Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Tuesday Things

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

From National Review, the comments from investor Chamath Palihapitiya about the Uyghurs in China are even worse than you might have heard.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden, the FBI, and willful blindness about Islamic terror.

From Townhall, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) issues a response to schools defying his order about mask mandates.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a grassroots group leads the fight against the Biden administration's vaccination mandate for federal workers.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion piece, reports of forged documents purporting to be election results are greatly exaggerated.

From The Federalist, Mexico has a problem larger than the border crisis.

From American Thinker, seven lessons from the attack on the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

From CNS News, according to new Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), "we are now going to value law enforcement".

From LifeZette, Republican state attorneys general had a lot to do with the Supreme Court's ruling against the OSHA coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, "why the Jews?"  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, White House press secretary Jen Psaki gets destroyed on social media over her post about snow.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps gives a "muddy" response when asked about the situation with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

From Canada Free Press, arrest and imprison those who don't follow doctor's orders.

From CBC News, 30,000 shipments of nuclear waste could move through cities and farmland in the province of Ontario under a proposal from Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization.

From Global News, Queen's University professor Dr. Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh wins the Polyani prize in chemistry.

From CTV News, a restaurant in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada is ordered to close after letting its coronavirus vaccination or negative test requirement go to the dogs.

From TeleSUR, Barbados will hold its first elections since becoming a republic.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the Christian case for not getting vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From the Express, U.K. Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab faces losing his seat in Parliament over his support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From the Evening Standard, Johnson claims to have believed that lockdown party in the garden of his residence was a work event.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. government is accused of having "no plan" to reduce illegal crossings of the English Channel.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's National Economic and Social Council will recommend a reduction in the number of parking spaces in order to discourage car ownership.

From the Irish Examiner, according to members of the Irish party Sinn Féin, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney "absolutely" should answer some questions about "Champagne gate".

From VRT NWS, Brexit has helped increase foreign business investment in the Belgian commune of Flanders.

From The Brussels Times, the omicron coronavirus wave has not yet peaked in Brussels, Belgium.

From the NL Times, Geert Wilders and other Dutch parliamentcritters clash over terrorism accusations.

From Dutch News, the Netherlands rolls out a child coronavirus vaccination program.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany reportedly logged a record number of politically motivated crimes in 2021.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan refugee allegedly tried to kill a woman in Berlin because he believed that "women shouldn't work".  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From the CPH Post, the Danish parliament will address skyrocketing energy prices.

From Free West Media, speaking in Milan, Italy, Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier urges "let's stop mass vaccination immediately".  (If you read Italian, read the story at Byoblu.)

From EuroNews, according to newly elected European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, her position on abortion is the parliament's position.

From Euractiv, more on the election of E.P. President Metsola.

From ReMix, Poland prepares a new law to penalize media censorship and to establish a Freedom of Speech Council.

From Balkan Insight, a court in Pristina, Kosovo struggles to contact a witness in a murder trial.

From The North Africa Post, Libya's House of Representatives will unveil the country's new cabinet today.

From The New Arab, Yemeni government forces recapture the oil-rich province of Shabwa from Houthi rebels.

From Gulf News, Saudi Arabia plans to set up the world's largest camel milk plant.

From ProPakistani, the Pakistani province of Punjab issues a new school dress code, under which all boys will have to wear caps and all girls have to wear hijabs.

From the Daily Sabah, Turkish singer Sezen Aksu invokes anger for a song that allegedly insults Islam.

From Newsweek, according to an opinion column, CAIR should not be let off the hook for its rhetoric against "Zionist synagogues".

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration's "diplomacy" with the Iranian government.

From The Stream, according to an economist at MIT, the $800 billion stimulus program failed badly and benefitted mostly the rich.

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Andy Biggs (R-AZ) calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to stop prioritizing coronavirus treatments on the basis of race and ethnicity.

From The American Conservative, there's big money behind pro-abortion activism.

From BizPac, a town hall with congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) gets tense when an 18-year-old girl confronts him over his comments about Jesus.

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll, 45 percent of Democrats approve sending the unvaccinated into "designated facilities".

From the Daily Caller, America's largest producer of crude oil promises to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

From Breitbart, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hasn't said anything about the looting of cargo trains near Los Angeles.

From Newsmax, longtime congresscritter Jerry McNerney (D-Cal) calls it a career.

And from the New York Post and the "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" department, a rare side effect of the coronavirus can be painful to men.

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