Monday, June 12, 2023

Monday Mania

On a mild and rainy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, big-name Democrats have a curious way of "helping" President Biden.

From FrontpageMag, how prosecutorial "discretion" has resulted in one nation with two sets of laws.

From Townhall, Biden keeps repeating a false claim about his late son Beau.

From The Washington Free Beacon, National Geographic claims that climate change is the "greatest threat to human health" while it flies billionaires around on its private jet.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, "the Democrats have an age problem".

From The Federalist, the U.K. bans chemical castration for kids, which the U.S. should do, too.

From American Thinker, how strong is Fox News's case for silencing their former employee Tucker Carlson?

From MRCTV, a bill under consideration by the California state legislature would remove children from the custody of their parents if the parents don't "affirm" the children's "gender identity".

From NewsBusters, ABC doesn't care that New York City subway rider Jordan Neely allegedly threatened to kill women and children before he was chocked and later died.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau identifies as "Ms. Climate Change 2023".  (Does this mean that we can call him "Justine"?)

From CBC News, thousand of people displaced by wildfires in the Canadian province of Quebec are allowed to return home.

From Global News, why is the Canadian government ordering the seizure of a Russian cargo airplane?

From CTV NewsMississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation Chief Kelly LaRocca writes an open letter to Canadian celebrities such as hockey star Wayne Gretzky over their appearance in gambling ads.

From TeleSUR, 23 Haitian police offers have been violently killed in the first half of 2023.

From TCW Defending Freedom, climate change through the millennia and how humans have survived it.

From Snouts in the Trough, yes, the Ministry of Truth is watching you.

From the Express, a parade for the Manchester City soccer team gets rained on.

From the Evening Standard, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hits back at his current successor Rishi Sunak over nominations to the House of Lords.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a British woman who illegally procured an abortion during a coronavirus lockdown is sentenced to jail.

From the (Irish) Independent, AA Ireland calls for mandatory helmets and registration for e-scooter riders.

From the Irish Examiner, a man who sexually assaulted a woman in a park in Fermoy, Ireland gets six years in jail.

From VRT NWS, what was the inspiration for the statue Manneken Pis in Brussels, Belgium?  (I got to see the statue and other things in Brussels when I was in Belgium in 2005.)

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian commune of Flanders needs teachers.

From the NL Times, rare birds flee a drought in southern Europe and seek water in the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, refugees arrive in the Netherlands in numbers well below government estimates.

From Deutsche Welle, former East Germans are underrepresented in German government ministries.

From the CPH Post, it's time for heavy metal fans to go crazy at the Copenhell music festival.

From EuroNews, Ukraine claims that its forces have retaken several villages in the region of Donetsk, which were previous occupied by Russian troops.

From ReMix, four-time former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dies in a hospital in Milan at age 86.

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro's new government is expected to be fragile.

From The North Africa Post, how U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Elizabeth Moore Aubin unintentionally embarrassed Algerian President Abdelmedjid Tebboune.

From The New Arab, the U.N. is "concerned" over the arrests of migrants and asylum seekers in Libya.

From Gatestone Institute, the jihad against Israel - by the U.N.

From The Stream, American Catholic Bishops get rich off our broken borders and the poor people being smuggled across them.  (What's this about not serving God and mammon?)

From The Daily Signal, taxpayer funding for Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood reaches an all-time high.

From The American Conservative, "the bomb myth".

From The Western Journal, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signs six bills intended to fight illegal immigration.

From BizPac Review, the media contorts itself trying to explain away right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson's 114 million views on Twitter.

From The Daily Wire, a man claiming to be a woman wins a 137-mile women's bike race in North Carolina by five minutes.

From the Daily Caller, performers at an all-black drag show demands tips as "reparations".

From the New York Post, former President Trump arrives in Miami, Florida to be arraigned for his second indictment.

From Breitbart, congresscritters Jim Jordan and Mike Turner (both R-OH) threaten to subpoena Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his possible involvement with 51 intelligence officials who publicly called the Hunter Biden laptop story "Russian information".

From Newsmax, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Con) launches an investigation of the merger agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

From The Messenger News, the U.S. is planning for the evacuation of its citizens in Taiwan.  (via Newsmax)

And from The Babylon Bee, the official religion of the U.S. enters its high holy days.

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