Saturday Stories

On a sunny buy cold Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, criminals loot two stores in California on Black Friday.

From Townhall, could the new "omicron" coronavirus variant have been named after a different Greek letter?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Detroit businessman launches a campaign to unseat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) due to her economic policies.

From the Washington Examiner, five laws passed by Californians which have come back to bite them.

From American Thinker, trying to make sense of the omicron coronavirus variant.

From Red Voice Media, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) declares an emergency due to the omicron variant, even though no cases of it have been found in the U.S.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife avoids wokeness and "wildly" over-performs at the box office.

From Canada Free Press, "an appeal to heaven".

From TeleSUR, Cubans observe the 150th anniversary of the execution of eight medical students by the Spanish colonial government.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. parliament is dead, but doesn't yet know it.

From Snouts in the Trough, is evidence starting to mount up about alleged post-vaccine heart attacks?

From Free West Media, Czech President Miloš Zeman tests positive for the coronavirus and is hospitalized even after being jabbed three times.

From EuroNews, Germany, Italy and the U.K. report cases of the omicron variant.

From ReMix, the drowning of 31 migrants in the English Channel shows the immorality of the E.U.'s open door immigration policy.  (I've come to believe that one of the legitimate non-racist reasons for opposing illegal immigration is the danger to the illegal migrants themselves.  The article refers to the English Channel by its French name La Manche.)

From The North Africa Post, according to Morocco's permanent representative to the U.N., Algeria's hostility toward Morocco is an attempt to hide its own internal problems.

From The New Arab, Arab countries impose travel bans on African countries due to the omicron coronavirus variant.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration should not give away U.S. leverage over Iran.

From The Stream, a step for Christians when asked about evolution.

From The American Conservative, on the road in a "mechanical jacobin".

From the Conservative Brief, after criticizing then-President Trump for his coronavirus travel ban, President Biden issues a coronavirus travel ban.

From The Western Journal, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) calls for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, unless certain conditions are met.

From BizPac Review, Biden takes questions about the omicron coronavirus variant and his travel ban on African countries.

From The Daily Wire, the politics of using cars as weapons.

From the Daily Caller, five U.S. congresscritters meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, despite warnings from communist China.

From the New York Post, a man is arrested at the Port Authority bus station in New York City while allegedly in possession of an automatic rifle, ammunition, drugs and a knife.

From Breitbart, in response to the omicron variant, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reintroduces mask requirements.

From WPVI-TV, Philadelphia has its deadliest year since 1990.  (via Newsmax)

From Newsmax, Florida now has the lowest new coronavirus rate in the U.S.

And from the Genesius Times, travel bans on African countries aren't racist anymore.