Thursday, August 17, 2023

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has a double standard about foreign influence.

From FrontpageMag, a coronavirus nightmare story that needs to be heard.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, former President Trump should not join the Republican debates.

From The Washington Free Beacon, when Democrats were cool with alleging that elections were "stolen".

From the Washington Examiner, Georgia state Senator Colton Moore (R) requests an emergency session of the state's legislature to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

From The Federalist, the North Carolina Assembly overrides Governor Roy Cooper's (D) veto of bills that protect children from mutilation.

From American Thinker, a year after the raid on Trump's house at Mar-a-Lago, the MAGA movement refuses to be silenced.

From MRCTV, the Fulton County, Georgia clerk who leaked the Trump indictment has her "mistakes were made" moment.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC gives an anti-Semite who opposes Florida's history standards on slavery a party change.

From Canada Free Press, Trump is not a mafia don, President Biden is.

From TeleSUR, elections in Ecuador start with votes from prisoners.

From TCW Defending Freedom, cancel the writings of English author C.K. Chesterton, and "you cancel all of history".

From VRT NWS, a missing dog from Herentals, Belgium is found after a month-long search.

From The Brussels Times, if you're in Brussels this coming September, drink up.

From the NL Times, two companies that make and sell the Stint electric cargo bike, and an executive from each, will be prosecuted after an accident in Oss, Netherlands left four children dead.

From Dutch News, the Dutch CPB warns that without action, more children in the Netherlands will grow up in poverty.

From Deutsche Welle, teaching German students about the Nazis and the Holocaust.

From Voice Of Europe, despite protests from local residents, German authorities continue to install shelters for migrants in the villages of Uphal and Nordenau.  (While the article spells the first place's name "Uphal", its name might really be "Upahl".)

From ReMix, more German retirees are buying homes around Lake Balaton in Portugal.  (In 2000, I was on a tour that visited a winery on Lake Balaton.  If you read Hungarian, read the story at SONLINE.)

From the CPH Post, an Irish businessman founds and runs a company in Copenhagen, Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda submits a bill to the Sejm to improve Poland's ability to fight against external threats.  (The Sejm is Poland's national legislature, which name is pronounced like the English word "same".)

From Radio Prague, former Czech President Miloš Zeman calls out Ukrainian men accused of rape while in the Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, more palm trees grow in Slovakia.

From EuroNews, the French government sends an elite police unit to the city of Marseilles to tackle a deadly wave of drugs-related crime.

From Balkan Insight, according to ethnic Albanian film producer Gani Veseli, a Serbian court's ban on his films amounts to "censorship".  (Although he is ethnically Albania, his last name resembles the Polish word wesoły, which means "happy", and thus could have Slavic origins.)

From The North Africa Post, how China's economic malaise could impact African countries.

From The New Arab, human smuggling networks in Morocco use jet skis to bring migrants to Spain.

From Iran Press Watch, Iranian authorities arrest a 90-year-old Baha'i man who once spent 10 years in prison, and seek to target 180 other Baha'is.

From Palestinian Media Watch, summer camps run by the group Fatah train Palestinian teenagers to be soldiers.

From News18, the Taliban ban political parties in Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's plan to turn the West Bank into a base for terror against Israel.

From The Stream, Christianity, correctly understood, is not a suicide cult.

From The Daily Signal, Biden wrongly prioritizes Ukraine and illegal aliens over Hawaiians victimized by the wildfire on Maui.

From The American Conservative, the lines keep getting crossed.

From The Western Journal, some people on Maui would like Biden to not visit the island.

From BizPac Review, an interesting new detail emerges about a woman who pointed a gun at cars, drivers, and her own head before being hit by a police car.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) seeks records of Biden using a pseudonym while he was vice president.

From the Daily Caller, Biden refuses to answer questions about his upcoming trip to Maui.

From the New York Post, actor Alec Baldwin gets into a feud with Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) over his family's charity getting a booth at the Great New York State Fair.

From Breitbart, American First Legal launches a multi-state investigation into possible collusion between Democrat attorneys general and a left-wing organization to censor Americans.

From Newsmax, according to podcaster Joe Rogan, some Democrats are releasing information about Biden in an effort to have a different candidate in 2024.

And from the Genesius Times, Trump is indicted yet again, this time for leaving a toilet seat up after relieving himself.

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