Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Tuesday Links - Part 1

Here on a sunny but cold Tuesday are some things going on:

From National Review, the point of the Women's March is abortion.

From FrontpageMag, government is no substitute for the family.

From Townhall, the media spews out fake news about the pro-Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Yale chooses a BDS activist to be a keynote speaker on the King holiday.

From the Washington Examiner, the two reasons why the Republicans should not call witnesses to the impeachment trial are Brett Kavanaugh and Robert Mueller.

From The Federalist, the left claim that women are essential for business but optional for families.  (As some have noted, a feminist is someone who believes that a woman is empowered and liberated when she does something for her boss, but enslaved when she does something for her husband.)

From American Thinker, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) complains about corruption, but gives former Vice President Joe Biden a pass.

From CNS News, one of President Trump's defenders points out that presidents are not impeached for their motives.

From LifeZette, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) calls the Democratic Party "conservative".  (I can see that from her far-left perspective, moderately left politicians might seem conservative.)

From NewsBusters, ABC proves a megaphone for Democrats crying "cover-up" on the impeachment.

From Canada Free Press, the right to a "fair trial" belongs to President Trump, not to the House Democrats.

From CBC News, British Columbia shuts down a municipality which has a population of zero.

From Global News, a man in Saskatchewan is charged in connection to a fraudulent immigration scheme.

From CTV News, a strike by teachers closes all English Catholic schools in Ontario and all public high schools in Toronto.

From TeleSUR, several Caribbean countries boycott a meeting in Jamaica with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

From The Portugal News, Portugal issues Social Security numbers to 18,000 foreigners.

From El País, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces the date when he will meet with Catalan Premier Quim Torra.

From EuroNews, Spain debates a bill to abolish the forced sterilization of disabled people.

From France24, French President Macron and U.S. President Trump call a truce in their dispute over a digital tax.

From RFI, Macron visits Israel as French Jews show concerns for their safety.

From SwissInfo, Trump tells Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga that he wants a free trade deal with Switzerland.

From Euractive, Trump meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

From ANSA, according to Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, the E.U. will soon have a new pact on migrants.

From the Malta Independent, former Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat refuses to take questions about the resignation of Gozo Minister Justyne Caruana.

From Malta Today, Malta's new Cabinet is "continuity with a twist".

From Total Slovenia News, 21 Slovenes are repatriated from Venezuela.

From Total Croatia News, craft beer and microbreweries are becoming more popular in Croatia.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to a man named Tarzan, politicians need to lay off the sharp rhetoric.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek government continues to be under the strain of migrants.

From the Greek Reporter, due to new guidelines issued by U.K. authorities, the British Museum could be forced into returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.

From Novinite, a reported gas leak blocks traffic in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency blocks the importation of Polish poultry contaminated with salmonella.

From Radio Bulgaria, in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov says that Bulgaria has always supported the Southern Gas Corridor.

From Romania-Insider, the western Romanian city of Timișoara expects to host a million visitors this year.

From Russia Today, Russia's defense, foreign and finance ministers all keep their positions in the new government.

From Sputnik International, more about who's in and who's not in Russia's new government.

From The Moscow Times, two Russians claiming to be "plumbers" while carrying diplomatic passports are questioned in Davos, Switzerland.  (Perhaps they are "plumbers" in the Nixonian sense.)

From Daily News Hungary, a suspected ISIS terrorist's case has another hearing in the Budapest Municipal Court.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Europe needs nuclear energy to become climate neutral by 2050.

From About Hungary, according to a Fidesz party spokesman, a liberal party group in the European Parliament wants to implement the "Soros plan" on migration.

From The Slovak Spectator, charges against Slovak prosecutor Dobroslav Trnka are dropped.  (If you read Slovak, read the story at Aktuality.)

From Radio Prague, Prague's city government tackles visual pollution.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Europe must not let Russia rewrite history.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government cracks down on laughing gas cartridges and the teenagers who abuse them.

From Deutsche Welle, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor fears that it could happen again.

From Free West Media, complaints against Deutsche Post have tripled since 2017.

From the NL Times, Dutch police arrest a suspected gunman who reportedly dresses as Zwarte Piet.

From Dutch News, the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam buys two English tapestries based on drawings by a Dutch painter.  (If you read Dutch, read related stories at NRC and De Erfgoedmonitor.)

From VRT NWS, the climate group The Phantom Tree Company secretly plants 500 trees in Puurs-Sint-Amands, Belgium.

From the Express, the House of Lords votes down a proposal by U.K. Prime Minister Johnson for the fourth time in 24 hours.

From the Evening Standard, don't publish photos of us, warn Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

From the (U.K.) Independent, why is Boris Johnson staying away from Davos, Switzerland this year?

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar rules out a coalition government with Sinn Féin, but welcomes a three-way TV debate.

From the Irish Examiner, warmer water may have attracted anchovies to Irish waters.

From The Conservative Woman, five things for decreasing the damage from bushfires.

From The Stream, while sitting through the impeachment trial, read the book on real corruption.

From the New York Post, the first case of the new Chinese coronavirus is detected in the U.S.

From Breitbart, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) tells a forum of black voters than he prefers Popeye's to Chik-fil-A.

From Reason, the dangers of facial recognition technology and "automated authoritarism".

From Twitchy, congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) keeps looking worse and worse.  (Schiff happens!)

And from 9News, an Indian man staging an illegal cock fight gets a Darwin Award nomination.

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