Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

On a partly cloudy and mild Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to declassified report, the Biden administration and the Pentagon were warned that the Afghan air force could not survive after a U.S. withdrawal.

From FrontpageMag, Europe's double standards when it comes to Israel.

From Townhall, Dr. Fauci has gotten richer during the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's (D) dark money hypocrisy.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) "cynical theater of failure".

From The Federalist, President Biden's attack on voting rights eclipses anything former President Trump and his supporters claimed about the 2020 election.

From American Thinker, as Biden complains about voting rights, officials in his administration violate civil rights laws.

From CNS News, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) accuses Democrats of lying about voter ID laws.

From LifeZette, will Texas let illegal aliens vote?

From NewsBusters, the same media people who hate Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ) used to love Republicans who broke with their party.

From Canada Free Press, liberals now call concern about inflation scaremongering.

From TeleSUR, a judge investigating the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise is accused of corruption.

From TCW Defending Freedom, now that we've been through our "Peter Pandemic" adventure, it's time to grow up.

From Snouts in the Trough, what more proof do we need that the coronavirus was leaked from a lab?

From The Print, how dying towns in England became the biggest jihad factory in the West.

From ReMix, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces dissent from his fellow Conservatives.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland and Latvia are united against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government decides against making coronavirus vaccination mandatory.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak MEP Michal Šimečka is elected one of 14 vice presidents of the European Parliament, becoming the first Slovak to hold that position.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian police arrest a suspected human smuggler from Moldova near the Austrian border.

From Hungary Today, 63 Euro-parliamentcritters call for full election observation in Hungary.

From About Hungary, State Secretary Zoltán Kovács defends Hungary from accusations of antisemitism.

From Russia Today, is an all-out war between Russia and Ukraine about to break out?

From Sputnik International, what's behind Russia's rhetoric about "Russian missiles in Cuba and Venezuela"?

From The Moscow Times, jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny accuses the West of "falling into" President Putin's "trap" on Ukraine.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă is accused of plagiarism.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at PressOne.)

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov claims that his government has achieved more in dealing with North Macedonia in a few days than in recent years.

From The Sofia Globe, parliamentcritters of the Bulgarian party GERB walk out of President Roumen Radev's speech at his second inauguration.  (And I thought that the Democrats were sometimes discourteous to President Trump.)

From Radio Bulgaria, what is the traditional Bulgarian survachka, and what do foreigners know about it?

From Balkan Insight, the "blocked" government of Montenegro faces a no-confidence motion.

From Free West Media, three more high-profile people suffer adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines.

From EuroNews, rival French politicians accuse President Emmanuel Macron of using the E.U. presidency to attract votes.

From Euractiv, Macron urges the E.U. to hold a "frank" dialogue with Russia and to seek a political solution to tensions over Ukraine.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan man allegedly kills his wife in Graz, Austria after he suspected that she was texting to another man.  (If you read German, read the story at Heute.)

From The North Africa Post, seven people are arrested in Casablanca, Morocco for alleged kidnapping and blackmail.

From The New Arab, at least 14 people are killed in a Saudi-led bombing in Yemen.

From Gatestone Institute, the UAE is a friend of the U.S., not a rival.

From The Stream, according to the widower of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed in the Capitol riot, the narrative about her is all wrong.

From The Daily Signal, the quest to get rid of work.

From Space War, Israel intercepts a simulated Iranian missile with an Arrow-3.

From The American Conservative, "how Russia went wrong".

From The Western Journal, six former Navy SEALs run for Congress, intending to defeat a "grave threat" - Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal).

From BizPac Review, Donald Trump the Younger rips New York state Attorney General Letitia James for "politically targeting" his family.  (Meanwhile, former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) will not be prosecuted either for alleged sexual harassment or coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes.  Although I must concede that the cases involving Cuomo are not in AG James's immediate jurisdiction, it still seems that "guilty until proven Democrat" is the standard in that state.)

From The Daily Wire, top Democrats wonder "who is in charge?" as President Biden appears to be asleep at the wheel.

From the Daily Caller, Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor deny a report in NPR that he refused to wear a mask during oral arguments, forcing her to participate in them remotely.

From Breitbart, according to a Rasmussen poll, 60 percent of Americans find Biden's first year in office "unsuccessful".  (This reminds me of the adage that in order to determine if someone is successful, you must first define what you mean by "success".)

From Newsmax, the Department of Justice plans to give the January 6th kangaroo court committee four pages of Trump White House records.

And from the New York Post, a professor at Rutgers proposes to make New York City more affordable by extending Manhattan Island.

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