Stories For Halloween

On the last day of October, while you go out trick-or-treating, here are some things going on:

From National Review, is gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams (D) dragging down Senator Raphael Warnock (D) in Georgia?

From FrontpageMag, everyone is laughing at the big ridiculous lie about the attack at the Pelosi home.

From Townhall, hasty messaging tweaks by the Democrats can't save them from a possible red tsunami.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a left-wing health group cites Boy Scouts of America v. Dale to justify excluding whites from a "health equity" fellowship.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, the next Congress should impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

From The Federalist, the Supreme Court should realize that there's no "equal protection" if colleges can take skin color into account in admission policies.

From American Thinker, ten reasons to vote for Democrats.

From CNS News, according to Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, it "unfair" for The Washington Post to blame Republicans for the attack on Ron Pelosi.

From Red Voice Media, the aforementioned Stacy Abrams gets caught lying about defunding the police.  (The story comes via LifeZette.  It seems that for the last few days, everything put out by LifeZette have been reprints from Red Voice Media.)

From NewsBusters, actress Elizabeth Banks calls abortion "our society's insurance policy" for sex "that is not intended to make babies".

From Canada Free Press, do Democrats literally need a bonk on the head to take the spike in crime seriously?

From CBC News, an RCMP whistleblower urges the Canadian parliament to pass a police reform bill.

From Global News, according to a survey, almost 20 percent of Canadians are skipping meals due to rising food costs.

From CTV News, former Ottawa, Canada police chief Peter Sloly claims to have not been looking to assign blame for the trucker convoy protests.

From TeleSUR, the state of Bahia elects its first indigenous governor in Brazil.

From TCW Defending Freedom, an award-winning scientist is struck off the U.K.'s Health and Care Professions Council for saying that only women have cervixes.

From Snouts in the Trough, is this video from Neil Oliver one of his best?

From BBC News, conspiracy theorists track down terror attack survivors in the U.K.

From the Express, passengers are evacuated from Birmingham New Street Station due to a "grenade".

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman admits sending documents from her government email to her personal email.

From the (U.K.) Independent, when are November's planned rail strikes in the U.K.?

From the (Irish) Independent, if you're trick-or-treating in Ireland, watch out for rain.

From the Irish Examiner, according to "gardening legend" Alan Titchmarsh, rewilding should not replace traditional gardening.

From VRT NWS, college students in Ghent, Belgium face a housing shortage.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's inflation, the highest since 1975, is expected to last into next year.

From the NL Times, €4 million in precious metals is still missing from the robbery of an armored truck, as the trial for the alleged robbers gets underway.

From Dutch News, inflation in the Netherlands dropped slightly in October.

From Deutsche Welle, border officials in the German state of Bavaria detain a man after finding crystal meth inside a donut.

From Euractiv, how the new German government intervened to delay the E.U.'s laws regulating the production of "green" hydrogen.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, two Syrians allegedly attack an Iraqi man who was wearing a kippa - in Cologne, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From the CPH Post, more non-Western foreigners are finding work in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, Poland is ready to help Ukraine transport its agricultural products.

From Radio Prague, a pro-democracy demonstration in Prague shows that support for Ukraine is still strong in the Czech Republic.  (Didn't I recently link a story reporting that Ukraine just abolished its last opposition party?  What sort of democracy is that?)

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak immigrated to New York City, had success in real estate, and became famous for roast duck.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary is buying Russian gas at five times the normal price.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at G7(dot)Hu.)

From Hungary Today, Hungarians remember their departed on November 1st.

From About Hungary, Hungary plans to fortify its fence on the border with Serbia.

From Free West Media, increasing numbers of Austrians want their country to leave the E.U.

From EuroNews, why young climate activist Greta Thunberg will not attend COP27.

From ReMix, Spain is set to pass the world's most radical "trans law", which would allow minors to "change sex" without parental permission".

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia and Herzegovina is urged to tighten its cyberbullying laws after a young man commits suicide.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria rejects a resolution by the U.N. Security Council in favor of Morocco pertaining to the region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, Egyptian authorities briefly detain an Indian climate activist who was marching to the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, where COP27 will be hosted.

From Jewish News Syndicate, for the first time ever, an Israeli athlete competes in Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, why are attacks on Palestinian Christians ignored?

From The Stream, why does the FBI want records pertaining to slain DNC staffer Seth Rich sealed for 66 years?

From The Daily Signal, two states which should be able to sue over President Biden's student loan bailout.

From Space Daily, a former U.S. Marine pilot who reportedly trained Chinese Air Force personnel will appear in an Australian court.

