Sunday, April 30, 2023

Rainday Links For The End Of April

On a rainy Sunday falling on April 30th, here are some things going on:

From National Review, current CIA Director William Burns reportedly met with the late Jeffrey Epstein three times.

From Townhall, some males do not deserve to be called "men".

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the Chinese reading classics from ancient Greece.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. military deals with an infection of the DEI virus.

From American Thinker, former President Obama and his friends are perfect examples of elitist Democrats.

From NewsBusters, according to MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, cross-examining the woman accusing former President Trump of rape is a "disservice".  (What is this "right to cross-examine witnesses" you speak of?)

From Canada Free Press, the ASPCA gets exposed.

From TeleSUR, Paraguayans turn out to vote.

From TCW Defending Freedom, believe it or not, there's an honest debate on race.

From EuroNews, Poland strengthens its border with Russia to keep migrants out.

From The New Arab, pro-Iran militias are reportedly preventing the repatriation of Iraqi civilians from the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria.

From the Business Recorder, Qatar spends lots of money trying to beat its post-World Cup blues.

From OpIndia, Bollywood actor Salman Khan tells actresses on his movie sets to keep their necklines high.

From Gatestone Institute, the culture war in Iran.

From The Stream, some Republicans offer a "third way" on abortion, which amounts to being pro-grift.

From The Daily Signal, did contraception and the digital world help bring about transgenderism?

From The Western Journal, more on people meeting with the late Jeffrey Epstein.

From BizPac Review, a 12-year-old student in Middleborough, Massachusetts defends his right to wear a T-shirt saying "there are only two genders" before his school board.

From The Daily Wire, according to Senator Chris Coons (D-Con), Vice President Harris is "ready to be president".  (I'd say that if our current president is any example, Senator Coons might be right.)

From the Daily Caller, a child gender clinic trained teachers to help elementary school students to transition.

From the New York Post, race agitator Al Sharpton warns McDonald's to address alleged racial discrimination.  (Has Sharpton ever paid his delinquent taxes?)

From Breitbart, according to a Texas sheriff, the Mexican citizen who allegedly killed five of his neighbors has already been deported three times.

From Newsmax, according to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), is "gambling" with the American economy.

And from Sky News, a special documentary on the upcoming coronation of the U.K.'s King Charles III.

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Saturday Stuff

On a cool cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) has been underestimated.  (Or as President Bush the Younger might say, McCarthy was "misunderestimated".)

From Townhall, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) claims that President Biden's legal team is intimidating possible witnesses against his son Hunter.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas donated to Yale Law School seems to have disappeared.

From the Washington Examiner, "why does the left hate success?"  (Perhaps the question should be about how the left defines "success".)

From American Thinker, fake female Dylan Mulvaney shows of his totalitarian side.

From LifeZette, Trump's presidency showed that conservative values work.

From NewsBusters, a movie about eco-terrorists bombs at the box office.

From Canada Free Press, is the U.S. really out of control?

From TCW Defending Freedom, contrary to the Chief Twit's concerns, computers will never outsmart humans.

From Snouts in the Trough, a look at South Africa after apartheid.

From EuroNews, Russia blames Ukrainian drones for a massive fire at an oil depot in Crimea.

From The North Africa Post, a leader of the group Polisario is caught red-handed diverting a fuel truck from one of the Tindouf camps.

From The New Arab, protesters in Lebanon and Syria denounce the former's expulsion of refugees from the latter.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a 9th-grade student in Valence, France declares that he is planning an attack.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From Gatestone Institute, thousands of political prisoners, including media workers, languish in Turkish jails.

From The Stream, should Christians accommodate requests from LGBT people?

From The American Conservative, release the Nashville, Tennessee school shooter's manifesto.

From The Western Journal, according to the founder of TWJ, the real reason why Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox News is far more sinister than anything suspected.

From BizPac Review, a fact-checker hammers Biden's "highly misleading" claim about the federal deficit.

From The Daily Wire, the man who claimed to be "the science" wants all of the credit and none of the blame.

From the Daily Caller, a California school district approves courses accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "war crimes".  (Ironically, the ancestors of the Jews were ethnically cleansed from their homeland not once, not twice, but at least three times.)

From Breitbart, gun control advocate Shannon Watts wrongly claims that no background check is required for people to purchase long guns in Texas.

From Fox News, a Mexican citizen is suspected of killing five of his neighbors in San Jacinto County, Texas after one of them asked him to stop firing his rifle.  (This seems to the latest in a series of shootings in which the shooter appeared to have overreacted to a perceived provocation.  Others include an 84-year-old man who allegedly shot a teenager who mistakenly knocked on his door, and a man who shot a six-year-old girl and her parents when a ball rolled into his yard.  The story comes via Breitbart.)

