Stories For The End Of July

On a warm mostly sunny Monday on the last day of July, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the economy that the Republican presidential candidates won't talk about.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats blame Republicans for hot weather, and promise to save us from it.  (The Democrats should really be blaming a bunch of communists.  But then, hot air comes from politicians of all stripes.)

From Townhall, two Republican presidential candidates call for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to step down as minority leader.

From The Washington Free Beacon, in private messages, magazine editor Pedro Gonzales, an ally of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) claims that former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is a Jew and faults former President Trump for condemning white supremacy.  (That's right.  While some have accused Trump of not condemning white supremacy, this guy faults because he did condemn it.)

From the Washington Examiner, a nuclear power plant in George come online, then becoming the first in 30 years to do so in the U.S.

From The Federalist, according to part two of the "Facebook files" released by congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH), the White House pressured Facebook to censor "true" content.

From American Thinker, how did the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens and Trump all get rich?

From MRCTV, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres declares that the era of "global boiling" has started.

From Fox News, a human trafficking ring based in Texas accused of smuggling hundreds of illegal migrants into the U.S. faces new charges.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a shoe company and a coffee company advertise for.....double mastectomies?

From Canada Free Press, a look at the propaganda for President Biden and against Trump.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian police injure 12 people during protests against President Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a plea to all U.K. parliamentcritters to beware the tyranny of the WHO.

From Snouts in the Trough, why would U.K. politician Nigel Farage want to be associated with the crooks at Coutts Bank?

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is blasted over plans to expand oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.

From Dutch News, a ship carrying cargo on fire is towed to a safer location north of the Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, a German man has been cured of HIV and leukemia.

From Voice Of Europe, the airline Lufthansa plans to sue climate protesters for losses due to their actions.

From Polskie Radio, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland is preparing for the threat posed by Wagner group fighters in Belarus.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Polska Agencja Prasowa.)

From ReMix, a left-wing media outlet reports that Poland has a "surprisingly liberal immigration policy".

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian official Gergely Gulyás, societies formerly under Soviet domination are more attached to European values.

From Russia Today, according to Russian official Nikolay Patrushev, the U.S. is backing Ukraine's "terrorist methods".

From The Sofia Globe, thousands of Bulgarians protest against violence against women.

From the Greek Reporter, Sparta was the only ancient Greek city without any defensive walls.

From Balkan Insight, journalists in Kosovo protest after their government suspends a TV station's business permit.

From Total Croatia News, a woman who did not know that she was pregnant gives birth while hiking in Croatia's Paklenica National Park.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at 24Sata.)

From The Malta Independent, someone in Malta likes turtles.

From ANSA, Italy's inflation drops in July, but its GDP dropped during the second quarter of 2023.

From SwissInfo, about 20 Yenish families occupy a site in Thônex, Switzerland, allegedly without permission.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Temps.)

From RFI, the junta that recently took over Niger accuses France of planning to "intervene militarily".

From EuroNews, France has a record number of people in prison.

From The North Africa Post, the Economic Community of West African States gives the junta in Niger one week to give up power.

From The New Arab, why political unity for the Palestinians remains elusive.

From BBC News, 11 people are killed and over 2,000 others are forced to flee when clashes break out at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

From RAIR Foundation USA, Muslims put on an "Ashura Day Procession" and raise the flag of Iraq - in London.

From Gatestone Institute, the intent of any Palestinian "union" is to destroy Israel.

From The Stream, "the youth of the world".

From The Daily Signal, why First Son Hunter Biden's plea bargain collapsed.

From The American Conservative, Biden has been a "boon" to the Mexican drug cartels.

From The Western Journal, a "touching moment" between Trump and a little girl draws hate.

From BizPac Review, journalist Megyn Kelly shares a wardrobe issue with the aforementioned Governor DeSantis.

From The Daily Wire, DeSantis releases his 10-point economic platform.

From the Daily Caller, now that former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer has testified before Congress, congresscritter Margorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) hopes that another such former associate will do so as well.

From the New York Post, how smugglers flood the U.S. with fake designer bags made in China.

From Breitbart, actor Paul Reubens, known for portraying the character Pee Wee Herman, passes away at age 70 after a battle with cancer.

From Newsmax, malls across the U.S. become ghost towns.

And from The Babylon Bee, the job listing for former President Obama's personal chef has received zero applications.

Music Break

I know that it's been quite a while since I put up a post of this type, so here we go.  Some of these are songs that I've recently run across.  First up is Chi Coltrane, known for the hit Thunder And Lightning, with the defiant song I Will Not Dance.  To my disappointment, the YouTube user who posted this will not allow playback on other sites, so you'll have to click on this link instead.

Sunday Links

On a warm (but not too warm) and sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration new fuel economy standards in an effort to push electric vehicles.

From Townhall, three school districts, parents, teachers, and administrators sue the Pennsylvania Department of Education over its "woke" guidelines.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about blues musician Robert Johnson.

From the Washington Examiner, the Senators and congresscritters who have started driving electric vehicles.

