Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm mostly cloudy Wednesday, now that I've some time to get back to my normal routine, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the entire police force of Goodhue, Minnesota decides to resign.

From FrontpageMag, the movie Barbie is a feminist nightmare for girls everywhere.

From Townhall, the White House admits that the "Inflation Reduction Act" was really a handout to climate activists.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration raised concerns that aid to the Palestinians would help Hamas, but went through with it anyway.

From the Washington Examiner, a convicted burglar escapes from a transport van in my neck of the woods.

From The Federalist, putting the charges in the Georgia indictment of former President Trump and 18 others into six "buckets".

From American Thinker, former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) gives a stark warning about Trump's indictments.

From MRCTV, the left tries to make everything gay.

From NewsBusters, a federal court rules that rules that Washington, D.C. police wrongly arrested two pro-life advocates for sidewalk art.

From Canada Free Press, open-borders advocates are the real threat to democracy.

From CBC News, a family flees from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada, "driving through embers".

From Global News, a 10-year-old boy from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada swims 15 kilometers to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society.  (He thus earns this blog's "badass" label, which does not discriminate by sex, age, race, ethnicity, or even species.  Yours truly, on the other hand, might be able to swim about 15 meters.)

From CTV News, the Canadian government will respond to the findings of the "freedom convoy" commission.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan National Assembly will appoint new members to the country's National Electoral Council.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how the U.K.'s National Service once turned boys into men, as told by one of its veterans.

From Snouts in the Trough, would you like some ice with your boiling earth?

From the Express, human smugglers tell illegal migrants to "ignore" drownings in the English Channel and "rumours" of a U.K. government crackdown.

From the Evening Standard, what is the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland report, and why is it controversial?

From the (U.K.) Independent, inflation in the U.K. drops, but a recession looms ahead.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's Garda Headquarters defends its decision to station officers at ATMs.

From the Irish Examiner, a woman in Ennis, Ireland is sentenced to 13 months in jail for stealing €873 worth of goods from a Penneys store.  (My tour group stayed in Ennis during my trip to Ireland in 1997.  As far as I know, none of us stole anything from any stores.)

From EuroNews, the German Cabinet approves a bill to allow small amounts of cannabis for recreational use.

From Voice Of Europe, Germany is now hosting 395,655 Afghan refugees.

From ReMix, a conflict is feared in the Czech Republic between its Roma minority and Ukrainian refugees.

From Balkan Insight, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mayor Benjamina Karić demands the resignation of people promoting the Serbian film The Heroes of Halyard from her city's film festival.

From The North Africa Post, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Malian interim President Assimi Goita discuss the crisis in Niger.

From The New Arab, 27 people are killed and 106 others wounded in clashes between armed groups in Tripoli, Libya.

From British Asian Christian Association, after a Christian is accused of blasphemy, hundreds of homes inhabited by Christians and several churches are destroyed in Jaranwala, Punjab, Pakistan.

From OpIndia, Islamists in India use WhatsApp to coordinate attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples.

From Gatestone Institute, Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of David Weiss as special counsel is illegal.

From The Stream, a whack-a-mole game cannot be used against heresy.

From The Daily Signal, Washington, D.C. might finally pay for its blatant double standards involving the group Black Lives Matter.

From The Western Journal, President Biden's lie about a "bridge collapse" in Pittsburgh draw a backlash, but says the worst about his party.

From BizPac Review, more on Biden's "bridge collapse" lie.

From The Daily Wire, a firm run by left-wing billionaire George Soros was a major investor in an electric bus company that went bankrupt.

From the Daily Caller, will American self-described "social democrats" ever accept Sweden's levels of taxation?

From the New York Post, videos might show the start of the wildfire on Maui.

From Breitbart, migrants allegedly attack a candidate from the German party AfD.

From Newsmax, Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who indicted Trump and 18 others, wants their trial to take place this coming March.

And from The Babylon Bee, a new Christian dating app simply tells you to go to church and find a godly spouse there.

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