Thursday Tidings

On a cloudy and humid Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, left-wing activists want cities to declare the NRA a terrorist organization.

From FrontpageMag, the doctor will see you now, if you're of the correct race.

From Townhall, the Mayor of Uvalde, Texas responds to criticism of gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke's (D-TX) stunt.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden Justice Department won't say whether it will seek the death penalty for the suspected Buffalo store shooter.

From the Washington Examiner, the Border Patrol agents saw their effort to take down the Uvalde shooter as a "suicide" mission.

From The Federalist, Major League Baseball refuses to apologize for smearing election law supporters as "Jim Crow" after a record voter turnout.

From American Thinker, the left's attempt to rewrite history should be taken seriously.

From CNS News, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) defends the 2nd Amendment.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, anonymous Air Force officers speak out against the Air Force Academy's actions against cadets who refuse the coronavirus vaccine.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood ironically retweets in support of "protecting" kids.

From Canada Free Press, globalist "stakeholders" explain their desire to hold nations hostage to the WEF agenda.

From TeleSUR, 27 international organizations will observe elections in Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in Australia, it's "good riddance to the lefties".

From Free West Media, meat eaters in the U.K. are warned about monkeypox.

From EuroNews, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Russian President Putin will not dictate peace terms in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, Ukrainian President Zelensky lambastes the idea of land-for-peace concessions to end the war, invoking the historical example of Nazi Germany.

From ReMix, Putin's "denazification" excuse for invading for Ukraine has been around for awhile.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Teologia Polityczna.)

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro temporarily removes visa requirements for citizens of Saudi Arabia in hopes of boosting its tourism industry.

From Morocco World News, international experts call for the implementation of Morocco's autonomy plan for the region of Western Sahara.

From The North Africa Post, Libyan Government of National Unity leader Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is warned to hand over power to his rival Fathi Bashagha.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey demands that "concrete steps" are taken to address its objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities in the city of İstanbul reportedly detain the new leader of ISIS.

From Rûdaw, Iraq's Council of Representatives passes a bill to "criminalize" all relations with Israel.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hosts Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Paris, France Mayor Anne Hidalgo arrives in Yerevan, Armenia for an official visit.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's Interior Ministry prepares a plan to "de-ghetto" the capital city of Nicosia.

From The Syrian Observer, according to Syria's Foreign and Expatriates Ministry, Turkey's "safe zone" in northern Syria is a war crime.

From North Press Agency, Syrian Democratic Forces troops capture a local ISIS leader near Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

From The961, protesters in Lebanon set up roadblocks and urge people to hit the streets.

From Arutz Sheva, according to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, "Jews cannot compromise their ability to celebrate Jerusalem Day".

From The Times Of Israel, the U.S. embassy in Israel tells its employees to state out of the Old City of Jerusalem during Jerusalem Day and the previous Friday.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to a poll, 70 percent of Israelis don't want an Arab party in any future coalition government.

From YNetNews, according to Palestinian officials, Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces.

From the Egypt Independent, a former president of the Louvre Museum in Paris is suspected of allowing a criminal group to forge certificates of origin for five ancient Egyptian artifacts.

From Egypt Today, Foreign Ministers Sameh Shoukry (Egypt) and Ioannis Kasoulides (Cyprus) discuss enhancing the ties in trade, energy and investments between their two countries.

From the Sudan Tribune, Sudan and South Sudan agree to reestablish a joint committee to deal with security issues in a disputed region.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the U.N. posthumously honors three peacekeepers from Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian expats will need a permit in order to enter the city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage.

From The New Arab, what is Israel's Flag March, held on Jerusalem Day, and why is it controversial?

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, residents of Abadan, Iran protest after the collapse of a building.

From IranWire, what Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei didn't say during his hour-long speech.

From Iran International, an engineer is killed at Iran's Parchin military complex.

From Khaama Press, Taliban forces suppress a group of women protesting in front of the Maryam High School in Kabul, Afghanistan over its banning of female students.  (Ironically, the high school's name "Maryam" is female, and appears to be the equivalent of the Western name "Mary".  So what then, are these "women's rights" you speak of?)

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to political analysts, Afghanistan's planned grand assembly should represent all Afghans.

From Firstpost, a man in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is arrested for allegedly trying to kill his wife after forcing her to convert to Islam.

From PinkVilla, terrorists kill actress Amreen Bhat and injure her 10-year-old nephew in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From Gatestone Institute, how the Biden administration is getting Turkish President Erdoğan's moves all wrong.

From The Stream, "don't let Big Brother silence scientific debate".

From The Daily Signal, to President Biden, some mass killings are more significant than others.

From The American Conservative, the decline of filmmaker Michael Moore.

From The Western Journal, a man in Norway allegedly kills five people with a bow-and-arrow and a knife.

From BizPac Review, according to a CBS reporter on the scene of the aforementioned stunt by Bob O'Rourke, it was "very clearly staged".

From The Daily Wire, Theologian Carl Trueman explains why public high schools keep on hosting shows by drag queens.

From the Daily Caller, why did law enforcement wait so long before engaging the Uvalde school shooter?

From the New York Post, the disk jockey from Long Island who recorded himself smoking marijuana during the Capitol riot gets three years in prison.

From Breitbart, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) defends his signing of the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S.

From Newsmax, the Uvalde shooter was able to enter the school without facing any obstacles.

And from the Rolling Stone, Yes drummer Alan White, who also played on solo albums by John Lennon and George Harrison, passes away at age 72 after a brief illness.