Friday, April 30, 2021

Deshler And Its Crossroads Park

The third and last place I visited today was Deshler, Ohio, known for its diamond railroad crossing.  At this crossing, two east-west tracks intersect a single north-south track, with several wyes in place to allow trains to switch between them.  Near the diamond is Crossroads Park, of which this is the picnic area.  The east-west tracks are behind it.

Hiking Near The Black Hand Gorge

The Black Hand Gorge is a state natural preserve near Hanover, Ohio along the Licking River, and named after an prehistoric petroglyph in the shape of a black hand.  I stopped in to see two sites along a short trail on the north side of the river.  The first one was an old canal lock.  A short side trail led me down to its eastern end, which allowed me to take a picture its interior.

Return To Cantwell Cliffs

I did a lot of exploring today, starting with the Cantwell Cliffs area of Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio, which I first visited in June of 2019.  That visit was somewhat spoiled by rainy weather, but today I had no such problem.  I was thus able to see some spots that I had missed two years ago.  One change which had been made since then is that the trails were one-way.  This resulted, in some places, in that I walked in the opposite direction I had two years earlier.  I thus entered the hiking area by going down this cleft between rocks, by which I had left two years ago.  But in any event, I was able to walk through a forest like a sasquatch is supposed to.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Thursday Travels And Things

I have spent much of today driving westward, so that instead of walking through forests in Maryland, I'll be doing that sort of thing in Ohio, and maybe exploring some other stuff.  Besides yours truly acting like a wandering Sasquatch, here are some things going on:

From National Review, reforming the police should not require kneecapping them.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden's foreign policy in a nutshell.

From Townhall, Biden's spending spree is a "recipe for disaster", even according to President Obama's economic policy advisor.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden cites the threat from China as justification for his spending spree.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden tests the taxing appetite of his fellow Democrats with his capital gains tax proposal.

From The Federalist, statehood should not be given to the third world country that is Washington, D.C.

From American Thinker, the media probably won't tell you about crime victim Yao Pan Ma.

From CNS News, after giving the Republican response to Biden's address to Congress, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) liberals give him his own new racial slur.

From LifeZette, TV host Meghan McCain unloads on Democrats for their attacks on Senator Scott.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC struggles to find people who watched Biden's speech.

From Canada Free Press, all bow down at the clay feet of the Vatican's new messiah.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden's border, such as it is.

From The Stream, four examples of bad economics, with debunking, from Biden's address to Congress.

From The Daily Signal, Republican governors are signing pro-life laws all over the U.S.

From Military History Matters, the A39 Tortoise assault tank, which found most of its use as scrap metal or target practice.

From Space War, Biden claims to be seeking diplomacy with Russia and China instead of conflict.

From European Views, the number of Muslims in Germany grows by almost a million in five years.

From The Daily Wire, New York's Mr. Bill (D) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) disagree on reopening.

From Newsmax, Biden should treat China as an adversary, not as a competitor.

From the New York Post, Mr. and Mrs. Biden meet with Mr. and Mrs. President Carter at heir home in Georgia.

And from Fox News, a man robbing a McDonald's in England demanded chicken McNuggets, but has to settle for a sausage McMuffin because it was too early for lunch items to be served.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Wednesday Whatnot

On the last Wednesday of April, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Democrat "stimulus" spending will grow the government, not the economy.

From FrontpageMag, from his political beginnings, Senator (D-Del)/Vice President/President Biden was all about power and money.  (When he was elected to the Senate in November of 1972, he was a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday, thus becoming a Senator at just above the constitutional age requirement.  Today, he easily meets the presidential age requirement twice over, as did his immediate predecessor.)

From Townhall, according to a poll, the vast majority of voters believe that the border is less secure under Biden.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden's nominee for State Department human right chief wanted President Bush the Younger and Vice President Cheney prosecuted for war crimes.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden is expected to pitch a leftist agenda using centrist language in his first joint address to Congress.

From The Federalist, the CDC removes a scientist for stating his opinion on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, then effectively adopts it four days later.

From American Thinker, how to benefit from white privilege, even if you're not white.

From CNS News, according to Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary, more people in the U.S. have tuberculosis than the coronavirus.

From LifeZette, YouTube targets right-wing commentator Drew Berquist for his conservative views.  (LifeZette has often republished articles from Berquist's eponymous site.)

From NewsBusters, MSNBC hails Biden's first set of judicial nominees for not being white men.

From Canada Free Press, the U.S. as a dual state.

From TeleSUR, the attorney for former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas is shot dead while driving a vehicle in Quito.

From The Conservative Woman, wokery comes for Isaac Newton.

From Free West Media, several European parliamentcritters from Germany's Green Party criticize Denmark's new migrant policy.