From Newsmax, according to Trump campaign spokeswoman Liz Harrington, he "will win any debate", but admits that the system is rigged against him.

And from the New York Post, Ken Jennings defeats his Jeopardy! co-host Mayim Bialik on Wheel of Fortune.

Friday, April 28, 2023

Friday Phenomena

On a cool rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, OK, so now we're noticing that President Biden has a light schedule.

From FrontpageMag, transgender days of violence.

From Townhall, has Fox News finally blown it?

From The Washington Free Beacon, no, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten was not fighting to open schools during the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenas federal agencies over alleged censorship coordination.

From The Federalist, eight ways in which the government shielded then-candidate Biden from his son Hunter's "laptop from hell".

From American Thinker, how conservatives got the indictment of former President Trump backwards.

From MRCTV, Oregon might force insurers to cover hair removal service for transwomen, while real women will still have to pay for such services out of pocket.

From LifeZette, five reasons why Democrats are rightfully worried about Biden.

From NewsBusters, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood performed over 374,000 abortions last year and received a record amount of taxpayer money.

From Canada Free Press, freedom of the press is still alive in the shadow of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's bill C-11.

From TeleSUR, the Colombian government denies reestablishing a ceasefire with the paramilitary group Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the climate fearmongers want to tell us what to buy.

From EuroNews, climate activists in France fake an oil pipeline.

From Euractiv, the E.U.'s new migration and asylum pact has a missing piece.

From ReMix, Poland is running out of ammunition to supply Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, the Montenegrin government ignores the civilian victims of a NATO airstrike in 1999 in the village of Murino.

From The North Africa Post, two Moroccan cyclists mysteriously disappear in Burkina Faso while on their way to Niger.

From The New Arab, Palestinian-American Noor Haj-Tamim is one of the youngest female private astronaut candidates in the U.S.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian authorities arrest activists who call for a new political system.

From IranWire, an Iranian of Baluch ethnicity is hours away from a possible execution.

From Iran International, Iran ranks as the second worst country in the world for detaining writers.

From Khaama Press, Afghanistan's foreign ministry refuses to comply with a demand by the U.N. Security Council to lift restrictions on women.

From Hasht e Subh, two more Afghan women commit suicide.

From Dawn, Pakistani security forces in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa send seven terrorists to their virgins.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's governing coalition and the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf resume talks to establish a date for the next election.

From Pakistan Today, former Pakistani Prime Minister and current Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan accuses the government of a "brazen display of state oppression".

From The Hans India, 17 more people from the Indian state of Telangana return from Sudan.

From the Hindustan Times, a cheetah imported from Namibia strays out of India's Kuno National Park - again.

From ANI, an IED that killed 10 military reservists and their civilian driver on a road in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh had been planted through a "foxhole mechanism".

From India Today, Assam Rifles personnel rescue six civilians who were kidnapped by NSCN cadres.  (The Assam Rifles is a paramilitary police force responsible for border security and maintaining law and order in northeastern India, which includes the state of Assam.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, electricity production is interrupted at a coal-fired power plant in Bagerhat, Bangladesh.

From New Age, Bangladeshi police arrest four members of the Myanmar-based insurgent group Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army in the city of Cox's Bazar.

From Gatestone Institute, how the West is helping to train the Chinese military.

From The Stream, the source of the danger coming from artificial intelligence is in the mirror.

From The Daily Signal, how to fight Biden's crusade to put transgender males into female sports, from your own home.

From The American Conservative, learning the wrong lessons from the fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

From The Western Journal, an admission that Biden makes to a young child confirms what we've been thinking about him.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld refuses demands to use "correct pronoun".

From The Daily Wire, according to Gutfield, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has some serious figurative male equipment.

From the Daily Caller, Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito claims to have a "pretty good idea" about who leaked the draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson.

From the New York Post, Iranian state television releases footage of its helicopter-borne commandos seizing control of an oil tanker bound for Houston.

From Breitbart, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) calls for the FBI to investigate the whereabouts of 85,000 migrant children of whom the Department of Health and Human Services has lost track.

From Newsmax, fake female Dylan Mulvaney breaks his silence on social media.

And from the Genesius Times, the NFL tries to promote "diversity and inclusion" by announces "Baptist Pride" jerseys.  (Silly NFL.  Don't they know that Baptists and other Christians regard pride as a sin?)

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, according to a lawsuit, the FBI and DOJ failed to turn over documents related to their investigation of Catholics.

