Stories For The End Of August

As the year 2020 reaches its two-thirds mark on a warm cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why President Biden gets away with saying offensive things, including some based on racial stereotypes.

From FrontpageMag, former Attorney General William Barr is all-in with the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From Townhall, the Department of Justice's latest purported "smoking gun" just makes them look worse.

From The Washington Free Beacon, federal law enforcement officials identify nearly 30,000 people holding Mexican passports who have Middle Eastern names.  (According to Wiki, there are about 2,000 Muslims in Mexico, including about 650 in the state of Chiapas.  For some to have names originating in the Middle East would be no surprise.)

From the Washington Examiner, a new law in New York state will require concealed carry permit applicants to submit their social media accounts.

From The Federalist, emails show librarians in Collinsville and Glen Carbon, Illinois trying to recruit drag performers to perform for children.

From American Thinker, Democrats falsely claim that then-President Obama was tough on Russia and Trump was soft on Russian President Putin.  (As the article points out, Russia invaded Crimea, then Ukrainian territory on Obama's watch, but did not invade anyone on Trump's watch.  Let's also not forget that Russia invaded Georgia on Bush the Younger's watch.)

From CNS News, in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Biden talks about "tough neighborhoods" and being the "only white guy" working as a lifeguard.

From LifeZette, Biden accidentally makes the case that U.S. citizens need more than just guns.

From Red Voice Media, when in New York City, please do not slap the police officers.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to BYU police, there is no evidence that a fan yelled out racial slurs at Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson.

From Canada Free Press, Biden transitions from decrepit to sinister.

From TeleSUR, according to an expert, restored ties between Venezuela and Colombia would go against the interest of the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s coronavirus lockdowns were not an attempt to protect its National Health Service, but a coup by "lying liberty thief" Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the recent floods in Pakistan really the worst in its history?

From Free West Media, Identitarian activists occupy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline terminal in Lubmin, Germany.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian forces shell "Russian supply ferries" on the Dnipro River.

From Euractiv, most of E.U. countries are failing to deliver on the bloc's child poverty plan.

From ReMix, at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, 74 police officers are assaulted, six people are stabbed, 209 people are arrested, 441 knives are confiscated, and one person in murdered.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia tells Kosovo that their deal over ID cards does not mean that Kosovo's independence is recognized.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria sends highly toxic dates to Mauritania.

From The New Arab, according to a U.N. official, Libya is under a "fragile calm", but a risk of violence remains.

From 1945, Iran starts sending drones to Russia, possibly to be used in the invasion of Ukraine.

From Persecution(dot)org, in Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen gun down a Christian woman as she was cleaning her church.

From Gatestone Institute, China tortures dissidents in psychiatric hospitals.

From The Stream, the huge difference between forgiveness through the cross and student loan debt "forgiveness".

From The American Conservative, the U.S. military continues its self-castration.

From The Daily Signal, when it comes to student loan debt, more government spending is the problem, not the solution.

From The Western Journal, a bird chopper in Oregon becomes a major hazard to nearby residents.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson exposes the fatal flaw that makes electric vehicles a "disaster" for the environment and the energy grid.

From The Daily Wire, Biden's student loan "forgiveness" would be a giveaway for doctors, lawyers, and grads with dubious degrees.

From the Daily Caller, the U.S. Army grounds all of its Chinook heavy-lifting helicopters after some of them have engine fires.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Biden's net approval rating dropped seven points in one week.

From Newsmax, senatorial candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) calls on Biden to legalize marijuana at the federal level.

And from the New York Post, Kylie Jenner is rich, but these seven young billionaires are even richer.

Some Late Stuff For Tuesday

Due to a power outage, I have not been able to post anything on the Interwebs for most of the afternoon.  But now with things apparently fixed, I present a short list of things going on:

From National Review, if New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge hits 62 home runs this year, he should be considered the true single-season record holder.

From FrontpageMag, in allegedly the "systemically racist" U.S., lots of whites vote for black candidates.

From Townhall, what the Biden administration won't say about financing for solar panels.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration goes Sgt. Schulz about Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's claim that Israel has committed "50 Holocausts" against the Palestinians.

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. Navy stops an attempt by Iranian naval forces to steal an unmanned surface vessel in the Arabian Gulf.  (The Arabian Gulf is also known as the Persian Gulf.  When visiting Arab-majority countries in the region, using the term that includes "Arabian" is advisable.)

From The Federalist, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's admission of FBI meddling in the 2020 presidential election "is even bigger than it seems".

From American Thinker, trying to figure out the Democrat disdain for former President Trump and his supporters.