From American Thinker, travel restrictions in the name of climate change.

From NewsBusters, CNN commentator and Republican strategist points out that the Republicans are not at fault for First Son Hunter Biden being a "scumbag".

From Canada Free Press, the Democrats chose President Biden, "and the devil has arrived to collect".

From TCW Defending Freedom, if you're in the U.K., will climate change make you fry, freeze or drown?

From Gatestone Institute, has China outmaneuvered the Biden administration?

From The Stream, child sex trafficking in the U.S. and its context.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From The Daily Signal, happy "eleventy-first" birthday birthday to the late economist Milton Friedman.

From The Western Journal, a "lightly edited" transcript of an interview of Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) by The New York Times has been published.

From BizPac Review, it's "clear" that the aforementioned Hunter Biden broke the law, says congresscritter Jim Himes (D-Con).  (Yes, that is a Democrat acknowledging Hunter's misdeeds.)

From The Daily Wire, theology dean Voddie Baucham discusses biblical justice and masculinity.

From the Daily Caller, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's (R) presidential campaign "is hitting the reset button".

From Breitbart, according to former New Jersey Governor and current president candidate Chris Christie, former President Trump will be "out on bail" during the upcoming campaign.

From Newsmax, thousands of supporters of the junta that just took over Niger attack the French embassy in the country's capital of Niamey.

And from the New York Post, in criticizing New York State's bail reforms, a New York City judge quotes the Grateful Dead.

Saturday Stuff

On a hot and sunny Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden finally acknowledges his seventh grandchild, a girl whose father is his son Hunter.

From Townhall, presidential candidate and former congresscritter Will Hurd (R-TX) gets booed off the stage when he accuses former President Trump of running just to stay out of prison.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration spends $300,000 to study why minority kids like Japanese comics.

From the Washington Examiner, recent episodes with Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Diane Feinstein (D-Cal) raise age questions about American leaders.

From American Thinker, People magazine also acknowledges Biden's granddaughter.

From NewsBusters, the site PolitiFact defends the term "chestfeeding" for "people who identify as men or as nonbinary".

From Canada Free Press, "it's all about control!"

From TeleSUR, protests continue in Peru against President Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, (some of) the media are finally starting to listen to the organization Migration Watch.

From EuroNews, "far right" activists in Austria rally against what they see as "The Great Replacement".  (If you think that a "great replacement" can't happen, ask any Native American or Australian Aborigine.)

From Voice Of Europe, residents of southern Europe battle massive forest fires.

From The New Arab, five Syrian government forces are killed in clashes with members of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, two teenage ISIS supporters try to acquire weapons and used them to kill Christian students at a school in Bruck, Austria are each sentenced to just two years in prison.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Gatestone Institute, Biden's legacy is an "axis of tyrannies".

From The Stream, the ministry Frontier Alliance International announces a crisis response strategy for Christians to bless Israel.

From The American Conservative, with Biden in the driver's seat, the rule of law appears to be receding in the rearview mirror.

From The Western Journal, according to an opinion column, the federal whistleblowers are risking it all to restore our faith in public servants.

From BizPac Review, according to George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley, the House is now obligated to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Biden.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro takes on corporations that attempt to censor.

From the Daily Caller, Trump promises supporters that he will cut funds for "transgender insanity" and "critical race theory".

From the New York Post, Bronny James, who recently suffered cardiac arrest, returns home and plays the piano.

From Breitbart, journalist Jonathan Capehart defends former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails.

From Newsmax, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will pay a former student for allegedly silencing her for being a conservative Christian.

And from NBC News, move over, Michael Phelps, because Katie Ledecky now has one more individual world swimming title than you do.  (via the New York Post)

Friday Fuss

As the hot and mostly sunny weather continues on the last Friday of July, here are some things going on:

From National Review, protecting the Biden family.

From FrontpageMag, the automaker Ford keeps losing money making electric cars that no one wants.

From Townhall, something was strange with CNN's graphic about high temperatures.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Mike Gallagher (R-WI) remembers a war which has largely been forgotten.

From the Washington Examiner, like wages and prices, impeachment gets inflated.

From The Federalist, the special counsel who ignores alleged bribery by members of the Biden family gives former President Trump three more charges.

From American Thinker, the next president must go after federal overreach and waste.

From MRCTV, congresscritter Steve Cohen (D-TN) suggests "some kind of barrier of different area" for transgender athletes in women's locker rooms.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Julia Brownley (D-Cal) introduces legislation to remove the words "husband" and "wife" from some existing laws.

From NewsBusters, the editorial board of The Washington Post is angry that Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) wants parents involved in the lives of their children.

From Canada Free Press, more about federal overreach.

From TeleSUR, on their country's Independence Day, Peruvians protest against President Dina Boluarte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, climate fearmongers bring out the heatwave hysteria.

From Snouts in the Trough, be very afraid of the "global boiling".

From EuroNews, Poland passes a law against "Russian influence", but could it be used against political opponents?

