charade of senatorial candidate John Fetter(wo)man (D-PA) comes to an end.

From FrontpageMag, contrary to what professors and administrators allege, white students are not inherently racist.

From Townhall, why Republicans in Alaska have had it with Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

From The Washington Free Beacon, Oregon voters claim to have lost patience with Democrats over crime and inflation.

From the Washington Examiner, replacing a tail light on your electric Hummer is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.

From The Federalist, Fetterman's disastrous debate performance shows how far the media will go to support Democrats.

From American Thinker, President Biden is destroying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

From CNS News, congresscritter Michael McCall (R-TX) wonders why the State Department awarded a grant to an organization in Ecuador that puts on drag shows.

From Red Voice Media, New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R) may just have ended the career of incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY).  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) refuses to take marching orders from the NFL.

From Canada Free Press, in going toward the hard left, the Democratic Party left many of its old members.

From TeleSUR, Colombia moves toward eliminating mandatory military service.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. parliament finally debates coronavirus vaccine safety.

From Snouts in the Trough, the scam of the U.K.'s government ministers.

From Free West Media, property in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany will be confiscated to provide housing for asylum seekers.

From EuroNews, Germany agrees to allow the Chinese shipping company COSCO to buy a 25 percent stake in the port of Hamburg.

From Euractiv, for heating, Poland gradually moves away from coal toward heat pumps.

From ReMix, according to a survey, most Czechs don't trust their current government.

From Balkan Insight, the state court of Bosnia seeks a fugitive ethnic Serb soldier convicted of involvement in the abduction of 20 passengers from the Štrpci railroad station and their murder.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities arrest five alleged members of ISIS.

From The North Africa Post, according to europarliamentcritter Tomáš Zdechovský, the E.U. needs to address the terror threat posed by the north African group Polisario.

From the Libyan Express, Libya and Turkey sign two military agreements.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Türkiye repeats its demand that Finland extradites suspected terrorists.

From Turkish Minute, the Turkish government's detention of 11 journalists draws consternation both within and outside of Turkey.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Ahval, the president of the Turkish Medical Association is arrested after she called for an investigation of allegations that the Turkish military used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

From Rûdaw, some Christian and Yazidi villages in Iraq remain deserted years after ISIS was defeated.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wants a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of 2022.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Pashinyan confirms that he will participate in a meeting with Presidents Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan).

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government will hire a 300-member police unit to guard the buffer zone with the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, according to a Russian expert, talk about Russian forces leaving Syria is folly.

From North Press Agency, Syrian Kurdish politicians welcome U.S. mediation for opening a border crossing between Syria and the Iraqi region of Kurdistan.

From The961, the film Speak, by Lebanese director Yvan Chamoun, receives a nomination at the Dos Lagos Film Festival in Hollywood, California, U.S.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the Israeli party Yesh Atid is gaining on the Likud party.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel and Lebanon will sign an agreement on their maritime boundary.

From The Jerusalem Post, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that current Prime Minister Yair Lapid can win in Israel's election unless right-wingers vote for the Likud party.

From YNetNews, fossilized dinosaur tracks are found in the yard of a home in Ramallah, West Bank.

From the Egypt Independent, Samsung produces mobile phones in Egypt for the first time.

From Egypt Today, Egypt will raise minimum wages for government employees.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will establish five new regional investment companies.

From The New Arab, Lebanon starts to deport refugees from Syria.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranians defy a government crackdown to mark 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly "improperly" wearing a hijab.

From IranWire, three gunmen kill at least 15 people at a Shia shrine in Shiraz, Iran.

From Iran International, live coverage of continuing protests in Iran.

From Khaama Press, a member of the Taliban shoots and kills one girl and injures another.

From Hasht e Subh, Russia is reportedly recruiting Afghan soldiers to fight in Ukraine.

From the Afghanistan Times, private university enrollment in Afghanistan declines.

From OpIndia, about 10 Pandit families in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir relocate after terror attacks in the area where they lived.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S.'s foreign policy is in disarray.

From The Stream, don't let the media form your opinions and views.

From The Daily Signal, state lawmakers want to know why Pennsylvania sent out 240,000 ballots to voters without verifying their identities.

From The American Conservative, what post-Roe v. Wade America can learn from Hungary.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned John Fetterman's debate performance.

From BizPac Review, Special Counsel John Durham exposes a compromised leadership at the FBI.

From The Daily Wire, according to a survey, economic worries are driving Catholic voters in swing states to the polls.

From the Daily Caller, President Alejandro Giammattei (Guatemala) explains how one policy change by President Joe Biden (U.S.) caused migrants to swarm Guatemala's borders.

From Breitbart, the man who drove his SUV through a parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin is convicted of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

From Newsmax, 43 absentee ballots may have been destroyed when a mail truck caught fire near Albany, Georgia.

And from the New York Post, the new "Chief Twit" walks into what is expected to become his new office - carrying a sink.

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