From The American Conservative, "what is a fascist anyway?"

From The Western Journal, the new "Chief Twit" claims to have caught Twitter's former board deliberately hiding evidence from a court.

From BizPac Review, having a blue check on Twitter is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.

From The Daily Wire, at least 10,000 fewer abortions have reportedly occurred since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

From the Daily Caller, Washington senatorial candidate Tiffany Smiley (R) is now tied with incumbent Senator Patty Murray (D).

From the New York Post, Latino supermarket owners in the New York City area back gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R-NY).

From Breitbart, according to Arizona senatorial candidate Blake Masters (R), Democrats don't believe in borders.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, 49 percent of registered voters regard the economy as an extremely important issue for the midterm elections.

And from The Babylon Bee, Biden compliments this year's first trick-or-treater for his girl costume.

Some Things For Sunday

On a mild party sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) are "heartbroken and traumatized" by the attack on her husband Paul.

From Townhall, our democracy is not threatened, the Democrats are.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the mainstream media's loss of cultural supremacy.

From the Washington Examiner, users of Twitter go nuts as the new "Chief Twit" sends a Tweet stating his belief in a "tiny possibility" that there's more to the Pelosi home break-in story than meets the eye.

From American Thinker, lies from the left aside, the alleged Pelosi home invader isn't political, but crazy.

From Red Voice Media, while campaigning for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), former President Obama gets heckled and has a hard time getting the crowd to pay attention.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the new "Chief Twit" will "look into" allegations of election censorship on Twitter.

From Canada Free press, these days, "no news really IS good news".  (The emphasis by capitalization is in the article's title.)

From TeleSUR, according to left-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Lula da Silva, "democracy will win".  (Like leftists in general, he seems to define "democracy" as electoral victories for left-wing candidates.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, when Australia and the U.K. set out to "kiww de wabbit".

From Channel News Asia, the death toll from twin car bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia rises to 100.

From Gatestone Institute, congress should increase its support for Ukraine instead of cutting and running.

From The Stream, cutting through the confusion over dilation and curettage.

From Fox News, the suspected Pelosi home invader was reportedly carrying zipties.

From The American Conservative, remembering the victims of soviet Bolshevism.

From BizPac Review, senatorial candidate John Fetter(wo)man's claim that one of his campaign signs was set on fire is met with skepticism.

From The Daily Wire, the new "Chief Twit" mocks Twitter's HR bots.

From the Daily Caller, Germany will fall short on its defense commitments for 2022, meaning that its continued support for Ukraine is at risk.

From the New York Post, at least 68 people are killed when a pedestrian bridge collapses in the Indian state of Gujarat.

From Breitbart, the party Brothers of Italy moves to create a commission charged with looking into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by the Italy's previous government.

From Newsmax, the Supreme Court will consider whether universities my use race as a factor in admissions due to cases involving UNC and Harvard.

And from SFGate, roaches ruin Halloween on a street in Wyandotte, Michigan.

Saturday Stuff

On a sunny and cool Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, if congress, as expected, changes hands, investigations will follow.

From Townhall, the story of the burglary at the Pelosi home gets weirder.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark), President Biden's foreign policy flip-flops fail the U.S.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden has lived through history, but doesn't seem to have learned much from it.

From The Federalist, an open application for a position on Twitter's content moderation council.

From American Thinker, the U.N. now claims that "climate catastrophe" is pretty much unavoidable.

From Red Voice Media, now that America's crime wave has hit Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) home, the suspect is being treated differently.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, from 30 years ago, the media's coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign.

From Canada Free Press, the last two years have been "slow-motion nightmare".

From TCW Defending Freedom, the woman who could save the U.K. from "net zero".

From Free West Media, Ukraine bans its last opposition party.

From EuroNews, protests take place in European cities in support of women's rights in Iran and in memory of Mahsa Amini, who died in morality police custody.

From The North Africa Post, according to a Spanish think-tank, Morocco is committed to developing its southern provinces.

From The New Arab, Palestinians in Nablus, West Bank rally in support of the Lions' Den group.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration emboldens a new "axis of evil" consisting of Russia and Iran.

From The Stream, then-Christian Albania prevails over the jihad of the Ottoman Turks.

From The American Conservative, in some places, the coronavirus regime still clings to power.

From The Western Journal, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) defies the Biden administration's demand to remove shipping containers from gaps in the border wall.

From BizPac Review, a pair of pranksters scam members of the press by posing as fired Twitter employees.

From The Daily Wire, the FBI reportedly visited a house in connection with the suspected Pelosi home invader.