From Voice Of Europe, the European Parliament will expand by adding 15 new europarliamentcritters.

From ReMix, according to Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania are ready to close their borders with Belarus.

From Balkan Insight, Balkan countries get overwhelmed by visiting tourists.

From The North Africa Post, Senegal adopts a new strategy against illegal immigration.  (Countries whose population is mostly non-white are apparently allowed to do that.)

From The New Arab, Algeria accuses the French media of a "satanic" campaign in its coverage of wildfires in Algeria.

From OpIndia, four people are arrested for allegedly spreading inflammatory content claiming that floods in the Indian state of Gujarat are Allah's retribution for the destruction of an illegal mosque.

From Gatestone Institute, the West is importing the communist Chinese Cultural Revolution.

From The Stream, who is our "neighbor" in a world influenced by artificial intelligence?

From The Daily Signal, the American tradition of silence about human trafficking.

From The American Conservative, the Barbie world turns men into accessories, but women have found this development disappointing.

From The Western Journal, Trump responds to the newest charges against him.

From BizPac Review, journalist Steve Doocy throws cold water on Republican plans to impeach President Biden.

From The Daily Wire, the CDC warns of a tick-borne illness that causes a serious allergy to red meat.

From the Daily Caller, Trump explains why Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) should drop out of the presidential race.

From the New York Post, a Rikers Island inmate steals an officer's uniform to pose as a guard, and almost escapes.

From Breitbart, according to recently debanked U.K. politician Nigel Farage, banks are making huge profits while mistreating the public.

From Newsmax, Senator Marco Rubio's (R-FL) attempt to prevent the federal retirement program from investing in funds that invest in Chinese firms is rejected.

From the Genesius Times, Obama chef Tafari Campbell's death is attributed to "climate change".

Randy Meisner 1946-2023

Randy Meisner, the original bassist of both Poco and the Eagles, passed away yesterday of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Los Angeles at age 77.  He had previously suffered from minor heart attacks in 2004.

Randall Herman Meisner was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska to farmers Herman and Emilie (née Haun) Meisner.  All of his grandparents were ethnic Germans who emigrated from the area along the Volga River in the Russian Empire.  At age 10, he started learning the guitar, but switched to bass at the suggestion of a high school teacher.  He played bass and sang with a local band called The Drivin' Dynamics and later moved to California to join a band called The Soul Survivors, who later renamed themselves The Poor (which according to eventual Eagles bandmate Don Felder, was literally true).

In May 1968, Meisner joined the band Poco, which was being put together by guitarists Richie Furay and Jim Messina, both alumni of the Buffalo Springfield, in which Messina had played bass.  In Poco, Messina switched back to guitar, with Meisner becoming their bassist.  The other original members were steel guitarist/banjoist/guitarist Rusty Young and drummer George Grantham.  Meisner quit the band after being excluded from participating in the final mixing session for their debut album.  As a result, his bass and backing vocal tracks were kept in the final mix, but his lead vocals were replaced with new versions sung by Grantham.

In April 1969, Meisner joined Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, along with fellow The Poor alumni Alan Kemp (guitar) and Pat Shanahan (drums).  About a year later, he returned to Nebraska and took a job at a tractor dealership.  In 1971, he was recruited into Linda Ronstadt's backing band, where he joined Don Henley (drums), Glenn Frey (guitars, keyboards) and Bernie Leadon (guitars, steel guitar, banjo).  The four of them soon afterwards founded their own band, the Eagles, in which all of them would contribute both lead and backing vocals.  The Eagles added guitarist Don Felder in 1974 as a fifth member.  During the next year, Leadon left and was replaced by guitarist/keyboardist Joe Walsh.  Meisner left the band in 1977 and was replaced by bassist Tim Schmit, who ironically had replaced him in Poco years earlier.

After leaving the Eagles, Meisner recorded several solo albums and formed various bands with Bread alumnus Jimmy Griffin, Billy Swan, Charlie Rich Jr. and Firefall alumnus Rick Roberts.  In 1989, he reunited with his original Poco bandmates to record their Legacy album.  He was invited to join the History of the Eagles tour in 2013, but declined for health reasons.

Meisner was married twice, first to his high school girlfriend Jennifer Barton in 1963, which whom he had three children before they divorced in 1981, and later to Lana Rae in 1996, who died from an accidental gunshot in 2016.

Read more at Variety, People, Billboard, AP News and Spin.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For Thursday

As a hot sunny Thursday later becomes rainy, here are 12 things going on:

From WION, the Taliban bans neckties in Afghanistan.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority embraces Russia and China; attacks Ukrainian President Zelensky; and rejects the U.S. and the West.

From The Federalist, the entire Democrat party pretends that President Biden's 4-year-old grandchild does not exist.

From American Thinker, an "out of control" fire on a ship carrying electric vehicles shows the dangers from such vehicles.

From TCW Defending Freedom, can you tell the difference between the government and the media?

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin promises "no-cost" shipment of grain to six African countries.