From EuroNews, a Belgian parliamentcritter shares a video of his being assaulted by young men in Brussels.

From Euractiv, Bulgarian prosecutors investigate possible Russian involvement in four explosions at military depots.

From ReMix, Poland says nie to the E.U.'s mandate for a third gender on ID cards.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, over 2,000 people will be deprived of their Montenegrin citizenship due to also holding citizenship in another country.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia passes a law to make its easier for transgenders to change their gender identities.

From The North Africa Post, Polisario leader Ghali reportedly used a false identity to enter Spain for medical treatment.

From The New Arab, Syria's parliament finalizes its list of presidential candidates.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, according to Austrian doctors, coronavirus infections rise during Ramadan.  (If you read German, read the story at Unzensuriert.)

From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian Authority religious officials urge harsh action against anyone caught eating during Ramadan.

From Gatestone Institute, communist China want to dominate Antarctica.

From The Stream, the College of the Ozarks stands up to President Biden's transgender order.

From The Daily Signal, the CDC too often ignores science when giving advice on the coronavirus.

From The American Conservative, a book looks at Winston Churchill's relationships with his father and with his only son, both named Randolph.

From LifeNews, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defends selling parts from aborted babies as "investing in science".

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Michael McCaul (R-TX), former Secretary of State John Kerry's alleged actions with Iran appear "somewhat treasonous".

From Fox Business, a shortage of truck drivers could bring on a shortage of gasoline this summer.

From the New York Post, the Biden administration will no longer federal agents to carry out immigration arrests at court houses.

And from The Daily Wire, Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins passes away at age 90.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Tuesday Links

On a warm sunny Tuesday near the end of April, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what reasonable police reform might look like.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden's "catastrophic" climate policies.

From Townhall, congresscritter Chip Roy (R-TX) warns about where Mexican drug cartels control territory, and it isn't just along the border.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the "social justice" math curriculum from Virginia Democrats reinvigorates Republican gubernatorial candidates.

From the Washington Examiner, the Biden administration introduces a "sweeping" operation against drug and people smugglers at the border.

From The Federalist, red states are not immune to the coronavirus regime.

From American Thinker, the left continues its war on language.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Kevin Brady (R-TX), Biden's proposed capital gains tax increase is "another economic blunder".

From LifeZette, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger breaks his silence about Caitlyn Jenner, who seeks to succeed him.

From NewsBusters, networks get nervous about a census "power shift" toward Republican states.

From Canada Free Press, a citizen journalist seeks the truth about provincial border checkpoints in Canada.

From TeleSUR, lawmakers from two Marxism-governed countries seek to strengthen their partnership.

From The Conservative Woman, a science lesson about climate change for U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson.

From Free West Media, French author Michel Onfray criticizes the decision to not prosecute the killer of Sarah Halimi.

From EuroNews, Socialist Party leader Edi Rama claims a "beautiful" victory in Albania's parliamentary elections.

From Euractiv, France threatens "reprisals" if a post-Brexit deal on fishing rights is not implemented.

From ReMix, yours truly's ancestral countries stand with the Czech Republic in its dispute with Russia over an explosion that occurred in Vrbětice in 2014.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, more on the results from Albania's parliamentary election.

From Balkan Insight, Slovenians protest against the "degradation of democracy".

From The North Africa Post, a Sahraoui woman alleges that she was raped by Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali, now under medical are in Spain.

From YNetNews, Israel will allow unvaccinated coronavirus-negative people to enter public amenities.

From The New Arab, some questions and answers about Ramadan, fasting and the coronavirus.

From Swarajya, a Pakistani Hindu girl who was kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam is seen on video crying for help.

From the Daily Mail, Taliban terrorists lash a woman 40 times because she talked with a man on her phone.

From Gatestone Institute, now that U.S. President Biden has acknowledged the Armenian genocide, there are a few others which he might want to learn about.

From The Stream, the mob will "huff and puff and burn your church down".

From HistoryNet, after eight years of delay, production starts on the movie Masters of the Air.

From Space War, the U.S. and Israel extend their cooperation into space.  (Maybe this will help "Jews In Space" become a reality.)

From The Daily Signal, an election bill fails in Arizona.

From The Daily Wire, Biden wants $80 billion to fund IRS audits and tax enforcement on high-income earners.  (Like other things having to do with taxes, these will probably find their way down to people who aren't all that rich.)

From Newsmax, calls go out for climate czar John Kerry to be investigated over accusations that he informed Iran about Israeli military operations.

From Breitbart, California's secretary of state rejects 19.8 percent of the signatures on petitions to recall Governor Gavin Newsome (D).

And from the New York Post, villagers in Yulin Shi, China dig to rescue children buried alive under a mountain of dirt.