From CNS News, conservatives and Republicans denounce President Biden's student loan bailout.

From LifeZette, according to the Border Patrol, the border in the southwest is wide open.

From NewsBusters, four Republicans slam the censorship collusion between Facebook and the FBI.

From Canada Free Press, Trump should not let the backstabbers take him down.

From TeleSUR, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo vetoes a bill to regulate crypto assets.

From TCW Defending Freedom, if the West can beat the upcoming winter chill, the tide could turn against Russian President Putin.

From OpIndia, Islamists demolish houses in Murumatu, Jharkhand, India.

From BBC News, at least 23 people are killed in clashes in Baghdad, Iraq after the decision by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to quit politics.

From Gatestone Institute, Chinese military researchers threaten to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites.

From The Stream, Trump responds to the ouster of the FBI agent who allegedly tried to fix elections.

From The Daily Signal, a woman and her baby find love at a pregnancy resource center.

From ITR Economics, is inflation causing consumers to spend less?

From The American Conservative, the ruling Neros fiddle while the West burns.

From The Western Journal, Republican Senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Ron Johnson (Wis) call on the aforementioned Mark Zuckerberg to turn over his communications with the FBI.

From BizPac Review, in 2020, the United Mine Workers endorsed then-candidate Biden even though he declared that there would be no more coal-fired power plants in the U.S. if he won.

From the Daily Caller, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz that there's a crisis on the southern border.

From The Hill, Google blocks Trump's Truth Social platform from its app store for Android devices.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Tri-City Herald, the Kennewick, Washington school board bans teaching CRT in classrooms.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) calls Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) "ridiculous" for telling conservatives to get out of New York.  (Yours truly did that as a teenager, due to Papa Bigfoot changing jobs.)

From Breitbart, California Democrat state legislators pass a law to set up a board that would set wages for fast food workers.

From Newsmax, Mississippi calls in its National Guard to help hand out water in the capital city of Jackson after its water treatment plant breaks down.

And from The Daily Wire, according to Russian state media, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at age 91.

Monday Links

On the last Monday of August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, which side is really itching for another Civil War?

From FrontpageMag, the Ministry of Truth is officially dead.

From Townhall, how the Department of Justice set a trap for former President Trump that led to the FBI raid at his home in Mar-a-Lago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) doubled his income since taking office.

From the Washington Examiner, the fencing around the Supreme Court is removed, but the building remains closed.

From The Federalist, the redacted affidavit used to justify the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago shows that it was a fishing expedition.

From American Thinker, when it comes to "semi-fascism", President Biden in projecting.

From CNS News, the real new white supremacists.

From LifeZette, taxpayers are [bleep]ed off over Biden's student loan giveaway.

From Red Voice Media, Iraq descends in to chaos, with U.S. embassy employees being evacuated by helicopter.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, people who want to destroy the U.S. Constitution.

From Canada Free Press, newsman Matt Drudge five the FBI the picture of Trump that they want.

From TeleSUR, the world's largest-ever concert calls for peace in Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Tories are in denial about the existential crisis which the U.K. faces.

From Snouts in the Trough, the start of the de-democratizing of the West.

From Free West Media, according to Italian politician Matteo Salvini, "Hungarian family legislation is the best in Europe".

From EuroNews, according to local authorities, Ukraine has launched a counter-offensive to retake the city of Kherson.

From Euractiv, the European Commission and European Parliament nominate the Italian island of Ventotene the historical and moral capital of European values.

From ReMix, of 466 migrants on the rescue ship Ocean Viking, only 21 are women.  (Would ReMix or any member of the ship's crew like to give a definition for "woman"?  If you read French, read the story on RFI.)

From Balkan Insight, the organizer of the EuroPride event planned for Belgrade, Serbia insists that it will go on, despite President Aleksandar Vučić's call to ban it.

From The North Africa Post, will Moroccan banks and businesses suspend operations in Tunisia due to its President Kais Saied hosting the leader of the Polisario Front?

From The New Arab, Iraq slides into chaos as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr "retires".

From NDTV, Pakistan denies claims made by the Taliban that the U.S. used its airspace in the strike which killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a woman from the Swiss canton of Ticino goes on trial for multiple alleged attempted murders.  (If you read German, read the story at Neue Zürcher Zeitung.  While the NZZ article is in German, the dominant language in Ticino is Italian.)

From Gatestone Institute, the arrests and torture of Palestinians that no one talks about.

From The Stream, an update on the Mar-a-Lago raid.

From The Daily Signal, as the midterm elections approach, here are the 10 worst states for voters.