From Voice Of Europe, according to a poll, 7 in 10 people in France don't trust French President Emmanuel Macron to guarantee their safety.

From ReMix, Germany pays about €15.4 billion in benefits to recipients who are not German citizens.

From Gatestone Institute, where is the U.S. response to outrageous actions taken by China?

From The Stream, stop making excuses for First Son Hunter Biden's (mis)behavior.

From The American Conservative, the old trope about the "underfunded school".

And from the Mirror, in his cell in Spain, one of the ISIS Beatles appears to have gone to his virgins.

Wednesday Whatnot

As the warm mostly sunny weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to the organization Parents Defending Education, the Chinese Communist Party is linked to 143 school districts in the U.S.

From FrontpageMag, if you buy an electric car, you might be funding al Qaeda.

From Townhall, First Son Hunter Biden loses his plea deal and pleads "not guilty" to tax and gun charges.

From The Washington Free Beacon, crime in parts of Washington, D.C. has gotten so bad that the Mexican consulate is warming their citizens about it.

From the Washington Examiner, NASA releases images from the James Webb Space Telescope showing stars forming.

From The Federalist, the Biden family scandals are bigger than Hunter's hookers and involvement with the Ukrainian company Burisma.

From American Thinker, what Islam and leftism have in common.

From MRCTV, a wildfire in Yosemite National Park last year was not caused by climate change but by arson.

From NewsBusters, broadcast networks are angry that the buoys placed in the Rio Grande by Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) having some success against illegal entry into the U.S.

From Canada Free Press, support pastor Artur Pawlowski's fight.

From TeleSUR, the national board of the Chilean Teachers' Association calls for a 24-hour strike.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the oak tree under which British politician William Wilberforce told his friend Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger of his plan to abolish the slave trade.

From Snouts in the Trough, will you be "nudged" by climate propaganda from Sky News?

From EuroNews, Poland complains to the European Commission that Germany is moving waste into Poland and storing it in unauthorized landfills.  (Looks like Germany has found yet another way to invade Poland.)

From Voice Of Europe, an E.U. watchdog launches an investigation into the border agency Frontex's role in a shipwreck tragedy in the Mediterranean.

From ReMix, Polish scientists at the Łukaszewicz Research Network develop a new environmentally friendly rocket fuel.

From Balkan Insight, what went wrong with Kosovo's efforts to become the first Muslim-majority country to legalize same-sex marriage?

From The North Africa Post, Algerian diplomacy is "empty tours".

From The New Arab, the Iraqi government promises to keep diplomatic missions safe.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden is plotting a deal with the Russian government over Ukraine.

From The Stream, Democrats have become the party of censorship.

From The Daily Signal, a new pro-life diaper-making company gives parents a healthier alternative.

From The American Conservative, the Biden administration should explain why we are trying to achieve in Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, the transcript of Biden's speech containing the announcement that "we ended cancer as we know it!" has been doctored.

From BizPac Review, for his latest episode on Twitter, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson rolls around South Central Los Angeles with rapper Ice Cube.  (Or should I be calling it "the platform formerly known as Twitter"?)

From The Daily Wire, a timeline of alleged Biden family corruption.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan) and congresscritter Ashley Hinson (R-IA) that would propose a bill that would prevent liberals from dictating what you eat.

From the New York Post, why presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) is rising in the polls.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, former President Trump maintains a double-digit lead in Iowa among Republicans.

From Newsmax, while making remarks to reporters, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) freezes at the podium, walks away, and returns to take questions.

And from The Irish Times, Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor passes away at age 56.  (via Breitbart)

Tuesday Tidbits

On a warm sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Florida's new history curriculum is better than the lies being told about it.

From FrontpageMag, what Americans should know about China.

From Townhall, another migrant dies because of President Biden's open-border policy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, First Son Hunter Biden's art patron visited the White House at least 13 times.

From the Washington Examiner, after Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) threatens an impeachment inquiry against Biden, the DNC calls former President Trump the "real speaker".

From The Federalist, only an impeachment inquiry can unravel the alleged corruption in the Biden family.

From American Thinker, the deceptive advertising about "gender-affirming" surgery.

From MRCTV, a woman in Alabama admits that her "abduction" wasn't.

From LifeZette, a Haitian man attending Texas State University is trying to raise money so he can adopt a baby whom he found in a pile of trash.

From NewsBusters, Charlie Daniels Jr. points out that songs against violent crime and liberal judges are not racist.

From Canada Free Press, as radio talk show host Tom Bauerle points out, Tafari Campbell, who drowned near former President's home on Martha's Vineyard, was not the only former White House chef who suffered that fate.  (To read about the other one, go to the Daily Mail.)

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces a plan to decontaminate Lake Maracaibo.

From TCW Defending Freedom, lying about British politician Nigel Farage is "par for the course" at the BBC.

From EuroNews, six men are found guilty murder and terror-related offenses for the 2016 bombings of the main airport and a subway station in Brussels, Belgium.