Monday, April 26, 2021

Monday Mania

On another manic Monday near the end of April, here are some things going on:

From National Review, are there more signs that the end of the coronavirus era is near?

From FrontpageMag, the cop convicted of killing George Floyd has become "the great white defendant".

From Townhall, why there shouldn't be a national popular vote for president.

From The Washington Free Beacon, four female high school athletes in Connecticut will appeal a federal court decision on transgender athletes.

From the Washington Examiner, according to IRS data, the Democrats are the party of the wealthy.

From The Federalist, the woke Oscars hits a ratings low.

From American Thinker, when it comes to placing blame, Democrats need a mirror.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Val Demings (D-FL), the cop who fatally shot a would-be stabber in Cleveland did what "he was trained to do".

From LifeZette, Minnesota Attorney General and former congresscritter (D) Keith Ellison admits that the "felt a little bad" for the cop who killed George Floyd.

From NewsBusters, a visiting Hoover Institution fellow rips President Biden's "unrealistic" climate agenda.

From Canada Free Press, will the destruction of marriage cause the West to collapse?

From CTV News, three Americans are arrested for allegedly trafficking drugs into Canada.

From TeleSUR, the healthcare system of Buenos Aires, Argentina is close to collapse.

From The Conservative Woman, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is doing what George Orwell predicted.

From Snouts in the Trough, the lie about 97 percent of scientists.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Boris Johnson denies saying that thousands of dead bodies are better than another lockdown.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian in Germany honor kills his wife in front of their three children.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From ReMix, the world's largest silver mine is in Poland.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian government announces rules for when four million people in Hungary are vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From The Moscow Times, Russia has vaccinate 10 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.

From Romania-Insider, coronavirus "vaccination marathons" are organized for several large Romanian cities.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria will start using the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

From EuroNews, Bulgaria's opposition fails to form a government, which could bring on another election.

From the Greek City Times, a 1,600-year-old Byzantine mosaic is discovered in Yavne, Israel.

From Euractiv, Greece confirms that its last coal-fired power plant will be shut down in 2025.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, recognizing the Armenian genocide by U.S. Presidents Biden and Reagan produced reactions from Turkey.

From Balkan Insight, Prime Minister Edi Rama takes a narrow lead as the votes are counted in Albania.

From ANSA, most of Italy "reopens" from its coronavirus lockdown.

From Free West Media, murdered French Jew Sarah Halimi is being killed a second time - by silence.

From El País, Spanish Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto is sent a letter with a bloody knife.

From The North Africa Post, Spanish authorities arrest a Moroccan fugitive wanted for allegedly killing six members of his own family.

From Turkish Minute, President Erdoğan (Turkey) is not pleased that President Biden (U.S.) has recognized the Armenian genocide.

From The Syrian Observer, locusts invade Damascus, Syria.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is set to offer his position up for rotation.

From The New Arab, after a months-long standoff with Egyptian media, Information Minister Osama Heikal resigns.

From Pakistan Today, army troops will be present throughout Pakistan to enforce the country's coronavirus measures.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, women's rights activists in the Afghan province of Balkh warn against any withdrawal of foreign troops before a peace agreement is reached.

From The Hans India, in Chennai, India, people fight over oxygen instead of water.

From Sky News, British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is sentenced to another year in prison in Iran for "propaganda".

From Coconuts Jakarta, a Muslim influencer in Indonesia stirs up controversy by complaining about a loudspeaker used by a mosque to announce morning prayers.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden betrays Afghanistan.

From The Stream, 12 things that could cause gender confusion.

From The Daily Signal, allies of former President Trump form a legal team to oppose Biden's executive orders in court.  (Since some of Trump's EOs were opposed in court, Biden's EOs should be fair game.  As the saying goes, turnabout is fair play.)

From The American Conservative, the crisis over Ukraine can be an opportunity.

From Breitbart, a former police lieutenant warns of a coming "public safety crisis" as police officers leave their jobs.

From The Daily Wire, the Supreme Court agrees to hear its first Second Amendment case in over a decade.

From NPR, first-time Second Amendment exercisers help push U.S. gun sales to a new record.  (via Newsmax)

From Newsmax, the Biden administration expands a program to feed schoolchildren using funds from the coronavirus relief package.

From the New York Post, in rural southwestern Pakistan, Roshan the camel delivers books to children schooled at home due to the coronavirus.

And from The Babylon Bee, finding that he will be going up against Caitlyn Jenner, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announces that she is a transgender named Gabby.

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Sunday Links

On a cool cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal), President Biden promised to be a "moderate" but has governed as a "socialist".

From Townhall, in a poll, Biden "gets wrecked" for his dealing with immigration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of Senator Amy Klobuchar's (D-MN) new book.

