Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Tuesday Tidings

On a partly sunny and mild Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, setting the record straight on Georgia's new voting law.

From FrontpageMag, three recent attacks and the politically correct stereotype of the evil white male.

From Townhall, black Americans are embracing the Second Amendment.

From The Washington Free Beacon, marching toward appeasement.

From the Washington Examiner, "Woke-A-Cola" faces blowback for opposing Georgia's new voting law.

From The Federalist, if Democrats will cry racism no matter what, Republicans should keep on passing stronger laws.

From American Thinker, the media go Sgt. Schulz as Black Panthers in Milwaukee racially harass and shut down an Asian-owned nail salon.

From CNS News, according to Governor Greg Abbott (R), Texas will move its election day if H.R. 1 passes.

From LifeZette, the Capital barrier rammer's family and The Washington Post spin his bio.

From NewsBusters, networks tout MLB's moving the All Star Game to Denver, but ignore Colorado's voting laws being similar to those of Georgia.

From Canada Free Press, understanding how government works with money.

From CBC News, Toronto, Ontario, Canada closes all its schools due to a surge in coronavirus cases.

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso is denounced for alleged tax fraud.

From The Conservative Woman, the aviation industry is being taxes for very old carbon dioxide emissions.

From the Express, London Mayor Sadiq Khan appears headed for a second term.

From the (Irish) Independent, what are the most common coronavirus variants and have any been found in Ireland?

From VRT NWS, Belgium's coronavirus vaccination reserve list is a "staggering success".

From the NL Times, the Netherlands will allow small crowds at soccer matches and in theaters later this month.

From EuroNews, Dutch police arrest a suspect in the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth €6 million.

From Deutsche Welle, how does German federalism work?

From the CPH Post, more Danes and Swedes are trading places.

From Breitbart, a Swedish public broadcasting company invites an imam to explain Easter.  (Will a Christian minister be asked to explain Ramadan?)

From Polskie Radio, Poland reports 8,245 new coronavirus cases and 60 more deaths.

From Radio Prague, farmers markets and some stores and services in the Czech Republic will be allowed to reopen on April 12th.

From The Slovak Spectator, St. Elizabeth's Cathedral in Košice is the biggest church in Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, some details on Hungary's reopening, which starts tomorrow.  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Portfolio.)

From ReMix, despite what alarmists may say, Hungary is not planning to leave the E.U.

From Russia Today, Russian dissident Alexey Navalny is transferred to a prison medical ward.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian Prime Minister Floran Citu announces a return to "normal life" in mid-July.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Ziarul Financiar.)

From Novinite, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his cabinet are obligated to resign a week after Bulgaria's election results are announced.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece reports a "steep increase" in the number of new coronavirus cases.

From Euractiv, Greek politicians bicker about Russia's first coronavirus vaccine.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, anti-lockdown protests erupt in Bosnia and Herzegovina as the country's coronavirus vaccine rollout becomes a train wreck.

From Balkan Insight, at least nine North Macedonian police officers are arrested in a crackdown on passport forgery.

From Total Croatia News, mass coronavirus vaccination starts in Zagreb, Croatia tomorrow.

From Total Slovenia News, two initiatives to put recent changes to Slovenia's Water Act up to a referendum each gather thousands of signatures.

From the Malta Independent, the Maltese government is expected to announce tomorrow a review of its coronavirus measures.

From ANSA, Italian party leaders Enrico Letta and Matteo Renzi meet for talks but disagree about forming an alliance with the 5-Star Movement party.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's population grows despite an increase in deaths.

From France24, the E.U. approves €4 billion in aid to Air France.

From El País, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez commits to having 33 million people in Spain vaccinated against the coronavirus by the end of August.

From The Portugal News, dogs at airports in Portugal's Madeira Islands will sniff you for the coronavirus.

From Free West Media, people who feel anxiety over climate change are "overwhelmingly white".  (Would this mean that to be "less white" is to worry less over climate change?  Meanwhile, some non-white people have been contributing more carbon dioxide in recent years.)

From Morocco World News, a scientific group gathers in Tangier to support the legalization of cannabis in Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan intelligence helps France foil a terror plot.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a Turkish court sentences four men to jail in connection with a suicide bombing that killed 12 German tourists in 2016.

From Assyrian International News Agency, the Turkish city of Mardin reportedly starts building a parking lot on land belonging to a Syriac Catholic monastery.

From Rûdaw, security forces in northeastern Syria reportedly arrest an ISIS leader at the al-Hol refugee camp.

From Armenpress, according to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia is committed to long-term military cooperation with Russia.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus opens coronavirus vaccination to people aged 61 and over.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian and Russian forces have reportedly combined to destroy at least 430 schools in the Syrian province of Daraa.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin grants Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a mandate to form a new government.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian and Sudanese fighter jets fly over the Nile in a joint training mission.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Grand Mosque in Mecca will have its capacity increased to accommodate Umrah pilgrims and worshipers during Ramadan.

From The New Arab, a Saudi human rights activist gets a 20-year prison sentence for running an anonymous social media account.

From Al Jazeera, Iran receives 700,800 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From The Express Tribune, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives in Islamabad, Pakistan, the first time in nine years by someone in his office.

From Outlook, five ISIS terrorists are arrested for allegedly handing out hate material at a mosque in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

From Khaama Press, a policeman is killed by unidentified gunmen in the Afghan province of Kabul.

From ANI, according to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, there is no coronavirus vaccine shortage in any part of India.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh is seeing an unequal distribution of coronavirus treatment facilities.

From the Colombo Page, the masterminds of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attack are identified.

From The Jakarta Post, at least 157 people have been reported killed by floods in Indonesia and East Timor.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Health Minister Dr. Adham Baba, Malaysia will continue using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From The Mainichi, travelers at the railroad station in Taketa, Japan tawt dey taw a putty tat.

From Gatestone Institute, indoctrination into hate doesn't come only from ISIS and Boko Haram.

From The Stream, how the "fake news" got it wrong about lawyer Sydney Powell.

From The Daily Signal, the abovementioned Texas Governor Abbott orders a ban on coronavirus vaccine passports.

From Space War, the U.S. will join talks intended to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.

From The American Conservative, the rise and fall of the elite.

From the New York Post, President Biden has nothing to say about whether the Masters should pull out of Georgia over its new voting law.

From Fox News, a Pennsylvania woman running to be the first black female Republican Senator blasts Biden for his "you ain't black" comment.

From WPVI-TV, according to a use-of-force instructor, Minneapolis police are trained to avoid placing their knees on a suspect's neck.

From The Daily Wire, will golf be the next sport ruined by wokeness?

And from The Babylon Bee, Biden will tear down the southern border wall and replace it with a more compassionate "rigid vertical border monument".

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