Monday, April 17, 2023

Monday Links

As the weather turns cooler on a Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, do any Republican presidential candidates see what former CIA Director/Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sees?

From FrontpageMag, President Biden claims to be writing a book.

From Townhall, why Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) is telling Biden that "enough is enough".

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Wally World pushed wokeness on Arkansas public schools.

From the Washington Examiner, when a city beset by crime votes for even more crime.

From The Federalist, how an incompetent election administration committed voter suppression in Harris County, Texas in the 2022 election.

From American Thinker, you can indict a ham sandwich, but can you convict one, even if it's former President Trump?

From CNS News, according to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the Pentagon leak made by a 21-year-old airman was "very damaging", and "some people need to be fired" because of it.

From Fox News, the U.S. agrees to help finance Poland's plan to develop small nuclear reactors.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the liberal news networks refuse to cover the lawlessness by teenagers in Chicago.

From Canada Free Press, is there a connection between Canada's economy and Chinese interference?

From TeleSUR, a Mexican rear admiral is detained in connection with the deaths of migrants in a migration center Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what a farce there has been over the golliwogs.

From Snouts in the Trough, if you want to see an activist, look for a narcissist.

From EuroNews, are wind droughts threatening the North Sea offshore bird chopper industry?  (The article appears to be concerned that global warming could cause wind speeds to drop.  Depending on what you read, allegedly manmade climate change can cause winds to become faster or slower.)

From Euractiv, the European Commission offers a sweetener to Poland after it become one of three countries to ban the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.

From ReMix, French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen criticizes the foreign policy of Italian right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

From Balkan Insight, teenagers attack two young Bosnian athletes in Bar, Montenegro.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco becomes the representative of the Arab Maghreb Union at the African Union.

From The New Arab, an attempt to explain why violence has erupted in Sudan.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian women and girls continue to defy their government's enforcement of hijab wearing.

From IranWire, officials at Iran's Ministry of Health report a "catastrophic" increase in illegal abortions.

From Iran International, according to Iranian parliamentcritter, Mostafa Reza Hosseini Ghotbabadi, President Ebrahim Raise should resign.

From Khaama Press, Taliban officials release 41 prisoners, including seven women, in the Afghani province of Ghor.

From Hasht e Subh, the Taliban's Ministry of Agriculture claims the record high yield of onions in Afghanistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, Kazakhstan will open a trade representation in Afghanistan.

From Dawn, a Chinese national arrested in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy is moved the city of Abbottabad by army helicopter.  (Where have I previously heard about Abbottabad?  And what is this "freedom of religion" you speak of?)

From VOA, more about the Chinese national accused of blasphemy in Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, Naila Kiani becomes the first Pakistani woman to reach the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal.  (Like anyone else who reaches the summit of a Himalayan mountain, she gets this blog's "badass" label.)

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's federal government files an application for an early hearing in the contempt of court case against former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

From The Hans India, according to Indian Culture and Tourism Minister G. Kishan Reddy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first-ever Global Buddhist Summit.

From the Hindustan Times, India nudges Russia to address their trade imbalance which has arisen from India buying discounted oil from Russia.

From ANI, the village of Aragam in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir is set to be converted into India's largest book village.

From India Today, India's Enforcement Directorate raids four places in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in order to bring down a gold smuggling operation.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh produces 15,604 megawatts of electricity, which is its highest-ever amount.

From New Age, Bangladeshi opposition leaders promise that their movements will become tougher.

From Gatestone Institute, what a Palestinian terrorist learned from his mother.

From The Stream, a look at one of the "craziest" beliefs held by the Black Hebrew Israelite cult.

From The Daily Signal, how two years of Bidenomics have ravaged the wages of American workers.

From The American Conservative, how adopting children through Oregon's foster care system comes with ideological policing.

From The Western Journal, Americans approve of what country singer Brantley Gilbert did after someone threw him a can of Bud Light beer.

From BizPac Review, according to a former Navy SEAL acquitted of killing an ISIS terrorist in Iraq, congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) tried to keep him in prison.

From The Daily Wire, according to actor Morgan Freeman, "Black History Month is an insult".  (The article links to an article in The Sunday Times of London, which requires a subscription in order for anyone to read it.)

From the Daily Caller, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could restore religious accommodations in the workplace.

From the New York Post, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) returns to his workplace.

From Breitbart, according to survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, factory activity in the state unexpectedly surged in April.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, 61 percent of Americans believe that the economy worsened last year.

And from The Babylon Bee, Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D) warns that with the aforementioned Wally World closing four of its stores, people will have fewer places to shoplift.  (Let's go, Brandon!)

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