From Space War, the G7 demands unimpeded access to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, now occupied by Russian forces.

From The American Conservative, the cowing of family farms.

From The Western Journal, the FBI's "brazen" response to claims made by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg just makes them look worse.

From BizPac Review, former FBI agent Peter Strzok is figuratively pummeled after claiming that the bureau had "no choice" but to "reluctantly" investigate Trump.

From The Daily Wire, according to Vice President Harris, the space program will also benefit "womankind".  (But first, can we define "womankind"?)

From the Daily Caller, fed up with the Democrat response to the coronavirus, podcaster Joe Rogan tells people to "vote Republican".

From the New York Post, a New Jersey man gets three years in prison for selling Super Bowl rings engraved with the name of then-New England quarterback Tom Brady.

From Newsmax, a Maryland man involved in the Capitol Riot gets four years in prison.

From Breitbart, the launch of the moon rocket Artemis I, planned for today, is delayed due to what NASA calls an engine bleed.

And from The Babylon Bee, the real reason why the launch of Artemis I was delayed.

Sunday Links

On a Sunday that mostly lives up to its name, here are some things going on:

From National Review, in response to a request from former President Trump, a judge has "preliminary intent" to appoint a "special master" to conduct an independent review of records seized by the FBI from his home at Mar-a-Lago.

From Townhall, another busload of illegal migrants arrives in New York City.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a biography of baseball player Rickey Henderson.

From the Washington Examiner, a 1952 baseball card of Mickey Mantle sells at auction for a record-breaking price.

From American Thinker, student loan "forgiveness" deserves to be the figurative nail in the coffin for the Democrats.

From Red Voice Media, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals footage of her home being swatted.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, The New York Times sees "racism, stigma and fear" in the disease name "monkeypox".

From Canada Free Press, a certificate of achievement for the unvaccinated.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will hold a campaign debate.

From TCW Defending Freedom, its last 36 residents leave the Scottish island of St Kilda, known as "the edge of the world".  (Although "St" looks like the abbreviation for "Saint", it does not have a period.  According to Wiki, there is no saint named Kilda.)

From Free West Media, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban honors Dutch politician Geert Wilders for his work against illegal immigration.

From EuroNews, Poland and the Czech Republic will protect Slovakia's airspace as it retires its Soviet-era MiGs.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian politicians, officials and unionists express outrage over President Kais Saied's invitation of the leader of the Polisario Front to TICAD8.

From The New Arab, clashes between armed groups in Libya results in 32 deaths.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a rally of the Pax Europa movement in Saarbrücken, Germany is attacked by critical passers-by.  (If you read German, read the story at Breaking News Saarland.)

From Sp!ked, "we are still in denial about radical Islam".

From Gatestone Institute, in Europe, Christianity declines and Islam rises.

From The Stream, lessons learned at Turning Point USA could change the nation.

From Space War, Turkey accuses Greece of harassing its jets while they were on a reconnaissance mission.

From The Western Journal, the conservative Twitter account "Libs of TikTok is suspended engaging in arguments with Children's National Hospital.

From BizPac Review, a New Mexico man is arrested for allegedly trying to open an ISIS training center near the southern border.

From The Daily Wire, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) demands that President Biden apologizes for accusing some Republicans of being motivated by "semi-fascism".

From the Daily Caller, ahead of the midterm elections, Democratic congresscritters hand Republicans two huge gifts.

From the New York Post, according to congresscritter Mike Turner (R-OH), no national security threat is apparent in the affidavit used to justify the raid at Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.  (There could hypothetically be such material in the affidavit that's not apparent due to it being redacted.)

From Breitbart, two Mexican police officers from the state of Tamaulipas are each sentenced to 50 years for the death of an innocent motorist near the border with the U.S. and the state of Texas.

And from Newsmax, despite lightning strikes hitting its launch pad, NASA's moon rocket Artemis is still set to blast off tomorrow.

A Few Things For Saturday

Now that I've again walked through a forest like a good Sasquatch, this time on a warm sunny Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Texas Governor Abbott (R) calls out President Biden's "absence at our border" while sending more busloads of illegal migrants to New York City.

From Townhall, former President Trump has some things to say about the search warrant for the FBI raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, self-styled "moderate" congressional candidate Wiley Nickel (D-NC) partnered with a liberal group seeking to defund the police and end cash bail.

From the Washington Examiner, according to former White House advisor Karl Rove, a Secret Service member assigned to protect Trump may have ratted him out over classified documents.

From American Thinker and the "get it through your thick skull" department, we right-wingers need to understand that Democrats really hate us.

