Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, trillions of dollars in malarkey.

From FrontpageMag, why President Biden's ratings are sinking.

From Townhall, media outlets that peddled a phony story about the Border Patrol are forced to correct their fake news.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrat congresscritters propose a $100 billion tax that targets the poor.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden gets caught in a lie about Afghanistan.

From The Federalist, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) confirms that covidianism is a cult.

From American Thinker, the left is conducting a three-pronged assault on America.

From CNS News, the Taliban tell the U.S. to stop flying its drones over Afghanistan.  (If anyone knows the Pashto equivalent of "go fly a kite", please state it in a comment.)

From LifeZette, the states need to fight Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandates.

From NewsBusters, football coaches are warned against yelling at black players or face the race card on ESPN.

From Canada Free Press, Biden should be impeached, but the aftermath of his impeachment would be uncertain.

From Global News, according to the Canadian Medical Association, "extraordinary measures" are needed to fight the coronavirus in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejects attacks on "undocumented" Venezuelan migrants in Chile.

From TCW Defending Freedom, although Chancellor Angela Merkel is on her way out, the British should beware that the Germans are still angry over Brexit.

From Snouts in the Trough, to "aspirate" or not to "aspirate", that is the question.

From the Evening Standard, a woman who shouted at U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer claims that she's "not a heckler".

From the Irish Examiner, the Irish Electric Vehicle Owners' Association warns that removing tax relief could make each electric car €4,000 more expensive.

From The Brussels Times, electric bicycles are becoming more popular in Brussels, Belgium and the commune of Wallonia.  (Belgium is divided into three communes, Wallonia, Flanders and the capital city of Brussels.)

From Dutch News, Dutch refugee centers run out of space.

From EuroNews, German party leaders make some headway in talks to form a coalition government.

From ReMix, U.S. newsman Tucker Carlson interviews Polish President Andrzej Duda.

From Hungary Today, how the recent German elections could affect Hungary.  (If you read German, read the story at Ungarn Heute.)

From Sputnik International, American fugitive Edward Snowden hails the news that Canada has granted asylum to a Sri Lankan family that hid him in Hong Kong.

From Euractiv, the story of Romania's "best digital village", the commune of Ciugud.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria gives its census-takers another week to do their job.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek region of Attica removes bilingual signs in which the name of the Greek god Ares is translated as "Mars" in English.  (In ancient times, the Greek god Ares was identified with the Roman god Mars.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the latest Gallop poll about Bulgarian elections is led by the party GERB-SDS.

From Balkan Insight, police and protesters maintain an uneasy standoff at the border between Serbia and Kosovo.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia suspends the use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

From Malta Today, the company Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin urges the Maltese government to take back hospitals and power stations from foreign ownership.

From Italy24News, Italy defeats the English masters cricket team for the second time ever.

From Free West Media, Italian truck drivers block highways to protest mandatory coronavirus vaccination.

From RFI, France starts to close six mosques and disband some associations suspected of promoting Islamic radicalism.

Form The North Africa Post, Morocco and Mauritania are set to bolster their economic ties.

From the Libyan Express, 48 members of the Libyan House of Representatives make a statement denying that Russia interfered in Libya.

From Turkish Minute, several university students are evicted from their dormitories and deprived of their scholarships for attending an LGBTI parade in Eskişehir, Turkey.

From The Times Of Israel, five people are killed and almost 50 others are injured in a collision between a bus, a van, and several cars near Hurfeish, Israel.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi and U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan meet in Cairo to discuss some dam things and other matters.

From The New Arab, the appointment of Tunisia's first female Prime Minister produces a mixed reaction.

From IranWire, TV censorship in Iran gets weirder.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government denies providing the Taliban with military support.

From The Afghanistan Times, more on the Taliban planning to temporarily use a constitution from the time of King Mohammad Zahir Shah.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian government urges people to spend the upcoming festive season at home with their families.

From New Age, the top Rohingya leader in Bangladesh is shot and killed in his office.

From the Daily Mirror, according Sri Lanka's chief epidemiologist, young people are a major contributor to virus transmission.

From Crux, dozens of people are killed in attacks by Islamists in northern Nigeria.

From The Straits Times, according to Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore welcomes deeper U.S. engagement in the Asia-Pacific region.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia will allow fully vaccinated people to attend sports and recreational events starting on October 1st.

From Vietnam Plus, Da Nang, Vietnam will relax some of its coronavirus restrictions starting tomorrow.

From Gatestone Institute, a new word is suggested, to indicate those in the administration who choose power and profit over patriotism.

From The Stream, a columnist at the Times of London alleges that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen.

From The Daily Signal, no, there is no such thing as "zero-cost" government spending.

From Space War, North Korea claims to have tested a hypersonic missile.

From The American Conservative, "the most dangerous man in America".

From BizPac Review, a Whole Foods grocery store gets walloped for its woke banner.

From The Western Journal, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has enough of media double standards when they go after her children.

From The Daily Wire, federal analysis shows that the Democrat tax bill will indeed raise taxes on the middle class.

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, the Democrat $3.5 trillion legislation has a disapproval rating of over 50 percent in three key swing districts.

From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill pleads with Kyrie Irving of the New York Nets to get vaccinated.

From Breitbart, the Border Patrol makes a record number of apprehensions in fiscal year 2021.  (This, of course, does not include the "gotaways" whom they didn't apprehend.)

From Newsmax, according to a survey, most Americans disapprove companies firing employees for not getting vaccinated against the coronavirus.

And from CNN, a family in Virginia Beach, Virginia have a neighbor who airs audible racial slurs and monkey sounds from his house, but the police claim that it's not actionable.

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