Thursday, December 22, 2022

Some Thursday Things Before Traveling

On a cold rainy Thursday before my Christmas traveling, here are some things going on:

From National Review, we now live in an age of economic disinformation.

From FrontageMag, the left is very persistent.

From Townhall, the Senate passes the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, with a continuing resolution as a backup.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the U.S. Commerce Department blacklisted the company Tiandy, but you can still buy its surveillance cameras on Amazon.

From the Washington Examiner, what can the House do about congresscritter-elect George Santos (R-NY)?

From The Federalist, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) is wrong about abortion being a "Jewish sacrament".  (I know that the Catholic and Mormon churches have sacraments, but I've never heard of any sacraments in Judaism.)

From American Thinker, five ways to deal with mass shootings, without depriving anyone of their freedoms.

From CNS News, according to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), money for Ukraine is an investment in American interests.

From NewsBusters, an ABC fill-in anchor interviews a woman whom the Biden administration left behind in Russia.

From Canada Free Press, no, former President Trump did not call for the Constitution to be terminated.  (Full disclosure:  I used to listen to a BlogTalkRadio show hosted by the article's author, and met him in person while on vacation in California in 2009.)

From TeleSUR, Dominican Republic Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Alvarez asks the U.N. Security Council to send a multinational military force to Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in a democracy, every human body should be protected.

From Free West Media, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni prepares a decree to deal with the rush to claim asylum.

From EuroNews, the Scottish parliament passes a law making it easier for people to change their gender for legal purposes.

From Euractiv, the European Commission gives permission for bird choppers to have increased capacity.

From ReMix, according to German media outlets, most German war criminals from World War II were never properly prosecuted.

From Balkan Insight, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis makes a historic visit to minority ethnic Greeks in Albania.

From The North Africa Post, Pakistan invites Morocco to participate in the 8th Naval Exercise Aman in 2023.

From The New Arab, three members of Yemen's separatist Southern Transitional Council are killed in an explosion.

From The Jerusalem Post, British Airways sends a dog bound for Nashville, Tennessee to Saudi Arabia instead.

From RAIR Foundation USA, a Pakistani man is arrested in Spain for allegedly trying to force his daughter into an arranged marriage.

From Albawaba, according to an Islamic cleric, saying "Merry Christmas" is haram.  (via OpIndia)

From Israel Hayom, three fake Starbucks coffee shops operate in Baghdad, Iraq.

From Gatestone Institute, China exploits the cooling of relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

From The Stream, what our own cultural artifacts say to and about us.

From The American Conservative, "misdirected compassion" from the Biden administration.

From The Daily Signal, the FBI would rather moderate content on Twitter and investigate parents with concerns about school curricula than follow up on tips about mass shooters.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson alleges that Congress loves Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy more than they love American citizens.

From The Daily Wire, 18 Republican Senators join their Democrat colleagues to pass the omnibus spending bill.

From the Daily Caller, two employees of the Chinese company ByteDance reportedly monitored two reporters via their accounts on TikTok, which is its subsidiary.

From the New York Post, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Nogales, Arizona seize over a million fentanyl pills in a week.

From Breitbart, a local politician in Linz, Austria claims that integration "value courses" will prevent violent migrants from being violent.  (If you read German, read the story at Ã–sterreichischer Rundfunk.)

From Newsmax, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, facing trial on fraud charges, is released on a $250 million bond package.

And from the Genesius Times, soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) complains that she gave $100 billion to Ukraine and all she got in return was a "lousy flag".

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