Thursday, February 20, 2020

Stories For 2/20/2020

As I once again return from my normal Thursday runaround, I've run across some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Socialism (I-VT) is wrong to say that Americans are no better off than we were 45 years ago.

From FrontpageMag, would a democratic socialist government be legal in the United States?

From Townhall, half of the candidates for mayor of Baltimore have faced criminal charges.  (The current Speaker of the U.S. House, although representing California, is the daughter of one Baltimore mayor and sister of another.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, presidential candidate Tom Steyer (D) names the winner of last night's Democratic debate.

From the Washington Examiner, former Senator (D-MA) and presidential candidate John Kerry gives his assessment of the Democratic debate.

From The Federalist, the San Francisco Giants shun former player Aubrey Huff because of his support for President Trump.

From American Thinker, the one word missing from last night's debate.

From CNS News, Iran's supreme leader verbally attacks the U.S., using lines from Senator Socialism.

From LifeZette, former National Security Advisor John Bolton blasts the Democrats over impeachment.

From NewsBusters, networks "savage" former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's night at the Democratic debate.

From Canada Free Press, while farmers feed cities, Democrats feed hate.

From Free West Media, Bosnian Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic warns of another influx of illegal migrants into Europe.

From EuroNews, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange plans to seek asylum in France.

From Euractiv, fossil fuel company Shell has plans for a 100-megawatt storage battery to be constructed in western England.

From Voice Of Europe, a Belgian court sentences a Turkish migrant who falsely claimed to be an imam to six years in prison for sexually abusing young girls.  (If you read French, read the story at Sudinfo.)

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s Labour Party must purge itself of Stalinists.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, migrants working for the German civil service sell legal residence permits.

From The JC, the Labour Party suspends a councillor in Blackburn, England who allegedly suggested that Jews created ISIS.

From MEMRI, ISIS supporters urge Muslims in prison in France, Belgium and the Netherlands to attack their guards.

From Gatestone Institute, residents of Greece's Aegean islands want their lives back.

From The Stream, the "evil wordsmiths" whose euphemisms help us accept what was unacceptable.

From The Verge, New Mexico's attorney general sues Google for allegedly collecting information on students through their Chromebooks.

From the Daily Caller, open borders might end the welfare state, but it's not worth the social cost.

From Bloomberg Law, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down a Mississippi law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.  (The Bloomberg websites are part of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's media network, if I'm not mistaken.  The story comes via LifeNews.)

From the New York Post, Michael Bloomberg (D) "shatters" the record for TV and radio ad spending.

And from The Jakarta Post, an Indonesian minister suggests that the country's poverty rate can be reduced if the rich marry the poor.  (via Channel News Agency)

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