From FrontpageMag, the left flips and decides that corporation are people - if they're woke.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, now that he has been struck down, will become more powerful than we can imagine.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California businesses are still paying for fraudulent claims made on their state's unemployment insurance fund, when current U.S. labor secretary nominee Julie Su was the state's labor secretary.

From the Washington Examiner, five things to know about the bill to raise the debt ceiling passed by the House.

From The Federalist, Indiana records show that two babies were born alive after chemical abortions and three women died after having abortions.

From American Thinker, Nashville Christian School lives up to its principles and repels an LGBTQ operative.

From MRCTV, a record number of high schools students "identify" as gay, bisexual, or "questioning".

From LifeZette, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm wants the military to have an all-electric fleet of vehicles.

From NewsBusters, part 20 of the "Twitter Files" reveals a "cartel-style" collusion between government and civil society.

From Canada Free Press, what sort of team releases its star player?

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte declares a state of emergency at Peru's borders.

From TCW Defending Freedom, science isn't consensus and consensus isn't science.

From Snouts in the Trough, why the U.K.'s health care regulator no longer regulates.

From Gatestone Institute, what's with all this Chinese Communist Party activity in the U.S.?

From The Stream, men have a role in the abortion debate.

From The Daily Signal, the FBI investigates climate activists who allegedly defaced the protective box around the Degas sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.

From The American Conservative, an interview with right-wing commentator Michael Knowles.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Tucker Carlson is being sued by a woman who has never met him.

From BizPac Review, why has the media gone Sgt. Schultz about the mass shooting at a birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama?

From The Daily Wire, a transgender Minnesota state lawmaker wanted to remove an anti-pedophile clause from the state's human rights law.

From the Daily Caller, the House rejects congresscritter Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) resolution to remove U.S. military personnel from Somalia.

From Breitbart, Mexican immigration agents watch migrants cross the Rio Grande and enter Texas and thus the U.S.

From NewsMax, environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets about one fifth of the votes in a poll about the Democratic presidential candidates.

And from the New York Post, the late singer Michael Jackson was reportedly desperate to change his "weirdo narrative".

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, as show by its 2022 report, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood received more taxpayer funding and fewer health services.

From FrontpageMag, left-wing fascists vandalize the home of Utah state Senator Mike Kennedy (R).

From Townhall, another crisis looms for President Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration taps Ford's main electric vehicle lobbyist to become an Energy Department advisor.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a survey, most Americans think that the scandal involving First Son Hunter Biden is serious, but won't prompt an impeachment of his father Joe.  (In order to justify an impeachment, there would have to be some kind of wrongdoing by the president himself, not just by his son.)

From The Federalist, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) corroborates a whistleblower claim that the FBI falsely labeled evidence against Hunter Biden "Russian disinformation".

From American Thinker, Christians are victims who "must never be named".

From MRCTV, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas calls feminists who want to protect women's sports "transphobes".  (CNS News is being merged with MRCTV, so it looks like MRCTV will replace CNS News on my list of sources.)

From Fox News, Florida legislators make a path for Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to run for president while staying on at his current job.  (I don't recall Mr. Bill (D-Ark) or Dubya (R-TX) having any such problem.  The story comes via LifeZette.)

From NewsBusters, according to a study, all of The Late Night Show host James Corden's partisan guests were Democrats.

From Canada Free Press, we're marching toward a Darwinian dystopia.

From TeleSUR, the U.N. Security Council discusses the security crisis in Haiti.

From TCW Defending Freedom, bring out the fake meats and more vaccines to appease the biotechnology monster.

From EuroNews, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claims that the E.U. "is becoming militarized at a record rate".

From Euractiv, President Xi Jinping (China) talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine) for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.

From ReMix, the Lithuanian parliament passes a law allowing authorities to push illegal migrants back over the border in case of an emergency.

From Balkan Insight, mixed marriages remain a challenge in Montenegro.

From Morocco World News, scientists find a fossilized sturgeon, believed to be about 66 million years old, at a site in Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, a Royal Air Maroc plane carrying 136 Moroccans back from Sudan lands at Casablanca Airport, followed by a second plane with 157 Moroccans on board.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a high-speed railway launched between the Turkish capital of Ankara and the province of Sivas.

From Turkish Minute, according to a former chairman of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, detention warrants for 128 activists, lawyers and journalists were made without any official charges.  (Diyarbakır is a Turkish province, the second "i" in "Diyarbakır" has no dot, and what is this "right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation" that you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, Turkish police arrest a parliamentary candidate at her house in Ä°stanbul for alleged links to the Kurdish Workers' Party.  (The capital "I" with a dot corresponds to the aforementioned small "i" without a dot.)

