Monday, December 2, 2019

Monday Links - Part 1

Here on a rainy Monday are some things going on:

From National Review, the myth of the "underpaid teachers".

From FrontpageMag, the problem isn't the deep state but the deep industry.

From Townhall, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to be elected by popular vote, but has to win in the Electoral College first.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Gregory Meeks (D-NY) continues to send money from his campaign coffers to a company owned by a wife of his district chief of staff.

From the Washington Examiner, the Alabama Senate race just lost an interesting contestant.

From The Federalist, 21 reason to not believe Christine Blasey Ford's claims about Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

From American Thinker, the breakup of the American left is inevitable.

From CNS News, President Trump mocks the "fairness" of the Judiciary Committee proceedings.

From LifeZette, two more Democrats drop out of their party's primary presidential race.

From NewsBusters, the Trump campaign bans Bloomberg reporters from its events, due to the news outlet's biased reporting policy.

From Canada Free Press, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) tries finding scarier named for climate change.

From CBC News, the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards assist each other "quite often".

From Global News, the Ontario government considers a bill that would protect farmers from animal rights activists.

From CTV News, a gun used to kill 14 women 30 years ago at the École Polytechnique in Montreal still hasn't been banned.

From TeleSUR, recently ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales promises to do whatever is best for his country.

From the Express, polling data shows a big collapse in the Labour Party vote in northern England.

From the Evening Standard, according to his accuser, Prince Andrew was the "most hideous dancer" and could sweat profusely.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the Conservative Party lead in the polls shrinks as the Labour Party surges.  (This story appears to be the opposite of the one from the Express.  Read both and decide for yourself what you think.)

From the (Irish) Independent, according to ISIS bride Lisa Smith's lawyer, the government's case against her is weak.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish gardaí study statements made by Smith.

From France24, why the French army is not laughing with cartoons from Charlie Hebdo.

From RFI, France honors its soldiers killed in Mali.

From Free West MediaGénération Identitaire forces French immigration supporters to face their own contradictions.

From VRT NWS, a passenger armed with a BB gun, a knife and a tear gas canister is pulled off a train in Bruges, Belgium.

From the NL Times, according to Dutch police, terrorism was not a motive in the stabbings at mall in The Hague.

From Dutch News, Dutch authorities accuse Russia of deliberately allowing a suspect in the downing of flight MH17 to flee into Ukraine.

From Deutsche Welle, what's next for German Chancellor Merkel's government?

From CPH Post, large laughing gas containers are turning up on the streets of Denmark.

From Voice Of Europe, according to a survey, the largest party in Finland is the populist True Finns Party.

From Polskie Radio, according to a Polish minister, a canal project is on track despite Russian efforts to block it.

From Radio Prague, the Czech town of Nové Město names a street in honor of the family of a "snubbed" Holocaust survivor.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia recorded its highest number of new HIV cases in 2018.

From the Hungary Journal, the Visegrad 4 expects the European Commission to speed up the enlargement of the E.U.

From Daily News Hungary, according to the Fidesz party's anti-migration cabinet, the situation on Hungary's borders is similar to that of 2015.

From Hungary Today, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary is interested in cooperation with the Russian company Gazprom.

From About Hungary, will 2020 see a repeat of the illegal migration of 2015?

From Russia Today, a Soyuz capsule that saved its crew from a malfunctioning rocket is turned into a monument.

From Sputnik International, the U.S. media reveals why former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut ad.  (The leader of the world's premier communist country participates in capitalism.)

From The Moscow Times, an explanation of Russia's new "foreign agent" law.

From Romania-Insider, a former Romanian leader doesn't let his plan to mark the country's National Day be stopped by his being in jail.

From Novinite, a Bulgarian child finds a needle in a steak.

From The Sofia Globe, the Council of Europe wants Bulgaria to do more against domestic violence and hate speech.  (What they mean by "hate speech" is another matter.)

From Radio Bulgaria, some recent developments in the Balkans.

From Ekathimerini, farmers plan to block roads in central Greece on December 4th.

From the Greek Reporter, at an E.U. meeting in Madrid, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis condemns Turkey's recent behavior.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, in North Macedonia, the government and opposition are "on opposite fronts" with respect to judicial reform.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian software is used to help in earthquake-stricken Albania.

From the Malta Independent, protesters block Labour MPs from leaving the Maltese parliament building for two hours.

From Malta Today, a "rule of law" delegation of MEPs will arrive in Malta on a "fact-finding" mission.

From ANSA, Pope Francis will welcome 43 refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos to Italy.

From EuroNews, the University of Siena condemns a professor's pro-Nazi Tweets.

From SwissInfo, how many steps are involved in making a law in Switzerland?

From El País, Spanish police arrest the captain of a "narco-submarine".

From The Portugal News, Portugal's Foreigners and Borders Service detains two foreign men for alleged facilitation of illegal immigration and human trafficking.

From Euractiv, a second "behind-the-curtain" look at the E.U.'s 2050 climate plan.  (For the first look, go here.)

From The Conservative Woman, "liberal thinking and a price paid in lives".

From The Stream, does the Catholic Church deny communion to gays?

From Accuracy in Media, the First Lady's privacy is again under scrutiny.

From the Daily Caller, gay activists claim that President Trump's "AIDS Day" statement left out LGBTs, but conveniently forget that Obama's did, too.

From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill wants Riker's Island inmates to have meatless Mondays.

From Twitchy, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) invokes her time as a prosecutor in a campaign Tweet, and it doesn't go over well.

And from The Babylon Bee, the new doll Greta on the Shelf will keep track of your climate sins.

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