Thursday, December 2, 2021

Thursday Tidings

On a sunny and mild Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Roe v. Wade versus reality.

From FrontpageMag, how criminal justice reform hurts the poor.

From Townhall, President Biden is set to announce another mask mandate extension for plane, trains and public transit.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democratic Senators block a measure to prohibit the import of products made with Chinese slave labor.  (It appears that the Democrats have supported slave labor back when it was happening in the U.S. and when it's going on in China.  I guess you could say that in a sense they're being consistent.)

From the Washington Examiner, now that a second case of the omicron coronavirus variant has been found in the U.S., the White House expects more.

From The Federalist, the originalist justices on the Supreme Court should let bad abortion law die of its own weight.

From American Thinker, why electric cars have a sinister nature.

From CNS News, according to Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), no one can point out where the right to abortion is in the Constitution.

From LifeZette, President Biden blames former President Trump for his own mistakes.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admits that inflation is here to stay.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, fully vaccinated basketball star LeBron James tests positive for the coronavirus.

From Canada Free Press, beware of the "Coup Klutz Clan".

From Global News, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia continues its ban on police street checks.

From TeleSUR, according to social leaders, Latin America must "get rid of colonial vestiges" and stop calling itself by names given by Spanish colonizers.  (If they really want to "get rid of colonial vestiges", they would need to stop speaking Spanish and Portuguese altogether.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson gets chaotic and crowds out his ministers.

From the Evening Standard, police in London seek three men in connection with an anti-Semitic attack on a Hannukah party bus.

From the Irish Examiner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin expects Ireland's National Public Health Emergency Team to present new coronavirus recommendations to the government.

From The Brussels Times, according to infectious disease expert Erika Vlieghe, Belgium needs predictable coronavirus rules instead of panicked last-minute decisions.

From Dutch News, according to Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge, people over 60 years old in the Netherlands will receive coronavirus booster shots before the end of this year.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, according to a study, Islamists in particular have stirred up anti-Semitism in German-speaking countries.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From ReMix, Poland ends its state of emergency on its border with Belarus, but non-residents are not allowed to cross it.

From Hungary Today, the remains of Hungarian King Andrew I are identified at Tihany Abbey.  (If you read German, read the story at Ungarn Heute.)

From Sputnik International, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. medium-range missiles might soon appear in Europe.

From The Sofia Globe, according to caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov, all Bulgarian students will return to class on December 6th, to be tested for the coronavirus once per week.

From Ekathimerini, Greek health experts advise vaccinated children ages 5 through 11 against the coronavirus.

From Balkan Insight, a court in Belgrade convicts four former Serbian state security officers of murdering journalist Slavko Curuvija.

From Euractiv, European Commission home affairs chief Ylva Johansson praises Croatia's handling of its border violence scandal.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian President Borut Pahor will attend a ceremony in Strasbourg, France commemorating the late French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

From Malta Today, a lawyer who made Facebook post accusing former Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of blowing up a journalist is cleared of libel when neither Muscat nor his lawyer shows up in court.

From Italy24News, a would-be passenger tries to board a flight at Lamezia Terme Airport in southern Italy using someone else's green pass.

From EuroNews, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg will resign, as his predecessor Sebastian Kurz retires from politics.

From RFI, two candidates will face each other in a runoff for the nomination of the party Les Republicains in France's presidential election.

From Free West Media, almost fully vaccinated Portugal returns to its coronavirus "state of calamity".

From The North Africa Post, Saudi Arabia donates medical aid to Tunisia to combat the coronavirus, including 40 tons of liquid oxygen.  (Fun fact:  liquid oxygen is magnetic.)

From Turkish Minute, 10 former Turkish military cadets are released from İstanbul's Silivri Prison after being incarcerated for more than five years on charges relating to the 2016 coup attempt.

From The Times Of Israel, where did Poles get the idea that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was originally named Mieczysław Biegun?

From Egypt Today, tomorrow, 12 parks in Cairo will allow free entry for disabled people.

From The New Arab, the omicron coronavirus variant is detected in a fully vaccinated woman who traveled from Africa to the UAE.

From IranWire, according to Iranian lawyer Mehran Barati, the Iranian media is acting like Nazi Germany.

From The Express Tribune, teacher protest outside the Parliament House in Islamabad, Pakistan for the third straight day.

From The Afghanistan Times, the U.N. appeals for $41 billion in aid to Afghanistan and other conflict zones.

From India Today, 1,502 travelers are tested for the coronavirus at 11 Indian airports, with none showing a positive result.

From New Age, Bangladesh's High Court upholds the death sentences of two people convicted of killing a child.

From the Daily Mirror, the entire board of Sri Lanka's Board of Investment resigns.

From The Straits Times, Singapore reports two imported cases of the omicron coronavirus variant.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia and Japan are ready to strengthen their long-standing bilateral ties.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam approves an ASEAN agreement intended to facilitate travel between its member states.

From Gatestone Institute, China is prepared to launch hostilities against India along their disputed border in the Himalayas.

From The Stream, why accusations of "racism" should be quickly presumed false.

From The Daily Signal, media coverage of events in Kenosha and Waukesha shows that it never learned its lesson.

From The American Conservative, what would America be like without abortion?

From The Western Journal, did the suspected Oxford, Michigan school shooter pose as a policeman in an effort to get students to leave their hiding places?

From BizPac Review, two muggers terrorize a mother and make off with her baby's diaper bag.

From The Daily Wire, you can now buy stock in the platform Rumble.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter AOC gets dunked for claiming that then-Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh was "credibly accused" of sexual assault.

From the New York Post, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's (D) aides shielded him during his sex scandal by having him imitate Vice President Mike Pence.

From Breitbart, several media companies join former White House aide Steve Bannon in his fight against the Department Of Justice to have documents relating to the Capitol riot released.

And from Newsmax, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley will be feted tonight at The Citadel, where she will become the first woman to receive the Nathan Hale Patriot Award.

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