Friday, March 15, 2024

Friday Phenomena For The Ides Of March

On a warm and cloudy Friday on the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee rules that District Attorney Fani Willis can continue to prosecute former President Trump, if she removes Special Prosecutor and former boyfriend Nathan Wade from the case.

From FrontpageMag, the movie Cabrini is as beautiful and provocative as its namesake.

From Townhall, the Department of Homeland Security withholds information on the illegal alien charged with the murder of nursing student Laken Riley.

From The Washington Free Beacon, yes, the U.S. has undergone a political realignment.

From the Washington Examiner, Justice Elena Kagan leads the Supreme Court in a 6-3 tough-on-crime decision.

From The Federalist, more on the decision to allow the aforementioned Fani Willis to remain on the case against Trump.

From American Thinker, how the state of modern America was predicted during the 1970s by a punk rock band.

From MRCTV, the media praise Vice President Harris for her "historic" tour of an abortion mill in Minnesota.

From NewsBusters, those who run the Chinese-linked platform TikTok openly brag about its alleged "contribution" to the U.S. economy, even while facing a U.S. ban.

From Canada Free Press, the Big Apple becomes "the Big Banana".

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tells the E.U. to go fly a kite.

From TCW Defending Freedom, if you listen to U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's "energy sermon", you'll be able to smell the burning trousers.

From EuroNews, President Emmanuel Macron doesn't rule out sending French troops to Ukraine.

From Voice Of Europe, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is destroying Spain and eliminating the Spanish people.

From ReMix, police in Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany pull a teenage girl out of her high school and question her after she posts a TikTik video where she calls Germany her home.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Balkan Insight, at least 21 migrants die after their boat sinks in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey.

From The North Africa Post, Al Gore's invention has some technical difficulties in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

From The New Arab, female Syrian activists claim that their government fears them.

From Gatestone Institute, Biden should threaten Hamas and Qatar instead of threatening Israel.

From the Colombo Gazette, a Sri Lankan man accused of killing six fellow Sri Lankans in Ottawa, Canada is placed in protective custody.  (I wanted to provide a link from this source yesterday, but it had no articles published on that day.)

From The Straits Times, Singapore sends its third shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

From Tempo(dot)Co, how to dress when in Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, the former chairman of the company which managed the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recommends against hosting the games in 2026.

From the Borneo Post, 31 Ramadan Bazaar operators in the Malaysian state of Sabah are issued health citations.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam's ambassador to Italy visits the region of Basilicata to explore to explore potential cooperation between it and Vietnamese localities.  (For a brief look at Basilicata, go to this blog's archives for September 2012 and the post entitled "Matera".)

From the Taipei Times, Chinese and Taiwanese personnel join forces to rescue Chinese fishermen after their boat sinks.

From The Korea Herald, a pastor expelled from the Methodist Church of Korea for blessing same-sex couples takes his battle to be reinstated to a secular court.

From The Mainichi, portraits of ordinary people by an Edo-era Japanese painter offer a window into Japan's past.

From Japan Today, the Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda agree to explore a partnership in electric vehicles.  (Please welcome my newest source Japan Today.)

From The Stream, like the Patriot Act before it, the proposed ban on TikTok is a Trojan horse for big government tyranny.

From The Daily Signal, several states make progress in educational choice.

From The American Conservative, "activism" should stay out of schools.

From The Western Journal, Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon recounts the moment when she was almost killed by an illegal alien.

From BizPac Review, the Pentagon warns of the "alarming" number of drone incursions over the Mexican border.

From The Daily Wire, President Biden praises Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) speech criticizing Israel.

From the Daily Caller, the Democratic dark money machine prepares itself for the 2024 elections.

From Breitbart, before allegedly killing himself, the Boeing employee who became a whistleblower reportedly "made powerful enemies".

From Newsmax, law professor Alan Dershowitz puts in his $0.02 about the aforementioned decision to allow Jani Willis (but not her former boyfriend) to stay on the case against Trump.

And from the New York Post, inside a bathroom which has two toilets.

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