From Voice Of Europe, a Romanian and a Greek are arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle 29 migrants into Hungary.

From ReMix, Romania and Slovakia lodge diplomatic protests against a speech made by Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, in which he referred to "territories torn from Hungary".  (In point of historical fact, Slovakia and the Romanian region of Transylvania were parts of Hungary before World War I.)

From Balkan Insight, Serbia's "social card" is not improving its welfare system but instead is making it worse.

From The North Africa Post, 34 people in Algeria die in wildfires as the government drags its feet on buying water-bombing planes.

From The New Arab, Algerian authorities free and pardon prisoners who pass their high school exams.

From BBC News, the children of the forgotten war in Yemen.

From the Colombo Page, in a pilot project, 50 electric buses will be added to Sri Lanka's public transportation system.

From the Daily Mirror, a 13-year-old Sri Lankan boy from the New Zealand region of South Otago becomes the youngest person to win the Mountbatten Award, for saving his 11-year-old brother from heavy surf.

From Raajje, the Maldive Islands and India reaffirm their counter-terrorism operation.

From the Bangkok Post, over 9,000 civilians take refuge at five shelters in the Thai province of Mae Hong Son due to renewed fighting in Myanmar.

From The Straits Times, the Singaporean Parliament has five vacant seats.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Indonesia's trade ministry destroys illegally imported products worth 12 billion rupiah.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Malaysian police Inspector-General Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, the U.K. band The1975 left Malaysia hours before any police reports were made against them.  (Sounds like a case of gettin' out while the gettin's good.)

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysian politician Mohamed Azmin Ali, the party Perikatan Nasional is using a "green wave" phenomenon to scare ethnic Chinese from voting.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong, his wife, and a high-level delegation concludes their visit to Austria, and head for Italy and the Vatican.

From the Taipei Times, Typhoon Doksuri heads for Taiwan and mainland China.

From The Korea Herald, the South Korean military analyzes North Korean missile launches at odd hours.

From The Mainichi, after a doctor and his daughter are arrested in connection with the discovery of a decapitated body at a hotel in Sapporo, Japan, police find a human head in their home.

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. funds education for jihad and martyrdom.

From The Stream, a detransitioner sues the doctors who operated on her for alleged botched surgery.

From The Daily Signal, according to Pew Research, Democrats value free speech less than Republicans.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book written by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

From The Western Journal, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gives an absurd response when asked about the Biden administration going after home appliances.

From BizPac Review, suspicion surrounds the aforementioned drowning death of chef Tafari Campbell.

From The Daily Wire, the aforementioned Speaker McCarthy indicates that Republican congresscritters are moving toward the aforementioned impeachment inquiry against President Biden.

From the Daily Caller, clips from the cartoon South Park perfectly predict left-wing insanity.

From TMZ, USC basketball player Bronny James, son of NBA player LeBron James, is rushed to a hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball workout.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, at a showing of the movie Barbie, a hockey game breaks out.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, Trump has pulled ahead of Biden.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, 57 percent of Americans disapprove of "Bidenomics".

And from SFGate, the Roxie Theater in San Francisco sells out for an unauthorized film about BART.

Monday Links

On a warm partly sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why the movie Barbie didn't undergo the same anti-woke backlash that Bud Light did.

From FrontpageMag, the Southern Poverty Law Center shows off its double standards.

From Townhall, things looking worse for the Bidens - and the FBI.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration gives a group backed by leftist billionaire George Soros to teach young men in Puerto Rico about "toxic masculinities".

From the Washington Examiner, why the group No Labels threatens Democrats in the 2024 election.

From The Federalist, there is more evidence to impeach President Biden than there ever was to impeach then-President Trump.

From American Thinker, the real story of election interference in Michigan.

From MRCTV, singer Jason Aldean doesn't back down.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post is on its way to losing $100 million this year.

From Canada Free Press, the Biden administration's war on consumers.

From TeleSUR, descendants of immigrants from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine keep their culture alive in Argentina.

From TCW Defending Freedom, welcome to England and your all-inclusive cabin.

From the Daily Mail, Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary is charged with three terror-related offenses, including directing a terrorist group.

From EuroNews, Spain's parliamentary election results in gridlock.

From Voice Of Europe, the Czech Republic needs workers.

From Reuters, 62 people are arrested in a crackdown by Europol and Interpol against human trafficking.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From ReMix, members of the right-wing Austrian party FPÖ oppose the E.U.'s "scandalous" plan to increase funding for Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Greece.  (I've said this before but it might bear repeating.  Since Greece has many archaeological sites such as ancient theaters, many located in forested areas, could someone get in trouble for yelling "theater!" in a crowded fire?)

From The North Africa Post, the International Center for Research on the Prevention of Child Soldiers strongly condemns the recruitment of child soldiers in the Tindouf camps in Algeria.

From The New Arab, the Jordanian army shoots down a drone carrying crystal meth from Syria.

From Khaama Press, former Afghani President Hamid Karzai and E.U. envoy Raffaella Lodice discuss education for women and girls in Afghanistan.