From Armenpress, according to the chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, free movement through the Lachin Corridor between Armenia and the Azerbaijani region of Artsakh should be restored.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, the 108th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is observed by the Swedish Riksdag, by Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, and by the Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijan and Romania will conduct joint research on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's Justice Ministry will hold a conference over the issue of a park literally going to the dogs.

From The Syrian Observer, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Ã‡avuÅŸoÄŸlu, the presidents of Turkey and Syria might meet in May.

From North Press Agency, Syrian government troops shell areas held by Turkish-backed opposition forces near the cities of Idlib and Aleppo.

From Arutz Sheva, about 25,000 people celebrate Israel's Independence Day in the region of Binyamin.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli Air Force celebrates Israel's Independence Day.

From The Jerusalem Post, how Independence Day barbecues became an Israeli national symbol.

From YNetNews, in a speech, Israeli President Isaac Herzog tells foreign diplomats that democracy "must be defended".

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian journalist Bassem Youssef slams the Netflix show Queen Cleopatra.

From Egypt Today, Egypt evacuates 2,679 of its citizens from Sudan.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government welcomes the E.U.'s decision to normalize relations with Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia evacuates 1,687 people from Sudan, including people from 58 other countries.

From DohaNews, Sudanese expatriates in Qatar hope that their families in Sudan can be safely evacuated.

From The New Arab, Jordan's ambassador to Israel visits a Jordanian legislator detained in Israel for allegedly smuggling weapons.

From CNN, Sudanese fighters seize a biolab in the capital city of Khartoum.

From Devdiscourse, a man allegedly burns his wife alive in an honor killing, and a woman is allegedly raped and then attacked with acid, both in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

From Gatestone Institute, the iron harvest and oligarchs of Ukraine.

From The Stream, some career advice for former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, from the canceled.

From The Daily Signal, a bill being considered by the Louisiana state legislature would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms from grades K through 12.

From The American Conservative, "a tale of two Earth Days".

From The Western Journal, former President Trump releases a scathing statement about Biden and his time in office.

From BizPac Review, former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) begs the aforementioned Tucker Carlson to break his contractual ties with Fox News to remain silent.

From The Daily Wire, trans activists protest against the Federalist Society at Stanford University, blaming the group for the suicide of a trans person, but the trans person was a member of the group.

From the Daily Caller, the director of the BATFE admits not knowing much about guns.

From the New York Post, Biden claims to be "not concerned about China", and is quickly slammed by Republicans.

From Breitbart, Tucker Carlson was reportedly "blindsided" by his firing from Fox News, but is now enjoying time with his family in Florida.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA), the House might vote on a debt ceiling increase today.

From the HuffPost, a German court rules that nudity from a landlord does not justify a decrease in rent.

And from Sky News, believe it or not, walking a dog on a leash can be hazardous to your health.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, according to polls, Americans don't want President Biden to run for reelection.

From FrontpageMag, the racist double standard under which some shootings matter but others don't.

From Townhall, Biden's new "green" rule for power plants that produce carbon dioxide is probably illegal.  (I wonder if these power plants will have to obey any such rule.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden will be endorsed by his former boss, who once warned about his ability to [bleep] things up.

From the Washington Examiner, why did scientific journals help China censor the truth about the coronavirus.

From The Federalist, trans activists interrupt a session of the Montana House of Representatives.

From American Thinker, another reason for the coronavirus lockdown craze.

From LifeZette, according to congresscritter Andy Biggs (R-AZ), police agencies are buying data about Americans in a circumvention of the 4th Amendment.  (This article appears to be original to LifeZette, and would thus be the first one in quite a while.)

From NewsBusters, late night shows make 16 times as many jokes about Tucker Carlson's parting ways with Fox News as they do about Don Lemon's firing from CNN.

From Canada Free Press, there is something that could be worse than Biden being reelected.

From TeleSUR, in the Canape-Vert neighborhood of the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haitians take the law into their own hands.

From TCW Defending Freedom, on coronation day, one writer will toast the crown, but not the man wearing it.

From Snouts in the Trough, the German people get their lederhosen in a twist.

From Euractiv, several German energy company join up for a plan to bring hydrogen from the seashore to inland industrial centers.

From the Greek Reporter, ancient Greek history is showcased at three museums on the island of Crete.

From Ekathimerini, a Greek Air Force C-27 transport plane flies out of Aswan, Egypt to Djibouti to pick up Greek citizens evacuated from Sudan.

From the Greek City Times, a man in Volos, Greece is sentenced to three years in prison for beating his daughter after she converted to Islam.  (If you read Greek, read the story at Gegonota.)