From LifeZette, Facebook rigged its coverage of the 2020 election at the behest of the FBI, and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits it.

From Red Voice Media, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) tells Trump supporters to go somewhere.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN host Jim Acosta and "fact checker" Daniel Dale ask if Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) has a dog.

From Canada Free Press, the Democrat police state is the real threat to democracy.

From TeleSUR, police in Puerto Rico repress a demonstration against the Canadian company LUMA Energy.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. has an energy breakthrough, but needs 280 more.

From Free West Media, how will the Dutch government solve the migrant crisis in the Netherlands?

From EuroNews, a deal is reached to allow Kosovo citizens to enter Serbia.

From The North Africa Post, the Tunisian government seals its position in favor of the Polisario militia.  (The Polisario Front is rebel movement that claims Western Sahara, and opposes Morocco's claims on the region.)

From The New Arab, Tunisian President Kais Saied meets with the leader of the Polisario Front, which displeases Moroccan politicians.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian refugee in Germany goes on trial for allegedly firing a bazooka at people waiting for food from a U.N. relief organization in 2014.  (If you read German, read the story at Die Stimme Berlins.)

From Gatestone Institute, in its effort to obtain a nuclear deal with Iran, the Biden administration offers even more concessions.

From The Stream, tomorrow is the 59th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and some other items.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book purporting to be against the sexual revolution.

From The Western Journal, the U.S. moon rocket Artemis I is set to be launched this coming Monday.

From BizPac Review, speaking about student loan "forgiveness", comedian Bill Maher calls college a "scam".

From The Daily Wire, Maher and actor Rob "Meathead" Reiner clash over First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

From the Daily Caller, one economic indicator could hurt Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

From Breitbart, emails show that the DHS is still knowingly releasing coronavirus-positive illegal aliens into the U.S.

From Newsmax, U.S. intelligence agencies will reportedly evaluate the potential risk to national security from the disclosure of materials taken from the Trump residence at Mar-a-Lago.

And from the New York Post, residents of the New York City neighborhood of Park Slope form a group, styled after the Hell's Angels, to protect their pets.

Friday Fuss

On a warm and mostly sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the White House plays some whataboutism with student loan "forgiveness".

From FrontpageMag, the novel The Da Vinci Code attacked the wrong religion, but got some things right.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, here are some lessons from President Biden's plan to "forgive" student loans.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) opposes school vouchers for the poor, while he sends his own kids to one of Pennsylvania's most expensive prep schools.

From the Washington Examiner, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols's ashes will be launched into space.

From The Federalist, how the Nazis and eugenics led to chemical abortions in the U.S.

From American Thinker, the food company Goya rejects wokeness and sees its earnings soar.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA), indebted students from the colleges that failed them.

From LifeZette, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) fights to keep 26,000 dead people on the voter rolls.

From NewsBusters, Big Tech gets ready to again roll out the censorship.

From Canada Free Press, why some people hate former President Trump so much.

From TeleSUR, Peronists are mobilized in support of Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak's belated coronavirus confession.

From Snouts in the Trough, are most of the U.K.'s crises stupidly self-inflicted?

From Free West Media, mocking thousands of victims of imported crime, UNESCO awards former German Chancellor Angela Merkel its peace prize.

From EuroNews and the "stamp out franglais" department, lame duck U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson calls French President Emmanuel Macron a "très bon buddy".

From Euractiv, Europeans will have to decide whether to eat or heat.

From ReMix, according to Polish europarliamentcritters, while Russia is a clear foe, the greatest threat to Polish sovereignty comes from the West.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonians and Albanians are the most deported nationalities from Germany.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Germany plan to resume their energy cooperation.

From The New Arab, a Lebanese submarine finds the remains of seven refugees who died after their boat sank this past April.

From OpIndia, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court reopens the case of the 2003 massacre of 24 Kashmiri Pandits.  (A Pandit is specialized teacher in Hinduism.  The variant spelling "Pundit" has been borrowed into English.)

From Jewish News, a man allegedly travelsfrom the English county of Yorkshire to Stamford Hill in northern London to attack Jews.

From Gatestone Institute, the "Great Reset" is "a blueprint for destroying freedom, innovation, and prosperity".

From The Stream, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals the FBI's role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's bloated and high-spending government threatens economic freedom.

From Space Daily, China tests a space plane.

From The American Conservative, the military-industrial complex is getting a big break in Ukraine.

From BizPac Review, the White House plans to make federally funded research freely available to the public.

