Stories For The End Of June

As we reach the middle of the year, falling on a warm and mostly cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to congresscritter Jim Clyburn (D-SC), President Biden's poor performance at the debate was caused by "preparation overload".

From FrontpageMag, the solution to the Chevron crisis is smaller government.

From Townhall, headlines from one European country show how poorly they regard Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book on a conservative type of environmentalism.

From the Washington Examiner, the Biden administration's pier on the Gaza coast comes to an end.

From American Thinker, some more facts about replacing Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee.

From NewsBusters, when the media opposed a Republican bill that would have reduced the costs of health care.

From Canada Free Press, with "puppeteer" and former President Obama waiting to replace Biden, the fundamental transformation of the U.S. is still in play.

From TeleSUR, islands in the eastern Caribbean prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl.

From TCW Defending Freedom, one man's comments does not mean that the party Reform UK are all racists.

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkish opposition leader Ozgur Ozel sparks controversy by telling the truth about Hamas.

From the Daily Mail, don't call British Muslims antisemitic, because that could drive them toward extremism, says an Islamic scholar.

From Gatestone Institute, the desire to build a wall reaches Iran.

From The Daily Signal, shareholding activists challenge corporate support for LGBTQ policies which harm children.

From The American Conservative, in Michigan, "weed" is growing like a weed.

From The Western Journal, according to columnist Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post, Biden should drop Vice President Harris from the Democratic ticket and replace her with former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  (I vaguely remember a rumor in 2012 that then-President Obama was going to drop then-Vice President Biden and replace him with Mrs. Clinton.  My reaction to Parker's suggestion is the same as my reaction to that rumor, although directed to a different president.  "Mr. President, please hire a food-taster".)

And from SFGate, a hot dog stand in Visalia, California offers the best meal under $5 in the entire state.

Saturday Links

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

From National Review, during the debate, the split screen tolls for President Biden.

From FrontpageMag, the Supreme Court rules that federal agencies are not allowed to make their own laws.

From Townhall, a clip of then-Vice President Biden from his debate against then-Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) in 2012 shows how much he has deteriorated since then.

From the Washington Examiner, Republican congresscritters call for an investigation into alleged Affordable Care Act enrollment fraud.

From American Thinker, former President Trump needs to be careful.

From NewsBusters, Trump recommends the documentary Screams Before Silence.

From Canada Free Press, it's time for the Democrats to put away the puppet show.

From TeleSUR, Storm Beryl has become a hurricane and is headed for the Caribbean.

From TCW Defending Freedom, may God bless an honest Kenyan farmer whom the "Green Blob" has vilified.

From the Greek City Times, a gang led by a Syrian man beats a Greek man to death - in Germany.

From The Cable, two suicide bombers reportedly kill seven people and injure 16 others as they were returning from a wedding in the Nigerian state of Borno.

From BBC News, a police officer is shot with a crossbow outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

From Gatestone Institute, the Obama and Biden administrations have paved the way for a nuclear-armed Iran.

From The Stream, when Christians liberated the Spanish city of Córdoba.

From The Daily Signal, a judge in Montana strikes down the state's law defining "sex" as either male or female.

From The American Conservative, is the U.S. headed for another Cuban missile crisis?

From The Western Journal, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) calls on Biden's cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

And from Fox Sports, Orlando Cepeda, who played mainly at first base for six Major League baseball teams, goes to the stadium in the sky.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, when it comes to Supreme Court cases, overturning the Chevron doctrine is functionally bigger than overturning Roe v. Wade.

From FrontpageMag, the Democrats can't make President Biden stop seeking reelection if he wants to continue.

From Townhall, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) blasts Biden's most blatant lie made during last night's debate.

From The Washington Free Beacon, now that the debate is over with, "we need to talk about Grandpa".

From the Washington Examiner, former President Obama weighs in after the debate.

From The Federalist, dumping Biden and replacing him with another Democratic candidate is not that simple.

From American Thinker, the Supreme Court just made three important decisions.

From MRCTV, despite the government's push for electric cars, nearly half of Americans who have bought one reportedly have regrets.

From NewsBusters, the site formerly known as Twitter restricted a popular pro-Trump account during the debate.

From Canada Free Press, it's about time to fact check the fact checkers.

From TeleSUR, Bolivia captures four more military personnel allegedly involved in the recent coup attempt.

From TCW Defending Freedom, facts show that the drive to Net Zero is pointless.

From Snouts in the Trough, do any politicians realize that airplane engines and their exhaust are hot?

From EuroNews, according to polls, the "far-right" is ahead in France's upcoming elections.

From Voice Of Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico plan to create a new faction in the European Parliament.

From ReMix, Orbán slams the E.U.'s decision to appoint Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as the president of the European Commission.

