Monday, August 21, 2023

Monday Mania

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

From National Review, the decline of American politics as seen from one Senate seat.

From FrontpageMag, should electric vehicles be banned?

From Townhall, New York City residents go NIMBY on migrant shelters.  (Note to all Noo Yawkers who voted for candidate Biden in 2020:  You are the reason why the migrant shelters are there in the first place.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, legal experts call for President Biden's favorite PAC to be investigated over financial discrepancies.

From the Washington Examiner, the latest version of Queen's Greatest Hits album will no longer include a song about young females with large derrieres.

From The Federalist, renting a Tesla electric vehicle for a week sells one consumer on gas-powered cars.

From American Thinker, "we need a truce" between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's (R) people and former President Trump's people.

From MRCTV, a violent thug in a Texas restaurant runs into the 2nd Amendment.

From NewsBusters, will the self-appointed "disinformation" police return on the platform formerly known as Twitter?

From TeleSUR, the party Citizen Revolution wins the largest number of seats in Ecuador's National Assembly.

From EuroNews, a nurse convicted of murdering seven babies, thus becoming the U.K.'s most prolific serial killer, gets life in prison.

From Voice Of Europe, Belarus expands its military cooperation with China as tensions with the West rise.  (If you read German, read the story at Unser Mitteleuropa.)

From ReMix, more than four out of five Poles say nie to E.U. migration reforms.

From Balkan Insight, the Croatian Women's Network demands stronger legal protection against violence by males.

From Morocco World News, on his birthday, Moroccan King Mohammed VI issues pardons to 760 people.

From The North Africa Post, will Tunisia become the next Arab state to normalize its relations with Israel?

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey reopens its İpsala border gate, which was closed for three days due to forest fires in Greece.

From Turkish Minute, an "unpleasant odor" is detected in the Hagia Sophia in İstanbul, Turkey.

From Rûdaw, Iraq seeks an agreement with Turkey to resume oil exports from the region of Kurdistan.

From Armenpress, according to foreign ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan, Armenia continues its activities at the U.N. and in other organizations after a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, the first Armenian cross-stone in Finland is consecrated in the city of Espoo.

From Azərbaycan24, a Peruvian trap shooter who won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics regrets never having been to Baku, Azerbaijan.

From AzerNews, new Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib will visit Azerbaijan and Armenia during the next few weeks.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot parliament will debate taxing energy companies over windfall or excess profits.

From The Syrian Observer, continuing protests in southern Syria could expand.

From North Press Agency, the Syrian National Army arrests Kurds in the region of Afrin for not joining protests against U.S. sanctions on their leaders.

From The961, seven uniquely Lebanese traffic rules.

From The New Arab, the internal politics giving rise to the Palestinian Authority's reshuffle.

From OpIndia, is U.S. congresscritter Ro Rhanna (D-Cal) interfering in India?

From Gatestone Institute, after destroying, the Iran-controlled terrorist group Hezbollah threatens war with Israel.

From The Stream, Biden has some misplaced priorities.

From The Daily Signal, conservative congresscritters say that any spending bill must address border security and DOJ weaponization.

From The American Conservative, California, even including the city of West Hollywood, is worth fighting for.

From BizPac Review, according to a poll, Trump is surging, but voters indicate that they can be persuaded to vote for someone else.

From The Daily Wire, a Gold Star mom whose son was killed in Afghanistan want comfort from Biden, but he wanted a photo op.

From the Daily Caller, Americans wonder if category 6 hurricanes are possible.

From the New York Post, Biden takes a break from his vacation in a house near Lake Tahoe to see the wildfire damage on Maui.

From WWLP, a driver tries to get away from police and then crashes his car so badly that he dies and the engine flies into the second story of a house.  (Does he deserve a Darwin Award nomination?  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From Breitbart, First Son Hunter Biden's lawyers urge the DOJ to prosecute IRS whistleblowers.

From Florida Politics, according to the aforementioned Governor DeSantis, immigrants from "Poland or Brazil" don't have a right to come to the U.S.  (In my opinion, he's right - in a sense.  This is because immigration is a privilege, not a right.  In other words, Brazilians and Poles have no right to immigrate to the U.S. because no one has such a right.  However, due to my own descent from Polish immigrants, who came here when there was no independent Poland, I can't claim to be completely unbiased in this matter.  The story comes via Newsmax.)

From Newsmax, Tropical Storm Hilary passes through California and now heads for Nevada.

And from The Babylon Bee, the weakened state of former Hurricane Hilary is blamed on Russian interference.  (Even so, it has already destroyed over 30,000 emails.)

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