From the Daily Caller, some schools teach content that is too obscene to be read on TV.

From Breitbart, the "Democrat media complex" blames the attack on Paul Pelosi on the right.

From Newsmax, 59 people are killed when a stampede breaks out at a Halloween event in Seoul, South Korea.

And from the New York Post, if you plan to celebrate Halloween at an LGBTQ bar in Milwaukee, don't go as Jeffrey Dahmer.

Jerry Lee Lewis 1935-2022

Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock and roll pioneering singer/songwriter/pianist known as "the Killer" and also known for marrying his younger cousin, has died of natural causes at age 87.  He was in the company of his seventh wife Judith at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi.  Several news outlets incorrectly stated that he died two days ago.

Jerry Lee Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana to Elmo Kidd Lewis Sr. and the former Mary Herron, known as "Mamie".  He learned piano alongside his cousins Mickey Gilley (who became a country singer) and Jimmy Swaggart (who became a televangelist).  Lewis's mother enrolled him at the Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas, from which he was soon expelled after playing a boogie-woogie rendition of the hymn My God Is Real at a church assembly.  After returning home, he played in clubs in Ferriday and in Natchez, Mississippi.  In 1956, he started his recording career at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, both as a solo artist and as a session musician.  His early hits included Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls Of Fire.

In 1958, he set out on a tour of Britain, but it was canceled after three shows when the British press learned that his wife Myra Gale Brown was his cousin and was just 13 years old.  This caused a controversy which resulted in his career faltering.  He switched to Smash Records after his contract with Sun Records expired.  He would eventually make a comeback performing country music and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry.  Lewis returned to the pop charts with covers such as Chris Kristofferson's Me And Bobby McGee, the Big Bopper's Chantilly Lace, and "Sticks" McGee's Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee.  In 1989, the movie Great Balls Of Fire!, based on his early life and career, brought him back into the public eye.  During his later years, he continued to record and perform intermittently, including making a gospel album with his cousin Jimmy Swaggart.

Lewis was married seven times and had six children.  He is survived by his last wife Judith and his children Ronnie Guy Lewis (born to his second wife Jane Mitchum), Phoebe Allen Lewis (born to his third wife Myra Gale Brown), Lori Lee Lewis (born to his fourth wife Jaren Elizabeth Gunn Pate) and Jerry Lee Lewis III (born to his sixth wife Kerrie McCarver).

Read more at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Pitchfork, Deadline and TMZ, which had incorrectly reported that he died two days ago.

Friday Phenomena

On a cool cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk plans to reverse lifetime bans for users who were kicked off the platform for various speech infractions.

From FrontpageMag, the two baseball teams in the World Series include black players, but not the right kind.

From Townhall, the Pennsylvania legislature moves to impeach a soft on crime district attorney whom senatorial candidate John Fetter(wo)man (D-PA) endorsed.

From The Washington Free Beacon, as Elon Musk takes over Twitter, "the bird is freed".

From the Washington Examiner, Fetterman's wife claims that swimming in America is racist.  (I suppose that she could be called "the real Fetterwoman".)

From The Federalist, Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is the first accountability Big Tech censors will face for their meddling in the 2020 elections.

From American Thinker, CNN blames the alleged climate crisis on - believe it or not - cats and dogs.

From CNS News, on reading and math, Catholic schools keep outperforming public schools.

From NewsBusters, left-wing politics goes to the toilet.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats look for a miracle in the midterm elections in an 11th-hour appearance by former President Obama.

From TeleSUR, candidate and former President Lula da Silva is expected to get 53 percent of the vote in the second round of Brazil's presidential election.

From TCW Defending Freedom, reality catches up to electric vehicles.

From Snouts in the Trough, could food shortages in Somalia be caused by something other than drought?

From Free West Media, education in Germany is seen a decline like never before.

From EuroNews, new U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asks French President Emmanuel Macron for help with migrants crossing the English Channel.

From Euractiv, France plans to plant a billion trees by 2030.  (If you read French, you can read the story at the French version of Euractiv.)

From ReMix, Poland removes four Soviet-era monuments to World War II Red Army soldiers.

From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian police chief faces suspension for threatening a journalist.

From The North Africa Post, the U.N. Security Council deals to new blow to Algeria and the group Polisario.

From The New Arab, the Iraqi parliament approves a new government after a year of deadlock between pro-Iran factions and supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

From Dawn, two suspects are held after two cellular company workers are found lynched in Karachi, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan claims that his party's criticism of Pakistan's military establishment is "constructive".

