Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

Here on a cool rainy Wednesday are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump breaks Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal), or maybe she breaks herself.

From FrontpageMag, at his State of the Union address, Trump "rises to the occasion".

From Townhall, former South Carolina Governor and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley (R) has a message for Democrat congresscritters who boycotted the SOTU.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to have had some height insecurity.

From the Washington Examiner, the man who had Obama-inspired tingles in his leg would like to see congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) get the Democratic nomination for president.

From The Federalist, 13 takeaways from Trump's "epic" SOTU address.

From American Thinker, "renewable energy fairy tails".

From CNS News, according to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, Pelosi ripping up the text of the SOTU address shows how petty and partisan the Democrats are.

From LifeZette, veteran Democrat political strategist James Carville "sounds the alarm" for his party.

From NewsBusters, the Medal of Freedom going to Rush Limbaugh doesn't sit well with The Washington Post.

From Canada Free Press, at the SOTU, Democrats can't handle the truth.

From CBC News, clients invest money in an apparently non-existent firm in Calgary, Alberta.

From Global News, Canadians evacuated from China due to the coronavirus will be housed at a military base in Trenton, Ontario.

From CTV News, a contagious virus infects salmon on fish farms in British Columbia.

From TeleSUR, for the first time, the U.S. deploys a low-powered nuclear warhead.

From Morocco World News, the city of Agadir hosts Morocco’s first Judeo-Amazigh tolerance forum.

From Turkish Minute, a Boeing 737 airplane skids off the runway at İstanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport and breaks into pieces.

From Rûdaw, at least six people in Erbil, Iraq are arrested for allegedly stealing electricity.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government receives 450 applications for electric vehicle subsidies.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian Army captures several towns and villages in the province of Idleb, despite the presence of Turkish forces.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF develops a new laser-based defense against balloon bombs from Gaza.

From The Times Of Israel, staffers at at kindergarten rush children to safety after a suspected balloon bomb is spotted.

From The Jerusalem Post, a Palestinian teenager is shot dead after throwing a Molotov cocktail at IDF troops in Hebron, West Bank.

From YNetNews, five Israeli citizens are detained at a Moscow airport and then deported.

From the Egypt Independent, more than 90 Egyptian artifacts will be displayed at the Cairo International Airport.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's ministry of health allocates a building for testing travelers coming from Wuhan, China.

From StepFeed, myths about the coronavirus spread faster than the virus itself.

From The New Arab, the economic crisis in Lebanon his Syrian refugees hard.

From Radio Farda, the homes of four journalists based in Tehran are raided.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From IranWire, female Iranian refugees in Greece endure harassment, depression and suicide.

From Dawn, France awards medals to Pakistani Army pilots who rescued a French mountaineer from Nanga Parbat in 2018.

From The Express Tribune, U.K. lawmakers demand an end to alleged atrocities committed in the Indian-controlled part of Jammu and Kashmir.

From Pakistan Today, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's medical treatment is reportedly delayed twice due to the absence of his daughter Maryam Nawaz.

From Khaama Press, Afghan President Ghani orders the merger of two state-owned businesses.

From The Hans India, six months after their state is converted into two territories, Kashmiris face an uncertain future.

From the Hindustan Times, Muslim litigants in the Ayodhya title dispute say that the five-acre plot awarded to them is too far from Ayodhya.

From ANI, Indian President Ram Kovind rejects a mercy petition filed on behalf of one of four men convicted of gang-rape and murder.

From India Today, a leader of the Students Islamic Organisation of India is arrested for allegedly giving a "provocative" speech in the city of Nanded.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From the Dhaka Tribune, the approximately 170,000 Bangladeshis in Lebanon are going through tough times.

From the Daily Mirror, 15 Sri Lankans are under medicare observation due to the coronavirus outbreak.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan defense ministry announces a week-long grace period for people to hand over illegal firearms.

From ABC News, an Indonesian woman is acquitted of blasphemy charges for taking a dog to a mosque.

From The Ferret, "Islamist violence in Burkina Faso could displace 900,000 people".

From Pink News, an Uber driver planned to drive a van into a gay pride parade in London.

From Palestinian Media Watch, an animated video of Israelis being murdered is popular with children.

From Gatestone Institute, are female members of ISIS victims or perpetrators?

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia will not penalize Chinese tourists for overstaying their visas due to the ban on travel between the two countries.

From The Straits Times, a Chinese tourist group linked to coronavirus transmission in Singapore visited at least six places in the country.

From the Borneo Post, two Malaysians evacuated from Wuhan, China test positive for the coronavirus.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian civil servants and their families will be brought back from China.

From The Mainichi, a 12-year-old girl in Omihachiman, Japan who suffers from selective mutism opens her own dessert shop.

From The Stream, Speaker Pelosi's speech-tearing tantrum will backfire on her.

From WPVI-TV, a rock-throwing man shot by an undercover Philadelphia cop is still at large after police arrest a wrong suspect.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Schiff cheers Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) for having "moral courage" in voting to convict President Trump.

From LifeNews, pro-life Democrats claim to oppose abortion but still vote for pro-abortion presidential candidates.

From Twitchy, the man who sang about a "small town" endorses a presidential candidate who is not from any small town.

And from the New York Post, for the first time since 1964, the name of New York's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will be spelled correctly.

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