Friday, June 16, 2023

Friday Phenomena

On a partly sunny and cooler than normal Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former President Obama criticizes non-white Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Senator Tim Scott (both SC).

From FrontpageMag, former President Trump isn't the first political opponent whom the Democrats went after using the Espionage Act.

From Townhall, the Department of Justice announces a consent degree over the Minneapolis police department.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's appeasement of Iran endangers the U.S. - and the world.

From the Washington Examiner, New York's Westchester County ends its investigation into alleged tax irregularities on Trump-owned properties.

From The Federalist, anti-Catholic bigotry has no place in either America or its national pastime.

From American Thinker, why Trump's second indictment is a violation of federal law.

From MRCTV, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson discusses this former employer's chyron about Biden being a "wannabe dictator".

From NewsBusters, Texas bans men from competing in women's sports.

From Canada Free Press, the manager of Harvard University's medical school morgue is accused of selling body parts.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela and Cuba reject claims in a U.S. report about human trafficking.

From TCW Defending Freedom, watch out, summer is coming!

From Snouts in the Trough, in the U.K., black lives matter but British lives don't.

From EuroNews, Russia claims to have destroyed eight German-made Leopard 2 tanks used by Ukraine, but they only destroyed a bunch of tractors.

From ReMix, Polish governing party PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński calls for a national referendum on the E.U.'s compulsory migration policy.  (I can say, in both English and Polish, where the E.U. can put its policy, but I will refrain from doing so.)

From Balkan Insight, a Serbian court orders detention for three Kosovo policemen accused of illegal weapons trafficking.

From The North Africa Post, the company Taqa Morocco SA plans to produce a gigawatt of green energy by 2030.

From The New Arab, Jordan claims to have downed a second drone coming from Syria.

From the Daily Trust, a new museum dedicated to Spain's Muslim past opens in the capital city of Madrid.

From the Afghanistan Times, representatives of China and the Taliban discuss banking relations.  (This site did not publish anything yesterday, so I included something from today.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to parliamentcritter Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Bangladesh wants to be a world leader in tackling climate change.  (I wonder how much Chinese-made carbon dioxide finds its way into Bangladesh's air.)

From New Age, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Shahriar Alam stresses ASEAN's role in repatriating the Rohingya people.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan navy completes building a passenger terminal that will facilitate ferry service with India.

From the Daily Mirror, according to Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, the import of cars into the country cannot be allowed at this time.

From Raajje, the Maldivian Ministry of Finance reports the country's total revenue.

From the Bangkok Post, Thailand braces for El Niño.

From The Straits Times, a 76-year-old power lifter proves the sceptics wrong.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesian police arrest 12 people for alleged human trafficking in the province of North Kalimantan.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian customs authorities seize contraband beer.

From Borneo Post, sunlight gives Mount Kinabalu, in the Malaysian state of Sabah, a "golden halo".

From Vietnam Plus, police in the Vietnamese province of Dal Lak handle over 100 cases of misinformation about gun attacks.

From the Taipei Times, the Taiwanese central bank keeps interest rates the same but tightens mortgages.

From The Korea Herald, the South Korean military recovers wreckage of a North Korean space launch vehicles.

From The Mainichi, the Japanese House of Councillors passes bills to change codes about sex crimes.

From Gatestone Institute, China passes Russia as the dominant power in Central Asia.

From The Stream, Ukraine should not surrender to either Russian President Putin or the LGBTQ+ machine.

From The Daily Signal, neither President Biden nor Secretary of Defense Austin is making an effort to end Senator Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) blockage of military promotions.

From The American Conservative, the women's march - to the left.

From The Western Journal, actress Eva Longoria defends herself from Biden's wandering hands.  (Longoria should not be confused with a baseball player with a very similar name.)

From BizPac Review, Longoria (the actress, not the baseball player) is urged to speak out about Biden's wandering hands.

From The Daily Wire, the Iowa Supreme Court upholds a ruling against the state's 6-week abortion ban.

From the Daily Caller, Meta finally scraps its censorship policies about coronavirus "misinformation".

From the New York Post, according to court documents, the then-first lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands worked for the late Geoffrey Epstein and helped get visas for his victims.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, most Americans do not support abortion during the second or third trimester.

From Newsmax, Trump leads Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in a New Hampshire poll.

And from the Daily Mail, First Son Hunter Biden finally answers questions in his child support case, to which his baby's mother shows up.  (You know things are messed up when we need a foreign source to find the original story, which in this case comes via the New York Post.)

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