Stories For Juneteenth

On the newest official American holiday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, if President Biden wants voters to believe that we're not in a recession, he should act like we're not in a recession.

From FrontpageMag, teachers in Chicago demand $145,000 salaries even though 80 percent of their student can't do math.

From Townhall, a truck driver who allegedly caused a fatal crash in Colorado is an illegal alien who has been deported 16 times.  (Yes, you read that right.  He's been removed from the U.S. 16 times.  I've sometimes had the idea that when someone from Latin America is deported multiple times, each deportation should be to a place farther south than the previous one.  Hopefully, such a deportee will get it through his thick skull that he's not welcome here before we're dropping him off in Antarctica.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos, gives millions of dollars to a community fund with ties to the radical group behind the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.  (She should be not confused with Scott McKenzie, who sang the song San Francisco, written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.)

From the Washington Examiner, at the top of the worst-run city list is (drum roll, please), San Francisco.  (The city appears to have deteriorated since Scott McKenzie sang about it.)

From The Federalist, San Francisco Mayor London Breed seems to think that her top job is naming drag queens.  (Could this be part of the reason why San Francisco appears to have deteriorated?)

From American Thinker, a very important 1st Amendment case is in store for the Supreme Court.

From MRCTV, Republicans blast Democrats intending to include women if the draft is reinstated.  (Such a provision could be confusing, since many of us these days don't even know how to define "woman".)

From NewsBusters, according to Shark Tank cohost Kevin O'Leary, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has turned his state into a "version of Venezuela".

From Canada Free Press, the Connecticut Bar Association appears to misunderstand the 1st Amendment.

From TeleSUR, the Haitian army is on a war footing.

From TCW Defending Freedom, British politician Nigel Farage must target Labour Party leader Keir Starmer's "anti-Christian neo-Marxism".

From Snouts in the Trough, are the people of the U.K. being fleeced by pushers of high blood pressure pills?

From EuroNews, why Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni (Italy), Viktor Orbán (Hungary), and Petr Fiala (Czech Republic) are angry about how the E.U.'s top jobs are allocated.

From ReMix, did Meloni betray Orbán by rejecting his Fidesz party joining the ECR group in the European Parliament?  (If you read Italian, read the story at Corriere della Sera.)

From The North Africa Post, spillover from the conflict in Sudan complicates security concerns in Chad and the Central African Republic.

From The New Arab, according to an investigation, the National Union of Syrian Students is guilty of war crimes including the targeting of pro-democracy students.

From The Times Of Israel, aid deliveries in Gaza are hampered by cigarette smuggling.

From BBC News, an Israeli hostage released by Hamas no longer believes in peace.

From the Daily Mail, at least 550 pilgrims have died while on the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, while jihadists brutalize non-Muslim women, Western feminists go Sergeant Schultz.

From The Stream, Camp Stanton in Maryland, where black troops trained to fight as Union soldiers.

From The Daily Signal, Louisiana expands educational choice to everyone.

From The American Conservative, what kind of conservative will once-and-maybe-future President Trump be?

From The Western Journal, Trump takes off the gloves and (figuratively) swings at former Speaker and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-Wis), now a Fox News board member.

From BizPac Review, Trump congratulates U.S. open winner Bryson DeChambeau, who chugs a "Trump pour" with former First Son Eric Trump.

From The Daily Wire, inside the struggle to keep graphic material away from children in a very red state.

From the Daily Caller, the Biden administration finalizes its rules for governing subsidies in its climate bill, which is seen as a major victory for labor unions.

From Breitbart, three teenagers are arrested for the alleged anti-semitism-inspired rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Courbevoie, France.

From Newsmax, the Chief Twit's xAI startup is building a supercomputer.

And from the New York Post, a group of people in the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen rescue a cat from an abandoned delicatessen.

Willie Mays 1931-2024

Willie Mays, who played 23 seasons in Major League baseball and was nicknamed the "Say Hey Kid", died yesterday at age 93 of heart failure at a care home in Palo Alto, California.  He was baseball's oldest living Hall of Famer.

