Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Wednesday Whatnot

As the mild sunny weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden blames big oil for high gas prices.

From FrontpageMag, the integrity of words becomes another casualty in the culture war.

From Townhall, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas answers Senator Mike Lee's (R-UT) question about why coronavirus vaccine mandates don't apply to illegal migrants.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to Homeland Security officials, the rise in fentanyl seizures shows that the drug cartels are taking advantage of lax border policies.

From the Washington Examiner, the "QAnon Shaman" is sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the January 6th Capitol riot.  (I still say that he should have been charged with some sort of dress code violation.)

From The Federalist, emails show that researchers who linked then-candidate Trump to the Russian Alfa Bank were themselves anti-Trump.

From American Thinker, will leftist thugs neuter incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D)?

From CNS News, 23 illegal aliens previous convicted of homicide and then deported are charged with illegal reentry in nine months in Arizona.

From LifeZette, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposes a "Parents Bill of Rights".

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the czars have returned.  (Perhaps I should say that they have "come home to roost".  The article comes via LifeZette.)

From NewsBusters, CensorTrack with TR has recorded 3,000 examples of biased censorship by Big Tech.

From Canada Free Press, Australian reporter Sharri Markson's findings on the origins of the coronavirus surpasses those of a Republican congressional task force.

From CTV News, according to the provincial medical officer of health, the Canadian province of Ontario will start vaccinating children ages 5 to 11 against the coronavirus.

From TeleSUR, Mexico creates a task force to safeguard tourism in the state of Quintana Roo.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the damning silence from parliamentcritters and the media as the number of adverse reactions to the coronavirus vaccine rises.

From Snouts in the Trough, the BBC show Children in Need is back to pick U.K. pockets.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. parliamentcritters approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to ban them from working as parliamentary consultants or advisors.

From Euractiv, German parties are confident that they can form a coalition government by the end of November.

From Free West Media, a member of the German Ethics Council calls for a travel ban on people not vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From ReMix, Polish authorities repel another assault by migrants on the border with Belarus.

From About Hungary, according to State Secretary Zoltán Kovács, Hungary will not be an immigrant country as long as its current government remains in power.

From EuroNews, Finns fear that migrants will be sent to the Finland-Russia border.

From The Moscow Times, Moscow becomes "this place is for the birds".

From Radio Bulgaria, Byala, Bulgaria attracts visitors with its bike trails.

From the Greek City Times, did someone lose an iguana?

From Balkan Insight, an exhibition in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina documents the city's "sniper alley" during the siege of 1992-1995.

From The North Africa Post, strongman Khalifa Haftar will campaign to become Libya's president.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel and Jordan sign an agreement on water and energy mediated by the UAE.

From The New Arab, according to a pro-military Sudanese minister, a return to pre-coup conditions is "unrealistic".

From Iran International, Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi faces 30 months in jail and 80 lashes.

From Pakistan Today, Sikhs gather in the Pakistani province of Punjab to celebrate the birth date of the founder of Sikhism.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla and U.S. envoy Thomas West discuss their shared interest in Afghanistan.

From India Today, Indian Army and Air Force personnel prepare for a winter deployment in the territory of Ladakh.

From Gatestone Institute, Spain's migration crisis "spirals out of control".

From The Stream, "the real pro-life movement".

From The Daily Signal, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a challenge to president Biden's workplace coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From The American Conservative, the crisis in Belarus gets worse.

From The Western Journal, President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan gets blasted by former President Obama's ambassador to Afghanistan.

From BizPac Review, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) "proudly" signs a bill to require utilities to use the preferred pronouns of their customers.

From Breitbart, prosecution and defense attorneys in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial clash over disputed video evidence.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Mike Gallagher (R-Wis) objects to former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) being Biden's infrastructure manager due to alleged ties with Chinese Communist Party influence organizations.

And from the New York Post, thanks to a new device, the Internet could go to the dogs.

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