Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, is President Biden losing faith in Vice President Harris?

From FrontpageMag, was the Capitol riot on 1/6/2021 really the worst attack on the Capitol since the Civil War?

From Townhall, congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) doesn't appear to understand what pistol braces do.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration makes a sanctions waiver that allows Iraq to buy electricity from Iran.

From the Washington Examiner, when congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) visits Capitol riot prisoners, she will be joined by left-wing freshman congresscritters Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Robert Garcia (D-Cal).

From The Federalist, the men who have won "Woman of the Year" awards.

From American Thinker, the fall and fall of Stanford University's law school.

From CNS News, congresscritter Diana DeGette (D-CO) tells the CEO of TikTok that it needs to a better job - of providing information on how to obtain abortions.

From Fox News, residents of Biden's childhood home town of Scranton, Pennsylvania don't want him to run for reelection.  (via LifeZette)

From Canada Free Press, does Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's intend to arrest former President Trump stem from a plan to replace the Capitol riot narrative?

From TeleSUR, heavy rains result in floods in the Ecuadorian province of Guayas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the hidden cost of subsidies for solar power and bird choppers.

From Snouts in the Trough, the U.K.'s National Health Service is taking the people for fools.

From EuroNews, ten French expressions that get lost in translation when rendered into English.  (I'm sure that there are also English expressions that don't translate well into French, or into Polish for that matter.)

From Euractiv, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, nuclear energy is not "strategic" for E.U. decarbonization.

From ReMix, the German federal government goes Sergeant Schultz on the illegal migrant crisis.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia and Kosovo mark the anniversary of the NATO air strikes of 1999 - for different reasons.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian President Tebboune shows the inconsistency of his country's foreign policy.

From The New Arab, can the restored relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran lead to peace in Yemen?

From Anadolu Agency, the Muslim population has increased by 10 times in 30 years.

From The Islamic Information, an Indonesian Umrah pilgrim gets a two-year sentence for sexually harassing a female Lebanese pilgrim.  (The Umrah, or "lesser pilgrimage", is a pilgrimage to Mecca at a time other than when the Hajj takes place.  Unlike the Hajj, the Umrah is voluntary.)

From Gatestone Institute, disasters, natural or otherwise, in Turkey.

From The Stream, the U.N.'s lies about Islam and its history.

From The Daily Signal, the "Parents Bill of Rights" passes the House, despite Democrat opposition.

From The American Conservative, "operation warp bleed".

From The Western Journal, the White House is roasted for a video showing Presidents Biden and Obama to mark the 13th anniversary of Obamacare.

From BizPac Review, January 6th "instigator" Ray Epps demands a retraction and an apology from Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

From The Daily Wire, two brothers who play hockey for the Florida Panthers refuse to wear LGBTQ sweaters during warmups.

From the Daily Caller, the woman who runs the "Libs of TikTok" account on Twitter explains why she chose to reveal her identity.

From Breitbart, anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. reached a record high in 2022.

From Newsmax, the Chief Twit and his ex-girlfriend shorten their daughter's name.

And from the New York Post, women's plus-size clothing stores in Thailand have some unflattering but perhaps truth-revealing names.