Wednesday Wanderings

On a warm cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Vice President Pence says that he'd "consider" testifying before the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From FrontpageMag, why the left is hysterical over the SCOTUS decisions in Dobbs v. Jackson and Kennedy v. Bremerton.

From Townhall, according to a poll, most people in New Hampshire are ready to ditch Senator Maggie Hassan (D).

From The Washington Free Beacon, "yes, we will question the integrity of our federal law enforcement officials".

From the Washington Examiner, jaguars seen in Mexico near the U.S. border could signal their return to the U.S.

From The Federalist, why Democrat claims that "no one is above the law" are hollow.

From American Thinker, the American justice system has gone Beria.

From CNS News, a TV ad contrasts the response (or lack thereof) to attacks on churches from Presidents Kennedy and Biden.

From LifeZette, lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) compares herself to President Lincoln and trashes former President Trump after losing her primary.

From NewsBusters, CNN pundits admit who Cheney's base really is.

From Canada Free Press, how Trump flipped the script on the Great Reset.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador and China will sign a free trade agreement this year.

From TCW Defending Freedom, welcome to the latest climate conference, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.  (Can the nearby airport accommodate all those private jets?)

From Free West Media, in parts of Austria, more foreigners than locals receive welfare benefits.

From EuroNews, which European countries are hurt the most by the current inflation?

From Euractiv, why forest biomass does not qualify as "renewable" energy.

From ReMix, inflation hits a 40-year high in the U.K. at 10.1 percent.

From Balkan Insight, the Russian embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina accuses the West of "NATOising" the country.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and the U.S. discuss cooperation against human trafficking.

From The New Arab, Egyptian security forces attack and detain inhabitants of the Nile island of Warraq after protests against government plans to depopulate the island for commercial projects.  (Sounds like the demolition of the Fort Trumbull section of New London, CT on steroids.)

From Israel Hayom, speaking in Germany, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claims that Israel perpetrated "50 Holocausts" against the Palestinians.

From the Daily Mail, Saudi Arabia sentences a student at Leeds University in the U.K. to 34 years in prison for having an account on Twitter and following and retweeting Tweets from dissidents.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, China is winning the economic race against the U.S., with profound consequences.

From The Stream, a reminder that the Christian and Muslim worlds have moral differences.

From The Daily Signal, of illegal migrants, big city mayors, busloads and budgets.

From Space War, according to South Korea, North Korea has fired two cruise missiles.

From ITR Economics, understanding the timeline for the 2020s and 2030s.

From Terra Daily, talks to address Iraq's political deadlock take place without Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

From The American Conservative, student loan forgiveness is a bad idea.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned Liz Cheney's post-primary speech.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson notices that no leaks from the FBI have occurred about the late Jeffrey Epstein's client list.

From The Daily Wire, Hollywood and political commentators react negatively to Liz Cheney's primary loss.

From the Daily Caller, according to a study, students needed to make up their coronavirus pandemic-related learning losses, but instead standards were lowered for them.

From the New York Post, according to experts, credit for falling gas prices should not go to the White House.  (I think that the Biden administration can claim credit for the recent falling gas prices only if they'll also accept the blame for rising gas prices that started when they took office.)

From Breitbart, former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) wins her congressional primary.

From Newsmax, a former Trump White House official mourns Liz Cheney's primary loss.

And from Fox News, a biologically male trans woman applies to join every sorority at the University of Alabama, and get rejected by every single one of them.  (via the New York Post)

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, what if the law were applied in the same way to all politicians?

From FrontpageMag, the real reason why an Egyptian-born Texan man killed his daughters.

From Townhall, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) is making moves.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Danny Davis (D-IL) rents his district office a man convicted of dealing she-don't-lie.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump's favorability rating reaches a new high after the FBI raid on his house at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Federalist, the blame for the botch American withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago belongs to President Biden.

From American Thinker, the Biden administration's climate policy revives that of President Carter in 1979.

From CNS News, First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for the coronavirus.

From LifeZette, a Trump attorney drops truth bombs on Biden's DOJ and FBI.

From NewsBusters, an actual climate expert wrecks the climate provisions of the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From Canada Free Press, according to a left-wing columnist, the rosary has been "woven into the gun culture".

From TeleSUR, the Caribbean Community meets in Nassau, Bahamas to discuss climate change.  (How many of the participants arrived on private jets?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, memo to the globalists: the mission of your agent the coronavirus has been accomplished.