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanks the U.S. for its additional humanitarian aid to Pakistan's flood victims.

From The Hans India, some new brands of cars will be launched in India next month.

From the Hindustan Times, according to India's Enforcement Directorate, a letter sent by the Chief Minister of the state of Kerala to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about a gold-smuggling case was a cover-up.

From ANI, a police team in Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India busts a human trafficking operation and rescues 14 women.

From India Today, the Indian federal government will set up panels to hear complaints over social media content moderation.

From the Dhaka Tribune, after a 22-day ban on fishing, fishermen in Barisal, Bangladesh get ready to resume their activity.

From New Age, the Bangladesh Open University’s Laboratory School organizes a cultural program for children.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan farmers will be offered 50-kilo bags of urea at 10,000 rupees each.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan hoteliers warn that they won't tolerate protests that will affect tourism.

From Raajje, Maldivian police find "copious" amounts of drugs on the island of Hoandedhdhoo.

From CounterPunch, the ḥijāb is used as Islamist propaganda.

From Free Malaysia Today, public college students in Malaysia are given 5 days leave to vote.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian state of Sabah allocates 47 million ringit non-Muslim schools.

From The Straits Times, two Singaporean men are arrested in Thailand are arrested for alleged drug trafficking, illegal entry, and illegal gun possession.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesia extends its contract to sell natural gas to Singapore.

From Vietnam Plus, according to Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, Vietnam is making its utmost efforts to tackle unregulated fishing.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwan's Constitutional Court rules that the Siraya and other Pingpu groups have the right to be recognized as "indigenous".

From The Mainichi, the Higo Bank and the Tsuruya Department Store in Kumamoto, Japan start to phase out their female-only uniforms.

From Gatestone Institute, is Turkey really a NATO ally?

From The Stream, overselling "green energy" has a high cost.

From the Post Millennial, Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal), is violently attacking in their home.

From Space War, Japan is looking into buying U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles.

From The Daily Signal, according to a report, the Biden administration knows that it policies increase energy costs for Americans.

From The American Conservative, it's "time to talk to Russia".

From The Western Journal, more on Elon Musk's first Tweet as CEO of Twitter.

From BizPac Review, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs (D) refuses to apologize for trying to link a burglary at her headquarters to her rival Kari Lake (R).

From The Daily Wire, the man who allegedly broke into the Pelosi house reportedly asked for the speaker.

From the Daily Caller, core inflation increases for the second straight month in September.

From the New York Post, the alleged burglar at the Pelosi home is identified.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, the American people disapprove of President Biden's handling of multiple of issues.

From Newsmax, rolling blackouts are reinstated in Ukraine.

From Politico, fewer young Americans vote early this year.  (via Newsmax)

And from People, football player Tom Brady and model Gisele Bündchen file for divorce.  (via Newsmax)

A Few Things For Thursday

On a mild and partly sunny Thursday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, why are Democrats in Colorado trying to tie Republican senatorial candidate Joe O'Dea to former President Trump, after Trump rages against O'Dea?

From FrontpageMag, the love story between Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) and the IRS.

From Townhall, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's (R) lead in the polls gets a lot bigger.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a sleeper senatorial candidate in Washington thinks that she can turn the state red.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a report from Republican Senators, the coronavirus "more likely than not" resulted from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.

From The Federalist, over 350 literary workers think that censoring Supreme Court Justice Any Coney Barrett will save free speech.

From American Thinker, someone at the Department of Justice doesn't know "justice" from a hole in the ground.

From CNS News, according to Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), now that Roe v. Wade is gone, abortion should not be made into a national issue.

From Red Voice Media, the aforementioned Kari Lake promises to end medical tyranny.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the Associated Press frets about the racial makeup of the two teams in the World Series.

From Canada Free Press, CFP toots its own horn, about being "a beacon of freedom in a sea of censorship".

From TeleSUR, Bolivia suspends food exports in order to guarantee a domestic supply.

From TCW Defending Freedom, is new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in it for the British people, or for himself?

From OpIndia, a U.K. immigration court rejects the appeal of deportation orders against two men convicted of being involved in a rape gang in Rochdale, England.

From Gatestone Institute, how Americans and Europeans embolden Palestinian terrorism.

From The Stream, the right and the left are both guilty of blurring the lines between politics and the gospel.  (I've come to realize that politicians on both side love to quote the Bible - where it suits them.)

From The Daily Signal, after a Supreme Court ruling, the school district which fired a football coach for praying will reinstate him.

From Space War, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, China and the U.S. must "find ways to get along".

