Sunday Links - Part 1

As a sunny and warm Sunday arrives, here are some things going on:

From Breitbart, one-term congresscritter Joe Walsh (R-IL) decides to run against President Trump for the GOP nomination.  (Is he living a life of illusion?  Will he walk away after the GOP convention?  The jokes pretty much write themselves here.  By the way, his full name is William Joseph Walsh.  He could have called himself Bill Walsh, like the football coach.)

From National Review, the recently departed David Koch was conservative because he cared about culture, not in spite of it.

From Townhall, a special place you know where.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Louisiana lawyer wants out of paying bar association dues.

From the Washington Examiner, a former university psychiatrist thinks that Trump may have killed more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

From American Thinker, the contrast between left-wing reactions to Koch's death and right-wing reactions to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cancer.

From CNS News, media figure Jen Rubin minces no words about the GOP.

From LifeZette, New York's Mr. Bill is "missing" in action.

From NewsBusters, believe it or not, The New York Times covers a Tennessee evangelical pregnancy center in a respectful manner.

From the Express, after rows at the G7, should Prime Minister Boris Johnson walk away with a no-deal Brexit?

From the Evening Standard, in the city where knives are illegal, a local musician is stabbed to death after leaving his local pub.

From the Independent, former U.K. Chancellor Philip Hammond demands an apology from Johnson over the leak of a document showing the governments fears about a no-deal Brexit.

From the Irish Examiner, the first person to die in a car crash was an Irish woman in 1869.

From France24, Iran's foreign minster makes a surprise appearance at the G7.

From RFI, thousands of people, including a few U.S. war veterans, celebrate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.

From VRT NWS, the statue in Brussels known as Mannekin Pis gets an unwanted paint job.

From Deutsche Welle, police in Berlin investigate an "execution-style" killing.

From Free West Media, even amid a housing shortage, Germany welcomes migrant family reunions.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki and European Commission First Vice President Timmermans plan to mark the anniversary of the start of World War II in Gdańsk.

From Radio Praha, members of the public clean up the vandalized statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's attempt to have a "plastic free July" was "a complete failure".

From Russia Today, Roscosmos invents a shield system for protecting asteroids from orbiting debris.

From Sputnik International, some German regions support the readmission of Russia to the G7.  (If Russia were to rejoin, the meeting's name would change to "G8".)

From CBC News, an Albertan associate minister Tweets and deletes a quote attributed to a Nazi.  (The Nazi later moved to the U.S. and worked for NASA.)

From Global News, an ad company rejects calls to remove and anti-mass-migration ad from one of its billboards.

From CTV News, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Trump hold a meeting on the sidelines of G7.

From TeleSUR, the number of fines handed out for violating environmental laws has decreased since Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president.

From The Portugal News, in Funchal, Madiera, Portugal, trees will be microchipped.

From SwissInfo, more Swiss train drivers are missing red lights.

From the Malta Independent, the NGO ship Mission Lifeline is back in action off the coast of Libya.

From Malta Today, according to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Malta has been reasonable in its approach to migration.

From Total Croatia News, a van carrying illegal migrants swerves into a river, killing one woman.

From Ekathimerini, two people have been arrested for allegedly starting fires in the Greek region of Peloponnese.

From the Greek Reporter, the last execution in Greece was carried out on today's date in 1972.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's agency for national security will have access to student data to monitor radicalization.

From Radio Bulgaria, on the last Sunday in August, Bulgarians go hiking up a mountain.

From The Stream, can Trump end birthright citizenship for "anchor babies"?  (If you ask me, I don't think that such a change can be made by executive order.  It will take at least the cooperation of Congress, which is doubtful, or even a constitution amendment to further clarify the citizenship section of the 14th Amendment.)

From the Daily Caller, Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dodges questions about the differences between himself and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

From the New York Post, though suspended, New York Giants wide receiver Golden Tate is a popular target for his team's quarterbacks.

And from Twitchy, Japan agrees in principle to buy "all" surplus U.S. corn.