Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Wednesday Whatnot

On a mild sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Nashville school shooter's gun purchases could have been prevented, but were not.

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration wanted even to censor private text messages.

From Townhall, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) makes a chilling but true point about crime in Washington, D.C.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration wants to cut funding for the U.S. Navy as China continues to build up theirs.

From the Washington Examiner, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) reportedly avoids texting and emailing in his official functions.

From The Federalist, yes, there is voter suppression, but it's not taking place where some people claim.  (Full disclosure:  Mama and Papa Bigfoot both grew up in the Pennsylvania county where the reported voter suppression allegedly took place.)

From American Thinker, former President Trump is campaigning for 2024 as if it were 2016.

From CNS News, according to Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack, the U.S. has to be "very, very careful" about foreigners buying land near our defense facilities.

From Fox News, DNA obtained from a partially eaten burrito ties a doctoral student to the firebombing of a pro-life pregnancy center in Madison, Wisconsin.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CEO Seth Dillon of The Babylon Bee points out that Big Tech censorship protects a narrative, not the truth.

From Canada Free Press, the Canadian government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still oppressing the country's trucking industry.

From TeleSUR, due to outbreaks of avian flu, Namibia suspends importing poultry from Argentina and Chile.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Scottish National Party hammers another nail into its own coffin.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the Ukrainians doing the Russians a favor?

From EuroNews, why are so many Slovaks falling for propaganda on the Russian embassy's page on Facebook?

From Euractiv, the trade in she-don't-lie is expanding in Europe, especially in France.  (If you read French, you can also read the original French version of the article.)

From ReMix, the German party AfD launches a map tracking crime by migrants across Germany.

From Balkan Insight, the Bosnian canton of Sarajevo draws criticism by voting to shorten school classes during Ramadan.  (The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of two entities that constitute the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is divided into 10 cantons, one of which includes and is named for the country's capital of Sarajevo.)

From Morocco World News, a study calls for better police response to violence against women in Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. government tells the Algerian government that it wants support for the U.N. political process on the Sahara and regional stability.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan suggests that he will reshuffle his cabinet after the next election.

From Rûdaw, an oil company operating in the Iraqi region of Kurdistan starts shutting down its production after a pipeline going into Turkey is closed.

From Armenpress, the economy of the region of Nagorno Karabakh loses $1.9 million per day due to the Azerbaijani government's blockade.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijan officially opens its embassy in Israel.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus is third in the E.U. in its percentage of foreign-born citizens.

From The Syrian Observer, according to the leader of Syria's national army, Turkey may normalize its relations with Syria by dealing with the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

From Arutz Sheva, a copper fishing hook over 5,000 years old, believed to be the oldest ever found, is discovered in Ashkelon, Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, from this coming December and afterwards, visiting Egyptian archaeological sites is gonna cost ya a bit more, pilgrim.

From the Saudi Gazette, several areas in Saudi Arabia will be hit by heavy rain or sandstorms.

From The New Arab, an extremist Israeli group calls for animal sacrifices near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to observe Passover.  (The ancient Israelites routinely performed animal sacrifices in the Temple, whose location was near where the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock currently stand.)

From Gulf News, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in his capacity as ruler of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, decrees a restructuring of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian hardliners propose stronger measures to enforce Iran's law that requires women to wear hijabs.

From Khaama Press, according to a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, restrictions on women will delay Afghanistan's international relations.

From OpIndia, in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, noted atheist Richard Dawkins can't get himself to criticize Islamic terrorism.

From Gatestone Institute, why has the Biden administration opposed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's proposed judicial reforms?  (Why should the U.S. government have any say in how Israel reforms its judicial system?  Does Israel have a say in how the U.S. organizes its judicial system?)

From The Stream, do conservatives invariably oppose change?

From The Daily Signal, Spotsylvania County, Virginia removes 14 sexually explicit books from its school libraries and gives them to its public libraries.

From The American Conservative, the danger from artificial intelligence is not that it becomes like us, but that we become like it.

From The Western Journal, a detail about the Nashville shooter's gun is seen as it is spotted on video footage.

From BizPac Review, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly goes on a rant against calls to ban guns.

From The Daily Wire, the fashion house Kate Spade is slammed for promoting its 2023 women's spring line with self-proclaimed "girl" Dylan Mulvaney.

From the Daily Caller, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley weighs in on military intervention against the Mexican drug cartels.

From the New York Post, according to newly revealed documents, U.S. marshals were told to "not" arrest protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices "unless absolutely necessary".

From Breitbart, according to a LendingClub report, 44 percent of Americans are working a second job.

And from Newsmax, Ukraine warns its citizens about Russian air raids with the voice of Luke Skywalker.

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