From Balkan Insight, according to its census, Albania's population has decreased by 14 percent since 2011.

From The North Africa Post, the Pan-African Parliament makes some recommendations backing the Royal Africa-Atlantic Initiative launched by Moroccan King Mohammed VI.

From The New Arab, despite escaping the war in Gaza, Palestinians face dire conditions in Egypt.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Moroccan migrant in Spain is arrested for allegedly using his 16 TikTok accounts to forward content calling for jihad recruiting.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at VivaMálaga.  If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas terrorists abduct and kill an Israeli military dog.

From The Jerusalem Post, a man is indicted for allegedly beating a pro-Israel activist, the sixth person facing charges in the beating.

From Swarajya, a Hindu boy in Nariar, Bihar, India is forced by Muslim classmates to chant "Allahu akbar" and "Miyan zindabad".

From The Jewish Chronicle, a study reveals a disturbing truth about coverage of the war in Gaza by The New York Times.

From Arutz Sheva, IDF troops in Gaza find a "board game" which focuses on destroying cities in Israel.  (The last six stories come via The Religion Of Peace.  Today's article in Gatestone Institute was already published a few days ago in Arutz Sheva.)

From The Stream, when outnumbered and starved Christian prevailed liberated the place where the term "Christian" was coined.

From The Daily Signal, the Supreme Court confirms that foreigners have no "right" to enter the U.S.  (Crossing a national boundary and entering a country is a privilege, not a right, as I've directly experienced every time I've been required to show my passport.)

From The American Conservative, Republican congresscritters run a victory lap after last night's debate.

From The Western Journal, during the debate, Biden wrongly claimed that no American troops died on his watch.

From BizPac Review, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) shares a "scary" takeaway after the debate, from which he was excluded.

From The Daily Wire, Biden administration official Rachel Levine met with members of the group WPATH while pushing for the removal of age restrictions for transgender surgery.  (The article's title refers to Levine as "He".)

From the Daily Caller, according to former Mr. Bill henchman Paul Begala, any Democrat politician who calls for Biden to step down will "end their career".

From Breitbart, more on the case the overturns the Chevron case.

From Newsmax, the police chief for schools in Uvalde, Texas is indicted in connection with the delayed response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

And from the New York Post, while working out on a Pilates machine, new Houston Texans wide receiver Stefon Diggs has some technical difficulties.

Thursday Things

On a warm sunny Thursday, before tonight's presidential debate, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a poll, former President Trump is more popular with Republicans than President Biden is with Democrats.

From FrontpageMag, stop blaming white people for everything.

From Townhall, an illegal alien from Turkey who was arrested for the rape of a 15-year-old girl was reportedly "vetted" by the Biden administration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Republican congresscritters want to label Iraqi official Faiq Zidan as a "tool of Iranian influence".

From the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court strikes down the EPA's "good neighbor" pollution rule.

From The Federalist, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson still won't even say the word "woman".

From American Thinker, somehow, the Democrats do not regard rapes committed (or allegedly committed) by illegal aliens as part of any rape culture.

From MRCTV, three pro-Hamas activists wave "Free Palestine" flags during a baseball game at Camden Yards in Baltimore, and are quickly removed from the stadium.

From NewsBusters, CNN enjoys seeing 16 economists label Trump's possible upcoming economic policies as an "inflation" threat, thus ignoring Biden's real inflation.

From Canada Free Press, for tonight's debate, Trump should bring his own pen, paper and water bottle with him.

From TeleSUR, a chronology of the attempted coup in Bolivia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to a "top virologist", long Covid is real and is caused by the coronavirus vaccines.

From Snouts in the Trough, do the English soccer players just want to go on holiday?

From EuroNews, can European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen muster majority support in the European Parliament?

From Voice Of Europe, E.U. countries fail to meet their military recruitment goals.

From ReMix, an Iraqi migrant is arrested for allegedly raping and strangling a 16-year-old girl who was also a migrant on a wrecked boat attempting to reach Italy.

From Balkan Insight, police in Belgrade, Serbia ban the Serbia-Kosovo Cultural Reconciliation Festival.

From The North Africa Post, the International Criminal Court convicts al-Qaeda-linked jihadist Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud of war crimes committed in Timbuktu, Mali.

From The New Arab, 21 cancer patients from Gaza enter Egypt via the Karm Abu Salem border crossing.

From OpIndia, Muslims in the Nepalese district of Rautahat rename their village Islam Nagar, despite constituting only 4 percent of its population.  (If you read Hindi, you can read the Hindi version of the OI article.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran establishes a connection with Somalia.

From The Stream, open borders result in American women and girls being raped and subjected to violence.

From The Daily Signal, three questions which the CNN debate hosts should ask Biden.

From The American Conservative, should Americans go to war over the death of a single Filipino?

