Monday, August 22, 2022

Monday Mania

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

From National Review and the "good riddance" department, Dr. Fauci decides that he has had enough for one lifetime.

From FrontpageMag, a congressional report exposes President Biden's lies about Afghanistan.

From Townhall, what everyone is apparently missing about the primary defeat of congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY).

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senatorial candidate Mandela Barnes (D-Wis) talks up his support for Israel while campaigning, but doesn't mention his recent membership in a vocal anti-Israel group.

From the Washington Examiner, a man acquitted in connection to a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) speaks out.

From The Federalist, former Vice President Pence is wrong to suggest that the Republicans should not criticize the FBI, because it is saturated with political bias.

From American Thinker, former President Trump has become a dynasty slayer.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Tony Gonzales (R-TX), when you open up the migrant centers, the community loses.

From LifeZette, the aforementioned Liz Cheney prepares to fight election deniers in order to save democracy.  (I know that election deniers can be a pain you know where, but enough about Hillary Clinton and Stacy Abrams.)

From NewsBusters, retired NBA player Dwayne Wade asks a court to declare that his son is really his daughter.

From Canada Free Press, with Republican leaders like Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who needs enemies?

From CBC News, according to a survey, 56 percent of Canadians say that they can't keep up with the cost of living.

From Global News, Canadians pay to write messages on Ukrainian rockets and artillery shells.

From CTV News, Canadians produce "stunning images" of the aurora borealis.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian president candidate Lula da Silva promises to end allegedly illegal mining in the Amazon region.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Royal Air Force pauses the recruitment of white people.

From the Express, a noted World War II-era truck mechanic shows her love for horses.

From the Evening Standard, flights into London's Heathrow Airport are going to become scarcer.

From the (U.K.) Independent, swimmers at two seaside lakes in the district of North Somerset in the English county of Somerset warn of being stung by sea lice or possibly jellyfish larvae.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish air travelers made almost 600 complaints in the first half of 2022 about delays, cancellations, or being denied boarding.

From the Irish Examiner, how the Cork Examiner covered the death of Irish General Michael Collins 100 years ago.  (Collins was a member of the Irish Dáil and Irish Republican Army's director of intelligence.  He helped negotiate a treaty under which Ireland was given dominion status within the British Commonwealth, and was killed by insurgents from a republican faction which opposed the treaty.)

From VRT NWS, the price of electricity in Belgium reaches a new high.

From The Brussels Times, according to Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, "the next five to ten winters will be difficult".

From the NL Times, according to a report over 40 percent of Ukrainian refugees in Belgium are employed.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at BNR.)

From Dutch News, a flight from Eindhoven, Netherlands to Budapest, Hungary is abandoned on takeoff after a collision with a bird causes two of the plane's tires to burst.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at Omroep Brabant.)

From Deutsche Welle, the German government denies a claim from Poland that it had spread "fake news" about fish deaths in the Elbe River.

From the CPH Post, Denmark reports its first female case of monkeypox.

From Polskie Radio, ethnic Poles from east European countries celebrate their roots at a cultural festival in Mrągowo, Poland.

From Radio Prague, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala asks his country's ambassadors to look for opportunities in the energy sector.

From The Slovak Spectator, the agency Fitch revises its rating of Slovakia due to its unclear energy future.

From Daily News Hungary, a Slovak man is charged with using a fake Hungarian license plate in Nagykanizsa, Hungary to qualify for a capped fuel price.

From Hungary Today, the migration situation at the border between Hungary and Serbia is deteriorating quickly.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian House Speaker László Kövér, countries in the Carpathian Basin need to cooperate more closely.

From Free West Media, migrants seeking to enter Europe converge on Greece, Spain's Canary Islands, and the Italian island of Lampedusa.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian border guards allegedly stamp a Russian man's passport with the statement "Russian warship, go [bleep] yourself".

From Euractiv, as imports of natural gas from the U.S. to Europe increase, so do concerns about its environmental impact.

From ReMix, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, 48 percent of criminal acts in Paris, 55 percent of crimes in Marseille and 39 percent of crimes in Lyon are committed by foreigners.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian authorities investigate two Russians and a Ukrainian arrested after they entered an arms factory in the city of Gramsh.

From The North Africa Post, Algerian expatriates urge French President Emmanuel Macron to raise the issue of human rights when he visits Algiers.

