Stories For The Fall Equinox

On a rainy turning to cloudy Thursday falling on the Fall equinox, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Creedence Clearwater Revival was "the most American band".

From FrontpageMag, hiding the truth about the side effects of the coronavirus vaccines.

From Townhall, Republican congresscritters make their final pitch ahead of the midterm elections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Val Hoyle (D-OR) complains that drug prices are out of control, but as a state legislator, she tried to keep them that way.

From the Washington Examiner, yes, the lawsuit filed by New York state Attorney General Letitia James against former President Trump, his family, and his organization is politically motivated.

From The Federalist, the media who marvel at the reaction by pre-born babies to flavors ingested by their mothers champion abortion.

From American Thinker, why the enemies of Western civilization hated the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II.

From CNS News, energy expert Michael Shellenberger tells the House Oversight Committee that the left hates "abundant energy" because it sustains "Western civilization".

From LifeZette, an FBI whistleblower reveals the motive for the Biden administration's tactics.

From NewsBusters, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claims that heartbeats in fetuses at six weeks gestation are a "manufactured sound".

From Canada Free Press, President Biden's speech at the U.N. is "tough on Russia" but otherwise "feckless".  (I've wondered if "feckless" means something like "lacking a feck", and what, in the first place, is a "feck", but as it turns out, there is such a word as "feck".)

From TeleSUR, former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso hints at supporting former Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Scots have a dilemma about whether to be monarchists or republicans.

From Free West Media, the Dutch left-wing party D66 bashes the referenda to be held in Ukrainian regions about whether to join Russia.

From EuroNews, about 1,200 people in Russia are arrested for protesting against President Putin's order to mobilize 300,000 more troops to fight against Ukraine.

From Euractiv, the E.U. will donate €715 million to the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

From ReMix, Brothers of Italy party leader Giorgia Meloni is on course to become Italy's next prime minister, despite demonization by the left and veiled threats from the E.U.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Serb officials condemn a Bosnian Constitutional Court's ruling against the Republika Srpska's property law.  (The Republika Srpska is one of two entities that constitute the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.)

From The North Africa Post, Morocco seeks the backing of U.S. billionaire Michael Bloomberg for renewable energy projects.

From The New Arab, Israeli Attorney General promises to defend her government's right to sign an agreement with Lebanon demarking the maritime border between the two countries.

From Dawn, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan avoid being indicted for contempt of court after he makes a month-late apology to a judge.

From The Express Tribune, according to a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman, there will be no Pakistani delegation visiting Israel.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan establishes a protected zone for leopards in its Margalla Hills National Park.

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan to attend the funeral of the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

From the Hindustan Times, after raids by India's National Investigative Agency against the Islamist organization Popular Front of India, some officials call for banning the PFI.

From ANI, how the crackdown against the Popular Front of India was planned.

From India Today, yet more on the crackdown against the PFI.

From OpIndia, six youths in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are arrested for allegedly pressuring three Hindu girls into studying at madrasas and then molesting them.  (If you read Hindi, read the story at LiveHindustan.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to Bangladeshi minister Obaidul Quader, the government is on high alert due to airstrikes by Myanmar just inside Bangladeshi territory.

From New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh is ranked as the most polluted city in the world.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan president's office establishes a food security program unit for poor families that need assistance.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan State Minister Diana Gamage has to explain to her fellow parliamentcritters that "night life" does not mean "prostitution".

From Raajje, according to a spokesperson, administration of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih is steering toward significant changes for the Maldivian region of Bodu Thiladhunmathi.

From Jewish News Syndicate, cyberattacks from Iran increase by 70 percent.

From CNN, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdraws from a planned interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour after she declines to wear a headscarf.

From Fortune, Iran shuts down the Meta platforms Instagram and WhatsApp to stop people from showing demonstrations against its morality police.  (The last three links and the story from OpIndia above come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission arrests a supreme court judge.

From The Straits Times, Singapore's rise in the cost of running a business outpaces that of Hong Kong.

From Free Malaysia Today, police detain two foreign women in connection to an alleged kidnapping in Malaysia's Genting Highlands.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Higher Education Ministry plans to establish a university for women.

From Vietnam Plus, a Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space opens in an ancient Vietnamese Buddhist temple.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwan will discontinue its three-day coronavirus quarantine in October.

From The Mainichi, police shoot and arrest a man who allegedly was wielding a boxcutter in front of a convenience store in Kobe, Japan.

From Gatestone Institute, how the U.S. has squandered much of its strategic minerals.

From The Stream, are the woke modern-day Pharisees?

From The Daily Signal, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) accuses Google of joining the left-wing effort to punish pro-life pregnancy centers.

From The American Conservative, how to break America's two-party system.

From The Western Journal, after congresscritter Mondaire Jones (D-NY) claims that a D.C. police officer "was bludgeoned to death" during the Capitol riot, congress critter Chip Roy (R-TX) makes him look like a fool.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Larry Elder imagines what a conservative governor of California could do, if he were as unconstitutional as current Governor Gavin Newsom (D).

From The Daily Wire, the North Dakota man who allegedly admitted to killing a Republican teenager doesn't want to lose his "job", "life" and "house" because he posted a bond.  (Whether he cares about his alleged depriving the teenager of his life and the possibility of eventually having a job and a house is not stated.)

From the Daily Caller, the Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court rules that the Department of Justice can temporarily use classified-marked documents seized from Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From the New York Post, shameless guests at Disney World sneak in children by placing them in strollers and attempting to pass them off as babies.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC), a Republican-controlled House would "absolutely" create a committee to investigate President Biden and his son Hunter.

From Newsmax, according to a study, people who have had the coronavirus have a higher risk of long-term brain injuries than those who have not had the disease.

And from The Peedmont, a majority of people in Richmond, Virginia are reportedly willing to save the restaurant Kitchen 64 by sacrificing the Flying Squirrels mascot Nutzy in a Satanic ritual.