Friday, February 7, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

Now that the rain has finally stopped, here are some things going on:

From National Review, free speech for everyone.

From FrontpageMag, it's time for Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) to step down.

From Townhall, after some non-white female staffers quit her campaign, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) brings up the tired old excuses.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "why Rush Limbaugh matters".

From the Washington Examiner, the brief time in the spotlight for Joe Walsh (not the musician) is over.

From The Federalist, the life of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas repudiates left-wing hate for America.

From American Thinker, 50 years of global warming fraud.

From CNS News, to quote Queen bassist John Deacon, "another one bites the dust".  (Freddie Mercury sang those words, but the song was written by Deacon.)

From LifeZette, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is accused of having "white male privilege in New Hampshire after claiming to have won in Iowa.

From NewsBusters, TV host Joy Behar claims that President Trump is winning because she's getting nuttier.

From Canada Free Press, is former FLOTUS/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planning to run for vice president on the Democratic ticket?

From CBC News, how the coronavirus has helped decrease the price of coffee.

From Global News, estimates of the cost and completion date of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

From CTV News, Canadians evacuated from Wuhan, China arrive in Ontario.

From TeleSUR, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet with Venezuelan President Maduro.

From The Portugal News, renewable energy supplied 51 percent of Portugal's electricity in 2019.

From El País, at least 61 Chinese residents of Spain quarantine themselves after visitig China.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron unveils his doctrine on nuclear weapons.

From RFI, after a protest by an NGO, a Saudi suspected ship suspected of carrying weapons leaves Cherbourg, France for Bilbao, Spain.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss exoplanet telescope successfully delivers its first pictures.

From ANSA, an Italian who tested positive for the coronavirus is reportedly in "good general condition".

From the Malta Independent, a "rigourous process" takes place when archaeological discoveries are made during road construction.

From Malta Today, a church commission "slams" the planned tunnel between Malta and Gozo.

From Total Slovenia News, the Justice Committee of the Slovenian parliament vote to define animals as sentient beings.

From Total Croatia News, a decision by Croatia's Constitutional Court allowing everyone to participate in foster child care receives mixed reaction.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanian Interior Ministry Secretary-General Plarent Ndreca defends a new anti-corruption law.

From Ekathimerini, seven people are charged with planning attacks on migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos.

From the Greek Reporter, the forgotten tragedy of 4,100 Italian prisoners of war who drowned when the ships carrying them sank in the Saronic Gulf.

From Novinite, according to Eurostat, Bugarians in the E.U. don't work from home.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian Parliament passes a law against private lottery games.

From Radio Bulgaria, the governing Bulgarian party GERB will not seek to remove President Rumen Radev.

From Romania-Insider, according to President Klaus Iohannis, Romania agrees to have funds received from the E.U. tied to respecting the rule of law.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Russia Today, Russia will drop its restrictions on dual citizenship.

From Sputnik International, according to his lawyer, accused leaker Edward Snowden wants a "few more years" in Russia.

From The Moscow Times, activists in Moscow protest against facial recognition with face paint.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto makes a proposal to Ukrainian officials about Ukrainian language education and preserving Hungarian in Transcarpathia.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian opposition party Jobbik promises to fight for tax cuts and changes to the pension system.

From About Hungary, Hungary becomes the first E.U. member to join the International Religious Freedom Alliance.

From Balkan Insight, a migrant carvan in Serbia is turned back at the Hungarian border.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Radio Prague, Czechs hope to have an abbey in the Bohemian town of Kladruby named a European Heritage site.

From Polskie Radio, Poland plans to host a summit on religious freedom in July.

From the CPH Post, a Chinese woman arrives in Denmark and is taken to a hospital for coronavirus testing.

From Euractiv, Scandinavian countries try to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions with advanced biofuels.

From Deutsche Welle, Björn Höcke of the party AfD is a "firebrand" of Germany's "far-right".

From the NL Times, the Dutch government discusses carbon dioxide emissions reduction with the NGO Urgenda.

From Dutch News, a Belgian investment company takes a bite out of some Dutch chocolate.

From Free West Media, according to the mayor of Amsterdam, about half of the women in the city are intimidated on the streets.

From VRT NWS, the Democratic Republic of Congo invites Belgian King Filip to celebrations marking 60 years of its independence - from Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, about 1,000 young people stage a climate march in Brussels.  (Did the march go anywhere near the Chinese embassy?  If you read Flemish, read the story at Bruzz.)

From EuroNews, in two days, British and French authorities intercept more than 220 migrants in the English Channel.

From Voice Of Europe, understanding how Brexit will affect the euro.

From the Express, for a post-Brexit trade deal, France demands "no restrictions" for its fishermen in U.K. waters.

From the Evening Standard, to protest BP's sponsorship of the British Museum, climate activists re-create the Trojan Horse.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Prime Minister Boris Johnson appoints the U.K.'s first ever female ambassador to the U.S.

From the (Irish) Independent, reports of an Irish race horse's death appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

From the Irish Examiner, hundreds of school children in the Irish cities of Dublin, Cork and Waterford stage a climate strike ahead of tomorrow's general election.

From The Conservative Woman, Boris the Spider's "rolling Brexit show" will include month-by-month special events.

From The Stream, Senator Romney wanted Christians "marginalized and voiceless".

From CNBC, an appeals court dismisses a lawsuit by congressional Democrats claiming that President Trump violated the Constitutional emoluments clause.  (via Townhall)

From WPVI-TV, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) did not violated any laws when she tore up her copy of President Trump's SOTU address.  (The key word, from what I understand, is "copy".)

From the Daily Caller, my governor (R) thinks that Congress did not do its job on impeachment.

From the New York Post, inspired by her uncle, a loan female graduate joins an elite NYPD unit.

And from Twitchy, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson takes apart the latest pro-illegal alien bill from the House Democrats.

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