Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Tuesday Tidings

On a cool breezy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, rationality is not just for white males.

From FrontpageMag, how money from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Democrats an advantage in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election.

From Townhall, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) blast the IRS's plan to monitor transactions as low as $600.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the last time Terry McAuliffe (D) was Virginia's governor, the state's parole board released a violent offender who later robbed a woman and her kids at knifepoint.

From the Washington Examiner, high school students in Loudoun County, Virginia walk out of class to protest their school board's handling of a sexual assault.

From American Thinker, law firms that wanted to defend terrorists held in GITMO won't do anything for the January 6th defendants.

From American Thinker, beagles aren't the only animals being tortured using funding from the NIH.

From CNS News, how Big Tech cancels your voice and even your vote.

From LifeZette, the aforementioned gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe insults Virginian parents.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) recognizes that there are two genders, even as a state representative doesn't.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, former President Trump announces the creation of a new company that will challenged the dominance of big tech and big media.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the CNN show Smerconish highlights the illegal migrant caravan now in Mexico, unlike the rest of that network.  (According to this article from Human Events, being illegally present in Mexico is a felony.  Thus, these migrants are technically felons under Mexican law.)

From Canada Free Press, how did Virginia, the "mother of presidents" become a danger to her children?

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reshuffles his cabinet.

From TeleSUR, President Daniel Ortega claims that the U.S. is interfering with Nicaragua's elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how would the "Iron Lady" have dealt with the coronavirus?

From Snouts in the Trough, how many coronavirus jabs will you and your family get?

From the Evening Standard, a noted World War II-era truck mechanic reportedly has "regretfully decided" against hosting the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.  (Yes, I like to refer to Her Majesty by her military specialty.  How many current heads of state have "wartime truck mechanic" on their resumes?)

From the Irish Examiner, when in Ireland, be careful how you ride your scrambler or quad bike, or the gardaí might take it away.

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian commune of Flanders orders the American company 3M to either show that its emissions do not pose a risk or to halt its production.

From Dutch News, coronavirus-related hospital admissions in the Netherlands increase by 34 percent in the last week.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man in Berlin, Germany is beaten up for not shouting "free Palestine".  (If you read German, read the story at Jung Freiheit.)

From Free West Media, Swedish politician Bertil Malmberg is convicted of incitement for citing facts about the IQs of South Sudanese people.

From ReMix, Poland comes up with an infrastructure plan.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian health experts, people should keep on social distancing and wearing masks.

From EuroNews, five takeaways from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's meeting with French "far-right" politician Marine Le Pen.  (These days, anyone in Europe who wants any degree of sovereignty for his own country, instead of having to submit everything for E.U. approval, is in danger of being called "far-right".)

From Sputnik International, Russian Marines save a civilian ship from pirates.

From The Sofia Globe, the stranded cargo ship Vera Su is towed to the Bulgarian port of Varna.

Form Ekathimerini, seven police officers on trial for murder for a fatal shooting in Piraeus, Greece claim to have acted in self-defense.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Romanian Prime Minister-designate Nicolae Ciucă has so far not been able to secure a parliamentary majority.

From Balkan Insight, activists gather in Pristina, Kosovo to protest the light sentence given to a man convicted of sexually abusing a 15-year-old.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia sees its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases since January.

From Malta Today, a man is cleared of involvement in a robbery at an ice cream factory in Żejtun, Malta in 2014.

From Italy24News, Italian-made cars are used by police in Dubai.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurates a museum dedicated to the "Dreyfus affair".

From Euractiv, according to a report, facial recognition technology is already being used in 11 E.U. countries.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco pleads for a strategic update of the partnership between the African Union and the European Union.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey sentences 450 lawyers to a total of 2,786 years in prison on "trumped-up" charges relating to the 2016 coup.

From The Times Of Israel, according to a climate watchdog, Israel is over-polluting and underpreparing when it comes to climate change.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian police and Fatah teach 50 girls to regard terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi as a role model.

From Egypt Today, the Italian company Eni announces three oil and gas discoveries in Egypt's Western Desert.

From The New Arab, Sudanese people protest against their country's military coup.

From IranWire, Iranians ask Supreme Leader Khamenei where their gasoline is.

From The Express Tribune, Foreign Minister Shan Mahmood Qureshi highlights Pakistan's contribution to U.N. peacekeeping missions.

From The Afghanistan Times, women protest in Kabul, Afghanistan over the closing of schools for girls.

From India Today, the Indian federal government asks the state of West Bengal its coronavirus situation due to a spike in cases after the Durga Puja festival.

From New Age, Bangladeshi and U.S. troops start a disaster response exercise.

From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan Health Ministry sounds the alarm over a slight rise in coronavirus-related deaths.

From AFP Fact Check, reports of the death of an Indian politician appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

From The Straits Times, for the first time ever, Asean leaders convene their annual summit without Myanmar.

From the Borneo Post, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin reminds Malaysians to obey the ban on smoking in eateries.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hopes for stronger trade relations with New Zealand.

From Gatestone Institute, Poland claws back its sovereignty from the E.U.

From The Stream, what does the Bible really say about socialism and capitalism?

From The Daily Signal, congress did not give OSHA the authority to impose coronavirus vaccine mandates.

From The American Conservative, the global economy works when governments refrain from intervening.

From The Western Journal, former President Trump's new social media platform should remind Christians about where truth ultimately comes from.

From BizPac Review, comedian Dave Chappelle refuses to bend to anyone's demands.

From The Daily Wire, according to CNN, the current labor shortage is just what the U.S. economy needs.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, Democrats and the media want Americans to believe that Trump's rally on January 6th and the attack on the Capitol are the same thing.

From the New York Post, President Biden will stump for the twice-aforementioned Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D), and Vice President Harris will do so again.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, most Americans think that chanting "Let's go, Brandon" and "[bleep] Joe Biden" are "appropriate" ways to protest Biden's administration.

From The Hill, Trump-endorsed congressional candidate Anna Paulina Luna leads her fellow Republicans in the race to replace congresscritter Charlie Crist (D-FL).  (via Newsmax)

From Newsmax, former MLB player and manager Bobby Valentine runs for mayor of Stamford, Connecticut as an independent.

And from the Genesius Times, the Democrats change their 2022 campaign slogan to "try to lower your expectations".

No comments:

Post a Comment