Thursday, June 29, 2023

Thursday Tidings

On a warm cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court rules against race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

From FrontpageMag, the shocking true story of the Barack Obama presidency.

From Townhall, Justice Clarence Thomas writes an amazing concurring opinion in the case striking down Harvard's and UNC's affirmative action.

From The Washington Free Beacon, unions, everyday voters, and even some moderate Democrats oppose President Biden's plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles.

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court sides with a Christian former mailman who sought to not work on Sundays.

From The Federalist, it's only natural that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson supports affirmative action.

From American Thinker, yes, there is a hill to die on.

From MRCTV, a cancer fund suggests a new word for the female private part.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) rips the "attack" on free speech coming from the Biden administration and Big Tech.

From Canada Free Press, travel while you're still allowed to.

From TeleSUR, El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announces his campaign for reelection.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how family life affects success at math.

From Snouts in the Trough, neither Russian President Putin nor the U.K.'s media deserve to be trusted.

From EuroNews, protesters march in Nanterre, France over the police shooting of a teenager.

From ReMix, the German state of Thuringia may reverse the democratic election of an AfD candidate.  (Apparently, some people's definition of "democracy" is a victory by a left-wing candidate.  If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, the Macedonian Orthodox Church protests North Macedonia's gender-related laws.

From FENA, over 117,000 tourists visit the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May, an increase of 40.9 percent from April.  (FENA did not publish any stories in English yesterday, so I've gone back to this source for today.)

From Morocco World News, Moroccans spend $1.8 billion on livestock so far this year.

From The North Africa Post, King Mohammed VI performs the Eid Al-Adha prayer at a mosque in Tetouan, Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, informal settlements are on the rise in the Turkish province of Antalya.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan slams Sweden for allowing a protest in which a man burned pages from the Koran.

From Rûdaw, protesters angry at the Koran-burning protest in Sweden storm the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan welcomes a resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) about the rights of ethnic Armenians in the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno Karabakh.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, the central committee of the World Council of Churches calls on Azerbaijan to reopen the Lachin corridor between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

From Azərbaycan24, an organization representing Azerbaijanis who have been expelled from Armenia condemns the aforementioned resolution from the PACE.

From AzerNews, eight vehicles carrying Armenians living in Nagorno Karabakh pass through the Lachin checkpoint.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot authorities recapture a man who escaped from a police station in Limassol, Cyprus two years ago.

From North Press Agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense announces that it will continue airstrikes in northern Syria.

From The961, where to swim in Lebanon, and how much it will cost ya, pilgrim.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad abducts a terrorist leader of Iran in order to prevent an attack.

From The Times Of Israel, judges in the trial of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu suggest that the prosecution should drop a bribery charge.

From The Jerusalem Post, ultra-Orthodox Israelis riot in the cities of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh.

From YNetNews, Mossad reveals a taped confession of an Iranian sent to target Israelis in Cyprus.

From the Egypt Independent, at the Cairo International Airport, an Egyptian man is arrested for allegedly having snakes on a plane.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian Sunni Islamic institute of Al-Azhar calls for a boycott of Swedish products in response to the aforementioned burning of Koran pages in Sweden.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia asks to join the BRICS economic bloc.

From the Saudi Gazette, 215,000 Hajj pilgrims are provided with health care.

From DohaNews, what makes meat halal?

From The New Arab, after three days, search and rescue efforts end after the collapse of a 14-story building in Alexandria, Egypt.

From RAIR Foundation USA, riots erupt in France over the aforementioned police shooting of a teenager.

From Gatestone Institute, Chinese saboteurs are illegally entering the U.S.

From The Stream, Uganda's new law the Western response.

From The Daily Signal, "pride" messaging by businesses is down 40 percent from 2022.

From The American Conservative, both sides are wrong when responding to new data on religiosity.

From The Western Journal, more on the Supreme Court decision against affirmative action.

From BizPac Review, the Obamas are slammed over their "mournful" take on the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

From The Daily Wire, TV host Whoopi Goldberg blows up over the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

From the Daily Caller, the Biden administration sides with communist China against the state of Florida.

From the New York Post, here comes the world's largest cruise ship, in January 2024.

From Breitbart, more on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in the affirmative action case.

From Newsmax, Virgin Galactic completes its first commercial space flight, in New Mexico with a three-man Italian crew.

And from the Genesius Times, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) bans several classic children's books.

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