From The Western Journal, with a majority of Americans planning to watch tonight's debate, Biden can't afford to have even one senior moment.

From BizPac Review, CNN is mocked for touting how its debate mics will work.

From The Daily Wire, former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) explains how her former party blew it with Christian voters.

From the Daily Caller, former congresscritter Adam Kinsinger (R-IL) endorses Joe Biden.

From the New York Post, congresscritters Adam Schiff (D-Cal) and Dan Goldman (D-NY) call out Biden for not including rapes committed by Hamas terrorists on a sexual violence fact sheet.

From Breitbart, a 17-year-old girl from Arizona and her mother are kidnapped in an area of northern Mexico controlled by a cartel.

From Newsmax, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve, one third of Americans fear having to make ends meet.

And from The Texas Tribune, singer, satirist and former gubernatorial candidate (I-TX) Richard "Kinky" Friedman goes to the music hall in the sky.  (I remember his 2006 run for Texas governor, during which he gave the best argument, in my opinion, for gay marriage.  It was something like "why should straight people have all the misery?")

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, the CIA lists some signatories of the letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation as active contractors.

From FrontpageMag, during the upcoming debate, will former President Trump reveal the real fascist?

From Townhall, the immigration issue gets more intense for President Biden as ISIS allegedly smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S.

From The Washington Free Beacon, new evidence shows that the claim that Israel is using starvation as a weapon in Gaza is a lie.  (On the other hand, such a weapon was used by the Soviet Union against its own people.)

From the Washington Examiner, a left-wing group offers Biden five pointers for his debate with Trump.

From The Federalist, the Supreme Court green lights the federal government's big tech censorship scheme.

From American Thinker, what Trump needs to point out during the debate.

From MRCTV, according to a Georgetown law professor, the U.S. Olympic swim team being mostly white is a result of Jim Crow.

From NewsBusters, NBC admits that over 50 migrants (a.k.a. illegal aliens) in the U.S. could have ties to ISIS.

From Canada Free Press, which state has an unwanted new record?

From TeleSUR, the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will open a corruption investigation.

From TCW Defending Freedom, more gaslighting about global warming.

From EuroNews, a look at NATO Secretary General-designate Mark Rutte, who is currently the lame duck prime minister of the Netherlands.

From Voice Of Europe, Denmark will tax cows at €100 for each one.

From ReMix, an African man trying to bomb an Arab-owned restaurant in Solingen, Germany experiences premature detonation.  (I'm pretty sure that he now qualifies for a Darwin Award.)

From Balkan Insight, if you're in Zagreb, Croatia in 2026, you might be able to take a ride in a driverless taxi.

From The North Africa Post, AQIM leader Iyad Ag Ghali is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

From The New Arab, six critically ill children are allowed to leave Gaza.

From Arutz Sheva, high school students in London are told to "get out of the city, Jew" and then assaulted.

From The Times Of Israel, a rocket maker for the terror group Islamic Jihad who was killed in an Israeli drone strike was named as a staffer by Doctors Without Borders.

From Iran International, an Iranian dissident was targeted for assassination but escaped - in the Netherlands.

From Gatestone Institute, Jews no longer allow themselves to be victims without retribution, revenge or retaliation.

From The Stream, an Egyptian Coptic Bishop warns the West about Islam.

From The Daily Signal, leading Republican congresscritters vote to file an amicus brief in the case of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

From The American Conservative, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free, but the federal government's war on free speech keeps going.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Jamaal "Fire Alarm" Bowman (D-NY) reacts to his primary loss.

From BizPac Review, more on the aforementioned Supreme Court ruling.

From The Daily Wire, the guide for "inclusive language" for federal bureaucrats.

From the Daily Caller, two Romanian men "believed" to be illegal aliens allegedly dress up as ICE agents and threaten Hispanics with deportation.

From the New York Post, according to her husband, the U.K.'s Princess Anne is "recovering slowly" from her horse-related head injury.

From Breitbart, according to actress Drea de Matteo, formerly of The Sopranos, Hollywood is full of "quiet" Trump supporters and actors being paid to support Biden.

From Newsmax, Biden pardons possibly thousands of former military personnel convicted under a ban on gay sex, which was repealed in 2013.

And from SFGate, the government of San Francisco tries and so far fails to stop hot dog vendors outside of Oracle Park, where the Giants play.

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, according to a poll, Republican support for same-sex marriage has greatly decreased during the past two years.

From FrontpageMag, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's double standards.

From Townhall, the gag order imposed on former President Trump is partially lifted.

From The Washington Free Beacon, with help from Senator Socialism (I-VT) and congresscritter AOC (D-NY), congresscritter Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) campaigns in the South Bronx, which is not even in his district.

From the Washington Examiner, "I'm melting!"