From The New Arab, according to "a high-level security source", a string of fires at Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt is believed to be from "foul play".

From The West Australian, one of the men who robbed reality star Kim Kardashian of her jewelry in Paris blames the victim.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden drops more crucial demands to get a nuclear deal with Iran.

From Human Events, according to an opinion column, the attempt to join a sorority at the University of Alabama by a man who identifies as a woman highlights the trend of males infiltrating female spaces.

From Sino Daily, Governor Eric Holcomb (R) of the U.S. state of Indiana visits Taiwan after China's nearby military drills.

From Space War, what's next, now that there's been a war in Ukraine for six months?

From The American Conservative, Brothers of Italy party leader Giorgia Meloni commits the crime of noticing when an African migrant allegedly rapes a Ukrainian refugee.

From The Daily Signal, the coronavirus crisis offered excellent lessons about the advantages of federalism.

From The Western Journal, according to Energy Secretary Jennifer Grantholm, poor and middle class people can beat inflation if they buy solar panels.

From BizPac Review, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocks Democratic mayors for their complaints about illegal migrants being bused to their cities.

From The Daily Wire, the Florida judge who greenlit the FBI raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago writes an order explaining his rules for releasing parts of the related affidavit.

From the Daily Caller, according to the Associated Press, ships, storms and nations should be "it" instead of "she".

From the New York Post, the three Arkansas police officers involved in a violent arrest caught on video have been identified.

From Breitbart, according to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Dr. Fauci's aforementioned retirement will not stop a "full-throated investigation" of the origins of the coronavirus.

From Newsmax, according to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, it's time to end the freeze on student loan payments.

And from The Babylon Bee, learning that Dr. Fauci will retire and have more time on his hands, millions of beagles run for cover.

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Rainday Links

On a Sunday that turned rainy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a school in New Jersey named after Thomas Jefferson decides to rename itself.

From Townhall, a billboard in New York City shows President Biden's nose growing.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about racial classification.

From the Washington Examiner, U.S. companies are reportedly bringing back a record amount of jobs back to the U.S.

From American Thinker, we need grandmothers.

From Red Voice Media, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood brags about their contributions to pro-abortion politicians in the midterms.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, ABC host Jonathan Karl compares lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) to President Teddy Roosevelt.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the evil "queering" of St. Joan of Arc.

From Snouts in the Trough, civilization is not an upwards trajectory, but a life cycle.

From Free West Media, the Austrian party FPÖ demands a speedy referendum on sanctions against Russia.

From EuroNews, Albanian authorities arrest four Czechs, two Russians and a Ukrainian for alleged espionage.

From The North Africa Post, Marrakech, Morocco hill host the 13th Africa Public-Private Partnership conference this coming October.

From The New Arab, four bodies are pulled from the rubble of a Shiite shrine in Karbala, Iraq.

From OpIndia, Muslim youths allegedly molest girls during Dahi Handi events in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India and then drag boys and assaulted them when confronted about it.  (Dahi Handi is an entertainment and competitive event associated with the Hindu festival of the birth of Krishna.)

From Jewish News Syndicate, suspected Palestinian terrorists fire on an Israeli bus in the West Bank after three Arab women are arrested while in possession of a submachine gun.

From The Times Of India, two imams are arrested in Goalpara, Assam, India are arrested for alleged involvement with the terror group Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.

From Gatestone Institute, the fatwa against author Salman Rushdie is winning.

From The Stream, the Democrats will be (figuratively) killed by their own hopes.

From The Daily Signal, the "Inflation Reduction Act" will barely scratch the surface of global warming.

From The Western Journal, after Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) caves in to support the "Inflation Reduction Act", his party betrays him.

From BizPac Review, according to a poll, 62 percent of Democrats in college do not want a Trump-supporting roommate.

From The Daily Wire, Los Angeles County, California offers free coronavirus tests for pets.

From NBC News, NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman claims to have plans to travel to Russia to seek the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, military families pay for President Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From Breitbart, Ohio state Senator Matt Dolan (R) pushes a bill to require gun buyers under 21 to get a co-signer at least 25 years old.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) calls Governor Greg Abbott's (R-TX) busing of illegal migrants to New York City "a move of desperation", which is precisely why he supports it.

