Monday, September 14, 2020

Monday Mania - Part 1

On a pleasant but manic Monday in the middle of September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one-party college campuses are "not intellectually healthy".

From FrontpageMag, if former Vice President Biden wins, so does China.

From Townhall, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) stumps her Democrat opponent with one question.

From The Washington Free Beacon, record high gun sales occur in nine swing states.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden assembles his lawyers.

From The Federalist, a new book rebukes those who call the American founding ideals racist.

From American Thinker, BLM and ProFa are the Democratic Party's stormtroopers.

From CNS News, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) warns that our freedoms are "one vote away" from becoming nonexistent.

From LifeZette, President Trump campaigns in some smaller battleground states.

From NewsBusters, an MSNBC host lets Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) ramble on and on.

From Canada Free Press, New York's Mr. Bill's hate for rich people and business owners is exposed.

From CBC News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urges Canadians to be vigilante as more coronavirus cases are confirmed.

From Global News, a train derails near Hope, British Columbia, Canada.

From CTV News, a man in Moncton, Nova Scotia, Canada is arrested for allegedly transporting 310,000 illegal cigarettes.

From TeleSUR, forest fires threaten nine municipalities and a national park in Bolivia.

From The Conservative Woman, local councils play fast and loose with U.K. taxpayers' money.

From the Express, according to Tory parliamentcritter Michael Fabricant, the E.U. is "fighting desperately like a wounded animal" to keep other countries from leaving after Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges parliamentcritters to support his Brexit bill to guarantee the U.K.'s "political integrity".

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's plan to live with the coronavirus.

From the Irish Examiner, the Irish party Sinn Féin decides to support a "dying with dignity" bill.

From VRT NWS, Belgium continues to report more new coronavirus cases.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's coronavirus testing capacity reaches 30,000 per day.

From the NL Times, Dutch police end two illegal coronavirus parties.

From Dutch News, the Dutch are advised no avoid the coronavirus test hotline on Monday morning.

From Deutsche Welle, over 50 German-speaking writers call for the release of Saudi Arabian dissident blogger Raif Badawi.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government warns that more coronavirus restrictions are expected.

From Polskie Radio, according to the chief of staff for Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish politicians are united in support of a sovereign Belarus.

From Radio Prague, Czech conservationists launch a program to monitor wildcats along the border with Slovakia.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia eases its restrictions for mass events, but will designate the Czech Republic as a "red" zone.

From the Hungary Journal, U.S. President Trump invites Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto to Washington.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian town of Tállya might be the geographical center of Europe.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Promotions.)

From Hungary Today, hundreds of people protest in Budapest against coronavirus restrictions.  (The picture in the HT article might be from Poland since the t-shirt worn by the man in the picture includes the Polish word myślenie, which means "thinking".  If you read Hungarian, read the story at HVG and a related story at Magyar Orvosi Kamara.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic "calls for a different strategy".

From Russia Today, Belarusian authorities revoke the passport of Catholic Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz for criticizing the government.  (What are these "freedom of speech" and "separation of church and state" you speak of?)

From Sputnik International, Presidents Putin (Russia) and Lukashenko (Belarus) in Sochi, Russia.

From The Moscow Times, three new political parties will take part in Russia's Duma elections next year.

From EuroNews, Russia agrees to loan Belarus €1.2 billion.

From Free West Media, a sociologist wins a seat on the State Council of Russia's Komi Republic - while being held hostage in Libya.

From Romania-Insider, school starts today in Romania, under coronavirus safety rules.  (If you read Romania, read the story at HotNews.)

From Novinite, Bulgarians observe Holy Cross Day.

From The Sofia Globe, rules for Bulgaria's new school year.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protests in Bulgaria go on for the 68th day.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's coast guard searches near the island of Crete for a reportedly sunk boat that was carrying 16 migrants.

From the Greek Reporter, a video contest honors Europe's smallest school, on the Greek island of Arkioi.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković visits Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Croats remember the 1993 Uzdol massacre.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia's Constitutional Court is given the task of determining whether the coronavirus measures from the National Civil Protection Headquarters are constitutional.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Total Slovenia News, according to Prime Minister Janez Janša, Croatia has no plans to join the Visegrád Group.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese customs authorities find 9.85 kilos of she-don't-lie in the carry-on bag of a woman traveling from Spain.

From Malta Today, Malta establishes a 10-cent reward for used beverage containers.

From ANSA, Italian students return to school.

From SwissInfo, Swiss universities use a "hybrid approach" to deal with the coronavirus.

From France24, stricter coronavirus measures are imposed in the French cities of Bordeaux and Marseilles as the disease surges.

From RFI, a sixth person dies from the coronavirus at a nursing home in Aveyron, France.

From ReMix, according to journalist Eric Zemmour, the French people know how is committing assaults and violent crimes, but the media covers it up.

From El País, Catalonia Day celebrations expose divisions expose divisions between the region's separatist parties.

From The Portugal News, Portugal's National Republican Guard finds 58 illegal camping offenses on the Vicentina Coast.

From Euractiv, European Roma experience human rights abuses during coronavirus lockdowns.

From The Stream, if left-wing Christians were correct, "the Gospel would be a cancer".

From Military History Matters, a new walkway gives visitors a new access to the HMS Victory.

From Space War, Chinese investment in Australia decreases as tensions increase between the two countries.

From The Daily Wire, a man in Rochester, New York yells "all lives matter!" to a crowd of left-wing protesters.

From the Daily Caller, President Trump argues with California's natural resources secretary on the cause of wildfires.

From WPVI-TV, phosphine gas, possibly a hint of life, is found in Venus's clouds.

From the New York Post, the New York City Council considers banning landlords from conducting criminal background checks on prospective tenants.

And from The Babylon Bee, attendees at a political rally boo as a football game breaks out.

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