From Hasht e Subh, a man in Herat, Afghanistan is beaten and detained, allegedly because his wife was wearing the wrong type of coat.

From the Afghanistan Times, farmers in Afghanistan struggle due to the Taliban's ban on growing opium.

From Dawn, Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sherry Rehman dismisses reports that a caretaker prime minister has been agreed upon.

From The Express Tribune, on the other hand, the party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has named its candidate for caretaker prime minister.

From Pakistan Today, a 14-year-old domestic worker is allegedly tortured by the wife of judge in Islamabad, Pakistan.

From Swarajya, the Waqf Board in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh declares Ahmaddiyas to be non-Muslim.

From The Hans India, according to rice exporters in the Indian state of Telangana, the U.S. has enough rice.

From the Hindustan Times, a 108-foot-high statue of the Hindu deity Ram will be built in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India.

From ANI, the Indian federal government with draws a bill on DNA technology and introduces three new bills.

From India Today, what American physicist J Robert Oppenheimer did when Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered him Indian citizenship.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls for a climate-smart agri-food revolution.

From New Age, Bangladeshi intellectuals predict political conflict.

From Gatestone Institute, speaking to the American Congress, Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers a message of hope.

From The Stream, the same leftists who called Trump a "dictator" call on Biden to act like one.

From The Daily Signal, according to a conservative group launched by former Vice President Pence, the Supreme Court should strike down the Chevron Deference.

From The American Conservative, illiberalism in Ukraine and in the U.S.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) has the perfect response to the Biden administration's latest green energy push.

From BizPac Review, a restaurant in California attempts to make its workers confess their workplace "sins" to a priest, and gets fined by a secular authority.

From The Daily Wire, Hunter Biden's best friend will testify that Hunter had his father Joe on the phone multiple times when talking to foreign business partners.

From the Daily Caller, the IRS will no longer send armed agents to the homes of taxpayers unannounced.

From the New York Post, police discover a "massive" walk-in vault while searching the home of the suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, a quarter of democrats have doubts about President Biden's mental fitness.

From Newsmax, the athletic apparel company Adidas gets $565 million in orders for 4 million pairs of unsold Yeezy shoes.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Chief Twit rebrands Twitter as X, after rejecting a different proposed name change.

A Few Things For Sunday

On a warm Sunday that lives up to its name, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) gets ready to battle the federal Department of Justice over floating barriers in the Rio Grande.

From Townhall, congresscritter Cori Bush (D-MO) shells out campaign fund for security - provided by her husband's firm.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about spying by the East and West on each other.

From the Washington Examiner, Uncle Sam isn't the cure for loneliness.  (Or if you're the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, it might be roneriness.)

From The Federalist, the seventh grandchild shows the male privilege of President Biden and his son Hunter.

From American Thinker, do left-winger really believe what they claim to believe?

From NewsBusters, CNN commentator Scott Jennings slams Vice President Harris for lying about educational reforms in Florida.

From Canada Free Press, the Bidens are "like father, like son".

From TeleSUR, Guatemalans call for a "march of flowers" to defend democracy.

From TCW Defending Freedom, several items, including your compost's degree of greenness.

From Snouts in the Trough, could the plot of the novel Fugue for a Darkening Island become reality?

From The North Africa Post, Morocco launches its first marine fish hatchery.

From The New Arab, Iraq offers to mediate between the warring parties in Yemen.

From Gatestone Institute, tech companies manipulate our elections and indoctrinate our children, and how to stop them.

From The Stream, the Jason Aldean song Try That in a Small Town should be our "get bent" response to cancel culture.

From The Western Journal, according to an op-ed, the Biden administration is harassing the biggest oil-producing region in the U.S.

From BizPac Review, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) is called out for not calling out former President Trump.

From The Daily Wire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing "very well" after undergoing emergency heart surgery.

From the Daily Caller, Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley explains why the document alleging bribery involving the Bidens should be taken seriously.

From Breitbart, according to former congresscritter Rick Renzi (R-AZ), Special Counsel Jack Smith and prosecutor David Harbach are "out for revenge" against Trump.

From Newsmax, "Barbieheimer" spins box office gold.

And from the New York Post, U.S. Customs officers in Texas find she-don't-lie inside four wheels of cheddar cheese.

Saturday Links

Now that I've taken a walk in a forest like good Sasquatch on a warm partly cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to Governor Greg Abbott (R), Texas as seized more than 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl and apprehended 394,200 illegal aliens under its Operation Lone Star program.

From Townhall, the journalist who broke the Hunter Biden laptop story has "the perfect response" to a question about whether the story was Russian disinformation.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's (D) sister resigns from her position on school board in New York state to run for congresscritter.

From the Washington Examiner, electric vehicles have a hard time enduring heat waves.

From The Federalist, the global fertility industry seeks to create reproduction without women.

From American Thinker, meet a real life Boris and Natasha.

From NewsBusters, when reporters adored left-wing agitator Jesse Jackson.