William Howard Mays Jr. was born in Westfield, Alabama to William Howard Mays Sr. and Annie Satterwhite, who never married.  Mays Sr., nicknamed "Cat", was himself a talented baseball player who worked as a railroad porter and later in steel mills.  Satterwhite was a high school basketball player and track athlete.  Willie played baseball, football and basketball in high school.

In 1948, Mays started playing professional baseball with the Negro minor league team the Chattanooga Choo-Choos and later joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League.  The latter team lost the 1948 Negro World Series to the Homestead Grays.  He did not graduate high school until 1950, after which he was signed by the New York Giants, which assigned him to the Class B Trenton Giants of the Interstate League.  In 1951, he as promoted to the Class Triple-A Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, and later to the Major League team in New York, where he played well enough to earn the 1951 National League Rookie of the Year.

Mays was drafted by the U.S. Army and played for the Giants during only the first few weeks of the 1952 season.  He returned after being discharged in March of 1954.  While stationed at Fort Eustis in Virginia, he learned the basket catch from teammate Al Fortunato.  The Giants won the N.L. Pennant and World Series in 1954, with Mays being selected the league's Most Valuable Player.  During the World Series, he made his famous over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Vic Wertz of the Cleveland Indians.  He would go on to be selected to play in 24 All-Star Games, and win his second N.L. MVP award in 1965.  His career totals included 660 home runs, 1909 runs batted in, and 339 stolen bases.

In 1958, the Giants moved to San Francisco, played at Seals Stadium for two years, and later at Candlestick Park.  During April of the 1961 season, Mays hit four home runs in a single game.  While mostly a center fielder, he played 48 games at first base in 1971.  Early during the 1972 season, he was traded to the New York Mets, where he played part-time at both positions before retiring as a player in 1973.

Mays stayed in the Mets organization as a hitting instructor until the end of the 1979 season.  Later that year, he took a job as a greeter at a gambling casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he was joined by former New York Yankees player Mickey Mantle.  They were both suspended from baseball, but reinstated in 1985.  The next year, Mays rejoined the Giants organization.  Both the Mets and the Giants have retired his number 24.

Mays was married to Marguerite Wendell Chapman from 1956 to 1963.  They adopted a baby boy in 1959.  He married Mae Louise Allen in 1971, their marriage lasting until her death in 2013.  He was the godfather of Barry Bonds, whose father Bobby Bonds had been his Giants teammate.

On a personal note, yours truly went to see the Giants play against the Atlanta Braves at Atlanta in 1971.  This means that I got to watch Willie Mays, Bobby Bonds, Hank Aaron, and their respective teammates.

Read more at MLB(dot)com, ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Bay Area and the New York Post.

A Few Late Things For Tuesday

As I return home after a busy Tuesday, here are a few things going on:

From FrontpageMag, how the conflict in Gaza could end.

From Townhall, President Biden has another brain fart while announcing an amnesty plan for illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) claims to be "standing up to big pharma" while leading the Senate in receiving cash from that industry.

From The Federalist, six more state block Biden's "egregious" rewrite of Title IX.

From American Thinker, Israel is the only country of whom "proportionality" is expected.

From NewsBusters, PBS cheers the on-campus pro-HamasPalestinian protests.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the myth of Europe's "far right surge".

From TheSun, at least 138 pilgrims from Indonesia die while attending the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

From The Jerusalem Post, a London security organization shares footage of an alleged attempt to kidnap Jewish children.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel gave work permits to Palestinians, while Palestinians planned the October 7th massacre.

From The Stream, some insights from a former radical Muslim, who is now a devout Jew.

From The Daily Signal, more on Biden's amnesty plan for illegal aliens.

From The American Conservative, NATO and Russia must make a nuclear deal.

And from Billboard, happy birthday to the musician known as Sir Paul.  (We should celebrate with the appropriate song.)

