I'm taking a break from my travelogue to return to normal blogging. On a cool and partly sunny Tuesday that falls on the anniversary of D-Day, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Russia's invasion of Ukraine brings on a dam catastrophe.
From FrontpageMag, Germany gives citizenship to a record number of Syrians.
From Townhall, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) narrows former President Trump's lead in Iowa.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Dr. Fauci and his agency had differing opinions about scientists in Wuhan, China.
From the Washington Examiner, an Arkansas judge orders First Son Hunter Biden to appear in court.
From The Federalist, the most important question for the 2024 Republican candidates for president.
From American Thinker, one of Lia Thomas's UPenn teammates speaks up.
From MRCTV, the California Senate approves $300-per-week unemployment checks to people who shouldn't even be in California.
From NewsBusters, a PBS correspondent decries pastors in Taylor, Texas banning drag queens from their Christmas parade.
From Canada Free Press, today is the 79th anniversary of the allied landings in Normandy. (Although the article uses the term "invasion", the French like to call the D-Day landings the débarquement, a very different term. See this blog's archives for May 2014 to see my own visit to the area.)
From TeleSUR, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero arrives in Russia.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the backlash against woke business grows.
From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blames "Russian terrorists" for the aforementioned dam catastrophe.
From Balkan Insight, Bulgaria's new governing coalition takes power.
From The North Africa Post, for the first time ever, Israeli troops participate in the African Lion military games hosted by Morocco.
From The New Arab, Kuwait holds parliamentary elections today.
From Gatestone Institute, the Chinese space program is designed to defeat the U.S.
From The Stream, a high school senior in Kellogg, Idaho is barred from his class's graduation ceremony for stating some obvious facts.
From The Daily Signal, Chik-fil-A has been woke for a long time before anyone realized it.
From The American Conservative, why would three teenage refugees from Myanmar kill and eat a park swan in New York state?
From The Western Journal, an ad campaign by President Biden brags that he barely managed to do what is expected of every president.
From BizPac Review, an influencer on Twitter claims to have "inside info" on former Vice President Pence, who is now running for president.
From The Daily Wire, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) makes a prediction about Attorney General Merrick Garland.
From the Daily Caller, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) files the papers to run for president.
From The Palm Beach Post, golf legend Jack Nicklaus approves of the merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. (via the New York Post)
From the New York Post, PGA players Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm are probably not happy about the merger with LIV.
From Breitbart, Republicans in the California state legislature walk out of a ceremony "honoring" a member of an anti-Catholic drag queen group.
From Newsmax, more on the merger between the PGA and LIV.
And from The Babylon Bee, the clothing store Lululemon fires employees who did not offer looters bags for their stolen merchandise nor offered to help load the stuff into their getaway cars.
On a cool (about 10 degrees cooler than at my Maryland residence) and cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, we have a part-time president.
From Townhall, how President Biden's border crisis contributed to another in-custody migrant death.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about Paul McCartney, during the breakup of the Beatles and his early solo years.
From the Washington Examiner, the Biden administration loves electric vehicles, but only in theory.
From American Thinker, in the debt ceiling deal, the swamp was saved.
From NewsBusters, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd decides to call it a day.
From Canada Free Press, former FBI Director James Comey disses the report from Special Counsel John Durham.
From TCW Defending Freedom, the connection between British statesman Winston Churchill and Trinity Sunday.
From EuroNews, what is Poland's new "Russian influence law" really about?
From The North Africa Post, Burkina Faso reportedly tops the list of seven African countries with the "most neglected displacement crises".
From The New Arab, RSF personnel kill 55 people and burn homes in Al-Humaira, Sudan.
From Gatestone Institute, "heroic flexibility" returns to Iran.
From The Stream, abortion is also a men's issue.
From The Daily Signal, emerging evidence strengthens a defamation lawsuit against the SPLC.
From The Western Journal, podcaster Megyn Kelly tears up and promises to stop using preferred pronouns.
From BizPac Review, the Chief Twit updates his bio on Twitter with his new personal pronouns.
From The Daily Wire, the Matt Walsh documentary What is a Woman? hits the number one spot on Rotten Tomatoes for streaming documentaries.
From the Daily Caller, two inconvenient truths about transgenderism.
From Breitbart, Prime Minister Netanyahu demands answers after an Egyptian policeman allegedly enters Israel through an emergency gate and kills three Israeli soldiers.
From Newsmax, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is not persuaded that the debt ceiling deal will control future spending.