From The Daily Wire, a Pride parade in Charlotte, North Carolina is condemned after a video shows it to not be very family-friendly.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice redacts its reasons for redacting information in the affidavit used to justify the warrant to search former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From the New York Post, according to data, housing prices could fall by 20 percent in 183 cities.

From Breitbart, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) goes to Taiwan.

From Newsmax, Senator Socialism (I-VT) tops a poll for the Democratic nomination.

And from the The U.S. Sun, a mysterious purple cloud descends upon Pozo Almonte, Chile.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday Links

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

From National Review, some moderate Democrats come out against President Biden's student loan "forgiveness".

From FrontpageMag, Dr. Fauci's biggest crime, which trumps all the others.

From Townhall, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loses a battle of legal wits to reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden claims that the authority to cancel student loan debt come from a law intended to help military personnel that was signed by President Bush the Younger.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden tells the working class to "drop dead".

From The Federalist, Utah and two of its counties sue the Biden administration over a land grab at two national monuments.

From American Thinker, how afraid should we be about this year's hurricane season?

From CNS News, according to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), "student loan socialism is a slap in the face" to college students who paid their debts and everyone who avoided taking on those debts.

From LifeZette, Biden's planned student loan forgiveness is a bribe offered to younger voters.  (Isn't bribery one of the impeachable offenses explicitly recited in Article 2 of the Constitution?)

From Red Voice Media, Washington, D.C. has a "deadly hump day".  (via Lifezette)

From NewsBusters, CNN admits that canceling student loan debt increases inflation and is legally dubious.

From Canada Free Press, "is there any truth left in America?"

From TeleSuR, Bolivian social activists march in support of President Luis Arce.

From TCW, with statesmen gone and replaced by mediocrities, it's no wonder that the West is in peril.

From Snouts in the Trough, a look at "the leader of the free world".

From Free West Media, since the start of the Russian invasion, a million Ukrainians have fled to Germany.

From EuroNews, a violent brawl between soccer fans results in thousands of euros of damage to a brasserie in Brussels, Belgium.

From Euractiv, according to an investigation, Russian bombers in Ukraine are using fuel from the French company TotalEnergies, the only Western oil company still operating in Russia.

From ReMix, Germany has the answer to rapidly increasing energy prices.

From Balkan Insight, five people are arrested for alleged human trafficking after their bus, which was carrying 48 Syrian migrants, collides with a police car in Burgas, Bulgaria.

From The North Africa Post, the German government reaffirms its support for Morocco's autonomy plan for the region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners start a sit-in protest in the courtyards of Israeli jails.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reverses a ban on departmental sports which had been imposed by his predecessor Imran Khan.

From The Express Tribune, over 900 people have died from floods in Pakistan resulting from heavy monsoon rains.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani military generals each offer a month's salary for flood relief.

From The Hans India, public schools in Hyderabad, India don't have all their necessary textbooks.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian government will restrict the export of wheat flower.

From ANI, the Bharatiya Janata Party tells the Congress Party to not preach to them about spying.

From India Today, a hospital in the city of Kanpur become the first in India becomes the first to perform a fat-derived stem cell transplant.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a spike in diesel fuel prices in Bangladesh results in a spike in egg prices.

From New Age, thousands of Rohingyas who had fled from Myanmar observe their fifth genocide remembrance day at their camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lankan Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera, fuel will not be provided to unapproved businesses.

From the Daily Mirror, nine air passengers from Sri Lanka are detained at the Hyderabad, India airport for allegedly having gold in a place outside the reach of sunlight.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih urges top achievers to pursue knowledge in fields essential for national development.

From This Day, the U.S. Department of State honors slain Nigerian student Deborah Samuel Yakubu.

From The Straits Times, Bruneian Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah concludes his state visit to Singapore.

From Tempo(dot)Co, when in Jakarta, Indonesia, don't gamble online.

From Free Malaysia Today, police in Malaysia bust an international drug smuggling operation, arresting two durian farmers and another man for involvement with the storage of the drug syabu.  (I confess to having been unfamiliar with durian, which is a fruit, and syabu, which is a drug, but seeing that my spellchecker had no problem with either word, I figured that the terms are legitimate.  "Syabu" can also be spelled "shabu", to which my spellchecker does object.)

From the Borneo Post, former Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak waves to his supporters while on his way back to prison, after meeting with his family.

From Vietnam Plus, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang, Vietnamese authorities are working to protect their citizens who were tricked into illegally working in Cambodia.

From the Taipei Times, a Taiwanese couple are convicted of running a carbon credit trading scam.

From The Mainichi, four technical intern trainees from Indonesia receive letters of appreciation from the mayor of Yamaguchi, Japan for capturing a monkey.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. Congress holds the key to the air power balance between Greece and Turkey.