From ReMix, thousands of Bulgarians demonstrate in the capital of Sofia to call for Bulgaria to be neutral in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, over 1,000 Albanians have been returned from the U.K. since the two countries signed an agreement to combat illegal immigration.

From Total Croatia News, Zagreb, Croatia pays homage to the British musician John Lennon in the form of an opera written by a former Croatian prime minister.

From The Slovenia Times, several thousand farmers stage a second tractor rally in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

From The Malta Independent, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg, no Maltese citizens in Sudan have requested evacuation.

From Malta Today, domestic violence cases in Malta rose almost 13 percent from 2020 to 2021.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni writes an open letter on the occasion of Liberation Day.  (Liberation Day commemorates the Italian resistance movement's victory over Nazi Germany and Italy's fascist regime.)

From SwissInfo, Swiss embassy staff and their families are evacuated from Sudan and arrive in Switzerland.

From Free West Media, instead of sending its weapons to Ukraine, Switzerland destroys them.  (This is the first story published in FWM in three weeks.)

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron avoids crowds while visiting eastern France.

From RFI, Comoros refuses to accept migrants from the French department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.

From El País, the Spanish NGO Open Arms saves 47 migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese naval ships monitor and accompany a group of Russian ships along the Portuguese coast.

From EuroNews, the E.U. launches a platform to pool natural gas in an attempt to lower its prices.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan Ambassador to the U.K. Hakim Hajoui wins the "MENA Diplomat of the Year 2023" award.

From The New Arab, as a 72-hour ceasefire largely holds in Khartoum, Sudan, evacuations of foreigners are stepped up.

From BBC News, Iran formed a secret committee to punish celebrities who support the current anti-government protests.

From Gatestone Institute, the real human rights violations against the Palestinians.

From The Stream, who should apologize, the police in Seattle or their critics?

From The Daily Signal, a Christian college becomes a bastion of censorship led by students.

From The American Conservative, the parting of ways between right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson and Fox News sends shockwaves from Washington, D.C. to Hungary.

From The Western Journal, Carlson has his own theory as to why he and Fox News parted ways.

From BizPac Review, Don Lemon, recently fired from CNN, plots his next move.

From The Daily Wire, the platform Twitter is flooded with stories about Carlson's kindness as he leaves Fox News.

From the Daily Caller, Villanova University decides against having "two-spirit" and "gender fluid" options for its student housing.

From the New York Post, a mass grave of deceased mercenaries from Russia's Wagner mercenary group is discovered in Siberia.  (If you read Russian, read the story at Sibir Realii.)

From Breitbart, another reason to oppose President Biden's reelection is his use of the IRS against you.

From Newsmax, Biden once ran a senatorial campaign attacking his opponent's age.

And from Fox News, award-winning actor and singer Harry Belafonte dies of congestive heart failure at age 96.

Monday, April 24, 2023

More Monday Mania

On "just another manic Monday" which is cool and cloudy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News.

From FrontpageMag, why the portrayal of Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen of Greek descent, by a black actress matters.

From Townhall, even Democrats are getting tired of President Biden's debt ceiling games.

From The Washington Free Beacon, and speaking of hosts leaving their networks, CNN fires host Don Lemon.

From the Washington Examiner, domestic policy advisor Susan Price leaves the Biden White House.

From The Federalist, what other false allegations of "Russian disinformation" were done to help Biden win the 2020 presidential election?

From American Thinker, ESPN and the Democrats throw real female athletes under the bus.

From Fox News, the former Louisville, Kentucky police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor finds another job as a police officer.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, more on Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon parting ways with their respective bosses.

From Canada Free Press, according to liberal logic, if someone steals a car, the car instead of the thief is to blame.

From TeleSUR, the Lower House of Bolivia's legislature passes a bill to authorize the country's central bank to buy gold from local producers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, corrupt U.K. parliamentcritters merely reflect the world they live in.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s useless government has just written the country's suicide note.  (The article's date is two days ago, but it is intended for yesterday and today, and I might have missed it, so once again I'll let it slide.)

From Polskie Radio, according to the leader of Poland's governing Law and Justice Party, the country must build a "victorious army".

From Euractiv, treatments for multiple myeloma in Poland are becoming more effective.

From Radio Prague, two Czech citizens are evacuated from Sudan and arrive in Berlin.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak island of Žitný Ostrov, the largest river island in Europe, is endangered by drought.

From Daily News Hungary, the Northern Lights are seen over Hungary.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian special forces help evacuate people from Sudan.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian europarliamentcritter Balázs Hidvéghi, the European Parliament keeps pushing failed impractical ideas and is prolonging the migration crisis.

From Russia Today, when Russian authorities demand "your papers, please", they will accept documents with gender changes.

