Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, what former President Obama's letter about book "bans" leaves out.

From FrontpageMag, Islamization in Fargo, North Dakota.

From Townhall, an opening statement from an IRS whistleblower has been released, and "hoo boy".

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration works in a rule that would ban almost all portable gas generators.

From the Washington Examiner, a whistleblower claims that he and others were not allowed to ask certain questions.

From The Federalist, an indictment of former President Trump over the Capitol riot could trigger a major crisis.

From American Thinker, musician Tracy Chapman "has the last laugh" over Luke Combs's cover of her song Fast Car.  (Like Dolly Parton surely did when Whitney Houston covered her song I Will Always Love You, Chapman is probably complaining all the way to the bank.)

From MRCTV, Germans take it upon themselves to deal with climate nutjobs.

From NewsBusters, hosts on The View like Trump to Mussolini.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski is convicted of inciting mischief and eco-terrorism.

From TeleSUR, Peruvians march against President Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, electric vehicle targets are a pipe dream.

From Snouts in the Trough, it's not really that hot.  (The article also appears in TCW DF, to which the author of SitT appears to be a contributor.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria and four other countries plan to ask the E.U. to extend its ban on the import of grain from Ukraine.

From The Sofia Globe, the weather in Bulgaria remains hot.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria's National Assembly votes to create a national register of pedophilia cases.

From the Greek Reporter, at least three villages and a hotel on the Greek island of Rhodes are evacuated due to a wildfire.

From Ekathimerini, wildfires burn to the west of the Greek capital of Athens.

From the Greek City Times, a Bangladeshi man is arrested for the murder of a Cuban transgender woman in Athens, Greece.

From Balkan Insight, the E.U. suspects agriculture funds to Albania due to suspicions of corruption.

From FENA, the remains of two people killed in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 will be given a funeral and reburial in the town of Kozarac.

From Total Croatia News, what do the Croatian people really drink?

From The Slovenia Times, an international school opens in Maribor, Slovenia.

From The Malta Independent, electricity is cut off in parts of Malta.

From Malta Today, according to the CEO of Malta's energy company Enemalta, recent power cuts have been due to cable faults, not overloads.

From ANSA, 12 boats carrying about 400 migrants and refugees arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa at 7:00 a.m.

From ReMixItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's efforts against illegal immigration have been "underwhelming at best".

From SwissInfo, the Swiss army joins in the battle to contain forest fires.

From EuroNews, why is the "far-right" gaining strength in Spain?

From Voice Of Europe, according to the E.U. border agency Frontex, the number of illegal migrants arriving in Europe has increased sharply this summer.

From The North Africa Post, a joint security operation by Morocco and Spain leads to the arrest of two ISIS sympathizers.

From The New Arab, the U.S. urges Egypt to released jailed human rights researcher Patrick Zaki.

From Gatestone Institute, Christians in Pakistan fear for their safety as a third blasphemy case occurs in a month.

From The Stream, the only people who hear alleged racist "dog whistles" are racists themselves.

From The Daily Signal, a rancher in New Mexico tells congresscritters that unused border wall materials have been sitting on his ranch for over two years.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. should "establish a special inspector general for war".

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduces a bill to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) complains about having "experienced more harassment" on Twitter, and gets a response from the Chief Twit.

From The Daily Wire, more on the aforementioned whistleblower.

From the Daily Caller, a new bipartisan bill would forbid the NIH from funding experiments involving animals in labs outside the U.S.

From the New York Post, according to an expert, the reign of the U.K.'s King Charles III is a "sandwich filling" between the late Queen Elizabeth II and the future King William.  (Although not stated in the article, Prince William will become King William V if he chooses to reign under his first name.)

From Breitbart, singer Sheryl Crow doesn't like singer Jason Aldean's song Try That in a Small Town.

From Newsmax, the man accused of stabbing staffer of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is deemed "incompetent" to stand trial.  (The story links to an article in The Washington Post, to which you'll have to subscribe in order to read.)

And from the Genesius Times, the ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's decides to close down permanently after realizing that the entire U.S. is stolen land.

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