And from the New York Post, two women in England launch a business that lends out emotional support sheep.
Earlier today, I arrived at an undisclosed location in West Virginia. Now that I've unpacked and settled in, here are some things going on:
From National Review, after taking the stage at a Paramore concert in Washington, D.C., congresscritter Maxwell Frost (D-FL) yells out "[bleep] Ron DeSantis!", referring to Florida's governor (R).
From Townhall, 18 states sue President Biden as his open border policies allow in illegal aliens to enter using a phone app.
From The Washington Free Beacon and the "what could go wrong?" department, the State Department launches an effort to fight climate change and teach gender studies - in Iraq.
From the Washington Examiner, Biden signs the debt ceiling deal.
From The Federalist, those who committed coronavirus pandemic sins should not be offered forgiveness until they repent.
From American Thinker, what do you do when the LGBT people get coercive?
From NewsBusters, in the 34 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, the stupidest media quotes about communist China.
From Canada Free Press, "being good at predictions" and trying to make them come true.
From TCW Defending Freedom, a British traveler reaches "selfie-sufficiency".
From OpIndia, the government of the Indian state of Rajasthan razes the houses where Hindu refugees from Pakistan lived.
From Gatestone Institute, four countries have formed an "anti-Western nuclear club".
From The Stream, at a "pride" festival, a street preacher shows the proper way to show love to a gay man.
From The Daily Signal, the Chief Twit supports a girl who spoke out against a biological boy who used she same locker room as she did.
From The American Conservative, the left wants change, as long as someone else is doing the changing.
From The Western Journal, newly released footage from the Capitol riot shows what then-Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) did while leaving the building.
From BizPac Review, former President Trump urges Fox News to embrace MAGA and coins a new name for his supporters. (I remember back in 2016 or so when someone called Trump's supporters "trumpets". Due to my musical background, I liked the idea, even though the person suggesting this may have meant it in a derogatory manner. If you want to learn Trump's new term, you'll have to click on the link.)
From The Daily Wire, TDW host Matt Walsh shows the glaring media bias over his video What Is A Woman? in one Tweet.
From the Daily Caller, is Texas turning away from intermittent renewable energy?
From the New York Post, at a Bangladeshi restaurant in the New York borough of Queens, a man is shot in his backside.
From Breitbart, Senator (R-SC) and presidential candidate Tim Scott claims to be the "biggest threat to the radical left".
And from Sky News, when attending a horse race at the U.K.'s Epsom Downs, please stay the [bleep] off the track.
On a very warm and sunny Friday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the brazen corporate hypocrisy about gay rights and Uganda.
From FrontpageMag, dissecting (metaphorically, of course) former President Obama.
From Townhall, when merit no longer matters, there goes the American dream.
From The Washington Free Beacon, the secret to Speaker McCarthy's (R-Cal) success.
From the Washington Examiner, FBI Director Christopher Wray agrees to let high-ranking members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee to see a subpoenaed document relating to its investigation of the Biden family.
From The Federalist, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claims to have already seen the whistleblower-related document that the FBI has been hiding.
From American Thinker, debunking another false accusation that former President Trump possessed "classified" documents in violation of national security law.
From MRCTV, a U.S. Air Force base cancels a drag show after congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) demands answers.
From NewsBusters, don't trust the pundits who hate conservatives.
From Canada Free Press, a study agrees with the idea that woke leftists are psychopaths.
From TeleSUR, an Ecuadorian prosecutor is assassinated in the city of Quayaquil.
From TCW Defending Freedom, that air pollution problem which London Mayor Sadiq Khan is ignoring.
From Snouts in the Trough, why can't people in the U.K. get a doctor's appointment?
From Free West Media, an affair involving European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen takes a new turn.
From EuroNews, the latest news from the war in Ukraine.
From ReMix, Poland's economic growth is not only the best in Europe, but also exceeds that of China. (If you read Polish, read the story at wPolityce.)
From Balkan Insight, how per diems given to paramilitaries prove the guilt of Serbian officials.
From The North Africa Post, Moroccan authorities apprehend a suspected ISIS operative in the city of Tangier.
From The New Arab, a group of Egyptian jurists and archaeologists want to sue Netflix for $2 billion over its portrayal of the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra as being black.
From OpIndia, India's National Investigation Agency recovers anti-India and anti-Hindu materials from arrested terror suspects.
From Gatestone Institute, how Sweden has become a gangster's paradise.
