Sunday, January 1, 2023

Sunday Stuff To Start 2023

On a mild sunny Sunday falling on the first day of the year, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Illinois Supreme Court postpones the state's elimination of cash bail.

From Townhall, five more woke laws take effect today in California.

From The Washington Free Beacon, nominees to share the 2022 Man of the Year award are two dogs employed by the Ukrainian military.

From the Washington Examiner, how much your taxes went to repair the homes of rich people after natural disasters.

From American Thinker, there's no sitting on the sidelines when it comes to woke speech.

From NewsBusters, a Politico reporter trashes the recently departed Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

From Canada Free Press, "global warming and other fairy tales".

From TCW Defending Freedom, ignore the Jewishness of Jesus and there's no Messiah left.

From Snouts in the Trough, welcome to today's new totalitarianism.

From Free West Media, according to a poll, the people of Germany no longer feel free.

From EuroNews, Croatia adopts the euro as its monetary unit and joins the Schengen zone.  (This means that the kuna which I brought back from Croatia in 2007 will become collector's items, just like the deutschmark, lira, and other coins I brought back from Europe before the euro was created.)

From The North Africa Post, due to the spike in coronavirus cases in China, Morocco bans the entry of Chinese nationals, starting on January 3rd.

From The New Arab, the Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to be pursuing a "permanent ceasefire".

From OpIndia, migrants in France continue their tradition of burning cars on New Year's Eve.

From Gatestone Institute, is Iran a model or a warning?

From The Stream, why does each year begin on January 1st?

From Space War, North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un calls for an "exponential increase" of his country's nuclear arsenal.

From Robo Daily, lawmakers try to catch up with artificial intelligence.  (Have we created the latest race of Cylons yet?)

From The American Conservative, Benedict XVI will be remembered as one of the most consequential popes of all time.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) happily anticipates the end of "failed one-party Democrat rule".

From the Daily Caller, 13 genders by which one could identify in 2022.

From the New York Post, the New York Giants clinch their first NFL playoff appearance since 2016.

From Breitbart, Border Patrol agents in the Swanton Sector apprehend almost eight times as many illegal migrants during the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 than a year earlier.  (Where is the Swanton Sector?  Let's just say that it's not in Texas or Arizona.)

From Newsmax, according to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, 2023 will be tough for the global economy.

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, a surfer in the Australian state of Victoria is hailed as a hero for carrying a stranded shark back out into the ocean.  (via the New York Post)

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