Thursday Links

On a sunny and warm but not too warm Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats propose to create an "inane" stock-buyback tax.

From FrontpageMag, the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago and double standards.

From Townhall, since former President Obama has missing records, will the FBI raid his house?  (Would this refer to his house in D.C., his mansion on Martha's Vineyard, or his new house in Hawaii?)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats launch an ad intended to attract Latino voters, which shows a café with prices shown in euros.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the CDC, the U.S. has surpassed 10,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox.

From The Federalist, according to a report, Democratic operatives voter roll management systems in 31 states.

From American Thinker, some questions arising from the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

From CNS News, after the raid on Mar-a-Lago, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) points out that "no person is above the law".  (Does that also apply to the persons who vandalize pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, persons who enter the U.S. without being checked at a port of entry, persons who vandalized businesses during the BLM and Pro-Fa riots of 2020, persons who damage statues or knock them over, persons who delete emails after they are subpoenaed, and to a certain person who has a notorious laptop?  In other words, "are you serious", Madame Speaker?)

From LifeZette, a Florida student is expelled after her mother stands up to gender identity indoctrination.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) reveals the chilling truth about the raid at Mar-a-Lago.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a pilot program on Twitter for identifying "misleading" information surprisingly dings White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

From Canada Free Press, President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau go on beach holidays are people in their respective countries try to survive.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo refuses to resign.

From TCW Defending Freedom, who's afraid of monkeypox?

From Free West Media, France plans to shut down half of its nuclear reactors.

From EuroNews, a Russian journalist opposed to the invasion of Ukraine tells a court, "may the dead children haunt you".

From Euractiv, Sweden now exceeds France as Europe's leading exporter of electricity.

From ReMix, 16-year-olds in Spain will soon be allowed to change their gender without parental permission.  (To paraphrase a certain show tune, the pain in Spain stays mainly in your brain.)

From Balkan Insight, a truck operated by human smugglers in North Macedonia capsizes, injuring 35 Syrian migrants.

From The North Africa Post, the administrative court of Tunis suspends Tunisian President Kais Saied's dismissal of 57 judges.

From The New Arab, ISIS terrorists "besiege key points" near the Suez Canal in Egypt.

From Dawn, the Pakistani navy rescues nine crew members from an Indian ship near the Pakistani port city of Gwadar.

From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan condemns the arrests of a private news channel's director and the wife of an assistant to politician Shahbaz Gill as "fascist".  (Gill was an aide to the former prime minister.)

From Pakistan Today, Pakistanis express their displeasure at the arrest of Gill's driver's wife, whose young daughter was detained along with her.

From The Hans India, thousands of people participate in the Freedom Run across the Indian state of Telangana.

From the Hindustan Times, at least two people are killed in clashes over an interfaith relationship in Hulihyder, Karnataka, India.

From ANI, there will be no smoking on SpiceJet's airplanes, and they mean it.

From India Today, why 9 South Korean fighter jets made an unplanned stop at the Kolkata, India airport.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi expatriates sent $813 million in remittances back to Bangladesh in the first ten days of August.

From New Age, counterfeiting medicines in Bangladesh could cost ya big time, pilgrim.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's Archaeology Department asks for a list of items in the President's House.

From the Daily Mirror, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to Sri Lanka after his visa to Thailand runs out.

From Raajje, Uhud Hajj and Umrah pilgrims are set to leave tonight on an Umrah to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  (An Uhud Hajj appears to be a pilgrimage to Mount Uhud, a few miles north of Medina, where a battle took place in March of 625 AD, or 3AH in the Islamic calendar.)

From The Straits Times, the Singaporean government cuts its economic growth forecast.

From Tempo(dot)Co, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia's economy is impressive compared to those of other countries.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Malaysia's Court of Appeal, children born outside of Malaysia to Malaysian fathers and foreign mothers are entitled to Malaysian citizenship, but children born to Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers are not.

From the Borneo Post, the birth rate in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is reportedly declining because women delay having children due to studies and work.

From Vietnam Plus, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang, Vietnam is closely monitoring the situation in the Taiwan Strait.

From the Taipei Times, according to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, China appears to have scaled down its military drills, but still remains a threat.

From The Mainichi, nine rivers in northern Japan overflow their banks due to heavy rains.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. must change its incoherent policy on Taiwan.

From The Stream, according to an opinion column, the raid at Mar-a-Lago looks like a "textbook" 4th Amendment violation.

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's executive order on abortion access is misleading and has lots of misinformation.

From The American Conservative, family breakdown and the story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio.

From The Western Journal, according to former First Son Eric Trump, his father's PAC has received record-breaking support in the wake of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

From BizPac Review, according to former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, the Democrats are unwise to prevent former President Trump from running, and instead wants to vote against him.

From The Daily Wire, as monkeypox spreads around the world, the World Health Organization tells people to refrain from attacking monkeys.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) may have saved her state's coal industry.

From Breitbart, FBI agents corner an armed suspect who allegedly made threats at their Cincinnati office.

From Newsmax, the CDC drops its coronavirus-related quarantine and screening guidelines.

And from the New York Post, when at Starbucks, please don't stare at the barista making your coffee.