Monday Mania

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

From National Review, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy calls for warming labels on social media platforms, similar to those on tobacco and alcohol products.

From FrontpageMag, the left knows that its own policies don't work.

From Townhall, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) demand answers after ISIS members illegally enter the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Ford Foundation has sent millions of dollars to organizations that celebrated the Hamas attacks against Israel last October 7th.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump's hush money trial had a "glaring" error.

From The Federalist, if President Biden's economy really were "strong", our trade partners would not be running away from the dollar.

From American Thinker, ICE is losing just about all of the millions of illegal aliens allowed into the U.S. by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

From MRCTV, former President Obama steps in after Biden has some internal technical difficulties.

From NewsBusters, with no evidence, NBC blames recent shootings on the Supreme Court's ruling on bump stocks.

From Canada Free Press, the TV host known as Morning Joe has become the U.S.'s version of the Iraqi minister known as Baghdad Bob.

From TeleSUR, the Haitian government is urge to revitalize the Haitian economy.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the U.K. needs borders, and must leave the European Court of Human Rights.

From Snouts in the Trough, please don't mention the fake coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, 10 Ukrainian pilots get trained in flying fighter jets in southwestern France.

From Voice Of Europe, as announced by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, a record number of NATO countries are meeting their defense spending targets.

From ReMix, according to a columnist at the Hungarian site Magyar Hírlap, the European Court of Justice has become a political tool.  (If you read Hungarian, read the MH column here.)

From Balkan Insight, former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha loses the appeal of his ban from entering the U.K.

From The North Africa Post, according to a U.N. report, sub-Saharan migrants suffer abuse in Tunisia and Libya.

From The New Arab, according to Jordanian officials, 14 Jordanians who died of heat stroke at the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia were in the city illegally.

From The Jerusalem Post, how a prominent Gazan family secretly held three hostages.

From Gatestone Institute, responding to Hezbollah's offensive against Israel.

From The Stream, what kind of person files a defamation suit against someone who told the truth?

From The Daily Signal, is climate change really causing hurricanes to be more frequent and/or severe?

From The American Conservative, why the Supreme Court's ruling on the abortion pill is about the administrative state.

From The Western Journal, the White House Correspondents' Association responds after Biden snaps at the European reporter.

From BizPac Review, one of the 51 intelligence officials who signed the letter claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation" warns of a "serious" terror threat.

From The Daily Wire, the Biden intelligence community with free trans flag manicures and lectures from a "Filipinx" activist.

From the Daily Caller, a self-identified Chinese government agent runs a private social network that provides illegal aliens with resources to enter the U.S. and evade border authorities.  (If someone claiming to be an American agent were providing migrants information on how to illegally enter China, how would the Chinese government respond?)

From the New York Post, a notorious racist sides with a whole bunch of other racists.

From Breitbart, former NFL player Robert Griffin III calls WNBA players Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese pawns in a "race war".

From Newsmax, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, the IRS plans to end a tax loophole for the rich, which could bring in $50 billion more tax revenue.

And from The Babylon Bee, Obama panics as his device for remotely controlling Biden loses its connection.

Father's Day Stories

On a warm Sunday when you might be saluting your father, here are some things going on:

From National Review, an illegal alien from El Salvador is charged with the rape and murder of a mother-of-five on a hiking trail in Maryland.

From Townhall, TV host Bill Maher has an almost perfect message for Father's Day.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a memoir by musician Michael McDonald.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) respects the Supreme Court decision that reverses the ban on bump stocks made under then-President Trump.

From The Federalist, lessons from some great fathers.

From American Thinker, yes, there is a replacement going on, but it's not what you might think.

From NewsBusters, when the media wanted high gas prices.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "a different conservatism" for the U.K. and Europe.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim woman admits in court that she wanted to turn the Berlin district of Neukölln into Gaza.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From The Jerusalem Post, more Australians demand a ban on the group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel and the Free World is in increasing danger due to "help" from the U.S.