From the Washington Examiner, a scientist who worked for the Obama administration advises cooling the talk about a climate "emergency".

From American Thinker, move over Biden T-shirts, here comes the children's book written by Vice President Harris.

From LifeZette, Senator Lindsey Graham dares to say that the U.S. is not a racist country.

From NewsBusters, Biden's approval rating fails to beat a poll's margin of error.

From Global News, coronavirus restrictions on air travelers going to and from Canada are a boon to taxi and limousine services in the U.S.

From The Conservative Woman, for every human in the British countryside, there are a million ants.

From the Evening Standard, an allegedly dangerous driver in the English county of Kent causes a bomb squad to be called and a highway to blocked.

From the Irish Examiner, gardaí raid a home in Drogheda, Ireland to find bomb making materials, and arrest one suspect.

From The Brussels Times, what are Belgians allowed to do starting tomorrow?

From Dutch News, hospitals in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant reach the breaking point.

From Free West Media, German police use a "CIA company's" surveillance software.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian police arrest a suspected sexual predator who allegedly targeted underage girls.

From ReMix, according to a Finnish academic, Swedes will become a minority in the own country in 45 years.

From Sputnik International, a meeting between Presidents Putin (Russia) and Biden (U.S.) might take place in June.

From The Sofia Globe, most of Bulgaria's tourism workers are expected to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by the end of May.

From Ekathimerini, Greece waives its quarantine requirements for travelers from seven more countries.

From EuroNews, Albanian's governing Socialist Party appears headed to a narrow win in the country's parliamentary elections.

From Malta Today, restaurants in Malta will be allowed to serve customers until 5:00 p.m. staring on May 10th.

From France24, thousands of people protest in Paris against a ruling by France's highest court that the killer of a Jewish woman was not criminally responsible.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, E.U. funding has been a "windfall for Islamists".

From The North Africa Post, Spanish victims of Polisario terrorism in the Canary Islands call for the arrest of a Polisario leader currently hospitalized in Spain.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel is ready to lift restrictions on event attendance for people vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Egypt Today, Coptic Pope Tawadros II leads a Palm Sunday Mass in Alexandria, Egypt.

From The New Arab, Houthi rebels in Yemen advance toward the city of Marib.

From IranWire, an Iranian military commander is rebuked for admitting that Iran has a military presence in Yemen.

From the Afghanistan Times, Afghan security forces send at least 90 Taliban terrorists to their virgins.

From India Today, as the Indian state of Tamil Nadu prohibits entry into places of worship, weddings take place outside temple premises.

From the Daily Mirror, according to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the only solution for the coronavirus pandemic is vaccination.

From The Daily Star, two imams are arrested for allegedly spreading rumors and inciting violence in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.

From The Straits Times, a missing Indonesia submarine has been found cracked into three pieces, with its crew of 53 all dead.

From the Borneo Post, two new coronavirus clusters are found in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

From Vietnam Plus, border guards in the Vietnamese province of Dien Bien arrest seven people for illegally entering Vietnam.  (My spellchecker has a problem with "Dien" but not with "Bien".)

From Gatestone Institute, the long and sordid history of crowds threatening violence if there is an acquittal in court.

From The Stream, Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) 2017 warning about the intelligence community appears to have come true.

From Military History Matters, a review of a book about Macedonian kings Philip and Alexander the Great.

From The Daily Signal, yes, we know, Democrats don't seem to want improved security for our elections.

From Breitbart, as the rest of the world isolates, a band plays for 50,000 fans in New Zealand.

From The Daily Wire, New York City police officers leave in droves.

From 6ABC, a police officer from Delmar, Delaware fights for his life at a hospital in Baltimore after being assaulted.

And from the New York Post, this year's only "pink supermoon" will be in the sky tomorrow night.

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Saturday Stuff

On a mild partly cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a crowdfunding site is launched for a policeman fired for donating to a crowdfunding site.

From Townhall, BLM responds to Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) after she thanks George Floyd for "sacrificing" his life.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's pick to head the Small Business Administration serves on a board that supports boycotting Israel.

From the Washington Examiner, the Indian coronavirus variant is causing worries.

From The Federalist, according to linguistics professor John McWhorter, the leftists proposing radical changes are merely "racists hiding behind language".

From American Thinker, the lives of black assailants matter, but those of their victims don't.

From LifeZette, Jim Dove flies in Minneapolis.

From NewsBusters, remember when TV host Gayle King went yachting with the Obamas?

From Canada Free Press, America has a communist revolution.

From CBC News, Peel Public Health partially closes two Amazon facilities in the Ontario cities of Brampton and Bolton to control coronavirus outbreaks.

From The Conservative Woman, when the parliamentary opposition doesn't oppose.