From The Federalist, the corporate media vilify Judge Aileen Cannon for doing her job.

From American Thinker, an article from the Associated Press about infant mortality in Texas inspires science denial.

From MRCTV, many notable people celebrate the plea deal given to Australian journalist Julian Assange and his resulting freedom.

From NewsBusters, according to MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson, President Biden will have a "massive victory" if he can "remain upright" during his upcoming debate with Trump.

From Canada Free Press, Biden's contempt for American liberty is exposed by his smirk.

From TeleSUR, police officers from Kenya arrive in Haiti and generate controversy.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when it comes to Russia, one author would rather listen to former europarliamentcritter Nigel Farage than to former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From EuroNews, according to Slovak State Secretary of the Defence Ministry Igor Melicher, two officials of the previous government broke the law by donating MiG29 fighter jets to Ukraine.

From Voice Of Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron sparks outrage by talking about a possible "civil war".  (If you read French, read the story at Le Figaro.)

From ReMix, while visiting China, Polish President Andrzej Duda presents Chinese President Xi Jinping a proposal for ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, an Albanian appeals court upholds the vote-buying conviction of Himara mayor-elect Fredi Beleri, an ethnic Greek.

From The North Africa Post, the U.N. is urged to send international observers to monitor human rights in the Tindouf camps in Algeria.

From The New Arab, Hamas denies reports that its political bureau is relocating to Iraq.

From The Jerusalem Post, a 12-year-old rape victim was reportedly told to convert to Islam by her attackers.

From Arutz Sheva, a report from the terrorist rally outside a synagogue in Los Angeles.  (AS was experiencing some technical difficulties a while back, but the site is now working again.)

From Gatestone Institute, the White House worries about the upcoming speech by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

From The Stream, Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs releases a historical docudrama in time for Independence Day.

From The Daily Signal, according to his speechwriter, today's conservatives get some things wrong about President Ronald Reagan.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. has become even more like the old Soviet Union than conservative commentator Niall Ferguson thinks.

From The Western Journal, CNN offers an unconvincing statement after booting Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from the air.

From BizPac Review, comedian Adam Carolla decides to leave California, "pile of [bleep]" Governor Gavin Newsom (D).

From The Daily Wire, a new database tracks the "Bidenvasion crime wave".

From the Daily Caller, Biden aides are reportedly training him on how to "trigger" Trump during their debate.

From the New York Post, the House Oversight Committee demands that the group behind anti-Israel encampments reveals the source of its funding.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Nigel Farage wins the Television and Radio Industries Club's best news presenter award for the second straight year.

From Newsmax, as noted in an op-ed from The New York Times, not even one of the Fortune 100 CEOs has donated any money to Trump's campaign.

And from the Genesius Times, a Colorado-based illegal immigration advocate gets angry when someone cuts in line at a Starbucks.

Monday Links

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

From National Review, an anti-Israel mob attacks a Jewish woman near a synagogue in Los Angeles.

From FrontpageMag, be very afraid of California Governor Gavin Newsom (D).

From Townhall, CNN contributor Van Jones explains why the coalition created by then-President Obama is now falling apart.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration claims to have approved more oil drilling permits than the Trump administration did, but its own numbers say otherwise.

From the Washington Examiner, three things which Chicago is trying to address before the Democrats arrive for their convention.

From The Federalist, former President Trump's biggest debate opponent is not President Biden, but the media.

From American Thinker, in 24 hours, battery plants catch fire in South Korea and Scotland.

From MRCTV, over half of the Jesuit colleges in the U.S. promote "Pride Month".

From NewsBusters, watch out for shenanigans by CNN debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.

From Canada Free Press, what led to America's civil wars.

From TeleSUR, 20 Peruvian soldiers are investigated for allegedly trying to murder citizens at protests in 2022.

From TCW Defending Freedom, British politician Nigel Farage is punished for telling the truth about Ukraine.

From Snouts in the Trough, the lying and useless Tories will blame U.K. voters for their upcoming debacle.

From EuroNews, according to its foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the E.U. will bypass Hungary in sending €1.4 billion to Ukraine.

From Voice Of Europe, the E.U. adopts its 14th package of sanctions against Russia.  (I believe that I might have asked this before, and I'll probably ask it again.  When was the last time sanctions produced their intended result?)

From ReMix, Islamic terrorists destroy a church, a synagogue, and a police station in the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan.

From Balkan Insight, a mass grave is discovered near Vukovar, Croatia.

From The North Africa Post, could Casablanca, Morocco and Madrid, Spain be connected by undersea rail by 2030?

From The New Arab, huge piles of waste in Gaza could create a health crisis.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Iranian judiciary sentences five converts to Christianity to a total of 25 years in prison.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, six Jewish children are attacked after leaving a cinema in Levallois, France.  (If you read French, read the story at Valeurs Actuelles.)