From Canada Free Press, "the globalist left" are "destroyers of civilization".

From TCW Defending Freedom, how to fight back against the U.K.'s coronavirus dictatorship.

From EuroNews, is the Barbie doll based on a German doll created by the newspaper Bild in 1952?

From ReMix, according to experts at the Hungarian Central Bank, adopting the euro would be better for Hungary than keeping the forint.

From The North Africa Post, African startup businesses defy the downturn in global venture capital funding.

From The New Arab, according to a lawyer's union, 16 people were killed when rockets hit their houses in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's mullahs escalate their aggression in Latin America and the Middle East.

From The Stream, correction the misinformation about gender ideology.

From The American Conservative, Anchor Brewing Company has become a victim of its own success.

From The Western Journal, President Biden makes a subtle change to his procedure for boarding Air Force One.

From BizPac Review, Biden chooses Admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the U.S. Navy and become the first woman to be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, blowing off some recommendations.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro shreds the movie Barbie.

From the Daily Caller, an opinion column about why media outlets want us to think that the movie Sound of Freedom is linked to QAnon.

From the New York Post, police investigators dismantle a wooden deck and dig up cement tiles from the back yard of the suspect accused of the Gilgo Beach murders, and carry away "mysterious" bags of evidence.

From Breitbart, marketing for the movie Barbie looks like it was a bait-and-switch operation.

And from Newsmax, China sends dozens of fighter jets and bombers toward Taiwan, ahead of Taiwan's planned military exercises.

Friday Phenomena

On a warm partly sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the investigation of First Son Hunter Biden yields some "jaw-dropping" revelations.

From FrontpageMag, a self-identified Jewess defends presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D).

From Townhall, guess where President Biden's former communications director found her new job.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a group of right-wingers meets to define "freedom conservatism".

From the Washington Examiner, how Democrats will try to outlaw your car.

From The Federalist, why the left attacks the movie Sound of Freedom.

From American Thinker, a new study shows that Greenland at one time really was green.

From MRCTV, a pitcher who made a "homophobic" Tweet refuses to renounce his beliefs in order to return to Major League Baseball.

From NewsBusters, the media go Sgt. Schultz on covering bribery allegedly coerced the Biden family.

From Canada Free Press, will history be preserved or purged?

From TeleSUR, Colombian President Gustavo Petro proposes a national agreement to move his country forward.

From TCW Defending Freedom, more "infernal nonsense" from the climate fearmongers.

From Snouts in the Trough, British journalist Justin Rowlatt needs to understand that it still isn't hot.

From EuroNews, Spain could undergo some major economic and social changes if its conservatives win the upcoming election.

From Voice Of Europe, according to Polish retired General Leon Komornicki, the Ukrainian counteroffensive is a myth.  (If you read Polish better than I do, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From ReMix, Germany sees its lowest birth rate in 10 years.

From Balkan Insight, two Bosnians are jailed for covering up evidence pertaining to an unexplained death.

From The North Africa Post, Burkina Faso fights terrorism by raising taxes.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia will reportedly allow an Israeli delegation to attend a UNESCO meeting in its capital of Riyadh.

From Arutz Sheva, hundreds of Israeli Air Force reserve pilots intend to not report for reserve duty in response to proposed judicial reforms.

From The Times Of Israel, thousands of demonstrators in Israel continue marching toward Jerusalem to protest against proposed judicial reforms.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel's proposed judicial reform hits another inflection point with its reasonableness standard bill.

From YNetNews, the complex legacy of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt refunds the permit money to U.S. rapper Travis Scott after canceling his concert which was set to be put on in front of the pyramids in Giza.

From Egypt Today, according to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development official Maya Hennerkes, Egypt is on the right track for a green and sustainable energy transition.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the World Bank approves a $730 million project to upgrade the corridor between Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

From the Saudi Gazette, 17 manipulators and five investors in Saudi Arabia are ordered to pay back money gained illegally.

From DohaNews, Qatar summons the ambassador from Sweden over attacks on the Koran.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian activists urge U.N. human rights commissioner Volker Turk to intervene in order to stop the execution of boxer Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani.

From IranWire, Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid denounces "coercive measures" against women who don't wear hijabs.

From Iran International, Iranian officials pass the buck over the return of the hijab police.

From News18, three daughters of a Pakistani Hindu businessman are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan's new spymasters.

From The Stream, five serious conversations to have with your child to prepare him or her for college.

From The Daily Signal, a Harvard law school professor forgets why judicial review exists.

From The American Conservative, Canada offers work permits to holders of H-1B visas in the U.S.

From The Western Journal, left-wing elites tell Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that he's doing a "wonderful job" as 40 percent of released illegal aliens go missing.

From BizPac Review, Vice President Harris mischaracterizes Florida's education about slavery.

From The Daily Wire, Republican Senators tear into Biden's "open border policies" and his alleged lack of caring about 85,000 missing kids.

From the Daily Caller, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's social media platform Threads continues to crash in popularity.

