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.)

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