From the Express, a medical technician is killed when an object crashes through his ambulance's windshield in the English county of Herefordshire.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland gives out a daily record of 41,500 coronavirus vaccine doses.

From VRT NWS, Belgium expects 900,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines to be delivered next week.

From the NL Times, the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine will soon not be needed in the Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's new "emergency brake" coronavirus rules take effect.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Catholic church in Friesenheim is vandalized almost daily.  (If you read German, read the story at Schwarzwälder Bote.)

From EuroNews, Chancellor Angela Merkel defense Germany's new coronavirus rules.

From the CPH Post, Denmark's Roskilde Festival might be called off due to the coronavirus.

From Polskie Radio, over 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in Poland.

From Radio Prague, according to an E.U. audit, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has a conflict of interest.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia again changes the conditions for crossing its border.

From About Hungary, today Hungarians can return to "a bit of normalcy".

From Russia Today, Russia bans 122 foreigners from entering for the next 40 years for attending unauthorized protests in Moscow.

From Novinite, President Rumen Radev urges Bulgarians to be patient with the country's new parliament.

From the Greek Reporter, the top 10 Greek islands to visit with your family.

From Balkan Insight, Albanians go to the polls to elect their next parliament.

From Total Croatia News, Zagreb, Croatia will host the World Rowing Cup for the first time starting on April 30th.

From Total Slovenia News, today's morning headlines for Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, a €1 million solar power generating project is inaugurated in Burmarrad, Malta.

From SwissInfo, a large unauthorized rally against coronavirus restrictions is held in Rapperswill-Jona, Switzerland.

From RFI, three people are questioned in a terrorism probe after the murder of a policewoman at a railway station in Rambouillet, France.

From Free West Media, will the French people shun the coronavirus vaccine passport.

From The Portugal News, teachers plan to demonstrate in Lisbon, Portugal.

From Morocco World News, a Latvian in Morocco fasts for Ramadan.

From The North Africa Post, Médecins Sans Frontières denounces Algeria's treatment of migrants.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey launches ground and air operations against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq.

From Rûdaw, a Peshmerga veteran strives to protect wildlife from poachers and hunters.

From Armenpress, U.S. President Biden officially recognizes the Armenian genocide.

From In-Cyprus, according to President Anastasiades, a two-state solution in Cyprus would open a Pandora's box.

From The961, a former leader of Lebanon's Drug Enforcement Office is accused of trafficking drugs.

From Arutz Sheva, Arabs attack a Jew in Jerusalem.

From the Egypt Independent, Ethiopia rejects a new invitation for dam talks.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Airlines becomes the first airline in Africa to test an IATA travel pass.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia announces severe punishments for intentionally spreading the coronavirus.

From The New Arab, four people are killed in attacks on Iraqi security forces blamed on ISIS.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps claims to have killed three alleged terrorists in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan.

From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz, a large group of PTI legislators are about to leave their party.

From Khaama Press, a roadside bomb kills three Afghan security force members in the province of Logar.

From ANI, the "Varuna" naval exercise between India and France will start on Sunday.  (In Hinduism, Varuna is a deity associated with the sea.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government declines to close the country's border with India.

From the Colombo Page, according to medical experts, the coronavirus variant now spreading Sri Lanka is similar to one found in the English county of Kent.

From NDTV, Sri Lankan authorities arrest parliamentcritter Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From The Jakarta Post, hopes fade for the crew of a missing Indonesian submarine as its oxygen supply dwindles.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin tells the Myanmar government to release political prisoners and stop killing civilians.

From The Mainichi, according to a survey in Japan, lifestyle changes made due to the coronavirus have had an effect on pets.

From Gatestone Institute, "the Armenian genocide forges on".

From The Stream, are American police really systemically racist?

From The American Conservative, in defense of normalcy.

From The Daily Wire, how the left systemically exploits race.

From Breitbart, London mayoral candidate Laurence Fox calls current Mayor Sadiq Khan the worst in London's history.

From AP News, cave-dwellers in France emerge after 40 days.  (via the New York Post)

And from the New York Post, a Long Island Railroad conductor returns a tray of engagement rings valued at $107,000.

Friday, April 23, 2021

Friday Phenomena

On a sunny and breezy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, stop demonizing the Columbus, Ohio policeman who shot a teenage would-be stabber.

From FrontpageMag, American Islamists and CAIR have a #MeToo problem.

From Townhall, Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan) introduces legislation against the D.C. statehood "power grab" by Democrats, to revert most of the district back to Maryland.  (Whether we in Maryland would want it back is another matter.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden "trips on the border".

From the Washington Examiner, black-owned businesses around George Floyd Square in Minneapolis deal with rampant crime and seek help - from the police.