From The Stream, the power of a father who is present.

From The Daily Signal, an interactive calculator shows that cutting carbon dioxide emissions would barely have any effect on temperatures.

From The American Conservative, former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte could become the next secretary-general of NATO.

From BizPac Review, musician Kid Rock takes up Trump's challenge of "no tax on tips".  (In all fairness, I should point out that Trump will not be able to create this tax exception by himself if he regains the presidency.  It will have to be passed by Congress.)

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter Ro Khanna (D-Cal) states that he will not attend the upcoming congressional address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From the Daily Caller, President Biden keeps digging the U.S. deeper into a Ukraine-sized hole.

From Breitbart, comedian Jon Stewart lashes out after his show is canceled.

From NewsMax, congresscritter Mike Turner (R-OH) "points the finger" at Biden's policy on terror threats.

And from the New York Post, a car flies off the side of a parking garage in New York City and lands upside down, and cash and a cell phone land on top of it.

Saturday Links

On a warm and sunny Saturday, after I've walked in a forest like a good Sasquatch, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a poll, a record number of Americans dislike both President Biden and former President Trump.  (Let's hear it for evenhandedness.)

From FrontpageMag, as the invasion of illegal aliens continues, Biden offers them amnesty.

From Townhall, TV host Bill Maher identifies the one issue that will get the Democrats [bleep]ed on election day.

From the Washington Examiner, CNN announces its rules for the first debate between Biden and Trump.

From The Federalist, congratulations to all the fathers who are better at fatherhood than Joe and Hunter Biden.

From American Thinker, why are so many things, such as police and military becoming demoralized, trains derailing, and airplane parts falling off, going wrong at the same time?  (I would add ships running into bridges.)

From NewsBusters, ABC host Jimmy Kimmel admits having Trump Derangement Syndrome.

From Canada Free Press, one ring to rule everyone.

From TeleSUR, according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Non Aligned Movement and the Group of 77 have demanded that Cuba is removed from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the truth about the Spanish flu pandemic.  (A young boy in northeastern Pennsylvania, who would later become my grandfather, lost one of his sisters to this flu.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a rejected asylum seeker from Afghanistan who committed a rape in Germany is caught in limbo.  (If you read German, read the story at Focus.)

From The Times Of Israel, according to the mother of a female soldier captured by Hamas, hostages were treated like slaves.

From Gatestone Institute, while the U.S. is becoming surrounded by its enemies, its government wants Israel to surrender to terrorists.

From The Stream, Israel is "a nation under siege".

From The Daily Signal, according to a study in Germany, most people who identify as transgender grow out of it within five years.

From The American Conservative, allegations that Republicans are indifferent to animal welfare are misleading.

From The Western Journal, Trump and Biden agree to the aforementioned rules for their first debate.

From BizPac Review, Los Angeles removes its "No U-turn" signs because they're allegedly "anti-gay".  (The article cites the Los Angeles Times, to which you'll need a subscription in order to read.  If anyone can explain how a "No U-turn" sign is anti-gay or homophobic, please do so in a comment.)

From The Daily Wire, the World Economic Forum publishes an article calling for "reinventing" the world's food system and praising "animal-free" products.  (When lions and tigers and bears, oh my, stop eating meat, so will I.)

From the Daily Caller, according to Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, the RNC is preparing 100,000 poll watchers and 500 lawyers for the 2024 election.

From the New York Post, the U.S. military destroys seven radar sites controlled by the Houthis in Yemen.

From Breitbart, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seize tons of meth, fentanyl and she-don't-lie at California border crossings in May.

From Newsmax, CNN is still blocking presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) from the aforementioned debate.

And from ESPN, NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley announces that next season will be his last as a sports broadcaster.

Friday Phenomena For Flag Day

On a warm mostly sunny Friday, which is both Flag Day and former President Trump's birthday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court got it right on bump stocks.

From FrontpageMag, Armenia is on the business end of global jihad.