From The Stream, don't be deceived by the tolerance trick.
From The Daily Signal, after a judge compares Big Tech censorship to George Orwell's 1984, the Biden administration's answers on free speech prove him right.
From The American Conservatives, conservatives get "on Target".
From The Western Journal, President Biden has yet another unfortunate accident.
From BizPac Review, a judge recuses himself from a case involving Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and Walt Disney World.
From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro thanks the Chief Twit for keeping his free speech pledge after the documentary What is a Woman? is restored on Twitter.
From the Daily Caller, some companies appear to back down from the LGBT agenda during Pride Month.
From the New York Post, a man in New York City is busted for allegedly helping to run a "pill mill".
From Breitbart, Chinese people keep on showing their dissent.
From Newsmax, the Department of Justice declines to prosecute former Vice President Pence over classified documents found in his home.
And from SFGate, former baseball player Steve Garvey (R) might run for Senator in California.
As the warm sunny weather continues on a Thursday at the start of June, here are some things going on:
From National Review, even with the debt ceiling deal, the U.S. faces $18 trillion more debt over the next decade.
From FrontpageMag, why left-wingers should not be referred to as "progressives".
From Townhall, why First Son Hunter Biden's lawyers claim that buying a gun while using she-don't-lie shouldn't be regarded as a crime.
From The Washington Free Beacon, although Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) just notched a victory, the media still claims that his speakership is in peril.
From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter Mike Turner (R-OH), then-candidate Joe Biden "lied to the American public" about his son Hunter's laptop. (For any organic chemists out there, "(R-OH)" means "(Republican-Ohio)" and in this case is not the formula for an alcohol.)
From The Federalist, the campaign to destroy the Supreme Court is getting even stupider.
From American Thinker, five questions for prospective Republican presidential candidates.
From MRCTV, according to an article in the New Yorker, we should beware of "Latino White Supremacy".
From NewsBusters, ABC correspondent Erielle Reshef refuses to recognize the tie between organized retail theft to soft-on-crime district attorneys.
From Canada Free Press, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, reality rolls in "like a freight train".
From TeleSUR, Peruvian refinery workers protest against labor abuses by the oil company REPSOL.
From TCW Defending Freedom, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's pension fantasy is "mad, bad and dangerous".
From EuroNews, Croatian President Zoran Milanović likens the slogan "Slava Ukraini" to a Nazi salute.
From ReMix, according to a report, Russia provided €82 million to environmental lobbyists in an effort to stop European countries from fracking. (I vaguely remember reading something a few years back about Russia protesting or backing a protest against American fracking, even while Russia was fracking in its own domestic oil and gas reserves.)
From Balkan Insight, a court in Pristina, Kosovo remands two Serbian citizens in custody for allegedly entering Kosovo with knives and explosives.
From The North Africa Post, people living in the Tindouf camps are getting angry at and protesting against the leaders of the separatist group Polisario.
From The New Arab, Algeria has removed 8 million landmines since 2004.
From Gatestone Institute, the Chinese Communist Party is the world's largest and most dangerous transnational criminal organization.
From The Stream, Chik-fil-A's going woke signals the larger problem of DEI in American corporate business.
From The Daily Signal, according to Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Americans cannot afford to give President Biden an unlimited credit card.
From The American Conservative, the architecture of our federal buildings has been controlled by destroyers.
From The Western Journal, the woman who accused President Biden of sexually assaulting her when he was a Senator (D-Del) has defected to Russia. (Will she give our regards to Edward Snowden?)
From Fox News, a federal judge temporarily blocks Biden's pistol brace rule. (via The Western Journal)
From BizPac Review, almost 10,000 pictures from the aforementioned Hunter Biden's laptop have hit the Interwebz. (To clear up any confusion, Hunter Biden was indeed mentioned above, but his laptop wasn't.)
From The Daily Wire, after the cancellation of the streaming of the video What Is A Woman? on Twitter, the Chief Twit rolls out the "mistakes were made" excuse.
From the Daily Caller, the Supreme Court rules 8-1 against union bosses seeking immunity from property damage caused by striking workers.
From Breitbart, retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady claims that rumors of another return to the playing field are greatly exaggerated.
From Newsmax, according to Senator James Lankford (R-OK), there has been no "improvement" at the border with Mexico.
And from the New York Post, Brandon falls again.
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Today is the start of Pride Month. As with the last two years, I'm wondering when the other six Deadly Sins will be celebrated.
