Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, are Title IX proceedings on college campuses "judicial" or not?

From FrontpageMag, government barricades on Maui killed people, while those who drove around them survived.

From Townhall, families of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks have a word for President Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, top law school administrators brainstorm ways to circumvent the Supreme Court's ban on race-based affirmative action.

From the Washington Examiner, BlackRock backs off from its support of ESG shareholder proposals.

From The Federalist, the media don't care about the wildfires on Maui or Biden's "Katrina moment".

From American Thinker, the "blunt truth" about models for predicting global temperature.

From MRCTV, singer Oliver Anthony releases a new song.

From NewsBusters, PolitiFact defends Biden on the Chinese spy balloon.

From Canada Free Press, left-wing Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden (D) asks gangs to shoot only after 9:00 p.m. and before 9:00 a.m.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil calls the Inter-American Court of Human Rights an auxiliary arm of U.S. interests.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a poem about a "boy who identified as a car".  (This article appears to have been published for the first time today, so I've linked it here.)

From Snouts in the Trough, it's not half cold.

From EuroNews, the chief of the Russian mercenary group Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a plane crash.

From Voice Of Europe, the Chopin Airport in Warsaw, Poland saw its most passengers ever during this past July.

From ReMix, according to Alejandro Peña Esclusa, who was imprisoned by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, Europe is being conquered, not with tanks and rifles, but with cultural warfare.

From Balkan Insight, Greece will investigate recent wildfires after the burned bodies of 18 people, believed to be migrants, are discovered.

From The North Africa Post, the African Union suspends Niger until its constitutional order is restored.

From The New Arab, a Palestinian Arab born in Nazareth runs for mayor in Jerusalem.

From Khaama Press, under Taliban rule, Afghan girls are forced into seminaries and marriages.

From Hasht e Subh, Taliban personnel prevent 60 Afghan women from traveling to Dubai for educational purposes.

From the Afghanistan Times, 80 percent of Afghan school-aged girls are reportedly denied any chance to attend school.

From Dawn, Pakistan is required to keep all of its state-owned enterprises under the oversight of its finance ministry.

From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, surrendering to terrorists is not an option.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia begin a joint special forces exercise.

From The Hans India, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 lands on the moon, near its south pole.  (In a happy coincidence, India achieves this feat on a day when my links to be posted roll around to those from that country.)

From the Hindustan Times, the rover Pragyan rolls out of the Chanrayaan-3 lander, with live updates.

From ANI, India celebrates its lunar landing.

From India Today, the "smooth landing for Chandrayaan-3" is a "giant leap for India".  (Somewhere, Neil Armstrong is sending his congratulations.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh and the United States start a dialogue about defense.

From New Age, Bangladeshi Border Guard personnel arrest two people for allegedly smuggling 43 gold bars.

From Gatestone Institute, justice requires procedural fairness.

From The Stream, should Congress proclaim Joe Biden our king, and First Son Hunter Biden a prince?

From The Daily Signal, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reinstates Alabama's law which protect children from gender-transition hormones.

From The American Conservative, the world needs more punishment.

From The Western Journal, Biden's visit to Maui did more harm than good.

From BizPac Review, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is not interesting in becoming vice president.

From The Daily Wire, floodgates opened at the southern U.S. border due to monsoon season allow more illegal aliens to come in.

From the Daily Caller, workers for a Chinese real estate developer go unpaid for months.

From the New York Post, an Ecuadorian migrant apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border will be deported back to Ecuador, where he faces rape charges.

From Breitbart, pastor Franklin Graham reaffirms his support for former President Trump.

From Newsmax, the U.S. State Department approves a possible sale of F-16 infrared search and track systems to Taiwan.

And from SFGate, Burning Man in Nevada will reopen its gates as flooding from Tropical Storm Hilary recedes.

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