Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Tuesday Tidbits

On a warm and partly sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is picking some strange battles.

From Frontpage, the woke culture war is driving some Americans toward the right.

From Townhall, a new report on the origins of the coronavirus points to a lab in Wuhan, China.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how tobacco companies find a way to succeed at ESG ratings.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump turns himself in at a courthouse in Miami, Florida.

From The Federalist, if "banned" books are really harmless, President Biden should read them to kids.  (Due to some graphic quotes from these books, reader discretion is advised.)

From American Thinker, four more ways in which modern leftists emulate a certain historical German political party.

From MRCTV, according to a poll, most Americans don't want males in female sports.

From NewsBusters, according recently released documents, a leftist billionaire financed a censorship effort during the 2020 election.

From Canada Free Press, North America burns while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fiddles about climate change.

From TeleSUR, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denies the existence of a Chinese spy center in Cuba.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Cambridge University cancels civilization.

From Polskie Radio, Polish charities help flood victims in southern Ukraine.

From Radio Prague, the remains of at least 80 communist-era political prisoners have been found at a prison in Prague, Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, go row a boat on Slovakia's Lake Štrbské Pleso or take a hike in the Tatra Mountains, but watch out for snow.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian Parliament approves a new law concerning the employment of guest workers.

From Hungary Today, a dispute erupts over a prisoner of war exchange involving Ukrainians from the region of Transcarpathia being sent to Hungary.  (Transcarpathia, a.k.a. Zakarpattia, is a part of Ukraine located southwest of the Carpathian Mountains.  Before World War I, it was part of Hungary.  Between the World Wars, it was part of Czechoslovakia.)

From About Hungary, Hungarian-born left-wing billionaire George Soros and the conspiracy theories that aren't.

From Russia Today, Russian President Putin hints at the goals of his operation in Ukraine.

From Sputnik International, here's what gives Russia's Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter its bite.

From Moscow Times, why fighters from the Global South have joined the Russian army in its invasion of Ukraine.

From Romania-Insider, Social Democratic Party leader Marcel Ciolacu is nominated as Romania's new prime minister.  (If you click on this, it will be your one free article for the month.  If you want to read anything else, you'll have to subscribe.  If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Novinite, floods lead to a state of emergency in northwestern Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Bulgarian Justice Minister Atanas Slavov, there is no reason for President Rumen Radev to delay the dismissal of Ivan Geshev as Prosecutor-General.

From Radio Bulgaria, Ivan Geshev spoke before the European Parliament on cases related to former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

From the Greek Reporter, ancient DNA shows that the Mycenaean leader known as the Griffin Warrior was Greek.

From Ekathimerini, according to a poll, the Greek party New Democracy is ahead of its main rival SYRIZA.

From the Greek City Times, according to unconfirmed reports, eight Pakistanis have been arrested in Greece for allegedly plotting terror attacks.

From Balkan Insight, former Albanian parliamentcritter Alfred Peza is appointed general director of Albania's public broadcaster.

From FENA, findings on the transparency of institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are presented in its capital city of Sarajevo.

From Total Croatia News, the ferry pier at Žigljen, Croatia has finally been renovated.

From EuroNews, Spain will try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of the late dictator Francisco Franco.  (Franco, as of this writing, is still dead.)

From ReMix, as the E.U. move to force its member states to accept migrant quotas, migrant crime in Sweden shows the dangers from mass immigration.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI affirms the value of interfaith dialogue.

From The New Arab, according to the group Jordan Labor Watch, Jordanian economic policies are driving children into hazardous work.

From Gatestone Institute, China, Pakistan and Turkey are all looking at the region of Kashmir.

From The Stream, how to resist "Pride Month" and to stand against euthanasia.

From The Daily Signal, how the SPLC exaggerates "hate groups".

From The American Conservatives, the Biden administration subjugates its opponents at home and abroad.

From The Western Journal, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveals audio recordings of President Joe Biden and First Son Hunter Biden on the Senate floor.

From BizPac Review, pollster Frank Luntz realizes that he has been wrong about Trump.

From The Daily Wire, Starbucks reportedly dials back on its "Pride" decorations.

From the Daily Caller, the Biden administration is reportedly set to send depleted uranium armor-piercing tank rounds to Ukraine.

From the New York Post, according to the CDC, almost 15 percent of American children received mental health treatment in 2021.

From Breitbart, the House Oversight Committee subpoenas a Biden family associate.

From Newsmax, Trump pleads "not guilty" to all counts in his second indictment.

And from the Genesius Times and the "don't give them any ideas" department, California bans the number "2" for being hateful against non-binary children.

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