From The Federalist, race-baiters including the corporate media have incited far more violence than President Trump ever did.

From American Thinker, the left-wing Orwellian perversion of language.

From CNS News, according to former congresscritter Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Biden makes Trump look like the most bipartisan president ever.

From LifeZette, groups connected to left-wing billionaire George Soros, who colluded last November, now try to pack the Supreme Court.

From NewsBusters, Politico signals that the major Democrat-backed bills are doomed.

From Canada Free Press, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) is caught wearing a filthy mask.

From TeleSUR, nine Brazilian opposition parties unite to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro.

From The Conservative Woman, Médecins Sans Frontières gets it wrong in Brazil.

From Snouts in the Trough, how many in the U.K. will die because Prime Minister Boris Johnson groveled to India?

From Free West Media, people in the Swedish region of Stockholm are not allowed which coronavirus vaccine they receive.

From EuroNews, France launches a terrorism investigation after a policewoman is stabbed to death in the town of Rambouillet.

From Euractiv, Slovakia decides to expel three Russian diplomats.

From ReMix, a young French woman is threatened with death for defending a free speech activist.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Serbian government ratifies a bill on gender equality.

From Balkan Insight, Turkey asks Albania to detain a fugitive accused of cryptocurrency fraud.

From The North Africa Post, Italian companies new largest highway.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia bans the import of fruits and vegetables from Lebanon due to their shipments being used to smuggle drugs.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian father in Germany is acquitted of murdering his daughter because because investigators did a poor job.  (As with yesterday, if anyone objects to my recitation of this site's name, please note that this again was a literal execution.  If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. and the E.U. help to suppress journalists and political activists.

From The Stream, yes, socialism has harmed people - huge numbers of people.

From The American Conservative, the "crumbling kingdom" of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).

From Space War"who controls space"?

From Breitbart, the Michigan Board of Canvassers refuses to certify "unlock Michigan" petitions.  (What is this "freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances" you speak of?)

From Axios, are you ready for California Republican Governor Caitlyn Jenner?  (via Newsmax)

From the New York Post, a man is charged in connection with the January 6th Capitol riot after bragging about it on Bumble.

And from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, President Biden will visit Georgia, during which he will host a "climate change awareness" rally that will generate lots of carbon dioxide.  (via the New York Post)

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Thursday Tidings

On a cool breezy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a neighbor, the Cleveland policeman who shot a female black teenage would-be stabber had no choice.

From FrontpageMag, why congresscritters Tlaib (D-Mich), Pressley (D-MA) and AOC (D-NY) will get more kids killed.

From Townhall, the House passes D.C. statehood.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden backs away from promoting religious freedom abroad.

From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter Lisa McClain (R-Mich), Biden is creating "sophisticated, organized illegal immigration".

From The Federalist, the left now knows that threats to riot work.

From American Thinker, why do leftists want so passionately to defend criminals?

From CNS News, a former police officer gives advice on how to not get killed by police officers.

From LifeZette, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) admits traveling to Florida while blaming other travelers for the coronavirus spike in her state.

From NewsBusters, TV host Joe Scarborough is afraid that he might displease viewers by giving former President Trump credit for the coronavirus vaccine.

From Canada Free Press, some things in the rear view mirror are no longer there.

From TeleSUR, six police officers in El Salvador are arrested for alleged illegal detention.

From The Conservative Woman, U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson's green energy folly get even crazier.

From Free West Media, one person is killed when Chechens fight against Kurds in Bressoux, Belgium.

From EuroNews, Russia claims to be withdrawing its troops from its border with Ukraine.

From Euractiv, one person is killed and four others are wounded in a shooting in Elbasan, Albania.

From ReMix, Hungarian restaurants join to help the country's ambulance crews.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bulgarian Prime Minister-designate Daniel Mitov announces that his party GERB will announce a government-forming mandate tomorrow.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić downplays tensions with Bosnia and Herzegovina, while accepting an award of the B&H town Banjka Luka.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco seeks to store and recycle parts from airplanes.

From The New Arab, Jordanian King Abdullah orders the release of 16 alleged coup plotters.

From the Daily Mail, an Algerian academic is sentenced to three years in prison for "insulting Islam".  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an 18-year-old man is sentenced to three years in prison for kicking a 92-year-old German woman to death.  (For anyone who wants to object to use of the site's title Allah's Willing Executioners, please note that in this case, the man's execution of the old woman was literal.  Note also that his sentence is the same as the Algerian academic received for "insulting Islam".)

From The National, Austrian police raiding suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas find an "enemies list".

From Gatestone Institute, China is overfishing the oceans.  (I learned two years ago that China leads the world in polluting the oceans with plastic.  They are also far and away the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide.)

