Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the "bizarre and tawdry" secrets of gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson (R-NC).

From FrontpageMag, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Cal) is angry because Californians want to make crime illegal again.

From Townhall, why have all the nutjobs who have tried to kill political opponents come from the left?

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's long shadow.

From the Washington Examiner, the Georgia State Election Board votes to require counties to hand-count all ballots on the night of the election.

From The Federalist, Oklahoma removes over 450,000 ineligible voters from its role, including over 5,000 convicted felons.

From American Thinker, a long list of infractions by the media, showing its bias.

From MRCTV, presidential candidate Vice President Harris's four weirdest word salads from her town hall with Oprah Winfrey.

From NewsBusters, a supporter of former President Trump schools a CNN reporter about inflation.

From Canada Free Press, the economic consequences of election Harris president.

From TeleSUR, Argentinian President Javier Milei seeks to privatize Aerolineas Argentinas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in an act of climate fearmongering, the BBC blames child marriage in Bangladesh on climate change.

From Snouts in the Trough, we're doomed, I tell you, we're doooooomed.

From EuroNews, why are forests in the Iberian peninsula so flammable?

From ReMix, two former europarliamentcritters from Hungary are invited back to lash out at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

From Balkan Insight, women's rights groups in Croatia demand tougher punishments for the crimes of femicide and rape.

From The North African Post, Moroccan police chief Abdellatif Hammouchi makes a working visit to Türkiye.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah distributed its pagers just hours before they exploded.

From Arutz Sheva, terrorists fire on a school bus in Mevo Dotan, West Bank.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Moroccan convicted of rape in Germany tries to justify his crimes with Sharia law.  (If you read German, read the story at Soester-Anzeiger.)

From ABC News, Israel claims to have killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon in which 12 people were killed.

From Gatestone Institute, why Egypt prefers having Palestinian terrorists on its border.

From The Stream, blaming the Christian victims in Cordoba, Spain for their own beheadings.

From The Daily Signal, neither Harris nor Trump has any proposals for cutting the national debt.

From The American Conservative, an argument for recognize the Houthis of Yemen.

From The Western Journal, even with a friendly crowd and the aforementioned Oprah Winfrey has a moderator, Harris flopped at her town hall.

From Fox News, early in-person voting starts in Virginia.

From BizPac Review, a major American construction equipment manufacturer backs off on DEI.

From The Daily Wire, the debate between Harris and Trump had no effect on polling in battleground states.

From the Daily Caller, police at UCLA stock up on non-lethal weapons after pro-HamasPalestinian protests engulfed its campus.

From the New York Post, a Dunkin Donuts worker calls the most "absurd" drink he has ever made "diabetes in a cup".

From Breitbart, an "Allahu akbar" breaks out in Rotterdam, Netherlands.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at de Volkskrant and De Telegraaf.)

From Newsmax, according to Trump, unlike the Russia collusion hoax of 2016, Iran's hacking of his campaign is "real stuff".

And from Yahoo!Sports, Shohei Ohtani becomes the first Major League baseball player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season.