Today we honor the men who have occupied the highest office in the land. The observance evolved from George Washington's birthday (2/22), and perhaps was influenced by Lincoln's birthday (2/12), since both occurred in February. It should be noted that Washington's birthday was originally on 2/11, but was changed because the British and their colonies switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one. Of course, besides Washington and Lincoln, you can also honor such men as Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and William Harrison, who died just a month after being inaugurated. (He is thus, in my opinion, the least bad president we've had.) Meanwhile, here are some things going on:
From National Review, some questions for people who believed Jussie Smollett.
From NewsBusters, the 11 worst reactions of Smollett's hoax.
From Townhall, Democrats don't want ICE to find out when illegal aliens try to buy guns.
From the Washington Examiner, protesters take over and vandalize a Border Patrol museum in El Paso, Texas.
From The Federalist, leftist organizations smear a Wisconsin judge for being Christian.
From American Thinker, mainly by not enforcing laws, President Obama "made mincemeat of the Constitution".
From CNS News, Geraldo Rivera claims to be a fan of both President Trump and congresscritter AOC.
From LifeZette and the "get it through your thick skulls" department, the government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around.
From FrontpageMag, the tangled web woven by Jussie Smollett.
From The Conservative Woman, how the kids protesting climate change can practice what they preach. (To my pleasant shock, the article actually mentions China and its emissions, something with which most climate change believers don't appear to have any problem.)
From the Express, according to one Brexiteer, Britons have had enough of the E.U.'s arrogance.
From the Evening Standard, a boat carrying 19 migrants is intercepted off the coast of Dover, England.
From the (U.K.) Independent, seven MPs quit the Labour Party, with possibly more to follow.
From the (Irish) Independent, according to Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Ireland is spending "hundreds of millions of euros" on a no-deal Brexit.
From the Irish Examiner, Coverney also says that Ireland will not be "steamrolled" over the border backstop with the U.K.
From France24, French women who had escaped from ISIS want to go home.
From RFI, French MPs try to deal with rising anti-Semitism.
From VRT NWS, who are the Belgian ISIS fighters?
From the NL Times, despite protests, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will keep growing. (Hopefully, they'll get enough gates to accommodate planes which land early, as the one I was on two years ago.)
From Dutch News, a proposal by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which would prevent dual nationals from voting, is not likely to be enacted.
From Deutsche Welle, Germany and France agree to an arms export pact.
From Radio Poland, tensions between Polish and Israeli leaders cause the cancellation of a Visegrad summit in Israel.
From Radio Praha, the E.U. space program is preparing for an expansion in Prague.
From The Slovak Spectator, halal-certified baby foods will be produced in Nové Zámky, Slovakia. (Due to the similarity between Slovak and Polish, I'm pretty sure that the city's name means "new castles".)
From the Hungary Journal, some new allies would welcome Hungarian Prime Minister Orban. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Azonnali.)
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian opposition MPs walk out of parliament and visit a Suzuki factory.
From Hungary Today, the Hungarian government is launching an "information campaign" about the E.U.'s immigration plan.
From About Hungary, two corporations will team up to build a solar energy plant near Győr, Hungary.
From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's principal secretary Gerald Butts resigns. (This story was discussed during the BTR show of Kel the Red Fox Blogger.)
From Global News, the United We Roll Convoy gets closer to Ottawa, Canada.
From Mexico News Daily, cocaine smuggling by boat from Columbia to Mexico triples in four years. (The site has informed me that I have only two pages left for this month, so it looks like I won't be able to link stories from this site all that often. This is dismaying because this site is the first one from Mexico that I've been able to use.)
From El País, about 200,000 people in Barcelona protest against the trials of Catalan separatist leaders.
From Morocco World News, jihadis released from Moroccan prisons show a high rate of recidivism.
From Total Croatia News, a Croatian NGO strongly objects to the criminalization of speech.
From Ekathimerini, since 2016, more than 7,000 Turks have applied for asylum in Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, two Greek women prepare top climb Mount Everest.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan turns down a call from the U.S. to not purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems.
From Turkish Minute, according to Turkish Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, 3.6 million Syrians live in Turkey.
From Rûdaw, women will lead Kurdistan's regional parliament for the first time since it was established.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel and the U.K. sign a trade agreement.
From The Times Of Israel, five Palestinians are arrested clashing with police officers.
From The Jerusalem Post, a judge bans Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu from being photographed with IDF soldiers.
From YNetNews, the Sea of Galilee is expected to rise to a level which removes restrictions on pumping.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt again deals with locusts.
From Egypt Today, two policemen are killed in a suicide bombing near the Al Azhar mosque in Cairo.
From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities reveal a huge stash of "banned books".
From Dawn, three Kashmiris and four Indian soldiers are killed in a gun battle Pulwama, Kashmir. (This is where the recent suicide bombing which killed over 40 Indian soldiers occurred.)
From The Express Tribune, Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammad orders the release of 2,107 Pakistani prisoners from Saudi jails.
From The Manila Times, an imam in Zamboanga City, Philippines kills his own mother and two sisters.
From Gatestone Institute, multiculturalism in Germany during January 2019.
From AZ Central, tourists to the Grand Canyon have been exposed to radiation for almost 20 years. (via The Daily Caller)
From Twitchy, noted Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan blames Jews for using him to break up the women's movement.
From The Blaze, what really happened when a kid reportedly was arrested for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.
From Accuracy in Media, while Trump declares a border emergency, another migrant caravan arrives.
From Breitbart, leaked photos show migrants overwhelming a border facility.
From LifeNews, more polled women than men oppose late-term abortions.
From the Tampa Bay Times, was there one shooting per week in Florida during 2018?
From Fox News, five inconvenient truths about communist thug Che Guevara.
And from the New York Post, a Fordham professor finds that his 30-year-old Apple computer still works.
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