Monday, April 11, 2022

Monday Mania

On a mild sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former President Obama rewrites recent history on Russia and Ukraine.

From FrontpageMag, what if Russia wins in Ukraine?

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, groomers should be called "groomers" because they groom and to annoy David French.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how the music platform Spotify is pushing to abolish police and prisons.

From the Washington Examiner, the D.C. super-elite holds a coronavirus superspreader event.

From The Federalist, how the Biden administration aids and abets the largest border fraud in U.S. history.

From American Thinker, can you dig it?

From CNS News, Ohio Republican state legislators introduce a bill similar to Florida's new law.

From LifeZette, liberals go nuts when CBS hires former congresscritter (R-SC) and Trump-era White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) scares the [bleep] out of the Democrats.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, White House correspondent Peter Doocy of Fox News goes off on coronavirus double standards and free phones for illegal aliens.

From Canada Free Press, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who killed Canada, now wants to kill nationalism.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela observes the 20th anniversary of the defeat of a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in blasting Russian President Putin, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown might just be forgetting something.

From Free West Media, being "non-binary" in one U.S. city has become a gainful choice.

From EuroNews, six takeaways from the first round of the French presidential election.

From Euractiv, the Ukrainian government claims that 1,200 bodies have been found near the capital city of Kyiv.

From ReMix, according to former Czech President Václav Klaus, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban is the "only authentic statesman in Europe".

From Balkan Insight, a Romanian cemetery in Făleşti, Moldova is vandalized with Russian war symbols.

From Morocco World News, gas stations denounce the lack of action on fuel prices by Morocco's energy ministry.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisians protest in the streets against the dissolution of their country's parliament.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey speeds up its efforts to establish energy cooperation with Europe.

From Turkish Minute, Germany's Deutsche Bank closes accounts of opponents of Turkish President Erdoğan for no stated reason.  (What is this "right to dissent" you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, the governments of Iraq and the region of Kurdistan will hold their first round of talks on Kurdish oil.

From Armenpress, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan receives Indian Ambassador Kishan Dan Dewal.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenia temporarily bans the import of Kinder chocolate due to reports of it causing cases of salmonella in Europe.

From In-Cyprus, students at the International School of Paphos in Paphos, Cyprus invent a way to produce environmentally-friendly chewing gums.

From The Syrian Observer, Iranian-backed militias suffer casualties in the Syrian area of Deir-ez-Zor.

From The961, how eight universities in Lebanon rank among the world's top universities in 2022.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana, of the party Yamina, does not rule out cooperation between the governing coalition and the joint Arab List.

From The Times Of Israel, cooperation between the coalition and the Arab List is imperiled by comments from Arab List leader Ayman Odeh.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the IDF is under "no restrictions" when dealing with Palestinian terrorists.

From YNetNews, a dolphin is found dead in a fish farm at the Israeli port of Ashdod.

From the Egypt Independent, businessman Nassef Sawaris tops the billionaire's list among Egyptians and Arabs.

From Egypt Today, a Christian man in Sohag, Egypt distributes Ramadan meals.

From the Sudan Tribune, according to Sudanese Congress Party leader Omer al-Digair, Sudan's military leaders plan to form a new government to bypass an initiative proposed by the U.N.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Dr. Mesay Hailu is appointed as the new Director General of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute.

From the Saudi Gazette, the emir of Mecca, Saudi Arabia allots housing units to 100 families evicted from slums in the city of Jeddah.

From The New Arab, Syrian widows reportedly face chronic violence and sexual abuse.

From IranWire, how did air pollution in Tehran, Iran get so bad?

From Iran International, 350 parks and playgrounds in Tehran will be fenced to keep women and children out of men's sight.

From Khaama Press, the new government of Afghanistan establishes diplomatic ties with Russia.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghani Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi tells Iran to stop harassing Afghan refugees.

From the Afghanistan Times, media watchdogs call for the creation of a Commission on Media Violation.  (Whether this commission would be concerned with violations by the media or against it seems to be unclear.)

From OpIndia, a man allegedly vandalizes an idol of the Hindu deity Shiva at a temple in Titawi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

From Gatestone Institute, Africa is becoming "China's second continent".

From The Stream, "the environmental downside of electric vehicles".

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's radical open borders policy provokes pushback.

From The American Conservative, our ruling class gives us a slap.

From The Western Journal, Biden's week starts off with some bad news.

From ABC News, rumors of Elon Musk joining the Twitter's board of directors turn out to have been greatly exaggerated.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, a transgender teacher tells young students that doctors "guess" if a newborn baby is a boy or a girl.

From The Daily Wire, Boston Public Schools denies a religious exemption to a father who asked that his 11-year-old son be exempt from a gender ideology assignment.

From the Daily Caller, oil prices are falling, but not due to any of Biden's policies.  (Have gasoline prices followed suit?  I won't hold my breath.  For some odd reason, increases in the price of crude oil are often followed by an increase in gas prices about a microsecond later, but decreases in gas prices after decreases in crude oil prices seem to take some time.)

From the New York Post, the family of a Long Island teenager has no sympathy for the female MS-13 member convicted of murdering him.

From Breitbart, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents apprehend 48 illegal migrants from Cuba and Venezuela who were trying to move through the California desert.  (Are Cuban migrants now going to Mexico and trying to cross its land border with the U.S. instead of sailing from Cuba to Florida?)

From Newsmax, Senatorial candidate (R-GA) and former NFL player Herschel Walker doesn't want men in women's sports.

And from The Babylon Bee, BLM leaders call for renewed nationwide protests this summer after finding a fantastic house in Malibu Beach, California for sale on Zillow.  ("BLM", in case you don't know, stands for "Big Luxurious Mansions".)

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