And from the New York Post, an old news clipping helps a cancer patient help prove that he was present at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and thus to receive benefits.

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Saturday Strolls And Stuff

Once again, I have returned from walking through a forest like good Sasquatches are supposed to, and with the weather again warm and sunny, here are some things going on:

From National Review, inflation hits chicken wings, eggs, and Japanese pizza.

From Townhall, President Biden reportedly plans to use taxpayer money to for Amtrak to send illegal aliens from the border into American towns.  (Where Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) uses buses, Biden will allegedly use trains.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Sean Casten (D-IL) touts the green energy spending in the "Inflation Reduction Act", which might make him somewhat richer.

From the Washington Examiner, school districts have no business using racist and discriminatory methods of hiring and laying off personnel.

From The Federalist, the organization Citizens United sue the Biden administration for allegedly failing to comply with FOIA requests about the White House's attempt to federalize elections.

From American Thinker, New York Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) compelled speech bill creates a slippery slope.

From LifeZette, the "failed doomsayers" keep getting it wrong.

From Red Voice Media, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano (R) says that he would model his leadership style after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).  (The story links to one in The Epoch Times, to which you'll have to register if you want to keep reading, and comes via LifeZette.)

From NewsBusters, a flashback to 2016, when "comedian" Stephen Colbert had a meltdown over candidate Trump's presidential election victory over Hillary Clinton.

From Canada Free Press, there's a revolution going on.

From TeleSUR, another massacre takes place in Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when it comes to nailing the idiocies and insanities of government policies, there's no one like Mark Steyn.

From Snouts in the Trough, is there any intelligent life left in the U.K.'s universities?

From Free West Media, is the U.S. military stealing oil from Syria?

From EuroNews, have the "partygate" videos of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin helped her or hurt her?

From The North Africa Post, a Jewish memory museum is inaugurated in Tangier, Morocco.

From The New Arab, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has yet to clarify whether his party will participate in talks intended to end Iraq's political stalemate.

From ABC News, terrorists storm a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia and kill at least 20 people.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration's appeasement of Iran's mullahs risks American lives.

From The Stream, the U.S. has "gender exceptionalism".

From The American Conservative, "the year of the Taliban".

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Greg Gutfeld dismantles left-wing commentator Geraldo Rivera's attempt to shame Wyoming voters for kicking Liz Cheney (R) out of congress.

From BizPac Review, parents celebrate as an all-girl school in Nashville, Tennessee pauses its controversial transgender policy.

From The Daily Wire, spend $1,000 on green energy and you'll get a $300 tax credit.

From the Daily Caller, the January 6th Inquisition Committee may have hired a consultant who as a major conflict of interest.

From the New York Post, Ukraine makes fun of Russia with a "parade" of tanks and trucks in the capital city of Kyiv.

From Breitbart, the Chinese government issues its first national drought alert of 2022 and order officials to "produce artificial rainfall".

From Newsmax, Indiana Republicans choose Rudy Yakim to run for the recently departed Jackie Walorski's House seat.

And from The Sun, a man renovating a house in Birmingham, England finds a time capsule left by previous owners.  (via the New York Post)

Friday, August 19, 2022

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the remarkable apathy about corruption in the Biden family.

From FrontpageMag, bird choppers are bad for the environment.

From Townhall, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch torches alleged law violations cited by the FBI cited to justify the raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Harvard professor was convicted in the press of sexual misconduct, but not not in court.

From the Washington Examiner, a member of the ISIS "Beatles" gets a life sentence for killing four Americans.  (The ISIS "Beatles" are four British-born terrorists.  Whether any of them can carry a tune, even in a suitcase, is not commonly known.)

From The Federalist, a laundry list of FBI corruption.

From American Thinker, lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) could still get her revenge.

From CNS News, according to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, 98 percent of monkeypox cases in the U.S. are occurring in men.

From LifeZette, the left now openly approves of media and Big Tech misinformation if it helps their narrative.

From NewsBusters, pro-abortion vandals attack a pro-life pregnancy center in Massachusetts.

From Canada Free Press, a parent in California sues her local school district over transgender indoctrination.

From TeleSUR, over 100,000 Brazilians attend a rally by former President Lula da Silva in the city of Belo Horizonte.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Great Barrier Reef refuses to play the climate fearmongering game.

From Free West Media, aid from European countries to Ukraine fell to almost zero in July.