From The Stream, the left-wing war on pro-life pregnancy centers.

From The Daily Signal, a federal judge blocks the Biden administration's efforts to coerce emergency room doctors to perform abortions, even if it goes against their religious beliefs.  (As far as I'm concerned, anyone who would force a doctor whose religious beliefs are against abortion to perform them is not pro-choice but pro-abortion.  On a lighter note, the judge's name leaves me wondering if he was going to pull out a left-handed guitar and play it behind his head.)

From Sino Daily, after China conducts military drills, Taiwan announces plans for a record defense budget.

From Space War, according to the U.N.'s human rights chief, when a report on rights in the Chinese region of Xinjiang will be published is still unclear.

From The American Conservative, we'd better "farm or die".

From The Western Journal, the one video clip which the Republicans should run from now until the midterm elections in November.

From Politico, President Biden's plan to forgive student debt produces a "centrist revolt".  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, the White House staffers who will benefit from Biden's student loan forgiveness are outed.

From The Daily Wire, according to a writer quoted by actor Mark Ruffalo, the bad reviews for the movie She-Hulk Attorney at Law come from racists and woman-haters.  (If we can't define the word "woman", can we define the term "woman-hater"?)

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, Americans are split on whether the Department of Justice is lying about the FBI raid at the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Trump.

From the New York Post, after his DUI arrest, speaker spouse Paul Pelosi is stripped of his membership in the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation.

From Breitbart, according to Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), most Americans did not understand the "magnitude" of the border crisis until his administration started bussing illegal migrants.

From Newsmax, according to St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard, high inflation is likely to persist longer than previously expected.

And from The Hill and the "what could go wrong?" department, the Federal Reserve wants to replace private cryptocurrencies with its own.

Wednesday Whatnot

On warm sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republicans get enraged after President Biden "forgives" billions of dollars of federal student loan debt.

From FrontpageMag, we lied about President Trump before, so trust us now.

From Townhall, a Texas judge blocks the Biden administrations guidelines for abortion in hospitals.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a month after an illegal alien was released from prison and tried to kill his ex-girlfriend, a North Carolina state legislator voted against a bill to prevent that sort of thing.

From the Washington Examiner, after a whistleblower comes forth, Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams.

From The Federalist, Trump is right to point out that Senator Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have been getting "rich on China".

From American Thinker, no, lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY), you're no Lincoln.

From CNS News, according to what Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) said a year ago, the president does not have the power to forgive debt.

From LifeZette, Biden's plan to cancel student loan debt is aimed at helping the rich.

From Red Voice Media, school board candidates in Florida who were endorsed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R) win big.  (Or as Trump would say, they win bigly.  The story comes via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to a guest on CNN, forgiving student loans will "make inflation worse".

From Canada Free Press, which do Republicans love more, America or power?

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposes a Venezuela-Colombia economic zone.

From TCW Defending Freedom, at the Boris Johnson academy, geography teacher Liz Truss could be promoted to Headmistress.

From Free West Media, "Swiss security forces are getting nervous" about what could happen this coming winter.

From EuroNews, the fish die-off in the Oder River remains a mystery.

From Euractiv, the German government approves a plan to cut natural gas usage by 2 percent.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man from Iraq goes on trial for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in Bad Arolsen, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Tag24.)

From ReMix, Polish President Andrzej Duda is honored in Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, envoys from the E.U. and the U.S. attempt to break the deadlock between Serbia and Kosovo in their dispute over vehicle license plates.

From Morocco World News, drilling is reportedly progressing well at Morocco's Tichka-Est gold project.

From The North Africa Post, Japanese space engineers are detained at Tunisia's Carthage International Airport for allegedly possessing a spy satellite blueprint.

From the Libyan Express, another mass grave, this one containing seven bodies, is found in Tarhouna, Libya.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, normalization with Israel won't lessen Türkiye's support for Palestine.  (My spellchecker hasn't yet recognized the spelling "Türkiye".)

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities in the city of İstanbul seize the villa of a mob boss who revealed information on "murky" relations between the government and the mafia.

From Gatestone Institute, Türkiye accuses Sweden and Finland of "supporting terrorism" while releasing Turkish Hizbullah terrorists from prison.

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi region of Kurdistan launches a digital drivers license system.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan receives the governor of the Russian oblast of Omsk.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan tells French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna about the importance of repatriating Armenian POWs.

From In-Cyprus, requests for dormitories by University of Cyprus students double the number of available rooms.

