Monday, March 2, 2020

March Monday Mania - Part 1

On the first Monday in March, here are some manic things going on:

From National Review, see ya 'round, former Mayor Pete.

From FrontpageMag, a holdover from the Obama administration helped bring the coronavirus to the U.S.

From Townhall, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) drops out of the presidential race.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Democrat veteran of the Obama defense department runs for congress in Minnesota.

From the Washington Examiner, gun-controllers in the Virginia legislature make progress.  (Sadly, I mean "progress" by their definition.)

From The Federalist, how to prepare for a coronavirus quarantine.

From American Thinker, officials admit that President Trump saved lives and spared the U.S. the worst of the coronavirus.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter John Garamendi (D-Cal), the Democrats "will go down in flames" if they nominate Senator Socialism (I-VT).

From LifeZette, actress Deborah Messing tries to blame Trump for the coronavirus in the U.S.

From NewsBusters, ABC worries that man-made climate change could make coffee scarce.

From Canada Free Press, Senator Socialism praises "idyllic socialism that never existed".

From CBC News, construction starts on part of the GasLink pipeline.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to speak at mining convention in Toronto which has been targeted by protesters.

From CTV News, Canada issues a travel advisory for eight regions of Italy.

From TeleSUR, citizens of Guyana vote in an election today.

From The Portugal News, Portugal confirms its first two cases of the coronavirus.

From El País, a Spanish actor is acquitted of "offending religious sentiment".

From France24, the Louvre in Paris stays closed for a second day.

From RFI, French unions call for new strikes against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform bill.

From SwissInfo, to deal with the coronavirus, Switzerland issues rules for hankies and handshakes.

From ANSA, the Vatican opens the archives of Pope Pius XII.

From Free West Media, a look at Italy's coronavirus "patient zero".

From the Malta Independent, Malta will test anyone showing respiratory problems after visiting any country affected by the coronavirus.

From Malta Today, how prepared is Malta to deal with an epidemic?

From Euractiv, Austria warns that it will stop any migrants from rushing its borders.

From Total Slovenia News, why has no one in Slovenia tested positive for the coronavirus?

From Total Croatia News, Croatia is prepared for a possible migrant wave.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the UNHCR says that it cannot suspend the right to seek asylum.

From Balkan Insight, Greece stops the wave of refugees at its border with Turkey.

From Ekathimerini, according to the UNHCR, Greece has no right to stop accepting asylum applications.

From the Greek Reporter, the E.U. border agency Frontex accepts Greece's request for "extraordinary assistance" to guard its borders.

From EuroNews, a young migrant boy dies after his boat capsizes near the Greek island of Lesbos.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will meet with Turkish President Recep Erdoğan in Ankara.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria cancels its National Day celebration on Shipka Peak due to the coronavirus.

From Radio Bulgaria, the prison museum in Veliko Tarnovo commemorates hundreds of Bulgarian revolutionaries.

From Romania-Insider, Bucharest records its highest levels of air pollution.  (If you read Romanian, read related stories at Digi24 and G4Media.)

From Russia Today, a Russian fighter jet "intercepts" an "intruding" plane over the region of Kamchatka.

From Sputnik International, a Russian citizen who traveled to Italy tests positive for the coronavirus.

From The Moscow Times, Russian cossacks are told not to kiss Orthodox icons or the hands of clerics.

From Daily News Hungary, 6,597 people have been apprehended at Hungary's border with Serbia so far this year.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary has tested 4,927 people this year for the coronavirus at its entry points.

From About Hungary, Hungary still has no confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

From The Slovak Spectator, how people voted in the regions and districts of Slovakia.

From Radio Prague, phone booths disappear from Czech cities.  (Just as "video killed the radio star", the cell phone killed the phone booth.)

From Polskie Radio, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland is prepared for the coronavirus.

From Deutsche Welle, what is Germany doing about migrants "stuck on" the E.U.'s "doorstep".

From the NL Times, as the suspected Utrecht tram shooter's trial begins, "Islamic" text on his weapon is reported.

From Dutch News, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte calls Europe for help as the number of coronavirus cases in the Netherlands reaches 18.

From VRT NWS, a Belgian virologist answers questions about the coronavirus.

From The Brussels Times, what does Belgium's coronavirus "emergency plan" mean?

From Voice Of Europe, a 16-year-old Scottish boy is hospitalized after being beaten by a gang of "Asian boys".

From the Express, the U.K. sends 100 negotiators to the E.U.

From the Evening Standard, children in the U.K. play the "coronavirus" game in their playgrounds.  (When I was a Littlefoot, we called that sort of thing "cooties".)

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. government lifts its ban on subsidies for bird choppers.

From the (Irish) Independent, electricity sufficient to power 200,000 homes went to waste in Ireland because its electrical grid couldn't handle all the energy produced by bird choppers.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Health Minister Simon Harris seek Cabinet approval to establish a committee to examine the impact of the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, yes, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's social liberalism matters.

From The Stream, what you should know about an abortion case which the Supreme Court will hear this week.

From Fox News, Senator Socialism's campaign "rails" against the Democrat establishment as other candidates support former Vice President Biden.

From Reason, SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch "throws shade" at the Trump administration for reinterpreting federal gun laws.

From WPVI-TV, a "mysterious odor" causes evacuations in central Philadelphia.

From the New York Post, if you've ever wanted to be an astronaut, now's your chance.

From Twitchy, Biden tries to quote the Declaration of Independence and fails miserably.

And from The Babylon Bee, the U.S. is optimistic about the future because all current presidential candidates are projected to die of old age before the upcoming election.

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