Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, the abortion pill goes to court.

From FrontpageMag, why fake female Dylan Mulvaney is popping up everywhere.

From Townhall, Democrats pick a host city for their 2024 convention, which is the perfect place to show their failures.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden wants to force automakers to produce electric cars, even though Americans aren't sold on them.

From the Washington Examiner, Bud Light's problem is not its allegedly "fratty" branding.  (A college roommate once advised me not to call fraternities "frats", because we don't call countries "[bleep]s".)

From The Federalist, the federal government marketed censorship tools to Big Tech in an effort to silence conservatives.

From American Thinker, investigative journalist James O'Keefe finds numerous suspicious donations give to Democrats, some coming from people in my state.

From CNS News, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenas FBI records on its infiltration of Catholic parishes.

From Fox News, shock jock Howard Stern can't get his mind around singer Kid Rock's protest against Bud Light's campaign using the aforementioned Dylan Mulvaney.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, ABC gives out misinformation about the shooting of a BLM "protester" in Texas.

From Canada Free Press, Fox News promotes a poll in which 566 respondents are claimed to represent half of American.

From TeleSUR, according to the International Monetary Fund, Venezuela is projected to have the highest economic growth rate in Latin America over the next two years.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the global strategy to control information, part 2.

From Snouts in the Trough, a warning to South Korea against committing economic suicide like the U.K. is.

From ReMix, according to U.K. intelligence, 19 suspected terrorists arrived in Great Britain by small boat in 2022.

From EuroNews, pension protesters disrupt French President Emmanuel Macron as he prepares to give a speech in The Hague, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, firefighters free an "uncooperative" squirrel from a manhole in Dortmund, Germany.

From the CPH Post, 12 mayors in Denmark want the country's motorway speed limit to be reduced to 80 kilometers per hour.  (If you read Danish, read the story at DR.)

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, F-35 jet fighters from the U.S. will strengthen Poland's air defenses.

From Radio Prague, communist-era Czech dissident Dana Němcová dies at age 89.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia is "fighting" to get back €24 million that it deposited in Russia's International Investment Bank.

From Daily News Hungary, why gasoline prices in Hungary are the region's highest.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at RTL.)

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian Air Force will acquire Airbus H225 helicopters this summer, which will be equipped with a unique combination of weapons.

From About Hungary, according to Agriculture István Nagy, the Hungarian government will introduce tighter controls on grain imports from Ukraine.

From Russia Today, a bill passed by the Russian Duma cracks down on e-cigarettes.

From Sputnik International, how many nukes does Russia still have, and what of which kinds are they?

From The Moscow Times, Russia acts to digitize is military summons system and to prevent conscripts from fleeing the country.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian government approves the acquisition of F-35 jet fighters.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev reports on alleged vote-buying.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian exports in the first two months of 2023 increase by 13.9 percent over the same period a year earlier.

From Radio Bulgaria, almost 642,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat has been imported into Bulgaria between July 2022 and March 2023.  (When Russia started its invasion of Ukraine, weren't we all worried about how it would negatively affect grain supplies and send their prices upward?  But more recently, we've been worried about Ukrainian grain being imported into neighboring countries is causing an oversupply and thus depressing local grain prices.)

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro seeks to indict Croatians for alleged war crimes committed against Montenegrin soldiers held at a military prison camp in Split, Croatia in 1992.  (My 2007 trip to Croatia included some time in Split, but we were not shown any such prison camp or its remains.)

From Euractiv, Switzerland rejects criticism of its handling of Russian assets.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco will treat its credit line from the International Monetary Fund as precautionary.

From The New Arab, the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels in Yemen agree to a prisoner exchange.

From Gatestone Institute, why the Palestinians can't resume any peace talks with Israel.

From The Stream, the unhappy realities of atheism.  (I've come to realize that for atheists, the old saying that "life is a [female dog], then you die" is true.)

From The Daily Signal, doctors expose the experimental nature of "gender-affirming care" in Florida.

From The American Conservative, the "antiwar" left abhors the one U.S. president in recent history was genuinely antiwar.

From The Western Journal, soccer star Megan Rapinoe turns against women like she turned against America.

From BizPac Review, oops, we won't sell that shirt, says Walmart.

From The Daily Wire, more on the Democrats choosing the city to host their 2024 convention.

From the Daily Caller, new documents shed light on President Biden's role in the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From the New York Post, American Embassy officials are still not allowed to visit detained reporter Evan Gershkovich.

From Breitbart, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg files a lawsuit seeking to prevent congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) from questioning a former prosecutor about his case against Trump.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Trump has his biggest primary lead so far.

And from the HuffPost, a retired mechanic from Dubuque, Iowa wins a $40 million jackpot, with a lottery ticket purchased on April 1st.

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