Trump Pardons D'Souza, And Other Stories

President Trump has pardoned a man whom I like to think of as my favorite convicted felon.  Dinesh D'Souza, who had immigrated from India, worked for the Reagan administration, written several books, and produced several movies, has been pardoned by the president for his violation of a campaign finance law.  As noted by HotAir, who have a pretty thorough article on the story:

It was a curious case from the beginning, and so it’s fittingly coming to an end with a curious conclusion.

Townhall has this current report on the matter, and a look back to 2014, when they asserted that the prosecutors in D'Souza's case misled the judge.

The president is also considering clemency for Martha Stewart and former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.  Read more at The Washington Post, Fox News and USA Today.
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In other news:

From Arutz Sheva, Iran and Hezbollah are reportedly preparing to retreat from the Israeli border.  (H/T Gadi Adelman for the Tweet)

From the Express, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warns that a no-confidence vote against him will result in chaos.

From BiaNet, the E.U. will cut aid to Turkey.

From Breitbart London, the arrest and imprisonment of British journalist Tommy Robinson has attracted worldwide attention.

From Voice Of Europe, the man who stabbed two people on a train near Flensburg, Germany was a migrant from Eritrea.  (If you read German, read the story at the Spiegel.)

From Reuters, the German AfD party calls for a parliamentary inquiry into Chancellor Merkel's migrant policy.

From Russia Today, Croatian police fire on a van carrying migrants after it crashes a roadblock.

From ABC News, Denmark bans garments that cover the face.  (via The European Post)

From France24, a French pensioner goes on trial for allegedly helping two migrants to illegally enter France.

From Asharq Al-Awsat, Maronite Patriarch Bshara Al-Rai calls for encouraging Syrian refugees to go home.

From Sputnik International, "turmoil" could result if Italy stops using the Euro.

From the NL Times, after a Dutch Marine is found dead on Curacao, her husband is arrested.

From the Independent, the Muslim Council of Britain calls for the Tories to conduct an internal inquiry about Islamophobia within their ranks.

From the Metro, in Schiedam, the Netherlands, a Syrian man kills a police dog.

From the Daily Mail, in Australia, Pepsi allows its Muslim employees to swap holidays.

From Gatestone Institute, the "silencing the silencing" surrounding the trial of the above-mentioned Tommy Robinson.  (What happened to him reminds me of a scene in the original Planet Of The Apes movie, where Taylor, played by Charlton Heston, is led into an ape court.  If I recall everything correctly, after one of the apes points out that as a non-ape, Taylor has no rights under ape law, another states that "he's not being tried, he's being disposed of".)

From National Review, U.K. journalist Douglas Murray gives his take on Tommy Robinson.

From FrontpageMag, another take on Tommy Robinson.

From Fox News, Israel and Myanmar agree on how to teach each other's history.

From The Verge, Russia wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify.

From the New York Post, the noted 30-year-old deadbeat starts packing.

From CNN, Trump meets with Kim.  No, not that Kim.

From USA Today, Johnny Manziel will start his CFL career on the bench.  (via The Smoke Room)

And from The Babylon Bee, church ushers make sure that a first-time visitor fills out a connection card.