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.