Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Tuesday Tidings - Part 1

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

From National Review, the bogus religious tolerance of Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN).

From FrontpageMag, Senator Warren's (D-MA) "Medicare for All" plan places burdens on the middle class.

From Townhall, pro-abortion Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran (D) is again on the ballot, but not endorsed by former President Obama.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a study, "free college" plans by Warren and other Democrats leave the vast majority of people worse off.

From the Washington Examiner, new research disproves the narrative from Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) about "income inequality".

From The Federalist, why education, marriage and health care are not rights.

From American Thinker, why the House won't vote to impeach President Trump.

From CNS News, Trump offers to help Mexico fight the drug cartels.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) wants to cross-examine the "whistleblower" and his fellow congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal).

From NewsBusters, the Spanish-language network Telemundo "mourns" the withdrawal of an ethnically Irish presidential candidate.

From CBC News, exports of Canadian pork to China will resume.

From Global News, how levels of lead in five Canadian cities compare to those in Flint, Michigan.

From CTV News, Canada's parks system is looking to young people to perform some unusual jobs.

From TeleSUR, gunmen kill members of a U.S. Mormon family in northern Mexico.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese are reportedly the world's most prolific wine drinkers.

From El País, three Catalan separatists outside Spain prepare to deal with arrest warrants.

From France24, violence against police surges in some suburbs of Paris.

From RFI, the French government is displease with the violence in suburbs of Paris.

From Voice Of Europe, French police find 31 Pakistani migrants in a truck at a toll station in La Turbie, near the Italian border.  (If you read French, read the story at Ouest France.)

From SwissInfo, if you are required to wear an ankle bracelet, it might have been made in Switzerland.

From ANSA, three firefighters are killed by an explosion in Alessandria, Italy.

From the Malta Independent, over 400 people in Malta use medical cannabis.

From Malta Today, a Maltese parliamentcritter believes that a proposed "equality law" could stifle free speech.

From Total Croatia News, according to Presidential candidate Miroslav Škoro, Croatia's army should be allowed to contribute to protecting the country's border.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gives a speech in China.

From Ekathimerini, Brazil's government blames an oil spill on a Greek tanker.

From the Greek Reporter, an ancient acropolis in central Greece is seven times the size of Mycenae.

From Novinite, three fourths of Bulgarians would seek a doctor, but only one third would donate an organ.

From The Sofia Globe, an exhibition of artifacts from Veliki Preslav opens tomorrow in Sofia.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria has "practically no" counterfeit banknotes.

From Romania-Insider, the Revolution Tram starts running in Timişoara, Romania, where the 1989 Revolution started.

From Russia Today, divers rescue 900 bottles of French liquor intended for Russian Tsar Nicholas II from the Baltic Sea.

From Sputnik International, Russia plans to bring back a law about classified military information.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian Jehovah's Witness is given a six-year sentence for "extremism".  (What is this "freedom of religion" you speak of?  If you read Russian, read the story at Tayga.)

From the Hungary Journal, the city assembly of Budapest votes for an anti-corruption program.

From Daily News Hungary, most of the guest workers in Hungary are from Serbia, Ukraine and China.

From Hungary Today, hundreds of people demonstrate with yellow roses against the re-examination of the conviction of a man who burned his ex-girlfriend with lye.

From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban congratulates new Romanian Prime Minister Orban.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are connected by a new bridge for pedestrians and cyclists.

From Radio Prague, delegations from 17 E.U. countries, called the "Friends of Cohesion", meet in Prague.

From Euractiv, the E.U.'s top court rules that Poland's 2017 judicial reforms broke E.U. law.

From Polskie Radio, former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that he won't run for president.

From the CPH Post, a roundup of things going on in Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, a German man fighting alongside Kurds against ISIS is killed in Syria.

From Free West Media, left-wing rioters in Berlin injure 16 police officers.

From the NL Times, Eindhoven, Netherlands will no longer allow blackface for Zwarte Pieten in its Christmas festivals, starting next year.

From Dutch News, Dutch retailers want a ban on begging.

From VRT NWS, Belgians in Brussels and Flanders speak better English than their Walloon countrymen.  (We might also ask how their knowledge of English compares with the ability of U.K. residents to speak either the Flemish dialect of Dutch or the Walloonian dialect of French.)

From EuroNews, since 1989, Europe has built barriers totaling six times the length of the Berlin Wall.

From the Express, E.U. leader Jean-Claude Juncker calls U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit plan "unrealistic".

From the Evening Standard, operating a drone in the U.K. will require passing a test and getting registered.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. Labour Party plans to ban private jets.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish government is ready to pass a law regulating political advertising during elections.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Health Minister Simon Harris launches a program to provide dispensers of free condoms on most college campuses.

From The Conservative Woman, David Attenborough misleads his viewers on climate change and walruses.

From The Stream, the left-right divide in America is "about reality itself".

From Twitchy, congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) claims to have resisted calls for an impeachment inquiry for over a year.

From LifeNews, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN), although pro-abortion, says that he'll "bring Christianity back to the White House".

From Fox News, congresscritter Louie Gohmert (R-TX) slams "political correctness" on the anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting.

From NumbersUSA, after a public outcry, a sanctuary county in Maryland rolls back its anti-ICE policy.

And from The Peedmont, a poll shows that the main issues in today's election in Virginia are healthcare and ending [bleep] campaign commercials.

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