From The Syrian Observer, members of a Russian military patrol in the Syrian governorate of Quneitra are injured in an explosion.

From North Press Agency, Syrian government and Russian troops check a site west of Kobani, Syria that was hit by Turkish airstrikes.

From The691, Lebanese judges decide to continue their strike after meeting at the Beirut Palace of Justice.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked revokes the visa of Jordanian official Sheikh Trad Al Faiz after he conducted a subversive incitement campaign from Israel's Negev region.

From The Times Of Israel, according to a Saudi-run news outlet, Israeli F-35 stealth fighters repeatedly penetrated into Iranian air space during recent exercises.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli left and right clash over the opening of a rail line in the city of Tel Aviv on Shabbat.  (In the West, Shabbat is commonly rendered as "Sabbath", the two differing in the placement of the "h".  My spellchecker has no problem with either spelling.)

From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid urges the West to reject the proposed nuclear deal with Iran.

From the Egypt Independent, according to presidential health advisor Mohamed Awad Tag Eddin, Egypt is establishing its first blood plasma factory.

From Egypt Today, Egypt seeks to enhance safari and eco-tourism in the area of Fayoum.

From the Sudan Tribune, the Ethiopian air force shoots down a plane flying from Sudan that was carrying weapons to the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, according to the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front has launched new attacks, bringing a five-month humanitarian truce to an end.

From the Saudi Gazette, a Sudanese man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia goes to jail because of his barking dog.

From The New Arab, a Palestinian Authority official urges Palestinians to avoid using the Ramon Airport in the aforementioned Negev region of Israel.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at Arabi21.)

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian hardliners attempt to police social life and cultural tastes.

From IranWire, campaigners denounce the "show trial" of German-Iranian man Jamshid Sharmadh.

From Iran International, U.N. experts are alarmed by the escalation of Iran's religious persecution.

From Khaama Press, according to the USCIRF, religious freedom in Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover has seen a "severe decline".

From Pajhwok Afghan News, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation seeks support for flood victims in Afghanistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, the U.N. is still divided on whether to allow 13 Taliban officials to travel.

From The Stream, how "gender confirmation" surgery actually confirms that there are only two biological genders.

From The Daily Signal, voter fraud is still going on, and why President Biden's student loan bailout is unfair, especially to those who have paid off their loans or worked their way through college.

From The American Conservative, no, "Christian nationalism" didn't cause the January 6th Capitol riot.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Dan Bongino calls getting the coronavirus vaccination "the biggest mistake" of his life.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson calls the rash of carjackings in Democrat-run cities the "clearest possible sign that civilization is falling apart".

From The Daily Wire, Biden's student loan bailout is "a real slap in the face" to people who have already paid off their loans.

From the Daily Caller, former Florida Governor (R) and current gubernatorial candidate (D) Charlie Crist doesn't want votes from supporters of Governor Ron DeSantis (R).  (Isn't he being a bit redundant, since people who support DeSantis are going to vote for DeSantis in the first place?)

From Fox News, the Chinese island province of Hainan aims to be the first in its country to ban cars powered by gasoline or diesel.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, according to economist Ian Shepherdson, the U.S. housing market is in "much worse shape" than the Fed admits.

From Breitbart, George Lopez becomes the latest comedian to sue the streaming station Pandora for unpaid royalties.

From Newsmax, according to former White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas, Dr. Anthony Fauci leaves a "very important legacy" of "failure".

And from the Genesius Times, Biden promises to transfer all student loans to people who never went to college.

Tuesday Things

On a warm partly sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Democrat "#Resistance" playbook is not working against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).

From FrontpageMag, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is feted in Berlin.

From Townhall, how the fiasco involving the FBI's raid at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home could be affected by former President Clinton's sock drawer.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Braddock, PA Mayor John Fetterman (D), now running for Senator, allegedly ordered a police officer to dig up dirt on a political appointment.

From the Washington Examiner, climate change hypocrites talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

From The Federalist, Republicans should treat soon-to-retire Dr. Fauci the way in which Democrats treat Republicans.

From American Thinker, President Biden and the Ides of August.

From CNS News, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), people probably don't move to Florida if they like the way things are in San Francisco.

From LifeZette, military veterans continue to extract U.S. allies out of Afghanistan as the Biden administration forgets about them.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, contrary to some media rumors, former First Lady Melania Trump has no qualms about she and her husband returning to the White House.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post is upset that the aforementioned Governor DeSantis wants to keep murderers and sex offenders from voting.

