Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

On a Wednesday in the middle of another very warm week, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court rules twice in favor of religious liberty, both by a 7-2 margin.

From FrontpageMag, random thoughts from Larry Elder.

From Townhall, how people get fired for telling the truth.

From The Washington Free Beacon, universities increase tuition and decrease classroom instruction.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the World Bank, migrants in the U.S. sent $19 billion to China and $38 billion to Mexico during 2019.  (The article doesn't say what portion of these migrants are in the U.S. legally or illegally.)

From The Federalist, not only was BLM violent from the start, but the politicians and the media knew it.

From American Thinker, allegations of racism run amok.

From CNS News, congresscritters Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) propose ending life sentences and closing federal prisons.

From LifeZette, right-wing journalist Sean Hannity goes after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) and New York's Mr. Bill (D).

From NewsBusters, The New York Times is already making excuses for former Vice President Biden to duck debates with President Trump.

From Canada Free Press, the risks from renewable energy should be reported.

From CBC News, the CFL team Edmonton Eskimos "accelerates" their review of a possible name change.

From Global News, should Canadians worry about more U.S. dairy products arriving due to the CUSMA?

From CTV News, Montreal police unveil their new policy on street checks.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian journalists sue President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly putting them at risk of catching the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, why coronavirus lockdowns are useless.

From the Express, Spain drops its claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar, which will help post-Brexit trade talks.

From the Evening Standard, one in eight of young black men in London were stopped by police during this past May.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. nominates Dr. Liam Fox to be the director-general of the World Trade Organization.

From the (Irish) Independent, electric car owners in Ireland will have to pay for recharging their batteries.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Water lifts its ban on hosepipes due to heavy rainfall.

From VRT NWS, travelers in Belgium returning from "red" areas must self-isolate and get a coronavirus test or go to jail.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's coronavirus lockdown did not stifle the drug trade.  (Does anyone believe that someone willing to traffic drugs is also conscientious enough to obey a coronavirus stay-at-home order?)

From the NL Times, an appeals court in the Hague rejected a request by lawyers for Dutch politician Geert Wilders for further investigation into the hate speech allegations that he faces.

From Dutch News, farmers who drive their tractors on highways in the Dutch province of Brabant face being fined.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany debates is policing methods.

From the CPH Post, Denmark now allows gatherings of up to 100 people.

From Polskie Radio, police in Warsaw step up tests for alcohol and drugs on bus drivers.

From Radio Prague, over 10,000 historical books will be moved to the library at Strahov Monastery in Prague.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Lubomirski Palace in Slovakia's Stará Ľubovňa Castle is given a facelift.

From The Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, there should be a strategy that focuses on the needs of the E.U.

From Daily News Hungary, some places in Hungary that you might not know about.

From Hungary Today, Hungary still has some coronavirus clusters.

From About Hungary, according to Orban, "there are two competing concepts for the future of Europe".

From Russia Today, according to a poll, most Russian doctors don't trust the official statistics on the coronavirus.

From Sputnik International, a research center in Moscow where potential coronavirus vaccines are being developed gets struck by lightning, with a resulting fire.

From The Moscow Times, what a list of Russian "instructional" court cases have in common.

From Romania-Insider, Romania reports a record one-day increase in new coronavirus cases.

From Novinite, five soccer players from the team Lokomotiv Plovdiv and some fans contract the coronavirus during victory celebrations.

From The Sofia Globe, the mayor of Plovdiv, Bulgaria will limit mass public events due to a rise in coronavirus cases in his city.

From Radio Bulgaria, the first edition of the Bulgarian novel Under The Yoke was published in English.

From Ekathimerini, migrants in Greece go from island camps into the cities.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece further relaxes its coronavirus restrictions.

From Balkan Insight, video footage shows police brutality during a coronavirus protest in Serbia.

From Euractiv, more on clashes in Belgrade as Serbia reimposes its coronavirus curfew.

From Total Croatia News, no large foreign cruise ships have been seen in Croatia's part of the Adriatic Sea since March.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia introduces new rules for gatherings and stricter border controls with Croatia and Austria.  (If you read Slovenian, read the story at RTV SLO.)

From the Malta Independent, some Maltese parliamentcritters from the Nationalist Party want their leader Adrian Delia to step down.

From Malta Today, parliamentcritters who want Delia to resign prefer Claudio Grech to succeed him as leader of the Nationalist Party.

From ANSA, a man in Milan, Italy is arrested for allegedly spreading ISIS propaganda.

From SwissInfo, a mountain in the Swiss Alps named after racist scientist Louis Agassiz will keep its name.  (A glacial lake in North America was also named after Agassiz.)

From France24, France rules out a "total lockdown" if there is a second wave of the coronavirus.

From RFI, French parliamentcritters will try to decide the next step in the restoration of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral.

From Free West Media, four immigrants board a bus without tickets or masks and allegedly beat the driver to where his is brain-dead.

From El País, according to a poll, 71 percent of Spanish health workers had no means to fight the coronavirus.

From EuroNews, the Spanish government wants to turn over to public ownership a house currently owned by the heirs of the late dictator Francisco Franco.

From The Portugal News, six foreigners escape a holding center at the Faro, Portugal airport.

From The Stream, why the toppling of statues is often followed by worse behavior.

From The Daily Wire, New York's Mr. Bill (D) declines to sign police reform bills after as violence and murders skyrocket.

From Breitbart, the BBC appears to regard the 7/7/2005 terror attacks in London as little more than an exploding bus.

From Fox News, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms (D), who recently tested positive for the coronavirus, is criticized for an earlier news conference in which she did not wear a mask.

From the Daily Caller, Arizona is in short supply of ICU beds.

From the New York Post, Major League Soccer is back, but is this a good development?

And from WPVI-TV, Hasbro announces changes to its game Scrabble, which will not permit slurs.

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