As you're enjoying a day off celebrating the man who connected the Americas to the rest of the world, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) scolds democrats for trying to bring back "religious tests" for judicial nominees.
From FrontpageMag, "anatomy of a racial hoax" involving the late Breonna Taylor.
From Townhall, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) roasts his Democratic colleagues for saying almost nothing about SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett's judicial record.
From The Washington Free Beacon, members of a black church in Wilmington, Delaware which former Vice President Biden claimed to have attended don't remember him ever being there.
From the Washington Examiner, Biden falsely claims that Barrett said that she wanted to get rid of Obamacare, but also warns Democrats against questioning her about her faith.
From The Federalist, five reasons why liberation theology is horrible.
From American Thinker, are recent coronavirus surges fake news?
From CNS News, Judge Barrett would be everything the left celebrates, if she were also on the left.
From LifeZette, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) calls President Trump "incompetent", which quickly backfires.
From NewsBusters, celebrities go nuts - in a negative way - over Judge Barrett.
From Canada Free Press, the anti-Trumpers show off their stupidity.
From CBC News, five ways in which the U.S. election could affect Canada.
From Global News, firefighters in the Canadian province of Alberta make progress against the Devil's Head wildfire.
From CTV News, after some technical difficulties, Canada's coronavirus financial support program is restored.
From TeleSUR, leftist paramilitary candidate Brenda Segovia is arrested in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
From The Conservative Woman, more juggling with the coronavirus numbers.
From Snouts in the Trough, as usual, the BBC supports jihadis while hating Christians.
From the Express, parliamentcritter Ian Blackford (SNP) rants against Prime Minister Boris Johnson for almost three minutes.
From the Evening Standard, Johnson unveils a new "three-tiered" coronavirus lockdown system for England.
From the (U.K.) Independent, three people are shot and injured in the London area of Hackney.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's National Park and Wildlife Services commissions research into the survivor of hares being released into the wild.
From the Irish Examiner, Ireland has no plans for a "circuit breaker" coronavirus lockdown.
From VRT NWS, Leuven, Belgium imposes tighter coronavirus restrictions.
From The Brussels Times and the "what could go wrong?" department, according to the International Prison Observatory, releasing prisoners in Belgium is "essential" to reduce the risk from the coronavirus. (While law-abiding people are told to "stay home", criminals shouldn't have to, so it appears.)
From the NL Times, the Netherlands reports a new high of 6,854 new coronavirus cases.
From Dutch News, Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb tests positive for the coronavirus.
From Deutsche Welle, Germany's confusing "patchwork" of coronavirus restrictions.
From the CPH Post, the Danish government secures an agreement on early pensions, and other items.
From EuroNews, the owner of a restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden removes an artwork depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping after it is called "racist".
From Polskie Radio, experts prepare to neutralize a 5.4-tonne bomb dropped by the U.K. during World War II and found near Świnoujście, Poland. (The area was German territory back then.)
From Radio Prague, cultural buildings in the Czech Republic will be lit up today.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak far-right party leader Marian Kotleba is sentenced to four years and four months in prison for giving out checks having neo-Nazi symbols.
From ReMix, will Slovakia take in nuclear waste from other countries?
From Daily News Hungary, will the Christmas market at Budapest's Vörösmarty Square be canceled this year? (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Napi.)
From Hungary Today, Hungarian customs authorities seized millions of face masks, disinfectants, medicines and other medical items from May to July.
From About Hungary, according to Justice Minister Judit Varga, the E.U.'s rule of law report ignored information submitted by Hungary.
From Russia Today, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin reveals that President Putin gave him bodyguards after an assassination plot was discovered.
From Sputnik International, according to the Gamaleya Research Institute, none of the 2,000 volunteers who received Russia's coronavirus vaccine became infected.
From The Moscow Times, to detect coronavirus infections, Russia goes to the dogs of a rare breed.
From Euractiv, police in Belarus detain dozens of protesters.
From Romania-Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis will receive the Kaiser Otto prize this week.
From Novinite, Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation rules that former Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is the rightful owner of the Tsarska Bistritsa Palace. (The name of the current ruling house in the U.K. was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha before it was changed to Windsor.)
From The Sofia Globe, Roma in Bulgaria still reportedly face "high levels of discrimination".
From Radio Bulgaria, the number of American troops deployed in Bulgaria will not increase.
From Ekathimerini, three Eritreans are arrested for allegedly attempting to travel with fake documents at the Makedonia International Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias accuses Turkey of "subverting stability in the region".
From Independent Balkan News Agency, a Greek court denies mitigating circumstances offered for the party Golden Dawn, and announces that sentences will be handed out tomorrow.
From Balkan Insight, former Bosnian Serb soldiers claim innocence of the killings in the Prijedor area of Bosnia during 1992.
From Total Croatia News, a policeman is shot in Saint Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia.
From Total Slovenia News, a review of the Slovenian textbook Slovenščina od A do Ž.
From the Malta Independent, families of coronavirus victims in Malta are allowed to hold funerals.
From Malta Today, Animal Rights Minister Anton Refalo proposes to forbid zoo visitors from petting tiger cubs. (When fully grown, a tiger is a 400-pound p***y that grabs you.)
From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte rules out another national coronavirus lockdown.
From SwissInfo, why cities in Switzerland can't yet take in refugees from the Moria migrant camp in Greece.
From France24, as coronavirus cases spike, French Prime Minister Jean Castex doesn't rule out local lockdowns.
From RFI, Extinction Rebellion activists scale the Eiffel Tower and hang a banner. (Is the Chinese embassy anywhere near there?)
From Free West Media, pyrotechnics are used in an attack on a police station in Champigny-sur-Marne, France.
From El País, several Spanish regions announce new coronavirus measures.
From The Portugal News, 1,855 ventilators are available in Portuguese hospitals.
From The Stream, four women who clerked for or studied under Judge Amy Coney Barrett share their views of her.
From SmallBizDaily, seven reasons why Black Friday might look different this year.
From Military History Matters, an archive belonging to Winston Churchill's chauffeur is found in a box during a home clear-out.
From Fox News, the Trump campaign is confident in the 2020 presidential race, despite former Vice President Biden's lead in polls.
From The Daily Wire, a biology professor at Gettysburg College gives a quiz calling President Trump a "eugenicist".
From Breitbart News, a policeman in Secaucus, New Jersey saves a five-week-old baby from choking.
From the New York Post, billionaire rapper Kanye West unveils his first presidential campaign ad.
And from The Babylon Bee, Biden proposes installing a mask over the entire continental U.S.
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