Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Tuesday Tidings - Part 1

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

From National Review, presidents are doves before they're elected, but don't stay that way.

From FrontpageMag, the impeachment is killing the Trump derangement syndrome.

From Townhall, after CNN mocks Trump voters, a Twitter user delivers a "blistering" response.

From The Washington Free Beacon, unlike Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) and Senator Socialist (I-VT), most Democratic voters don't want to defund charter schools.

From the Washington Examiner, a Trump rally in New Jersey has a very good turnout.

From The Federalist, the "Equality" Act would be a push toward a social credit system.

From American Thinker, anti-Second Amendment activist David Hogg makes a statement so stupid that reading it makes you dumber.  (If you read this article, you may have to read some intelligent statements elsewhere to recover your previous level of smartness.)

From CNS News, President Trump's defense team argues that concerns about former Vice President Biden's role in Ukraine are not "baseless".

From LifeZette, the Supreme Court allows Trump to restrict green cards for immigrants who abuse welfare benefits.

From NewsBusters, the dude who once had an Obama-inspired tingle in his leg doesn't get why the Bidens are relevant.

From Canada Free Press, the same networks which gave live coverage to the Democrat House Managers largely black out most of the presentations be the Trump defense team.

From CBC News, Canadian health officials are "confident" that a case of the coronavirus has been found in British Columbia.

From Global News, according to "experts" its too early to know if China's lockdown has been effective in limiting the spread of the coronavirus.

From CTV News, Chinese Canadians deal with racism because of the coronavirus, as they once did because of SARS.

From TeleSUR, due to a peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC, 16 seat in the Colombian congress will be allocated to victims of their armed conflict.

From The Portugal News, a Portuguese business is developing a process to make biofuel from tree pruning waste.

From El País, an Iranian exile group paid the salaries of two leader of Spain's "far-right" party Vox.

From France24, a group of French cities and NGOs sue the oil company Total for "climate inaction".

From RFI, at the Prix Lumières, Les Misérables wins three awards.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss Health office confirms that the coronavirus has not been found in Switzerland.

From ANSA, the Spanish NGO ship Open Arms rescues 158 migrants in the Mediterranean.

From Free West Media, NGOs announce an "invasion" of 800 migrants from Libya.

From the Malta Independent, according to an editorial, Malta's underwater artifacts should be opened up.

From Malta Today, Maltese MEPs tell Prime Minister Robert Abela to investigate his predecessor.

From Total Slovenia News, according to a survey, Ljubljana, Slovenia is the second most relaxed city to work in.

From Total Croatia News, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia discuss cross-border agricultural cooperation.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović, Greater Serbian nationalism is "an insane movement".

From Ekathimerini, recent finds from excavations on five Greek islands will be presented in Athens.

From the Greek Reporter, the "Islands of the Winds" exhibit opens at a new museum in Crete's Mesara Valley.

From Novinite, according to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, politicians should prioritize child care, education and young families.

From The Sofia Globe, the Sofia Administrative Court overturns an order preventing a paroled Australian murder convict from leaving Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, at Bulgaria's National Museum of Military History, it's "remembrance for the future".

From Romania-Insider, two Romanian reformist parties speed up their merger.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at G4Media.)

From Russia Today, a spokesman for Russian President Putin "blasts" Ukrainian President Zelensky for insinuating that the USSR started World War II.  (In point of historical fact, the USSR invaded Poland 16 days after Germany started its invasion.)

From Sputnik International, the German paper Der Spiegel apologizes for wrongly claiming that American, not Soviet, troops liberated Auschwitz.  (I vaguely remember an American politician who made a similar erroneous claim.)

From The Moscow Times, 25 people are detained in Chechnya over a photoshopped picture of showing the region's leader's face on the body of an Orthodox patriarch.

From the Hungary Journal, about 60 migrants try to break through Hungary's border fence near the village of Röszke.

From Daily News Hungary, the coronavirus has not been found in Hungary, but hospitals are ready to treat it.

From Hungary Today, a demonstration is organized to protest remarks made by a former Hungarian MEP.

From About Hungary, more on the attempt by migrants to enter Hungary.

From The Slovak Spectator, truck drivers again block Slovakia's borders.

From Radio Prague, while the coronavirus has not been found in the Czech Republic, Czechs stock up on facemasks and pharmaceuticals.

From Polskie Radio, the Polish foreign ministry draws up a contingency plan to evacuate Poles from the Chinese province of Hubei.

From the CPH Post, at Aarhus University Hospital, the first Dane is tested for the coronavirus.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany confirms three more cases of the coronavirus, bringing its total to four.

From EuroNews, Berlin's Brandenburg International Airport calls for 20,000 volunteers to test its operations.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands saw a slight decrease in the number of asylum requests in 2019, but the number from Syria and Nigeria increased.

From Dutch News, a new species of wasp is found in a park in Amsterdam.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at Het Parool.)

From VRT NWS, British citizens in Belgium discuss Brexit.

From The Brussels Times, about 10,000 Belgians walk in a demonstration in Brussels.

From Euractiv, the European Commission launches a public debate over the E.U. "climate law".

From the Express, how Leave voters were ignored back in 1980.

From the Evening Standard, according to Prince Charles, we're dooooooomed.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to outline his trade deal priorities next week.

From the (Irish) Independent, a man in Dublin is accused of falsely claiming welfare benefits while working for the Garda headquarters.  (The Irish word for "police" is garda.)

From the Irish Examiner, the Irish party Sinn Féin sets forth its manifesto.

From The Conservative Woman, "the weird world of rabbiting Warren".  (Although a British site, TCW occasionally comments on American politics.)

From The Stream, the anti-Trump "open letter to evangelicals" comes with a "highly inflamatory and inaccurate blog post".

From the New York Post, a Long Island judge ignores New York's bail reform law and refuses to release a "menace to society" accused of bank robbery while awaiting sentencing.

From Twitchy, presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't seem to know canine anatomy.

From WPVI-TV, the U.S. beefs up its screening of passengers from China due to the coronavirus.

From Fox News, as the coronavirus spreads, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) calls for a "targeted" travel ban on flights from China.

And from Nicki Swift, a look at all nine passengers who lost their lives in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.

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