From the Daily Mail, more on the terror attack in Dagestan.

From Gatestone Institute, Hezbollah is allegedly storing Iranian-made armaments at Rafic Hariri International airport, which is the main civilian airport for Beirut, Lebanon.

From The Stream, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) is right in that NATO should be disbanded, because it has turned into a suicide pact.

From The Daily Signal, according to Scientific American, parents who homeschool their children should undergo background checks.

From The American Conservative, the conviction of First Son Hunter Biden on gun-related charges is an act of misdirection.

From The Western Journal, CNN pulls Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt off the air for telling the truth about debate moderator Jake Tapper.

From BizPac Review, Foo Fighters singer/guitarist Dave Grohl takes a jab at singer Taylor Swift by telling her that his band actually plays live.

From the Daily Mail, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now retired from the federal government, still gets a taxpayer-funded security detail.  (via BizPac Review)

From The Daily Wire, here's where the pro-life movement stands on the second anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade.

From the Daily Caller, Fox News host Harris Faulkner corrects former congresscritter Patrick Murphy (D-PA) after he claimed that the coronavirus pandemic caused the inflation during Biden's term as president.  (When Biden took office on January 20, 2021 he inherited inflation of about 1.4 percent from Trump.  At that time, the pandemic had already been going on for a year.  This means that if the pandemic caused inflation, it should have already been high during 2020 when Trump as in office.)

From the New York Post, according to a study by Harvard University, housing costs are at all-time highs.

From Breitbart, legendary NCAA football coach Lou Holtz tells men to stay out of women's sports.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Biden leads Trump among young voters.

And from The Babylon Bee, Trump prepares for his debate with Biden by visiting a nursing home and arguing with dementia patients.

A Sasquatch's Dozen For Sunday

As the high temperatures continue but the clouds return, here are 12 things going on:

From The Jerusalem Post, two planes that were supposed to fly from Lithuania to either Sri Lanka or the Philippines instead land in Iran.

From Jewish News Syndicate, parts of the "humanitarian pier" built for bringing aid into Gaza wash up at a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man shouts "Allahu akbar" and beats up people in a church in Bourg-en-Bresse, France.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Progrès and FDeSouche.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian plan for "the day after" in Gaza was to kill more Jews and to wipe Israel off the map.

From The Stream, a review of the latest book from Victor Davis Hanson.

From The American Conservative, the war on terror, launched by then-President George Bush the Younger, has been hamstringing U.S. foreign policies ever since.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the unforgivably ignorance behind "net zero" policies.

From American Thinker, the fact-checking site Snopes finally gets around to fact-checking the "very fine people" false accusation against then-President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the late Senator (D-Min)/Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

From Townhall, why pro-abortion Democrats are trying to overhaul a 150-year-old law.

From the New York Post, an Arab family allegedly attacks a Jewish couple at an elementary school's fifth grade graduation ceremony in Brooklyn, New York.  (via National Review)

And from Voice Of Europe, the two Koreas might take sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Saturday Stuff

On a hot Saturday that might set a record high for its date, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the University of Southern California decides against disciplining a Jewish professor who criticized Hamas while walking past anti-Israel protesters.

From FrontpageMag, imposing an apparently permanent gag order against former President Trump, and could it be done to others?

From Townhall, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) insists that the U.S. "needs" illegal aliens.  (To be fair, he did not use the term "illegal aliens", but I use it because it's the truthful term for such people.  I can only wonder about the legal immigrants that we normally take in and why they can't fulfill whatever needs that Adams might be referring to.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Trump and President Biden will soon debate foreign policy.

From the Washington Examiner, Texas National Guard soldiers fire pepper balls to deter illegal migrants.

From American Thinker, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) attacks the lawfare against Trump and Biden's immigration policies.  (Yes, you read that right.  Cuomo is siding with Trump and against Biden on these two respective issues.)

From NewsBusters, billionaire Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but left-wing activists won't let him run it the way he sees fit.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the global tyranny, from Darwin to Orwell.

From Snouts in the Trough, U.K. politician Nigel Farage (Reform) is again lambasted for telling the truth.

From The Times Of Israel, Palestinians workers in the West Bank are in despair after 8 months of not being able to go to work - in Israel.  (If Israel is oppressing the Palestinians, wouldn't providing jobs be a strange way to oppress them?  I though that oppressing people would involve denying them jobs.)

From The Jerusalem Post, for the second time in a week, an Israeli citizen is killed while entering Kalkilya, West Bank.  (The city's name can also be spelled "Qalqilya".)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran "drastically" speeds up its nuclear program, as the U.S. does nothing about it.

From The Stream, get rid of sanctuary laws.