From EuroNews, the Russian company Gazprom suspends its gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for three days for "maintenance".

From Euractiv, Serbia and Kosovo fail to resolve their dispute over car license plate numbers.

From ReMix, the completion of the Vistula Spit canal deals a heavy blow to the "impossibilism" of the Polish opposition.  (Although I would like to learn more Polish vocabulary, I don't particularly want to learn the Polish word for "impossibilism".)

From Balkan Insight, an Albanian police officer is investigated for allegedly insulting journalists.  (If insulting journalists were a crime in the U.S., 99.99 percent of us would be in jail.)

From The North Africa Post, Libyan Public Prosecutor Siddiq Al-Sur announces the discovery of 3,329 forged voter registration cards.  (But, but, voter fraud never happens....)

From The New Arab, 14 people are killed and 35 others injured when a rocket hits a marketplace in al-Bab, Syria.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Somali man stabs a German retiree to death, and authorities prevent the victim from being commemorated.  (If you read German, read the story at Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung.)

From Gatestone Institute, China's interest in U.S. agriculture is a security threat.

From The Stream, three ways in which an article in The Atlantic is wrong about the rosary.

From Space War, North Korea rejects South Korea's offer of economic aid as the "height of absurdity".

From The Daily Signal, how younger Americans are dealing with rising prices.

From The American Conservative, America could learn something from the U.K.'s Citizens Advice Bureaux.

From The Western Journal, for his remarks at the signing ceremony for the CHIPS act, President Biden gets four Pinocchios from The Washington Post.

From BizPac Review, TV host Don Lemon still can't believe the support which former President Trump has.

From The Daily Wire, a military base in Virginia housing Afghan refugees becomes covered in solid waste.

From the Daily Caller, three men are charged in the beating death of mob boss James "Whitey" Bolger in the Hazelton Penitentiary in West Virginia.

From the New York Post, backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor (from Virginia Tech) keeps proving his value to the New York Giants.

From Breitbart, Texas authorities crowd the bank of the Rio Grande near the city of Eagle Pass to block illegal migrants.

From Newsmax, the Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin school district upholds a ban on displaying political and religious materials.

And from News(dot)com(dot)au, in Maaroom, Queensland, Australia, the kangaroos come home to roost big time.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, in their effort to take the Senate, will Republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

From FrontpageMag, President Biden exploits the murder of Muslims to play identity politics.

From Townhall, CNN cancels Reliable Sources and fires its host Brian Stelter.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Hunter Biden helped a Chinese Communist Party front group gain a foothold in the U.S. when his father was vice president.

From the Washington Examiner, police have arrested a man in connection with a burglary and vandalism at a Catholic school in Washington, D.C.

From The Federalist, some vulnerable Democrats won't say if they support unrestricted abortion, but have backed it in the past.

From American Thinker, believe it or not, WNBA player Brittney Griner, now incarcerated in Russia, is a victim of the BLM movement.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Kat Cammack (R-FL), leftists "rename everything".

From LifeZette, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admits that her agency failed on the coronavirus.

From Red Voice Media, Border Patrol agents open a gate on private land in Texas to allow a group of illegal aliens into the U.S.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Seth Dillon of The Babylon Bee defends his pro-life worldview on the Joe Rogan Experience.

From Canada Free Press, can Biden get away with denying that there's an invasion going on?

From TeleSUR, the Uruguayan government evicts student protesters at 10 schools.

From TCW Defending Freedom, another U.K. health secretary ignores the facts about damage from coronavirus vaccines.

From Free West Media, the German Bundeswehr is reorganized to increase its focus on police tasks.

From EuroNews, the closed Starbucks in Moscow is replaced by a nearly identical coffee shop.

From Euractiv, German state agricultural ministers will allow production of crops on fallow land due to the war in Ukraine.

From ReMix, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the E.U. is not a democracy but an oligarchy dominated by France and Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian and Kosovo leaders "make no progress" at a meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

From The North Africa Post, the U.K. decides to cut its import taxes on 99 percent of goods from Africa.

From The New Arab, 38 people have died in forest fires in Algeria.

From NDTV, an explosion kills 21 people and injures 33 others at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From Sahara Reporters, the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is surprised that he survived the attack.

From OpIndia, a Muslim cleric in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl under the pretext of performing an exorcism on her.

