Monday, February 17, 2020

Stories For President's Day - Part 1

As you're celebrating American presidents, from the first George W. (most definitely not Bush) to the Donald, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Virginia state legislature's Judiciary Committee delays Governor Blackface's (D) gun control measure by a year.

From FrontpageMag, a GOP office in Eureka, California is repeatedly vandalized.

From Townhall, speaking in Angola, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defends President Trump's latest travel ban.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a mostly black American group launches the 1776 Project to counter the 1619 Project.

From the Washington Examiner, a video from 2016 shows former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg claiming to be able to teach anyone how to farm.

From The Federalist, the cruel realities faced by the media's "never-Trump waterboys".

From American Thinker and the "taste of your own medicine" department, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) has 12 Democratic primary challengers.  (That's one for every year, according to her, that the earth has left.  Two years ago, she defeated then-congresscritter Joe Crowley in a primary.)

From CNS News and the "thanks for the warning" department, former Vice President Biden claims that his administration would be "one of the most progress" in U.S. history.

From LifeZette, in one writer's opinion, the five best American presidents, and the five worst.  (His list of the five worst does not include my own choice.)

From NewsBusters, CBS skips over alleged "gross sexual comments" swirling around Bloomberg.

From Canada Free Press, an open letter to Attorney General William Barr.

From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a group of cabinet ministers conclude a meeting to discuss the country's anti-pipeline protests.

From Global News, anti-pipeline protesters block the Thousand Islands Bridge in Gananoque, Ontario, which leads to the U.S.

From CTV News, parents living in the Vancouver neighborhood of Olympic Village are still waiting for the school that was promised ten years ago.

From TeleSUR, the bribery trial of former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa resumes.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's human rights minister comments on the case of Kuwaiti man who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl and then fled from Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, on one week, Turkey detains 1,773 illegal irregular migrants.

From Turkish Minute, a social media campaign results in the lifting of a passport restriction for the mother of an eight-year-old cancer patient.

From Rûdaw, due to fears of the coronavirus, Chinese restaurants in Erbil, Iraq lose customers.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot House will vote on a bill regulating the sale of alcohol to minors.

From The Syrian Observer, meet the first Syrian woman to lead an opposition party.

From Arutz Sheva, a video shows an attempted stabbing at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron, West Bank.

From The Times Of Israel, a Lebanese man who spied on Hezbollah begs Israel to not abandon him.

From The Jerusalem Post, airstrikes heavily damage Iranian Quds Force facilities at the Damascus airport.

From YNetNews, according to Palestinian Authority officials, Israel "holds the key to the next chapter" of relations between Israel and Palestine.

From the Egypt Independent, a statue of Pharaoh Ramses II is installed in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

From Egypt Today, 617 Egyptians who had traveled to Wuhan, China are released from quarantine.

From StepFeed, the UAE becomes a "student haven" after abolishing homework in its public schools.

From The New Arab, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, Israeli leaders Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu are no more different than Coke and Pepsi.

From Radio Farda, Iranian officials attribute electricity blackouts to a shortage of natural gas for power plants.

From IranWire, through arts and education, Iran wages a "soft war" in Syria.

From Dawn, seven people are killed and 21 others injured in an apparent suicide attack in Quetta, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan has had very little help in dealing with its refugee crisis.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani cabinet will consider establishing a commision on the rights of children.

From The Nation, at a mosque in the Aabpara area of Islamabad, Pakistan, two clerics settle their dispute the old-fashioned way.

From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces detain two terrorists and detonate four suicide bombs.

From The Hans India, according to Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, India's governing party disrespected women by saying that they don't deserve Army command posts.

From the Hindustan Times, a court in Delhi, India sets the execution date for four convicted of gang-rape and murder.

From ANI, the bird population in India is reportedly declining "catastrophically".

From India Today, Delhi police meet with a court-appointed mediator between the government and the anti-Citizenship Act protesters in the Shaheen Bagh neighborhood.

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to Bangladeshi police, 82 percent of the people arrested for involvement in terrorism were radicalized through social media.

From the Daily Mirror, 12 suspects suspected of aiding and abetting one of the Easter Sunday terror attackers have their remand extended.

From the Colombo Page, the Indian Navy arrests three Sri Lankan fishermen for allegedly attempting to smuggle gold.

From Palestinian Media Watch, prior to ramming his car into a group of Israeli soldiers, the driver published a poem on Facebook and quoted the Koran.

From Israel Hayom, the history of Islamic non-aggression pacts.

From Christian Concern, why do Islamists have an easier time claiming asylum than persecuted Christians?

From Gatestone Institute, more on the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that allows summary deportations of illegal migants.  (See the related story in Free West Media linked this past Saturday.)

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto justifies calling for prayers in the battle against the coronavirus.  (In my opinion, if Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem can pray about the coronavirus, as reported yesterday in The Jerusalem Post, so can Muslims in Indonesia.)

From The Straits Times, Singapore residents and long-term passholders returning from China will be required to stay at home for 14 days.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysia's deputy health minister, cruise ships from China will not be allowed to enter Malaysia.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad, the first Malaysian to contract the coronavirus has recovered.

From The Mainichi, the coronavirus cancels the Japanese Emperor's public birthday event.

From The Stream, left-wingers angry at President Trump's actions at the Daytona 500 are "running on fumes".

From Breitbart, network anchor Al Sharpton calls on former Mayor Bloomberg to make "some sort of effort" on behalf of people who were "scarred" by police stop and frisk policies.

From the New York Post, in a new campaign ad, Bloomberg goes after the supporters of Senator Socialism (I-VT).

From LifeNews, a man from Buncrana, Ireland is jailed for repeatedly kicking his pregnant girlfriend.

From The Washington Times, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) watches a round-up of Asian carp from a lake in Kentucky.

And from The Babylon Bee, Bloomberg goes to the Daytona 500 and gives out speeding tickets.

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