From Townhall, another poll shows trouble for President Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, forget any ceasefire and let Israel defeat Hamas.  (To paraphrase the ancient Romans, Hamas delenda est.)

From the Washington Examiner, First Son Hunter Biden drops his lawsuit against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

From The Federalist, "media reporting" has degenerated into censorship and suppression of information.

From American Thinker, calling the Bidenites "bird brains" is unfair - to birds.

From MRCTV, in 18 months, Denver spends up to $340 million on illegal aliens.

From NewsBusters, according to the NBC show Queer Planet, all living things are queer.  (According to an old quote, the whole universe is queer - but probably in a different sense of the word "queer".)

From Canada Free Press, an example of the U.N.'s equivalence between Israel and terrorists.

From TeleSUR, FARC forces attack a police station in the Colombian department of Cauca.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak trying to lose the upcoming general election?

From Snouts in the Trough, how the lying liars at the Met Office of liars are lying to the people of the U.K.

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin makes an offer for ending the war in Ukraine, which the Ukrainian government rejects.

From Voice Of Europe, German authorities seize a record amount of she-don't-lie.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From ReMix, a Polish businessman pioneers a multi-billion-dollar metal recycling empire.

From Balkan Insight, the horrible conditions suffered by women giving birth in Kosovo's state hospitals.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and China are set to increase their cooperation in tourism and cultural sectors.

From The New Arab, Syrians celebrate the release of civil rights activist Rita Al-Aqbani from a prison in Damascus.

From The Straits Times, a 72-year-old man is fined $600,000 for converting 11 residential properties into unauthorized dorms for migrant workers.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesia and China discuss cooperation in developing electric vehicles and petrochemicals.

From Free Malaysia Today, due to an increase in diesel prices, riding a tour bus in Malaysia is gonna cost ya 20 percent more, pilgrim.

From the Borneo Post, sectors not eligible for Malaysia's diesel subsidies are warned against raising their prices.

From Vietnam Plus, President To Lam presents gifts to over 100 representatives of ethnic groups who live in the border, sea and island areas of Vietnam.

From the Taipei Times, according to Taiwanese President William Lai, a prosperous Taiwan can bring about progress in China.

From China News, China reserves the right to file lawsuits with the World Trade Organization proposed E.U. tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

From The Korea Herald, Presidents Yoon Suk Yeol (South Korea) and Shavkat Mirziyoyev (Uzbekistan) agree on a plan to export South Korean bullet trains to Uzbekistan.

From The Mainichi, Japan enact laws for a new foreign worker scheme.

From Japan Today, sending mail in Japan is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians regard murderers, rapist and baby kidnappers as heroes.

From The Stream, Trump should repent about his support for coronavirus vaccines, which would be a show of strength, not weakness.  (I realize that politicians admitting that they've been wrong on something is at least as rare as a certain very warm place freezing over.)

From The Daily Signal, conservatives gain ground in the E.U. elections as the public rejects open borders.

From The American Conservative, Trump mends fences with Republicans in both congressional chambers.

From The Western Journal, investigators find the cause of a fatal roller coaster derailment at an amusement park in Sweden.

From BizPac Review, when meeting with Pope Francis, Biden unleashes his inner Dennis Rodman.

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll, 49 percent of voters expect Biden to forget where he is when he debates Trump.

From the Daily Caller, French President Emmanuel Macron supports keeping smartphones away from children.  (Such devices did not exist when I was a Littlefoot.)

From Breitbart, in a play about writer J.K. Rowling, about 90 actresses refuse to portray her.  (Language warning about the play's title.)

From Newsmax, more on Trump's meeting with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

And from the New York Post, the Justice Department decides against prosecuting the leader of the Justice Department.

Thursday Tidbits

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

From National Review, at the congressional baseball game, climate activists [bleep] around and find out.

From FrontpageMag, crimes are now defined by politics.

