Friday Phenomena

On a sunny but cold Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what are we do do about the Chinese intelligence-gathering balloon currently flying over the U.S.?

From FrontpageMag, "the stench of fascism" in the U.S.

From Townhall, "shoot it down", some people say.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Russian President Putin's political prisoner refuses to shut up.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden refuses to take blame for inflation, which was only at 1.4 percent when he took office.

From The Federalist, according to left-wing logic, adoption is worse than abortion, but surrogacy is just fine.

From American Thinker, Republicans should not forget the leak of the draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson.

From CNS News, the Department of Defense continues to monitor the Chinese balloon.

From NewsBusters, convicted rapist Kellen Winslow Jr. blames CTE for his actions.  ("CTE" is an acronym for chronic traumatic encephalopathy.)

From Canada Free Press, just shoot the Chinese balloon down.

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian voters prepare for subnational elections this coming Sunday.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the drive for electric vehicles is killing the U.K.'s car industry.

From Free West Media, Canada can't supply liquefied natural gas to Europe because it won't build the appropriate export terminals on its east coast.

From EuroNews, Poland is experiencing a brain drain in reverse.

From Euractiv, nine E.U. member countries want low-carbon hydrogen to be included in the bloc's renewable energy goals.

From ReMix, Russia is running out of prisoners to use for "human wave" attacks against Ukrainian forces.

From Balkan Insight, illegal CCTV cameras show the extent of crime in Albania.

From Morocco World News, Morocco prepares to ask UNESCO to add the caftan to its list of intangible cultural heritage.  (The caftan was originally a full-length man's garment that originated in Mesopotamia, but has more recently become a type of woman's dress.)

From The North Africa Post, Chad opens an embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.

From the Libyan Express, Libya's Stability and Support Apparatus seizes a truck that was carrying 18 illegal migrants in the town of Nesma.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan accuses opposition parties of seeking approval from Western countries.

From Turkish Minute, inflation in Turkey decreases for the third straight month.

From Rûdaw, Iraqis gather in Baghdad to protest price increases caused by the devaluation of the dinar.

From Armenpress, at least 5,100 people have lost their jobs due to the blocking of the Lachin Corridor between Armenia and the Azerbaijani region of Artsakh.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, the International Association of Genocide Scholars condemns Azerbaijan's blockade of Artsakh.

From In-Cyprus, residents of Athienou, Cyprus are up in arms over a planned barbed-wire fence intended to stop illegal migration.

From, The Syrian Observer, 11 Syrian government soldiers are killed in the region of Idleb, and other items.

From North Press Agency, Switzerland grants asylum and residency to four Kurdish refugees from Syria.

From The961, Toters drivers in Lebanon go on strike.

From Arutz Sheva, the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both denounce the peace agreement between Israel and Sudan.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli security agency Shin Bet claims to have foiled a bomb plot involving two Arab men enlisted by Hamas.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli scientists determine the combined weight of all the Earth's arthropods.

From YNetNews, a mural supporting Iranian protesters is unveiled in Nazareth, Israel.

From The New Arab, the Syrian Defense Forces ends its offensive against ISIS cells in northeastern Syria.

From The Middletown Press, according to Microsoft security researchers and the FBI, an Iranian cyber unit attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a hack-and-leak operation.

From Gatestone Institute, how universities are influenced by the man who wants "cities to fall apart".

From The Stream, no, the Holocaust is not merely one of many tragic events in human history.

From The Daily Signal, a library in Pinal County, Arizona backs down and allows a Christian story book hour.

From The American Conservative, all right, just "send the meteor".

From The Western Journal, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) wants answers from the Biden administration about the Chinese balloon.

From BizPac Review, President Biden boasts that "more than half the women" in his administration "are women", whatever that's supposed to mean.  (But can his administration even define the word "woman"?)

From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration won't tell us where the Chinese balloon is.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Bernie Sanders's (I-VT) anti-capitalism event behaves in a capitalistic manner.

From Breitbart, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears to be afraid of right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accuses congresscritter AOC (D-NY) of behaving "like a teenage girl".

From NBC News, almost 600,000 migrants who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally since March 2021 have been released into the U.S. without charge or a date to appear in court.  (via Newsmax)

And from the New York Post, at a car dealership in Palm Beach, Florida, a Ferrari Roma worth $240,000 gets stuck in an elevator shaft.