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.

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