Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, President Biden wants to greatly raise the tax on tobacco, which would definitely affect people making less than $400,000 per year.

From FrontpageMag, the Trump derangement virus mutates into its Goldberg variant.

From Townhall, Attorney General Merrick Garland is grilled over why an FBI agent fired for lying still gets millions of dollars.

From The Washington Free Beacon, on his interactions with the National School Boards Association, Biden gets a dose of "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha", and I don't mean Brady.

From the Washington Examiner, yes, Virginia, your schools do indeed have some "serious problems".

From The Federalist, the Biden FBI joins Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) in blocking Republicans from investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

From American Thinker, why the Democrat plan to tax unrealized capital gains should terrify you.

From CNS News, the State Department issues the first U.S. passport with an "X" gender designation.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, former Trump aide Steve Bannon is a target for arrest, but dog torturer Dr. Anthony Fauci is not.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) runs from a reporter asking about his coronavirus mandate plans.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Houston Texans chairman Cal McNair is shamed for telling the truth about where the coronavirus came from.

From NewsBusters, American Principles Project president Terry Schilling has his functions on Twitter limited after Tweeting about gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) and Loudoun County school district scandals.

From CTV News, Canadian indigenous leaders call for an apology and compensation from Pope Francis amid his possible plans to visit Canada.

From TeleSUR, the Haitian gang G9 calls for Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign.  (Would you like to live in a country where organized criminals get to decide who is in charge of the government?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. trans activists call for a boycott of the company Tunnock's after it donates tea cakes to the LGB alliance.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K.'s Office for Budget Responsibility warns that inflation could hit its highest level in three decades.

From Free West Media, Poland makes illegal entry more risky.

From About Hungary, according to Justice Minister Judit Varga, Hungary could soon digitize its justice system.

From The Moscow Times, according to the Russian rights group Memorial, the number of political prisoners in Russia has greatly increased this year.

From ReMix, after Russia cuts off gas to Moldova, Moldova buys gas from Poland.

From Radio Bulgaria, construction costs rise sharply in Bulgaria.

From Euractiv, the "biggest irritant" in Bulgaria's upcoming elections is its coronavirus certificate.

From the Greek City Times, according to seismology professor Gerasimos Papadopoulos, Greece is going through a period of increased seismic activity.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin government officials present a model for seizing property acquired illegally.

From Balkan Insight, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina will erect a monument to the victims of the wartime Kazani Pit killings, without naming the perpetrators.

From EuroNews, the Italian Senate rejects a "divisive" bill that would add five more categories to its hate crimes law.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim man in France gets 18 months, with 12 suspended, for threatening to slit the throat of a public official.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Indépendant.)

From The North Africa Post, procuring coronavirus vaccines will cost Morocco 7 billion dirhams.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel goes ahead with its plan to build 3,130 settler homes despite a request against doing so from the U.S. government.

From The New Arab, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen claims to have killed 105 Houthi rebels in airstrikes around the city of Marib.

From Iran International, Iran wants nuclear talks to be resumed before December, but also wants the U.S. to unfreeze $10 billion of its assets.

From Pakistan Today, four policemen are killed and over 250 people are injured as police clash with members of the banned group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan in Gujranwala, Pakistan.

From The Hans India, India successfully test-fires the missile Agni-5.  (The missile is named after the Hindu fire god Agni.)

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem will be "a nail in the coffin of peace".

From The Stream, "the Church must respond to Marxism".

From The Daily Signal, ahead of a major Supreme Court case on abortion, the March for Life eyes equality for the unborn.

From ITR Economics, there is compelling evidence for an economic correction.

From Sino Daily, according to the communist Chinese government, Taiwan "has no right to join the United Nations".

From Space Daily, communist China successfully launches the Shijian-21 satellite.

From Space War, the U.S. bans China Telecom due to national security concerns.

From The American Conservative, communist China's infiltration playbook.

From The Western Journal, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slams the Biden administration for "begging OPEC" to lower the price of oil.

From BizPac Review, Associated Press fact-checkers finally start fact-checking President Biden.

From The Daily Wire, New York City could lose 30 percent of its police force and fire department because of its coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From the Daily Caller, former Trump White House advisor Dr. Scott Atlas slams Dr. Deborah Birx for blaming the failure of coronavirus lockdowns on those who criticized them.

From Breitbart, according to the Atlanta Fed's GDPNOW model, economic growth in the U.S. was an estimated 0.2 percent during the third quarter of this year.

From Newsmax, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo urges voters to reject replacing the city's police department with a public safety unit.

And from the New York Post, travelers donate frequent-flyer miles to Afghan refugees.

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