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 İstanbul 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 Çavuşoğlu, 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.

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