Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings For The First Day Of Winter

On a sunny but cool Wednesday which includes this year's winter solstice, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a study, big safety nets in blue states are driving Americans out of work.

From FrontpageMag, the ugliest federal government building in San Francisco will be renamed after Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).

From Townhall, Pelosi compares Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the new omnibus spending bill includes a ban on government funding for crack pipes.

From the Washington Examiner, the omnibus spending bill contains these 12 woke earmarks.  (I refrain from using the term "pork" because likening these earmarks to pork would be unfair to pigs.)

From The Federalist, everything wrong with Congress giving Zelenskyy money for Christmas.

From American Thinker, it's not the votes that count, it's the ballots.

From CNS News, Republican congresscritters oppose a continuing resolution, but Republican Senators are divided about it.

From NewsBusters, a trans student allegedly assaults a girl in her high school bathroom, and the media go Sergeant Schultz about it.

From Canada Free Press, must transgenderism be accepted if it's "inborn"?

From TeleSUR, Brazilian police arrest the alleged mastermind behind the murders of a British journalist and a Brazilian ethnologist.

From TCW Defending Freedom, will the  U.K. ever be able to produce enough hydrogen to allow it to achieve "Net Zero".

From Snouts in the Trough, young people should be careful about wishing for socialism.

From Free West Media, according to a study, diesel-powered vehicles are more climate-friendly than electric cars are.

From EuroNews, the Swiss government decides against introducing third-gender and no-gender for official records.

From Euractiv, U.K. minsters proclaim that British fishermen will be allowed to catch 30,000 tonnes more fish that they were allowed before Brexit.

From ReMix, Polish europarliamentcritter Dominic TarczyƄski discusses the corruption scandal in the European Parliament.

From Balkan Insight, an illegal builder in the Albanian capital of Tirana is linked to the country's governing Socialist Party.

From The North Africa Post, King Mohammed VI and his fellow Moroccans give a hero's welcome to Morocco's World Cup soccer team.

From The New Arab, an airstrike by the Iraqi military sends five ISIS terrorists to their virgins.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Palestinians vandalize archaeological antiquities in Samaria National Park in the West Bank.  (This park should not be confused with a park on the Greek island of Crete having the same name.)

From Dawn, four people are arrested for allegedly burning a woman during a "faith healing" in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a woman in Blois, France is beaten by her Muslim ex-partner.  (If you read French, read the story at TF1 and FDeSouche.

From OneIndia, India's National Investigation Agency discovers radical Islamic "hit-squads" who intend to kill or convert Hindus.

From The Times Of Israel, the gradual crackdown by the Taliban against women's rights and education in Afghanistan.  (The last five stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in November 2022.

From The Stream, Old Man Winter arrives today, and he's in a foul mood.

From The Daily Signal, according to congresscritter James Comer (R-KY), who will soon be chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, the omnibus spending bill must be stopped.

From The American Conservative, what can we really learn from the midterm election results?

From BizPac Review, the University of Oklahoma bans students and staff from using the Chinese platform TikTok.

From Fox News, according to their tax forms, nonprofits connected to left-wing billionaire George Soros gave millions of dollars to anti-police groups and initiatives in 2021.  (via BizPac Review)

From The Daily Wire, a "Twitter Files" journalist chosen by the Chief Twit to release internal messages tells right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro about the "dangerous incentive" created by the FBI.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritters Jim Banks (R-IN), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) and Rodney Davis (R-IL) release a report on security failures during the January 6th Capitol riot.

From Breitbart, El Paso, Texas prepares to shelter 10,000 illegal migrants due to the possible end of Title 42 and a polar vortex.

From Newsmax, the Chief Twit expects Twitter, Inc. to break even in 2023.

And from the New York Post, you can rent a "hobbit hideaway" in Scotland, starting at $181 per night.

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