From Jewish News Syndicate, a German security officer is detained for allegedly giving a Nazi salute in front of a group of Israeli athletes visiting a memorial to the 1972 Olympics massacre.  (The last four links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the status of the war on terror.

From The Stream, the hearing about whether the FBI must release the affidavit used to get the warrant to raid former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago is today.

From The Daily Signal, the "Inflation Reduction Act" is a problem, not a solution.

From The American Conservative, left-wing dark money groups push for vote-by-mail.

From The Western Journal, more on the Border Patrol opening a gate in Texas to allow illegal aliens to enter the U.S.

From BizPac Review, former FBI agent Peter Strzok keeps trying to keep the Russian collusion myth alive.

From The Daily Wire, flying during the upcoming Labor Day weekend is gonna cost ya more this year.

From NBC New York, a federal judge order the Department Of Justice to release portions of the affidavit used to get the warrant for the FBI to search at Mar-a-Lago.  (via The Daily Wire)

From CNBC, Russia offers a million rubles to any woman who gives birth to 10 kids.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, the U.S. and Taiwan agree to start formal trade talks.

From the New York Post, on social media, Papa John's new crustless pizza goes over like a lead balloon.

From Breitbart, Trump maintains a commanding lead in a hypothetical Republican primary.

From Newsmax, high-level talks in Lviv, Ukraine between Presidents Zelenskyy (Ukraine) and Erdoğan (Turkey) reportedly yield little progress.

From The Guardian, if you climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, you can show your ascent on social media.  (via the New York Post)

From News(dot)com(dot)au, a meteor crater left by a "cousin" of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs is found in Africa.  (via the New York Post)

And from The Times Of India, a man in Mahevaganj, Uttar Pradesh, India allegedly tries to rape a 14-year-old girl and then gets bobbited by her mother.  (This is not the same story reported by OpIndia above.  Once again, it comes via the New York Post.)

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

On a warm cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Vice President Pence says that he'd "consider" testifying before the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From FrontpageMag, why the left is hysterical over the SCOTUS decisions in Dobbs v. Jackson and Kennedy v. Bremerton.

From Townhall, according to a poll, most people in New Hampshire are ready to ditch Senator Maggie Hassan (D).

From The Washington Free Beacon, "yes, we will question the integrity of our federal law enforcement officials".

From the Washington Examiner, jaguars seen in Mexico near the U.S. border could signal their return to the U.S.

From The Federalist, why Democrat claims that "no one is above the law" are hollow.

From American Thinker, the American justice system has gone Beria.

From CNS News, a TV ad contrasts the response (or lack thereof) to attacks on churches from Presidents Kennedy and Biden.

From LifeZette, lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) compares herself to President Lincoln and trashes former President Trump after losing her primary.

From NewsBusters, CNN pundits admit who Cheney's base really is.

From Canada Free Press, how Trump flipped the script on the Great Reset.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador and China will sign a free trade agreement this year.

From TCW Defending Freedom, welcome to the latest climate conference, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.  (Can the nearby airport accommodate all those private jets?)

From Free West Media, in parts of Austria, more foreigners than locals receive welfare benefits.

From EuroNews, which European countries are hurt the most by the current inflation?

From Euractiv, why forest biomass does not qualify as "renewable" energy.

From ReMix, inflation hits a 40-year high in the U.K. at 10.1 percent.

From Balkan Insight, the Russian embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina accuses the West of "NATOising" the country.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and the U.S. discuss cooperation against human trafficking.

From The New Arab, Egyptian security forces attack and detain inhabitants of the Nile island of Warraq after protests against government plans to depopulate the island for commercial projects.  (Sounds like the demolition of the Fort Trumbull section of New London, CT on steroids.)

From Israel Hayom, speaking in Germany, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claims that Israel perpetrated "50 Holocausts" against the Palestinians.

From the Daily Mail, Saudi Arabia sentences a student at Leeds University in the U.K. to 34 years in prison for having an account on Twitter and following and retweeting Tweets from dissidents.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, China is winning the economic race against the U.S., with profound consequences.

From The Stream, a reminder that the Christian and Muslim worlds have moral differences.

From The Daily Signal, of illegal migrants, big city mayors, busloads and budgets.

From Space War, according to South Korea, North Korea has fired two cruise missiles.