From The American Conservative, the Biden administration prioritizes the movement of illegal migrants over American security.

From The Western Journal, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany reveals what could prevent President Biden from running for reelection in 2024, and it's a catch-22.

From BizPac Review, according to Biden, it's racist for airlines to change people extra for more legroom.  (As one person on Twitter pointed out, whose Tweet was quoted by the article, the same people who, according to Biden, couldn't get an ID in order to vote can somehow still get an ID to board a plane.)

From The Daily Wire, a "gender affirming" psychiatrist's article is updated after getting fact-checked.

From the Daily Caller, an article in The New York Times admits that "apocalyptic" climate change predictions were way off.

From the New York Post, if you've got $4.2 million lying around, you can Carol Burnett's Los Angeles apartment.

From Breitbart, a video from 2020 shows current senatorial candidate John Fetter(wo)man (D-PA) defending former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's (D) pledge downsize the coal industry.  (Considering how the coal industry once thrived in Pennsylvania, her pledge understandably did not sit well with many people in that state.  In the interests of full disclosure, yours truly is a descendant of Pennsylvania coal miners and breakers.)

From Newsmax, the Biden administration is attempting to end the military development of some sea-launched nuclear missiles ordered under then-President Trump.

From Reuters, a climate activist glues his head to the glass covering the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands.  (Go to this blog's archives for May 2017 to see a post on The Hague.)

And from The Citizen, to oversee its elections, Cayuga Country, New York calls on Batman.  (via the New York Post)

Wednesday Whatnot

On a mild, cloudy and sometimes rainy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the charade of senatorial candidate John Fetter(wo)man (D-PA) comes to an end.

From FrontpageMag, contrary to what professors and administrators allege, white students are not inherently racist.

From Townhall, why Republicans in Alaska have had it with Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

From The Washington Free Beacon, Oregon voters claim to have lost patience with Democrats over crime and inflation.

From the Washington Examiner, replacing a tail light on your electric Hummer is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.

From The Federalist, Fetterman's disastrous debate performance shows how far the media will go to support Democrats.

From American Thinker, President Biden is destroying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

From CNS News, congresscritter Michael McCall (R-TX) wonders why the State Department awarded a grant to an organization in Ecuador that puts on drag shows.

From Red Voice Media, New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R) may just have ended the career of incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY).  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) refuses to take marching orders from the NFL.

From Canada Free Press, in going toward the hard left, the Democratic Party left many of its old members.

From TeleSUR, Colombia moves toward eliminating mandatory military service.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. parliament finally debates coronavirus vaccine safety.

From Snouts in the Trough, the scam of the U.K.'s government ministers.

From Free West Media, property in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany will be confiscated to provide housing for asylum seekers.

From EuroNews, Germany agrees to allow the Chinese shipping company COSCO to buy a 25 percent stake in the port of Hamburg.

From Euractiv, for heating, Poland gradually moves away from coal toward heat pumps.

From ReMix, according to a survey, most Czechs don't trust their current government.

From Balkan Insight, the state court of Bosnia seeks a fugitive ethnic Serb soldier convicted of involvement in the abduction of 20 passengers from the Štrpci railroad station and their murder.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities arrest five alleged members of ISIS.

From The North Africa Post, according to europarliamentcritter Tomáš Zdechovský, the E.U. needs to address the terror threat posed by the north African group Polisario.

From the Libyan Express, Libya and Turkey sign two military agreements.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Türkiye repeats its demand that Finland extradites suspected terrorists.

From Turkish Minute, the Turkish government's detention of 11 journalists draws consternation both within and outside of Turkey.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Ahval, the president of the Turkish Medical Association is arrested after she called for an investigation of allegations that the Turkish military used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

From Rûdaw, some Christian and Yazidi villages in Iraq remain deserted years after ISIS was defeated.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wants a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of 2022.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Pashinyan confirms that he will participate in a meeting with Presidents Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan).

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government will hire a 300-member police unit to guard the buffer zone with the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, according to a Russian expert, talk about Russian forces leaving Syria is folly.

From North Press Agency, Syrian Kurdish politicians welcome U.S. mediation for opening a border crossing between Syria and the Iraqi region of Kurdistan.

From The961, the film Speak, by Lebanese director Yvan Chamoun, receives a nomination at the Dos Lagos Film Festival in Hollywood, California, U.S.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the Israeli party Yesh Atid is gaining on the Likud party.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel and Lebanon will sign an agreement on their maritime boundary.

From The Jerusalem Post, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that current Prime Minister Yair Lapid can win in Israel's election unless right-wingers vote for the Likud party.