From Canada Free Press, Twitter unpersons an activist who criticized people who encouraged children to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

From TeleSUR, Argentina's Prosecutor's Office recommends requests that Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner be sentenced to 12 years in prison.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the vital questions about coronavirus policy which should be asked of U.K. prime ministerial candidates Sunak and Truss.

From Snouts in the Trough, does World Economic Forum leader Charles Schwab want everyone to have microchip implants?

From EuroNews, a record-breaking 1,295 illegal migrants enter the U.K. in one day.

From Free West Media, a Eritrean cultural festival in Gießen, Germany turns into a civil war.

From Euractiv, according to Lithuania's foreign minister, the Baltic states, Finland and Poland might ban Russian tourists from entering their respective countries.

From Russia Today, Ukraine disconnects from Russia's power grid.

From Sputnik International, according to an investigative committee, people besides Ukrainian woman Natalia Vovk may have been involved in the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina.

From The Moscow Times, hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin may have been the intended target of her murder.

From Romania-Insider, Romania plans to upgrade 162 kilometers of its railroad lines.

Form Novinite, public transport in Bulgaria will soon no longer require masks.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Bulgarian caretaker Energy Minister Rossen Hristov, talks with the Russian gas company Gazprom are "inevitable".

From Radio Bulgaria, at a meeting of defense ministers, Bulgarian interim Deputy Defense Minister Teodora Genchovska condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece plans to extend its border fence along its entire land border with Turkey.

From Ekathimerini, North Macedonian police detain 26 migrants suspected of having illegally entered from Greece and arrest the van driver who was allegedly smuggling them.

From the Greek City Times, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson rents a car and visits the Greek island of Evia.

From Balkan Insight, a former Bosnian Croat policeman is charged war crimes against civilians allegedly committed in 1992 in Bosanski Brod, Bosnia.

From Total Croatia News, a look at the city of Split, now in Croatia, when it was ruled by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia observes Black Ribbon Day, to commemorate the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

From The Malta Independent, 10 people are arrested in drug raids in the Maltese Cities of Valletta and Marsa.

From Malta Today, how an electoral victory in Italy by the party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) could worsen Malta's immigration problem.

From ANSA, the Roman temple of Cupra shows colors similar to those found in the archaeological site of Pompeii.

From SwissInfo, the Zurich, Switzerland airport becomes profitable again after the coronavirus pandemic.  (Yours truly has both changed planes there and has flown there as a final destination.  For my most recent visit, go to this blog's archives for June 2015.)

From France24, a hospital in Corbeil-Essonnes, France is targeted by a cyberattack.

From RFI, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, the E.U. is ready to support Ukraine "for the long term".

From El País, large amounts of rainbow fentanyl are seized at the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The Portugal News, unemployment benefits in Portugal are at an all-time low.

From ReMix, bird choppers emit the most powerful known greenhouse gas.  (If you read German, read a related story at TagesSchau.)

From The North Africa Post, the Libyan Armed Forces, led by warlord Khalifa Haftar, claim to have downed a drone armed with two missiles near the city of Benghazi.

From The New Arab, Iraq's Supreme Judiciary Council suspends its activities and closes down all of the country's courts.

From OpIndia, the High Court of Delhi, India upholds the marriage of a 15-year-old Muslim girl.

From Union of Catholic Asian News, a Munda man dies from injuries suffered when hundreds of Muslims attacked his village of Dhumghat in Bangladesh.

From Gatestone Institute, China is weaponizing overseas Chinese to support the Chinese Communist Party.

From The Stream, "fed up to the eyeballs".

From The American Conservative, don't trust the D.C. swamp on election integrity.

From Sino Daily, according to President Tsai Ing-wen, no threat could shake the Taiwanese resolve to defend their island.

From Space War, supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stage a sit-in outside the aforementioned Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.

From The Daily Signal, Texas shows how America's elections can be fixed.

From The Western Journal, if the Biden administration extends the moratorium on student loan payments, its would negate the revenue expected from the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From Fox News, the widow of slain retired police officer David Dorn gives us a piece of her mind.

From BizPac Review, podcaster Joe Rogan accuses actor Alec Baldwin of lying about the shooting on the set of Rust, and rants about Hollywood hypocrisy on guns.

From The Daily Wire, Chinese censors change the ending of the American film Minions: The Rise of Gru.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) demands that the NIH preserve all documents and communications in Dr. Fauci's possession.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, 73 percent of college Democrats don't want President Biden to run for reelection in 2024.

From Newsmax, the Air Force and Space Force consider a pilot program under which enlisted men will be allowed to grow beards.

And from the New York Post, a Starbucks barista gives some tips on how to save money on your coffee.