From Townhall, Republican Senators will reintroduce the Conscience Protection Act, which would prevent government discrimination against health workers who decline to participated in abortions.  (If you favor having medical workers who disagree with abortion being coerced into participating in them, you are NOT pro-choice, you are pro-abortion.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a wide coalition from the automobile industry legally challenges the Biden administration's push for more electric vehicles.

From the Washington Examiner, with "her" disqualification from the Olympics, the insanity over Lia Thomas has finally come to an end.

From The Federalist, how Chinese ownership of land in the U.S. threatens our national security.  (How much land in China does the Chinese government allow non-Chinese people to own?)

From American Thinker, Tyson Foods fires Americans, some of whom are legal immigrants, and hires illegal aliens.  (I've come to believe that the real villains of illegal immigration are not the illegal aliens themselves, but the Americans who aid and abet them.)

From MRCTV, a church in Oakland, California is robbed eight times in two months.

From NewsBusters, CBS and NBC ignore an antisemitic mob threatening Jews on the New York City subway.

From Canada Free Press, First Son Hunter Biden's conviction is a sleight of hand.

From TeleSUR, speaking at the U.N., Venezuela demands an end to "unilateral coercive measures".

From TCW Defending Freedom, the grim economic conditions which the next U.K. government will inherit.

From EuroNews, the Dutch "far-right" states their positions on migration, trade and the economy.

From Voice Of Europe, leaders of the G7 agree to a provision deal to loan Ukraine $50 billion using frozen Russian assets.

From ReMix, what's going on in France?

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik changes the day on which Republika Srpska observes its "Statehood Day".  (Republika Srpska is one of the two political entities that constitute the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.)

From The North Africa Post, in Casablanca, Moroccan Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan inaugurates the construction of what will be the largest desalinization plant in Africa.

From The New Arab, according to rumors, Saudi Arabia will soon drop the petrodollar for the Chinese yuan.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Jewish man is accosted at a pharmacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

From Jewish News Syndicate, according to an opinion column, there's really no such thing as a Gazan civilian.

From The Hans India, police in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir detain 53 people for questioning in connection with the terror attack on the busload of Hindu pilgrims.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian Lok Sabha will elect its Speaker on June 26th.  (The Lok Sabha is the lower house of the Indian parliament.)

From ANI, an Indian engineering firm and a German defense company combine to provide 12 low-frequency sonar devices.

From India Today, the forest department in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh captures a man-eating tiger.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the metro in Dhaka, Bangladesh will run on a new schedule after the Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Azha.

From New Age, Bangladesh beats the Netherlands to "sniff" the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup of cricket.

From the Daily Mirror, the District Court of Colombo, Sri Lanka recognizes a marriage annulment decree made in Australia.

From Raajje, representatives of the Maldives and China hold discussions on enhancing ties between their two countries.

From the Bangkok Post, according to a survey, a "majority" of the Thai people disagree with a bill that would grant amnesty in political and lese-majeste cases.

From Gatestone Institute, America's enemies inside and outside of America.

From The Stream, in recognizing a Palestinian state, Spain shows historical amnesia and enables Islamic terrorism.

From The Daily Signal, a woman in Youngstown, Ohio is fired from her job at a TV station for posting a "straight pride" meme on Facebook.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The American Conservative, the ghost of the late President Charles de Gaulle is on the ballot in France.  (The article mentions the term Français de souche, which means "native-born French".  This would be the full name of the publication I have sometimes cited as FDeSouche.)

From The Western Journal, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angers the left by endorsing a "moderate" congressional candidate.

From ZeroHedge, congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) investigate a Ukrainian "enemies list".  (Who do those Ukrainians think they are, Richard Nixon?)

From BizPac Review, fitness expert Jillian Michaels explains why she left her native state of California.

From The Daily Wire, the razor company Harry's sends more cash to a group that promotes radical gender theory.

From Axios, a conservative group's ad campaign targets 10 Democrats on immigration.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, former and maybe future President Trump should pardon the aforementioned Hunter Biden.  (On the other hand, could the two of them become cellmates?)

