Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Wednesday Wanderings - Part 1

On a warm sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why Republicans are willing to talk about abortion but Democrats aren't.

From FrontpageMag, white wine has a whiteness problem.

From Townhall, Democrats make charges of racism when it's convenient for them.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the mayor of Portland, Oregon thinks that the rioting can "burn itself out".

From the Washington Examiner, speaking at the Republican convention, the First Family points out how President Trump fights for the forgotten.

From The Federalist, two people are killed in riots in Wisconsin, as Governor Tony Evers (D) refuses federal assistance.

From American Thinker, whether former Vice President Biden will acknowledge it or not, the U.S. is beating the coronavirus.

From CNS News, according to Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal), Biden "will defend and expand" abortion rights.

From LifeZette, a professor at the University of Missouri is "relieved of" his teaching duties for making a joke about Wuhan, China in his class.

From NewsBusters, celebrities show their hate for First Lady Melania Trump during her convention speech.

From Canada Free Press, yes, we on the right are indeed the enemies of Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) state.

From CBC News, Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne meets his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and asks to China to release two detained Canadians.

From Global News, according to the Ontario provincial police watchdog, the officers involved in Regis Korchinski-Paquet's death will not face criminal charges.

From CTV News, Ontario unveils its plan to deal with coronavirus outbreaks in schools.

From TeleSUR, a prisoner in Chile on a hunger strike is transferred to a hospital.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. has had tough talk and soft action on illegal migrants.

From Snouts In The Trough, is Paris getting some (multi)cultural enrichment?

From the Express, the E.U. sets a deadline date for a Brexit deal.

From the Evening Standard, a 166 million-year-old dinosaur bone is found on the Scottish island of Eigg.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a Labour parliamentcritter shows his hate for Brexit supporters.

From the (Irish) Independent, when attending a wedding in Ireland, be sure to wear your mask.

From the Irish Examiner, archaeologists find a 5,700-year-old house in the Irish county of Cork.

From VRT NWS, the Belgian province of Antwerp relaxes some of its coronavirus measures.

From The Brussels Times, according to parliamentcritter Ahmed Laaouej, Belgium is "not far" from getting a new federal government.

From the NL Times, Amazon bans products depicting the Dutch folk character Zwarte Piet or using his name.

From Dutch News, a man is given 12 months in jail, with four suspended, for placing a fake bomb in front of a Jewish restaurant in Amsterdam.

From Free West Media, Dutch authorities ignore violence against LGBTs in their country's asylum centers.

From Deutsche Welle, a refugee from Syria is again a successful businessman in Berlin, Germany.

From the CPH Post, according to medical experts, the coronavirus is under control in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, Polish political parties jointly call for the release of political prisoners in Belarus.

From ReMix, according to Minister of Agriculture Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, Poland's high-quality food export sector is bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks name their new bridge over the Danube.

From Daily News Hungary, the National Archives of Hungary opens a new exhibition.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story in Magyar Nemzet.)

From Hungary Today, the UEFA Super Cup Final will be held in Budapest, with fans in the stands.

From About Hungary, Hungary needs to further develop its road infrastructure.

From Russia Today, Russia's defense ministry claims that the Russian army has solved its hazing problem.

From Sputnik International, according to Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, 27 countries wish to purchase Russia's coronavirus vaccine.

From The Moscow Times, the governor of the Russian region of Tyva has contracted the coronavirus for the second time.  (The region is also known as Tuva.)

From EuroNews, police arrest dozens of people in protests across Belarus.

From Romania-Insider, Romania considers setting up an animal police.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's Ministry of Tourism puts out three ads to promote little-known places.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Justice Minister Danail Kirilov reportedly resigns.

From Radio Bulgaria, 30 years after an arson attack, a former Communist Party House in Sofia, Bulgaria against witnesses protests.

From Ekathimerini, Greece plans to send aid to Lebanon.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek coast guard, naval and merchant vessels rescue 96 migrants despite attempted interference by Turkish coast guard ships.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Prime Minister-designate Zoran Zaev, North Macedonia's new government will focus on domestic affairs.

From Balkan Insight, prosecutors in The Hague call for a second genocide conviction for former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic.

From Total Croatia News, a brief guide to Croatian dogs.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian author and Holocaust survivor Boris Pahor celebrates his 107th birthday.

From the Malta Independent, a foreign travel agency admits to illegally painting red arrows on protected rubble walls on the islands of Malta and Gozo.

From Malta Today, according to Malta's Nationalist Party, the Labour Party did promise ferry service between Malta and Gozo.

From ANSA, the Italian government plans to challenge an order by Sicily Governor Nello Musumeci to close the island's migrant centers.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland plans to clarify the rights of "provisionally admitted foreigners".

From France24, France records almost 5,500 new coronavirus cases, the most in a day since mid-April.

From RFI, France joins Italy, Greece and Cyprus for naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean.

From El País, a study of summer camps in Spain shows a low coronavirus transmission rate among children.

From Euractiv, Spain will not declare another coronavirus emergency, but will allow regions to impose lockdowns.

From The Portugal News, Portugal has over 5.2 million personal mobile carbon dioxide producers.

From The Stream, the truth about coronavirus science denial.

From The Daily Signal, Michigan's coronavirus response stretches its constitution and the U.S. Constitution.

From The American Conservative, President Trump's executive orders on prescription drugs will make them more affordable.

From Breitbart, Border patrol agents arrest a previously deported Mexican with a murder conviction after he hid on a train to reenter the U.S.

From The Daily Wire, fake black person Shaun King claims that naming police officers is not against the rules on Twitter.

From Fox News, a woman in Ohio loses her medical license after threatening to give Jews wrong medicines.

From the Daily Caller, nearly five million Americans buy a gun for the first time in 2020.

And from the New York Post, rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West qualifies for the ballot in Idaho, Minnesota and Tennessee.

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