From the New York Post, how to watch the U.S. women's national soccer team in their World Cup opener against Vietnam.

From Breitbart, transgender HHS officials Rachel Levine warns against "wrong puberty".

From Newsmax, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is accused of witness tampering.

And from Variety, pop singer Tony Bennett dies at age 96.

Stories For Moon Landing Day

On the anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a hotel in Rotterdam, New York reportedly kicks out guests to make room for migrants bused in from New York City.

From FrontpageMag, did a jihadist terror attack just occur in Fargo, North Dakota?

From Townhall, congresscritter Dan Goldman (D-NY), a protégé and former staffer of congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal), admits a key fact about President Biden and his son Hunter.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an FBI task force knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was real, but hid this fact from social media companies.

From the Washington Examiner, Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) pushes his liberal agenda through Chicago's city council.  (You might say, "let's go, Brandon".)

From The Federalist, at a hearing about censorship, Democrats try to censor their fellow Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

From American Thinker, recalling then-President Trump's "Farewell" speech at the end of his time in office.

From MRCTV, a gay male couple reportedly have their baby aborted when the surrogate mother is diagnosed with breast cancer.

From LifeZette, the first moon landing "still amazes the world today", over 50 years later.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) slams the censorship collusion between the FBI and Big Tech.

From Canada Free Press, does the Biden policy of "diversity" really encourage "perversity"?

From TeleSUR, Colombians mobilize in the capital city of Bogota in support of President Gustavo Petro.

From TCW Defending Freedom, send the boat people packing.

From EuroNews, according to the Belarusian government, fighters from Russia's Wagner group are training in Belarus near the Polish border, and other stories.

From Voice Of Europe, the German right-wing anti-globalist party AfD reaches all-time highs in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg.

From ReMix, Lithuania speeds up its deportations of Russian citizens.

From Balkan Insight, the Bosnian Serb Assembly criminalizes defamation despite concerns about free speech.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron reshuffles his cabinet.

From RFI, the riots in Frances banlieues are over, but the anger which launched them is not.

From The Portugal News, Portugal's SEF is taking two years to process requests to obtain residency.

From Morocco World News, Morocco should use its growing ties with Israel to acquire F-35 fighter jets.

From The North Africa Post, the African Development Bank lends Tunisia $87.1 million to finance its cereal sector.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the main Turkish opposition Republican People's Party is jolted by a leaked video of an online meeting of members seeking ways to unseat its leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

From Turkish Minute, jailed Turkish parliamentcritter Can Atalay petitions Turkey's Constitutional Court over alleged civil rights violations.

From Rûdaw, Iraq starts severing its ties with Sweden after the Swedish government allows the burning of a Koran and the Iraqi flag outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm.

From Armenpress, the government of the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno Karabakh signs an agreement with Armenian Zangi to launch a messenger that can be used without the internet.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, a Friendship City arrangement is established between Troy, New York, U.S. and Martakert, Artsakh, Azerbaijan.  ("Artsakh" is another name for Nagorno Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has an Armenian-majority population.)

From Azərbaycan24, the Azerbaijani army holds "Khazri Wave" exercises in the Caspian Sea.  (My spellchecker objects to "Khazri", but has no problem with "Azərbaycan24", even with the "ə".)

From AzerNews, economic diversification is important to successfully implementing Azerbaijan's "Great Return" program.

From In-Cyprus, the company Hermes Airports inaugurates a photovoltaic park at Cyprus's Larnaca International Airport.

From The Syrian Observer, activists in Manbij, Syria launch a strike due to enforced conscription and other alleged rights violations by the Syrian Democrat Forces.

From North Press Agency, the Syrian government sends vehicles and troops toward the city of Abu Kamal.

From The961, seven ways to keep cool during Lebanon's hot summer.

From The New Arab, more on Iraq cutting its ties with Sweden.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians run summer camps where children are taught to kill Jews.

From The Stream, the biggest problem with American Christianity is not what you think.

From The Daily Signal, is Biden's new scheme to forgive student loans any more legal the one which the Supreme Court decided against?

From The American Conservative, left-wingers don't like facts to get in the way of their war on men.

From The Western Journal, Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduce a bill that former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is bound to hate.

From BizPac Review, the journalist who broke the Hunter Biden laptop story testifies on the House floor, and concludes with an ominous warning.

From The Daily Wire, more on the aforementioned attempts by Democrats to censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

From the Daily Caller, millions of taxpayer dollars continue to go to the NGO that funded the virology lab in Wuhan, China.

From the New York Post, former South Carolina Governor (R) and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley asks congresscritter AOC (D-NY) why Israel gets under her skin.

From Breitbart, according to a document released by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the FBI knew about then-private citizen Joe Biden's dealings in Ukraine before the Hunter Biden laptop story broke.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) wife Ginger calls for a boycott of the movie Barbie.

And from SFGate, how Bruce Lee, who died 50 years ago today, and James Lee (no relation) launched a martial arts collaboration that laid the groundwork for today's MMA.