From YNetNews, fossilized dinosaur tracks are found in the yard of a home in Ramallah, West Bank.

From the Egypt Independent, Samsung produces mobile phones in Egypt for the first time.

From Egypt Today, Egypt will raise minimum wages for government employees.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will establish five new regional investment companies.

From The New Arab, Lebanon starts to deport refugees from Syria.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranians defy a government crackdown to mark 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly "improperly" wearing a hijab.

From IranWire, three gunmen kill at least 15 people at a Shia shrine in Shiraz, Iran.

From Iran International, live coverage of continuing protests in Iran.

From Khaama Press, a member of the Taliban shoots and kills one girl and injures another.

From Hasht e Subh, Russia is reportedly recruiting Afghan soldiers to fight in Ukraine.

From the Afghanistan Times, private university enrollment in Afghanistan declines.

From OpIndia, about 10 Pandit families in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir relocate after terror attacks in the area where they lived.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S.'s foreign policy is in disarray.

From The Stream, don't let the media form your opinions and views.

From The Daily Signal, state lawmakers want to know why Pennsylvania sent out 240,000 ballots to voters without verifying their identities.

From The American Conservative, what post-Roe v. Wade America can learn from Hungary.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned John Fetterman's debate performance.

From BizPac Review, Special Counsel John Durham exposes a compromised leadership at the FBI.

From The Daily Wire, according to a survey, economic worries are driving Catholic voters in swing states to the polls.

From the Daily Caller, President Alejandro Giammattei (Guatemala) explains how one policy change by President Joe Biden (U.S.) caused migrants to swarm Guatemala's borders.

From Breitbart, the man who drove his SUV through a parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin is convicted of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

From Newsmax, 43 absentee ballots may have been destroyed when a mail truck caught fire near Albany, Georgia.

And from the New York Post, the new "Chief Twit" walks into what is expected to become his new office - carrying a sink.

Tuesday Things

As the cloudy but mild weather continues on a Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, it's too late for the Democrats put out any economic message.

From FrontpageMag, illegal aliens go glamping at taxpayer expense in a tent city in New York City.

From Townhall, serial election denier Hillary Clinton (D) is back, with a warning that "right wing extremists" will steal the next presidential election.  (Nowadays, in order to be a "right wing extremist", all you need to do is think that men cannot become women.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) downplays the large rise in crime in her state.

From the Washington Examiner, some key takeaways from two weeks before the midterm elections.

From The Federalist, no, Hitler did not rise to power in Germany because of inflation.

From American Thinker, why has President Biden gone to the far left?

From CNS News, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) make a sensible but often ignored recommendation on what to do about people who cross borders illegally.

From LifeZette, a New York judge rules that mail-in voting done in response to the coronavirus is unconstitutional.

From Red Voice Media, according to right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) "loves wars" and is "completely unfazed" about the world being destroyed.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the "big three" networks side with gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist (D-FL) against incumbent Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

From Canada Free Press, the collusion between Dr. Fauci and Facebook that sold the coronavirus as a worldwide pandemic.

From TeleSUR, social organizations in Ecuador plan to carry out protests.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the global(ist) parasites who want you to think like they think.

From EuroNews, new U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak admits that "mistakes were made" during the short tenure of his predecessor Liz Truss.

From Free West Media, the mayor of Stuttgart, Germany has a tampon dispenser installed in a men's restroom.  (Stuttgart thus joins Portland, Oregon in such gender-bending.)

From ReMix, Rostock, Germany evicts construction job apprentices from their housing to make way for migrants.

From Russia Today, according to Bloomberg, record volumes of Russian energy have been going to China.  (The article does not link to anything at Bloomberg.)

From Sputnik International, what is a "dirty bomb" and why is the Russian government warning that Ukraine might use one?

From The Moscow Times, despite it attempt to modernize, the Russian air force it has difficulty attaining air superiority in Ukraine.

From Romania-Insider, Romania will host and train almost 200 Ukrainian paramedics under a NATO program designed to bring relief to Ukraine.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's caretaker cabinet proposes that this year's budget be applied next year.

From The Sofia Globe, President Roumen Radev will take an unhurried approach to bids to form a new Bulgarian government.  (I have seen articles in which his first name is spelled "Rumen".)

From Radio Bulgaria, two proposed resolutions on military aid for Ukraine are tabled in the Bulgarian parliament.

From the Greek Reporter, the House of Menander in the Italian archaeological site of Pompeii shows influence from ancient Greece.

From Ekathimerini, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expels a Greek parliamentcritter from his party.

