Thursday, February 18, 2021

Thursday Tidings

As the graupel returns on a cold Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what went wrong in Texas?

From FrontpageMag, the recently departed Rush Limbaugh was "the original target of cancel culture".

From Townhall, SJW-driven policies in our military will get our troops killed.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's nominee for a state department undersecretary position contributed to a book about the "Israel lobby".

From the Washington Examiner, what was Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) thinking when going on vacation while Texas froze?

From The Federalist, the first step in setting America right is to stop believing what the left has to say.

From American Thinker, what does Biden mean by "transformation"?

From CNS News, Biden can't correctly count refugees.

From LifeZette, conservatives in California strike back.

From NewsBusters, three conservative organizations launch an ad campaign to expose Biden's "unity" farce.

From Canada Free Press, get out of our kitchens, Bill Gates.

From CBC News, Canada stays the course protecting the North Atlantic right whale.

From The Conservative Woman, five reasons why it's OK to be on the right in the U.K.

From the Express, more Britons are buying domestically made products.

From the (Irish) Independent, trainee teachers in Ireland are outraged at being charged €650 to attend a "virtual Gaeltacht".

From VRT NWS, find out when your vaccination center is getting its first shots of a coronavirus vaccine.

From the NL Times, according to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the coronavirus lockdown in the Netherlands will not likely be relaxed on March 2nd.

From Deutsche Welle, celebrating Jewish life in Germany, which according to evidence started in 321 AD in the Roman city that is now Cologne.

From Free West Media, a study reveals the obvious about the German media.

From the CPH Post, Denmark braces for a second blast of global warming.

From Polskie Radio, according to government data, Poland has administered almost 2.4 million doses of coronavirus vaccines.

From Radio Prague, according to Health Minister Jan Blatný, the entire Czech Republic could face higher coronavirus levels within weeks.

From The Slovak Spectator, the E.U. sues Slovakia for allegedly insufficiently protecting air quality.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian children do well at Dubai's international mental arithmetic competition, held online.

From ReMix, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia "feel united and confident" on the 30th anniversary of the Visegrád Four alliance.

From Russia Today, the Russian parliament moves to ban public display of Nazi imagery.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian parliament passes a law to abolish its own "special pensions".

From Novinite, according to the European Commission, Bulgaria has not fully implemented the E.U.'s regulations on racism and xenophobia.

From Ekathimerini, pictures from previous snowfalls in Athens, Greece.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bulgaria's Central Election Commission announces the end of accepting nominations for the general elections to be held on April 4th.

From Balkan Insight, a former Bosnian army officer will be retried in connection with the killing of 27 Croat civilians in 1993.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia agree to improve their mutual bridges.

From Total Slovenia News, the head of the European Parliament Democracy Group is concerned about media freedom on Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, according to Prime Minister Robert Abela, Malta's coronavirus measures in March will be "cautious".

From ANSA, the region of Valle d'Aosta could become Italy's first coronavirus "white zone".

From SwissInfo, Switzerland plans to showcase abroad its fourth official language Romansh.  (As stated in the article, Romansh is spoken in the canton of Graubünden.  If you want to see some of Graubünden, go to this blog's archives for June 2015.)

From France24, France, other European countries, and the U.S. warn Iran about limiting U.N. nuclear inspections.

From El País, violent protests break out in Madrid and the Spanish region of Catalonia over the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasél.

From The Portugal News, over 600 people were arrested in January for allegedly driving without a license.

From EuroNews, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa orders a constitutional review of Portugal's euthanasia law.

From Euractiv, the European Commission is concerned about a black market for coronavirus vaccines.

From Morocco World News, the European Commission is ready to help finance a coronavirus vaccine production unit in Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey plans to gradually ease coronavirus restrictions in March.

From Rûdaw, at the request of the Iraqi government, NATO will increase its troop level in the country, in order to help fight terrorism.

From Armenpress, the line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces remains stable.

From In-Cyprus, the mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus defends the city's cutting of trees.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian government draws outrage by imposing sharia on Yazidis.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli government decides to keep middle schools closed for two more weeks.

From the Egypt Independent, when in Egypt, you must see King Tut's mask.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, a power blackout hits the Ethiopian region of Tigray.

From the Saudi Gazette, global warming hits the Saudi Arabia region of Tabuk.

From The New Arab, global warming hits refugee camps in Syria.

From IranWire, confiscating the property of Baha'is is illegal under Iranian law.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's Mullahs keep pursuing nuclear weapons.

From Dawn, according to Pakistani health official Faisal Sultan, will start vaccinating citizens over 65 years old on March 2nd.

From Khaama Press, a magnetic IED kills two people in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From India Today, Indian farmers at the Delhi border prepare to keep their protest going into the summer.

From the Dhaka Tribune, over 260,000 people in Bangladesh get vaccinated against the coronavirus in a single day.

From the Colombo Page, the principal of a madrasa in Sri Lanka is arrested for allegedly supporting the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From The Jakarta Post, one Indonesian bank acquires another.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian police arrest 11 suspected members of a hacker group.

From The Mainichi, the mayor of Akashi, Japan rejects legal provisions to fine coronavirus patients who refuse treatment.

From The Stream, women armed with AK-47s fight for religious freedom in Syria.

From The Daily Signal, according to nine former members of the Federal Election Commission, the Democrat-backed bill to overhaul elections would "eviscerate" the agency's bipartisanship.

From The American Conservative, driving alone while listening to talk radio.

From SmallBizDaily, the best stimulus for small businesses is loyalty from their customers.

From Fox News, Democrats pound Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) over his vacation in Cancun, Mexico.

From the New York Post, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) is charged with fatally hitting a pedestrian with his car.

From The Hill, the ACLU pressures Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland on criminal justice reform.  (via Newsmax)

From Newsmax, the price of oil slides as refinery outages in Texas bode poorly for demand.

From The Daily WireNASA's Perseverance rover sends its first pictures from Mars.

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