From ITR Economics, understanding the timeline for the 2020s and 2030s.

From Terra Daily, talks to address Iraq's political deadlock take place without Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

From The American Conservative, student loan forgiveness is a bad idea.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned Liz Cheney's post-primary speech.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson notices that no leaks from the FBI have occurred about the late Jeffrey Epstein's client list.

From The Daily Wire, Hollywood and political commentators react negatively to Liz Cheney's primary loss.

From the Daily Caller, according to a study, students needed to make up their coronavirus pandemic-related learning losses, but instead standards were lowered for them.

From the New York Post, according to experts, credit for falling gas prices should not go to the White House.  (I think that the Biden administration can claim credit for the recent falling gas prices only if they'll also accept the blame for rising gas prices that started when they took office.)

From Breitbart, former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) wins her congressional primary.

From Newsmax, a former Trump White House official mourns Liz Cheney's primary loss.

And from Fox News, a biologically male trans woman applies to join every sorority at the University of Alabama, and get rejected by every single one of them.  (via the New York Post)

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, what if the law were applied in the same way to all politicians?

From FrontpageMag, the real reason why an Egyptian-born Texan man killed his daughters.

From Townhall, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) is making moves.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Danny Davis (D-IL) rents his district office a man convicted of dealing she-don't-lie.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump's favorability rating reaches a new high after the FBI raid on his house at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Federalist, the blame for the botch American withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago belongs to President Biden.

From American Thinker, the Biden administration's climate policy revives that of President Carter in 1979.

From CNS News, First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for the coronavirus.

From LifeZette, a Trump attorney drops truth bombs on Biden's DOJ and FBI.

From NewsBusters, an actual climate expert wrecks the climate provisions of the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From Canada Free Press, according to a left-wing columnist, the rosary has been "woven into the gun culture".

From TeleSUR, the Caribbean Community meets in Nassau, Bahamas to discuss climate change.  (How many of the participants arrived on private jets?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, memo to the globalists: the mission of your agent the coronavirus has been accomplished.

From Snouts in the Trough, with apologies to Bob Dylan, "the climate - they say it's changing".

From Free West Media, "hunger stones" in German and Czech rivers are again exposed.

From EuroNews, Greek authorities locate 38 migrants near the river Evros and confirm the death of a five-year-old girl who was among them.

From Euractiv, Bulgaria and North Macedonia make progress while discussing their "common history".

From ReMix, speaking on the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, President Andrzej Duda states that only Poland has managed to defeat the Soviet Union in a war.  (Although I'm proud of Poland's victory in that war, due to my own Polish heritage, I have a feeling that some people in Afghanistan might beg to differ with President Duda.)

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia suspends the head of its Organized Crime Prosecution office.

From The North Africa Post, the E.U. increases its aid to Morocco for dealing with illegal immigration by 50 percent.

From The New Arab, Iraqi Finance Minister Ali Allawi resigns during a cabinet meeting.

From OpIndia, a list of Indian "Hindus killed for being Hindus".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man from Iraq is arrested in connection with an arson attack on the headquarters of the Lower Austrian Freedom Party in St. Pölten, Austria.

From Israel Hayom, garbage trucks dump trash on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

From Gatestone Institute, the civil libertarian double standard about the application of the Espionage Act endangers the rule of law.

From The Stream, a woman needing a kidney finds one from a pro-life donor.

From The Daily Signal, state election integrity laws have improved.

From The American Conservative, is the rosary really an "extremist symbol".

From The Western Journal, a conservative media executive nails the Department Of Justice on three big lies about the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From BizPac Review, a Pennsylvania man is arrested for allegedly making threats against FBI agents on social media.

From The Daily Wire, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is praised for sending illegal aliens to New York City by a former Democratic governor of New York.

From the Daily Caller, liberals hated the Espionage Act until the FBI used it against Trump.

From Reuters, the Biden White House has a plan on abortion that addresses men as well as women.  (via the Daily Caller)

From Just The News, the Department Of Justice admits that the FBI over-collected evidence in the raid at Mar-a-Lago.  (via the Daily Caller)

From TMZ, video shows the damage done to the home into which Anne Heche's car crashed.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, according to director Eric Parkinson, Anne Heche did her own stunts "like a champ" in her last film.

