Wednesday Links

Here on the middle of another week in the middle of another month are some things going on:

From NBC News, Paul Manafort gets another lenient sentence, and another indictment.  (via HotAir)

From National Review, a professor pays the price for telling the truth about academic administrators.

From Townhall, how congresscritter AOC (D-NY) conflates government with the social fabric.

From American Thinker, meet the "real brains" behind AOC.

From The Washington Free Beacon, left-wing congresscritters ignore Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) on impeaching President Trump.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. grounds Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft.

From The Federalist, why Democrats make the article's author want to vote for President Trump.

From LifeZette, Trump reacts to the "fake Melania" conspiracy theory.

From CNS News, "facts don't favor socialism".

From FrontpageMag, yet more men are charged with "grooming" in Great Britain.

From The Conservative Woman, feminism is really just warmed-over socialism.  (I have long held a similar opinion, that the once-noble cause of feminism has degenerated into liberalism for women.)

From the Express, U.K. MPs reject any no-deal Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, for the ancient British, Stonehenge was a party.

From the Daily Mail, 3,000 ISIS members surrender.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the Labour Party withdraws its support for a second Brexit referendum.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's Taoiseach accuses Brexiteers of "chasing unicorns".  (At one time, it was possible to chase unicorns, according to some Irishmen.)

From the Irish Examiner, the Taoiseach also accuses Brexiteers of living in a "fairytale".

From CBC News, Canada grounds its own Boeing 373 MAX aircraft and bans other countries from flying into Canadian airspace.  (This appears to be a reversal of a story I linked yesterday.  The appropriate authorities appear to have changed their minds.)

From Global News, Canadians traveling to Europe will face new restrictions starting in 2021.

From CTV News, unlike Ontario, Alberta won't ban cell phones in class.  (I went from kindergarten to a college degree without having a cell phone, so why would anyone need one in class?)

From Mexico News Daily, Mexico rejects the U.S. "stay in Mexico" plan for asylum seekers.  (I have 6 MND pages left this month.)

From Morocco World News, the Arab Development Council for Women and Business strips a poet of an award because she visited Israel.

From El País, a Spanish family travels the world in a truck.

From The Portugal News, due to Brexit uncertainty, U.K. citizens in Portugal are urged to register.

From France24, French President Macron pledges closer economic ties with Kenya.

From RFI, France prepares to deal with the loss of fishing rights in U.K. waters.  (From what I understand, one thing which led to Brexit was the E.U. restricting the rights of U.K. fishermen to fish in their own waters, while allowing fishermen from other countries to fish there.)

From VRT NWS, the Belgian parliament's Health Select Committee approves subsidized birth control pills for women under 25.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands is not likely to meet their 2030 climate goals.

From Dutch News, about 180 Konik ponies in the Netherlands will be moved to Spain and Belarus.  (The name "Konik" might be related to Slavic words meaning "horse", such as koń in Polish.)

From Deutsche Welle, Berlin passes its first-ever plan to fight anti-Semitism.

From Radio Poland, protesting farmers burn tires in central Warsaw.

From Radio Praha, a court in Prague sentences three Algerian men for gang-raping an Irish tourist.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks like to drink beer.  (Due to my mostly Slovak ancestry, I can add, "including this one".)

From Hungary Journal, Prime Ministers Orban of Hungary and Morawiecki of Poland celebrate the friendship between their two countries.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian opposition party Jobbik presents its candidates for seats in the European Parliament.

From Hungary Today, a socialist Hungarian MP slams EPP leader Manfred Weber for visiting Budapest.

From About Hungary, Hungary makes its largest-ever foreign investment in Uganda.

From Russia Today, the Russian Senate approves rules against "fake news".

From Sputnik International, an American surveillance plane, flying under the Treaty on Open Skies, is seen flying over the Russian far east.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece and Cyprus ban the Boeing 737 MAX from their respective airspaces.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Božinović points out that Croatia protects its borders just like any other country.

From the Malta Independent, Malta launches an Underwater Cultural Protection Unit.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says that the "Silk Road" agreement with China does not mean that China is colonizing Italy.

From SwissInfo, thousands of failed asylum seekers from Eritrea are stuck in Switzerland.

From Hürriyet Daily News, about 4.7 million foreigners live in Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish court accepts the indictment of six men linked to the Gülen movement, who had been abducted from Kosovo.

From Rûdaw, ISIS clings to its last redoubt in Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, Hezbollah's infrastructure in Syria is exposed.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel opens a criminal investigation concerning 11 Palestinian deaths in the Gaza border protests.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Wakf Council announces renovations at the Golden Gate site on the Temple Mount.

From YNetNews, satellite photos show a new missile construction site in Syria.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's navy seizes eight tons of cannabis.

From Egypt Today, Egypt bans the Boeing 737 MAX from its airspace.

From Dawn, the transfer of Pakistani citizenship to a spouse is sexually asymmetric.

From Khaama Press, airstrikes send 31 Al-Qaeda terrorists to their virgins.

From Today, a pro-ISIS magazine is published in Indonesia.

From TimesNowNews, a Pakistani army officer talks about 200 dead terrorists.  (The last three links, along with the Daily Mail link above, come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From New Scientist, a home DNA-testing firm will let users block the FBI from their data.

From Twitchy, Vanity Fair gives Robert "Beto" O'Rourke the (barf!) glamour treatment.

And from Fox News, southern Californians get to see pink lady butterflies.