From The Daily Signal, adversity leads to triumph for WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark.

From The American Conservative, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was right about the coronavirus.  (Paul is a licensed physician specializing in ophthalmology.)

From The Western Journal, according to a poll, Trump could win in a landslide.

And from the New York Post, when a cop gives you some advice, you might want to take it seriously.  (via BizPac Review)

Friday Fuss

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

From National Review, the Supreme Court rules that people accused of domestic abuse can be legally prevented from having guns.

From Frontpage, the reality behind the effort to "regulate" home schooling.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, President Biden's executive amnesty is "illegal, unjust and self-defeating".

From The Washington Free Beacon, independent voters are the key to the 2024 presidential election.

From the Washington Examiner, the Pentagon is sued over the deletion of the motto "duty, honor, country".

From The Federalist, the Supreme Court ruling that U.S. citizens do not have a constitutional right to bring their non-citizen spouses into the country looks bad for Biden's amnesty for illegal alien spouses.

From American Thinker, former President Trump's proposal for "no tax on tips" shows the great divide between left and right.

From MRCTV, Biden quietly allowed over a million illegal aliens into the U.S. by parole or app programs.  (If you want to illegally enter the U.S., there's an app for that.)

From NewsBusters, TV host Stephen Colbert objects to a study showing that male gun owners are not trying to compensate for anything.

From Canada Free Press, the Vatican summons Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to Rome over the alleged crime of schism.

From TeleSUR, heavy rains in Central America affect over 7,000 people.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Reform party is the only option for people of the U.K.

From Snouts in the Trough, the "stupid" U.K. Supreme Court will bring the country back to the stone age.

From EuroNews, could former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta be French President Emmanuel Marcon's secret weapon against current Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni?

From Voice Of Europe, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine and the E.U. are discussing the potential repatriation of Ukrainian men who illegally entered the E.U.  (Such men could be both military service dodgers and illegal aliens.)

From ReMix, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš pulls his europarliamentcritters out of the liberal Renew group.

From Balkan Insight, according to the E.U. Anti-Fraud Office, Albania misused €33 million.

From The North Africa Post, according to Finance Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui, Morocco plans to reduce its public debt to less than 70 percent of its GDP.

From The New Arab, Hamas laughs at the idea that Qatar would impose sanctions on them.

From Gatestone Institute, after California legalized marijuana, the Mexican cartels took it over.

From The Stream, don't you love paying off other people's student loans, with their gratitude going not to you but to the Big Guy?

From The Daily Signal, your share of the U.S. debt is now $100,000.

From The American Conservative, how congresscritter Byron Donalds's (R-FL) star has risen.

From The Western Journal, Democrats prepare an authoritarian crackdown for their convention in Chicago, and the locals will pay the price.

From BizPac Review, a dean at Harvard University doesn't want its leaders and policies to be criticized.

From The Daily Wire, how the doctor at the center of a Texas children's hospital scandal formed an alliance with transgender activists.

From the Daily Caller, one of the Just Stop Oil activists who vandalized Stonehenge claims that American men taunted the by chanting the word "oil".

From the New York Post, authorities remove a mysterious monolith from a mount range near Las Vegas, Nevada.

From Breitbart, a country songwriter and an 18-year-old singer combine to produce a pro-life anthem.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Scott Perry (R-PA) explains why Biden is losing support.

And from SFGate, according to its organizers, if you can make it through the Broken Arrow Skyrace near Lake Tahoe, "you're a rock star".  (In my opinion, you're also a badass.)

Links For The Summer Solstice

As the sun reaches its farthest point away from east and west, here are some things going on:

From National Review, our deficit disaster gets even worse.

From FrontpageMag, there are more police officers protecting the anti-police mayor of Chicago than protecting the people of Chicago.

From Townhall, the Department of Justice leaves out one inconvenient detail about the person who carried out the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Mexican drug cartel members harass Native Americans 40 miles from the Canadian border.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, Latino voters in swing states now trust former President Trump more than President Biden on immigration.

From The Federalist, "pride" parades are really humiliation rituals.

From American Thinker, the 2024 election is Trump's for the taking.....or is it?

From MRCTV, the Biden administration's $43 million plan to expand internet access has increased the number of internet users by (drum roll, please) zero.

From NewsBusters, seven federal agencies are exposed for pressuring "Big Tech" to censor Americans.

From Canada Free Press, the second largest bank in the U.S. allegedly targets pro-life advocates.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan presidential candidates agree to respect the results of the upcoming election.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. Parliament's "legion of the damned".

From EuroNews, soon-to-be-former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is set to become NATO's next Secretary General after garnering the support of Romania.

From Voice Of Europe, Poland takes action after its first death from fentanyl poisoning.

