Links For Constitution Day

On today's date in 1787, a group of Americans in Philadelphia produced a Constitution for the United States, which was intended to replace the Articles of Confederation.  Today, there's a controversy surrounding a nominee to our Supreme Court, whose appointment by our president is subject to confirmation by our Senate.  All of these offices were created by the Constitution.  Starting with that controversy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Susan Collins (R-Me) wants SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser to testify under oath.

From FrontpageMag, the Democrats unleash a "last-minute character assassination" against Kavanaugh.

From The Federalist, the Democrats are using the accuser as a pawn.

From American Thinker, does the accuser have something to hide?

From Townhall, why the revelation of Judge Kavanaugh's accuser was inevitable and is meaningless.

From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini tells the European Commission's Vice President to shut up.  (Salvini was elected to the Italian legislature, while the E.C.V.P. is unelected.  The story comes via Voice Of Europe.)

From Euractiv, the mayors of Paris and Brussels, whose cities were vehicle-free yesterday, call for an annual car-free day for all of Europe.

From VRT NWS, during the vehicle-free day, air quality in Brussels improved.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says that his country is neither a passageway nor a refugee camp.

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak convert to Islam has been detained in the Czech Republic on suspicion of preparing a bomb attack.

From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš call the E.U. border agency Frontex "obsolete".

From Radio Poland, Poland observers the 79th anniversary of the Soviet invasion just after the beginning of World War II.  (Germany had invaded on September 1st, 1939.)

From Total Croatia News, President Trump sends his support for the Three Seas Initiative.

From Ekathimerini, according to Doctors Without Borders, Greece must "urgently" move migrants away from Lesvos.

From the Greek Reporter, the leaders of Greece and Cyprus stress the need for more cooperation between the two countries.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey plans to increase the number of its troops in the Turkish part of Cyprus.

From Iraqi News, dozens of Iraqi refugees return from a camp in Syria.

From Middle East Eye, an strike led by the Saudi Air Force kills four women and two children.

From Deutsche Welle, the world's first hydrogen-powered train rolls out in the German state of Lower Saxony.

From the NL Times, Dutch railroad officials visit Germany to plan a four-hour rail trip between Amsterdam and Berlin.

From Dutch News, a Dutch inventor's device for removing plastic from the ocean is tested 240 nautical miles west of San Francisco.  (I had previously linked a story about the launching of the device, but did not know that its inventor was Dutch.)

From France24, Russia and Turkey agree to a demilitarized zone in the Syrian region of Idlib.  (Whether anyone fighting in that area agrees to cooperate may well be another matter.)

From El País, Spain wants the Brexit agreement to include a specific chapter on Gibraltar.

From the Independent, any Brexit agreement could be modified by a future parliament.

From the Express, according to scientists, the danger of tsunamis hitting Britain are "far more serious" than previously thought.

From BBC News, according to the IMF, a no-deal Brexit could damage the U.K. economy.  (Wasn't that supposed to happen after the original Brexit vote?)

From The Local CH, Switzerland opens a rape investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan.

From ABC News (where "A" means "Australian"), a woman in Adelaide, Australia is found guilty of being a member of ISIS.

From ABC News (where "A" means "American") police in Brussels shoot a man wielding a knife.

From the South China Morning Post, Japan defies China by sending submarines to the South China Sea.  (via Breitbart's National Security)

From The Shabab, a sectarian conflict results in a mosque being demolished before its construction could be completed.

From The Asian Age, Nike launches the "sporting hijab" for Muslim women.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian leader Mahmood Abbas has American blood on his hands.

From the New York Post, in Huntsville, Alabama, an elementary school student accidentally shoots a classmate.

From CNS News, President Obama's statement that "we can't just drill our way out" of high gas prices has been proven wrong.

From The Roanoke Times, the Virginia Tech football team benefits from their unexpected extra week of practice.

And from The Blaze, in South Lake Tahoe, California, a burglar was armed with.......a potato.