From The Stream, on Earth Day, let's commit to speed up cleaning the earth by growing our economies.

From Fox News, BLM protesters storm the Oklahoma capitol as the state legislature considers anti-rioting bills.  (I recall that this sort of thing was called an "insurrection" when Trump supporters did it on January 6th.)

From Space War, an explosion at an Israeli rocket factory was a controlled test.

From The Daily Signal, the Chauvin trial verdict and the damage from political theatrics.

From The Daily Wire, the National Fraternal Order of Police advises NBA star LeBron James to "educate himself".

From Newsmax, President Biden proposes a large tax increase for capital gains.

From the New York Post, NASA's Martian helicopter Ingenuity flies again.

And from Science Alert, astronomers discover the closest black hole to our solar system, but thankfully it's very small.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cool cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Border Patrol apprehends 149 illegal migrants at a checkpoint on Interstate 35 in Texas.

From FrontpageMag, seven reasons why Democrats "are obsessed with race".

From Townhall, Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) has a message for the woke who want to boycott Home Depot.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "protesters" vandalize a youth charity in Portland, Oregon.  (I put "protesters" in quotes because vandalism is not speech.)

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden and his administration have spent their first 100 days in office in "constant cleanup mode".

From The Federalist, Americans who hesitate to receive a coronavirus vaccine aren't ignorant rubes, but are "understandably cautious".

From American Thinker, the head of a woke school finds a serious problem with Critical Race Theory.

From CNS News, the Department of Justice opens an investigation into the practices of the Minneapolis police department.

From LifeZette, former law professor Alan Dershowitz accuses congresscritter Maxine Waters (D-Cal) of borrowing her tactics from the KKK.

From Newsbusters, will the media notice that court-packing is hugely unpopular with Americans.

From Canada Free Press, systematic racism will continue as long as congresscritters like Maxine Waters an AOC (D-NY) remain in office.

From CTV News, coronavirus infections shoot back up in the Canadian province of Ontario.

From TeleSUR, over 10,000 migrants seek to enter Panama from Colombia.

From The Conservative Woman, Chinese carbon dioxide emissions, which are expected to keep on increasing, will nullify reductions made elsewhere.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Downing Street denies that U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke any rules in private text messages exchanged with businessman James Dyson.  (The U.K. prime minister's residence is on Downing Street in London.  Thus, "Downing Street" is the U.K. equivalent of the "White House" in the U.S.)

From EuroNews, police round up demonstrators in Berlin as the German Bundestag passes new coronavirus restrictions.

From ReMix, more foreigners than ever are working in Poland.

From Hungary Today, Queen Elizabeth II of the U.K. had a Hungarian great-great-grandmother.

From The Moscow Times, Russians protest in support of the ailing dissident Alexei Navalny.

From Euractiv, Russian President Putin warns the West against crossing the red line.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria's parliament discusses possible changes to the country's electoral code.

From the Greek City Times, dozens of Pakistanis brawl in Heraklion, Greece, which is on the island of Crete.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Presidents Klaus Iohannis (Romania) and Maia Sandu (Moldova) meet in Cotroceni, a neighborhood in Bucharest, Romania.

From Balkan Insight, the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo will both visit Brussels, but will not meet while they are there.

From Free West Media, every 18 days, a medical intern in France commits suicide.

From The North Africa Post, coronavirus cases spike in camps controlled by the Polisario in the Algerian region of Tindouf.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan's biggest political rival.

From YNetNews, Israel plans to issue travel warnings for eight countries hit by the coronavirus.

From The New Arab, the Syrian region of Idlib is expected to receive its first batch of coronavirus vaccines.

From Dawn, four people are killed and at least a dozen others injured in an explosion at the Serena Hotel in Quetta, Pakistan.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghan security forces prevent a would-be suicide bomber from attacking a mosque in the province of Nangarhar.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian state of Assam mandates a seven-day quarantine for all incoming travelers.

From The961, 21 Phoenician artifacts currently on display at the British Museum in London.

From The Stream, lectures about "systemic racism" from elite members of the "system".

From Space Daily, China has 400 orbiting satellites and hopes for 1,000 of them by 2030.

From The Daily Signal, California warns BLM co-founder (and real estate baroness) Patrisse Cullors over late financial disclosure filings.  (In her case, BLM stands for "Buy Luxurious Mansions".)

From The American Conservative, the story of Cesar Chavez.

From Newsmax, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen lays out her "bold" climate agenda.

From The Daily Wire, President Biden moves to force doctors to perform transgender surgery even if they have objections.

From WPVI-TV, police in Columbus, Ohio shoot and kill a teenage girl who charged at two people with a knife.

From Breitbart, woke companies and wealthy people donated millions to Biden's inauguration committee.

