Monday, March 22, 2021

Monday Links

As the mild and sunny weather continues on a Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter Dean Phillips (D-Minn) breaks with Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) on trying to overthrow the victory of new congresscritter Marianne Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa).

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration reboots the Russia hoax to protect the son of the president.

From Townhall, we should understand that some people love the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) takes aim at anti-vaxxers, a group he once embraced.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump claimed that if the 2020 presidential results were reversed, the Democrats would have started a "revolution".  (I don't know if I would agree that the Democrats would have gone that far, but I'm sure that very few Democrats would have accepted a Trump victory in 2020.  For that matter, few of them have accepted his victory in 2016.)

From The Federalist, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem changes her mind on signing a bill to protect women's sports.

From American Thinker, the entire Georgetown basketball team takes a knee and then loses in a blowout.

From CNS News, Trump fires back at DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

From LifeZette, an illegal alien admits that he would "definitely not" have crossed the border if Trump were still president.

From NewsBusters, the editorial board of The Washington Post gets "drunk on climate alarmism".

From Canada Free Press, the Democrat attempt to blame Trump for the border fiasco is starting to turn against them.

From CBC News, Canada sanctions four Chinese officials for human rights abuses in the province of Xinjiang.

From TeleSUR, socialists win 240 out of Bolivia's 336 mayoralties.

From The Conservative Woman, why it matters that the U.K. census confuses sex and gender.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the E.U. committing societal and economic suicide?

From the Express, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon did not break the government's ministerial code, but is still urged to resign.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish President Michael Higgins and his wife Sabina are grateful to receive their first coronavirus vaccinations.

From VRT NWS, students at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium stage yet another lockdown party.

From the NL Times, Prime Minister Mark Rutte will reportedly tell Dutch citizens to avoid traveling until May 9th.

From Deutsche Welle, is Tübingen, Germany a coronavirus role model?

From Free West Media, asylum accommodations in Berlin cost over €1,600 per square meter.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German convert to Islam and a woman accused of being an ISIS terrorist go on trial for allegedly tying up a Yazidi girl and allowing her to die from the heat.  (If you read German, read the story at Süddeutsche Zeitung.)

From the CPH Post, the Danish are the world champs at eating candy.

From Polskie Radio, Polish police find thousands of coronavirus rule violations.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government wants to extend the country's coronavirus state of emergency for 30 more days.

From ReMix, the coronavirus pandemic slows in the Czech Republic, but its hospitals are still "dangerously stretched".

From The Slovak Spectator, 12 churches in Slovakia's Gemer region could receive the European Heritage label.

From Euractiv, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič offers to resign if his critics will do likewise.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary approves a Chinese coronavirus vaccine and an Indian one for emergency use.

From Russia Today, a Russian Soyuz rocket launches 38 satellites from 18 countries into space.

From Romania-Insider, for a cool €450,000, Salbek Castle in the Romanian county of Arad can be yours.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria enters a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.

From the Greek Reporter, a look at the Greek War of Independence.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Radman urges the E.U. to "help Bosnia and Herzegovina".

From Balkan Insight, after busting a spy ring, Bulgaria tells two Russian diplomats to get out.

From Total Croatia News, the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic will prevent Easter tourism in Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Total Slovenia News, the funicular at Ljubljana Castle reopens, but you'll need to prove that you're not infected with the coronavirus in order to ride it.

From the Malta Independent, according to the Gozo Tourism Association, it's still too early to predict what this summer's tourism on the island of Gozo will be like.

From ANSA, Venice, Italy will soon start celebrating its 1,600th anniversary.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland approves the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

From France24, France's new coronavirus rules raise questions and satisfy few people.

From EuroNews, thousands of people violate coronavirus restrictions at carnival celebrations in Marseilles, France.

From El País, Spain will welcome visitors from Germany even while restricting in-country travel.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese authorities have detained 911 people during the coronavirus pandemic.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's organic farming sector is expanding.

From The North Africa Post, according to Globaldata, Morocco is edging closer to unlocking its natural gas potential.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey rebuffs criticism from the West over its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention.

From Rûdaw, with much of Iraq in coronavirus lockdown, tourism improves in the region of Kurdistan.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan introduces the new Chief of the General Staff to senior officers.

From In-Cyprus, a French naval frigate docks at the port of Lanarca, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, a documentary tells the story of ISIS terrorists who have settled in Europe as refugees.

From The Times Of Israel, why a win for Prime Minister Netanyahu is Israel's upcoming election would be different.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi instructs the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar to draft a personal status bill about marriage.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, police in Gondar City, Ethiopia arrest two smugglers carrying 599 Turkish-made pistols.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister announces a new initiative to resolve the crisis in Yemen.

From The New Arab, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are not impressed with Saudi Arabia's latest move.

From The Express Tribune, police in Karachi, Pakistan baton-charge and detain protesters outside the Sindh provincial chief minister's house.

From the Hindustan Times, people in the region Braj in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh flout coronavirus regulations while celebrating Laddoo Holi.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a large fire breaks out at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

From NaijaNews, a fake "Islamic cleric" allegedly scams a Nigerian woman of 3.2 million naira.  (The naira is the Nigerian monetary unit, symbolized by the character ₦.)

From Gatestone Institute, children are beheaded in Mozambique.

From The Jakarta Post, Singapore's foreign minister is set to visit Brunei today, with Indonesia and Malayasia next on his travel plans.

From Free Malaysia Today, Orang Alsi in Malaysia stage a dam protest.

From The Mainichi, in Toyama, Japan, the score is police officer - 1, knife-wielding man - 0.

From The Stream, cancel culture goes after the colonial leader who mentored George Washington.

From Axios, congresscritter Henry Cuellar (D-TX) shows pictures from the inside of a crowded Border Patrol tent in Donna, Texas.  (via National Review)

From The American Conservative, Hollywood is obsessed with rewriting American history.

From Fox News, according to a study, low-dose aspirin decreases the chance of coronavirus patients requiring admission to intensive care units.

From Breitbart, according to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark), DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is "in over his head".

From The Daily Wire, a school district near Columbus, Ohio spends $134,000 in legal fees for a permit to install gender-neutral bathrooms.

From Newsmax, Senator Socialism (I-VT) and businessman Elon Musk spar about wealth and where to spend it.

From the New York Post, the U.S. government imposes "severe" restrictions on covering the border crisis.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

And from The Babylon Bee, Air Force One is issued a handicapped parking pass.

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