Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Tuesday Things

I'm taking a break from my travelogue to return to normal blogging.  On a cool and partly sunny Tuesday that falls on the anniversary of D-Day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Russia's invasion of Ukraine brings on a dam catastrophe.

From FrontpageMag, Germany gives citizenship to a record number of Syrians.

From Townhall, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) narrows former President Trump's lead in Iowa.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Dr. Fauci and his agency had differing opinions about scientists in Wuhan, China.

From the Washington Examiner, an Arkansas judge orders First Son Hunter Biden to appear in court.

From The Federalist, the most important question for the 2024 Republican candidates for president.

From American Thinker, one of Lia Thomas's UPenn teammates speaks up.

From MRCTV, the California Senate approves $300-per-week unemployment checks to people who shouldn't even be in California.

From NewsBusters, a PBS correspondent decries pastors in Taylor, Texas banning drag queens from their Christmas parade.

From Canada Free Press, today is the 79th anniversary of the allied landings in Normandy.  (Although the article uses the term "invasion", the French like to call the D-Day landings the débarquement, a very different term.  See this blog's archives for May 2014 to see my own visit to the area.)

From TeleSUR, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero arrives in Russia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the backlash against woke business grows.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blames "Russian terrorists" for the aforementioned dam catastrophe.

From ReMix, according to dáilcritter Mattie McGrath, Ireland needs a referendum after a 960 percent increase in migrant arrivals in one year.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgaria's new governing coalition takes power.

From The North Africa Post, for the first time ever, Israeli troops participate in the African Lion military games hosted by Morocco.

From The New Arab, Kuwait holds parliamentary elections today.

From Gatestone Institute, the Chinese space program is designed to defeat the U.S.

From The Stream, a high school senior in Kellogg, Idaho is barred from his class's graduation ceremony for stating some obvious facts.

From The Daily Signal, Chik-fil-A has been woke for a long time before anyone realized it.

From The American Conservative, why would three teenage refugees from Myanmar kill and eat a park swan in New York state?

From The Western Journal, an ad campaign by President Biden brags that he barely managed to do what is expected of every president.

From BizPac Review, an influencer on Twitter claims to have "inside info" on former Vice President Pence, who is now running for president.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) makes a prediction about Attorney General Merrick Garland.

From the Daily Caller, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) files the papers to run for president.

From The Palm Beach Post, golf legend Jack Nicklaus approves of the merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, PGA players Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm are probably not happy about the merger with LIV.

From Breitbart, Republicans in the California state legislature walk out of a ceremony "honoring" a member of an anti-Catholic drag queen group.

From Newsmax, more on the merger between the PGA and LIV.

And from The Babylon Bee, the clothing store Lululemon fires employees who did not offer looters bags for their stolen merchandise nor offered to help load the stuff into their getaway cars.

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