And from the New York Post, archaeologists in Maryland believe that they have found the home of abolitionist Harriet Tubman's father.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Tuesday Things

On a warm sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the head of a private school in New York City admits that its "antiracist" curriculum is about demonizing white people.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden puts a specialist in illegal aliens in charge of the census.

From Townhall, Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and former Georgia Attorney General Stacy Abrams (D) spread more lies about Georgia's new voting law.

From The Washington Free Beacon, is there a new type of systemic racism in the U.S.?

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA) points out how then-President Trump used the word "peaceful", but congresscritter Maxine Waters (D-Cal) did not.

From The Federalist, Biden wants to use your tax dollars to make your kids hate their country.

From American Thinker, no, an era in Cuba is not coming to an end.

From CNS News, Trump calls Biden's border policy "insane".

From LifeZette, congresscritter Waters brushes off criticism from the judge in the trial of the former policeman accused of killing George Floyd.

From NewsBusters, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood disavows its racist founder Margaret Sanger, but continues with her ways.

From Canada Free Press, some serious problems with the PCR coronavirus test.

From Global News, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada will hold a city-wide cleanup for Earth Day.

From TeleSUR, St. Vincent and the Grenadines shelters over 12,000 people due to activity at the La Soufriere volcano.

From The Conservative Woman, is anything safe from left-wing toxicity?

From the Evening Standard, the U.K. launches a taskforce to find antiviral treatments for the coronavirus.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Rural Independent dáilcritters, the Irish government's climate bill will kill off the country's farmers.  (Since the Irish legislature is called the Dáil, a dáilcritter is the Irish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From The Brussels Times, over 13,700 people in Brussels, Belgium register for coronavirus vaccination via the area's Bru-VAX system.

From Dutch News, the Dolfinarium in Harderwijk, Netherlands will no longer make its dolphins perform tricks.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, German pediatricians warn against having children fast during Ramadan.

From Free West Media, Denmark finds a way to deal with illegal migrants who seek asylum.

From Daily News Hungary, hop-on-hop-off ship rides on the Danube around Hungary's Danube Bend area will resume this coming weekend.

From ReMix, the Hungarian party Fidesz joins the Council of Europe's conservative faction.

From Sputnik International, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, the time and place for the first meeting between Presidents Putin (Russia) and Biden (U.S.) are still uncertain.

From EuroNews, according to his lawyer, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny should be transferred to a civilian hospital.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev hands Prime Minister-designate Daniel Mitov a mandate to try to form a new government.

From Ekathimerini, in an effort to rearm, Greece seeks military partnerships and more hardware.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Mitov announces his proposed Bulgarian cabinet.

From Balkan Insight, two Romanian police officers are arrested over a suspect's asphyxiation death.

From Euractiv, Slovenia considers increasing its grounds for creating a military draft.

From Malta Today, Maltese customs officials intercept fake AK-47's intended to go to Libya.

From RFI, according to Reporters Without Borders, reporters in France are threatened by violent protests, harassment and concentrated media ownership.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan government considers aid for sectors hit by its nighttime curfew.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals upholds sentences given to a media executive and police chiefs on terror-related charges.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu gives up on forming a government.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry delivers a dam message.

From The New Arab, the watchdog Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is urged to sanction the Syrian regime in response to alleged toxic gas attacks.

From IranWire, reformist political activist Mahmoud Sadeghi predicts a 25 percent turnout in Iran's upcoming presidential election.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani parliament postpones its debate on whether to expel the ambassador from France.

From the Afghanistan Times, Afghan security forces send at least 45 Taliban terrorists to their virgins.

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges coronavirus vaccine makers to scale up their production facilities.

From the Daily Mirror, according to former Sri Lankan Justice Minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe, the Colombo Port City will become a haven for money laundering.

From The Straits Times, Singapore reduces the number of people who are neither citizens nor permanent residents allowed to enter the country.

From the Borneo Post, 600,000 people with disabilities have been registered in Malaysia.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam vaccinates its men's national soccer team against the coronavirus.

From Gatestone Institute, China and Russia are "the guns of April".

From The Stream, the reason white people are hated isn't slavery.

From The American Conservative, a new think tank is "Trumpism lite".

From The Daily Signal, 21 black leaders denounce left-wing lies about Georgia's new voting law.

From Breitbart, during a press conference, congresscritter Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) goes on a tirade demanding "racial justice".

From the New York Post and maybe the "hold on to your hats" department, the jury in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has reached a verdictUPDATE:  He has been found guilty of all three counts.

From Newsmax, Republicans in the Ohio state legislature intend to rename a state park after former President Trump.

And from The Babylon Bee, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Bill of Rights is a "public health crisis".