Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the left distorts right-wing views about freedom.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden secures the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner from Russia, but leaves Marine veteran Paul Whalen behind.

From Townhall, inflation again exceeds expectations.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Kyrsten Sinema goes from (D-AZ) to (I-AZ).

From the Washington Examiner, more on the implications of Senator Sinema's exit from the Democratic Party.

From The Federalist, all of the times when Twitter executives lied to our faces.

From American Thinker, to allegedly save insects so that wild birds can eat them, the Netherlands decides to eliminate about 3,000 small farms.

From CNS News, which Russians currently held in American prisons could be exchanged for the aforementioned Paul Whelan?

From Red Voice Media, right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec points out how Saudi Arabia refutes a White House claim about the prisoner exchange involving Brittney Griner.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, hosts on The View go nuts over the aforementioned Senator Sinema's re-registration.

From Canada Free Press, will the Republicans ever learn?

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva designates five people to be cabinet ministers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some myths and facts about hurricanes.

From Snouts in the Trough, more technocracy from the WEF.

From Free West Media, schools in Vienna, Austria sort students by religious background.

From EuroNews, Austria blocks Romania from joining the Schengen Area.

From Euractiv, under its new rules, the E.U.'s batteries will be the greenest in the world.

From ReMix, a 25-year-old Ukrainian woman tries to rob a bank in Przemyśl, Poland, but gets stopped by a 90-year-old Polish woman with a cane.  (The dziewiećdziesiątletnia kobieta, I mean, 90-year-old woman is thus awarded this blog's "badass" label.)

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia and Herzegovina will tighten its border controls to meet demands from the E.U.

From The North Africa Post, a German aid worker, abducted in 2018 in Niger, is freed in Mali with help from Morocco.

From The New Arab, a Syrian girl recounts her family dealing with cold and hunger.

From the Daily Mail, a Pakistani man admits that he killed his wife after she asked him for a divorce - 20 years ago.

From Sanatan Prabhat, Muslim students at Aligarh University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India declare that the school belongs to Allah.

From CultureWatch, if we want to respect the prophet Mohammed, shouldn't we learn some things about him?

From Gatestone Institute, supporting Israel should not depend on the results of its elections.

From The Stream, do some climate alarmists want us all to die?

From The Daily Signal, a court orders Southwest Airlines to rehire a flight attendant who was fired for stating her pro-life views on social media.

From Space Daily, SpaceX launches 40 Internet satellites into orbit - for its rival OneWeb.

From The American Conservative, a visit to the ancient site of Ephesus and its lesson for Christian in the post-Christian West.  (Full disclosure:  I visited the place while on a cruise in 2006.)

From The Western Journal, excerpts from the "Twitter files".

From BizPac Review, a Fox News reporter explains to congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) how Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) could become Speaker of the House.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit announces new features on Twitter.

From the Daily Caller, according to TV host Joe Scarborough, Biden's failure to secure the release of the aforementioned Paul Whalen from Russia is actually former President Trump's fault.

From Breitbart, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will allow the aforementioned Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) to keep her committee assignments.

From Newsmax, a judge dismisses charges against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) in connection to the water crisis in the city of Flint.

And from the New York Post, a girl in California is granted the first-ever license to own a unicorn.