Friday Phenomena

As the mild sunny weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) declares a state of emergency over the influx of illegal aliens.

From FrontpageMag, the FBI has a blatant double standard on abortion.

From Townhall, a lack of campaign cash forces Democrats to abandon some House races.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's actions on his first day in office keep haunting him.

From the Washington Examiner, after a tip from a citizen, police in southern Texas find 84 illegal aliens after they were smuggled in a truck.

From The Federalist, Philadelphia's gift of $500,000 from the taxpayers to pay for abortions shows that Democrats want more than just to "codify" Roe v. Wade.

From American Thinker, why the U.S. Army hasn't met his recruiting goals.

From CNS News, the Satanic Temple sues Indiana and Idaho, claiming that their "bans" on abortion violate abortion ritual.  (If a religion believes in human sacrifice, should they be allowed to conduct it?)

From LifeZette, federal agents had sufficient evidence to charge First Son Hunter Biden months ago.

From NewsBusters, a guest host and a guest on an MSNBC show suggest that high gas prices are a Saudi Arabian plot to help Republicans in the midterm elections.

From Canada Free Beacon, the real Kanye West stands up.

From TeleSUR, Colombia hosts the Second Humanitarian Summit in the capital city of Bogota.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Hurricane Ian brings out the climate fearmongers.

From Free West Media, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich keeps white students out of "safe spaces".

From EuroNews, nine E.U. countries have record amounts of area burnt by forest fires this year.

From Euractiv, France unveils an "ambitious" energy efficiency plan.

From ReMix, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warns that "Europe is bleeding" while Russia makes "good money".

From Balkan Insight, a club named after Bulgarian King Boris III, who allied Bulgaria with Nazi Germany, invokes anger in North Macedonia.

From The North Africa Post, the tourism potential in Africa will be unlocked by boosting air connectivity.

From The New Arab, the Syrian government auctions off land owned by refugees in the region of Idlib.

From Gatestone Institute, according to U.S. intelligence, China is escalating its influence operations.

From The Stream, the movie Three Day of the Condor reveals the real danger of the deep state.

From Space War, according to President Biden, the nuclear "Armageddon" threat is back for the first time since the Cold War.

From The Daily Signal, Biden's empowering of OPEC turns out to be a really bad idea.

From Terra Daily, Ales Bialiatsky is a veteran human rights defender in authoritarian Belarus.

From Sino Daily, President Xi Jinping makes his "final purge" ahead the Chinese Communist Party's next congress.  (Communist parties and governments seem to need a purge every once in a while.)

From The American Conservative, new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the triumph of American-style conservatism.

From The Western Journal, the U.S. oil industry mocks Biden after OPEC flips him the bird.

From BizPac Review, abandoned water-logged electric vehicles reportedly spontaneously combust on Florida's roads after Hurricane Ian.  (Should I still buy an electric vehicle, Mr. Transportation Secretary?)

From The Daily Wire, the Uvalde, Texas school district suspends its entire police department.

From the Daily Caller, "immigrant" organizations get upset because Biden's pardon for marijuana use does not apply to illegal aliens.  (I put "immigrant" in quotes because these organizations are not defending real immigrants, who come in through the U.S.'s legal immigration program, but are defending illegal aliens, often while calling them by the euphemism "undocumented immigrants".  As far as I'm concerned, calling illegal aliens "immigrants" is a bigoted insult to the real immigrants.)

From Breitbart, according to an opinion column, left-wing attacks on rapper Kanye West shows that their attitudes have not changed since Jim Crow.

From Newsmax, according to retired Air Force Brigadier General Blaine Holt, Biden is "fearmongering" with his warnings of nuclear "Armageddon".

And from the New York Post, reports of musician Joni Mitchell's death turn out to have been greatly exaggerated.