From Sputnik International, according to Iranian political analyst Emad Abshenass, the U.S. refusal to issue visas to Russian journalists is a "blatant violation of all international norms".

From The Moscow Times, according to the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, its soldiers will no longer take prisoners.

From Romania-Insider, the bankrupt Romanian steel mill Dan Steel Group Beclean will attempt to sell its assets for €25.9 million.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Adevarul.)

From Novinite, 31 Bulgarians in Sudan wish to get out of there.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria's foreign ministry does not appreciate comments on its domestic politics from Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian party ITN fails to collect enough signatures to initiate a referendum on transforming Bulgaria into a presidential republic.

From EuroNews, European countries evacuate their diplomats from Sudan.

From ReMix, the Austrian "anti-immigration" FPÖ continues to have electoral victories.  (The term "anti-immigration" probably means wanting immigration to be controlled by your country's government and it being limited to a finite amount of immigrants and refugees, instead of your country being forced into accepting anyone wanting to enter regardless of numbers and lack of documentation or vetting.)

From The North Africa Post, according to the World Bank, Morocco needs to invest $2.6 billion annually in order to decarbonize.  (How much carbon dioxide does Morocco emit?)

From The New Arab, who's being left behind as foreigners leave Sudan?

From DohaNews, the world's first sharia-compliant cryptocurrency is set to be launched in May.  (I'll have to try adding DohaNews, which comes from Qatar and its capital city, to my list of sources.  Unfortunately, Gulf News, which I recently added, started putting everything behind a subscription requirement, so I had to substract it from my list.)

From OpIndia, a Muslim college student in the Indian state of Karnataka chooses education over the hijab, while Islamists claim that she was harassed for wearing one.

From Spectrum News, a Palestinian driver rams his car into pedestrians near a market in Jerusalem, injuring five people.

From Gatestone Institute, two illiterate school employees with blasphemy after pages from the Koran are found among rubbish they burned after cleaning a store room.

From The Stream, a match, or at least a mismatch, between the sexes.

From The Daily Signal, the Department of Justice appears to minimize the left-wing role in pro-abortion violence ahead of a "night of rage" when Roe v. Wade was overturned.

From The American Conservative, journalistic integrity gets bombed.

From The Western Journal, more on the departure of Susan Rice from the Biden White House.

From BizPac Review, a second Bud Lite executive takes a leave of absence.

From The Daily Wire, First Son Hunter Biden is reportedly staying at the White House to avoid lawyers representing his baby mama.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) will introduce legislation to have service members paid if there is a government shutdown.

From the New York Post, a Connecticut man who fought in Ukraine lied about being a U.S. war hero, even to his wife who then dumped him.

From Breitbart, according to a report, homebuyers in blue states are trying to move to red states.

From Newsmax, former President Trump gives his $0.02 on Don Lemon's firing.

And from The Babylon Bee, the aforementioned Tucker Carlson finds a new role as a host on The View.

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Sunday Stories

On a cool cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a story for Earth Day.

From Townhall, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is finally taking action against California's fentanyl crisis.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book alleging that U.S. intelligence has fallen apart.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden wants responsible homeowners subsidize deadbeats.

From American Thinker, in a sense, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and congresscritter Rosa DeLauro (D-Con) are right about female crash test dummies.

From NewsBusters, ABC admits that most Americans are uneasy with an 81-year-old president.

From Canada Free Press, a Canadian woman fells like a stranger in her own country.

From EuroNews, the U.K.'s Labour Party suspends parliamentcritter Diane Abbott over a letter she wrote about racism.

From The North Africa Post, according to a study, Chinese firms in Africa do not underpay their workers.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese army accuses a rival paramilitary group of attacking foreign convoys attempting to evacuate from Sudan.

From Gatestone Institute, "issues of concern".

From The Stream, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to defend abortion and fails.

From The Daily Signal, lawlessness is promoted in Chicago.

From The Western Journal, the beer company Anheuser-Busch is hit with a civil rights complaint.

From The Daily Wire, Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) projects confidence ahead of a vote on the debt ceiling.

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, over two thirds of Republicans say that the investigations of former President Trump.

From the New York Post, Ukrainian forces establish a foothold on the east side of the Dnipro River, which leads to speculation of a spring offensive.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Biden trails a generic Republic by 6 points.

From Newsmax, after the coronavirus pandemic, young people are becoming more religious.

And from BizPac Review, cattle in Madison County, Texas are found dead with the tongues removed and without any spilled blood.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Saturday Links

On a rainy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) settle their differences, for the time being.

From Townhall, The Wall Street Journal has some advice for President Biden.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, the federal case against First Son Hunter Biden just got more interesting.