From the Greek City Times, Turkish media complain that an Ottoman-era mosque built on top of a Byzantine church in the Greek city of Rhodes is now being used as a music school.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia ends visa-free entrance for travelers from Tunisia and Burundi.

From Total Croatia News, for the right bid, you can own a 19th century villa in the elite Tuškanec area of Zagreb, Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From The Slovenia Times, the Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik wants the capital city of Ljubljana to turn off its Christmas light.  (The word dnevnik appears to be common to the Slavic languages Slovenian and Croatian, and resembles the Polish ward dziennik, which means "journal" or "daily".  If permitted an educated guess, I'd say that "journal" or "daily" might also be the English translation of dnevnik.)

From The Malta Independent, Maltese police arrest four people for allegedly drug trafficking and money laundering after finding 1.2 kilos of she-don't-lie.

From Malta Today, a look at Malta's 2023 budget.

From ANSA, new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the Italian women who helped her break the glass ceiling.

From Euractiv, Meloni insists that Italy will be a "reliable" E.U. partner.

From SwissInfo, how some of Afghanistan's foreign assets found their way to a trust fund in Switzerland.

From France24, France plans to deploy 35,000 guards for the 2024 summer Olympics, which 600,000 people are expected to attend.

From RFI, the French government survives three no-confidence votes after forcing through a budget.

From El País, a Spanish boy living in Mexico is given 15 days to live if he doesn't get an operation to remove a brain tumor.

From The Portugal News, as of today, all pet dogs, cats and ferrets in Portugal must be microchipped.

From The North Africa Post, the city of Laayoune, in the disputed region of Sahara, signs a cooperative agreement with the French city of Metz.

From The New Arab, Morocco moves toward teaching scientific subjects in schools in English instead of French.  (When I was a Littlefoot, Papa Bigfoot told me that French, along with German and Russian, was a scientific language.)

From Al-Monitor, a Turkish court sentences a Syrian man for burning alive two Turkish citizens in 2016 while he was a member of ISIS.

From Sahara Reporters, Islamic police in the Nigerian state of Kano impound 5,800 bottles of beer.

From Gatestone Institute, how the West emboldens Turkish President Erdoğan's aggression.

From The Stream, Democrats finally talk about the economy.

From The Daily Signal, the New York state Supreme Court reinstates unvaccinated workers with back pay.

From Space War, according to analysts, Moscow's claim that Ukraine could use a "dirty bomb" is just a diversion.

From Space Daily, a former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot who worked in China is arrested in Australia.

From The American Conservative, "whatever happened to the anti-war left?"  (In my view, the "anti-war left" wasn't really anti-war", but opposed to any military action that would benefit U.S. interests.  While this group, as pointed out in the article, opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq under President Bush the Younger, they had no apparent problem with either Mr. Bill's earlier bombing of Serbia or President Obama's later "kinetic military action" in Libya.  Both of these actions served various European interests rather than those of the U.S., which is what I think is the reason for the apparent inconsistency.  Back when the blog AndRightlySo still existed, I made a post explaining my position on this more fully, but like the rest of that blog, it has disappeared into Interwebs oblivion.)

From The Western Journal, Bidenflation make Halloween more expensive.

From BizPac Review, the radical Democrat agenda unites ordinary Americans.

From The Daily Wire, the Congressional Progressive Caucus withdraw its letter demanding that the Biden administration open diplomatic discussions between Ukraine and Russia.

From the Daily Caller, Democratic Senators backpedal on their threat to abolish the filibuster.

From the New York Post, prospective jurors in the civil fraud trial of the Trump Organization express their hate for former President Trump.  (What's this "right to an impartial jury" you speak of?)

From Newsmax, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) calls for Homeland Security Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign due to the all-time high of 2.37 million arrests made at the southern border during fiscal year 2022.

And from Breitbart, congresscritter and senatorial candidate Tim Ryan (D-OH) holds a rally with a "super excited" crowd of 19 people.

Monday Mania

On a cloudy but mild Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden's team can't handle the truth.

From FrontpageMag, Virginia Military Academy goes woke, after which enrollment declines by 25 percent.

From Townhall, contrary to accusations of voter suppression from new voter integrity laws, turnout in Georgia's early voting blows past new records.

From The Washington Free Beacon, U.S. business activity declines for the fourth straight quarter.

From the Washington Examiner, exposing Biden's "Jim Crow 2.0" slander about voting in Georgia.

From The Federalist, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) fails in her effort to divide the Republican Party.

From American Thinker, the Republicans should ask one simple question in order to win in November, and it's one that they've asked before.

