Monday, April 12, 2021

Monday Mania

On a cool and partly cloudy Monday, here is some of the mania going on:

From National Review, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) shows promise.

From FrontpageMag, welcome to stately Black Lives Manor.

From Townhall, President Biden appoints a new Border Patrol commissioner.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while attending a fundraiser with left-wing celebrities hours after a mass shooting, Philadelphia's district attorney downplays crime.

From the Washington Examiner, over 100 business leaders meet via Zoom and discuss how to oppose voting bills.  (Remember when the left used to warn about the influence of big business?)

From The Federalist, corporations don't have the right to limit our freedoms just because they're not part of the government.

From American Thinker, the Supreme Court rules against gun licensing fees.

From CNS News, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke out against court packing in 2019.

From LifeZette, retired NFL player Herschel Walker (R) considers running for Senate from Georgia.

From NewsBusters, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) tells professional sports organizations against messing with his state's election legislation.

From Canada Free Press, is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau handing control over the Vancouver International Airport to China?

From Global News, electric vehicle owners in the Saskatchewan protest the Canadian province's new tax on them.

From TeleSUR, wildfires damage 775 hectares of land in Costa Rica.  (A hectare is about 2.471 acres.)

From The Conservative Woman, according to doctors an scientists from 25 countries, regulators are deceiving us about the risks from coronavirus vaccines.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the people in Northern Ireland smart enough to live in peace?

From the Evening Standard, businesses in London reopen for "Manic Monday".  (It's nice to see that I'm not the only person who uses this term, which is the title of a song recorded by the Bangles and written by the late artist who was sometimes known as Prince.)

From the Irish Examiner, Trinity College in Dublin considers rapid coronavirus testing to allow students back onto campus.

From The Brussels Times, the Union of the Middle Classes asks the Belgian government to allow shops, the hospitality industry and contact professions to reopen.

From Dutch News, mayors in four Dutch cities are angry that restaurant outdoor dining areas will stay closed until at least April 28th.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a knife jihadist in Dresden, Germany regrets that one over his two victims survived his attack.

From the CPH Post, Denmark will conduct a 100,000-vaccination "stress test" to see if it can fully reopen by July.

From Hungary Today, according to the rector of Semmelweis University, Hungary need to vaccinate 5 million people to curb the coronavirus pandemic.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 24HU.)

From Sputnik International, Russia plans to launch the new Meteor-M weather satellite in November.

From EuroNews, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who has started a hunger strike, is "threatened with being force fed".

From Romania-Insider, several hundred people in Bucharest protest against Romania's coronavirus restrictions.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Agerpres.)

From The Sofia Globe, according to Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, Bulgaria is considering discontinuing the use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From Ekathimerini, Greece will start administering the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina summons Slovenian Ambassador Zorica Bukanac.

From Balkan Insight, Slovenian President Borut Pahor denies calling for the "dissolution" of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  (That's "Borut", not to be confused with "Boris" or with "Borat".)

From Malta Today, Maltese police - 3, drug traffickers - 0.

From ANSA, protesters in Rome's San Silvestro Square throw stuff at cops.

From ReMix, according to Italian politician Matteo Salvini, European conservatives "will be the majority".  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Mandiner.)

From Free West Media, a Swiss epidemiologist warns against using only current vaccines against the coronavirus.

From RFI, coronavirus self-test kits become available at French pharmacies.

From El PaĆ­s, what restrictions will remain in place after Spain ends its coronavirus state of alarm on May 9th?

From Euractiv, according to Europol, the coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented flood of she-don't-lie.

From The North Africa Post, Algerians form long lines and stampede due to a shortage of cooking oil.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey keeps on building prisons.

From Armenpress, two captured Syrians who fought as mercenaries for Azerbaijan face murder and terrorism charges in Armenia.

From The Syrian Observer, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi expresses his support for Syria to be readmitted to the Arab League.

From The Times Of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells visiting U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that Israel will not allow Iran obtain nuclear weapons.

From Egypt Today, according to Egypt's Suez Canal Authority chief, the investigation into the grounding of the ship Ever Given might end by this coming weekend.

From The New Arab, according to an investigation team set up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Syrian regime attacked the town of Saraqib with chlorine in 2018.

From IranWire, Iranian women are valued as half that of men even before they are born.

From Pakistan Today, according to Health Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan will receive 15 million doses of coronavirus vaccine.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, a report about a cease fire between the Afghan government and the Taliban is found to be false.

From ANI, 50 percent of all hospital beds in the Indian state of Jharkhand are reserved for coronavirus patients.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankans are warned to obey coronavirus restrictions during the upcoming New Year festival season.  (The Sinhalese New Year occurs when the sun moves from Pisces to Aries.)

From The Straits Times, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells everyone that he's not dead yet.  (You know, like this guy.)

From the Borneo Post, Malaysian tigers are in danger of going extinct.

From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese people are buying fewer motorbikes.

From Gatestone Institute, what the Biden administration doesn't want to know about the upcoming Palestinian elections.

From The Stream, candidate Hillary Clinton ignored advice from "Dr. Death" and lost the 2016 presidential election, but the Democrats haven't learned anything.

From The Daily Signal, residents of Green Bay, Wisconsin file a complaint alleging that the city allowed "activist groups to control" the 2020 election.

From SmallBizDaily, how President Biden's proposed tax reforms would affect your small business.

From Space War, Russian scientific achievements from the first satellite to its first coronavirus vaccine.

From The American Conservative, we must have the difficult conversations.

From The Daily Wire, Las Vegas moves toward banning certain types of grass.

From Newsmax, George Floyd's brother tears up while testifying.

From the New York Post, the White House is delaying the creation of a police oversight panel, despite it being one of candidate Biden's campaign promises.

And from The Babylon Bee, to combat the racist nature of America's highway system, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg proposes separate lanes for each race.

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