From American Thinker, how the Chinese government controls Chinese people outside of China, including in the U.S.

From NewsBusters, decades of left-wing media hysteria about Fox News.

From Canada Free Press, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spends $20 million of taxpayer money for female crash test dummies.  (Who's the real dummy here?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, parliamentcritter Dominic Raab is not a bully but exactly the kind of person that the U.K. needs in public life.

From EuroNews, after being in office for six months, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni "collides with reality".

From The North Africa Post, on the occasion of Eid Al Fitr, Moroccan King Mohammed VI pardons 1,518 convicts.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese army agrees to allow foreigners to leave Sudan.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration is still trying to negotiate a "deal" with Iran.

From The Stream, when it comes to Iran, "what's past is prologue".

From The American Conservative, "the castle crumbles".

From The Western Journal, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is blasted on social media after posting a photo of himself holding a flag that encourages marijuana use.

From BizPac Review, Bud Light confirms that the vice president for marketing behind the ad campaign useing fake female Dylan Mulvaney has been given a "leave of absence".  (The article links to a story in AdAge, which requires a subscription in order to access.)

From The Daily Wire, the aforementioned Hunter Biden's lawyers reportedly plan to meet with federal prosecutors.

From the Daily Caller, everything that the Los Angeles Times got wrong in their "hit piece" about the Daily Caller.

From Breitbart, reckless human smuggling continues in Kinney County, Texas.

From Newsmax, in his dissent on the case involving the abortion drug mifepristone, Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito express doubts that the White House would obey a ruling with which is disagreed.

And from the New York Post, a 4-month-old puppy survives a 30-mile ride in a car's engine compartment.

Friday, April 21, 2023

Friday Fuss

On a mostly sunny and warm Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, has the Overton window shifted on the issue of abortion?

From FrontpageMag, an explanation of the boycott against Bud Lite beer.

From Townhall, some of his fellow Democrats tell President Biden to negotiate with Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) over the debt ceiling.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the paradoxes of the politics of abortion after the end of Roe v. Wade.

From the Washington Examiner, the delusion of left-wing diversity politics.

From The Federalist, according to a whistleblower, the Biden administration is the investigation of First Son Hunter Biden's taxes.

From American Thinker, hey you Libertarians, are you happy with what you helped bring about?

From Fox News, according to a poll, only about half of Democrats want Biden to run for reelection.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the Meta Oversight Board calls out the company's government censorship collusion, but calls for more censorship.

From Canada Free Press, who is really the commander-in-chief in Ukraine?

From CBC News, according to the CEO of Volkswagen, the company's electric vehicle plant planned for St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada could become the world's largest.

From Global News, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada starts its spring cleaning.

From CTV News, a strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada leaves 700 Canadian military personnel at a base in Petawawa, Ontario without heat or hot water.

From TeleSUR, ash from the volcano Sangay falls on three provinces in Ecuador.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the "independent" committee pushing Net Zero.

From Snouts in the Trough, the tricks used by disingenuous climate catastrophists.

From the Express, U.K. parliamentcritter Dominic Raab rips the activists and civil servants wanting to bring him down.

From the Evening Standard, the group Extinction Rebellion starts a 4-day protest.  (As far as I can tell from the article, no part of their protest will be anywhere near the Chinese embassy.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, Queen Consort Camilla's coat of arms is updated ahead of her husband King Charles's coronation.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish gardaí urge the public to not share pictures of a deceased man found on a beach in Dublin.  (In Ireland, one police officer is a garda and two or more are gardaí.)

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the development of offshore bird chippers should be led by the government instead of by developers.  (The term "bird chopper" is mine, not his.)

From VRT NWS, beekeepers in the Belgium commune of Flanders sound the alarm on mass deaths of bees.

From The Brussels Times, when driving in Belgium, don't speed.

From the NL Times, driving a gasoline-powered car in the Netherlands is gonna cost ya a little more, pilgrim.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at Het Parool.)

From Dutch News, international students in the Netherlands might be required to learn Dutch.

From Deutsche Welle, strikes impact Germany's rail network and five of its airports.

From the CPH Post, a man sets himself on fire in front of the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark.  (If you read Danish, read the story at TV2.)

From EuroNews, the Sámi people of northern Europe take their fight for improved rights to the U.N.

From Euractiv, yes, some people are getting "Ukraine fatigue".

From ReMix, two migrants allegedly steal suitcases from a car in Lyon, France, which belong to a girl scheduled to undergo treatment for cancer.

From Balkan Insight, the Serbian Museum of Genocide Victims finds a list of 5,800 Serbian children rescued from Croatian camps during World War II.

