Friday Fuss

As the sunny and pleasant weather continues on the first Friday of September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden wants us to forget about Afghanistan.

From FrontpageMag, Biden shamelessly exploits his late son.

From Townhall, Fox Business host Charles Payne notices an important detail is today's dismal jobs report.

From The Washington Free Beacon, did Biden visit the synagogue in Pittsburgh where the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history occurred or not?

From the Washington Examiner, Biden blames the poor job numbers on the delta coronavirus variant.

From The Federalist, the devastation from wildfires in California could have been prevented with proper land management.

From American Thinker, when then-Senator Biden (D-Del) opposed resettling refugees in the U.S.

From CNS News, the federal government added 3,000 more employees during August.

From LifeZette, Biden bungled an easy exit from Kabul offered by the Taliban.

From NewsBusters, there is no apocalypse in Texas.

From Canada Free Press, why Biden has collapsed into a sea of lies.

From Global News, the Canadian province of Manitoba honors a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

From TeleSUR, the Mexican Senate approves a law allowing citizens to recall their president.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a weekly round-up of climate scaremongering.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K.'s Cabinet Office launches an investigation of leaks about national plans to honor Queen Elizabeth after she dies.  (Hopefully, her service during World War II as a truck driver and mechanic will be noted.)

From the Irish Examiner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin admits that Ireland's relations with the U.K. have been strained after Brexit.  (My spellchecker has come to accept the term "Brexit".)

From The Brussels Times, a 15-year-old from Deurne, Belgium becomes his country's youngest chess grandmaster.  (If you read Flemish, read the story at De Standaard.)

From Dutch News, the Dutch electric network reaches its capacity.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Free West Media, flooded areas in Germany are looted by foreigners.

From Euractiv, Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro accuses the E.U. of "blackmail" over coronavirus recovery funds.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the E.U. is "reverting" to the failed track of 2015 in handling the Afghanistan situation.

From ReMix, according to Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga, some European countries look to Hungary as a role model.

From Sputnik International, according to President Putin, Russia's Far East could host a future Summer Olympics.

From The Sofia Globe, according to President Roumen Radev, the Bulgarian Parliament must complete its key tasks before it can be dissolved.  (Some sources spell his first name "Rumen".)

From Ekathimerini, Greece declares three days of national mourning for composer Mikis Theodorakis.

From EuroNews, the Council of Europe calls on Greece to change its migrant deportation law.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bulgaria schedules its next presidential election for November 14th, but has not set a date for parliamentary elections.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia will start taking its delayed census despite coronavirus fears.

From The Slovenia Times, about 4 percent of people who received coronavirus-related aid in Slovenia will have to repay it.

From Malta Today, you can refill your water bottle in Malta for 20 cents, or 40 cents if you want it carbonated.  (The latter reminds me of the German phrase Wasser mit Gas.)

From RFI, the Corsica separatist group FLNC hardens its tone and threatens to rearm.

From The North Africa Post, according to the suspended chairman of the National Oil Corporation, Libya's oil output is declining.

From Turkish Minute, an oil slick leaking from a power plant in Syria reaches the southern coast of Turkey.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli Air Force reportedly destroys a Syrian missile battery that fired toward the area around Tel Aviv.

From Egypt Today, EgyptAir will resume its flights to Kuwait on September 5th.

From The New Arab, seven years on, the Yazidi genocide gets a "slow reckoning".

From IranWire, an employee of the province of Irak beats up Iranian photojournalist Adel Azizi.

From The Express Tribune, according to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan will co-exist with the Taliban.

From The Afghanistan Times, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai is concerned over clashes in the region of Panjshir.

From ANI, an arms trafficker is arrested in Delhi, India.

From New Age, 10,228 people are hospitalized with dengue in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

From the Daily Mirror, people in Sri Lanka line up for sugar.

From NPR,  police in New Zealand kill a man after he stabs six people.

From The Straits Times, Singapore decides to maintain its current coronavirus measures.

From the Borneo Post, 18 more places in the Malaysian state of Sarawak go under the Enhanced Movement Control Order.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the 2021 Global Trade in Services Summit.

From Gatestone Institute, is American intelligence endangering the world?

From The Stream, are coronavirus vaccine passports in California a trial run for the entire U.S.?

From The Daily Signal, "fact-checkers" rush to "correct" the grieving parents of the victims of the suicide bombing in Kabul.

From The American Conservative, "the future of new urbanism".

From The Western Journal, former President Trump claims that foreign leaders are calling him to complain about President Biden.

From BizPac Review, a former Georgia prosecutor is indicted for allegedly shielding the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery.

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll, one fifth of Democrats regret voting for Biden.

From the New York Post, Afghan female judges seek escape as they're hunted by the men they once jailed.

From Breitbart, faced with a disappointing jobs report, Biden proposes more taxes.  (New or increased taxes seems to be the standard Democrat remedy for just about any sort of problem.)

From Newsmax, the "QAnon Shaman" from the Capitol riot pleads guilty to obstructing an official proceeding.  (I still say that he should be charged with a dress code violation.)

And from the Daily Caller, at the football game between East Carolina and Appalachian State, a hockey game breaks out.