Thursday, January 20, 2022

Thursday Tidings

On a cold cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden (U.S.) gives President Putin (Russia) a gift.

From FrontpageMag, actress Emma Watson is right, sort of, on the Palestinians.

From Townhall, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) brings some pain and shows Republicans how to win.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration endangers U.S. athletes at the upcoming Winter Olympics in China.

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is wrong about congresscritters trading stocks.

From The Federalist, a Biden scandal for every month of his presidency.

From American Thinker, the narrative about the Capitol riot is starting to unravel.

From CNS News, according to an opinion column, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we will all be healthier.

From LifeZette, Biden and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are humiliated on the filibuster vote.

From NewsBusters, TV host Joe Scarborough tries to put lipstick on the pig of Biden's first year.

From Canada Free Press, there's lots of fear about climate change but little willingness to pay.

From TeleSUR, the Democratic Labor Party wins the Barbadian elections unanimously.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some dreadful noise from the "silenced" climate zealots.

From Free West Media, the U.K. drops its coronavirus-related passport and mask requirements and workplace restrictions.

From ReMix, the E.U.'s left-wing elite claim that Prime Minister Orban will rig the vote in Hungary's next election.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek astronomers observe an asteroid passing the earth.

From Ekathimerini, Greece is fined for its delay in recovering illegal state aid given to the nickel producer Larco.

From the Greek City Times, Greece is hit by global warming.

From Balkan Insight, the cancellation of tennis player Novak Djoković's visa only enhances his image as a martyr in the Balkans.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian passenger shipping company Jadrolinija marks its 75th anniversary.

From Total Slovenia News, President Borut Pahor sets the date of Slovenia's next general election.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia's National Council rejects higher Italian language standards for bilingual schools.  (According to what I've learned, many Slovenes near the border with Italy speak Italian in addition to Slovenian, while many Italians in the northeast corner of Italy likewise speak Slovenian along with Italian.)

From The Malta Independent, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela refuses to say whether he knew about the police raid on the home of his predecessor Joseph Muscat.

From Malta Today, according to Abela, parliamentcritter Jason Azzopardi (Nationalist) might have known about the raid on Muscat's home.

From ANSA, according to Italian parliamentcritter Enrico Letta, Italy's next president should be a "bipartisan figure" and not chosen by the center-right.

From Italy24News, how much, according to a study, the Italian brand Vespa is worth.

From EuroNews, the Austrian parliament will vote on vaccine mandates for adults.

From SwissInfo, the risks of merging Switzerland's humanitarian and developmental foreign aid streams.

From France24, the French parliament officially recognizes China's treatment of the Uyghurs as "genocide".

From RFI, the trial of suspects allegedly involved in the Paris terror attacks is again suspended because a defendant tests positive for the coronavirus.

From Euractiv, French right-wing politician Éric Zemmour presents an anti-immigration vision similar to that of Marine Le Pen.

From El País, with coronavirus transmission falling, regions in Spain consider consider lifting restrictions.

From The Portugal News, a  Brazilian is arrested while allegedly trying to fly to Portugal smuggling she-don't-lie.

From The North Africa Post, the French-based organization Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the future of journalism in Tunisia.

From The New Arab, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen keeps on striking.

From Cointelegraph, an Islamic organization in Indonesia issues a fatwa on cryptocurrency.

From the Florida Bulldog, the FBI saw connections between a Saudi Arabian embassy diplomat who aided the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi extremists operating in the U.S.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the Texas synagogue attacker had ranted about the "[bleep]ing Jews".

From Gatestone Institute, why Palestinian leaders ignore atrocities committed by Arabs.

From The Stream, Pope Francis is right to call out those who choose to be childless.

From The Daily Signal, why a mother in Texas started a co-op to teach her children.

From The American Conservative, President Biden keeps a bad policy started by President Trump.

From the Post Millennial, according to a woke preacher speaking in London, when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he transgendered Himself".

From The Western Journal, it's time to start talking about the 25th Amendment.

From BizPac Review, the reporter for NPR who made the false story about SCOTUS Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor also helped launch the accusations against then-nominee Clarence Thomas 30 years ago.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter Chip Roy (R-TX) responds to Alabama football coach Nick Saban's letter to Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV).

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, less than half of Democrats want Biden to run for reelection.

From the New York Post, the U.N. adopts a resolution condemning Holocaust denial.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, the aforementioned French politician Marine Le Pen has achieved record popularity.  (If you read French, read the story at the Paris Match.)

From Newsmax, according to a survey, 93 percent of American Jews are worried about antisemitism in the U.S.

And from The Guardian, a team in the English county of Hampshire rescues a dog by attacking a sausage to a drone.

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