From CNS News, in fiscal 2022, there was a record number of encounters with illegal migrants on the southern border.

From LifeZette, Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) finally addresses his city's homeless problem.

From Red Voice Media, congresscritter Henry Cuellar (D-TX) criticizes the policies of the Biden administration.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CBS and NBC refuse to mention plummeting student test scores due to coronavirus lockdowns.

From Canada Free Press, Joe needs to go.

From CBC News, two police officers who wrongly arrested a Heiltsuk man and his granddaughter in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada when they tried to open a bank account will not attend the apology ceremony for their actions.

From Global News, according to an interim police chief, part of what made the Freedom Convoy unmanageable was its "unlawful" activities, not its size.

From CTV News, the Bank of Canada is expected to raise its interest rates as fears of a recession grow.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian Health Minister Jorge Lopez is dismissed after a scandal.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how to tackle the U.K.'s energy crisis.

From Snouts in the Trough, Brits can help their government achieve "net zero".

From the Express, Rishi Sunak becomes the leader of the Conservative Party and thus the U.K.'s new prime minister.

From the Evening Standard, Rishi Sunak becomes the first Asian and the first Hindu to serve as the U.K.'s prime minister.

From the (U.K.) Independent, King Charles will sell 14 horses which he inherited from his mother.

From the (Irish) Independent, driving a diesel-powered car in Ireland is gonna cost ya even more, pilgrim.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, "far-right" groups will try to claim that Ireland is "full".  (From what I understand, there are fewer people in Ireland now than in the 1840s before the potato famine, which means that the country can't currently be full.)

From VRT NWS, ten passengers attempting to leave Belgium using fake coronavirus tests each get six months in prison.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's Charleroi Airport is ranked as one of Europe's ten worst.

From the NL Times, home prices in the Netherlands drop by 0.7 percent from a month earlier, the largest month-over-month decrease since May 2013.

From Dutch News, the Dutch government grants 91 waivers on its sanctions against Russia.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at RTL Nieuws.)

From Deutsche Welle, two former German soldiers receive suspended prison sentences for attempting to form a terrorist organization in Yemen.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, critics of Islam are attacked in Leipzig, Germany, with police apparently siding with the attackers, some of whom were from ProFa.  (If you read German, read the story at PINews.)

From the CPH Post, a round-up of science-related news.

From Polskie Radio, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland wants more of its weapons to be made domestically.

From Radio Prague, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala will attend a ceremony at Prague Castle, even though he does not like President Miloš Zeman's approach to inviting guests.

From The Slovak Spectator, villages in central Slovakia have difficulty coping with high energy costs.

From Daily News Hungary, ethnic Hungarians from the region of Transcarpathia help liberate towns near Kharkiv, Ukraine.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian parliament is ready to ratify the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland.

From About Hungary, according to prime ministerial chief of staff Gergely Gulyás, the Hungarian government supports E.U. proposals that would bring down energy prices.

From ReMix, new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni assures Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of continued cooperation between their two governments.

From Free West Media, a vaccine-touting body builder dies after telling the vaccine-hesitant "if I die, you were right".

From EuroNews, what's keeping Bulgaria and Romania out of the Schengen zone?

From Euractiv, a convicted criminal sponsors new protests against the Moldovan government.

From Balkan Insight, President Aleksandar Vučić continues an "east-west balancing act" with Serbia's new government.

From The North Africa Post, Arab leaders shun a summit in Algiers, Algeria.

From The New Arab, the Lebanese parliament fails to elect a new president for the fourth time.

From OpIndia, the Indian American Muslim Council regards the term "Hindu American" offensive.

From Gatestone Institute, as he embraces America's fiercest enemies, whose side is U.S. President Biden on?

From The Stream, how the U.N. turned against humanity.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) gets protested while appearing on The View.

From The American Conservative, Washington has told whoppers on the war in Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, who led a "defund the police" effort, now wants police to help her deal with solid biological waste.

From BizPac Review, Biden has a history of snapping at reporters.

From The Daily Wire, a campaign staffer for Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is seriously injured after being attacked for wearing a DeSantis hat and a Rubio T-shirt.

From the Daily Caller, the media fawn over Gisele Fetterman, while questions remain over her husband John Fetterman's health as he runs for Senator (D-PA).

From the New York Post, more on new U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon is in a dead heat with incumbent Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).

From Newsmax, the U.S. charges two Chinese men of attempting to obstruct an investigation of the Chinese tech company Huawei.

And from The Babylon Bee, Republicans are seen while searching on Google for "what to do after winning an election".