Wednesday Links - Part 1

As we reach the middle of the last week of August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump is adrift without a suitable political enemy.

From FrontpageMag, the Castro brothers wish to make the term "illegal alien" disappear.

From Townhall, a previously deported illegal alien allegedly chokes a woman in East Hampton, New York.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the "remain in Mexico" policy is cutting illegal immigration.

From the Washington Examiner, the Trump administration sends a notice to a hospital in Vermont that forced a Catholic nurse to participate in an abortion.

From The Federalist, how to replace Howard Zinn's version of U.S. history for American kids.

From American Thinker, bans on conversion therapy will only be the beginning if the Equality Act is passed.

From CNS News, liberals don't "invest" except with other people's money.

From LifeZette, police morale hits "an all-time low" in Mayor Pete's South Bend, Indiana.

From CBC News, according to his lawyers, a Canadian man sentenced to 10 years in prison in Cuba was set up.

From Global News, please do not feed the bears - and we mean it.

From CTV News, according to one of the late Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, U.K. Prince Andrew should "come clean".

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticizes land reserves allocated to indigenous peoples.

From the Express, Queen Elizabeth grants U.K. Prime Minister Johnson's request to suspend Parliament.

From the Evening Standard, what does the term "prorogue Parliament" mean?

From the (U.K.) Independent, members of the European Parliament circulate a question about investigating the suspension of the U.K. Parliament.

From the (Irish) Independent, what does the suspension of the U.K. Parliament mean for Ireland?

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Tánaiste Simon Coveney accuses the U.K. government of "wiping the slate clean" in regard to promises made to Ireland over Brexit.

From France24, French police hunt for the culprits who stole the bells from churches in Provence.

From RFI, French cyberpolice neutralize a massive hacking ring.

From Free West Media, a delegation from Marine Le Pen's party hopes to meet with Syrian President Bashir Assad.

From VRT NWS, where is Belgium's new government?

From the NL Times, Amsterdam is reportedly losing the fight against organized crime.

From Dutch News, the Dutch cities of Almere, Breda and Tilburg are set to join regulated trials of marijuana production.

From Deutsche Welle, the German "far-right" party AfD expels its leader for the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

From Euractiv, Tesla considers building a large factory in Germany.

From the CPH Post, a herd of 20 wild horses is scheduled to be released into a Danish nature area.

From Local SE, for the second time in three days, a woman is fatally shot in Sweden, this time in a suburb of Stockholm.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Polskie Radio, Poland remembers two resistance fighters who were executed by the Soviet-backed communist government in 1946.

From Radio Praha, how the Czech "people's camps" rallied against the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak police and Interpol find a Slovak fugitive in Mexico.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian opposition party LMP calls for a special parliament session on climate change.

From Hungary Today, according to Budapest Mayor István Tarlós, almost 10,000 trees have been planted in the city.

From About Hungary, what is this solidarity that the E.U. speaks of?

From Russia Today, French President Emmanuel Macron "plays the Russia card".

From Sputnik International, a new helicopter is being developed in Russia.

From The Moscow Times, the Russian government plans to relocate over a dozen of its ministries to a skyscraper cluster in western Moscow.

From Romania-Insider, the El Paso shooter used a gun made in Romania.

From Novinite, the Bulgaria government allocates BGN 28 million to fight the swine flu.

From The Sofia Globe, 120 illegal refuse dumps are found under Bulgarian road bridges.

From Radio Bulgaria, in the Bulgarian town of Levski, come get your stuffed peppers.

From Ekathimerini, firebomb attacks against police stations are believed to be a response to the eviction of squatters.

From the Greek Reporter, a large fire breaks out near the ancient Greek site of Delphi.  (From what I've been able to gather, Delphi includes an ancient theater.  If the fire reaches the site, and firefighters are dispatched to the area, could someone get in trouble for yelling "theater!" in a crowded fire?)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the flow of natural gas from Russia to Turkey is scheduled to start before the end of this year.

From Total Croatia News, a new path for walking and cycling is scheduled to open next month in Pag, Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at HRTurizam.)

From the Malta Independent, Italy grounds humanitarian search flights over the Mediterranean.

From Malta Today, due to the success of a fourth ferry running between Malta and Gozo, a proposed tunnel between the two islands might not be needed.

From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini signs an order banning the NGO ship Mare Jonio from entering Italian waters.

From EuroNews, the Italian party Five Star Movement confirms plans to form a coalition government with the (Italian) Democratic Party.

From SwissInfo, journalists who fled to Switzerland from Colombia, Yemen and Azerbaijan tell their stories.

From El País, a Spaniard who mistakenly walked through an emergency door at the Munich airport is "horrified" after causing 130 flights to be cancelled.

From The Portugal News, Portugal's GNR police rescue 41 migrants in the Aegean Sea.

From The Conservative Woman, the fatherless culture is behind the increase in violence.

From The Stream, how should you respond to false accusations of being a racist?

From Reason, "the libertarian case for term limits".

From The Hollywood Reporter, Trump sends his lawyer to the NBCU brass over MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell's statement that "Russian oligarchs" co-signed Trump's loans.

From WPVI-TV, a female "culture coach" teaches athletes to keep their aggression on the field.

From Fox News, an occasional glass of red wine is good for your gut.

From the New York Post, the storm named Dorian becomes a hurricane and heads toward Puerto Rico.

And from Twitchy, Mayor Pete's communications adviser calls hail hitting his roof in El Paso, Texas proof that the U.S. needs a "climate president".