From Snouts in the Trough, with apologies to Bob Dylan, "the climate - they say it's changing".

From Free West Media, "hunger stones" in German and Czech rivers are again exposed.

From EuroNews, Greek authorities locate 38 migrants near the river Evros and confirm the death of a five-year-old girl who was among them.

From Euractiv, Bulgaria and North Macedonia make progress while discussing their "common history".

From ReMix, speaking on the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, President Andrzej Duda states that only Poland has managed to defeat the Soviet Union in a war.  (Although I'm proud of Poland's victory in that war, due to my own Polish heritage, I have a feeling that some people in Afghanistan might beg to differ with President Duda.)

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia suspends the head of its Organized Crime Prosecution office.

From The North Africa Post, the E.U. increases its aid to Morocco for dealing with illegal immigration by 50 percent.

From The New Arab, Iraqi Finance Minister Ali Allawi resigns during a cabinet meeting.

From OpIndia, a list of Indian "Hindus killed for being Hindus".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man from Iraq is arrested in connection with an arson attack on the headquarters of the Lower Austrian Freedom Party in St. Pölten, Austria.

From Israel Hayom, garbage trucks dump trash on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

From Gatestone Institute, the civil libertarian double standard about the application of the Espionage Act endangers the rule of law.

From The Stream, a woman needing a kidney finds one from a pro-life donor.

From The Daily Signal, state election integrity laws have improved.

From The American Conservative, is the rosary really an "extremist symbol".

From The Western Journal, a conservative media executive nails the Department Of Justice on three big lies about the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From BizPac Review, a Pennsylvania man is arrested for allegedly making threats against FBI agents on social media.

From The Daily Wire, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is praised for sending illegal aliens to New York City by a former Democratic governor of New York.

From the Daily Caller, liberals hated the Espionage Act until the FBI used it against Trump.

From Reuters, the Biden White House has a plan on abortion that addresses men as well as women.  (via the Daily Caller)

From Just The News, the Department Of Justice admits that the FBI over-collected evidence in the raid at Mar-a-Lago.  (via the Daily Caller)

From TMZ, video shows the damage done to the home into which Anne Heche's car crashed.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, according to director Eric Parkinson, Anne Heche did her own stunts "like a champ" in her last film.

From Breitbart, cartel-connected Mexican human smugglers spray dangerous chemicals on migrants to prevent sniffer dogs from smelling them.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), the Republicans will "undo" the "Inflation Reduction Act" if they take both chambers of Congress in the upcoming elections.

From the International Business Times, China will discourage abortions in order to boost its birth rate.  (This is a reversal from its former one-child and forced abortion policies, which sought to decrease its birth rate.  This new pro-birth policy, however, does not apply to the Uighurs.  The story comes via Newsmax.)

And from the Genesius Times, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) is airlifted back to Washington, D.C.

Monday Links

On a cloudy and relatively cool Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former and current gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) inadvertently reveals the problem with the pro-abortion position.

From FrontpageMag, what's this about all our troubles being fixed in 2024?

From Townhall, the FBI's ransacking of former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago takes another irresponsible turn.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, a year on.

From the Washington Examiner, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange friendly letters promising closer ties between their countries.

From The Federalist, records suggest that a bureaucrat's grievance spurred the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From American Thinker, monkeypox and "don't say gay".

From CNS News, the FBI reportedly identified 81 classified email chains that were sent to or from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal server.

From LifeZette, gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) sets Twitter on fire with her comments on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and Trump.

From NewsBusters, CNN ignores FBI whistleblowers while hyping dubious claims about "right wing" terrorism.

From Canada Free Press, "everyone has a right to be stupid", but some people abuse it.

From TeleSUR, according to Brazilian indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara, the Amazon region will become a desert if President Jair Bolsonaro wins reelection.

From TCW Defending Freedom, 2,226 people have reportedly died from adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines.

From Snouts in the Trough, why are our ruling elites trying to bankrupt farmers?

From Free West Media, Finns who travel to Russia to buys its cheaper gasoline are accused of treason.

From EuroNews, rivals seeking to replace Boris "the Spider" Johnson as the U.K.'s prime minister are blasted over their economic plans.

From Euractiv, rain brings some relief to fire-stricken France.

From ReMix, former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has some choice words for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky(y).

From Balkan Insight, thousands of protesters in Belgrade, Serbia hold an anti-pride march.

From The North Africa Post, two Israeli companies team up to launch intermittent renewable energy projects in Morocco and other signatories to the Abraham accords.