From ReMix, police arrive at birthday party in Cochem, Germany find that attendees who chanted "foreigners out, Germany for the Germans" were themselves foreigners.

From Balkan Insight, a bomb explosion in Cetinje, Montenegro takes the lives of two alleged drug gang members.  (It looks like wars between rival drug-pushing organizations aren't just for Mexicans any more.)

From The North Africa Post, King Mohammed VI urges the Moroccan government to use the results of the upcoming census as a structuring tool for national and local policies.

From The New Arab, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, forces from the Syrian government have detained 4,714 returning refugees.

From The Jerusalem Post, cholera breaks out in Somalia.

From Gatestone Institute, "do not buy from Jews" returns to Europe.

From The Stream, the Italian Supreme Court rules against a Reform Baptist church in Rome over the definition of "worship space".

From The Daily Signal, the effort by Democrats to subvert democracy.

From The American Conservative, the Biden administration does not have any definition of victory for Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, the Trump campaign reminds Vice President Harris of why she is disliked.

From BizPac Review, climate nutjobs make the stupid mistake of vandalizing private jets with paint.

From The Daily Wire, Biden orders federal agencies to signs all over the country which praise him.

From the Daily Caller, a judge is arrested at a night club in Atlanta for allegedly striking a police officer in the head.

From the New York Post, a 100-year-old woman who welded guns onto ships during World War II keeps fit with a "crazy" workout.

From Breitbart, prosecutor Nathan Wade is grilled over his relationship with Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Mike Turner (R-OH), Russia nukes deployed in space threaten the world.

And from BBC News, Canadian actor Donald Sunderland goes to the movie screen in the sky.

Stories For Juneteenth

On the newest official American holiday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, if President Biden wants voters to believe that we're not in a recession, he should act like we're not in a recession.

From FrontpageMag, teachers in Chicago demand $145,000 salaries even though 80 percent of their student can't do math.

From Townhall, a truck driver who allegedly caused a fatal crash in Colorado is an illegal alien who has been deported 16 times.  (Yes, you read that right.  He's been removed from the U.S. 16 times.  I've sometimes had the idea that when someone from Latin America is deported multiple times, each deportation should be to a place farther south than the previous one.  Hopefully, such a deportee will get it through his thick skull that he's not welcome here before we're dropping him off in Antarctica.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos, gives millions of dollars to a community fund with ties to the radical group behind the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.  (She should be not confused with Scott McKenzie, who sang the song San Francisco, written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.)

From the Washington Examiner, at the top of the worst-run city list is (drum roll, please), San Francisco.  (The city appears to have deteriorated since Scott McKenzie sang about it.)

From The Federalist, San Francisco Mayor London Breed seems to think that her top job is naming drag queens.  (Could this be part of the reason why San Francisco appears to have deteriorated?)

From American Thinker, a very important 1st Amendment case is in store for the Supreme Court.

From MRCTV, Republicans blast Democrats intending to include women if the draft is reinstated.  (Such a provision could be confusing, since many of us these days don't even know how to define "woman".)

From NewsBusters, according to Shark Tank cohost Kevin O'Leary, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has turned his state into a "version of Venezuela".

From Canada Free Press, the Connecticut Bar Association appears to misunderstand the 1st Amendment.

From TeleSUR, the Haitian army is on a war footing.

From TCW Defending Freedom, British politician Nigel Farage must target Labour Party leader Keir Starmer's "anti-Christian neo-Marxism".

From Snouts in the Trough, are the people of the U.K. being fleeced by pushers of high blood pressure pills?

From EuroNews, why Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni (Italy), Viktor Orbán (Hungary), and Petr Fiala (Czech Republic) are angry about how the E.U.'s top jobs are allocated.

From ReMix, did Meloni betray Orbán by rejecting his Fidesz party joining the ECR group in the European Parliament?  (If you read Italian, read the story at Corriere della Sera.)

From The North Africa Post, spillover from the conflict in Sudan complicates security concerns in Chad and the Central African Republic.

From The New Arab, according to an investigation, the National Union of Syrian Students is guilty of war crimes including the targeting of pro-democracy students.

From The Times Of Israel, aid deliveries in Gaza are hampered by cigarette smuggling.

From BBC News, an Israeli hostage released by Hamas no longer believes in peace.

From the Daily Mail, at least 550 pilgrims have died while on the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

From Gatestone Institute, while jihadists brutalize non-Muslim women, Western feminists go Sergeant Schultz.

From The Stream, Camp Stanton in Maryland, where black troops trained to fight as Union soldiers.

From The Daily Signal, Louisiana expands educational choice to everyone.

From The American Conservative, what kind of conservative will once-and-maybe-future President Trump be?

From The Western Journal, Trump takes off the gloves and (figuratively) swings at former Speaker and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-Wis), now a Fox News board member.

