Thursday Things

As the sunny but relatively cool weather continues on a Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, do journalists ever meet the people about which they write?

From FrontpageMag, blaming former President Trump for anti-Asian hate crimes ignores who the perpetrators are.

From Townhall, critical race theory can kiss one writer's tush.

From The Washington Free Beacon, during a labor shortage, jobless claims unexpectedly rise.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) "lashes out" at a Colorado court that fined Christian baker Jack Phillips for refusing to make a cake that celebrates gender transitions.

From The Federalist, left-wing logic-defying rhetoric on race makes normal people's heads spin.

From American Thinker, the FBI's role in what happened on January 6th is "absolutely disgusting".

From CNS News, the Supreme Court rules for a religious charity in a foster care case and rejects a challenge to Obamacare.

From LifeZette, President Biden goes against former President Obama by calling Russia a "great power".

From NewsBusters, how blue cities are being destroyed by their own governance.

From Canada Free Press, stop the absurdity before the U.S. destroys itself and the rest of the free world with it.

From CTV News, the Kingston, Ontario city council votes to remove a statue of Canada's first prime minister from a park to the cemetery where he is buried.

From TeleSUR, a union in Uruguay calls for a 24-hour strike against President Luis Lacalle.

From The Conservative Woman, after receiving the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a woman from Leicester, England is given a funeral on what should have been her wedding day.

From Free West Media, a legal expert condemns the Dutch tolerance for jihadists.

From EuroNews, the manhunt for an armed former Belgian soldier who is a suspected terrorist enters its second month.

From Euractiv, Ireland legalizes medical cannabis prescriptions.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian on trial in Germany for allegedly killing his wife tries to defend himself by invoking sharia.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From ReMix, speaking in Budapest, Hungary, former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel calls for a sovereign Europe.

From About Hungary, Hungarian President János Áder calls preserving linguistic and cultural diversity an international interest.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić initiates a dialogue within Montenegro's parliamentary majority.

From Balkan Insight, Croatian unions support three reporters who were fired for criticizing their paper's editorial policy.

From The North Africa Post, Italian politician Matteo Salvini pleads for better relations with Morocco.

From YNetNews, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza set fires in Israel for the third straight day.

From Israel Hayom, an imam in Lod, Israel is arrested for allegedly inciting violence against police.

From The New Arab, an Israeli border police officer is charged with "reckless manslaughter" for allegedly killing an autistic Palestinian.

From Gatestone Institute, the new Israeli government is one of the most diverse in the history of democracies.

From The Stream, hard questions remain about the January 6th Capitol riot and the FBI.

From The Daily Signal, voters in Switzerland say "no" to costly climate regulations.

From The American Conservative, President Biden's "buffoonish" war against extremism.

From Politico, would-be congresscritter Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is recorded threatening to send "a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad" to get rid of a Republican opponent.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Daily Caller, the FBI searches for clues after a woman's body is found on a hiking trail in Maryland near Camp David.

From The Daily Wire, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Guatemalans are not going to listen to Vice President Kamala Harris.

From the New York Post, the House votes to repeal the 2002 authorization to invade Iraq.  (Should former President George Bush the Younger be worried?)

From Breitbart, congresscritter Devin Nunes (R-Cal) advises his fellow Republicans to stop talking to the establishment media.

And from ESPN, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel gets his own namesake college football bowl game.  (via The Daily Wire)