From The New Arab, three Egyptians are sentenced to six months in prison for filming and leaking a video showing the dead body of a murdered woman.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at El-Watan.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's proxy war against Israel is fed by U.S. President Biden's weakness.

From The Stream, the genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

From The American Conservative, liberals are afraid of the rosary.

From The Daily Signal, a year after the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan.

From The Western Journal, the FBI is terrified of a backlash from its raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From BizPac Review, according to congresscritter Jim Jordan, 14 FBI whistleblowers have come forward.

From The Daily Wire, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) dodges a question about not allowing unvaccinated students back into schools, which decision would disproportionally affect black students.  (If you're wondering why black Americans might be skeptical about government-mandated injections, look up the Tuskegee Experiment.)

From the Daily Caller, an activist investment firm pushes an energy company, in which it owns a stake, to produce less gas and oil.

From the New York Post, a wrestling match takes place on a beach on New York's Fire Island, between a dangerous animal and a shark.

From Breitbart, Russian attorneys for WNBA player Brittney Griner appeal her nine-year sentence.

From Newsmax, two former Minneapolis police officers charged in relation to the death of George Floyd reject plea bargains.

And from The Babylon Bee, anonymous sources allege that former President Trump stole plans that reveal the White House's only weakness, its thermal exhaust port.

Sunday Stuff

On a cloudy and warm Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a man drives into a Capitol barricade and then shoots himself dead.

From Townhall, if you support Texas Governor Greg Abbott's (R) busing of illegal migrants to New York City and Washington, D.C., you can put your money where your mouth is.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about statesmen by Henry Kissinger.

From the Washington Examiner, unvaccinated Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic hopes to possibly play in the upcoming U.S. Open.

From American Thinker, if you wonder how Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) keeps getting reelected, do the math.

From Red Voice Media, a child sex abuser is found guilty, drinks a liquid in court, and then dies.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, TV host Andrea Mitchell tells Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) that we're not yet in a recession.

From Canada Free Press, Canada's Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeks to disappear inventor Alexander Graham Bell.  (Don't all those parliamentcritters have telephones?  And what do they think of this song?)

From TeleSUR, Cuban authorities assess damage and search for the missing after the first at the port city of Matanzas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Haywards Heath, England leads Europe on the alleged climate emergency.  (During my first visit to the U.K. in 1991, I stayed in the south coastal city of Eastbourne.  On the railroad line between there and London, Haywards Heath was a major stop.)

From Free West Media, the international consulting firm McKinsey wins contracts in the Netherlands without any call for tenders.

From EuroNews, due to climate change, the U.K. could produce more wine than the French regions of Champagne and Burgundy.

From ReMix, according to German law enforcement official Stephan Kramer, high energy prices could make coronavirus-related protests look like "a kid's birthday party".

From The North Africa Post, according to a report from the World Bank, natural disasters cost Morocco $575 million every year.

From The New Arab, a fire at Abi Sefein Orthodox Church in the Egyptian governorate of Giza leaves 55 people dead and dozens of others injured.

From Israel Hayom, a pro-Palestinian student group at Ohio State University holds a vigil for a dead terrorist.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man allegedly decapitates his father in Saint-Priest, France, and yells "Allah Akbar" while being arrested.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Progrès, La Provence, and FDeSouche.)

From The Japan Times, the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie recalls the murder of the man who translated his book The Satanic Verses into Japanese.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Twitter owes Rushdie an apology.

From Gatestone Institute, "a dangerous triple fantasy".

From The Stream, Islam's centuries-long war against critics of its prophet Mohammed.

From Space War, a region in Iraq known as the Garden of Eden is now "like a desert".

From The American Conservative, the aforementioned Salman Rushdie and our permanent fatwa culture.

From The Western Journal, shortly before the raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump sent Attorney General Garland a short message and a question.

From BizPac Review, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) will lead a second delegation to Taiwan.

From The Daily Wire, a fireworks explosion destroys a building and kills several people in Yerevan, Armenia.

From the Daily Caller, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tries to explain the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From the New York Post, the Overture will bring back supersonic travel.

From Breitbart, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) blasts Governor Kathy Hochul for criticizing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at a Holocaust education event.

From Newsmax, former congresscritter Ron Nunes (R-Cal) calls the raid on Mar-a-Lago "an investigation in search of a crime".

And to end on a sad note, from CNN, the Norwegian government euthanizes Freya the walrus, who attracted crowds and climbed onto boats.

