Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cool cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, swimmer Riley Gaines tells congresscritters how transgender activists held her against her will at San Francisco State University.

From FrontpageMag, the media rewards a left-wing former CIA hack who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop.

From Townhall, the North Carolina legislature overrides a veto by Governor Roy Cooper (D), thus making abortions illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to records, Hunter Biden lobbied a State Department official on behalf of a Romanian businessman in 2016 when his father was vice president.

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court won't suspend an Illinois law banning the sale of certain guns while it is being litigated in lower courts.

From The Federalist, six documented cases of systemic pro-Democrat corruption by the FBI.

From American Thinker, some scientific data that the U.N., the U.S. government, and media don't want the public to see.

From MRCTV, Vice President Harris confuses gender ideology with women's history.

From NewsBusters, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI might cause "significant harm to the world".

From Canada Free Press, will America's fascination with contradiction bring about insanity and a fiery end?

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolves his country's National Assembly.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a British writer asks where his reparations are.

From Snouts in the Trough, are people living now lucky to have lived during a brief historical aberration?

From EuroNews, thousands of people are evacuated as floods strike in northern Italy.

From ReMix, Hungary blocks E.U. funding of weapons for Ukraine in retaliation for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's plan to blow up a pipeline delivering Russian oil to Hungary.

From Balkan Insight, heavy rain causes rivers to overflow in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Morocco World News, Morocco and Spain prepare to launch this year's Operation Crossing the Strait.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan city of Marrakesh will host the 2023 Kofi Annan Road Safety Award.

From The New Arab, two Tunisian students are arrested over a song that criticizes the police.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan claims to be confident of getting more support for the runoff election on May 28th.

From Turkish Minute, 10 people who were detained in Ankara, Turkey for protesting alleged election fraud are released.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, a suspected Turkish warplane bombs several areas in the Iraqi province of Duhok.

From Armenpress, the Armenian Ministry of Defense shows photos of an ambulance allegedly shot by Azerbaijani armed forces.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Russia calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to refrain from actions that could lead to an escalation of tensions.

From Azərbaycan24, don't mess with these Azerbaijanis.

From In-Cyprus, the Cyprus Cancer Research Institute intends to become a leading cancer research center.

From The Syrian Observer, in order to please the Turkish government, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Muhammad al-Julani cracks down on opposition to Syrian-Turkish rapprochement.

From North Press Agency, the NPA documents the killing or injury of 266 truffle hunters in Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli police warn that Iran and its terrorist proxies are lying about the Flag March going to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in order to incite violence.

From The Times Of Israel, after years of "dead-end" air campaigns, the IDF considers the pinpoint use of ground troops in the Gaza strip.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli police arrest an illegal alien who was allegedly carrying a weapon in the city of Haifa.

From YNetNews, residents of Jerusalem, Israel are younger and more Haredi, and are almost a million in number.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt builds huge warehouses to store wheat.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry attends the first meeting of the Arab Ministerial Contract Group on Sudan.

From the Sudan Tribune, the U.N. calls for $3 billion in aid to help people in Sudan and people fleeing to neighboring countries.

From the Saudi Gazette, 11 foreigners are arrested with a total of 55.2 kilos of she-don't-lie in Saudi Arabia.  (As I might have mentioned previously, smuggling drugs within or into a Muslim country is a good way to throw your life away.)

From DohaNews, Qatar and Saudi Arabia combine to deal with human trafficking.

From Shia Waves, Iraqi authorities hold a funeral to bury the bodies of 78 Shiites murdered by ISIS.

From AMNY, relatives of eight people killed by an Islamist terrorist in New York City describe their pain at his sentencing.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden is cowed by China's aggression.

From The Stream, we are aging all the time, but we can still delay getting old.

From The Daily Signal, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts tells a conference in London that one-nation conservatism is what woke global elites fear the most.

From The American Conservative, military leaders must learn the right lesson from the coronavirus vaccine mandate debacle.

From The Western Journal, a teacher in Hernando County, Florida is investigated after showing a Disney movie in her classroom, which features a gay main character.

From BizPac Review, Fox News shakes up its primetime lineup.

From The Daily Wire, Soros-backed U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins after reportedly being accused of election interference and lying to federal investigators.

From Deadline, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and her mother Doria Ragland are involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" trying to get away from paparazzi.  (As the article mentions, his mother Princess Diana was killed in a similar incident in Paris in 1997.  The story comes via The Daily Wire.)

From the Daily Caller, here are the right-leaning media outlets that call fake female Dylan Mulvaney "she" and "her".

From the New York Post, more on the paparazzi car chase ordeal endured by Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Doria Ragland.

From Breitbart, the Nashville, Tennessee school which was attacked by a transgender person files a motion to block the release of the attacker's manifesto.

From Newsmax, while stating that a new Twitter CEO will allow him to devote more time to the carmaker Tesla, the Chief Twit promises to keep on Tweeting candidly.

And from the Genesius Times, the department store Target will mandate sex transitioning for all employees and customers.

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