On a mild cloudy Tuesday, on which President Trump's 2020 State of the Union address is scheduled, here are some things going on:
From National Review, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg gives a victory speech for the Iowa caucus despite the results not being known.
From FrontpageMag, Governor Blackface (D-VA) smears law-abiding gun owners are terrorists, racists and kooks. (If anyone thinks that I'm smearing Virginia's governor by calling him "Governor Blackface", please note that he admits being one of two men in a picture in his medical school yearbook, one of whom is in blackface while the other wears a klan outfit, but doesn't remember which of the two was him. While I have no way of knowing which is which, I've decided that "Governor Blackface" is less inflammatory that "Governor Klansman".)
From Townhall, the RNC and President Trump note the irony of the technical difficulties which the Democrats had in Iowa.
From The Washington Free Beacon, two Senators warn Georgia against backsliding into authoritarianism. (The article discusses the Georgia that produced Joseph Stalin, not the Georgia that produced Jimmy Carter and Newt Gingrich.)
From the Washington Examiner, critics of Rush Limbaugh celebrate his cancer diagnosis.
From The Federalist, five way in which the impeachment has helped Trump and hurt the Democrats.
From American Thinker, if you want to see corruption, you need to look back some years.
From CNS News, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) points out how Democrats who want to run health care can't count people standing under signs.
From LifeZette, "what we know so far" about what happened at the Democratic caucus in Iowa.
From NewsBusters, CBS declares that the winner of the Iowa Democratic choas, er, uh, caucus is Trump.
From Canada Free Press, the coronavirus, Airbnb, and the real racists.
From CBC News, a new hotel in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada faces controversy for having the word "slave" in its name.
From Global News, Canada's Federal Court of Appeal dismisses four challenges from First Nations groups to an expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
From CTV News, a man is arrested after his false claim of having the coronavirus diverts the plane he was on back to the Toronto airport.
From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Maduro gives a speech to commemorate National Dignity Day.
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. 50-pence coin commemorating Brexit faces controversy for omitting an Oxford comma.
From Snouts in the Trough, is there someone behind the coronavirus epidemic?
From the Express, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon is humiliated from learning that an independent Scotland would not qualify for E.U. membership.
From the Evening Standard, another part of an unexploded bomb from World War II is found in the London neighborhood of Soho.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. government is warned that legislation that would delay the release of terrorist prisoners could free them without restrictions.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish citizens in China are advised to leave due to the coronavirus.
From the Irish Examiner, a Northern Irish man wanted for deaths of 39 Vietnamese citizens in a truck in Essex, England was also allegedly involved in two other migrant smuggling operations.
From VRT NWS, one of nine Belgians repatriated from Wuhan, China tests positive for the coronavirus.
From The Brussels Times, the statue Mannekin Pis puts on hospital clothes to raise cancer awareness.
From the NL Times, 19 migrants from Albania are found in a Romanian truck at the Dutch port of Hoek van Holland.
From Dutch News, in the Netherlands, they tax your dog. (If you read Dutch, read the story at CBS(dot)nl, which I don't think is related to the U.S. company CBS.)
From Deutsche Welle, a district court rules that medieval anti-Semitic artwork may remain on the Stadtkirche in Wittenberg, Germany.
From the CPH Post, according to a recent study, a new dialect of Danish has emerged in the district of Aarhus West, in Aarhus, Denmark.
From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda signs into law controversial rules for disciplining judges.
From Radio Prague and the "good luck with that" department, the group League of Open Men urges Czechs to avoid drinking alcohol for the rest of February.
From The Slovak Spectator, police in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia investigate Parliament Speaker Andrej Danko for possible plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. (If you read Slovak, read the story at Denník N.)
From Daily News Hungary, people entering Hungary at six border crossings will be checked for the coronavirus.
From Hungary Today, the Hungarian party Fidesz's membership in the European People's Party is suspended indefinitely.
From About Hungary, four things that must change, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, in the E.U.'s next budget.
From Euractiv, "how many Orbans can dance on the head of a pin?"
From Russia Today, China tests a Russian anti-viral drug to learn if it can help control the coronavirus.
From Sputnik International, a Russian court upholds the pre-trial detention of alleged spy Paul Whelan.
From The Moscow Times, under new guidelines being considered by the Russian Orthodox Church, priests will no longer be allowed to bless nuclear weapons. (Yes, Russian priests do that sort of thing. What is this "separation of church and state" you speak of?)
From Romania-Insider, Romania's "most awaited infrastructure project" is stymied by a beetle.
From Novinite, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev criticizes the government led by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov as not working for the people.
From The Sofia Globe, the U.S. will announce the name of a Bulgarian who will not be allowed to enter the U.S.
From Radio Bulgaria, some useful advice for Bulgarians after Brexit.
From Ekathimerini, in Athens, a newspaper publisher's car is firebombed, and an ATM is blown up.
From the Greek Reporter, migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos demonstrate for the second straight day.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, as far as the foreign ministers of Greece and Italy are concerned, the two Memoranda of Understanding between Turkey and Libya are illegal.
From Total Croatia News, an exhibition on the sufferings of Jews during World War Ii will be held in Zagreb, Croatia.
From Total Slovenia News, a lynx kitten in Slovenia is found to be a descendant of a male lynx imported from Romania to diversify the gene pool.
From the Malta Independent, Malta's justice minister meets with NGOs to discuss domestic violence while a protest occurs outside the Parliament building.
From Malta Today, more on the protest near the Maltese Parliament building.
From ANSA, the three Italian doctors who isolated the coronavirus are invited to the Sanremo song fest. (According to a story published yesterday, they isolated the virus's DNA.)
From SwissInfo, how do weapons from neutral Switzerland find their way into combat zones?
From France24, a French teenager is put under police protection after making an anti-Islam rant on Instagram.
From RFI, a Russian firm sues the French "far-right" party National Rally over an unpaid loan.
From Free West Media, a jihadist is wounded attempting a knife attack at a gendarmerie in Moselle, France. (If you read French, read the story at La Depeche.)
From EuroNews, police clear the last migrant camp in Paris.
From El País, a look at Spanish King Felipe's private life.
From The Portugal News, Portuguese researchers develop a platform by which all Europeans will be able to access their medical records.
From The Stream, the Super Bowl halftime show did not empower women, but debased them.
From CNN, a cruise ship with over 3,500 people on board is quarantined off the coast of Yokohama, Japan after a passenger tests positive for the coronavirus. (via AOL)
From the Daily Caller, an illegal alien from Guatemala who was deported after killing four children in a bus accident pleads guilty to illegally re-entering the U.S.
From WPVI-TV, a look at guests whom the White House has invited to attend President Trump's State of the Union address.
From Twitchy, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) will not attend the State of the Union address, but still has a treat for her fans.
And from the New York Post, to celebrate winning the Super Bowl, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce chugs beer from the "Lombardi Luge".
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