Friday, December 16, 2022

Stories For Beethoven's Birthday

On the generally accepted anniversary of the birth of classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven, after my self-given day off, here are some things going on:

From National Review, using civil rights laws to defend free speech.

From Frontpage, the hidden meanings behind the festivals of Christmas and Hanukkah.

From Townhall, Democrat congresscritters push Puerto Rico toward statehood.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is a "virtue-signaling scammer".

From the Washington Examiner, according to emails, Bankman-Fried told a financial regulator that FTX would become the "umpires of the crypto industry".

From The Federalist, corporate media can throw whatever tantrum it wants to, but its special privileges with Twitter are ending.

From American Thinker, someone needs to stop this insanity at the southern border.

From CNS News, President Biden pledges $55 billion of taxpayer money to African countries, most of which are not free democracies.

From Free West Media, former congresscritter Devin Nunes (R-Cal) weighs in on FBI informants in Big Tech companies.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, cable news's selective outrage at suspensions and shadow bans on Twitter.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelans demand the release of Bolivian diplomat Alex Saab from the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. is getting strangled by its own political establishment.

From Snouts in the Trough, a debate about coronavirus vaccines is attended by only 0.6 percent of U.K. parliamentcritters.

From Free West Media, the South Pole experiences record cold.  (Doesn't FWM realize the cold weather is caused by man-made climate change, which is caused by man-made carbon dioxide? [/sarc])

From EuroNews, European workers strike for higher wages amid rising inflation.  (They don't seem to realize that in order to pay higher wages, their employers must charge higher prices, thus helping to keep inflation high.)

From Euractiv, the E.U. approves its ninth anti-Russian sanction package.

From ReMix, one out of every 10 Somali nationals in Germany in 2020 was considered a crime suspect.  (If you read German, read the story at Junge Freiheit.)

From Balkan Insight, Serbia officially requests that NATO's peacekeeping force in Kosovo allow up to 1,000 Serbian military troops to return to Kosovo.

From The North Africa Post, according to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, France has resumed normal consular activities in Morocco.

From The New Arab, Lebanon's military court holds its first session on a case five security officials go on trial for allegedly torturing a Syrian refugee to death.

From Gatestone Institute, the war for controlling all of our minds.

From The Stream, feminist author Naomi Wolf visits Yale to fight coronavirus vaccination mandates.

From The Daily Signal, the Republican Senators who voted against reinstating military personnel who were discharged for refusing coronavirus vaccinations.

From Space War, the U.S. defense bill removes vaccine mandates for military personnel.

From The American Conservative, Texas goes NIMBY on certain foreign governments owning its land.

From The Western Journal, the Chief Twit gets serious about doxxing.

From BizPac Review, soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) has limits on what questions peasants are allowed to ask her.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator Michael Knowles talks about speech and censorship on the Timcast podcast.

From the Daily Caller, the Kentucky Supreme Court rules against the state's school choice program.

From the New York Post, Biden claims that his uncle Frank won the Purple Heart for his actions in the Battle of the Bulge, but his story doesn't add up.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, about 60 percent of Americans are "concerned" about the Biden economy.

From Newsmax, Goldman Sachs plans to lay off up to 4,000 employees in early 2023.

And from The Korea Heraldresidents of Daegu, South Korea protest the construction of a mosque by cooking a pig.  (Does it come with a side of kimchi?)

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