Thursday, March 30, 2023

Thursday Tidings

On a sunny but cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) can spare us.

From FrontpageMag, the first two of the top ten lies of wokeism.

From Townhall, Tennessee Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Haggerty introduce a plan to protect schools and the people in them.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a huge surge of illegal immigration is happening at the border - the Canadian border.

From the Washington Examiner, a judge in Texas strikes down an aspect of Obamacare on its 13th anniversary.

From The Federalist, a bill banning another wave of "Zuckbucks" heads toward the desk of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA).

From American Thinker, for how much longer can Western government continue spitting on their citizens?

From CNS News, congresscritter Chris Smith (R-NJ) points out how Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party murder from 60,000 to 100,000 young people every year.

From Fox News, to protest policies allowing biological men to compete in women's weightlifting, a male coach "identifies" as a woman and breaks records held by another such person.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a guest on the MSNBC show Jose Diaz-Balart Reports claims that "hundreds of thousands" of people have been killed in school shootings.

From Canada Free Press, what is the solution to school shootings?

From TeleSUR, Mexican authorities identify eight people believed responsible for the fire at a migrant center in the city of Juarez.

From TCW Defending Freedom, old left-wingers never die, but some of them see through the "big lie".

From Snouts in the Trough, the "Great Reset" keeps going ahead and "there's no way to stop it".  (The article has yesterday's date, but as a "Thursday/Friday blog" appears to be intended for today and tomorrow.  I put quotes around "there's no way to stop it" even though the phrase does not appear in the article, because it's the title of a song from the stage version of The Sound Of Music.)

From EuroNews, a Russian man convicted in absentia for criticizing his country's war in Ukraine is arrested in Belarus.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Euractiv, according to the Council of Europe, physical abuse of migrants is common in Europe.

From ReMix, a people smuggler from Morocco established his own "kingdom" in Serbia which even issued its own fake passports.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Balk Magazin.)

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia agrees to donate its entire fleet of Soviet-made Mi-24 helicopters to Ukraine.

From The North Africa Post, France denies visas to Gabon's under-16 soccer team.

From The New Arab, over 100 migrants camping in front of the U.N.'s International Migrants Association building in Tunis, Tunisia demand to be taken to safer countries.

From Dawn, Pakistan starts outsourcing operations and assets at three of its major airports.

From India Today, violence breaks out at Ram Navami celebrations in the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Bengal.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government extends its deadline to register for the Hajj to April 5th.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lanka's attorney general, the country's Court of Appeal cannot order public servants to retire.

From Raajje, Oman will allow Maldivians to enter without a visa.

From The Straits Times, Singapore's Bird Paradise in Mandai Wildlife Reserve will open on May 8th, with discounted tickets until May 26th.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesian President Joko Widodo bemoans the "round the clock" traffic congestion in the capital city of Jakarta.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian Medical Association reminds a group of government doctors who are planning a strike to observe their Hippocratic oath.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam holds its first-ever baguette festival.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwanese surgeons successfully transplant a kidney into a three-year-old girl.

From The Korea Herald, the South Korean government plans to release a report on human rights abuses in North Korea.

From The Mainichi, a court in Osaka, Japan finalizes a ruling that grants refugee status to a Ugandan lesbian woman.

From Gatestone Institute, is Turkey bidding a belated farewell to its President Erdoğan?

From The Stream, how atheism would destroy everything that is human.

From The Daily Signal, according to congresscritter Mike Waltz (R-FL), the U.S. Defense Department has "drastically shifted off course".

From The American Conservative, the uniparty shows its hand on aid to Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, the "QAnon Shaman" is released from prison and will be sent to a halfway house in Phoenix, Arizona.

From BizPac Review, CNN goes into a tailspin while Fox News dominates the ratings.

From The Daily Wire, protesters storm the Tennessee Capitol building in Nashville to demand gun control.

From the Daily Caller, the Nashville shooter's manifesto will be released after the FBI reviews it.

From Breitbart, the Italian government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni backs legislation that would ban synthetic foods and lab-grown meat.

From Newsmax, the U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill intended to bolster domestic oil and gas production.

From Florida Politics, a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy clears a state House committee in Florida.  (via Newsmax)

And from the New York Post, musician Lionel Richie admits that he wrote part of his song Lady while sitting on his throne.

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