Saturday Stories

Now that I've returned from a walk in nearby forest, which Sasquatches are supposed to do from time to time, I give you some things going on:

From National Review, electric vehicles and greenflation.

From Townhall, left-wingers on Twitter go nuts over former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) filling in for right-wing newsman Tucker Carlson.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Emilia Sykes (D-OH) sued her alma mater after losing its beauty pageant.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) claims that in 2020, people told her that they would vote for her if she were a he.

From American Thinker, Mexican border cities explode with drug cartel violence.

From Red Voice Media, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) greenlights a project to close gaps in the border wall.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a look back to when MSNBC hated congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY).

From Canada Free Press, an open letter to former President Trump.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. needs Magna Carty 2.0 to regain its future.

From Free West Media, as price rise, German supermarkets attack anti-theft devices to foods.

From EuroNews, tourists are shocked by the shrinking of Italy's Lake Garda.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's path to development is highlighted by a U.S. think tank.

From The New Arab, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi announces a reshuffle of his cabinet.

From the Daily Mail, Iranian state media praises the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie.

From Gatestone Institute, a deal will not stop Iran's mullahs from going nuclear.

From The Stream, the FBI raid that was heard around the world.

From The American Conservative, "finding the Seekers", who "were countercultural in the best way".

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris breaks her silence on the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, and seems to start chuckling.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Rashida "impeach the [bleep]" Tlaib (D-MN) collected rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic while calling for rent to be canceled.

From The Daily Wire, a top advisor to President Biden recuses herself due to ties with Pfizer and a green energy business.

From the Daily Caller, according to records, Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) took corporate PAC money while pledging not to.

From Breitbart, a report on the condition of the aforementioned Salman Rushdie.

From Newsmax, according to his lawyer, Trump is not fazed by the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

And from the New York Post, to restore some class to the Super Bowl halftime show, bring back some Gershwin.

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, if inflation cools off, what should the Republican message be?

From FrontpageMag, no Democrat senators voted to define pregnancy as being unique to biological females.

From Townhall, NPR gets wrecked over its coverage of a Florida license plate.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Chris Deluzio (D-PA), supports the "Inflation Reduction Act", which would increase the size of the IRS, was negligent on his property taxes.

From the Washington Examiner, Arizona starts building a border wall.

From The Federalist, the 2024 presidential election is already being rigged.

From American Thinker, the FBI and its media allies try to justify the raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From CNS News, according to former acting DHS Director Chad Wolf, the DHS was flying migrants to New York City for months, but Mayor Eric Adams (D) had no problem until they arrived on buses.

From LifeZette, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) defies political correctness and backs the Gadsden flag.

From NewsBusters, Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is still banned from the U.S. due to his being unvaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Canada Free Press, the "Schwabian Economic Theory" is failing.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo believes that evidence against him will be fabricated.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when it comes to the climate, viewers are turning against the BBC.

From Snouts in the Trough, a serial killer of Muslim men turns out to not be an Islamophobe.

From Free West Media, an Italian is investigated for enlisting to fight in Ukraine.

From EuroNews, author Salman Rushdie is attacked while giving a lecture in western New York state.

From Euractiv, France gets some help from other E.U. countries against wildfires.

From ReMix, Czechs flock to Poland for cheaper shopping and gasoline.

From Balkan Insight, a Serbian Orthodox bishop is criticized for a curse against a EuroPride event in Belgrade.

From The North Africa Post, the Libyan state-owned oil company National Oil Corporation plans to increase its production.

From The New Arab, why do Lebanese people sympathize with a bank robber.

From the Northamptonshire Telegraph, a Muslim woman is sickened by bacon mistakenly put into her cheeseburger.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Iraqi man in Grenoble, France walks into a bar, wields a knife, and accuses people there of being "bad Muslims".  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche and Le Dauphiné.)

From U.S. News & World Report, more on the attack on Salmon Rushdie.

From Gatestone Institute, Belgium's prisoner exchange treaty with Iran is a "deal with the devil".

From The Stream, President Biden exploits the murders of four Muslims in New Mexico to play identity politics.

From The Daily Signal, according to protesters, female athletes are "clear losers" of Biden's changes to Title XI.

From The American Conservative, we don't want a banana republic.

From The Western Journal, the FBI lists 11 sets of allegedly classified documents from Mar-a-Lago.

