Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, yesterday's election in Virginia was a "five-alarm fire" for the Democrats.

From FrontpageMag, Virginia becomes the setting of "another American Revolution".

From Townhall, one crosstab in the Virginia elections should send the Democrats into panic mode.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Maryland government officials worked with open borders activists to draft a sanctuary law.

From the Washington Examiner, after the Virginia elections, liberals lash out at Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ).

From The Federalist, Glenn Youngkin's (R) victory over Terry McAuliffe (D) for Virginia governor is a referendum on the left's culture war.

From American Thinker, more about yesterday's elections and "incredible" gains made by Republicans.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal), Youngkin's win tells us that "policy matters".

From LifeZette, Republicans won "across the board" yesterday, with New Jersey's governorship still in play.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, President Biden has become a worldwide laughingstock.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, political consultant Roger Stone promises to run against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022 if he doesn't audit the 2020 elections.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, former Vice President Al Gore defends the "commitment" to end overseas coal financing by the world's largest carbon dioxide-emitting country.

From Canada Free Press, last night, the lights came back on in the U.S.

From Global News, the Canadian province of Quebec drops its coronavirus vaccination mandate for healthcare workers.

From TeleSUR, "far-right" Chilean President Sebastian Piñera defends the pardons he granted to 10 Pinochet-era criminals.

From TCW Defending Freedom, should the British ditch their monarchy and elect a president?

From Snouts in the Trough, global warming has made the world almost as hot as it was 115 years ago.

From the Evening Standard, according to the National Farmers' Union, the U.K. can meet its goal of reducing methane emissions by 30 percent without reducing the size of its cattle herds.

From Euractiv, U.K. parliamentcritters are told to keep their masks on.

From the Irish Examiner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin is accused of "dodging" questions about Ireland must reduce its cattle herds in order to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.

From the Brussels Times, a man from Wellen, Belgium is given a four-month suspended sentence for beating a badger to death.

From Dutch News, police in The Hague, Netherlands arrest 13 people while breaking up a demonstration against new coronavirus rules.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From EuroNews, Germany is undergoing a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, mainly among the unvaccinated.

From Hungary Today, a small painting by Hungarian painter Pál Szinyei Merse is returned to Hungary after being taken to the West in 1944 or 1945.

From ReMix, will the E.U. help pay for any of Hungary's border fence?

From Sputnik International, according to U.S. media, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is "still months away" from being used.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov sets rules for school children returning to in-person classes.

From Ekathimerini, six people are arrested in the Greek region of Attica for allegedly trafficking she-don't-lie.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the E.U. is concerned about the situation is Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Balkan Insight, Prime Ministers Zdravko Krovokapić (Montenegro) and Ana Brnabić (Serbia) put their disputes on hold.

From The Slovenia Times, four ducks are found dead at Malta's Chadwick Lakes, after being illegally introduced.

From Italy24News, starting yesterday, Italians had better pay their tax bills.

From RFI, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy slams a summons to testify in the trial of his former aides as "unconstitutional".

From The North Africa Post, doctors and nurses go on strike in Algeria to protest the deteriorating situation of the country's health sector.

From Turkish Minute, Kurdish poet and journalist Yılmaz Odabaşı is sentenced to 11 months in prison for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli Knesset votes on a budget for the first time in 3 and a half years.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi orders his government to move to the country's New Capital in December.

From The New Arab, Israel forces detain at least 13 Palestinians in raids in the West Bank.

From IranWire, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have thwarted an American attemot to steal Iranian Oil.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announces a subsidy program amid rising inflation.

From the Hindustan Times, five Indian states announce tax cuts for gasoline and diesel fuel after the Indian federal government announces a similar cut.

From New Age, Bangladeshi police search for the body of a "wanted" Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army commander.

Form the Daily Mirror, according to the Archbishop of Colombo, former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and security workers were concerned only about their own safety after receiving warnings before the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From Michael Smith News, Qantas Airlines calls the West Bank and Gaza "Occupied Palestinian Territory".

From The Straits Times, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to punish local government officials for falling behind on coronavirus vaccination.

From the Borneo Post, colored rice grown in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is exported to Singapore.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with the leaders of other countries and NGOs on the sidelines of the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

From Gatestone Institute, Hamas explains what it means by "free, free Palestine".

From The Stream, the left doesn't seem to regard stealing as wrong.

From The Daily Signal, "climate democracy dies in darkness, censorship, and groupthink".

From The American Conservative, why Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) won.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Andy Biggs (R-AZ) makes a big move in an attempt to "cripple" President Biden's coronavirus vaccination mandate.

From BizPac Review, according to former President Trump, with Youngkin's win in Virginia, the MAGA movement "is bigger and stronger than ever before".

From The Daily Wire, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) regards the Republican wins in Virginia as "incredible".

From the Daily Caller, according to records, two of Dr. Anthony Fauci's subordinates raised concerns about gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in a Wuhan, China lab in 2016.

From Breitbart, the red wave in yesterday's elections inflames Democrat infighting over President Biden's agenda.

From Newsmax, the Federal Reserve will start slowing its economic aid due to worries about inflation.

From the New York Post, Youngkin's win in Virginia sends MSNBC and CNN hosts into the "7 stages of grief".

From AP News, reports of the abolition of the Minneapolis Police Department turn out to have been greatly exaggerated.

From the StarTribune, four Minneapolis City Council members who backed abolishing the police department lose their seats.

And from the Genesius Times, losing Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliff wonders what happened to his "Biden spike" of votes.

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