Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Tuesday Tidbits

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

From National Review, public confidence in President Biden's economic leadership is near a historic low.

From FrontpageMag, the victims of the "racist" Latino mall shooter in Allen, Texas were racially diverse.

From Townhall, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) signs a bill allowing teachers to ignore trans pronouns.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden nominates for chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers a economist who bemoaned low gas prices.

From the Washington Examiner, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) shows a "wired shut" border near the city of Brownsville in an effort to ward off thousands of illegal migrants.

From The Federalist, former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt writes a book about the administrative state.

From American Thinker, the media botched the story of the aforementioned Texas mall shooter.

From MRCTV, soon-to-be-former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blames her election loss on former President Trump and "right wing forces".  (Does this mean that Jussie Smollett's alleged, or perhaps imaginary, attackers were right when they called Chicago "MAGA country"?)

From NewsBusters, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, speaking at his alma mater Georgia Tech's commencement, tells the graduating class that the key to happiness is starting a family.

From Canada Free Press, Biden bamboozles Americans into debt and energy poverty using the "color of law".

From TeleSUR, gang violence in Haiti during April left 600 people dead.

From TCW Defending Freedom, concerns from doctors about coronavirus vaccinations during pregnancy are brushed aside.

From Snouts in the Trough, the coronation of the U.K.'s King Charles III is over with, but now comes the Eurovision song contest.

From EuroNews, French europarliamentcritters call for the Russian private military company Wagner to be put on the E.U.'s terrorist list.

From ReMix, the name "Mohammed" was the most popular for boys in Berlin during 2022.  (How many boys named "Friedrich", "Johann" or "Ludwig" were recently born in Arab capital cities?)

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Serbs in the region of Republika Srpska hold a World War II Victory Day parade in solidarity with Russians.  (Republika Srpska is one of two entities which constitute country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a.k.a. the Croat-Muslim Federation.)

From The North Africa Post, the Algerian press is sycophantic towards President Abdelmedjid Tebboune.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian students, teachers and activists join forces to protest against what they see as the deteriorating state of education in Iran.

From IranWire, the Iranian Supreme Court upholds the death sentences for three protesters accused of involvement in the killing of three members of the Basij paramilitary group.

From Iran International, more on protests by teachers in Iran.

From Khaama Press, three children are killed when a mine explodes in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

From Hasht e Subh, the Taliban arrest four local media officials in the Afghan province of Khost.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From the Afghanistan Times, according to SIGAR, forbidding women from working in Afghanistan is a "catastrophic disruption".  ("SIGAR" is the acronym for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which has its own website.)

From Dawn, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is arrested.

From The Express Tribune, the arrest of Imran Khan sparks protests across Pakistan.

From Pakistan today, current Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif calls out Imran Khan for allegedly maligning the army and using religion for political gain.

From The Hans India, according to India's Supreme Court, the livestreaming of its proceedings has taken it to the homes and hearts of Indian citizens.

From the Hindustan Times, a look at tomorrow's elections in the Indian state of Karnataka.

From ANIHyderabad, India has a zero shadow day.

From India Today, a man allegedly attempting to smuggle gold from Saudi Arabia is arrested at India's Nagpur Airport.

From The Times Of India, according to Indian politician Jitendra Awhad, the producer of the film The Kerala Story should be publicly hanged.  (via OpIndia)

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi Election Commissioner retired Brigadier General Ahsan Habib Khan tells election officials to be polite, but to strictly enforce election law.  (My spellchecker accepts all of the commissioner's names.)

From New Age, punishment is demanded for the felling of trees in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hezbollah builds 27 new bases in Lebanon under the guise of an affiliated organization posing as an environmental NGO.

From Gatestone Institute, the Hizbullah terrorists of Turkey are President Erdoğan's new ally.  (As the article points out, this is not the same group as the Hezbollah terrorists based in Lebanon.)

From The Stream, the stupidity of being certain about climate change.

From The Daily Signal, how Biden's border policies are inhumane.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book about American needing masculine virtues.

From The Western Journal, Bud Light gets "devastating" news with its sales numbers in April.

From The Hill, a nine-member jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, but not for rape, for an incident which allegedly took place in 1996.

From BizPac Review, the White House bans reporters from the New York Post from an event involving the president.

From The Daily Wire, attorneys for former cryptocurrency CEO Sam Bankman-Fried try to get most of the charges against him dismissed.

From the Daily Caller, Trump reacts to the verdicts against him.

From Breitbart, the Department of Homeland Security announces an immigration enforcement operation intended to curtail the entry of migrants into El Paso, Texas.

From NBC News, for congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) takes out an ad against Trump.  (via Breitbart)

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Americans call CNN the most polarizing news source.

And from the New York Post, President Putin is mocked as Russia's World War II Victory Day parade in Moscow includes only one tank.

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