Thursday, February 14, 2019

Links For Valentines Day

Here on February 14th are some things going on:

From Breitbart, Border Patrol agents in two parts of Texas find 29 migrants hidden in tractor-trailers.

From CNS News, gun control supporters still misdiagnose the Parkland shooting.

From LifeZette, the Senate passes a budget comprise in an attempt to avoid another shutdown.

From Fox News, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), President Trump will sign a border bill and then declare an emergency.

From National Review, Rhode Island legislators consider an abortion bill similar to those passed in Virginia and New York.

From FrontpageMag, why two noted groups hate today's celebration.

From Townhall, the mythologies surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden.  (Back in 2008, when Senator Obama was running for president against an old white guy named McCain, he apparently decided to get his own old white guy as a running mate.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a take-down notice sent to a gun-rights website was fake, says the New Jersey attorney general's office.

From the Washington Examiner, the Senate confirms William Barr as Attorney General.

From The Federalist, as the "Russian collusion" hoax unravels, the signs that it was a hoax have been in plain sight.

From American Thinker, police in Chicago are starting to think that the actor Jussie Smollett's story about being attacked is a hoax.

From The Conservative Woman, a brief biography of St. Valentine.

From The New Straits Times, a Malaysian imam is charged with possessing an illegal gun.

From Step Feed, a Saudi cleric claims that polygamous men are not required to tell their first wife about their second.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority is in a dilemma about how to regard someone who both rapes and murders and Israeli.

From Khaama Press, in Afghanistan, members of one terrorist group kill two members of another.

From The Express Tribune, 44 Indian troops are killed by a suicide bomber in the India-controlled area of Kashmir.  (The article calls this part of Jannu and Kashmir "Indian-Occupied Kashmir", or "IOK".)

From Radio Farda, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejects claims the his country was involved in the recent suicide attack in Iran.

From Rûdaw, four ISIS terrorists are killed, while 30 civilians go free as a result of operations in Iraq's Mosul and Salahadin provinces.

From World Israel News, a Turkish computer game incites Arabs to liberate the Temple Mount.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli parties Jewish Home and National Union will run together.

From The Times Of Israel, in a leaked clip from the Warsaw Mideast summit, Arab delegates are seen defending Israel and attacking Iran.

From YNetNews, the Iranian woman who removed her hijab has escaped from the country, along with her daughter.

From Egypt Today, 585 inmates in Egypt receive a presidential pardon.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey detains 52 Syrians over suspected ISIS links.

From Novinite, Bulgaria will soon start drilling in the Black Sea for oil and gas.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek parliament rejects a proposal by SYRIZA to have the country's president elected directly by the people.

From the Greek Reporter, Greeks living in the U.K. will have to travel to E.U. states to vote in the upcoming E.U. elections.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia will receive 150 more refugees.

From Malta Today, six reasons why the debate over the proposed Malta-Gozo tunnel hasn't even started.

From ANSA, the return of France's ambassador to Italy is reportedly "imminent".

From SwissInfo, how do you move a 2,000-year-old 1.5-ton 10-feet-tall Buddha from Peshawar, Pakistan to Zurich, Switzerland?

From El País, for Catalan Deputy Prime Minister Oriol Junqueras claims to be a "political prisoner".

From The Portugal News, Portuguese maritime police rescue 25 migrants from a dinghy near the Greek island of Lesbos.

From RFI, Valentines's Day the French way.

From the Express, a Remainer MP tells Tory Brexiteers to change parties.

From the Evening Standardvegans hold vigils for cows.

From BBC News, a teenage girl who left London to join ISIS has no regrets, but wants to go home.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. government will not help her return.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland will have either a border on the island or a border with the rest of the E.U.

From the Irish Examiner, a committee in charge of implementing the Good Friday deal find that dealing with a no-deal Brexit will cost money.

From the NL Times, the Dutch island of Curacao will be a "logistics hub" for aid to Venezuela.

From Deutsche Welle, senior Germans are conned by "fake police".

From Radio Poland, Jewish groups protest after an American reporter misidentifies whom the Warsaw ghetto Jews uprose against.

From Radio Praha, Venezuelans in the Czech Republic are concerned about their homeland.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungary's government, only ruling parties can prevent the "forced settlement of migrants".

From About Hungary, The Guardian is wrong about Hungary's family being about "controlling women's bodies".

From Russia Today, Russia's space agency plans to use a "super-heavy launcher" to send a takeoff and landing complex to the moon.

From CBC News, Alberta truckers drive to Ottawa to protest Canada's oil and gas policies.

From CTV News, about 100 Canadians are trapped in Haiti due to roads closed by Haitians protesting against their president.

And from Global News, the family of a 10-month-old heart recipient send out their Valentine's Day wishes.

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