From BizPac Review, Trump congratulates U.S. open winner Bryson DeChambeau, who chugs a "Trump pour" with former First Son Eric Trump.

From The Daily Wire, inside the struggle to keep graphic material away from children in a very red state.

From the Daily Caller, the Biden administration finalizes its rules for governing subsidies in its climate bill, which is seen as a major victory for labor unions.

From Breitbart, three teenagers are arrested for the alleged anti-semitism-inspired rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Courbevoie, France.

From Newsmax, the Chief Twit's xAI startup is building a supercomputer.

And from the New York Post, a group of people in the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen rescue a cat from an abandoned delicatessen.

Willie Mays 1931-2024

Willie Mays, who played 23 seasons in Major League baseball and was nicknamed the "Say Hey Kid", died yesterday at age 93 of heart failure at a care home in Palo Alto, California.  He was baseball's oldest living Hall of Famer.

William Howard Mays Jr. was born in Westfield, Alabama to William Howard Mays Sr. and Annie Satterwhite, who never married.  Mays Sr., nicknamed "Cat", was himself a talented baseball player who worked as a railroad porter and later in steel mills.  Satterwhite was a high school basketball player and track athlete.  Willie played baseball, football and basketball in high school.

In 1948, Mays started playing professional baseball with the Negro minor league team the Chattanooga  Choo-Choos and later joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League.  The latter team lost the 1948 Negro World Series to the Homestead Grays.  He did not graduate high school until 1950, after which he was signed by the New York Giants, which assigned him to the Class B Trenton Giants of the Interstate League.  In 1951, he as promoted to the Class Triple-A Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, and later to the Major League team in New York, where he played well enough to earn the 1951 National League Rookie of the Year.

Mays was drafted by the U.S. Army and played for the Giants during only the first few weeks of the 1952 season.  He returned after being discharged in March of 1954.  While stationed at Fort Eustis in Virginia, he learned the basket catch from teammate Al Fortunato.  The Giants won the N.L. Pennant and World Series in 1954, with Mays being selected the league's Most Valuable Player.  During the World Series, he made his famous over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Vic Wertz of the Cleveland Indians.  He would go on to be selected to play in 24 All-Star Games, and win his second N.L. MVP award in 1965.  His career totals included 660 home runs, 1909 runs batted in, and 339 stolen bases.

In 1958, the Giants moved to San Francisco, played at Seals Stadium for two years, and later at Candlestick Park.  During April of the 1961 season, Mays hit four home runs in a single game.  While mostly a center fielder, he played 48 games at first base in 1971.  Early during the 1972 season, he was traded to the New York Mets, where he played part-time at both positions before retiring as a player in 1973.

Mays stayed in the Mets organization as a hitting instructor until the end of the 1979 season.  Later that year, he took a job as a greeter at a gambling casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he was joined by former New York Yankees player Mickey Mantle.  They were both suspended from baseball, but reinstated in 1985.  The next year, Mays rejoined the Giants organization.  Both the Mets and the Giants have retired his number 24.

Mays was married to Marguerite Wendell Chapman from 1956 to 1963.  They adopted a baby boy in 1959.  He married Mae Louise Allen in 1971, their marriage lasting until her death in 2013.  He was the godfather of Barry Bonds, whose father Bobby Bonds had been his Giants teammate.

On a personal note, yours truly went to see the Giants play against the Atlanta Braves at Atlanta in 1971.  This means that I got to watch Willie Mays, Bobby Bonds, Hank Aaron, and their respective teammates.

Read more at MLB(dot)com, ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Bay Area and the New York Post.

A Few Late Things For Tuesday

As I return home after a busy Tuesday, here are a few things going on:

From FrontpageMag, how the conflict in Gaza could end.

From Townhall, President Biden has another brain fart while announcing an amnesty plan for illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) claims to be "standing up to big pharma" while leading the Senate in receiving cash from that industry.

From The Federalist, six more state block Biden's "egregious" rewrite of Title IX.

From American Thinker, Israel is the only country of whom "proportionality" is expected.

From NewsBusters, PBS cheers the on-campus pro-HamasPalestinian protests.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the myth of Europe's "far right surge".

From TheSun, at least 138 pilgrims from Indonesia die while attending the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

From The Jerusalem Post, a London security organization shares footage of an alleged attempt to kidnap Jewish children.

From Gatestone Institute, Israel gave work permits to Palestinians, while Palestinians planned the October 7th massacre.

From The Stream, some insights from a former radical Muslim, who is now a devout Jew.

From The Daily Signal, more on Biden's amnesty plan for illegal aliens.

From The American Conservative, NATO and Russia must make a nuclear deal.

And from Billboard, happy birthday to the musician known as Sir Paul.  (We should celebrate with the appropriate song.)