Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Stories For Ash Wednesday

As Western Christians observe the solemnity at the start of Lent, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrats prepare a bill to reward illegal immigration.

From FrontpageMag, without former President Trump as a distraction, what prospects to the Democrats have?

From Townhall, Vice President Harris's latest interview about reopening schools was a "total train wreck".

From The Washington Free Beacon, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) offers one vision for the future of the Republican Party.

From the Washington Examiner, how and why a nuclear reactor in Texas shut down when its power was needed.

From The Federalist, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has neither learned nor forgotten anything.

From American Thinker, the left-wing disconnect from reality.

From CNS News, according to Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX), the power outages in Texas show how disastrous the "Green New Deal" would be.

From LifeZette, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, President Biden won't rule out using executive orders for gun control.

From NewsBusters, the big three networks refuse to criticize Biden's lies and walk backs at his first town hall.

From Canada Free Press, telling the truth is "scathing" when it's done by Donald Trump.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of Ontario reports fewer than 900 new coronavirus cases, the lowest in one day since last October.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to a poll, two out of five Britons support mandatory coronavirus vaccination.

From EuroNews, the U.K.'s Prince Philip is hospitalized as a "precautionary measure".

From ReMix, the Polish Sejm will debate on possibly withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention.

From About Hungary, five coronavirus vaccines are available in Hungary.

From The Moscow Times, the European Court of Human Rights demands the "immediate" release of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny.

From Radio Bulgaria, in Banichan, Bulgaria, you'll find churches, storks and onions.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the international community sounds alarm bells on elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Balkan Insight, the coronavirus pandemic is reportedly fueling a rightist surge in Europe.

From Euractiv, new Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi promises reforms and calls for unity.

From Free West Media, the Japanese embassy in France warns Japanese people in France about violent crime.

From The Jerusalem Post, global warming hits Israel.

From The New Arab, a former leader of a Tunisian Islamist party shocks his country by dancing with a "scantily clad" woman at her engagement party.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan proposes a five-point plan to end poverty and hunger.  (I'd call it a plan to do the impossible.)

From ANI, 58 bodies have been recovered after the glacial burst in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, while 146 people remain missing.

From Michael Smith News, an interview with a woman who was saved from human traffickers in Dubai.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden appears to surrender as China's Big Tech hits the U.S.

From The Stream, a Holocaust survivor sees "signposts on the way to Auschwitz".

From The Daily Signal, 11 times the Second Amendment prevented things from getting worse.

From HistoryNet, a surgeon's story from Vietnam.

From Space War, a one-ton delivery glider will be scaled down for additional military operations.

From the New York Post, a New York City man who bought a pool for his neighborhood is arrested for allegedly dealing drugs.

From Fox News, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R), now running for governor, slams San Francisco for renaming schools before returning students to them.

From Newsmax, the Los Angeles Unified School District approves a plan to cut 133 police officers.

From The Daily Wire, everything you need to know about Biden's town hall.

And from The Peedmont, Virginia Governor Ralph "Blackface" Northam (D) appoints the Richmond Flying Squirrels mascot Nutzy to lead the state's coronavirus vaccination program.

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