From Breitbart, cartel-connected Mexican human smugglers spray dangerous chemicals on migrants to prevent sniffer dogs from smelling them.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), the Republicans will "undo" the "Inflation Reduction Act" if they take both chambers of Congress in the upcoming elections.

From the International Business Times, China will discourage abortions in order to boost its birth rate.  (This is a reversal from its former one-child and forced abortion policies, which sought to decrease its birth rate.  This new pro-birth policy, however, does not apply to the Uighurs.  The story comes via Newsmax.)

And from the Genesius Times, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) is airlifted back to Washington, D.C.

Monday, August 15, 2022

Monday Links

On a cloudy and relatively cool Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former and current gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) inadvertently reveals the problem with the pro-abortion position.

From FrontpageMag, what's this about all our troubles being fixed in 2024?

From Townhall, the FBI's ransacking of former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago takes another irresponsible turn.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, a year on.

From the Washington Examiner, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange friendly letters promising closer ties between their countries.

From The Federalist, records suggest that a bureaucrat's grievance spurred the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From American Thinker, monkeypox and "don't say gay".

From CNS News, the FBI reportedly identified 81 classified email chains that were sent to or from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal server.

From LifeZette, gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) sets Twitter on fire with her comments on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and Trump.

From NewsBusters, CNN ignores FBI whistleblowers while hyping dubious claims about "right wing" terrorism.

From Canada Free Press, "everyone has a right to be stupid", but some people abuse it.

From TeleSUR, according to Brazilian indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara, the Amazon region will become a desert if President Jair Bolsonaro wins reelection.

From TCW Defending Freedom, 2,226 people have reportedly died from adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines.

From Snouts in the Trough, why are our ruling elites trying to bankrupt farmers?

From Free West Media, Finns who travel to Russia to buys its cheaper gasoline are accused of treason.

From EuroNews, rivals seeking to replace Boris "the Spider" Johnson as the U.K.'s prime minister are blasted over their economic plans.

From Euractiv, rain brings some relief to fire-stricken France.

From ReMix, former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has some choice words for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky(y).

From Balkan Insight, thousands of protesters in Belgrade, Serbia hold an anti-pride march.

From The North Africa Post, two Israeli companies team up to launch intermittent renewable energy projects in Morocco and other signatories to the Abraham accords.

From The New Arab, three Egyptians are sentenced to six months in prison for filming and leaking a video showing the dead body of a murdered woman.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at El-Watan.)

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's proxy war against Israel is fed by U.S. President Biden's weakness.

From The Stream, the genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

From The American Conservative, liberals are afraid of the rosary.

From The Daily Signal, a year after the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan.

From The Western Journal, the FBI is terrified of a backlash from its raid at Mar-a-Lago.

From BizPac Review, according to congresscritter Jim Jordan, 14 FBI whistleblowers have come forward.

From The Daily Wire, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) dodges a question about not allowing unvaccinated students back into schools, which decision would disproportionally affect black students.  (If you're wondering why black Americans might be skeptical about government-mandated injections, look up the Tuskegee Experiment.)

From the Daily Caller, an activist investment firm pushes an energy company, in which it owns a stake, to produce less gas and oil.

From the New York Post, a wrestling match takes place on a beach on New York's Fire Island, between a dangerous animal and a shark.

From Breitbart, Russian attorneys for WNBA player Brittney Griner appeal her nine-year sentence.

From Newsmax, two former Minneapolis police officers charged in relation to the death of George Floyd reject plea bargains.

And from The Babylon Bee, anonymous sources allege that former President Trump stole plans that reveal the White House's only weakness, its thermal exhaust port.

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Sunday Stuff

On a cloudy and warm Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a man drives into a Capitol barricade and then shoots himself dead.

From Townhall, if you support Texas Governor Greg Abbott's (R) busing of illegal migrants to New York City and Washington, D.C., you can put your money where your mouth is.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about statesmen by Henry Kissinger.

From the Washington Examiner, unvaccinated Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic hopes to possibly play in the upcoming U.S. Open.

From American Thinker, if you wonder how Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) keeps getting reelected, do the math.

From Red Voice Media, a child sex abuser is found guilty, drinks a liquid in court, and then dies.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, TV host Andrea Mitchell tells Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) that we're not yet in a recession.

From Canada Free Press, Canada's Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeks to disappear inventor Alexander Graham Bell.  (Don't all those parliamentcritters have telephones?  And what do they think of this song?)

