Friday, July 7, 2023

Friday Fuss For 7/7

On a very warm and mostly sunny Friday that falls in the seventh day of the seventh month (which is also the birthday of Ringo Starr), here are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) demands answers from the Secret Service about the she-don't-lie found in the White House.

From FrontpageMag, three important Supreme Court decisions protect American freedom.

From Townhall, New York City might have found a place to house illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Pence and the fight over the Republican Party's foreign policy.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden has the largest White House staff ever, and First Lady Jill Biden's staff is twice the size of her predecessor Melania Trump's.

From The Federalist, in Missouri v. Biden, the judge checks government power because the corporate media won't.

From American Thinker, the luck of today's birthday boy.

From MRCTV, CNN is bummed that 10,000 babies in Texas were not aborted.

From NewsBusters, Fox News guest anchor David Asman describes Bidenomics with a beefy metaphor.

From Canada Free Press, the problems with reparations.

From TeleSUR, Argentina will start building a 573-kilometer pipeline to deliver natural gas from the Vaca Muerta formation.  (That's 356 miles.  Although I know very little Spanish, I'm pretty sure that the formation's name means "dead cow".)

From TCW Defending Freedom, how the U.K.'s Met Office cooks the books on temperature.

From Snouts in the Trough, "charity begins at home", as the saying goes, but only for a lucky few.

From EuroNews, according to Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer, the Swedish government might consider changing its law on burning the Koran.

From Voice Of Europe, according to a survey, 50 percent of the Polish people believe that their government care more about Ukrainians than about Polish citizens.

From the Greek Reporter, a look at the Greek island of Antikythera.

From Ekathimerini, the owner of a horse that died while pulling a tourist carriage on the Greek island of Corfu is fined €30,000.

From the Greek City Times, on a flight from Paris to Athens, a passenger holding a Koran threatens to kill everyone on the plane.  (I took a flight from Paris to Athens in 2006, on which all the passengers behaved themselves.)

From Balkan Insight, Romania plans to host a center for training NATO pilots to fly the F-16.

From FENA, the motorway systems of Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina agree to merge their toll collection systems into one.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia's Adriatic coast becomes Europe's most popular tourist region.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian judges and prosecutors get increased pay.

From The Malta Independent, the Maltese government is set to make an international call for bird choppers and solar panels to be built at sea.

From Malta Today, when in Malta, don't collect sea urchins.

From ANSA, American actor Richard Gere will testify in the trial of Italian politician Matteo Salvini, charged with abducting 150 migrants on board a rescue ship operated by the NGO Open Arms.

From SwissInfo, how the Swiss economy fared in the second quarter of 2023.

From RFI, the other teenager shot by police in France.

From ReMix, according to polls, over 70 percent of French people want reduced immigration, financial penalties on the parents of rioters, and the loss of French citizenship for the rioters.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Figaro.)

From El País, what polls are saying about Spain's upcoming elections.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government approves the mandatory renting of houses that have been vacant for over two years.

From The North Africa Post, the Algerian party Afek Tounes wants visa requirements for sub-Saharan migrants to be reintroduced.

From The New Arab, the Syrian government and a prominent clan in southern Syria agree to a truce.

From Gatestone Institute, the recent riots in France.

From The Stream, as Biden sinks our country, how can 40 percent of Americans still approve of him?

From The Daily Signal, the diplomatic spending bill from Republican congresscritters prioritizes the Indo-Pacific region, with China in view.

From The American Conservative, the Supreme Court's decision in Groff v. DeJoy is "a mild corrective in a world gone mad".

From The Western Journal, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino gives the inside scoop on she-don't-lie in the White House.

From BizPac Review, Vice President Harris serves up another word salad.

From The Daily Wire, a French Muslim gives a chilling answer when asked why Muslims would emigrate to "racist" France.

From the Daily Caller, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson was not expecting Fox News to fire him.

From Breitbart, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) calls the White House she-don't-lie scandal a "classic example of non-transparency".

From Newsmax, seven Republican attorneys warn that some elements from Target's "Pride" merchandise might have violated child protection laws.

And from the New York Postthe sharks that weren't.

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