From Fox News, actress Anne Heche is not expected to survive from her car wreck, but she is being kept on life support so that some of her organs can possibly be donated.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, Attorney General Merrick Garland admits that he "personally approved" of the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Daily Wire, according to a survey, a huge portion of millennial workers want to leave their employers because they don't support abortion loudly enough.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Education will investigate an alleged minority-only coping session at a middle school in South Carolina.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Richard Neal (D-MA), the Democrats plan to raise taxes again if they maintain control of the House after the upcoming elections.

From Newsmax, a 1952 baseball card of Hall-Of-Famer Mickey Mantle draws bids of a record $7.6 million, and there's two weeks left of bidding time.  (To see his boyhood home in Oklahoma, go to this blog's archives for August 2021.)

And from the New York Post, New York City area establishments offer up tasty tributes to the recently discontinued Choco Taco.

Thursday Links

On a sunny and warm but not too warm Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats propose to create an "inane" stock-buyback tax.

From FrontpageMag, the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago and double standards.

From Townhall, since former President Obama has missing records, will the FBI raid his house?  (Would this refer to his house in D.C., his mansion on Martha's Vineyard, or his new house in Hawaii?)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats launch an ad intended to attract Latino voters, which shows a café with prices shown in euros.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the CDC, the U.S. has surpassed 10,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox.

From The Federalist, according to a report, Democratic operatives voter roll management systems in 31 states.

From American Thinker, some questions arising from the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

From CNS News, after the raid on Mar-a-Lago, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) points out that "no person is above the law".  (Does that also apply to the persons who vandalize pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, persons who enter the U.S. without being checked at a port of entry, persons who vandalized businesses during the BLM and Pro-Fa riots of 2020, persons who damage statues or knock them over, persons who delete emails after they are subpoenaed, and to a certain person who has a notorious laptop?  In other words, "are you serious", Madame Speaker?)

From LifeZette, a Florida student is expelled after her mother stands up to gender identity indoctrination.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) reveals the chilling truth about the raid at Mar-a-Lago.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a pilot program on Twitter for identifying "misleading" information surprisingly dings White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

From Canada Free Press, President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau go on beach holidays are people in their respective countries try to survive.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo refuses to resign.

From TCW Defending Freedom, who's afraid of monkeypox?

From Free West Media, France plans to shut down half of its nuclear reactors.

From EuroNews, a Russian journalist opposed to the invasion of Ukraine tells a court, "may the dead children haunt you".

From Euractiv, Sweden now exceeds France as Europe's leading exporter of electricity.

From ReMix, 16-year-olds in Spain will soon be allowed to change their gender without parental permission.  (To paraphrase a certain show tune, the pain in Spain stays mainly in your brain.)

From Balkan Insight, a truck operated by human smugglers in North Macedonia capsizes, injuring 35 Syrian migrants.

From The North Africa Post, the administrative court of Tunis suspends Tunisian President Kais Saied's dismissal of 57 judges.

From The New Arab, ISIS terrorists "besiege key points" near the Suez Canal in Egypt.

From Dawn, the Pakistani navy rescues nine crew members from an Indian ship near the Pakistani port city of Gwadar.

From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan condemns the arrests of a private news channel's director and the wife of an assistant to politician Shahbaz Gill as "fascist".  (Gill was an aide to the former prime minister.)

From Pakistan Today, Pakistanis express their displeasure at the arrest of Gill's driver's wife, whose young daughter was detained along with her.

From The Hans India, thousands of people participate in the Freedom Run across the Indian state of Telangana.

From the Hindustan Times, at least two people are killed in clashes over an interfaith relationship in Hulihyder, Karnataka, India.

From ANI, there will be no smoking on SpiceJet's airplanes, and they mean it.

From India Today, why 9 South Korean fighter jets made an unplanned stop at the Kolkata, India airport.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi expatriates sent $813 million in remittances back to Bangladesh in the first ten days of August.

From New Age, counterfeiting medicines in Bangladesh could cost ya big time, pilgrim.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's Archaeology Department asks for a list of items in the President's House.

From the Daily Mirror, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to Sri Lanka after his visa to Thailand runs out.

From Raajje, Uhud Hajj and Umrah pilgrims are set to leave tonight on an Umrah to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  (An Uhud Hajj appears to be a pilgrimage to Mount Uhud, a few miles north of Medina, where a battle took place in March of 625 AD, or 3AH in the Islamic calendar.)

From The Straits Times, the Singaporean government cuts its economic growth forecast.

