Monday, November 14, 2022

Shooting At UVA And Other Stories

Late yesterday, three members of the University of Virginia football team were shot and killed near a parking lot at the school's main campus in Charlottesville.  Two other people were injured.  The suspect, a former UVA football player, was apprehended this morning about 80 miles east of Charlottesville.

Read more at CNN, Fox 5, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, CBS 19 and WDBJ.

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In other news and views on a sunny but cool Monday:

From National Review, the Republican path to retaking the House goes through some blue states.

From FrontpageMag, how the war against nitrous oxide threatens the world's food supply.

From Townhall, according to projections, congresscritter David Schweikert (R-AZ) will hold on to his House seat.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Republicans turned Florida red.

From the Washington Examiner, the obsession with former President Trump clouds analysis of the midterm results.

From The Federalist, Republican leadership faces a choice.

From American Thinker, the Republican leadership is "worse than worthless".

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) has no intentions of leaving Congress.

From Red Voice Media, right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh predicted woke mob behavior in 1993.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, during the fall campaign, liberals greatly outnumbered conservatives on late night TV.

From Canada Free Press, Republican turncoats get played again.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva goes to Egypt to attend COP27.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Welsh government destroys childhood innocence.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the problems with the U.K.'s NHS self-inflicted?

From Free West Media, the company FTX, while declaring bankruptcy, appears to have held billions of dollars worth of American "military aid" to Ukraine.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the city of Kherson for the first time it was recaptured from the invading Russian forces.

From Euractiv, Serbia is not yet ready for a proposal from Germany and France that would recognize Kosovo's independence.

From ReMix, Polish europarliamentcritter Dominik TarczyƄski asks Belgian politician Guy Verhofstadt to point out the fascists whom he alleges to have attended Poland's 2017 Independence Day march.

From Balkan Insight, Turkish police arrest a person who allegedly planted the bomb in Istanbul which killed six people.

From The North Africa Post, the British company SDX discovers two gas wells in the Moroccan region of Gharb.

From The New Arab, can the new Iraqi government survive?

From India Today, an Iranian Sunni cleric supports anti-government protests.

From OpIndia, Pakistan bans the movie Joyland.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Iranian media outlet claims that Iran has a hypersonic missile that can reach Israel in 400 seconds.

From Barron's, Afghan Supreme Leader Zabihullah Mujahid orders the full implementation of Islamic law.  (The last four links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the time for TikTok is running out.

From The Stream, how to turn the tide against support for abortion.

From Space War, Iran attacks Kurdish groups in Iraqi with missiles and drone strikes.

From The Daily Signal, how Florida became red state America's new capital.

From The American Conservative, "don't blame Trump" for the disappointing midterm results.  (The article is written by Senator-elect J.D. Vance (R-OH).)

From The Western Journal, 24 Arizona voters discuss the technical difficulties they experienced while voting.

From BizPac Review, according to Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), it's time to bury the old Republican Party and build something new.

From The Daily Wire, a biological male wins a women's cycling race in Northampton, Massachusetts.

From the Daily Caller, tougher-on-crime candidates are poised to win local elections in San Francisco.

From the New York Post, another court rules against President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.

From Breitbart, Florida starts repairing state highway A1A, which was battered by Hurricane Nicole.

From Newsmax, according to CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp, it's "silly" to blame Trump for the disappointing midterm results.

And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is projected to retain his control of the Senate.

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