From The North Africa Post, a Zambian parliamentary delegation visits Laayoune, Morocco.

From The New Arab, Lebanon reportedly expels more than 50 Syrians.

From Gatestone Institute, the Christian asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq abandoned in Turkey.

From The Stream, hope is stronger than fentanyl.

From The Daily Signal, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Biden administration has made Mexican drug cartels "very wealthy".

From The American Conservative, conservatives are at a crossroads.

From The Western Journal, Biden uses an executive order to create a new federal agency.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Rosa DeLauro (D-Con) pursues safety test equity by calling for the funding of female crash test dummies.  (In doing so, she shows the reason why I call them congresscritters instead of congressmen and congresswomen.)

From The Daily Wire, according to election officials, there are 18,990 dead people registered to vote in Virginia.  (This could possibly include my own late parents.)

From the Daily Caller, former congresscritter David Trott (R-MI) has a beef with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).

From the New York Post, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reportedly "refused" to be interviewed by CNN host Don Lemon.

From Breitbart, congressional Democrats led by delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) falsely allege that "Twitter Files" witness Matt Taibbi committed perjury.

From Newsmax, the Pentagon has deployed forces and is developing options for evacuating U.S. embassy personnel in Sudan, but has no plans for withdrawing all Americans in that country.

From CNN, "oops, I missed", said the Russian bomber pilot.

And from Sky News, when and where to watch the Lyrid meteor shower this weekend.  (You could say that for this article, Sky News is literally living up to its name.)

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Thursday Things

On a sunny and very warm Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a female high school volleyball players testifies about the physical and mental trauma she has suffered since being injured by a male transgender athlete.

From FrontpageMag, the Dalai Lama is not the first religious leader to be involved in tongue-sucking.

From Townhall, as we fight to keep our gas stoves, don't forget that the left wants to take away our meat, too.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden pledges $1 billion to a U.N. climate fund that funnels money to the world's biggest carbon dioxide producer.

From the Washington Examiner, the number of Democrat congresscritters who believe that women should have a league of their own is zero.

From The Federalist, the Chinese Communist Party censors climate discourse on TikTok.  (What don't they want people to learn?)

From American Thinker, Biden lied when the said that anyone earning less than $400,000 won't see any tax increase.

From CNS News, according to some Republican female congresscritters, the need to protect female athletes shows how "stark raving mad" the left has become.

From NewsBusters, TV host Jimmy Fallon fawns over former First Lady Michelle Obama.

From Canada Free Press, is former President Trump correct in calling the 2024 election a "moment of divergence"?

From TeleSUR, Paraguay plans to hold general elections on April 30th.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the perverted billionaires behind the transgender agenda.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants more military aid.

From Euractiv, the western Balkan countries see a boom in solar energy investment, but their grids aren't prepared for the resulting energy feeds.

From Balkan Insight, farmers in the Bosnian region of Republika Srpska await grants to buy Hungarian machinery.

From The North Africa Post, former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki warns that Algeria is interfering in Tunisia's internal affairs.

From The New Arab, over 2.5 million people attend a recitation of the entire Koran at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, how some Americans support anti-Israel terrorism.

From The Stream, neither worshipping abortion or linking feminism to Satan are new.

From The Daily Signal, even left-wing lawyers who hate Trump are trashing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's indictment against him.

From The American Conservative, today's left-wing ideals allow no room for self-government, constitutionalism, or federalism.

From The Western Journal, Biden has a hard time spelling a number.

From BizPac Review, left-wingers turn on actress Cheryl Hines for supporting the presidential candidacy of her husband Robert Kennedy Jr. (D).

From The Daily Wire, according to congresscritter Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the issue of men in women's sports doesn't exist.  (I guess that he didn't get to listen to the aforementioned female high school volleyball player.)

From ABC News, actor Alec Baldwin apparently gets to skate.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, Republican congresscritters and Senators call on Biden and his administration to stop sending "unrestrained" aid to Ukraine.

From the New York Post, according to his grandson, the 84-year-old white man who shot a black teenager has racist views.

From Breitbart, left-wing reporter Dell Cameron of Wired gets banned from Twitter for soliciting hacked material.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), "the oldest man in Washington, D.C.", referring to Biden, "is acting like an absolute petulant child".  (By calling Biden the "oldest man in D.C.", Reschenthaler is incorrect.  For example, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are all even older than Biden, as are congresscritters Danny Davis (D-IL), Hal Rogers (R-KY), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and John Carter (R-TX).  There are also a few female Senators and congresscritters even older than Biden, but since Reschenthaler said "man", I won't mention them.)

And from the Genesius Times, Biden admits being "lack toast and tolerant".