From Tempo(dot)Co, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia's economy is impressive compared to those of other countries.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Malaysia's Court of Appeal, children born outside of Malaysia to Malaysian fathers and foreign mothers are entitled to Malaysian citizenship, but children born to Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers are not.

From the Borneo Post, the birth rate in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is reportedly declining because women delay having children due to studies and work.

From Vietnam Plus, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang, Vietnam is closely monitoring the situation in the Taiwan Strait.

From the Taipei Times, according to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, China appears to have scaled down its military drills, but still remains a threat.

From The Mainichi, nine rivers in northern Japan overflow their banks due to heavy rains.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. must change its incoherent policy on Taiwan.

From The Stream, according to an opinion column, the raid at Mar-a-Lago looks like a "textbook" 4th Amendment violation.

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's executive order on abortion access is misleading and has lots of misinformation.

From The American Conservative, family breakdown and the story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio.

From The Western Journal, according to former First Son Eric Trump, his father's PAC has received record-breaking support in the wake of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

From BizPac Review, according to former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, the Democrats are unwise to prevent former President Trump from running, and instead wants to vote against him.

From The Daily Wire, as monkeypox spreads around the world, the World Health Organization tells people to refrain from attacking monkeys.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) may have saved her state's coal industry.

From Breitbart, FBI agents corner an armed suspect who allegedly made threats at their Cincinnati office.

From Newsmax, the CDC drops its coronavirus-related quarantine and screening guidelines.

And from the New York Post, when at Starbucks, please don't stare at the barista making your coffee.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, Americans deserve an explanation for the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From FrontpageMag, the raid at Mar-a-Lago is really a preview of the 2024 election.

From Townhall, was yesterday's special congressional election in Minnesota good news or bad news for the Republicans?

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Democrat plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents gets support from a tax-delinquent congresscritter.

From the Washington Examiner, Boeing delivers its first 787 Dreamliner since last year.

From The Federalist, the rule of law in the U.S. has become a farce under President Biden's Department Of Justice.

From American Thinker, if the Republicans retake the Senate in the upcoming midterms, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should not be made the majority leader.

From CNS News, the federal government collects a record amount of taxes in the current fiscal year through July.

From LifeZette, the judge who authorized the raid at Mar-a-Lago is a big supporter of Democrats.

From Red Voice Media, could we be in for "deja flu" all over again?  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC's The 11th Hour demands that we stop calling the FBI's raid at Mar-a-Lago a raid.

From TCW Defending Freedom, for saying things that make sense, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban is "re-Hitlered".

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s bloated civil service gets even more bloated.

From Free West Media, a tabloid calls German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach "confused" and possibly "mentally ill".

From EuroNews, a Russian journalist who protested against the war in Ukraine is arrested and her home is raided.  (What is this "right to dissent" you speak of?)

From Euractiv, Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the "far-right" party Brothers of Italy, brings them close to power.

From ReMix, according to Polish europarliamentcritter Ryszard Legutko, "the E.U. is sowing the seeds of its own destruction".

From Balkan Insight, Jews in North Macedonia condemn the decision by ethnic Bulgarians to name a club after the king who allied Bulgaria to Nazi Germany in World War II.

From Morocco World News, the parents of Moroccan students who fled Ukraine denounce the delay in their integration.

From The North Africa Post, a rift grows between the U.S. and Tunisia.

From the Libyan Express, Libya postpones the trials of 56 suspected ISIS terrorists until September.  (The article was published yesterday, but I will let it slide because it's the most recent thing I can find on the site.  I might also ask, what is this "right to a speedy trial" you speak of?)

From Hürriyet Daily News, NATO countries seek to purchase defense industry products from Türkiye.  (The country known as Turkey wants to be known as Türkiye.  So far, my spellchecker has not agreed to this change.)

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Constitutional Court rules against advertising bans imposed on newspapers critical of the Turkish government.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr calls for Iraq's judiciary to dissolve Iraq's parliament.

From Armenpress, a process of removing cultural monuments has started in the Artsakh region of Kashatagh.  (Artsakh is an autonomous region of Azerbaijan that has an ethnic Armenian majority population.  It is also called Nagorno Karabakh.)

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenia climbs to 51st place from 63rd in the World Press Freedom Index.

From In-Cyprus, a court in Limassol, Cyprus sentences an arsonist to two years in prison.

From The Syrian Observer, military skirmishes, but not war, break out in northern Syria.

From North Press Agency, at least three people are killed in a Turkish drone attack on a car in Malla Sibat, Syria.

