Thursday, October 14, 2021

Thursday Tidings

On a warm sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Virginia Democrats including Governor Blackface passed a law allowing schools to not report sexual battery in 2020.

From FrontpageMag, Western counties have suicidal energy policies.

From Townhall, is America the new Rome, but versus Byzantium?

From The Washington Free Beacon, climate czar John Kerry and his wife own a stake in a Chinese investment group that funded a company blacklisted for human rights abuses against the Uyghurs.

From the Washington Examiner, the Marine who criticized military leaders for the withdrawal from Afghanistan pleads guilty.

From The Federalist, in an article written by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WY), the worst from President Biden's coronavirus vaccine coercion is yet to come.

From American Thinker, among other things, Columbus fought against jihad.

From CNS News, according to former presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, people now feel Biden's economics "at the gas pump and in the grocery cart".

From LifeZette, the NFL shows its hypocrisy in dealing with recently ousted coach Jon Gruden.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, as Biden and the media attack Governor Santis (R), Florida has the third lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, in the year since the New York post published evidence of Hunter Biden's allegedly corrupt dealings, ABC, CBS and NBC have devoted a total of about 18 minutes to the story.

From Canada Free Press, the chickens finally come home to roost on community organizer and former President Obama.  (Or you could say that Obama finally gets his cluck-uppance.)

From CTV News, a fire that destroyed most of Lytton, British Columbia, Canada was not caused by a train.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposes a "truth commission" for examining alleged genocide during the colonization of the Americas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, it's time for telling the truth at the "climate jamboree" in Glasgow, Scotland.

From the (U.K.) Independent, homes intended to house Afghan refugees remain empty.

From EuroNews, the U.K. has a backlog of pigs.

From ReMix, the company Électricité de France offers to build nuclear power plants in Poland.

From About Hungary, Hungary and Slovakia intend to build four border bridges between them by 2023.  (In 2000, my tour group crossed a bridge over the Ipoly River from Balassagyarmat, Hungary to Slovenské Ďarmoty, Slovakia.)

From The Moscow Times, Russia reports new single-day records of coronavirus cases and deaths.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria will negotiate a plan to close its coalmining by 2040.

From the Greek City Times, Greek Foreign Minister Dendias and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken renew the defense cooperation agreement between the two countries for five years.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, prices reportedly increase faster than wages in Bulgaria.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo is pressed to secure the safety of journalists after violence in the country's northern parts.

From Euractiv, Greek leftist MEP Kostas Arvanitis calls Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša a "coward".

From Free West Media, who should be blamed for the E.U.'s gas crisis?

From The North Africa Post, Algeria reels under a state of undeclared martial law.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to the think tank JINSA, the U.S. must provide Israel with the military ability to take on Iran.

From The New Arab, six people are killed when armed militias clash with the Lebanese army in Beirut.

From Iran International, Iran faces a large budget deficit due to oil revenues falling below expectations.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, cooperation with China is a factor in the region's stability.

From India Today, India is easily reelected to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

From TimesNowNews, idols are broken at three Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh.  (A pandal is a canopy or tent used in religious events.)

From New Age, U.S. Ambassador Earl R. Miller meets the mayor of Chattogram, Bangladesh.  (This site has recovered from some technical difficulties.)

From Gatestone Institute, mosques in Cologne, Germany will start broadcasting outdoors the Islamic call to prayer.

From The Stream, violence against pro-life advocates increases.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. should not commit to defending Taiwan.

From The Daily Signal, transgender bathroom policies enable sexual predators.

From The Western Journal, President Biden forgets the name of his "special envoy for ports".

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) hammers Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for seeking to monitor Americans how have transactions of $600 while giving Hunter Biden a pass.

From The Daily Wire, LinkedIn will turn off its platform in China.

From Fox 5, a home invader in Atlanta runs into the Second Amendment.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Daily Caller, wholesale inflation sets a record.

From the New York Post, an actress sues Bill Cosby for allegedly drugging and raping her in 1990.

From Breitbart, Senator Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ) goes to Europe to fundraise from Americans living there.

From Newsmax, an estimated 3 million people who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic have stopped looking.

And from The Guardian, actor Daniel Craig claims to visit gay bars to avoid fights at straight ones.

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