Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

In the middle of the first week of October, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrat congresscritters are shocked to learn that their actions have consequences.

From FrontpageMag, how Democrat legislators vote on late-term abortion and babies who survive botched abortions.

From Townhall, a video explaining three reasons why congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) got despeakerized.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood wades into transgender care.

From the Washington Examiner, Republican congresscritters keep losing because they keep forming circular firing squads.

From The Federalist, smartphones should be banned from schools.  (As someone who wasn't even allowed to have a calculator until college, I couldn't agree more.)

From American Thinker, it's an "illegal alien invasion, from sea to shining sea".

From MRCTV, media reporters use identical terms as the Democrats do regarding impeachment.

From NewsBusters, a former communications advisor to Speakers Boehner (R-OH) and Ryan (R-Wis) defends the removal of former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) from her office in the Capitol.

From Canada Free Press, wokeism is just recycled communism.

From TeleSUR, the company Petroleum of Venezuela reactivates a lubricant plant and launches a new oil brand.

From TCW Defending Freedom, tales from the front lines of the U.K.'s NHS.

From Snouts in the Trough, are we now living on both borrowed money and borrowed time?

From EuroNews, E.U. countries reach a preliminary agreement on new rules to manage future immigration crises.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim threatens to attack a synagogue in Paris by blowing himself up.  (If you read French, read the story at Valuers Actuelles and Le Parisien.)

From Voice Of Europe, Slovakia will purchase Israeli and Polish air defense systems for a total cost of €193.98 million.

From ReMix, Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox posts a live video of police raiding his house in London.

From Balkan Insight, a court in Belgrade, Serbia decides against detaining Kosovo Serb politician Milan Radoičić.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan King Mohammed VI receives several new ambassadors.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria fears that the Tuareg independence movement in Mali could spill over.

From The New Arab, families of Tunisian political prisoners plan to conduct a sit-in protest until they are released.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Türkiye's natural gas production in the Black Sea has reportedly doubled.

From Rûdaw, international oil companies are reportedly unwilling to produce oil until certain debts owed to them are paid.

From Armenpress, 6,104 children displaced from the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh continue their education in Armenia.

From Azərbaycan24, Azerbaijani official Elchin Amirbayov calls for Azerbaijan and Armenia to immediately resume peace talks.

From In-Cyprus, a man arrested with 15 kilos of cannabis in his luggage claims he doesn't know whom was supposed to receive the drugs.

From The Syrian Observer, Israel escalates its actions against Iranian militias in eastern Syria.

From The961, a petition to close the UNHCR mission in Lebanon accuses it of supporting "settler colonialism" by Syria.  (Syria is a total mess, and yet somehow can "colonize" Lebanon?)

From Arutz Sheva, over 60,000 people from 90 countries participate in the 68th Jerusalem March during the Sukkot holiday.  (Sukkot is a holiday commanded by the Torah.)

From the Egypt Independent, six candidates register to run for the Egyptian presidency.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Airlines operates its first special charter flight to Malta.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia extends its cut in oil production until the end of 2023.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, an Iranian girl's hospitalization after being assaulted by police draws parallels with the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini.

From Khaama Press, according to the World Bank, the economy of Afghanistan continues to be fragile.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan is Russian President Putin's man in Ankara.  (You could say that Erdoğan is what former U.S. President Trump was accused of being.)

From The Stream, to love, we must drop the transgender terminology.

From The Daily Signal, go ahead and shut the government down.

From The American Conservative, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) holds the line.

From BizPac Review, former congresscritter Trey Gowdy (R-SC) claims that congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has "a crush on" congresscritter AOC (D-NY).

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) enters the race for House Speaker.

From the Daily Caller, according to records, a law clerk whom former President Trump is not allowed to criticize due to a gag order has been a Democratic candidate and donor.

From the New York Post, some Republican congresscritters seek to change the rule that allowed the despeakerization of congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal).

From Breitbart, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) joins Chinese officials in celebrating the anniversary of mass murderer Mao Zedong imposing communism on China.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is evicted from his hideaway office in the Capitol, following the similar eviction of the aforementioned former Speaker Pelosi.

And from SFGate, the California Highway Patrol answers six "weird" questions about what's legal and what's not legal while driving on the state's highways.

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