From The961, according to Industry Minister George Boushekian, Lebanon is on its way to becoming an oil producer.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the new party formed by knessetcritter Ayelet Shaked will not pass Israel's electoral threshold.  (A knessetcritter is the Israeli equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

Form The Times Of Israel, Israeli prosecutors consider indicting former knessetcritter Michael Ben Ari for alleged incitement against Arabs.

From The Jerusalem Post, was it legal for Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz to start an operation in Gaza without convening the Israeli cabinet?

From YNetNews, immigration to Israel from Russia and Ukraine has jumped amid the conflict between those two countries.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas issues and later rescinds restrictions on foreign journalists working in Gaza.

From the Egypt Independent, according to the Russian Consul General in Hurghada, Egypt, five tourism companies are ready to start organizing trips to the city.

From Egypt Today, Egypt is not facing any energy shortage.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Women's and Social Affairs Minister Ergogie Tesfaye and Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankara Subrahmanyam hold a discussion about issues of interest.

From the Saudi Gazette, 100 girls participate in Saudi Arabia's first women's scout camp, in the city of Al-Baha.

From The New Arab, while under siege in Syria, ISIS leader Abu Salem al-Iraqi sends himself to his virgins.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian activists demand the release of anti-hijab protester Sepideh Rashno.

From IranWire, 125 Baha'is in Iran have reportedly been victimized by a crackdown in the past 10 days.

From Iran International, Iran and Russia have cooperated on satellites and drones.

From Khaama Press, according to local Taliban officials, dozens of families have been evacuated from their homes in the Afghan province of Jawzjan due to a fire.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Azizi Bank in the Sar-i-Pul, Afghanistan limits the amount of cash withdrawals.

From the Afghanistan Times, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and 50 unanswered questions.

From OpIndia, Islamists throw stones at Muharram processions in two districts in India.

From AP News, an Afghan man is charged with killing four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From Gatestone Institute, China and Russia attack the dollar, with help from U.S. President Biden.

From The Stream, should we emulate Jesus in his flipping of the tables of the money-changers?

From The American Conservative, the meaning of the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Daily Signal, seven ways in which the "Inflation Reduction Act" will attack your wallet.

From The Western Journal, according to an op-ed, Biden's Department of Justice reeks of double standards.

From BizPac Review, according to Georgetown University Law Professor John Turley, the FBI has "every right" to collect "classified material', but the need for the raid at Mar-a-Lago is still unclear.

From The Daily Wire, billionaire Elon Musk floats the idea of creating his own social media platform if he ends up not buying Twitter.

From the Daily Caller, Dr. Fauci gets booed while accepting an award before the start of a major league baseball game.

From the New York Post, a former public defender in Missouri smuggles heroin into a prison and thus gets his own term in the big house.

From Breitbart, the IDF releases helmet cam footage of a raid in Nablus, West Bank in which two terrorists were killed.

From Newsmax, former First Son Eric Trump reacts to the raid on his father's house.

From the Los Angeles Daily News, would-be home invaders in Hollywood Hills, California run into the 2nd Amendment.  (via the Washington Examiner)

And from WLKY, while on an entrance ramp for I-71, a truck spills its beer.  (via the Washington Examiner)

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, the FBI should release the warrant under which former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was raided.

From FrontpageMag, with the raid on Trump's home, America falls into the abyss.

From Townhall, the architect of the Trump/Russia collusion hoax reveals the reason for the FBI raid.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Princeton University a "supplier diversity" tool for potential vendors.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats worry that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago might "strengthen" Republicans.

From The Federalist, Americans have no reason, with or without the search warrant, to believe that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is justified.

From American Thinker, remember when Mr. Bill's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger got nothing more than a $50,000 fine for stealing classified documents?

From CNS News, according to former Trump advisor Steven Miller, the "security state" has been after Trump for six years.

From Red Voice Media, the raid on Trump's home shows evidence of a weaponized government.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, on the show CBS Mornings, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) is demanded to keep talking about Trump.

From Canada Free Press, President "Orwell" Biden's "FBI Gestapo".

From TeleSUR, over 250,000 liters of water have been thrown onto a wildfire in Cuba.

From TCW Defending Freedom, do I see a knife or a dagger?

From GBN, convicted terrorists in U.K. prisons are "refusing" to be deradicalized.

From Russia Today, Hungary offers a possible solution to allow the supply of Russian oil to Europe to resume.

