Sunday, January 26, 2020

Sunday Stuff - Part 1

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

From Townhall, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) explains the "critical mistake" made by the Democrat House Managers in their arguments.

From The Washington Free Beacon, CNN gets the facts wrong on a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri.

From the Washington Examiner, relieved Republican Senators welcome the Trump defense presentation.

From The Federalist, left-wing hacks compete for the 2020 top (or maybe worst) pundit award.

From American Thinker, the impeachment case against President Trump is already in smoldering ruins.

From LifeZette, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and U.K. Prince Charles attend the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem and battle domestic anti-Semites.

From NewsBusters, NBC political director Chuck Todd dreads Trump's reaction if he is acquitted.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats stop talking about "impeachment" and start talking about "removal".

From CBC News, how holograms and artificial intelligence are preserving stories from Holocaust survivors.

From Global News, according to recently released documents, Canadian officials are trying to address right-wing extremism.

From CTV News, Quebec's high court will hear arguments appealing the sentence of a man who killed six people in a mosque in Quebec City.

From TeleSUR, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva calls on Brazilians to fight to regain the country's democracy.  (It seems that for some people, democracy is really democracy only when a party they agree with is in power.)

From The Conservative Woman, Greta Thunberg and "the rise of the crankocracy".

From the Express, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already been excluded from one royal platform.

From the Evening Standard, fears about the coronavirus don't stop Chinese New Year celebrations in London.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel promises tough new rules on immigration.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish party leaders state their views on women's issues.

From the Irish Examiner, the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, instead of blocking traffic, canvasses door to door.

From VRT NWS, police find 400 cannabis plants at a house in Hoeilaart, Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, according to Belgium's foreign ministry, only three Belgians are left in the area of China affected by the coronavirus.

From Dutch News, at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in Amsterdam, Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizes for the Dutch government's actions during World War II.

From Deutsche Welle, a protest in Leipzig, Germany against a ban on a left-wing website turns violent and results in 13 policemen being injured.

From the CPH Post, to new beginnings in 2020.

From Polskie Radio, the largest Polish opposition party elects a new leader.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's National Security Council will meet tomorrow to discuss the spread of the corona virus.

From The Slovak Spectator, the view from the ruins of Turniansky Castle is "magnificent".

From Daily News Hungary, according to Der Spiegel, the Hungarian party Fidesz will remain in the European People's Party for the time being.

From Russia Today, a former spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church dies suddenly in Moscow.

From Sputnik International, an Israeli woman detained in Russia for drug trafficking asks President Putin for a pardon.

From The Moscow Times, Putin wants to implement some Keynesian economics.

From Radio Bulgaria, archaeologists and tourists are attracted to the Petrich Fortress near Varna, Bulgaria.

From Ekathimerini, former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker claims that his efforts kept Greece in the eurozone in 2015.

From the Greek Reporter, the Greek island of Skiathos, popular with British tourists, will be advertised on the London Underground.

From Total Croatia News, 75 carnations are laid in Zagreb's Victims of Fascism Square pm Holocaust Remembrance Day.

From Total Slovenia News, Brexit is expected to have only a minimal effect on Slovenia's economy.

From the Malta Independent, according to citizens of Attard, Malta, more archaeological remains have been found during excavation work for the Central Link project.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela is off and running - literally.

From EuroNews, according to an Italian Holocaust survivor, silence was the best choice afterwards.

From SwissInfo, two people suspected of carrying the coronavirus are quarantined in a hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

From The Portugal News, Portugal sets up two subsidy funds, totalling €11 million, for farmers affected by bad weather in December.

From France24, according to France's health minister, French citizens in Wuhan, China will be "evacuated by airplane".

From RFI, Paris and Bordeaux cancel Chinese New Year celebrations due to fears of the coronavirus.

From Free West Media, seven people are arrested on terrorism-related charges in Brest, France.

From The Stream, the infamous blood libel keeps going and going and going.

From Fox News, according to a poll, President Trump gets high marks on the economy, but about half of Americans still want the Senate to remove him.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, the FBI is reviewing claims that congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) married her brother.

From Reuters, according to China's National Health Commission, the coronavirus could incubate from one to 14 days.  (via Breitbart)

From the Daily Caller, according to House Manager Jason Crow (D-CO), there should be new witnesses because President Trump deserves a fair trial.

And from Twitchy, at the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego, Tiger Woods's ball was in the hole, until it wasn't.

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