Monday, March 27, 2023

Monday Links

On a cloudy and mild Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, we have some real problems that are bigger than so-called "digital blackface".

From FrontpageMag, why is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband upset that adult material is banned in school libraries in Florida?

From Townhall, there's a country which Vice President Harris will not visit on her trip to Africa.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a union activist calls a Palestinian terrorist a "freedom fighter".  (I came to the opinion a long time ago that the adage "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is probably the most dangerous and hateful lie ever told in the history of mankind.)

From the Washington Examiner, three children and three adults have been killed in a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.

From The Federalist, a bill introduced by Republicans in both the House and Senate would protect religious student organizations from discrimination.

From American Thinker, while former presidents such as Trump might not be above the law, their punishment is limited to house arrest.

From CNS News, Ukraine seeks an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council in response to Russian President Putin's plan to deploy tactical nukes in Belarus.

From Fox News, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) announces that she will run for reelection in 2024.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the NBC show Lopez vs. Lopez shames a white character with woke hypocrisy.

From Canada Free Press, a deconsecrated church goes up for sale in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

From CBC News, the Canadian federal government calls upon the Federal Court of Appeals to dismiss a ruling that orders Canada to take back four men detained in Syria.

From TeleSUR, voter turnout in Cuba's recent parliamentary election reaches 75.9 percent.  (It's easy when you can only legally vote for one party.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, a British photographer is jailed for secretly taking pictures of aspiring models in their changing rooms.

From EuroNews, Scottish Health Minister Humza Yousef is selected to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's first minister.

From Free West Media, something allegedly resembling the Loch Ness Monster has been spotted off the coast of Clevedon, England.  (Unless I've missed something, this is the first article published by FWM since March 5th.)

From The Brussels Times, the Brussel-Capital Region Government calls on its municipalities to ban TikTok from their staff's computers and phones.  (The capital region of Brussels is one of three communes within Belgium, the other two being Flanders and Wallonia.)

From the NL Times, right-wing Dutch parliamentcritters are critical of a protest at the Eindhoven Airport by Extinction Rebellion.  (Are Dutch carbon dioxide emissions really that much of a problem?  If you read Dutch, read the story at De Telegraaf.)

From Deutsche Welle, the new German movie Measures of Men sheds light on Germany's colonial crimes in South West Africa, which is now Namibia.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Arabic street signs in Düsseldorf, Germany are pasted over.  (If you read German, read the story at Philosophia Perennis.)

From Polskie Radio, Poland detains a man accused of spying for Russia.

From Euractiv, the Czech Republic welcomes the deal between Germany and the E.U. that resolves a dispute over cars having combustion engines.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak police fine 365.bank €2 million for failing to check suspicious actions, which the bank wishes to contest in court.

From Hungary Today, Hungary needs more border guards.

From Russia Today, authorities in Volgograd, Russia launch a poll to see if its residents want to restore the city's former name of "Stalingrad".

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia will again seek to have its former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from Hungary.

From ReMix, according to French right-wing politician Éric Zemmour, France doesn't exist to take in Africa's demographic surplus.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Point.)

From The North Africa Post, supporters of the Tunisian National Salvation Front start a sit-in at the headquarters of the Al-Irada party in the capital city of Tunis.

From The New Arab, earthquake-stricken northwestern Syria faces "dark days ahead".

From Gatestone Institute, what being "pro-Palestinian" really means.

From The Stream, U.S. President Biden pushes a "pariah" into the arms of the aforementioned Russian President Putin.

From The Daily Signal, six charts show why the U.S. federal government needs to cut spending ASAP.

From The American Conservative, how Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood peddles aforementioned adult material in schools in red states.

From The Western Journal, liberals can't believe that a new photo of Trump is real.  (But then, some conservatives aren't sure that a photo of Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) really shows the man himself.)

From BizPac Review, Cracker Barrel become the latest business to get out of Portland, Oregon.

From The Daily Wire, more on the shooting at a Christian school in Nashville.

From the Daily Caller, First Citizens BancShares agrees to buy the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank.

From the New York Post, after being on the market for almost a year, the price of Colonel Sander's home in Kentucky has been reduced by almost half.

From Breitbart, about 5,000 Slovenian farmers protest against the E.U.'s green agenda.

From Newsmax, Disney starts laying off 7,000 workers in order to become more "streamlined".

And from The Babylon Bee, doctors report an alarming increase in testicular injuries among female athletes.

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UPDATE:  According to Sky News, the Nashville school shooter, who was killed by police officers, had a manifesto, and was a transwoman and a former student at the school.  (H/T Holger Awakens for bringing this article to my attention.)

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