Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, the new movie The Acolyte "bastardizes" the Star Wars franchise.

From FrontpageMag, ISIS-related terrorists entered the U.S. across its open southern border, and plotting to carry out bombings.

From Townhall, the latest inflation numbers are more bad news for President Biden's economic policy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to internal documents, "equity" requirements from the White House are holding back the construction of EV charging stations.

From the Washington Examiner, several Republicans run for the Senate as carpetbaggers.  (Don't the Republicans realize that carpetbagging is OK only when Democrats such as Hillary Clinton (D-NY) do it?)

From The Federalist, the trial of First Son Hunter Biden is a conviction of every deep state lie about his laptop.

From American Thinker, the media and other who talk about "science" really care about money and control.

From MRCTV, a woman allegedly stabs a three-year-old boy to death and laughs when the charges are read in court.

From NewsBusters, the media rating firm Al Fontes gives a highly favorable score to Al Jazeera, which is friendly to Hamas.

From Canada Free Press, Obama administration alumna Samantha Powers tries to foment revolution in Hungary.

From TeleSUR, the Argentine Senate starts debating reforms proposed by President Javier Milei.

From TCW Defending Freedom, young people hold the keys to both Downing Street and the White House.

From Snouts in the Trough, did Hamas do more damage to the Gaza Strip than Israel did?

From EuroNews, French politician Marine Le Pen, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, and their allies meet in Brussels, Belgium for talks on forming a "far-right" E.U. "supergroup".  (As I've said before, and as I and others have noticed, if you believe that adult material should be kept out of elementary schools, if you think that borders might be worth defending, if you believe that there are only two biological genders, if you have some skepticism about the climate change agenda - not about climate change itself, but about the agenda offered by politicians to deal with climate change, if you have even the slightest misgivings about Islam, and/or if you would rather not have international organizations full of unelected bureaucrats governing your life, you might be "far-right" or even "fascist".)

From Voice Of Europe, Austria schedules its next parliamentary elections for September 29th, amid increasing right-wing support.

From ReMix, when in Germany, please refrain from uttering the phrase Sieg Heil.

From Balkan Insight, freedom of information requests are routinely denied in six Balkan countries.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Slovenia agree to open embassies in their respective capitals of Rabat and Ljubljana.

From The New Arab, 49 people are killed when a building housing foreign workers in Kuwait catches fire.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf is called out after boasting about his free speech credentials.

From IranWire, Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili highlights his connections with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

From Iran International, according to former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Iran's next president should try to help lift sanctions.

From Khaama Press, Iran and Pakistan combine to deport almost 4,000 Afghan migrants in a single day.  (This sort of action is called "xenophobia" when Western countries do it.)

From Hasht e Subh, the bodies of a woman and her granddaughter are found in the Afghani province of Ghor, the woman allegedly having been killed by people connected to a district governor.

From the Afghanistan Times, the Taliban's crackdown on opium could result in a heroin shortage in the E.U.  (Wouldn't a decrease in the supply of an illegal addictive drug be a good thing?)

From Dawn, Pakistani Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presents a federal budget believed to be "in line with IMF guidelines".

From The Express Tribune, under the new budget, Pakistanis who earn salaries will have to pay a higher tax rate.

From Pakistan Today, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif orders the creation of Pakistan's first "health tower".

From Gatestone Institute, antisemitism in Belgium is "extremely alarming".

From The Stream, it's time to tell the truth about the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Daily Signal, how right-wingers plan to remove DEI from the federal government.

From The American Conservative, congresscritter Jim Banks (R-IN) goes after the Ukrainian NGO that targets war skeptics.

From The Western Journal, candidate Michael Rulli (R-OH) wins the seat held by former congresscritter Bill Johnson (R-OH).

From BizPac Review, a middle school student is expelled, along with his sisters, for making a speech in which he mentioned "patriotism", according to their mother.

From The Daily Wire, content from the Nashville school shooter's journal is revealed.  (As the article points out, some of the content is "graphic and disturbing".)

From the Daily Caller, former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas's challenge to a rule that forbids biological males from competing against women in "elite events" fails.

From the New York Post, the Trump-supporting drag queen Lady Maga schools an anti-Israel protester.  (Yes, there is a drag queen who supports former President Trump.)

From Breitbart, the organization Gun Owners of America secures a preliminary injunction against the ATF's background check rule.

From Newsmax, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden has not ruled out a pardon for his son Hunter.

And from NBC News, legendary NBA player, coach and executive Jerry West goes to the basketball court in the sky.

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