From TeleSUR, Cuban authorities assess damage and search for the missing after the first at the port city of Matanzas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Haywards Heath, England leads Europe on the alleged climate emergency.  (During my first visit to the U.K. in 1991, I stayed in the south coastal city of Eastbourne.  On the railroad line between there and London, Haywards Heath was a major stop.)

From Free West Media, the international consulting firm McKinsey wins contracts in the Netherlands without any call for tenders.

From EuroNews, due to climate change, the U.K. could produce more wine than the French regions of Champagne and Burgundy.

From ReMix, according to German law enforcement official Stephan Kramer, high energy prices could make coronavirus-related protests look like "a kid's birthday party".

From The North Africa Post, according to a report from the World Bank, natural disasters cost Morocco $575 million every year.

From The New Arab, a fire at Abi Sefein Orthodox Church in the Egyptian governorate of Giza leaves 55 people dead and dozens of others injured.

From Israel Hayom, a pro-Palestinian student group at Ohio State University holds a vigil for a dead terrorist.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man allegedly decapitates his father in Saint-Priest, France, and yells "Allah Akbar" while being arrested.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Progrès, La Provence, and FDeSouche.)

From The Japan Times, the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie recalls the murder of the man who translated his book The Satanic Verses into Japanese.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Twitter owes Rushdie an apology.

From Gatestone Institute, "a dangerous triple fantasy".

From The Stream, Islam's centuries-long war against critics of its prophet Mohammed.

From Space War, a region in Iraq known as the Garden of Eden is now "like a desert".

From The American Conservative, the aforementioned Salman Rushdie and our permanent fatwa culture.

From The Western Journal, shortly before the raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump sent Attorney General Garland a short message and a question.

From BizPac Review, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) will lead a second delegation to Taiwan.

From The Daily Wire, a fireworks explosion destroys a building and kills several people in Yerevan, Armenia.

From the Daily Caller, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tries to explain the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From the New York Post, the Overture will bring back supersonic travel.

From Breitbart, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) blasts Governor Kathy Hochul for criticizing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at a Holocaust education event.

From Newsmax, former congresscritter Ron Nunes (R-Cal) calls the raid on Mar-a-Lago "an investigation in search of a crime".

And to end on a sad note, from CNN, the Norwegian government euthanizes Freya the walrus, who attracted crowds and climbed onto boats.

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Saturday Stories

Now that I've returned from a walk in nearby forest, which Sasquatches are supposed to do from time to time, I give you some things going on:

From National Review, electric vehicles and greenflation.

From Townhall, left-wingers on Twitter go nuts over former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) filling in for right-wing newsman Tucker Carlson.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional candidate Emilia Sykes (D-OH) sued her alma mater after losing its beauty pageant.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) claims that in 2020, people told her that they would vote for her if she were a he.

From American Thinker, Mexican border cities explode with drug cartel violence.

From Red Voice Media, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) greenlights a project to close gaps in the border wall.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a look back to when MSNBC hated congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY).

From Canada Free Press, an open letter to former President Trump.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. needs Magna Carty 2.0 to regain its future.

From Free West Media, as price rise, German supermarkets attack anti-theft devices to foods.

From EuroNews, tourists are shocked by the shrinking of Italy's Lake Garda.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's path to development is highlighted by a U.S. think tank.

From The New Arab, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi announces a reshuffle of his cabinet.

From the Daily Mail, Iranian state media praises the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie.

From Gatestone Institute, a deal will not stop Iran's mullahs from going nuclear.

From The Stream, the FBI raid that was heard around the world.

From The American Conservative, "finding the Seekers", who "were countercultural in the best way".

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris breaks her silence on the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, and seems to start chuckling.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Rashida "impeach the [bleep]" Tlaib (D-MN) collected rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic while calling for rent to be canceled.

From The Daily Wire, a top advisor to President Biden recuses herself due to ties with Pfizer and a green energy business.

From the Daily Caller, according to records, Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) took corporate PAC money while pledging not to.

From Breitbart, a report on the condition of the aforementioned Salman Rushdie.

From Newsmax, according to his lawyer, Trump is not fazed by the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

And from the New York Post, to restore some class to the Super Bowl halftime show, bring back some Gershwin.