Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, Americans deserve an explanation for the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From FrontpageMag, the raid at Mar-a-Lago is really a preview of the 2024 election.

From Townhall, was yesterday's special congressional election in Minnesota good news or bad news for the Republicans?

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Democrat plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents gets support from a tax-delinquent congresscritter.

From the Washington Examiner, Boeing delivers its first 787 Dreamliner since last year.

From The Federalist, the rule of law in the U.S. has become a farce under President Biden's Department Of Justice.

From American Thinker, if the Republicans retake the Senate in the upcoming midterms, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should not be made the majority leader.

From CNS News, the federal government collects a record amount of taxes in the current fiscal year through July.

From LifeZette, the judge who authorized the raid at Mar-a-Lago is a big supporter of Democrats.

From Red Voice Media, could we be in for "deja flu" all over again?  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC's The 11th Hour demands that we stop calling the FBI's raid at Mar-a-Lago a raid.

From TCW Defending Freedom, for saying things that make sense, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban is "re-Hitlered".

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s bloated civil service gets even more bloated.

From Free West Media, a tabloid calls German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach "confused" and possibly "mentally ill".

From EuroNews, a Russian journalist who protested against the war in Ukraine is arrested and her home is raided.  (What is this "right to dissent" you speak of?)

From Euractiv, Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the "far-right" party Brothers of Italy, brings them close to power.

From ReMix, according to Polish europarliamentcritter Ryszard Legutko, "the E.U. is sowing the seeds of its own destruction".

From Balkan Insight, Jews in North Macedonia condemn the decision by ethnic Bulgarians to name a club after the king who allied Bulgaria to Nazi Germany in World War II.

From Morocco World News, the parents of Moroccan students who fled Ukraine denounce the delay in their integration.

From The North Africa Post, a rift grows between the U.S. and Tunisia.

From the Libyan Express, Libya postpones the trials of 56 suspected ISIS terrorists until September.  (The article was published yesterday, but I will let it slide because it's the most recent thing I can find on the site.  I might also ask, what is this "right to a speedy trial" you speak of?)

From Hürriyet Daily News, NATO countries seek to purchase defense industry products from Türkiye.  (The country known as Turkey wants to be known as Türkiye.  So far, my spellchecker has not agreed to this change.)

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Constitutional Court rules against advertising bans imposed on newspapers critical of the Turkish government.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr calls for Iraq's judiciary to dissolve Iraq's parliament.

From Armenpress, a process of removing cultural monuments has started in the Artsakh region of Kashatagh.  (Artsakh is an autonomous region of Azerbaijan that has an ethnic Armenian majority population.  It is also called Nagorno Karabakh.)

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenia climbs to 51st place from 63rd in the World Press Freedom Index.

From In-Cyprus, a court in Limassol, Cyprus sentences an arsonist to two years in prison.

From The Syrian Observer, military skirmishes, but not war, break out in northern Syria.

From North Press Agency, at least three people are killed in a Turkish drone attack on a car in Malla Sibat, Syria.

From The961, according to Industry Minister George Boushekian, Lebanon is on its way to becoming an oil producer.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the new party formed by knessetcritter Ayelet Shaked will not pass Israel's electoral threshold.  (A knessetcritter is the Israeli equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

Form The Times Of Israel, Israeli prosecutors consider indicting former knessetcritter Michael Ben Ari for alleged incitement against Arabs.

From The Jerusalem Post, was it legal for Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz to start an operation in Gaza without convening the Israeli cabinet?

From YNetNews, immigration to Israel from Russia and Ukraine has jumped amid the conflict between those two countries.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas issues and later rescinds restrictions on foreign journalists working in Gaza.

From the Egypt Independent, according to the Russian Consul General in Hurghada, Egypt, five tourism companies are ready to start organizing trips to the city.

From Egypt Today, Egypt is not facing any energy shortage.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Women's and Social Affairs Minister Ergogie Tesfaye and Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankara Subrahmanyam hold a discussion about issues of interest.

From the Saudi Gazette, 100 girls participate in Saudi Arabia's first women's scout camp, in the city of Al-Baha.

From The New Arab, while under siege in Syria, ISIS leader Abu Salem al-Iraqi sends himself to his virgins.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian activists demand the release of anti-hijab protester Sepideh Rashno.

From IranWire, 125 Baha'is in Iran have reportedly been victimized by a crackdown in the past 10 days.

From Iran International, Iran and Russia have cooperated on satellites and drones.

From Khaama Press, according to local Taliban officials, dozens of families have been evacuated from their homes in the Afghan province of Jawzjan due to a fire.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Azizi Bank in the Sar-i-Pul, Afghanistan limits the amount of cash withdrawals.

From the Afghanistan Times, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and 50 unanswered questions.

From OpIndia, Islamists throw stones at Muharram processions in two districts in India.

From AP News, an Afghan man is charged with killing four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From Gatestone Institute, China and Russia attack the dollar, with help from U.S. President Biden.

From The Stream, should we emulate Jesus in his flipping of the tables of the money-changers?

From The American Conservative, the meaning of the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Daily Signal, seven ways in which the "Inflation Reduction Act" will attack your wallet.

From The Western Journal, according to an op-ed, Biden's Department of Justice reeks of double standards.

From BizPac Review, according to Georgetown University Law Professor John Turley, the FBI has "every right" to collect "classified material', but the need for the raid at Mar-a-Lago is still unclear.

From The Daily Wire, billionaire Elon Musk floats the idea of creating his own social media platform if he ends up not buying Twitter.

From the Daily Caller, Dr. Fauci gets booed while accepting an award before the start of a major league baseball game.

From the New York Post, a former public defender in Missouri smuggles heroin into a prison and thus gets his own term in the big house.

From Breitbart, the IDF releases helmet cam footage of a raid in Nablus, West Bank in which two terrorists were killed.

From Newsmax, former First Son Eric Trump reacts to the raid on his father's house.

From the Los Angeles Daily News, would-be home invaders in Hollywood Hills, California run into the 2nd Amendment.  (via the Washington Examiner)

And from WLKY, while on an entrance ramp for I-71, a truck spills its beer.  (via the Washington Examiner)