From the New York Post, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima visit New York City.  (I was in the Netherlands in 2017 when the country celebrated his 50th birthday.  See my post from May 5th of that year entitled "Giethoorn".)

From Breitbart, according to the aforementioned congresscritter Gaetz, Republicans want to nominate people who will fight.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC), her primary victory "shows how powerful" an endorsement from Trump can be.

And from SFGate, the life and legacy of the first Russian in California.

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.

Tuesday Tidings

On a cloudy and not quite as warm Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Department of Justice denies any collusion with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Brags in former President Trump's hush money case.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden's allies complain that Americans are complaining about the cost of food.

From Townhall, Republican congresscritters react to the guilty verdict against First Son Hunter Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Hunter Biden has been found guilty in his trial on gun charges.

From the Washington Examiner, more on Hunter Biden being found guilty.

From The Federalist, unequal application of the law isn't mere hypocrisy, but hierarchy.

From American Thinker, fighting against the electoral "long count".

From MRCTV, a library in Dobbs Ferry, New York has a children's scavenger hunt for "Pride" flags such as "genderfluid".  (I know of one place where genderfluid people exist - in science fiction.)

From NewsBusters, Hunter Biden's trial gets "kinder, gentler" media coverage.

From Canada Free Press, the "disgusting" worship of woke symbols.

From TeleSUR, Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader reiterates his intention to reform his country's constitution.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. politician Nigel Farage is right in that the upcoming election is about immigration.

From EuroNews, europarliamentcritters lash out after French right-wing leader Éric Ciotti forms an alliance with "far-right" leader Marine Le Pen and her party National Rally.

From Voice Of Europe, the E.U. postpones accession talks with Ukraine.

From ReMix, according to europarliamentcritter Marion Maréchal, the aforementioned National Rally has declined to form an electoral pact with the "hard-right" party Reconquête.

From Balkan Insight, for the first time, Romania has elected "far-right" europarliamentcritters.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco participates in Sustained Dialogue on Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology initiative in Washington, D.C.

From The New Arab, thousands of people living in parts of Syria not controlled by its government prepare to go on the Hajj.

From The Times Of Israel, four Israeli soldiers are killed when a booby-trapped house collapses onto them.

From The Jerusalem Post, the floating American pier off Gaza resumes operation after a two-day pause due to the weather and rough seas.

From YNetNews, the IDF prepares to defend against Hezbollah drones and missiles.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt seeks to replace the traditional tuk-tuk with the "Bajaj Qute" light auto-taxi.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi suggests four steps to end the war in Gaza.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Taye Atske-Selassie Taye attends a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif attends a parade of security forces and reviews the preparedness for the upcoming Hajj.

From Doha News, exports from Qatar's private sector reach $685 million in the first quarter of 2024.

From Jewish News Syndicate, American universities receive $13.1 billion from Arab sources.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, among children in primary schools in Vienna, Austria, Muslims outnumber Catholics.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran, not Israel, is the problem in the Middle East.

From The Stream, many faith leaders played a role in the deaths caused by the coronavirus panic and vaccines.

From The Daily Signal, the dangerous consequences of having an open U.S. border.

From The American Conservative, American counter-diplomacy goes on display in Hungary.

From The Western Journal, Attorney General Merrick Garland is lambasted for allegedly "threatening Americans" who criticize the Biden Department of Justice.

From BizPac Review, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon blasts Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over his latest Ukraine comments.

From The Daily Wire, more on the aforementioned guilty verdict on Hunter Biden.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, the Hunter Biden verdict does not prove that the justice system is fair.

From the New York Post, according to a skin care expert, you should never wear makeup on a plane.

From Breitbart, the new film The Acolyte gets the lowest audience score of all the Star Wars movies.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Americans are split on Biden's student loan bailouts.

And from the Genesius Times, Democrats are worried that if Trump retakes the presidency, he'll do to them what they're doing to him and his supporters.