From Sputnik International, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, several round of ammunition have detonated at an airfield near Novofederovka, Crimea.

From The Moscow Times, more on the explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea.

From EuroNews, Finland and Estonia call for the E.U. to stop issuing tourist visas for Russians.

From Euractiv, two more grain-carrying ships sail from Ukraine.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian company Transgaz seeks to buy foreign gas to balance its supply for the upcoming winter.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Economica.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria will remove its mask requirement for some places tomorrow.

From The Sofia Globe, protests erupt over Russia's effort to extradite one of its nationals from Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, greater predictability is expected for Bulgaria's upcoming winter tourist season.

From the Greek Reporter, when using the Athens, Greece metro, beware of pickpockets.

From Ekathimerini, 65 forest fires reportedly break out in Greece in 24 hours.

From the Greek City Times, a Pakistani man who alleged killed a 17-year-old Greek girl in Athens is given pre-trial detention.

From Balkan Insight, Albania's central bank breaks rules in the renovation of a hotel in the capital city of Tirana.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia needs tourism workers.

From Total Slovenia News, according to Mayor Zoran Janković, Ljubljana, Slovenia has enough fuel for the upcoming winter.

From The Slovenia Times, the bishop of Novo Mesto, Slovenia is reportedly suspected of tax evasion.  (Novo Mesto is the birthplace of former U.S. First Lady Melania Trump.)

From The Malta Independent, Maltese authorities arrest 27 people for living in Malta illegally and prepares to deport them.  (It seems that some countries are allowed to arrest and deport illegal aliens without being accused of racism and xenophobia.)

From Malta Today, Maltese "far-right" activist Eman Cross is charged with threatening his mother and her partner, and with carrying an unlicensed gun.  (As I have before, I put quotes around the term "far-right" because it often means nothing more than wanting your country to be governed by its elected representatives instead of by international organizations such as the E.U.  As far as I can tell, the article does not specifically set forth Cross's views or why they are "far-right".  If anyone reading this knows what his views are, please leave a comment pointing them out.)

From ANSA, the Raphael painting La Fornarina returns to Rome's Palazzo Barberini National Art Gallery from London's National Gallery.

From SwissInfo, a Bronze Age burial site is discovered in the Swiss village of Savièse.

From France24, Iran gives imprisoned Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah a five-day furlough.  (If my high school French serves me correctly, the sign in the article's picture says, under her name, "Researcher imprisoned in Iran.  Her fight for liberty is ours.")

From RFI, more than 3,000 people are evacuated from forest fires in the French departments of Lozère and Aveyron.

From Free West Media, France faces a milk shortage.

From El País, a medical marijuana tycoon seeks justice after his brothers death on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police crack down on wild camping.

From The North Africa Post, Chad's transitional authorities and opposition factions sign a peace deal mediated by Qatar, but the country's most powerful insurgent group refuses to do likewise.

From The New Arab, Hezbollah promises to "sever" Israel's hands over disputed offshore gas reserves.

From Israel Hayom, Palestinian looters damage Jewish archaeological sites in Sebastia, West Bank.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Lebanese TV captures the misfire of a rocket launched by the terror group Islamic Jihad, which landed in a Gaza neighborhood, and averts its camera.

From Gatestone Institute, being America's enemy pays Palestinians better than being its friend.

From The Stream, the act to raise your taxes.

From The Daily Signal, the public school system needs reforms.

From The American Conservative, the failure in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting was societal.

From The Western Journal, supporters of former President Trump spring into action after the FBI raid on his house at Mar-a-Lago.

From TMZ, the FBI waited for Trump to leave town before raiding his home.  (via The Western Journal.)

From BizPac Review, posters behind an pro-illegal immigration activist shows his hypocrisy.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator (and TDW editor emeritus) Ben Shapiro warns of "hell to pay" if the raid at Mar-a-Lago shows no evidence of a serious crime.

From the Daily Caller, the National Education Association suggests summer reading about kneeling for the national anthem.

From the New York Post, an Egyptian-born Texas man is convicted of murdering his two daughters in 2008.

From Breitbart, never-Trumper former congresscritter Joe Walsh (R-IL) is worried that the raid at Mar-a-Lago will anger moderate Republicans into supporting Trump.  (This guy should not be confused with the musician of the same name, who once ran for president.)

From Newsmax, according to gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ), the raid at Mar-a-Lago shows that the justice system is "broken".

And from the Genesius Times, Trump tells the FBI that he kept all the secret files on Hunter Biden's laptop.